New work from @drsanaz.bsky.social : using smart phone sensing data, one of the biggest predictors of people higher on authoritarian measure was Facebook and social media use #spsp
26.02.2026 22:40 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
New work from @drsanaz.bsky.social : using smart phone sensing data, one of the biggest predictors of people higher on authoritarian measure was Facebook and social media use #spsp
26.02.2026 22:40 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Hi Louisa, sorry about the DM thing. 😄 Would you mind emailing please?
26.02.2026 00:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Especially encouraging applicants with computational, big data, and/or experimental expertise!
Lab + research: www.ashwinia.com
Happy to answer quick questions by DM!
🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨
Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026).
We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics.
Rolling review begins 3/14
Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806
Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇
Pastel sketch of ladies assembling to attend a May Ball
Shawls, pastel (one of my old May Week theme drawings)
#Cambridge #mayball #pastel
Conference Details
Call for Papers: Workshop on Contention Under Repression
We invite scholars in the Greater Boston area to submit proposals for a one-day workshop on 4/17 on collective action, civil society, contentious politics, etc. across global contexts
Details: tinyurl.com/wrkshp417
Submission Deadline: 3/15
I am looking to recruit a postdoc to join my lab next fall, & work on projects focused on online mobilization with social media datasets - see more details here: bit.ly/4r49x9b . If anyone knows of someone with relevant skills who is looking for a postdoc- please pass this on!
19.01.2026 19:39 — 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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🚨New Paper🚨
Elected officials are increasingly extreme.
E.g., a recent analysis of 84,000 state-level candidates found that extreme candidates are now winning at the highest rates in 30 years.
Why are people increasingly drawn to extreme candidates?
📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣
I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab!
Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com
Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...
New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Congratulations Emma!!! 🥳🥳🥳
01.07.2025 02:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
Read our @nytimes.com op-ed to see some of the history and research behind this strategy →
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
Science abstract: POLICING High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding Pradhi Aggarwal1, Alec Brandon2*, Ariel Goldszmidt3, Justin Holz4, John A. List3, Ian Muir5, Gregory Sun6, Thomas Yu7 Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and their implications for our understanding of racial profiling. Using high-frequency location data of rideshare drivers in Florida (N = 222,838 individuals), we estimate the effect of driver race on citations and fines for speeding using 19.3 million location pings. Compared with a white driver traveling the same speed, we find that racial or ethnic minority drivers are 24 to 33% more likely to be cited for speeding and pay 23 to 34% more money in fines. We find no evidence that accident and reoffense rates explain these estimates, which suggests that an animus against minorities underlies our results.
missed this last month: data science informing psych, sociology, polisci
in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed**
beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!
The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
Best,
The ANES Team
Congratulations to psychologists Rich Petty, Phoebe Ellsworth, BJ Casey, Jamie Pennebaker, & Alison Gopnik on their election to the National Academy of Sciences today!!
29.04.2025 19:10 — 👍 101 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
email starting, "The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites."
yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)
26.04.2025 12:24 — 👍 604 🔁 274 💬 41 📌 28Thanks so much Claire 🙏
25.04.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My lab conducts research on questions at the intersection of identity, politics, language, and group dynamics.
Lab website: www.ashwinia.com
(2/2)
🚨🚨 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)
Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...
27.02.2025 17:01 — 👍 62 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 32
Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel!
How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
Link to shiny app where you can explore all the LIWC Dimensions around this time period: smesquiti.shinyapps.io/blm-shiny-ap...
18.02.2025 19:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Excited to share work in collaboration with Sarah Seraj, Andreas Weyland, @ryanboyd.io , @radamihalcea.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, and Jamie Pennebaker out now in Scientific Reports! 🚨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age.
Details here:
www.crockettlab.org/research-spe...
Please share!
📢 The Historical Psychology Pre-conference at
@spspnews.bsky.social is accepting submissions. 📢
Check out our fantastic lineup of speakers ⬇️
Please submit posters/talks, and please share widely!
🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨
Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments?
Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇