Being a political psychologist today be like:

Last chance to submit to the #SPSP2027 Sustainability Preconference. The abstract submission portal closes at 11:59 PT tonight. We are looking forward to reviewing your submissions! @SPSPnews

Reminder: 2 more days to submit abstracts to the SPSP Sustainability preconference. we look forward to your submissions! @SPSPnews

Join us at this year’s Sustainability Preconference at #SPSP2027. Submissions to present are open until October 8th! @SPSPnews

The number of students admitted to top Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15% from the previous year, after dropping 11% the previous year. The nation’s top research universities are shrinking doctoral programs because of uncertain federal funding raising fears that the nation’s capacity to produce new science could be diminished. “It’s a loss for the nation,” she said. “When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures — and you shrink the supply of future scientists.” The current administration is creating complete chaos for grant funding that is damaging a generation of new scientific talent. nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/re… Last year I wrote "Defunding the world’s leading scientific community is akin to performing a prefrontal lobotomy on the nation—you are effectively severing the connections between the most innovative ideas and its citizens." We are only starting to see the effects of that now. powerofusnewsletter.com/p/a-…

This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people in it 3 people are producing most of the toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive Engagement-based ranking amplifies the 3 provocative, high-reaction users. The other 97 quiet voices disappear or self-censor. And the loud minority thinks it's the majority: the more someone posts, the more they believe the public agrees with them! thenoisyroom.com/

Happy #SPSP2026 week! Not able to make it to the Sustainability Preconference and feeling really sad about it? Never fear! Check out the #SP3Chicago tag on Thursday for updates about the exciting new research being presented.

Don’t forget to register to join us at the #SPSP2026 Sustainability Preconference! We have an exciting lineup of speakers, panelists, and posters around our theme: Integrating Science, Community, and Policy for Sustainable Change. @SPSPnews

For folks applying to PhD programs: I keep hearing a myth that students need to have a 1st author paper to get into a PhD program. This is definitely not true in psychology--most of the students we admit at NYU and most of the students from my own lab who have gotten into other PhD programs do not have any publications, let alone 1st author publications. Yes, publications can help but they are not necessary and I suspect that they are actually pretty rare. If you want to build a publication record, I recommend doing an ambitious honors project, working for a lab for many years, or working as a lab manager. Here are 10 tips to help you succeed when applying to PhD programs: science.org/content/article/…

Need to backup your Qualtrics? I needed this urgently given a revocation of my Qualtrics account with my former affiliation. Found William Ryan's R code, but it didn't work for me, so I made some tweaks, and it works now. Hope it's helpful to others: github.com/giladfeldman/qual…

Two preconferences, one poster, one symposium, many events, and more reunions than I can count. #SPSP2025 is a wrap and I am so grateful for the reconnection. Until next year!