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Shauna Bowes-Flores @shaunambowes.bsky.social · Aug 11

After years of teamwork, I am thrilled that our adversarial collaboration on political ideology and belief rigidity was accepted for publication at Political Psychology! Plus, it's my first Pol Psych pub, so it is doubly exciting! t.co/2TgscFm1J8

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4wmx2_v2

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Aug 11

Super cool work, as usual!

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jul 11

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

Science Funding Process

=====Written July 11 2025====== Hi all, Just wanted to share some information that is likely relevant to a lot of us, but not always easy to understand, about federal science budget procedure (feel f...

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Christopher Petsko @chrispetsko.bsky.social · Jun 28

I’ve called Thom Tillis just about every day for the last month to ask him to oppose this bill—and it looks like he’s officially taking a stand against it and the damage it would cause to North Carolinians!

thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Tillis becomes third GOP senator to oppose Trump’ s big, beautiful bill

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis (R) announced after a meeting with Senate GOP leaders and colleagues Saturday afternoon that he will vote “no” on both the motion to proceed and final passage of the…

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · Jun 29

Listen to Standing Together leaders Angela Mattar and Itamar Avneri discuss what it means to build a joint struggle against occupation and war and for peace in their conversation on The Harlem Lights podcast:

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Jun 25

Good luck to you both! NC will miss you!

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Jun 25

I never thought it would be possible to give a talk at @socphilpsych.bsky.social and a have gig in the same week! Thanks president @andrewshtulman.bsky.social for reminding us all that imagination is not just for children :)

Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 21

The highlight of Day 2 was @tamarkushnir.bsky.social singing “Pure Imagination” at a restaurant in Ithaca—a song by she dedicated to me. 😊

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 20

Do children use counterevidence to change their mind if changing their mind means disagreeing with their ingroup? No! Zoe Finiasz, @tamarkushnir.bsky.social, et al. find that children will refrain from revising their beliefs if their ingroup is defined by that belief. #SPP2025

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 18

@tamarkushnir.bsky.social presents a wonderful overview of how imagination and experience combine to help us differentiate actions that are impossible from those that are simply hard.

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Jun 9

Aww this is what I get for being off of social media for so long! Thanks friends. Looking forward to more celebrations @socphilpsych.bsky.social next week!

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Apr 29

The ECC lab is going to @srcdorg.bsky.social Minneapolis - Hope to see you there!

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · Apr 21

I'm thrilled that a version of 'Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism' has just been accepted as a target article in Behavioural & Brain Sciences
😀 An open-call for commentaries is coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Apr 19

Good advice in general, not just in sport!

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 18

Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label

The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.

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Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · Mar 31

Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Apr 18

Our Duke Child Studies group is hiring a new recruitment coordinator! Come join us!

Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · Apr 18

Hi again! You may have noticed our position for a new recruitment coordinator was paused for a new approval process, but the posting is back up now and we extended the priority deadline to 5/2!! Please share! ⭐️

Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · Mar 31

Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Apr 18

My lab is hiring a full time lab manager! Come join our terrific team! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29947

Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience

Job #AJO29947, Associate in Research, Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Apr 14

Horrible. But important to read and pass on.

DiscoverNL 🫐 @discovernl.bsky.social · Apr 14

Not brown-skinned, not male, and no visible tattoos, if any.... No one is safe.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

www.theguardian.com

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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Apr 12

Aww yeah!!!!!

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Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social · Apr 9

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern

The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

www.nytimes.com

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Duke Identity and Diversity Lab @dukeidlab.bsky.social · Apr 9

We couldn’t be more excited for our amazing recruitment coordinator Sydney who is off to start her PhD this Fall in Educational Psychology (Developmental Sciences) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of Dr. Aixa Marchand! Such a huge deal! 🎉

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Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · Apr 9

So happy for Sydney and this next big step! #phdbound

Duke Identity and Diversity Lab @dukeidlab.bsky.social · Apr 9

We couldn’t be more excited for our amazing recruitment coordinator Sydney who is off to start her PhD this Fall in Educational Psychology (Developmental Sciences) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of Dr. Aixa Marchand! Such a huge deal! 🎉

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Apr 6

1. This Friday I hosted a workshop on morality with some fabulous humans who took take time out of their lives to talk about ideas with each other. Here is a thread with brief summaries of what folks presented in case you too would like to hear about their science:
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc

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lorainkc.bsky.social @lorainkc.bsky.social · Apr 5

#handsoff
Topeka KS

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

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