draft lab ai policy, feel free to use, modify, or discuss! todd.gureckislab.org/2026/03/06/g...
I end my talk these days by reminding the audience that for most scientists, their politics aren't biasing the science, the science is informing their politics. But b/c scientific conclusions are inconvenient for right-wing politics, there is a movement to pretend the causal arrow is reversed.
Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social):
Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.
“The Times analysis found 300 billionaires and their families donated more than $3 billion—19% of all contributions—in federal elections in 2024. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined.“ Gift:
G Elliott Morris: "The takeaway from these numbers is that the new war in Iran is very unpopular...Worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014."
Last few weeks teaching has had me thinking a fair bit about age, period, and cohort effects on attitudes so cooked up these two figures out of interest. Sharing if interesting to folks.
😮 this isn't what we meant when us millennials said we were nostalgic for the 2000s
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
New from Chyei Vinluan finds that Asian Am workers (1) exp more discrimination working & (2) felt less in control/able to manage conflict in-person v. remotely; and (3) were more inclusive/equitable in policy support after learning about (1) & (2) 🔓🧵 online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Basically ZERO awards in NSF SBES 🤯
Consistent with what I’ve heard from friends, who say last summer’s submissions haven’t even been reviewed yet…
How Joint Review Can Boost Faculty Diversity
A new study finds that Black and Hispanic faculty have much higher chances of promotion or tenure when they are evaluated alongside other candidates. https://bit.ly/4aTV7lq
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
New paper out in Science Advances! I'm really (really) proud of this one. Let's get into it. doi.org/10.1126/scia...
This is what state censorship looks like:
Is SPSP a Healthy Organization?
Yes
Trump has offered effectively zero rationale to the public and the result is confusion and diffidence - 68% say not justified or not sure; only 62% of Rs say justified
Nice!! I had my hand raised too but didn't get called on. Alas.
Let's say I'm a researcher in a politically controversial topic: flu and hepatitis vaccines for children. I study interventions to increase vaccine uptake.
Would I be doing "activist science" given the anti-vaxx political movement & anti-vaxx govt actions here in the US?
(Inspired by #SPSP2026)
I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
Proud to be member of an exclusive club 😎 🌊 #SPSP2026
Going to #spsp2026? Interested in belonging, diversity, or stigma? Come to our symposium, "The Journey to Belonging: Challenges, Costs, and Ways Forward" on Friday at 9:30AM CST. Featuring @katiekroe.bsky.social, @carltonfong.bsky.social, Kevin Binning, and myself.
and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university
New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7)
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Heading to Chicago for #SPSP2026? Come check out work from our lab! 🙂
We’re presenting 2 talks & 2 posters on interventions to promote confrontations of sexism, identity safety cues, multiracial identity, and stereotyping about nationality.
I listened to a panel of election officials last week talk about what they are doing to try to restore trust in elections; but it is hard to reverse a dynamic where Trump is calling you crooked. As a result, more are simply leaving the profession. About 40% of 2020 officials were gone by 2024.
🚨 New paper! Think of a place you feel deeply attached to. When you're in that place, do you feel like your life is more meaningful? New work from @ashleykrause.bsky.social suggests you probably do!
Just accepted at Journal of Environmental Psychology, we find places can give our life meaning 🧵
