Does materialist science destroy existential meaning? @Ianhohm, Ari Liminus, and I argue here that yea, it does. But that doesn't mean you have to choose between science and meaning ... journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Super excited about my lab's new foray into the nexus where science and meaning meet. If you or a pre-grad you know finds these ideas interesting, consider applying to work with me at UBC Psychology! To learn more read journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… and spread the word to awesome applicants.

What makes something seem human? A display of gender. In new work, in-press PNASNews, Jessica Tracy, Diego Guevara Beltran, Jeremy Koster & I show that gender (also) takes primacy in social perception in a nonWEIRD, small-scale society. Check out paper (& art) at: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Great teaching advice from Paul Bloom. Last year I adopted #14 and I'm eagerly awaiting the payoff this term. open.substack.com/pub/paulbloom/…

Excited to share our paper in PNAS Nexus, with Jess Tracy, Nick Rule, & Laura Tian! We show that the muscles people use to pose a smile—and the intensity of those activations—reveals personality, enabling others to form accurate personality judgments. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva…

Holy sh*t. This new Kamala Harris ad, which will air on Fox ahead of the debate, will mess with Donald Trump as it uses the words of Trump’s own cabinet & inner circle to show how he is unfit & unable to serve. This is so good. Watch & share it below.

Sex is great, but have you ever watched a qualified, experienced woman eviscerate an ignorant, unprepared sociopath for two hours?

For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is Kamala Harris. | Editorial bit.ly/4daH36q

Fighting for social justice can burn ya right out, but there are still many radical joys to be had. Jess Tracy is here to remind us Why We Matter in this gorgeous new book!

Happiness. Sadness. Guilt. Anger. Fear. So often when we think about emotions, we think about how we experience them as individuals. But what happens when we experience them with dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of other people? This week, we kick off a new series called

I don't want to do the thing I explicitly advise against in this podcast, so I'll just say that this was a really cool experience and I'm especially thrilled that my parallel parking brag made the final cut.

Economic sociologist Brooke Harrington (Brooke Harrington) explains how the tech billionaire "broligarchy" keeps the masses in check by sowing division on the internet

Love this interview with my friend ⁦Mandy Len Catron⁩ of How to fall in love with anyone fame! nytimes.com/audio/app/2025…

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So honoured to be invited back to Hidden Brain to answer listener questions-- many thanks to Shankar Vedantam and the amazing Hidden Brain team! Listen @ podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hid… (or check out my original interview

I'm also super honored to see my book Take Pride on this incredible list - thanks so much Steven Pinker!

I often say I'm in academia for the late morning starts and wearing hoodies to work, but Neel Patel knows the truth: "...scientists are driven by a passion to imagine what is possible, by dreams of turning very idiosyncratic obsessions into something that stands some glimmer of a