this is the guy everyone saw burn and melt alive on a hospital bed with an IV attached to him. remember these people are more than just numbers. they had a life, a family, dreams just like us.

For anyone who is interested in the psychology of social injustice and social change, doing a Ph.D. with Siwar Hasan Aslih سِوار حَسَن عاصله would be an exceptional opportunity!

It is morally wrong to use AI detectors when they produce false positives that smear students in ways that hurt them and where they can never prove their innocence. Do not use them. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

We have our first academic publication by Social Change Lab! Our research on the radical flank effect of Just Stop Oil was published today in Nature Sustainability: nature.com/articles/s4189…

Whew! We’ve been working on this for YEARS. Grateful to Ignazio for his persistence, Nandita for coming in & injecting new energy, & thoughtful reviewers & editor at JDM. We add new measures of economic standing btwn countries & geopolitical correlates of the misperceptions.

The Financial Times has called for an arms embargo; the The New York Times has not.

The vote by the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) against UNRWA this evening is unprecedented and sets a dangerous precedent. It opposes the UN Charter and violates the State of Israel’s obligations under international law.  This is the latest in the ongoing campaign to discredit

Israel just banned UNRWA, the UN Palestinian refugee agency, from operating in the West Bank and Gaza. In the midst of a debilitating famine. This is a broader attack on the UN and multilateral legal institutions. 🧵 bbc.com/news/articles/… #Gaza #Genocide #Nakba

Germany's new "Resolution against Antisemitism" is a self-serving joke: full of contradictions, abusing Holocaust memory to legitimize repression, racism, xenophobia, geopolitical interests, undermine Jewish pluralism & harm Jews it claims to serve. spiegel.de/politik/deutsc… 🧵(1/)

So thrilled that this paper showing how perceptions of discrimination are shaped by one’s social networks over time, led by Chloe Bracegirdle and with Nils Reimer, Danny Osborne, Ralf Wölfer and Chris G Sibley, has received the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from SPSSI

🎉🎉🎉 It's a momentous day—the day the world has been waiting for! I refer, of course, to the publication of the second edition of THE CRAFT OF SCIENCE WRITING from The Open Notebook! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

We social psychologists once thought a super ordinate threat would be enough to make people overlook usual intergroup differences to band together to fight it. We failed to factor in the enormous power of denial.

What happened when public universities in 🇨🇦 started publicizing faculty salaries? ... ... ... The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result.