Bharathy Premachandra, Ph.D

1/7. Excited to share my first paper! "Do We Report the Information that is Necessary to Give Psychology Away? A Scoping Review of the Psychological Intervention Literature 2000-2018" is now in press at Perspectives on Psychological Science. psyarxiv.com/nr8kh

It's not surprising that professors come from highly educated families. Yet the extent to which the professoriate comes from families w/ a PhD-holding mother or father is striking. While <1% of Americans have a PhD, 22% of university faculty members have a parent with a Ph.D.

it's worth noting that the way we got here is they fired thousands of "useless" government scientists and now they sound like this:

I'm going to try "I have my own way of doing percentages" with my tax returns.

"i don’t have kids but im an ally" this is how im referring to myself instead of childfree from now on 😭

Previous scholars have argued that it is so over. In this paper, however, I posit that we are so back

Mind you, alot of schools don’t have to cut or eliminate these programs, they’re just choosing to.

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” -George Orwell, 1984.

you have to laugh

PhD supervisor: What's wrong with your data? Mum: What's wrong with you? Therapist: What's wrong with your life? Predatory journals: Dear Eminent Professor,

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirms undocumented children will be included in the city’s universal daycare program. NYC is choosing “kids first,” even when the politics get ugly.

New Pub #1: From a QualLab Lunch with AMI authors to a collaborative piece on methodological inclusion using a dialogic approach. Now in @SageJournals International Review of Qualitative Research: doi.org/10.1177/194084… @pennypasque @drrhodesia @mianmianfei @OSUehe @OSUEdStudies

New Pub #2: Research note in @SageJournals @TCRecord sharing innovative, field-tested qualitative methods for engaging deeper dialogues on race/ethnicity with participant-collaborators: doi.org/10.1177/016146… @pennypasque @mianmianfei @aansari24 @donnayford @OSUehe @OSUEdStudies

Writing taught me that clarity is an act of courage. It's easy to stay vague. Vague is safe. Vague doesn't commit to anything.

BITCH WE DONT EITHER

A small fraction of online actors now exerts outsized influence over what the public sees, believes, and argues about. In a new short review paper, we trace how social media influencers can turn fringe claims into viral narratives—often by exploiting a feedback loop between influencers, algorithms, and crowds. As such, the modern information environment enables a tyranny of the minority: extreme and coordinated voices dominate attention, distort perceived social norms, and create a “funhouse mirror” version of public opinion that makes fringe positions look common and conflict look inevitable. We synthesize emerging evidence that a tiny number of highly active users drives a disproportionate share of misinformation and toxicity, and explain how platform incentives reward moralized, identity-salient, and emotionally charged content. We conclude by outlining pragmatic responses—individual, institutional, and policy-level—and by highlighting how generative AI could either accelerate bespoke realities or help rebuild shared understanding, depending on how these systems are designed and governed. osf.io/preprints/psya… We (@PillaiRaunak & @steverathje2) reviewed @noUpside's fantastic book "INVISIBLE RULERS" and connected it to the research we have been doing on this topic for the past decade.

Engaged and Responsible Scholarship: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Not Embrace GenAI - Duc Cuong Nguyen, Catherine Welch, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Some people cry when they cut onions. The trick is not to form an emotional bond. You've got to be non-shallot.

If we see data as a gift from participants we have obligation to the data and the participants. For example, to read their data, to understand it, to make sense of it, to handle it ethically. Outsourcing these responsibilities to AI can be seen as not fulfilling our obligation.

The hill I will die on - we have to rethink graduate training. “Scientists are trained for a world where data speaks for itself. Where misinformation moves slowly. Where scientific expertise naturally rises above noise. That world is gone.” sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/18/wer…

We are pleased to announce the “Rename Sociology So We Can Hide It From The Legislature” contest!