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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26d

Exactly. A lot of the time, a call for empathy for the dominant group is actually a call for sacrifice from the oppressed.

They use the word “empathy” to make the injustice feel like a moral imperative.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27d

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

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Gregg Sparkman @greggsparkman.bsky.social · May 19

Hot off the press!

Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability?

Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed:
openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...

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Joan Kim (she/her) @joankim052.bsky.social · May 8

Tl;dr: We find that understanding relations between people and nature predicts biospheric attitudes and pro-env behavioral intention beyond political ideology.

We'll also be presenting this work at the @cogscisociety.bsky.social conference 👀

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Joan Kim (she/her) @joankim052.bsky.social · May 8

Our paper is finally out! 🎉🎉🎉

Mental Models Matter: Conceptualizations of the Human–Nature Relationship Predict Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions (www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17...)

www.mdpi.com

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · May 7

“We find that two-thirds of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10%, meaning that individual contributions are 6.5 times the average per capita contribution.”
[Reminder that 10% wealthiest includes 810 million people, who earn more than $125k annually]

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · Apr 29

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.”

⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity

We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

tinyurl.com

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Apr 23

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Mar 27

Palestinian, Turkish, Indian, Iranian, Gambian-British, Korean — they’re coming after all in a real way. Black, brown, Asian, Muslim or not, this is a story of rounding up, kidnapping, people of color. If you are a member of these groups or an ally, and you’re a citizen, you need to fight back.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · Mar 27

We have found the first documented case of an immigrant being imported to the US by politicians and then committing a bunch of heinous sex crimes

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Mar 27

Choking, strangulation victims 750% more likely to be killed by abuser

Took Andrew Tate two weeks back in the US to commit a violent crime against a woman

www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/a...

Andrew Tate accused of violently attacking girlfriend during sex

Bri Stern has reportedly filed a sexual assault report linked to the alleged incident, in which she claims Tate violently choked her while they were having sex.

www.nydailynews.com

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Joan Kim (she/her) @joankim052.bsky.social · Mar 10

4 interdisciplinary huskies at the Boston #standupforscience protest! Representing @northeasternu.bsky.social's Marine and Env Sciences, Psychology, and Public Health. @megansouza17.bsky.social

3 people and a dog. 2 people holding signs saying, "Our oceans are rising and so are we" and "Science saves lives."

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Mar 1

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

18f.org

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · Mar 2

Names and faces of the people wrecking our government in the cause of DOGE
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE (Gift Article)

The Times identified 50 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.

www.nytimes.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Mar 1

Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up.
www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

Free virtual boot camp seeks to recruit and educate civil rights advocates

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

www.abajournal.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Feb 12

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · Feb 26

Religion data for reuse! Those stories about U.S. religion you're currently seeing in the news? They're from the Pew 2023-2024 Religious Landscape Study. While anyone can explore the data with their online tools, Pew has also shared the underlying dataset: doi.org/10.58094/3kw...

2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) Dataset Archives

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Feb 26

Researchers find that groups like Farmers for Climate Action and the Investor Group on Climate Change have a more sympathetic reception than typical left-leaning groups. Can these "unconventional advocates" play a role in expanding the climate movement? See below👇 theconversation.com/farmers-inve...

Farmers, investors, miners and parents: how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences

About 40% of Australians don’t believe humans are a major cause of climate change. Reaching these sceptic holdout groups may require unconventional approaches.

theconversation.com

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · Feb 11

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪

www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

To My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years

www.reddit.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jan 30

Academics have been perfecting our skills at flighting fascism during faculty meetings.

Because it was written during active wartime, the book includes various suggestions for causing physical violence and destruction, such as starting fires, flooding warehouses, breaking tools, etc. But it also includes many suggestions for how to just generally be annoying within a bureaucracy or office setting. Simple sabotage ideas include:
• "Insist on doing everything through 'channels.' Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions."
• "Make 'speeches.' Talk as frequently as possible and at great length.
Illustrate your 'points' by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate 'patriotic' comments."
• "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible."
• "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions."
• "Misunderstand' orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can."
• "In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.
See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines."
• "To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers;
complain unjustly about their work."

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jan 29

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

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Joan Kim (she/her) @joankim052.bsky.social · Jan 29

My friend said that her NIH funding came in 30 minutes before the ban was supposed to go in effect and was approved at 1 in the morning.

People aren't giving up.

Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · Jan 29

Y’all, have to have more faith in federal employees. They aren’t dumb and a lot are highly-successful, incredulous Black folks.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Jan 29

What is structural racism, and how do we measure it?

@tyson-brown.bsky.social, @pahoman.bsky.social, and I have a forthcoming Annual Review article on @socarxiv.bsky.social. Check it before studying structural racism is banned (and follow Tyson and Trish, new to Bluesky). osf.io/6zbgh/

Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods

This review provides ten actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conc...

osf.io

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Jan 27

ok tenured faculty. what advice do you have for pre-tenure professors who are expected to write/ get grants for tenure? is it too early to panic? delay clock? hoard startup? cry?

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Jan 27

This looks like part of a massive multi-faceted attack on scientists and universities from the Trump admin.

They have cancelled funded federal grants, frozen NIH panels, promoted anti-scientific figures and conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr in positions of oversight.

This is just beginning…

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · Jan 27

This is only the beginning.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · Jan 25

This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak.

Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Jan 26

I should have made clearer in my original post (to explain this closing remark)

We found that specific prejudices (anti-Black, anti-gay, anti-feminist, anti-illegal immigrant) are becoming more correlated over time (2004-2020).

#PrejudiceResearch

Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Jan 23

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Closing Remarks from paper:

If one’s uncle voices racist remarks but also gives off vibes
that he might be sexist and homophobic, one’s perception
is likely accurate. This correlated prejudice tendency has
not only increased in strength but has coincided with the
development of a more distinctly political nature than in
the recent past. The shifting nature of GP, both in terms of
its structure and its association with ideology, is in keeping
with the more tribal and polarized nature of modern social
life in the United States. As with other aspects of social life,
prejudice appears to have become increasingly political,
now more greatly shaping the ways that we observe differences
between people.

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Leor Zmigrod @leorzmigrod.bsky.social · Jan 15

First time on Bluesky 👋☁️

🟠 Delighted to share that my book The Ideological Brain will be out in March (and in >10 languages later this year)! 🔵

📘 It’s about what makes some brains susceptible to rigid worldviews, how ideologies infiltrate our minds and bodies, and what it means to break free 📙

Cover of The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod

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