Natalie Markowitz Wittlin 🏳️‍🌈

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...

Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People With Nonbinary Gender Identities - Sara Emily Burke, Alexandria Jaurique, Benjamin M. Valen, Natalie M. Wittlin, Mackenzie L. M... Academic The present review examines bias against transgender women and men and bias against people with nonbinary gender identities. A central contention is th...

Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People with Nonbinary Gender Identities -- now online at Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

#SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary

A new piece - well, almost a whole book! - by our team, reflecting more than a decade of work.

Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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🚨This article is finally out! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

This is so cool! Very exciting work. Congrats!

Echoing what @eriknook.bsky.social said - you will not regret taking on this truly stellar NSF recipient!

🚨 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

NEW—Mahmoud Khalil's wife:
"I was born & raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria…They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety & stability. But here I am…weeks before I’m due to give birth to our first child…I feel more unsafe & unstable than I have in my entire life."

seriously PIs, talk to your contacts at NIH, NSF, etc. they're trying to help

this morning I chatted with the SRO of my cancelled study section, she's already working to reschedule it

I thanked her for making it work, & just said it meant a lot to me that SROs, POs, etc are keeping science going

Photo focus: A man (Emerson Todd) stands behind a podium, delivering a talk at SPSP 2025 in a large conference room. A large screen displays a PowerPoint slide titled ‘Trans Joy,’ which includes a definition and bullet points discussing the concept, along with an images representing the topic. Room description: The audience, consisting of attendees seated at rows of tables, faces the speaker. The image is taken from the back of the room, capturing the backs of the attendees’ heads. The conference room has beige walls and a patterned blue carpet. Some attendees have notebooks, drinks, and bags on their tables.

I was honored this week to give my first talk (of hopefully many) at #SPSP2025

🏳️‍⚧️ Growing Together: Trans Joy & Relationships 🏳️‍⚧️

A quick thread 🧵 👇

This is one of my favorite movie scenes of all times - so astute

A screenshot of a multi‐column table listing several U.S. presidential Executive Orders relating to LGBTQ+ rights and antidiscrimination policies. Each row has columns for “Origin” (POTUS), “Number/Identifier” (e.g., EO 13988), “Title” (such as Preventing and Combating Discrimination…), “Action Type” (e.g., Broad Nondiscrimination, Military Nondiscrimination), “Summary” (key points of each order), and “Date Signed.” The listed orders span from early 2021 through early 2025, covering topics like preventing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, banning conversion therapy, rescinding prior harmful EOs, and restricting or expanding DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives.

A spreadsheet at the top shows columns tracking anti‐LGBTQ bills by status and year: total bills (334), 2025 bills (327), 2024 rollovers (7), how many passed committees (3), passed one chamber (5), passed both chambers (0), enacted (1), vetoed (0), failed (3), and carried forward (0). Below that, another header row lists different types of anti‐LGBTQ legislation (e.g., gender‐affirming care bans, pronoun bans, “Don’t Say Gay,” drag bans, bathroom bans) with the total count of each category (e.g., 55 for gender‐affirming care bans, 20 for pronoun bans, 14 for “Don’t Say Gay,” etc.). A color‐coded U.S. map spans the lower half, with states shaded from light orange to deep red according to how many anti‐LGBTQ bills they contain. Texas appears in the darkest red (46 bills), with lighter shades indicating fewer bills in other states. A note at the bottom right explains that the map shows total tracked bills per state, which does not necessarily reflect each bill’s likelihood of passage.

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation.

We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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@alli.gay
@erininthemorning.com
@evanurquhart.bsky.social
@miralazine.bsky.social
@lizsaila.bsky.social

Here's the pretty journal version. For a paper about names, it seems appropriate that my full first name is shown. I've always abbreviated part of my first name as X. in my pubs, but it was nice to see my full first name in the proof so I kept it this time.
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🚨 New article, now online! 🚨

Really proud of this one! In this article, we demonstrate that the way in which identity centrality is conceptualised (either as identity importance or identity salience) matters for mental ill-health outcomes for LGBTQ+ individuals!

doi.org/10.1037/sgd0...

The Department of Psychology at Lehigh University invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor position in psychology! Be part of our faculty team! For more info: facultyjobs.lehigh.edu/node/1129

Sally’s amazing! Apply to work with her!

Thanks, @dsquared.bsky.social !

Would love to be added as well! Thanks for organizing!

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I’d like to be added please!

SPSSI Journals University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA

Researching identity safety cues? Submit to our Special Issue call at Journal of Social Issues, "Identity Safety Cues in Context: Advancing the Role of Group Status, Interpersonal Dynamics, and Systemic Events in Identity Safety Cues" - due Dec. 31st! spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...

Research Assistant The Psychology department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to recruit two Research Assistants on an 8-month fixed term, Guaranteed Hours contract.

I'm hiring two part-time, paid research assistants! Must be fluent in Spanish and able to work in the UK.

Please share with your networks. Ideal for UK post-baccs looking for more research experience to supplement MSc work, other RA work etc.

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New paper led by the magical @statwood.bsky.social ! We discuss how anti-trans rhetoric often draws on essentialism & benevolent sexism, which are associated with worse outcomes for cisgender women - the group anti-trans folks allegedly try to protect. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out Princeton Psych's Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students Program designed specifically for students who:
- don't have summer funding
- have approval of their home advisors
- are seeking an outside internship
Details here: t.co/Z2AYoL4y3a
#PsychSciSky #CogSci #DevSci #socialpsyc

Amazing! I wish I still lived in NY!

I feel like it could be a lot of fun! (Though, as in academia, there's also a lot of potential for it to go horribly awry...)