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alylight.bsky.social
Social Psych undergrad-teaching @uchicago studying Self-Concept Clarity, Goal Support, and ~*miscellaneous*~
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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2160 comments

If your employer refuses to review you for tenure with no written policy explaining that choice, you can sue them for breach of contract. Ask me how I know.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Last year, Illinois abolished requiring prior authorization for inpatient mental health care — and now, we're extending it to outpatient care. Patients and their doctors should be in control of decisions about their care, not insurance companies.

submitted 17 days ago • 124 comments

So this report was written by an llm complete with ai-hallucinated citations, right? www.npr.org/2025/05/29/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A red flag if ever there was one: The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is selectively approving tenure bids, without explanation or comment. www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 28 days ago • 151 comments

Want to increase access to mental health care in Illinois? Send a letter to your State senator in support of HB 1085 which will increase the number of mental health providers who take your insurance. Send the letter using this link: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

submitted 40 days ago • 686 comments

Do you field online surveys and experiments? Ever get back text responses that look unusually diplomatic and polished? In this paper, now out at Sociological Methods & Research, we study the emerging use of AI among online study participants.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Hey friends-- do you know anyone who has a space for a FREE awesome PhD student interested in minority stress among gender/sexual minorities? Please share broadly-- Hunter earned an NSF GRFP and will lose the opportunity to use it if we can't place him with lab.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I think it's awesome that so many people with autism have productive lives and relationships. But there are also people with autism who struggle to live in our neurotypical world, and guess what? RFK Jr.'s anti-science crusade won't do shit to help them and their families, either.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Indeed, Chicago. You are on notice.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Anti-trans policies don't just hurt trans people. They hurt anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a pink box or a blue one. And they hurt the rest of us by creating pressure to ensure that we always fit neatly into our box.

submitted 62 days ago • 18 comments

My office phone just rang. Truly shocking occurence, I barely know what's happening-- it plays a little tune, apparently?! But plot twist! It was IT calling to say they're removing inactive phones, and can they remove this one? Yes. Yes, they can.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Do evolutionary hypotheses about physical attraction hold up cross-culturally? Nope, according to @drboothroyd.bsky.social’s #ehbea2025 plenary

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

Man, Cadbury Creme Eggs still hit.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Hi folks-- does anyone have a recommendation for ESM/EMA data collections tools? I'm most concerned about delivery of surveys on a participant-chosen time schedule, triggered by participants' completion of an intake survey. Free/inexpensive is also very desirable.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote. U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

submitted 72 days ago • 44 comments

Would anyone like to join me in setting up a GoFundMe for a noble cause...?

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

submitted 74 days ago • 71 comments

From the Stanley Vanity Fair interview. I think the system as it is now is super unhealthy with a few superstars who can easily move and everyone else no matter how talented not given a second look. And already if you’re in that category you are lucky bc most phds do not get tenure track positions.

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

I'm teaching Social Psych for the first time since 2020 and boy are the jokes in my slides out of date...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

With age, I am understanding things I never understood when I was younger. ONE of those things, is the value of doing Fucking Anything™. Taking ANY action, inspires other people to take action. This ripple effect is more powerful than the original Anything™ you do.

submitted 77 days ago • 13 comments