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A Guide to Multiverse Analyses "The large array of defensible options available for researchers to select along the workflow creates what is known as the ‘garden of forking paths’." Preprint: doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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I wonder if FIFA told the US it had to be a dictatorship with a poor human rights record before it was allowed to host the World Cup.

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AI is advancing quicker than we think www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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Baghdad field notes: I cannot tell you HOW VITAL it is that Americans defend the legal system and FIGHT for fairness. I KNOW that Republicans feel like Dems have weaponised the courts against Trump. But if the US goes down this road, it will DESTROY faith in government and justice will go tribal.

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#greensky

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Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

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An important reminder: a truly tolerant society must retain the right to deny tolerance to those who promote intolerance or it will fail.

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The US has done a version of this deal before. In 1926, the Liberian government was about to go bankrupt so it signed a 99-year land lease deal for one million acres allowing Firestone to build rubber plantations. The price: 6 cents/acre. The result: a legacy of exploitation.

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Please consider signing this letter to protest Cambridge Uni's scandalous application to the High Court for an injunctions specifically against Palestine support protests. tinyurl.com/stopinjuction

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Always stand up to a bully

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Even under authoritarian regimes, pro-democracy movements can still advance their goals by strategically engaging the courts.

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and it's now my pleasure to share this paper, online as of today! Examining How White Teachers' Interracial Contact Experiences Shape Self-Efficacy and School Choices key findings follow, from two surveys of White K-12 teachers and one preregistered repeated measures experiment (total N = 1,608)

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Recognising and responding to student concerns and distress (which may or may not be a mental health issue) is a key academic skill. Including discussing problems with confidence and effective signposting. Useful case study of this in practice here: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-k...

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A major problem with bullying is victims know what happened but are silenced through a mix of threats or bullies and enablers denying what the victim knows is true. If you're stopped from being able to say what you witnessed or experienced you start questioning yourself and may appear unreliable /1

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THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

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If you're looking for some great databases of the ongoing resistance (as well as some other useful resources) here's a thread of where to start. 1. Check out Choose Democracy's website with incredible guides on action you can take: choosedemocracy.us

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Our website on mutual aid groups has a huge amount of resources: - lessons from activists - stories of community solidarity - mutual aid toolbox and more www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...

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Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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In difficult and dangerous times it's easy to become increasingly negative, consumed by ever-worsening situations that demoralise and debilitate us. Instead, remember to amplify and praise those who're being brave and showing us ways to resist. Like this ⬇️ www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Ukraine begins Panama-Greenland-Canada talks on USA’s behalf https://buff.ly/3EVhL0o

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Charting the opposition to Trump open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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Sharing my that the first paper from my PhD has been published seems like a nice way to introduce myself to @bsky.app 🎉 This paper points to the crucial role of social identity loss for individuals adopted through Ireland’s #motherandbabyhomes bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Look!! The Pelican paperback of my book is here and it looks beautiful!!

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'when you erase a group from the past, it becomes easier to erase them from the present. When you pretend trans ppl weren't part of historical movements, it becomes easier to exclude them from current ones.' -- @parkermolloy.com

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For [the right], D.E.I. is less 'white fragility' and silly posters about 'white supremacy culture' than it is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position."

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Maybe a naive view from this side of the Atlantic, but it may be useful to stop talking about a war on 'DEI' and call it what it really is: a war on minorities' rights to participate fully in society, and for domination based on ethnicity, gender, and non-disability

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Labour is upping the ante on anti-migrant politics just to learn that Farage & the Tories can always, always go further than them. It’s real people who are caught in the crossfire of politicians trying to outdo each other on toughness. How we treat people matters. #r4today

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I have worked on civil wars and state capture for 25 years. So let me be REALLY clear about this for Americans: Your courts are only as useful as the willingness of politicians to comply with those judgments. And the willingness of police to enforce. And Musk, Trump & Co do NOT care about the law

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How riots spread between cities: introducing the police pathway doi.org/10.1111/pops...

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This is a good thread; I want to piggyback on it and make it more general than science. As a undergrad in Tallahassee I worked part time as a bag boy at a major supermarket chain. Most of the other white men my age worked stock; on my shift [1/x]

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I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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'Get the psychology right for the law: Public and policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic' Some reflections on my time as a participant in SPI-B ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/01/27/j...

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The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something

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Waorani leader and activist Nemonte Nenquimo’s book ‘We Will Be Jaguars’ is a journey through her life and the web that connects the Amazon to the fate of the world.

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I recall various dystopian novels and predictions about the coming of new Western 'endarkenment' - with the closing down of sources of knowledge and free thought - but generally connecting it to the rise of Islam. Well they got that wrong, didn't they?

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We are excited to organise an EASP Small Group Meeting on “Advancing Intersectional and Multiple Categorization Research in Social Psychology” in Chemnitz, Germany on 26-28 June 2025. Come join us in this unique meeting. www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal... #SocialPsyc

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a coworker came back from a visit home to Kenya with stories of democratic resistance that never reach the news feed here. dark times in the US, we have a lot to learn from how people in other places - Kenya, S Korea - sustain the fight for freedom and fairness in their political systems.

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University of Sussex @sussex.ac.uk announces new scholarships for Palestinian students staff.sussex.ac.uk/news/article...

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The White House backing away from its freeze on federal grants is a flat out win. As @choosedemocracy.bsky.social wrote in its email blast today: "It doesn't mean we will win every fight. But it does mean that anyone who is telling you it's hopeless is wrong."

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Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.

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Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. 80 years ago today, Allied troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. 2 years ago I had the huge honour of interviewing one of the survivors, Kitty Hart-Moxon. Then aged 95, she was extraordinary. Here is our conversation www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of #MichaelLongley, one of Ireland’s greatest poets. Our condolences to his family, friends and all who cherished him. IMAGE: ‘Ceasefire’ by Michael Longley, 2020. The illustration is by Sarah Longley. Published by Fine Press Poetry.

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Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

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