Dr. Jennifer Silvers

@social_brains It is also very plausible that there is a great deal motivational diversity among the 75 million people who voted for Trump. I agree that economic issues are often the single biggest motivator for folks and I also believe there are other factors at play here

I think we need to hold two separate thoughts at once. Trump has strong authoritarian tendencies and says racist/sexist things AND at the same time most people voted for him because they think he will make the economy better and secure the border. They don’t need to be racist fascists to vote for him.

Half of Donald Trump's former cabinet members have refused to endorse him. The most senior Republican senator calls him “despicable”. Both his former chief-of-staff and former head of the joint chiefs call him a fascist. We are endorsing Kamala Harris econ.st/4ef9Abf 👇

@social_brains If you're ready to jump right in to designing a full-sized course, go for it, but when I've had a new idea that I wanted to workshop a bit the fiat lux mechanism is great for that.

Academics, I need your help in designing a new course (and please retweet so I get more fdbk). Many of our undergraduates seem unable or unwilling to discuss difficult topics. They seem to lack tools for understanding what counts as evidence and how to reason effectively in these real world contexts. It seems like they often mistake their feelings for reasons and evidence or simply don’t want to have to discuss or defend their views at all. As universities, countering this should be one of our primary missions so that we are producing a citizenry unafraid to engage on these topics and also willing to listen to and learn from those they disagree with. While it is often forgotten, this is the actual benefit of diverse perspectives. So I’m considering creating a course that not only teaches these skills but requires students to put them into practice, rather than just to learn them academically. Have any of you created a course like this or do you have a course like this at your university? If so, would you be able to share your syllabus?

I am a full-time parent, a full-time professor and in October of every election year, my other full-time job is googling the 8238923432 propositions one must understand in order to be an informed voter in #California

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I'm honored and blown away that @UCLA chose THE WAR FOR KINDNESS as their Common Read for 2024. The community there is using the book as a foundation for campus-wide discussions around connection, especially during difficult times. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/how-th…

#SANS2025 program co-chairs @C_Shamballa and @elisa_baek announce the location of next year's conference: Chicago!

🚨Social and Affective Neuro folks, the submission portals for abstracts and symposia are open🚨 We're hoping to broaden the audience at SANS, so if you've ever been SANS-curious but haven't applied, now is the time come! See you in Chicago! socialaffectiveneuro.org/conference/

@JaimieKrems @AnnieWertz I’ve got an n of 3 who defy this trend lol…that said, there is interesting dev work on how young kids struggle to categorize plants more than other objects because they are living but not animate

🌵Babies are weird about plants🌵 Infants--from as young as 8m--are reluctant to touch PLANTS (vs. objects incl rocks, seashells, kitchen knives) Why? For most of our history, we've been surrounded by plants. Plants' defenses (toxins, thorns) have shaped our minds @AnnieWertz

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@Dr_BCallaghan Right back at ya 👯‍♀️

Thanks for being my constant #2 @JASilvers

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The hits keep coming. UCLA is hiring in computational neuroscience. recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09740 From the ad: The UCLA Department of Psychology invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track or tenured faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor specializing in computational neuroscience and the use of advanced mathematical methods and theoretical approaches to understand behavior and brain processes recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09740