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🚨🚨 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! 👇

Academic friends: do you have grad students working on survey methods questions (ones we can help answer with Survey 160 data)? Please share with them this fellowship opportunity. Applications for first round are closing soon. www.survey160.com/survey-160-r...

Faculty Lecturer - Department of Psychology Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

McGill is hiring a faculty lecturer in social psychology, in a (non-adjunct) permanent teaching position.

Please consider being my colleague, Montreal is really great: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

Pretty certain all of you will love this.

These are some incredible paintings by Ghassan Kanafani.

1- “Women” 1968

2- “Antara” 1967

3- “untitled” 1965

4- “untitled” 1964

Postdoctoral fellowship in LGBTQ reproductive health disparities in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.
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Our own work also highlights the importance of heightening abolitionist ideology in the current moment: to shift people's locus of violence from individuals to state actors like ICE, and to increase activism against state violence in a tenacious manner. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

on the role of social psychologists in abolishing policing and state violence:

it's always been Celsius in my head 🫤

the Summer Internship

We're doing summerpsych.com again this year!

PhD curious undergrads, come hang out at the CSI lab, help us push forward a project and develop your social science chops Applications are due March 1st:

New paper, conceived of and led by Chyei Vinluan on how people tend to think of Asian Ams as overrepresented in STEM, but that this ISN'T true when considering ethnic subgroups now available at @commspsychol.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

TITLE: Privileged representations of peace: Perpetuating systemic violence AUTHORS: Ekin Birdir, Ludwin Molina, canan coşkan ABSTRACT: Privileged representations of peace: Perpetuating systemic violenceEkin Birdir, Ludwin Molina, canan coşkanAbstractSocial psychological research typically focuses on promoting peace between groups in conflict by fostering intergroup harmony through prejudice reduction or advancing social justice through collective action. Unfortunately, these investigations rarely consider the mainstream discursive structures and epistemic engagement that normalize collective ethnic/racial violence. We addressed this gap with two mixed-method (i.e., qualitative and quantitative) studies in two contexts (Turkey and the United States), utilizing decolonial frameworks informed by liberation psychology, critical race theory and privileged ethnic/racial (Turkishness and White racial) contracts. Comparative analysis of meta-representations of peace among Turks (Study 1; N = 116) and White Americans (Study 2; N = 151) exposed the overlapping (i.e., negative peace and reliance on the nation-state order) and divergent (i.e., assimilative inclusion and neoliberal individuality) elements of privileged epistemic engagement with peace that align with Turkishness and White racial contracts, perpetuating collective violence. Furthermore, both Turks' and White Americans' ethnic/racial identity endorsement predicted higher perceptions of the state/military contribution to peace, suggesting the role of racial privilege in maintaining systemic violence. To our knowledge, this work is the first social psychological investigation of the Turkishness contract and the comparative analysis of privileged meta-representations of peace.

📢Fresh article out:

Comparing the White racial contract (Mills) in the U.S. and the Turkishness contract (Ünlü) in Turkey through mixed-methods, Ekin, Ludwin and I exposed how "peace" is used to maintain the status quo rather than achieve justice.

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SPSSI Journals As workplace inequality persists, understanding the psychological processes motivating collective action engagement becomes imperative. In one domain of collective action, labor unionization, members...

"The mission of HR is to help you thrive at work." This sounds good, but what happens when your organization shifts its priorities away from yours?

New work by @megan-elaine-burns.bsky.social suggests that unions become more appealing!

spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🔓

I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏

Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8

Please share it widely!

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We're currently accepting applications to hire up to two @cip.uw.edu postdoctoral scholars to join our team in Seattle. The priority deadline to apply is January 15, 2026.

For the position description, salary range, qualifications and application process, click here: apply.interfolio.com/177901

🚨 Are you looking for a postdoc or know of someone looking? If so, there is a postdoc opportunity at the University of Chicago to work with faculty, including my former postdoc mentor Dr. Ming-Te Wang!

See attached ad for details!

UPDATE: Three Palestinian students wounded as Israeli forces storm Birzeit University campus

Haven’t seen this reported in the UK news at all. My colleagues there report that faculty members were also stopped and prevented from entering campus.

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SPSSI Journals Despite Latino Americans’ consistent support for the Democratic Party over the last five decades, the number of Latino Americans who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election grew by 1...

Latino voters are often treated as a single bloc. Our new paper led by Mercedes Muñoz surveys Mexican and Cuban Americans, finding higher traditionalism, machismo, and income predicts voting for Trump over Harris. Latino voters are not a monolith.
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thanks Jin- curious to hear what you think! :)

Gazing like a border What does bordered perception attend to, seek out, surveil?

✍🏽 I’ve been thinking about “The Psychology of Becoming a Border”, how people themselves *become* borders

This essay traces bordered perception (what it surveils, attends to, seeks out) and how colorist/imperialist visual imaginaries activate & normalize the sensory detection of “removables”

Now out in Political Psychology and open access, led by Helin Ünal: "Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Couldn't do this without @kimechaney.bsky.social & AGS; thankful for your support on this paper getting this exciting line of research off the ground!

Full PDF here: mdphamm.com/pub 6/6

Far from perfect, but this manuscript hopefully continues to shift the field's conversation on marginalized people's experiences and activism/solidarity toward a critical lens that afford them full humanity while acknowledging historical injustices. 5/6

The paper ends with a discussion of how our framework meets stigma-based solidarity and intersectionality, along with applications for education and activism. 4/6

Incorporating work on intraminority relations, collective action, and strength-based research, we posit that recognizing shared strengths can confer unique benefits (relative to shared discrimination) that ultimately lead to holistic and sustained solidarity efforts. 3/6

Strength-based solidarity advances a critical strength-based perspective into the literature on intraminority solidarity. 2/6

💫 Now in PSPR: We theorize a strength-based solidarity framework, wherein members of different marginalized groups recognize common identity-conscious strengths (e.g., community strength, resilience) and work to improve each other's lived experiences. 1/6

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I’m hiring a predoctoral fellow for the 2026-2027 AY with possibility of a second year. This is a great position for someone interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or who wants more hands-on experience doing research. Please apply/share! Happy to answer questions!

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New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life.

apply.interfolio.com/178796

A few friends are managing threats to renewal in academia (mid tenure review specifically) due to Palestine position — anyone gone through that/ dealing now that’s open to chatting? If so DM.