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Bilingualism builds bigger brains, perhaps.

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Although classes @umassamherst.bsky.social ended 3 weeks ago & graduations are past us, the amazing students that I had this spring semester @isenbergumass.bsky.social frequently enter my thoughts. I share with others how lucky I am to have such outstanding students, from both near & very far.

ASA member Christopher Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social‬ ‪@umnsociology.bsky.social‬ was a guest on the Criminology Academy podcast, talking about voting rights, felony disenfranchisement, and the movement for reenfranchisement.

New paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections. The policy increased faculty exits-particularly among high-performing researchers. Also, there were no productivity gains among incumbents. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

At today's seminar, Dave Patterson and Andy Konwinski discussed themes from their paper "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives," arguing that we are still in the early days of practical AI, and that collaborative efforts can guide AI's impact. @jlanday.bsky.social hai.stanford.edu/events/andy-...

The ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology has gone digital! Department leaders—share your details w/ administrators, advisers, faculty, students, & others seeking info on graduate departments of sociology. https://bit.ly/4iLZVeP

The Handbook of Social Psychology | Open Publishing <p style="font-size: 1em;"> Since 1954, *The Handbook of Social Psychology* has been the field's most authoritative reference work. The 6th edition of this essential resource contains 50 new chapters on a wide range of topics, written by the world's leading experts. It is available only in digital form and is free to read online and to download. <br> <br> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;"> **Editors** <p style="font-size: 1em;"> Daniel T. Gilbert, Harvard University <br> Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University <br> Eli J. Finkel, Northwestern University <br> Wendy B. Mendes, Yale University <br> <br> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;"> **How to read** <p style="font-size: 1em;"> For the best experience, read <i>The Handbook</i> online by scrolling down to the next section and clicking on a chapter title. <br><br> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;"> **How to cite** <p style="font-size: 1em;"> Gilbert, D. T., Fiske, S. T., Finkel, E. J., & Mendes, W. B. (Eds.). (2025). <i>The handbook of social psychology </i>, (6th ed.). Situational Press. https://doi.org/10.70400/NYKH3013 <br> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;"> **How to download** <p style="font-size: 1em;"> <i>The Handbook</i> is designed to be read online as a continuous-scroll e-book. PDFs may contain inelegant page breaks. You can download <i>The Handbook</i> in PDF or EPUB format <a href=" https://openpublishing.princeton.edu/projects/the-handbook-of-social-psychology/resource-collections" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work.

Today is the launch of the 6th edition.

Incredibly, The HSP is now open-access—free to read, download, and share, as a collaboration by 100 of the world's leading scholars.

Reddit slams ‘unethical experiment’ that deployed secret AI bots in forum The platform’s chief legal officer called out the University of Zurich team that deployed bots on r/changemyview to study how AI can influence opinions.

I am not sure (based on the facts I am aware of so far) that not publishing this research is optimal or indeed even ethical. The benefits of knowing the findings and modifying the tech may outweigh what appear to be modest harms. But let’s see how case unfolds. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Speaking of Solidarity with Michèle Lamont Moral Matters: Conversations with Sociologists on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity · Episode

Listen to the latest episode of the ASA Altruism Morality & Social Solidarity Section's Moral Matters podcast, featuring a conversation w/ ASA member Michele Lamont @mlamont.bsky.social on her book, Seeing Others: How Recognition Works, and How it Can Heal our Divided World.

On Tuesday, the Vermont Department of Health confirmed the state's first measles case in Lamoille County, affecting a school-aged child.

Md. confirms measles case; Dulles Airport travelers may have been exposed The health department said there may have been exposures at Dulles’s international arrivals area and a Howard County pediatric emergency department.

Maryland confirms measles case; Dulles Airport travelers may have been exposed

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COVID upended everyday life. What’s stuck around 5 years after lockdown? Hybrid work, e-commerce, distrust in institutions are more are continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID upended everyday life. What’s stuck around 5 years after lockdown? www.wgbh.org/news/health/... via @wgbh.org

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH │CHIBE/BCFG Research Seminar - Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH will be speaking at a CHIBE/BCFG Virtual Seminar at noon EST on March 26, 2025 via Zoom.

How might a deep understanding of human social network structure and function be used to intervene in the world to make it better? CHIBE and @bcfginitiative.bsky.social are co-hosting a virtual seminar on 3/26 at 12 ET with @nachristakis.bsky.social. Register here! chibe.upenn.edu/event/nichol...

Same-Sex Sexual Attraction Does Not Spread in Adolescent Social Networks - Archives of Sexual Behavior Peers have a powerful effect on adolescents’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Here, we examine the role of social networks in the spread of attitudes towards sexuality using data from the National L...

Homosexuality is not contagious. In a 2013 #HNL observational study of 90,118 adolescents in 142 US schools, we found sexual activity (OR=1.79) and desire for relationship (OR=2.69) may spread from person to person. But attraction to same-sex partners did not (OR=0.96).

Rooted in Connection | Spiral Magazine An interview with Nicholas Christakis about social networks. Explore the Interdependence issue of Spiral magazine from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art.

"How social networks make us who we are": a short interview with SPIRAL Magazine rubinmuseum.org/rooted-in-co... (featuring a cool design by Eleni Christakis, based on the first network map of human happiness, which we published in @bmj.com in 2008).

Induction of social contagion for diverse outcomes in structured experiments in isolated villages Certain people occupy topological positions within social networks that enhance their effectiveness at inducing spillovers. We mapped face-to-face networks among 24,702 people in 176 isolated villages...

Could we easily identify a subset of structurally influential people who could maximize social contagion to people we ourselves did not contact with the intervention? science.org/doi/10.1126/... 6/

Safeguarding Third-Party AI Research Safeguarding Third-Party AI Research

Read the paper here: hai.stanford.edu/safeguarding...

ASA has joined with 230 national, state, and local organizations (+ 2,600 individuals from the private, public, non-profit, and scientific sectors) demanding Congress to order the restoration of taxpayer financed data removed from federal agency websites. www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

Are you prepared for the next natural disaster? Podcast Episode · The Middle with Jeremy Hobson · 02/07/2025 · 51m

I really enjoyed taking calls on NPR stations across the nation with @jeremyhobson.bsky.social and @kimcobb.bsky.social

So many practical tips and inspiration tales from recent disaster survivors

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Screenshot of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention web page that has been taken down - pages include those with data on infectious diseases

Several CDC and NIH Webpages No Longer Available
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This is our updated AI policy regarding the conduct of science in the Human Nature Lab (#HNL). Suggestions or comments welcome. humannaturelab.net/sites/defaul...

BREAKING Since the #HughesFire started about 2 hours ago near Lake Castaic, it's burned 3,400 acres....a football field every 2-3 seconds.

Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity

Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ ‘The Atlantic’ published this landmark document of the civil-rights movement in the August 1963 issue

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Often the objective of the critic is not to improve, but to impede good work: “If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk…. I would have no time for constructive work.”
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Induction of Social Contagion | Faculti What is social contagion? How does friendship-nomination targeting enhance the spread of health education and behaviors in social networks?

A short recent interview: Induction of Social Contagion faculti.net/induction-of...

Posts and likes are somewhat down at @bsky.app since their recent peak, and the graph seems to be stabilizing for now (pending any new influx of users, I suspect).

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