Nils Reimer

(This is from a workshop on Navigating the New Federal Funding Landscape at our university.)

OST/OMB Memo (M-25-34) detailing White House priorities for federally funded research: Critical and Emerging Technologies AI, quantum science, semiconductors, advanced communications networks, future computing technologies, and advanced manufacturing Energy Dominance & New Frontiers Exploration American energy dominance, critical minerals, polar region research, deep ocean exploration American Security Advanced military capabilities, cybersecurity resilience, “Golden Dome,” preparedness and resilience American Health and Biotechnology Health challenges, biosafety and biosecurity, building domestic biomanufacturing capabilities Space Dominance

I wish Social Dominance Theory would stop being so damn topical.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

🚨 “Perceiving Protest” by Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) is now free to read through the end of March!

Read it now at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ

Opinion | We’re Seeing the Weakness of a Strong State

“What we are seeing is the weakness of strong states. Regimes that rely on repression face a challenge: The more force they deploy, the more they risk exposing their own brutality to politically persuadable observers. Overreach doesn’t just project strength; it also undermines legitimacy.” Gift link

1. From lung cancer to climate change, capitalist governments are notoriously slow to recognize and remedy the negative externalities generated by corporate activity.

Generative AI is no exception. Large language models are proving a disaster in numerous spheres of public life.

Parental guidance US parents*, minutes per day spent on child caret, by generation, 1975-2018 Fathers Mothers 160 120 • Millennial Gen X Millennial Gen X Silent 80 40 0 Baby-boomer Baby-boomer 20 30 Silent ㅜ 40 Mother's age 40 Father's age 50 60 *Who live with partner and at least one child under 18 *Controlling for children under five Source: American Heritage Time Use Study 20 30 50 60 160 120 80 40 0

Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more.

via The Economist

The new usda food pyramid but the foundation is a lot of beans.

Fixed it!

I think the funniest thing to me is that the people who are working to create an Artificial General Intelligence is that it’s a bunch of libertarians who have never realised that what makes us smart as humans is community, society, empathy. The things they find an anathema.

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why?

To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients.

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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Trump Promised Radical Change in His Second Term. Here's What He's Done So Far. President Trump has driven illegal crossings at the border to record lows, helped bring about an uneasy cease-fire in Gaza and upended global trade. 14 MIN READ

This is the @nytimes.com once again whitewashing violence & genocide. He didn’t end “illegal crossings” — wtf even is that — he ended asylum. He didn’t broker a ceasefire; it’s genocide by another name. It’s wild how rotten the storied institutions of this country are showing themselves to be.

No one ever talks about the academic jobs that marginalized folks won’t apply to because of state or institutional reputation for hostility towards their group. Again, who it really at a disadvantage in any job market? 🙃

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.

"Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared."

Amazing piece from @joannastern.bsky.social

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/03/g...

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

www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/11/20/b...