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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 23h

This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant hack for academics—>

Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · Aug 27

As semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky

Screen shot of the signature menu in Apple Mail showing signatures with frequently needed responses to student emails.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 1d

Protecting profit at the expense of people continues unabated—>

justicetoall.bsky.social @justicetoall.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution..
The change could make it easier to repeal limits on these pollutants from coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills & industrial facilities..resulting in dirtier air. ⏬
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

www.nytimes.com

justicetoall.bsky.social @justicetoall.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution..
The change could make it easier to repeal limits on these pollutants from coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills & industrial facilities..resulting in dirtier air. ⏬
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

www.nytimes.com

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 1d

Life in these United States. The government is making it too unsafe for children to go to school.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month. Officials made the announcement Friday in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out in the city.

Minneapolis schools offer remote learning as tensions rise over federal immigration enforcement

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month. Officials made the announcement Friday in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out in the city.

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Leopold Roth @leopoldroth.bsky.social · 1d

In this project, we will test whether effort moralization (moralizing effort in behaviors) is influenced by cognitive fatigue.
This is derived from motivational theories, showing that fatigue increases effort perceptions for our own tasks. Potentially, this extends to the tasks of other as well...

a cartoon cat is holding a camera in his hands and looking at it .

ALT: a cartoon cat is holding a camera in his hands and looking at it .

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month. Officials made the announcement Friday in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out in the city.

Minneapolis schools offer remote learning as tensions rise over federal immigration enforcement

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month. Officials made the announcement Friday in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out in the city.

bit.ly

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 3d

Word count limits at journals don’t give much wiggle room about length these days. I always have to cut my preferred version by about 30%. :-(

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 3d

Lucky pup.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 7d

Rotten all the way down.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Fraud was the excuse: this is the real goal, revealed - reduce safety net funding, but only in blue states.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 7d

“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Monstrously cruel.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Fraud was the excuse: this is the real goal, revealed - reduce safety net funding, but only in blue states.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 7d

“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Monstrously cruel.

Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States

www.nytimes.com

JESP @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social · 8d

New work by Mohamed Hussein, Zakary Tormala, & S Christian Wheeler shows that when political issues become identity-relevant, people favor radical candidates. Identity—not just policy—drives polarization. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
www.psypost.org/linking-pers...

Linking personal identity to political issues predicts a preference for extreme candidates

Evidence from the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology suggests that connecting identity to political stances promotes extremity. This suggests that voters choose radical candidates because extre...

www.psypost.org

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 9d

Meanwhile, in countries that still do scientific research and medicine.....

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

Oliver Alexander @oalexanderdk.bsky.social · 10d

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 11d

As much as we social psychologists focus on individual contributions to these problems, I genuinely think the only way out is structural/systematic level change.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 12d

Other countries have political structures (e.g., parliaments) that require compromise to even form a government, which might help. We need to bake similar pressures into U.S. politics, e.g., rank choice voting.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 12d

I’d love politics to be boring again. But Biden’s tenure suggests that attempts to return to normalcy/boredom a) didn’t relieve the public as much as he imagined, and b) neglected the urgent need for stronger legislative guardrails and protections to prevent much of what is happening now.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 12d

I hate the fear mongering and welcome the hope. For me, the exhaustion isn’t so much the oscillation, it’s more the utter incompetence, lack of any apparent accountability, and the spinelessness of Congress, university administrators, and others in positions of power in this moment.

https://hope.it’s

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 12d

Also rare in my household (enjoy the pun—it’s free!)

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 12d

New Year’s “massacre” of FEMA employees. (So much for hope that 2026 would be less of a shit show.)

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

One last fucked up 2025 scoop—FEMA has begun issuing termination notices to CORE staff (appointed under the Stafford Act, ordinarily extended for 2 years) effective Jan 2, agency sources tell me. Sr leadership was asked if they could be given more notice but Acting Administrator Karen Evans said no.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 12d

We hosted a couple of visitors from Japan for a week. They were AMAZED we didn’t eat steak for nearly every meal, which led me to think the stereotype is more Texan than NYer. I blame it on the successfully exported TV series, Dallas.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 12d

Fortunately, surgical intervention saved the day (included nose replacement).

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