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A flier for the Academic Unit Head position for the Department of Psychology at James Madison University

We are searching for an Academic Unit Head for the Department of Psychology at James Madison University. Review begins on 10/31/2025; please share with your colleagues who may be interested! jobs.jmu.edu/.../academic....
#AcademicJobs #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Talked with a lively table of first time attendees at breakfast! #SPSSICON25

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Ad describing a one-year Instructional Faculty position at James Madison University

JMU Psychology is hiring for an Instructional Faculty position to begin Fall 2025. Review begins June 4. Please share widely with any interested parties!

jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/one-yea...

#AcademicJobs #PsychJobs

Motherhood is political.

Motherhood is healthcare and benefits and unpaid labor.

Motherhood is education and advocacy and access.

Motherhood is work policies and housing and community resources.

Motherhood is political. Motherhood is human rights. Motherhood is radical.

Happy Mother’s Day

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

JMU eliminates DEI JMU’s Board of Visitors approved a resolution to dismantle Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion during Friday’s meeting — a motion which “resolved that the university's Division of Diversity, E...

Deep breaths.

We persist.

www.breezejmu.org/news/jmu-eli...

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

You never know when you’ll need a good box. :)

Nail polishes. Good boxes. Very smooth rocks.

graph of NIH basisfor new drugs

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

A researcher just lost their grant funding because their work might help understand why people are hesitant about vaccines.

Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism

Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks.

now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...

Why It’s Important to Talk about Race with Children Children start learning about race and racism as early as preschool. Talking about race early, however difficult, will help them become more antiracist

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Thanks! I had never heard of a book weight before - very handy!

Beautiful book sleeve. Could you post a picture of how you use the weight with the sleeve? Did you make it?

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

What books/websites/resources do you recommend for students interested in organizing on campus?

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving.

osf.io

Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance

Language matters. Guantanamo Bay is a concentration camp. Elon did a Nazi salute. The Trump administration is facist.

Be accurate. Use the words.

It is ok to not have all the answers right now. Showing up counts. Small acts count. Checking on others counts. Surviving counts.

Make them tell you, specifically, what you're not allowed to do. Don't make changes you guess that they want. Don't offer them a menu of things that you infer they might be telling you not to do. Do the work you proposed, and received funding to do, unless instructed otherwise in specific detail.

Hiya neighbor!

A fantastic read on why the “smartphones/social media is bad for your mental health” argument is short-sighted. I also love the examples of methodological issues in the cited research - I’m excited to share this one with my methods students.

There are bots on Bluesky now, unfortunately. I block at the slightest suspicion. I don’t have time for nonsense.

Gestures always exist in a cultural context.

In this cultural context, that was 100% a Nazi salute.

Conozca Sus Derechos: Prepara Para Las Amenazas De Deportación Masiva De Trump

Know Your Rights: Prepare For Trump’s Mass Deportation Threats

#inmigración #immigration #Trump #deportation #deportación

immigrantjustice.org/es/conozca-s...

Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.

Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

TikTok was great at connecting me to diverse voices, particularly diverse gen z voices. I’ve used social media for almost my entire adult life (RIP MySpace), and TikTok was actually the best at getting me out of my bubble.