Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋

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Looking for field study, for class, using unobtrusive observation for DV?

Our new paper, led by Siobhan Murray (w Rose Meleady) is for you!

Cafeteria allowed menu boards with & without animal images

Odds of choosing vegetarian meals rose 22% if animal image present.

Critical thinking is under serious threat from large language models/AI. Uni administrators are too prone to accept tech hype! (plus it can be wrong, steals IP, has devasting environment/energy impacts). @jessicacalarco.com made a great one-pager I share with students (plus effective model of comms)

Neat paper finding ~3% socialization of prejudice in german adolescents social networks

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

New paper in Current Directions in Psych Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

After countless arguments about what tasks ppl should/should not offload to AI, we instead argue that genAI can be used *augment* research protocols in novel ways. I.e. use AI to make better psych experiments!

Our lab has a new postdoc position that is ideal for someone interested in a career in data science or statistical consulting and an interest in gender diversity / trans health. apply.interfolio.com/182278

The Danger of Silence When Academic Freedom Is Under Threat Inaction from rank-and-file workers enabled government censorship during the Red Scares.

You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote?

I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Indoctrination fight raises tensions at University of Houston Some professors push back after a five-page curriculum checklist was unveiled and several deans directed instructors to affirm that they don’t indoctrinate students.

Professors do not indoctrinate students in class but teach them how to think critically and openly.

In the wake of SB 37, University of Houston has introduced syllabi "checklists" and "certifications" to prevent so-called indoctrination in the classroom. This clearly threatens academic freedom.

😂 good choice. my instagram stories about Chicago basically rotate between: Djo's End of Beginning, Sufjan Stevens' Chicago, and Blues Brothers' Sweet Home Chicago

And thank you for your patience with our millennial social media manager who has delighted in adding Sufjan Stevens songs to these Chicago posts.

🤞 that Sufjan makes a Pennsylvania album in time for #SPSP2027.

Democrats still get grief for a decade-old “deplorable” comment whereas Republicans acting like the Klan barely hits the news. Bigotry is a career strategy for them.

UH Researcher Disputes Claim that Multilingualism Promotes Better Brain Aging  | University of Houston Not so fast: A University of Houston professor of psychology is disputing a high-profile study claiming that people who live in multilingual countries show healthier brain aging, claiming instead that...

UH Researcher Disputes Claim that Multilingualism Promotes Better Brain Aging | University of Houston www.uh.edu/news-events/...

Oh, to publish in a Nature brand journal about how *checks notes* the big math changes to small math.

Which jobs make a meaningful contribution to the world? Together maybe we can suss out the bullshit. Your vote counts.

A simple survey rates the meaningfulness of the 200 most common American jobs. Inspired by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @ @notalawyer.bsky.social's discussion. Results and voting available at the link.

When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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How to Measure Public Support for Political Violence Abstract. With low but rising levels of violent political threats and violent acts by civilians in the United States, researchers increasingly want to meas

After nearly a decade measuring American public support for political violence, @nathankalmoe.bsky.social and I have published a somewhat comprehensive guide to measuring these attitudes. This includes historical comparisons and responses to common critiques. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

Cambridge is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology - great opportunity for colleagues looking for positions in the UK. The job listing shows it's with Caius & Homerton colleges. Worth checking out for those on the academic job market. #AcademicJobs #sociology

jobs.ac.uk/job/DQ...

I want to take you back, for a moment, to 2020. We are at the beginning of the pandemic and many of us are working remotely. I don't remember this time particularly fondly--this was pre COVID-19 vaccines, and there was a lot of rhetoric around how the virus had come from China. 🧵

Sam said “there’s not enough shit posting on here lately so let me go after like 80% of academics who use Word regularly”

The 2x2 of 2026 (and, I'd expect, 2028)

Two people shake hands in front of a boardroom meeting with a city landscape in the background.

How Joint Review Can Boost Faculty Diversity

A new study finds that Black and Hispanic faculty have much higher chances of promotion or tenure when they are evaluated alongside other candidates. https://bit.ly/4aTV7lq

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Love this nuanced and updated summary of the latest research in ST! Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us, Mary! Glad we got to see each other briefly at SPSP! Congrats on your award!!!

The Report of Stereotype Threat's Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated And why I'm feeling a certain way about it

Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:

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can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.

www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social

I had so much fun and learned so much!! Thanks for organizing!

Thanks to everyone who helped make the culture pre-conference a “successful failure!” We didn’t make the main pre-conference time, but we had a packed house and a great time. #SPSP2026

what about listening to spsp talks together? lol