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Leslie

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Researching power dynamics, resistance, adaptation, identity, communication in digital age 🏳️‍🌈 auDHD 🎓PhD candidate 🍉 Psyber.Space for the pod🎙️ [insert upside down US flag here]

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · Jan 21

I have been doing my podcast since April 2024. I started it as a way to share my thoughts on organizational psychology, applied psychology for media and technology, etc. to help people understand their world. Some episodes were intentionally very relevant to this moment. I’m resharing them today 🧵

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 1h

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How we contort ourselves to be heard online

If you make video content online, you’ve likely had to talk in code, use emoji, use hand gestures, maybe even hold up a sign with your real…

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 4h

I also have a survey for folks who run into the same challenge on Instgram Reels bit.ly/myigsurvey

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 4h

If you make content on TikTok, even if it's just talking into the camera, and you find you have to alter your words, hold up signs, use emoji, etc. to get your video seen, I want to hear from you! Survey: bit.ly/myttsurvey #AcademicSky #PhDSky #PhDChatter #Blackademia #Psychology

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 4h

Watching an academic presentation, a guest speaker at a university. 10 minutes of intros. So far. I'd love to end the tradition of lengthy intros at the front of these things. It seems to be an academic tradition. Get to the meat of the meeting, save the fluff for last. #AcademicSky

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23h

Even more annoying is that the original poster is using the LLM to “wade through a mountain of papers for a systemic review”. Which means feeding a lot of academic material into the plagiarism machine that always lies, without the consent of the authors.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22h

the protestors aren't abusing their right to protest. they are being abused, and that abuse is causing chaos.

if broadview's mayor wants to end the violence and chaos, she should shut down the facility.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 1d

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Feb 5

Pretty clear cause and effect, right back at the beginning of 2020.

COVID is airborne. Stop that with N95s and good ventilation, and you stop transmission, even without vaccines.

This is Public Health's elective, Dunning-Kruger pandemic.

Link to the full story:

globalnews.ca/news/6945991...

Nurses brought Vigi-Santé to court in bid to get better protection for staff at Vigi Mont-Royal - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

Vigi Mont Royal has seen a ventilation breakdown, concerns over airborne transmission, and a court battle in one week.

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 1d

Climate anxiety affects people's daily lives, but it can be channeled into action rather than paralysis.
Research shows participation in collective climate action increases well-being and sense of agency.
bit.ly/3KEgy0J

PsyberSpace: Understand Your World | The Climate Stressed Mind: Psychology's Role in Understanding Climate Change Impact

PsyberSpace: Exploring the Psychological Dimensions of Climate ChangeIn this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston digs into the psychological impact of climate change on human thoughts, behav...

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 1d

SAME.

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Chelsea @chelseamdo.bsky.social · 1d

One thing that really annoys me about the enshittification of the Internet is u can't always tell a person to just "go look it up". Now I have to look it up, vet the source, and then share the source. Google ruined everything.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 1d

Identify every brownshirt for posterity. Their neighbors deserve to know Mike kidnaps kids and murders dogs for a living.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 1d

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 1d

ICE Gestapo Proud Boys are stealing children.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 1d

From surgeons with ritual pens to athletes who won't wash their socks, high-performers lean on symbolic objects when stakes are high.
The fascinating part? It actually works; not by changing probability, but by regulating our nervous systems and boosting confidence.
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#AcademicSky

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d

I weep.

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ Just published a new episode of PsyberSpace: Why Your Surgeon Wears Special Socks: The Psychology of Talismans and Lucky Charms 📣 Reply to let me know what you think!

Why Your Surgeon Wears Special Socks: The Psychology of Talismans and Lucky Charms

The Power of Talismans: Mind Over MatterIn this episode of PsyberSpace,...

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 3d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 2d

kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain .

Alt: kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain .

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 2d

Yall stop falling for the lie that our mainstream media is running out of money, they have plenty of money to endlessly have fascist narrative driven stories open and freely available, but all the important information is hidden behind a paywall? Give me a break.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 3d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social · 2d

I have to live to 85 because I *WILL* spend at least one dang day in a paid off tiny home 😂

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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