Tamar Kushnir

After years of teamwork, I am thrilled that our adversarial collaboration on political ideology and belief rigidity was accepted for publication at Political Psychology! Plus, it's my first Pol Psych pub, so it is doubly exciting! t.co/2TgscFm1J8

Super cool work, as usual!

Science Funding Process =====Written July 11 2025====== Hi all, Just wanted to share some information that is likely relevant to a lot of us, but not always easy to understand, about federal science budget procedure (feel f...

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

Tillis becomes third GOP senator to oppose Trump’ s big, beautiful bill North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis (R) announced after a meeting with Senate GOP leaders and colleagues Saturday afternoon that he will vote “no” on both the motion to proceed and final passage of the…

I’ve called Thom Tillis just about every day for the last month to ask him to oppose this bill—and it looks like he’s officially taking a stand against it and the damage it would cause to North Carolinians!

thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Listen to Standing Together leaders Angela Mattar and Itamar Avneri discuss what it means to build a joint struggle against occupation and war and for peace in their conversation on The Harlem Lights podcast:

Good luck to you both! NC will miss you!

I never thought it would be possible to give a talk at @socphilpsych.bsky.social and a have gig in the same week! Thanks president @andrewshtulman.bsky.social for reminding us all that imagination is not just for children :)

Do children use counterevidence to change their mind if changing their mind means disagreeing with their ingroup? No! Zoe Finiasz, @tamarkushnir.bsky.social, et al. find that children will refrain from revising their beliefs if their ingroup is defined by that belief. #SPP2025

@tamarkushnir.bsky.social presents a wonderful overview of how imagination and experience combine to help us differentiate actions that are impossible from those that are simply hard.

Aww this is what I get for being off of social media for so long! Thanks friends. Looking forward to more celebrations @socphilpsych.bsky.social next week!

The ECC lab is going to @srcdorg.bsky.social Minneapolis - Hope to see you there!

I'm thrilled that a version of 'Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism' has just been accepted as a target article in Behavioural & Brain Sciences
😀 An open-call for commentaries is coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Good advice in general, not just in sport!

Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.

Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

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Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865

Our Duke Child Studies group is hiring a new recruitment coordinator! Come join us!

My lab is hiring a full time lab manager! Come join our terrific team! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29947

Horrible. But important to read and pass on.

Aww yeah!!!!!

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

We couldn’t be more excited for our amazing recruitment coordinator Sydney who is off to start her PhD this Fall in Educational Psychology (Developmental Sciences) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of Dr. Aixa Marchand! Such a huge deal! 🎉

So happy for Sydney and this next big step! #phdbound

1. This Friday I hosted a workshop on morality with some fabulous humans who took take time out of their lives to talk about ideas with each other. Here is a thread with brief summaries of what folks presented in case you too would like to hear about their science:
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc

#handsoff
Topeka KS

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Lot of people at the mall today. Fight the power

CHICAGO…

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.