I would hope that Columbia Faculty see their admin arresting their own students for peaceful protest as a red line. These students are in our care. Our primary responsibility as academics is to nurture their minds and protect them from oppression. Faculty must walk out now.

We’re almost at $6,000, enough to pay for one adult family member. Please donate if you have the capacity and circulate within your networks:

One of our fellow psychologists, Farid Anvari, is raising funds to help his wife's family evacuate from Gaza. If you are able to help, please consider donating to or sharing the link below:

gofundme.com/f/p4uqwq-help-…

I'm happy to share that I'll be presenting a symposium with Dr. Shayna Sparling and Joel Le Forestier on our work with sexual minority men, as well as a 15-minute presentation at #SPSSI later this summer!

Does anyone know of a good way to experimentally manipulate how connected someone feels to an ingroup?

78% of White people who would benefit from PrEP are on PrEP, compared to 11% of Black and just over 20% of Hispanic/Latinx folks. We can get to 78% for all, but why aren’t we? Systemic racism? Poor messaging? Lack of community engagement? Mistrust? The answer is yes.

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager to join me at Pitt starting late summer 2024. Come study intergroup relations, stigma, and interventions with me!

Please circulate widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…

Does anyone know of a good, undergraduate-friendly 'how to read a research article'-type piece that's relevant to (quantitative) research in psychology?

Re-sharing this database of BIPOC-authored papers from across psychology. This is a wonderful resource, esp. for those aiming to diversify their syllabi, journal clubs, citation networks, and general awareness. Please add your or others' papers!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

7.3% reduction to funding for neurological diseases and a 6.6% reduction for mental health research. This is absolutely bonkers. The House Republicans is literally taking the promise of future life-saving treatments away from sick Americans. aaas.org/news/fy-2024-r…

Some news that you might miss given this busy Friday...

🚨🚨🚨The US House Office of Diversity and Inclusion will be dissolved as part of the government spending bill that passed today, the office’s director said in a statement.

It’s time for me to bravely and boldly break my silence: I have lived in Wegmans country for almost a year now, and I don’t get the hype at all. It’s just a grocery store. The most normal grocery store in the world. Thank you for respecting my bravery.

Logistic MLMs are often described as 'simple extensions' of linear ones, but the first step, calculating the ICC, is way more complicated! Sean noticed this when taking my class and ultimately developed a tutorial with example data and code. I learned a lot, I hope you do too!

Official launch of our prejudice modeling competition.

-We give you some data, you build a model, and we test it on new data
-$2k for winning teams, and authorship for all

Sign up and more info here: hehmanlab.org/competition
Would appreciate sharing widely!

I am thrilled that our paper is finally online at Dev Psychology: White parents’ racial socialization during a guided discussion predicts declines in white children’s pro-white biases. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-53…
A thread! Northwestern Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern CASBS Weinberg College at Northwestern

Here are some thoughts on the 'islamophobic poster' at the recent Society for Personality and Social Psychology
conference. I highlight that this poster incident is a marker of systemic racialization of Muslims.

Please, read and forward to those who are thinking about what can be done.

osf.io/s4mvy