Yuen Huo, Ph.D.
Social psychologist. Thinks about groups, conflicts, power, and ideology. EIC@PSPB. Human and dog mom.
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.It's Fustilarian Friday, so today NSF is announcing that they, too, are slashing overhead rates to 15%. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination.com, @norijacoby.bsky.social, @oferon.bsky.social & Dalton Conley. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.Friday Night Massacre of accurate information. A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D."I will no longer be able to continue teaching." Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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- "The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus. It’s a significant shift in policy for schools that had previously been considered “sensitive locations”.
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.UPDATED: As of Tuesday night, California universities are reporting at least 92 revoked student visas. — 50 at UC campuses. New: UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine and a jump at UC Berkeley to 19 total — 36 at CSU campuses, including San Diego State — 6 at Stanford www.latimes.com/california/s...
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.JOB! Please RT. Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18. apply.interfolio.com/165892 Happy to answer questions.
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.We're hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar! Come join our @conflictcollab.bsky.social at Purdue PSY in the fall 🎉 The role involves opportunities to research and lead writing projects on humanizing organization, conflict mgnt, workplace discrimination, goals, and more! drive.google.com/file/d/1tke0...
- Beautiful day for Angelenos to come out for democracy.
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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- Happening now. Cory Booker on the Senate Floor www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/p...
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.We’re building the largest one-day mobilization in years. Nothing stops authoritarians in their tracks like organized people power — and we’re organizing it in communities throughout the country. All this work depends on people taking real life action. Join us on April 5: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...
- Another student detained by ICE. No charges filed yet. Current location unknown. Student visa terminated by the State Dept possibly for her political activism
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.If you had a grant cancelled, consider submitting info about your terminated grant using this Google Form [Contact Scott Delaney with Qs on Signal (sdelaney.84)] docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Also, see @scott-delaney.bsky.social 's post below for the database of cancelled grants #defendresearch
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- Held against the backdrop of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination declared by the UN in 1966.
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.Kahneman spent his career studying how we think and make decisions—when intuition leads us astray, when careful reasoning prevails, and why we often misjudge risk and reward. To mark the anniversary of his passing, we’re revisiting a collection of memories from from those who knew him best.
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.My academic department (at Wesleyan University, CT, US) is searching for a one-year Visiting Professor position in Developmental Psychology. Great place to teach for a year! Apply here: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.OMG! French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies. www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
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Just like in WW2 when some argued the lack of subversive activity by Japanese-Americans indicated they were plotting something big. - Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.“A New York Times review of the flight data showed that none of the planes in question landed in El Salvador before the judge’s order and that one of them did not even leave American soil until after the judge’s written order was posted online.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction. Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.Leadership from UC Berkeley. "...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.Solidarity with Columbia law profs, who are doing what they can. This is a hell of a statement. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
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- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.
- In case you missed this among all the alarming headlines, there was yet another flight incident under the watch of this administration - the one that has successfully reduced the size of the FAA. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
- Civil servants lost their jobs the same day Trump appointee posted a work look video that will earn her commission - in her federal office . “https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/politics/mclaurine-pinover-trump-doge-influencer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k4.v8-F.tSSpVoJJaZk7&smid=bs-share
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- Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident of the U.S. - unlawfully arrested for expressing his political views and sent from his home in NY to Louisiana to be detained - away from his family and his attorneys. This is not ok. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
- Reposted by Yuen Huo, Ph.D.We are hiring a pre-doc at Stanford to work on (among other things) a project called Public Pulse, which will provide reports on public opinion in the US, and potentially fill the void of things like 538. Please share with your undergrads. iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2025-...
