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Texas Representative Tony Gonzales Will Not Seek Re-election Several House members had called for Tony Gonzales to step down after texts emerged showing his pursuit of a staff member who later killed herself.

Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican accused of coercing a staff member into a sexual relationship before she killed herself, said he would not seek re-election.

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These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

Rhode Island Priests Sexually Abused Hundreds of Children, Report Finds The report from the state’s attorney general, covering 75 years, faulted the Diocese of Providence for not removing accused priests and not contacting the police enough.

Breaking News: Priests in Rhode Island abused hundreds of children over the course of 75 years, the state’s attorney general found.

As we head into break, I've been thrilled to welcome two of my favorite colleagues to my senior seminar on AI empathy. On Friday @lasanaharris.bsky.social Zoomed in from London to talk about agency & AI. I've known Lasana since rotating through his lab at Duke, we've talked on empathy for decades.

Mamdani Announces First 2-K Seats in Universal Child Care Expansion Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged to create a free, universal child care system during his tenure. On Tuesday, he named the diverse areas where the first 2,000 seats would be offered.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has chosen four areas of New York City to kick-start his push to provide free child care for 2-year-olds — an early step in what is sure to be a long road to fulfilling his promise to create a universal child care system.

My group is hiring a full time research coordinator to work with our collaborators in Houston on understanding speech and language development in children with epilepsy. Great for folks looking to get direct experience with clinical/translational research. Please repost! jobs.bcm.edu/job/Research...

PhD Position: Factual Belief Polarisation and its Attitudinal Consequences | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences.

The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below!

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

The Cornell R User Group is meeting today (3/3) at 4pm in 102 Mann Library and on Zoom. All are welcome!
@cornelluniversity.bsky.social @cornellgrad.bsky.social

Our new short piece in TiCS on intuitive theories of truth: how people judge whether statements could be true, whether statements are true, and whether to assert them as true. A great collab with @keremoktar.bsky.social
@ihandleyminer.bsky.social @kevinzollman.com @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social

A large group of people, mostly men, standing in the rubble of a collapsed building. A headline reads: "Strike on Girls’ School Kills 115, Iranian State Media Says" Photo by Mehr News Agency

At least 115 people, most of them likely children, were killed in a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran on Saturday, health officials and state media said. It was not immediately clear which country hit the school. Our reporters are trying to confirm details of the attack. trib.al/HxXybV9

And, quick plug for Elon University undergraduate student Dani Rudd’s poster on a theoretical approach to thinking about authenticity in human-AI relations. This is Dani’s first #SPSP2026. She was in my Careers in Psychology class last Fall and is looking at PhD programs and lab manager positions!

If you're at #SPSP2026, come check out what folks in my lab are up to!

We’re all set up at #SPSP2026 Annual Convention. Booth is built, goodies are being unpacked, and our team is excited to meet you.

If you’re here, come by the Verasight booth #8.

Thanks @spspnews.bsky.social for the opportunity to connect with psychologists and scholars from around the world.

🚨🚨 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! 👇

Come join our academic family!

We've been getting a lot of submissions by folks excited by juries resisting the federal government, and monitor much bemoaning by MAGA folks that this constitutes jury nullification, but the vast majority of such cases are being thrown out by juries over weak evidence or lies.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Zachariah Berry Talk | Liberal Arts Events Speaker: Zachariah Berry (Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business) Speaker Bio: Zachariah Berry studies morality at work. His...

Our next Consortium workshop will be this Thursday at 12:30pmEST, with @zberry.bsky.social on "Demographically Diverse Teams are Perceived as Less Corruptible”. It will be on Zoom. Check out even if you haven't attended a Consortium workshop before!
events.la.psu.edu/event/zachar...

SPSP is pleased to launch a new series that recognizes scholars for their dedication to their science as well as evidence-based policy.

We hope their stories inspire other psychologists to explore advocacy in the future!

Read their stories: https://ow.ly/z8aG50YcwsA

Top Border Official Praised Agent Who Shot Chicago Woman, Evidence Shows A Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez five times, claiming that she tried to run him over. Newly released videos and text messages reveal fresh details about what happened.

After a Border Patrol agent shot a Chicago woman five times in October, Gregory Bovino reached out to the agent via email to offer his praise, newly released evidence shows.

Iranian Nobel Laureate Gets Second Prison Sentence and Ends Hunger Strike The activist Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to another seven years, bringing the total she must serve to 17 years, her foundation said.

Iranian authorities have sentenced the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a second prison sentence even before she had completed her last jail term, her family and lawyers said on Sunday.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Stay warm!

Family of Alex Pretti, the Man Shot in Minnesota, Says They Are Heartbroken and Angry In a statement, the parents of the man slain in Minneapolis said that their son “wanted to make a difference.”

The parents of Alex Pretti, who was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, joined a chorus of criticism of the Trump administration over its response to the shooting. The family said in a statement that they were heartbroken, but also “very angry.”

Does anyone else get the sense that Stephen Miller grew up playing Civilization and took it too seriously?

I'm thrilled to share news about this new EMP Lab pre-print on empathic AI--led by my student @jdweng.bsky.social & with the amazing @mgreinecke.bsky.social. We lean into meta-science & philosophy of science to consider what empathic AI means for *empathy* as a construct, now & into the future. 1/n

A Change of Heart? Why Individual-Level Public Opinion Shifted Against Trump’s “Muslim Ban” - Political Behavior Public opinion research suggests that rapid and significant individual-level fluctuations in opinions toward various policies is fairly unexpected absent methodological artifacts. While this may gener...

Many “savvy” folks argue protests can’t work. Evidence suggests otherwise.

“Muslim ban set off a fury of protests across US, garnering tremendous media attention and discussion… Portraying ‘Ban’ at odds with inclusive elements of American identity prompted some citizens to shift their attitudes…”

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026.

For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk...

Please share widely & consider applying!