I celebrated my 26th on the 26th with 20 incredible friends. ♥️

Samantha Happy belated birthday!!! These pictures are beautiful! 🥳🎂(also, we were born 2 days apart - mine is tomorrow! *almost* birthday twins!)

Still reveling from the opportunity to break bread with the brilliant Tressie McMillan Cottom. Highlights included discussions of motherhood, metaphorical three headed monsters, and living and working in nuance. Also, her coat was fabulous.

Thrilled to share the final version of our study of Black-white wealth differences in the US dating back to before the Civil War. Bigger & better, w/ 2X the data, + appendices where we explore key related Qs -- the role of racial violence, conditional gaps, immigration, etc.

Very excited for my fiancé Modibo Camara to present a portion of his dissertation work on "Computationally Tractable Choice" Harvard Business School NOM today. 🙂 economics.harvard.edu/event/seminar-…

Dr. Navarro, a beloved member of the ThePhDProject community, was unfortunately killed in the recent campus shooting at UNLV. I am gutted for all of the victims. 💔 Please consider donating towards her family's incurred funeral expenses: gofundme.com/f/62d9t-navarr…

I've noticed academics framing the surge in DEI discourse in 2020 as, "George Floyd led to XYZ changes." I think it's crucial to acknowledge that it was the murder of George Floyd—not George Floyd himself—that ignited these conversations. He did not intend to be a martyr.

This is why language matters. When we avoid using the active voice, "George Floyd was murdered," we open the door for ambiguity and normalize nonsensical, passive phrases like, "dies while... being restrained." The nexus of responsibility should always be clear.

My phone reminded me of this 5-year-old (!) memory. When I arrived at Princeton, I was terrified of the senior thesis requirement. Yet I found myself conducting research every summer, culminating in a thesis that inspired me to pursue a PhD. This day truly changed my life.

If we learned anything from Stacey Abrams historic success in flipping GA during the 2020 election, it's that we shouldn't underestimate the power of Black women's leadership. #KamalaHarris2024

I will be recruiting 💫two PhD students💫 for my new lab! (computational learning & memory applied to individual & interactive behavior, rouhanilab.com). Feel free to e-mail if interested and catch me at SfN! (poster 06 at 1 PM on Wed 10/09)

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab at Brown! Please apply if you're interested in judgment and decision-making, social+cognitive psych, or using games/experiments/computational models to understand human behavior. Apps due Dec 1! More info: davidlevari.com

PhD student and postdoc friends! I'm conducting a paid 5-10 minute online survey on experiences receiving feedback in academia. Have a few minutes to spare? I'd LOVE to hear from you. 👋🏼😊 hbs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_88…

Our paper is out today in PNASNews! 🎉 In a large-scale experiment on a YouTube-like platform, we find that giving people politically “slanted” video recs doesn’t shift beliefs or viewing behaviors. In other words, online filter bubbles may not be as polarizing as we think…