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"[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about...the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy." - @aoc.bsky.social with @fedworkersunited.bsky.social today #SaveOurServices

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

41/47 (87%) of NIH study sections are cancelled this week Frustrating to see all this good research stalled (& not funded) You can search for study sections that ‘did not meet as scheduled’ here with ones with * ⤵️ www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd...

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

Hey Governors and state reps, wonder how the fall of academic science will impact you? #indirectcosts #nih www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

For my latest, I talked with @ctulocal1.bsky.social president Stacy Davis Gates and artist and educator Silvia Gonzalez about how Chicago teachers are creating Sanctuary Teams to protect undocumented students and other marginalized youth from Trump's aggression. (Includes organizing resources.)

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks: 1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1

submitted 22 days ago • 69 comments

I created a R script to see how many times one of those words came up in my recent NSF grant submission. The answer was 355 (!) times. Laughing but crying. Mostly crying. Here's the code if you want to try it on your grant: github.com/calvinklai/d...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Here's something Dems can consider doing right now: Band together and tell Trump and the GOP that they will not get a single vote for any legislation or nominee until he ends Elon Musk's illegal mission to gut our government. My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

submitted 23 days ago • 200 comments

Exactly this. It's really gross to see people arguing that their research will be "unfairly" flagged/catch strays. It sets a scary precedent where people start pointing fingers and suggesting that "those people" are the problem, but not them. Quite chilling.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.” www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

I teach a class on how more than a century ago white physicians believed Black people had thicker skin and were disfigured physically because of this presumption. Sobering to know that today this notion that our bodies can handle more pain/suffering persists: #Blacksky #Edusky #science #medicine

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Slightly annoying how many of the comments are like, "This is written so broadly it's going to even affect ME over here in chemistry" or whatever. We need to (always) stand together as scientists whether you're the target or the collateral damage.

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

submitted 28 days ago • 95 comments

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

submitted 27 days ago • 289 comments

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

Got a Dem Senator? They can do more than just vote. -Oppose Nominees -Reject Unanimous Consent -Vote NO on Cloture -Request Quorum Calls This is a constitutional crisis. They should act like it. Send an email to your Dem senators here: act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-de...

submitted 29 days ago • 60 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans. U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The administrative stay pauses the freeze until Monday.

submitted 29 days ago • 67 comments

The antidote for despair is action ❤️ * Dial (202) 224-3121 * Enter zip code * Leave voicemail * Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so) “The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.” Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

submitted 35 days ago • 67 comments

Every single Democratic governor in the United States should be issuing statements like this, and huge credit to Pritzker for being the one who has. Trump is declaring himself a dictator by fiat. His words should not be treated as though they were law.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

I hope people who doom post about how we can’t do anything sees these things. A lot of these orgs are cowardly and fold to authoritarians, but that trait also means we can push back.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/laur...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

I have been on Promotion and Tenure Committees for several years now. Here are some things I wish candidates knew. A thread! Complete with ridiculous gifs 😀 PTR committee members, please add to this thread! 1/x

submitted 106 days ago • 21 comments

Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.

submitted 100 days ago • 4 comments

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

submitted 102 days ago • 12 comments

Developmental Psychology Starter Pack go.bsky.app/9kHQS7i

submitted 104 days ago • 79 comments

SOMEONE BUY THIS PERSON A DRINK OR ALL THE DRINKS OR ALL THE DESSERTS OR WHATEVER THEY WANT! For anyone needing to make a list of collaborators for NSF submissions, see the link and praise this team of amazing people whom we certainly do not deserve.

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

1. Serving as an action editor has changed how I write reviews for other journals. A thread on reviewing: #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

submitted 498 days ago • 2 comments

We're hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Community Psychology, Department of Psychology, DePaul University, to begin in September 2025. Details and application link available at apply.interfolio.com/148266.

submitted 230 days ago • 1 comment

University of Michigan Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Latina/o Studies joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

submitted 227 days ago • 0 comments

How do parents and non-parents decide how children ought to be raised? In a new paper w/Allison Anoll & Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, we argue social movements–like Black Lives Matter–can shape these choices, unpacking the often black-boxed step in child socialization. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 331 days ago • 2 comments

My lab is excited for our first CDS! poster on Sat 1pm: P3-19 Development of children's social preferences based on political partisanship Talk on Fri 4pm: children use race to guide social preferences and infer others’ social relations!

submitted 342 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to #CDS2024! Come check out our symposium: “Reasoning about social distance and affiliation across human development”. Presenters include Caroline Cha and @hghwang.bsky.social, @lindseypowell.bsky.social, Aaron Chuey, and me. Friday at 4:15 pm.

submitted 344 days ago • 0 comments

I'm looking for a lab manager to start this June 2024! If you would like more rsch experience in dev psych with a focus on social bias (and opportunity to learn EEG), come work with me at UC Santa Cruz! Applications due Feb 7: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsc/EMP...

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