Claire E. Robertson, PhD

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

People really love morality -- to an almost disturbing amount.

Check out this **fun, quirky, NYC experience** i got a targeted ad for on Instagram 🫠

Winners: Benjamin Lira Luttges @lirabenjamin.bsky.social sky.social, Dan-Mircea Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social, Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social

Honorable mentions: Claire E. Robertson @crobertson500.bsky.social, Thomas Scheurer‬, Michael Geers @michaelgeers.bsky.social

We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination.com, @norijacoby.bsky.social, @oferon.bsky.social & Dalton Conley. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n

The application link is now live again 🥳, after a bit of a delay from some new HR approval requirements. Please tell any fabulous post-bacs or graduating seniors to submit their applications by *May 16* for priority consideration -- I will start looking at apps after that date.

ATTENTION

New crowdsourced site collecting and sharing stories of public impact of research

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

Take a look and consider contributing. Let's make this as powerful as possible!

Academic friends, if your NSF grants have been terminated by the administration, FABBS is hosting a webinar Friday about appealing the decisions. It's important that as many people appeal as possible to show we're not accepting this targeting of science. Link to the webinar registration is below.

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Besides killing innovation, this action on NSF puts 8 decades of freely available, consistent, rigorous, & widely used time-series evidence about who we are, what we do, what we want, & what we know at risk of never being collected again. The ANES and GSS are at risk. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature Reviews Psychology is interviewing individuals with doctoral degrees in psychology who pursued non-academic careers.

We spoke with Teon Brooks about his journey from a postdoctoral scholar to a data science consultant.

go.nature.com/3GAhf9b

#psychscisky #academicsky

Faculty Research Associate in Environmental Studies Department Environmental Studies Program Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backg...

🔌💡 Vassar College is hiring a 2-year Research Associate (post-doc) in Community-Engaged Energy Systems Modeling. Bring your modeling skills, apply them in a regional context, and communicate them to inform decisions of local and regional politicians. *Deadline extended to May 10.* Pls. Share widely!

NYU is hiring a Visiting Lecturer in Social Psychology

The position is ideal for someone who is applying for academic positions and looking to gain additional research and teaching experience.

The salary is $70,000

Applicant review begins MAY 1.

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166631

Another amazing opportunity with a mentor I am so grateful to have worked with!! @ashwinia.bsky.social

Apply Apply!! @jayvanbavel.bsky.social is a fantastic mentor, and this is a great opportunity!

Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.

As per NYT: "Every dollar spend on research returns at least $5 to the economy."

From every angle, including fiscal, science is a force for good.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

Awesome, will check it out!! Thanks Emma!!

Also, can be fiction or nonfiction! Already thinking about..

So you've been Publicly shamed by J. Ronson
Breaking the SM Prism by C. Bail
Chaos Machine by M. Fisher

Thanks for your advice!!!

Polling my extremely smart community -- I'll be teaching a 1st- year writing course next year, and I'm thinking about doing it on psych., tech., and the ways it distorts our perceptions.

Do you have books/stories/movies/etc that changed how you thought about our online brains? + if by wmn. or POC

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨

If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.

🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

That would be great! We will be there -- we're moving up August 1st to get the last of the beautiful Maine summers!

ExPo Lab Extremism & Polarization Lab

Check out the new lab website here: sites.google.com/colby.edu/ex...
And please reach out to me if you have questions about extremism, polarization, liberal arts, or anything else!

Since I began my PhD, I have always wanted to become a professor at a Liberal Arts college. I love teaching and research in equal measure, and @colbycollege.bsky.social is the perfect place for me to blend these two passions.

🎉 I am THRILLED to announce that I will be starting at Colby College as an assistant prof. Of Psychology In Fall 2025! 🎉

I’ll be starting the ExPo Lab, and will be focused on working with undergraduates to study the causes and consequences of extremism and polarization.

Our findings reveal that news media companies have an incentive to produce news headlines containing out-group derogation to maximize engagement, which may, in turn, heighten animosity between groups.

This was led by @jesperrasmussen.bsky.social @steverathje.bsky.social @crobertson500.bsky.social

🚨 New WP on online news consumption (osf.io/h3cn5_v1) 🚨

KEY FINDING: Negativity + identity language is particularly effective at generating engagement—and even more when targeting out-groups

With @steverathje.bsky.social, @crobertson500.bsky.social , @jayvanbavel.bsky.social
🧵👇

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content www.nature.com/articles/s44... cc @profsanderlinden.bsky.social

"...inoculation significantly reduced self-reported engagement with polarising stimuli."

But didn't reduce "polarised language in user generated text"