Erika Davis

Payne's Prairire, where you could watch the sunset every evening if you came to UF

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

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it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul

Paleontologists discover a 500-million-year-old, 3-eyed predator Fossils of the underwater predator shed new light on biodiversity from the Cambrian period.

Fossils of the underwater predator shed new light on biodiversity from the Cambrian period.

New paper alert!

Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com

nature.com/articles/s41...

THREAD! 🧵⬇️

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Strangely applicable...is there value in a life that is neither happy nor meaningful? Shige Oishi and I argue "yes" - that living in interesting times can itself be a third (if unconventional) path to the good life.

Check out our latest TiCS piece (gift link): authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7ERX4sI...

Autistic people don't actually need to prove we can write a poem or wipe their asses, it's actually fine if we can't, our worth is not measured by our productivity and our value to the community does not diminish when we need more support.

I saw someone sum this issue up really well the other day on TikTok: If your science is focused on stopping autistic people from being born and not on making sure autistic people and their families have support and resources, that's eugenics.

the sound of gay voices all over the house

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

the irony of calling autism an epidemic while the text at the bottom of the screen is about the uncontained measles outbreak...

C^2 lab at #SPSP2025 (Shout out @vazjay.bsky.social for the graphic!)

we wouldn't have Stonewall or Pride without trans women of color. revisionist history is disgusting

Major breaking trans news: The States of Washington, Minnesota, and Oregon have sued the Trump administration to block it from enforcing a national gender affirming care ban for those under 19 years of age.

This is the second major lawsuit over Trump's trans ban EO.

Docs to come.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

It would be nice if people could stop acting like DEI is an only a moral good.

DEI strengthens organizations. People from diverse backgrounds bring new ways of solving problems and serving people.

DEI isn’t a gift to diverse people. It’s a gift to the orgs that hire us.

Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.

The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.

This one at UVA Hospital.

RFK Jr is saying that "autism is destroying our kids." Autism didn't destroy me, but ableism almost did, and eugenics/the mainstreaming of disinformation certainly threaten to.

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

In a statement to National Review, DeSantis said the appointments were intended to, “break the status quo and … refocus the university on the core mission of education.” Yenor, in particular, has drawn national attention for his critiques of feminism and higher education. Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference three years ago, Yenor called for a "sexual counterrevolution" and described career-oriented women as, quote, “medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome.” "We need to de-emphasize our colleges and universities," he told the audience. "... Almost everything in these indoctrination camps complicates the male-female dance." He concluded the talk by suggesting that "the effort to erase the old standard of public men and private woman has been a mistake."

DeSantis just appointed a new trustee to University of West Florida and he's a raging misogynist:

Career-oriented women are "medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome"

"The effort to erase the old standard of public men and private woman has been a mistake."

www.wuwf.org/local-news/2...