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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · 7h

Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 7d

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow at 7:30pm!
✊📣 YOU are the union! Join us 9/30 for an all-union Town hall. We can overcome the challenges we face & win a strong new contract if we ALL get involved. We'll discuss the path forward & what we need to do to safeguard & build on what we won in 2023.✊
Register: loom.ly/2A_cWC8

Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social · 14d

✊📣 YOU are the union! Join us 9/30 for an all-union Town hall. We can overcome the challenges we face and win a strong new contract if we ALL get involved. We'll discuss the path forward & what we need to do to safeguard & build on what we won in 2023.✊
Register: https://loom.ly/2A_cWC8

The Challenges We Face, the Campaign We Need
All-UNION Town HallMeeting
Tuesday, September 30th - 7:30 pm on Zoom
Logos of RUAAUP-AFT, the Adjunct faculty union, and AAUP_BHSNJ

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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · 9d

Loved presenting at SRP for the first time and connecting with new people! Let's stay in touch!! 🤝

Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 12d

Three cheers to @raziasahi.bsky.social for a *fantastic* talk on her work with @veravine.bsky.social investigating emotion vocabulary in therapy! And keep an eye out for opportunities to join her in her new lab at Rutgers!

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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · 12d

Proud mentee moment for the @logicemotionlab.bsky.social! Awesome seeing all of @eriknook.bsky.social’s fascinating research over the years woven beautifully together in this talk. And so amazing to see him honored with the SRP ✨Early Career Award!! ✨👏

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Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · 21d

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Details - Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology CAHSS | University of Denver

jobs.du.edu

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Computational Psychiatry @cpsyjournal.bsky.social · 23d

New paper in CPsy 📢 - from Mostafa Abdou, @raziasahi.bsky.social, Thomas Hull, @eriknook.bsky.social and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social - cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 27d

Really pleased with how this turned out, giving new insight into the linguistics of therapy: Found that LLMs estimate psychological distance better than dictionary-based methods used in prior work (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...), also finding that therapists who *encourage* distance fare better

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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 29d

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Mark Chen | Department of Psychology

psychology.fas.harvard.edu

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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're hiring TWO social psychologists (one health, one any area of social) at U of Utah! Pls share widely, and reach out if you have any questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...

Assistant Professor in Social Psychology

utah.peopleadmin.com

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Bonan Zhao (赵博囡) @bonan.bsky.social · Aug 17

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle!

We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.

It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.

Spread the words!

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Michael Barger @mmbarger.bsky.social · Aug 4

My department is hiring an assistant professor of educational psychology who researches and teaches motivation in schools! My contact info is in the job posting, please reach out if you have any questions. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/440...

Assistant Professor (Applied Cognition and Development)

The Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Applied Cognition and Development Program to begin August 2026....

www.ugajobsearch.com

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Jul 3

Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Perceived community alignment increases information sharing - Nature Communications

Information sharing is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior. Here, the authors use neuroimaging and behavioral studies to show that people are driven to share information that they believe will be ...

www.nature.com

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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thanks Ava!! Such a fun convo, honored to be a part of the podcast! 😊

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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · Jun 30

How do we regulate each other's emotions? We talk big strategies (reappraisal, validation) and subtle mechanisms (acoustics, linguistics) in this new ep of @mindsmatter.bsky.social! Thanks for the fun convo @avamadesousa.bsky.social!

Minds Matter Podcast @mindsmatter.bsky.social · Jun 29

New Episode! Dr. Razia Sahi (@raziasahi.bsky.social) joins Ava and Beth to discuss the details of social emotion regulation, including the use of reappraisal and validation to help navigate difficult emotions!

Links in 🧵

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · Jun 26

Huge congrats to Razia on spearheading this excellent work! And thanks to Derrick Hull and @veravine.bsky.social for being such awesome collaborators!

Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · Jun 26

Does linguistic diversity when talking about emotions track wellbeing? In a new pre-print with @eriknook.bsky.social, we link emotion vocabularies to mental health in a large real-world psychotherapy dataset. Highlight: therapist emo vocab may help clients get better over time! shorturl.at/TKPN1

Large natural emotion vocabularies are linked with better mental health in psychotherapeutic conversations

Psychotherapy is the most ubiquitous form of mental health treatment and it unfolds predominantly through language. To better understand how this exchange of words bolsters mental health, we tested ho...

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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · Jun 26

Does linguistic diversity when talking about emotions track wellbeing? In a new pre-print with @eriknook.bsky.social, we link emotion vocabularies to mental health in a large real-world psychotherapy dataset. Highlight: therapist emo vocab may help clients get better over time! shorturl.at/TKPN1

Large natural emotion vocabularies are linked with better mental health in psychotherapeutic conversations

Psychotherapy is the most ubiquitous form of mental health treatment and it unfolds predominantly through language. To better understand how this exchange of words bolsters mental health, we tested ho...

shorturl.at

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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · Jun 20

We’re presenting on Social Connection and Emotions! Yes, hopefully not! 😊

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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · Jun 17

Wooo see you there! 😄 sounds like an awesome symposium!

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Jun 16

Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE

The four conceptualizations of social connection

Nature Reviews Psychology - The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of...

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Tabea Springstein @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social · Jun 4

I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside.
Sharing would be much appreciated!
jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189

University of California, Riverside - Jobs

UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!

jobsportal.ucr.edu

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Elise Kalokerinos @elisekalo.bsky.social · Apr 9

We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

Details : Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FEEL Lab) : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

jobs.unimelb.edu.au

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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · Apr 30

Unfortunately not!

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Ashwini Ashokkumar @ashwinia.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣

Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵

🗓 Application review begins April 30

Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)

Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology

Dr. Ashwini Ashokkumar’s lab at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to start in Fall 2025. The lab conducts research related to i...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 15

Tax Day next up: NSF!
🛰️ $40 a year. That’s what the average U.S. taxpayer pays annually to fund the National Science Foundation.

💡 Science isn’t luxury - it’s infrastructure.
From disaster prediction to cybersecurity to the tech in your phone, NSF powers the systems that keep society running.

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