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hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · Aug 12

pm me! (don't want to put my former professor on blast in public)

hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · Aug 12

is it against professor-code for students to share syllabi from classes they took? if not, i should have a copy from the research methods class i took a year ago!

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hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · Jul 6

was wondering why i felt so at peace and then realized i forgot to reinstall bluesky after i went through us border control 🤡

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 19

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

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Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso.bsky.social · Jun 18

Contributing to the lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes

www.cambridge.org

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PhishatMSG @phishatmsg.bsky.social · Jun 14

Philly showin' up today

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · Jun 12

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Jun 6

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Jun 5

How do experiences of discrimination shape beliefs about inter-minority solidarity, and how does it vary among Asian subgroups?

Read on to find out! By Dr. Chyei Vinluan and @danielsanji.bsky.social

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jun 4

Asian ethnic subgroup moderates the relationship between Asian American discrimination experiences and solidarity with Black Americans: https://osf.io/vr4sm

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hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · Jun 1

he has no idea that in four years, he will still be mistaken as an unaccompanied minor by the cops in wawa (😔)

an 18-year-old asian boy, wearing a trans flag as a cape. he is wearing an orange button-up, a white shirt, black shorts, and black vans

hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · Jun 1

despite it all im still the same height 😐 some things never change

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hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · Jun 1

walked thru philly pride to get home and was forced to reckon with how im getting older. the last time i was at pride was three years ago, freshman year, and now i'm graduating?? time is so weird

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hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · May 27

cant you use the personal links option? could put dummy emails for the email field

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Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · May 27

Brand new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social from the @dukeidlab.bsky.social 🤩 We are among the first to test cross-culturally how Asian American and Chinese Nationals categorize racially ambiguous biracial faces!! #psychology

Mohammad S. Wiswall @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social · May 27

Proud to announce my first first authored paper has been published online at JESP with Drs. @sarahegaither.bsky.social and @jackiemchen.bsky.social! We used a cross cultural sample to test two theories about racial ambiguity categorization. The preprint will be on OSF soon!

Cross-cultural perceptions of racial ambiguity: Testing the universality of the ingroup overexclusion effect

Two theoretical frameworks are often used to explain how racially ambiguous faces are categorized. The hypodescent framework (also commonly known as t…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · May 27

A lot of this "does the left have a model of masculinity"? hand-wringing assumes that there *is* a masculinity that's recognizable as such that is not reducible to an entitlement to dominate and rule over others. I'm not convinced!

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hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · May 26

like, i fear out of all the boys/men we should be worrying abt in terms of general well-being, middle-class cishet white guys are the very bottom of my list bc they will always be the most secure in our societal safety net

hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · May 26

not to support a leveling down approach to society or anything but it sure is baffling to see ppl argue abt why we as a society need to cater to a demographic that built the system they are now complaining about

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hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · May 26

every time i see someone talking abt the crisis of masculinity or w/e i feel the slightest shred of sympathy, and then i remember the cishet white men being centered in that complaint

oh, you.. feel excluded from society? wow, what a unique phenomenon. surely no one has ever experienced this before

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Apr 27

But also, I confess, my sympathy for the Men-Adrift has its limits, because it is not, in fact, impossible for men to live good lives. I know a lot of men happily paired off, with kids and good lives - including some who did not have high educational attainment or inherited wealth.

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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · May 22

NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.

Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · May 22

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 19

🚨🚨 Alarming NSF policy update

By accepting an NSF award, an institution now must say it's:

1. Not engaging in boycotts of Israel (yes really)

2. Not advancing or promoting DEI in violation of anti-discrimination laws

Announced via a footnote today: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...

(c) Discriminatory prohibited boycott means refusing to deal, cutting commercial relations, or otherwise limiting commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or with companies doing business in or with Israel or authorized by, licensed by, or organized under the laws of Israel to do business. The term discriminatory prohibited boycott also includes an academic boycott of Israel in which an educational or research institution enacts or implements restrictive policies, or otherwise participates in activities having the object or effect of restricting ongoing or potential academic, educational, or research institutions. Notwithstanding any restriction on the applicability of other NSF rules and regulations, the requirements in paragraph (c) applies to both foreign and domestic institutions receiving funding from the NSF.

(a) By accepting the award, recipients are certifying that: (i) They do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws; and (ii) They do not engage in and will not during the term of this award engage in, a discriminatory prohibited boycott. (3) NSF reserves the right to terminate financial assistance awards and recover all funds if recipients, during the term of this award, operate any program in violation of Federal antidiscriminatory laws or engage in a prohibited boycott.

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hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · May 17

now why are you playing mobile game ad bait

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · May 13

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

www.science.org

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Catherine Crompton @cjcrompton.bsky.social · May 14

So…what does this all mean?

A key feature of the original study was replicated: there was no significant difference in accuracy between autistic and non-autistic chains, indicating autistic people are not impaired in information sharing in same neurotype chains

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · May 13

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

MOVE bombing 40 years later: A day of reflection and remembrance

Forty years ago today, city officials made the unconscionable decision to bomb its own people.

www.phillytrib.com

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hunter shixin cheng 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hunterscheng.bsky.social · May 11

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