Nils Reimer

Here's the journal version. Glad to join a list of distinguished social psych scholars in this new issue of PIBBS! To complement other articles, ours focus on how to consider and improve standards in data collection & disaggregation, esp of MENA & Asian Americans
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Great work! 🔥

Random Roommates, Broader Minds: Why Higher Ed Should Invest in Intergroup Contact - Sarah E. Gaither, Esha S. Naidu, Emily B. Reilly, 2025 As U.S. campuses grow more diverse, university policy choices determine whether cross-group encounters produce connection or division. Drawing on decades of int...

New paper with Esha Naidu and Emmy Reilly! As U.S. campuses grow more diverse, what really matters isn’t just who is on campus—it’s how universities shape interactions. Randomized roommates when supported with institutional backing can strengthen belonging
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Tenure does not exist In America.

prof attended a protest and was fired for “interfering with university business”

The details in the article are even worse. We’ve seen ucsd skirting this line too with profs who entered encampment, and this shit will embolden school admin

Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer

Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:

This is largely indistinguishable from the type of sophistry that created and sustained Jim Crow. And it is designed to accomplish the same ends--locking Black folks out of politics.

ManuscriptCentral Wrapped!
In 2025, you submitted 5 papers
AND all got rejected 🎉
You spent 💯 minutes in total trying to submit your papers!
You reviewed for 10 journals that would never publish your papers ❤️

Gerd Gigerenzer on the legacy of Daniel Kahneman
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If you want a Nobel laureate, James Watson comes to mind.

The end of coal in California ⬇️

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

"Miles Hewstone no longer holds the honorific title of Emeritus Fellow at New College, which is part of Oxford. He has resigned as a fellow of the British Academy, a respected body that promotes humanities and social sciences."

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I miss hard games. Cup Head was a rare game that's beautiful and hard as hell.

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

1st paper in thread. The 2nd & my last submitted paper of 2025 is my big theory paper that took over a year to write. Some of you have generously invited me to speak about it but very few have seen the paper. I propose what I call Racial Contrast Theory, to examine Black-Asian relations
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Investigation Finds Oxford "Slow to Act" Against Sexual Misconduct OxStu unpacks Bloomberg's recent investigation, which found that Oxford University tends to be "slow to act" against sexual misconduct.

In Oxbridge, there is zero tolerance against bullying and harassment

Anyone questioning this commitment will receive a disciplinary, said the pro-VC

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It's so baked into our field it's hard to even see sometimes. Or maybe it is that the funding incentives had been fairly reasonable until recently ...

Commentary: The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn't UC join their lawsuit? The UC faculty went to court to fight Trump's funding cutoffs and won. Why has the university system tried to negotiate instead?

Admin at UC have claimed various reasons why they aren’t fighting in court, but they simply are afraid to take on the Feds, believing antagonism will somehow make a terrible situation worse. Thing is, it can’t be much worse, and you can’t placate a bully.

The International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) is pleased to announce Dr. April Bailey as the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award! Dr. Bailey is a Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her PhD in 2019 from Yale University.

I can’t imagine what it was like to be a victim of Hewstone, but I recognise how important this article is for the women he harassed. At the same time, I’m shaken that our community stayed silent for so long. I have deep respect for the women who exposed his wrongdoing.

I know several of the women who were harassed by this guy. They had real courage to testify. He engaged in serious professional retaliation against women.

This needs to end. I've seen how many people curry favor with known sexual harassers and how the worst can still manage to leap from job to job.

I now enough to know that there are more than that, going back a long time. In the aftermath, the institutional response—both from our department and also EASP—was disillusioning.

Ugh, I'm so sorry, Michèle. It took me way too long to understand what was going on.

I was so naive back then. I hope that I would be able to see the signs (that, with hindsight, were absolutely there) today.

#AcademicSky

Women deserve to study and work in safe places. Period.

Let's hope that men in academia start doing more to make this a reality, structurally

It's not enough to refrain from personally harassing; we need to change the norms

Be an anti-harasser, visibly, not simply a non-harasser

"Five people said they left Oxford in order to get away from Hewstone."

Appalling.

No, that's right. Still, it's so important for there to be a public record. Early career scholars and even academic institutions on other continents are often not in the right whisper networks—I know I and my lab mates weren't.

One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser.

This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.

No one at the department or university ever spoke to us about why he "retired" in 2019. Not one word about harassment.