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When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran.

New research shows how AI models default to Western-style directness, missing the cultural cues that govern everyday interactions for millions of Persian speakers worldwide — with the potential to derail negotiations, damage relationships, and reinforce stereotypes. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w...

APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship Honoring APS Members for their lifetime of outstanding psychological research that advances understanding of historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups and/or understanding of the psychologic...

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship 🎉 Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Diane L. Hughes

The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026

presentation submission will still be open til oct 23 right?

The culture pre-conference is now full! 😮 We are accepting signups for the waitlist: sites.google.com/view/culture...

#Academicsky #Neurosky Conducting human imaging studies requires an understanding of study design, feasibility, participant experience, planning, coordination,analytic methods, perseverance& team work. 1/

hahaha thats hilarious, glad we get to have a meet up in the end. ill definitely be joining!

Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

wow this is great! im so glad culture is happening after all--was there a reason for the new format?

🚨 The SPSP Culture Pre-Conference has a new format this year! 🚨 It'll be the evening BEFORE most pre-conferences. Get info, register, and submit your research here: sites.google.com/view/culture...

Important! The new OSF design is coming on Saturday, October 4th. OSF will be down for several hours that day to deploy it.

More information: www.cos.io/blog/coming-...

Last week, the Ont govt announced that psychologists will be getting prescription rights.

This next week, our psych college announced that in response to govt pressure, the new standard to be a
psychologist will be 1/3 of the training we currently require.

This needs to be public.

Holy Cow - read the whole thread 🤯

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Apply to work at the psych program at @bardcollege.bsky.social with me! I love it here and would be happy to answer any questions you have. Review starts 10/1.
www.bard.edu/humanresourc...

Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction, Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Curious about Positron, the new open-source data science IDE from Posit? This session will walk RStudio users through the basics of Positron, highlight familiar features, a

🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE?

This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)

#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies

Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT

www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

We’re delighted to share that the CES2026 Conference website is now live!

We warmly invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their presentation proposals by November 16th through the submission portal on the website.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

you really are UF's best PR

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

Payne's Prairire, where you could watch the sunset every evening if you came to UF

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

"Come join us!!!" —member of academic search committee that will receive 200 applications for one role and may in fact hire zero people for it

Opening the Door to Lifelong Curiosity Lifelong learning is one way to bring more delight into our ordinary lives. Jirout suggests seeking out new experience for the delight it elicits. And the practice has beneficial ripple effects on soc...

This piece discusses our work showing ppl perceive curiosity as morally virtuous & other neat scholarship on curiosity (eg by @jamiejirout.bsky.social & colleagues): www.templeton.org/news/opening.... Thanks to @templetonfdn.bsky.social for supporting this project!
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc

marginaleffects is one of my favourite R packages and this is such a great paper!! extremely recommended, alongside all other papers from the two authors and also the amazing and free Model to Meaning book marginaleffects.com

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Image of labubu doll labeled labubu next to image of spiky labubu doll labeled lakiki

::slowly stands while clapping::

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025 Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!

We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.

Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.