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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 16h

Interested in early life stress, self-regulation, and the gut-brain axis?

Apply to work with Sarah at UMass Boston! She is an amazing researcher and mentor! ✨

www.sarahcvogel.com

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 23h

LOVELY people, collaborative place, excellent top 10 program! Incredible opportunity, please help us share widely!

Joshua Curtiss @psychonetrics.bsky.social · 23h

🚨Job Alert!! Please share widely!!🚨

Where: Applied Psychology, Northeastern University

What: Clinical Professor (open rank), as new program director for our Master of Science in Counseling Psychology

Why: We are a fun department 🎉 Please apply!!

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 2d

Reports that the HHS Healthy Start division (addressing infant mortality and prematurity) as well as the division that deals with emergency services for children have been terminated

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2d

That asshole fired all the people who help kids with disabilities in education.

Fuck him. Fuck everyone who enabled him

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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ISLAND Lab @britobabylab.bsky.social · 4d

World Mental Health Day! Caring for caregivers is caring for children - emotional well-being is vital in shaping parent-infant connections & supporting healthy development!

Let’s continue to raise awareness, listen with compassion, & make mental health support a priority for all new parents! 💖

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Zsuzsa Kaldy @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social · 4d

Faculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25
www.umb.edu/academics/pr...
#devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky

Developmental & Brain Sciences PhD

UMass Boston's Developmental and Brain Sciences (DBS) PhD is a research-intensive program focused on understanding cognition, perception, and behavior when underlying neural and hormonal mechanisms ar...

www.umb.edu

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5d

Letitia James is being criminally charged for the ‘crime’ of holding Trump accountable. This indictment is the clearest sign yet that Trump’s project isn’t just corruption — it’s monarchy. He’s using the power of the federal government to punish his public servants and protect himself.

New York Attorney General Letitia James charged in fraud case after pressure campaign by Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been charged as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration.

apnews.com

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 5d

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

Screenshot of a paper abstract:

“Core knowledge” refers to a set of cognitive systems that underwrite early representations of the physical and social world, appear universally across cultures, and likely result from our genetic endowment. Although this framework is canonically considered as a hypothesis about early emerging conception — how we think and reason about the world — here we present an alternative view: that many such representations are inherently perceptual in nature. This “core perception” view explains an intriguing (and otherwise mysterious) aspect of core-knowledge processes and representations: that they also operate in adults, where they display key empirical signatures of perceptual processing. We first illustrate this overlap using recent work on “core physics”, the domain of core knowledge concerned with physical objects, representing properties such as persistence through time, cohesion, solidity, and causal interactions. We review evidence that adult vision incorporates exactly these representations of core physics, while also displaying empirical signatures of genuinely perceptual mechanisms, such as rapid and automatic operation on the basis of specific sensory inputs, informational encapsulation, and interaction with other perceptual processes. We further argue that the same pattern holds for other areas of core knowledge, including geometrical, numerical, and social domains. In light of this evidence, we conclude that many infant results appealing to precocious reasoning abilities are better explained by sophisticated perceptual mechanisms shared by infants and adults. Our core-perception view elevates the status of perception in accounting for the origins of conceptual knowledge, and generates a range of ready-to-test hypotheses in developmental psychology, vision science, and more.

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Dr Jen Ryan @drjenryan.bsky.social · 7d

Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally 👀

Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases.

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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 7d

Six former surgeons general appointed by every President since George HW Bush warn that RFK Jr. is endangering the health of the nation, calling his policies/positions a “profound, immediate + unprecedented threat”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 9d

What an amazing message of hope during these dark times ✨

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Boaz Nash @boazhsan.bsky.social · 9d

I think a lot of us realize that some day our posts may be used against us. Given how online this government is, I don't think contributing to the online rhetoric is meaningless.
There's been a steady destruction of the democratic government with an underlying fascist ideology.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 10d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 10d

Terrible. Homophobic, xenophobic, and wants to work with Trump 😵‍💫

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11d

Japan set for first female PM after Sanae Takaichi wins leadership race on.ft.com/3VLPNtx

Japan set for first female PM after Sanae Takaichi wins leadership race

Arch-conservative who models herself on Margaret Thatcher beats Shinjiro Koizumi in second-round party vote

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 12d

We don’t have “gifted” elementary schools in NYC, it is simply an accelerated curriculum with more resources and support. This coming from a mom of a 3rd grader in a G&T program.

Dropping this here for all the NYC parents currently losing their minds:

edadvance.substack.com/p/all-studen...

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 13d

Jane Goodall was a global legend at the forefront of discovery — breaking through barriers for women in primatology, science, and beyond.

Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.

Jane Goodall: April 3, 1934 – October 1, 2025

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 14d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 14d

Posted on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development website (www.hud.gov) 😵‍💫

Website that says: The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15d

How humiliating for the United States military

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15d

This is the cringiest MF on the planet. He’s actually saying this to our most senior military officers from around the world.

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats Katie!

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 16d

Worth the wait :)

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 17d

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.

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