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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · 7h

Don’t forget to nominate an early career scholar for this recognition! Self nominations are accepted!

ISCON @iscon.bsky.social · 19d

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2025 Early Career Award! Recognizing a junior scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of social cognition.

Nominees must have received their PhDs no earlier than 2019.

More info here: www.socialcognition.net/early-career...

Early Career Award | Home

www.socialcognition.net

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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · 7d

Submissions are due in one week!

Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Aug 19

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung.

bit.ly/3HkcyBf

Call for Papers Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption.docx

Call for Papers: Special Collection Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption Deadline for Letters of Intent: October 15, 2025 (https://bit.ly/4mlowtf) Guest Editors: Gale...

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 8d

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 8d

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

unc.peopleadmin.com

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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · 9d

Are you applying to a PhD program in STEM this year? Use our Grad School Preferences Quiz to help you find the mentor and program that fits your goals and work style! Access here: jacquelinemchen.wixsite.com/sciplab/pers... #PhDApplications #STEMPhD #GradSchoolPrep #PhDLife #PhDAdvice

GRAD SCHOOL PREFERENCES QUIZ | sciplab

jacquelinemchen.wixsite.com

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Jennifer Polk @fromphdtolife.com · 19d

There are more options for PhDs than you think. This free webinar will help you discover what’s out there—and what fits you best If you're thinking seriously about leaving higher ed for good, don’t miss this. Watch the free webinar now. #PhDSky

Free Training for PhDs - From PhD to Life

Leaving academia? You want a new career as a PhD without wasting time applying for the wrong jobs, but don’t know where to start. Get clarity with Dr. Jen Polk in this free training.

fromphdtolife.com

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ISCON @iscon.bsky.social · 19d

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2025 Early Career Award! Recognizing a junior scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of social cognition.

Nominees must have received their PhDs no earlier than 2019.

More info here: www.socialcognition.net/early-career...

Early Career Award | Home

www.socialcognition.net

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ISCON @iscon.bsky.social · 19d

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2024 Best Social Cognition Paper Award!

This award recognizes an outstanding article (theoretical or empirical) in the field of social cognition. Papers eligible if published in 2024.

More info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...

Best Paper Award | Home

www.socialcognition.net

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Nina Wang @ninawang.bsky.social · Sep 15

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're hiring TWO social psychologists (one health, one any area of social) at U of Utah! Pls share widely, and reach out if you have any questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...

Assistant Professor in Social Psychology

utah.peopleadmin.com

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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · Aug 12

Are you interested in topics related to conflict and intergroup relations *broadly construed*? Come join us as a postdoc in the Dispute Research Research Center! This position is up to 3 years, comes with your own research funding, and a phenomenal network of past DRRC postdocs.

Dispute Resolution Research Center @drrc-kellogg.bsky.social · Aug 11

Apply now for Kellogg’s DRRC Postdoc Fellowship, which supports outstanding research in conflict and cooperation, offering dedicated time for scholarship, access to exceptional resources, and a vibrant academic community. Deadline: Nov 1.
t.co/UDZwJCqDw5

https://tinyurl.com/drrcpostdoc2025

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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych.

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Aug 19

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung.

bit.ly/3HkcyBf

Call for Papers Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption.docx

Call for Papers: Special Collection Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption Deadline for Letters of Intent: October 15, 2025 (https://bit.ly/4mlowtf) Guest Editors: Gale...

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ISCON @iscon.bsky.social · Aug 12

The international social cognition network (ISCON) now officially has a blue sky account. Follow for news of awards and events

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Jun 16

I am excited to share that @standupforscience.bsky.social is growing!

We are looking to hire several positions including:
- Event and volunteer coordination
- Copywriting (press releases, emails, website, blogs, some social media)
- Data analytics and research (marketing, not science 😉)

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Jun 13

the psych department at Waikato (in Hamilton, New Zealand) is recruiting at the junior level, in developmental and/or perception/cognition

(in NZ 'lecturer' means 'assistant professor', and is a permanent role)

Lecturer in Psychology - Hamilton, New Zealand job with UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO | 394487

We are looking for a stellar individual who will bring professional and academic experience to facilitate our portfolio of research ...

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · Jun 4

Registration for the Person Memory Meeting (Oct 13-16 in Lisbon, POR) is open! Info is here jacquelinemchen.wixsite.com/personmemory

Home | PMIG

jacquelinemchen.wixsite.com

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Mohammad S. Wiswall @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social · May 27

Proud to announce my first first authored paper has been published online at JESP with Drs. @sarahegaither.bsky.social and @jackiemchen.bsky.social! We used a cross cultural sample to test two theories about racial ambiguity categorization. The preprint will be on OSF soon!

Cross-cultural perceptions of racial ambiguity: Testing the universality of the ingroup overexclusion effect

Two theoretical frameworks are often used to explain how racially ambiguous faces are categorized. The hypodescent framework (also commonly known as t…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 5

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.

Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET

Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations

Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · May 2

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · May 2

Celebrating these strong, talented women (Becky Neufeld, Hanna Cooley, and Yun Tang) who are graduating from our social psych PhD program this year!

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · Apr 11

As expected, NSF is cutting gender and sexual orientation data on U.S. STEM workforce surveys (on shaky legal ground). I'm grateful that following my request (shorturl.at/9rFMW) OMB required NSF to post an official rationale, which will be crucial to how we'll restore these questions in the future.

David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · Apr 11

NEW: Sexual orientation, gender options cut from U.S. Ph.D. graduate survey | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Sexual orientation, gender options cut from U.S. Ph.D. graduate survey

After adding questions to a key survey last year, the U.S. National Science Foundation is reversing course

www.science.org

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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · Apr 26

They don’t know how destructive this is! What a shame. I really enjoy reading your work and and disheartened about this lost support

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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · Apr 26

I’m so sorry Jamie and Ryan! This is just awful for the field. Your work is so important.

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