Jessica Willard (she/her)

Completing the requisite higher ed harassment prevention training…the bit about civil rights protections hits REAL different today.

Flyer announcing research study centering the voices of LGBTQ+ MSW students.

As #pridemonth2025 🌈 wraps up, I’m pleased to share a new study centering the voices of LGBTQ+ MSW students.

Please consider sharing with your networks (looking at YOU, Southern friends). 💗

🏳️‍🌈 Interested participants, get started here: go.rutgers.edu/e3k4dpv6 🏳️‍⚧️

#academicsky #socialwork #lgbtqia

As a reminder, firearms are the leading cause of death in children and adolescents publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-re...

📢 If you’re able to get to Newark: Protest outside Department of Homeland Security office! 📢

620 Frelinghuysen Ave.
Newark, NJ 07114

Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.

Abolish ICE.

@samantha-lux.bsky.social @mzuch24.bsky.social 😹

How many months (and lawsuits) has it been? In need of physical therapy from all this whiplash.

LOUDER

A gun lobby-backed bill that would gut state laws and allow people with dangerous histories to carry hidden, loaded guns across the country is making its way through Congress right now.

Take action in under a minute today and urge your lawmakers to stop this bill: etwn.us/44rd6hP

I mean, this is the bare minimum.

Why is this still a thing?

Governor Mills to Trump: "I'll see you in court"
Trump: "Actually, no, lets settle."

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

Know Your Digital Privacy Rights with Esha Bhandari and Daniel Kahn Gillmor End-to-end encryption. Burner phones. Biometric authentication. Our technology is more advanced than ever, but what does that mean for our digital footprints—and how our data is tracked, whether we’re...

There are steps we all can take to help minimize our digital footprint and guard ourselves from surveillance.

Learn more on the latest episode of At Liberty.

This.

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Charlotte Talks With Mike Collins 00000174-9e19-ddc3-a1fc-bedbe3020001Launched in April 1998, Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins has become the region's exclusive forum for the discussion of politics, growth, the arts, culture, social ...

Tomorrow I'll be speaking about our terminated NIH grant on Charlotte Talks, a local live podcast that airs on WFAE at 9am and 7pm, and can be streamed here:
www.wfae.org/show/charlot...
#academicsky
#terminatedscience

More of this @huffpost.com!
#academicsky

The Trump Administration Just Made Catastrophic Cuts That Will Affect You Or Someone You Know "I deeply regret not doing more as a researcher until now to share the goodness, humanity and impact of our work with the American public. I hope it’s not too late."

“Most people in this country know and care about someone who is LGBTQ+, even if you’re not aware of it. This could be a kid you teach, a kid you coach on a sports team, a kid who attends your church…These kids and their families deserve to have access to high-quality prevention and treatment, too.”

“Access to gun.” Full stop.

I think there are scientists who would like to apply for this position…

@standupforscience.bsky.social

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Thank you, #Rutgers faculty! 👏

I’ve never been a school spirit kind of person.

With one big (10) exception…
♥️🖤✊🏽

#rutgers

I think Trump will send a US citizen to the El Salvador concentration camp before the end of the month. Once protests pick up in the summer, that'll be the next escalation to send organizers there.

We're heading down a truly dark path.

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i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell “So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...

"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...

See y’all in court. 🏳️‍⚧️ ✊