Josephine Fealy

Every time I get into an argument about discrimination against women in the workplace, I end up in the same tired spiral. No, it’s not about achieving 50/50 m/f ratios in every career field. It’s about THIS kind of harassment no longer being a part of the experience for any woman in any field.

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A green graphic with a quote from MSU grad student Anna Benedict: The folks whom I've worked with are used to being silenced and ostracized, and they are heavily stigmatized by media which labels them as ‘crazy’ and ‘dangerous.’ In the public eye as well as in research and healthcare, this frequently leaves little room for centering their humanity, their right to autonomy, their ability to recover, their ability to give back to their communities, and their ability to live meaningful lives despite their illness. This orientation on strengths is a vital missing piece that I’m excited to explore.

Congrats to MSU grad student Anna Benedict on being named to Notre Dame’s prestigious Domer Dozen—which recognizes the top 12 outstanding young alumni!

See how Anna is changing the conversation around serious mental illness through research and storytelling: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... 💚

This is horrifying

Kenya was showing me some social cog work that seems to suggest these groupings depend on the presence of other types of detectable affiliations. Age seemed like a weaker grouping, maybe because everyone ages. In the case of Mario, maybe we sort it as “character” as an affiliation before age?

I would be better at flossing and going to the dentist generally if they still gave me dinosaur stickers and pencils when I was done with my appointment.

I want to read more about this; any paper recommendations?

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A green graphic with this quote attributed to Bailey Rann: The brain is incredible, and I love the passion and detailed nature of all those within the CCN program as we work to uncover the underlying reasoning and processes that most humans take for granted like processing rhythms in our environment and attending to different objects.

Congrats to MSU graduate student Bailey Rann on receiving a 2025 J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award from @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social!

Get to know Bailey more here:
psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

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Congrats to MSU graduate student @abbycassario.bsky.social on being awarded a 2025 Student Publication Prize from @spspnews.bsky.social!

Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

Empty Bowls - The Greater Lansing Food Bank Leading the fight against hunger in mid-Michigan since 1981.

If you like getting something in return for your cash, you can get an awesome handmade bowl next week (Nov 12) Tickets are $35. Tour the facility, get cool pottery: greaterlansingfoodbank.org/give/events/...

Lansing area friends - families in the Greater Lansing area struggling without SNAP. The Greater Lansing food bank needs your help to feed our community. Please consider donating!

greaterlansingfoodbank.org/donate

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

Today ICE and federal agents detained a man at 26 Federal Plaza during court recess, before he had the opportunity to have his hearing.

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A dark green graphic introducing Dr. Meltem Yucel's research interests, her Moral Minds Lab, and why she wanted to work at Michigan State.

Three photos of the Moral Minds Lab space. This lab explores morality across different stages of life and in cultures around the world. In the bottom right corner is moralmindslab.com

Meet Dr. Meltem Yucel, our new moral psychologist!

Dr. Yucel has a passion for understanding why people behave the way they do. Her research focuses on how children and adults understand rules, group identity, & moral development.

psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

The new journal Replication Research is now taking submissions. You can read the inaugural editorial on the journal website! #OpenScience #replication

My paper “Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology” is a winner of the Student Publication Award this year. I’m proud of this one, because it shows that if we ask interesting questions and use rigorous methods, we can contribute to ~science~ even when we’re wrong or 1/2 right!

This list of excellent SPSP awards includes @abbycassario.bsky.social’s paper on threat, personality, and ideology, one winner of the student publication award! 🎉

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us!

We run short, game-like studies with kids. We offer in-person and online options, flexible scheduling (weekdays & weekends), and sessions that are fun for children and easy for caregivers.

Exciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology!

If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here:
Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/...
OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...

✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨

Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions.

We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26.

Brief thread...

Why did Kiki lose her witch powers? In Kiki's Delivery Service, Kiki is a witch and she sets out to train as a witch by herself (like an apprenticeship). Things are going well for her but at some point she starts to lose her witch po...

It’s not really any one thing that caused it, but a lack of self-concept/sense of identity that erodes her confidence and brings her down. Here’s a pretty good breakdown: anime.stackexchange.com/questions/46...

I assume it’s normal in academic writing to go from feeling happy and confident and on a roll to sick with anxiety and like what you’ve written might actually be the worst, with those 2 feelings on an endless loop?

YouTube video by Bacon_ I've been better

Mood today

youtu.be/lYZ9B7N6vHM?...

Save the vitriol for the corporate leaders and developers who make the tool and guide its use, and the executives and directors who replace human ingenuity with sloppy AI substitutions. Give regular people some kindness and grace. More growing together than shaming each other.

chatGPT a question in the hellscape of judgement that is our modern social media environment.
I don’t think these tools or perfect or being produced by people with pure intentions, but I think it’s the wrong response to assume everyone using them is a drooling worthless moron. They’re just human.

given the lack of access to reliable information presented by paywalls, misleading clickbait, and the overwhelming swarm of ads making modern articles hard to read, it’s no wonder to me that people prefer AI summaries. Or that people would prefer the reassuring and validating tone when asking

Rather than emphasizing derision when everyday people use AI, it seems the most prudent thing is to have compassion and guide people towards literacy. Don’t get me wrong - big companies, especially those in the creative art spaces, have no justifiable reason to be replacing human labor. But —

Well this is almost certainly a bot account.

Liked my fit today enough to doodle it.