Franki Kung

You’re ready to submit your first paper. What happens next?

Our workshop, Peer Review 101: Responding Effectively to Reviews, will help you understand how peer review works and provide you with concrete tools so you can respond to a reviewer comments.

Join us 12-1:30pm ET 10/30/25. Register here:

🚨 We are seeking a Digital Presence Coordinator!

Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.

Job details:

💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters

🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term

Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh

📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.

We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!

*nearly 900!

@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social

Three conversations I'm excited to be a part of this week 🧪:

1) Fri Sept 19th 2pm ET join me, @frankikung.bsky.social, Jon Freeman and Cynthia Pickett for an @spspnews.bsky.social virtual conversation on grant terminations and research funding challenges spsp.org/professional...

What's going on with politically-motivated terminations of federal grants? How should social psychologists react and respond? Where do we go from here? No good answers but join me and other affected researchers for a virtual discussion next Friday.

Three @spspnews.bsky.social members will discuss their grant terminations and next steps, followed by Q&A, story sharing, and community discussion.

Moderator: Cynthia L. Pickett, Professor; Past SPSP President
Speakers: @lkfazio.bsky.social, @freemanjb.bsky.social, and @frankikung.bsky.social

FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges

Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)

Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...

@apadivision45.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @marginaliascience.bsky.social @apadivision44.bsky.social @apadivision38.bsky.social @blackinneuro.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social

Submissions can be theoretical, conceptual, or perspective-based papers (e.g., expanded theoretical framework in a grant proposal), as well as papers reporting empirical data with multiple studies or a single study (e.g., findings from a funded but interrupted longitudinal study).

Initial submission only requires a Letter of Intent: 500 words max by Oct 15, 2025.

This special issue's scope and format are broad.

This special issue "invites submissions on research areas recently de-prioritized and/or de-funded that address or discuss how social cognition approaches can aid in the understanding of these critical societal issues."

Plz consider submitting!

Join us for a dialogue on advancing diversity, inclusivity, and equity in developmental psychology publications. Photos left to right, top row: Sudha Arunachalam, Editor-in-Chief, Language Acquisition; Shauna Cooper, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Child Development; Vaishali Raval, Associate Editor, Journal of Research in Adolescence; Leher Singh, Co-Editor-in_Chief, Developmental Science. Bottom row: Sponsored by Reviewer Zero, "We're reimagining peer review to grow a diverse new generation of scholars in psychology and neuroscience." Matt Goldrick Moderator. QR code and link for registration.

How can developmental science journals promote equity, transparency, and shared responsibility?

Join us August 13, 2pm ET, for “Editors for an Inclusive Future: A Community Conversation” tinyurl.com/DevEditors @lehersingh.bsky.social ‪@mattgoldrick.bsky.social

Congratulations Rick!! 🎉 You will be missed here. Looking forward to seeing all that you'll accomplish @cuny.edu ❤️

Happy to report that the @sparksociety.bsky.social NSF grant has been reinstated!

3. UPDATED: What types of awards are being terminated? Awards that are not aligned with program goals or agency priorities have been terminated, including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), environmental justice, and misinformation/disinformation.

🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️

NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.

It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.

❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.

The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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The Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics is now accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. A Now Hiring stack of post-its is ont he left side of the graphic.

Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg
#academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky

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Today (April 30) is the day! Please support DEI Science #purduedayofgiving by donating at purdue.university/HHSConsortium 🎉🎉

Your contributions will support research, future scholars, education, outreach, and more.

No gift is too small - together, let's make a difference!

I feel so honored to be President-Elect of @sansmeeting.bsky.social.

These are dark times for science, but together we are stronger.

With President @dfareri.bsky.social, I look forward to advocating for science, bringing together our community, and finding a path forward.

These NIH Grants Were Terminated. Now They’re Back. A handful of scientists whose funding was canceled by the Trump administration are now seeing those decisions reversed — and it’s not always clear why.

“These reinstatements show us that legal action still has the power to hold the federal government accountable to its obligations.”

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haha it could be. this tells you how confused I was...

I like the movie too, but this is so real. It was so bad that I kept thinking, 'Wait, do I still understand Mandarin?' A supposedly scary reveal turned out to be too funny.

I'm so sorry for your loss too. What a time we live in.. if there's anything I can do, please don't hesitate to reach out. Standing with you together.

DEI Science Consortium @deiscience.bsky.social #purdueuniversity is not slowing down. We're expanding our efforts to support DEI scholars and scholarship - Boiler up!

On April 30, you can help us make a difference. Let's do this together.

#PurdueDayofGiving @aauppurdue.bsky.social

So sorry. This shouldn't have happened.. As a person who was uplifted by the program, I see it firsthand how you and your team are doing incredible work. I hope this will keep going, and I'm here to help in any way I can.

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Like many others, Angela, Kelci, and I were disappointed to learn that the NSF grant supporting Flourish was terminated last week. Flourish remains committed, now more than ever, to our mission of uplifting pre-tenure faculty of color in psychology. Learn more & spread the word about our community.

Thanks so much for your note, Sarah. It's a difficult time and I'm hoping we'll keep the work going in some way.

oh gosh, I'm so sorry...

same to you!! what a world we live in right now

thanks, Stephanie. what a time we live in!