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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · 26d

Submit your work to Origins of the Social Mind at #SPSP2026! Our morning timeslot is compatible with a variety of fantastic afternoon preconferences (e.g., Social Cognition, Gender).

Deadline is 10/13! (Talks/posters can focus on any topic related to the origins of social cognition). See you there!

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Lin Bian @linbian.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thrilled to share our TiCS paper! We review the latest research on how beliefs about “brilliance” shape gender disparities across fields, and, these beliefs take root EARLY! Check it out! Free access before Oct 10: tinyurl.com/yc6sttaw

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · Aug 16

Super cool work; looking forward to reading closely! 🤩

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Marianna Zhang @mariannazhang.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶‍♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵

continuum of inductive potential from low (relatively minimal categories whose members are dissimilar) to high (coherent meaningful categories whose members are similar) above a cartoon child. an icon of a tiger appears under "high" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a tiger in a zoo, with an arrow pointing to the tiger icon, and a dashed arrow extending it to a tiger on a savanna. an icon of a pedestrian appears under "low" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a woman on a street, with Xs over arrows pointing to the pedestrian icon, and to a different pedestrian.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Jun 25

With news of court-ordered #NIH grant reinstatements, and rumors of changes to termination policy, we're trying to get a handle on what is actually happening to PIs. Your reports are the best info we have!

Please submit reports of *reinstatements* to grant-watch.us as well as terminations.

Screen shot of question grom Grant Watch's submittal form, showing text:

Submission Type

Use "Grant Termination" for stop-work orders, unexpected non-renewals, or effective termination through updated notice of award.

And options:, Grant termination, Grant application that was pulled in the review process / prior to funding, and Grant reinstatement.

The toggle by "Grant reinstatement" is checked.

Clear Selection

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · Jun 19

This is SO cool; you're on 🔥!!

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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · Jun 18

As #SPSP2026 submission season begins, please consider me for your symposia! My students & I have recent work on:
- Parents' estimates of their children's prejudices
- Development of homophobia in childhood
- Gender essentialism & domestic work disparities
- Structural explanations & stereotypes

👋!

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · Jun 10

Congratulations, Allison!!! 🤩

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Jun 5

Get on the Public Record. Take time to be part of history, and help save the future.

Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · Jun 4

Want your NIH and NSF program officers and division directors to be fired and turned into political appointees?

Deadline extended: 3 days left! Already 33,000+ public comments

Comments can tank a proposed rule in court.

📣 Oppose the rule with a brief comment: shorturl.at/WKuBj

Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · May 17

YAY, congrats, Alexis!! 🥳

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · May 11

Happy Mother’s Day to the feisty science moms out there.

You’re brilliant! You balance and manage SO MUCH. You bring excellence, creativity, innovation, and humanity to the world.

If I hadn’t seen others having families AND doing science, I wouldn’t have realized I could do it, too.

Thank you ❤️

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · May 7

This is so helpful! Thanks for sharing; I will be sharing it with my students! :)

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · May 2

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · May 1

Come to our symposium w/ @jamieamemiya.bsky.social, Kiana Gee, & Cameron Hall at #SRCD2025. We'll talk about how children may acquire, internalize, and perpetuate gender stereotypes. I'm really excited for this one, I think the talks build on each other well to unravel different mechanisms!

From input to action: Examining how subtle contextual cues sustain gender inequalities in childhood
Friday, May 2nd, 11:30-1:00PM (Room 200A)

When seeking an explanation is an explanation: Children’s ability group stereotypes are influenced by explanation-seeking
Jamie Amemiya, Serena Spada, Molly Tallberg, & Lin Bian

The role of family inequality on children’s normative understanding of household labor
Kiana Gee, Allegra J. Midgette, & Nadia Chernyak

Gender inequities in expectations for invisible labor begin in childhood and persist into adulthood
Mia Radovanovic, Tim Wei-Ting Chao, Nila Curtosi, Sofia Westerhoff, Emma Soler, & Jessica A. Sommerville

The role of gender stereotypes in shaping communality in children
Cameron Hall, Katharina Block, Antonya M. Gonzalez, Andrei Cimpian, Toni Schmader, & Andrew Scott Baron

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · Apr 30

I'll be attending and would love to be added! :)

Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · Apr 29

Come check out the EAST & DoT Labs at #SRCD. 🤩 I'm excited to share our work on children's causal reasoning about historical structural barriers, as well as their pragmatic inferences from what others seek--and do not seek--to explain!

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Apr 27

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.

It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"

highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Apr 4

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)

Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · Apr 27

🙏 ugh, yes, thank you for that reminder!!

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Peter Sokol-Hessner @p1sh.bsky.social · Apr 26

“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · Apr 26

I'm so sorry, Marianna. I was so looking forward to the work that was going to come from this project. 💔

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 19

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · Apr 25

Part of this club now, too. Sending so much love. ❤️

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