Keaton Fletcher

Unions and Worker Well-Being: A Global Perspective on Occupational Health Healthy Work · Episode

🎙️ New Healthy Work episode is live!
Unions are stepping up—globally. From strikes to safety, we explore how organized labor is shaping worker well-being and why IO psych needs to pay attention.

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#IOPsych #LaborUnions #OccupationalHealth #Unions #Labor #Safety

And if you're loving women's health and work, check out our earlier episode with Drake Van Egdom about work's impact on breastfeeding open.spotify.com/episode/3ppp...

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Anyone else have that R&R block where working on edits just feels too daunting?

This whole paper is so cool and timely. I am so lucky to have been a part of it.

In a faculty writing retreat and just amazed and excited at the wide range of research people do. Aztec fire rituals, sourdough biomes, cognitive aging, quantum materials, the life of a female artist. Just so cool. #LearningIsFun

#JusticeForMalta #Eurovision2025

I absolutely LOVE it when I'm reading a paper and my friends (or my wife) are cited. Nothing tickles me more than my friends, who do good work, getting seen for that work.

But have you seen bananaball?!

Missed a call to my office number today. Googled the number because the voicemail was silent. Turns out others have been called by this number and it's a scam caller pretending to be an NSF program officer. 254-203-9546.

How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would…

“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social

Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable.

Whaaat?! Even AI is subject to thr Hawthorn effect. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Every opinion piece in the Washington Post must now follow Bezos' new rightwing guidelines. Writers can say that they would have written the same thing anyway, but the fact remains: Their piece was only published because it met his new rightwing guidelines.

Support independent, pro-democracy media.

EDIT: THE ONES HE RECOMMENDS ARE POSTED NOW 💖 | No one cares if you’re an INFJ Myers Briggs test haters RISE UP 🗣️🗣️🗣️ #fy #fyp #foryoupage #foryou #viral #xyzbca #trending #personalitytest #personali... TikTok video by Shrimp 🌸

Sometimes TikTok really delivers.

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BIG: DOGE Firings Found Unlawful by Office of Special Counsel There was a very important development today, still only little noted in...

BREAKING: Office of Special Counsel Finds Many DOGE Firings Unlawful with Major Implications for the Future of the DOGE Purge and Potential Jeopardy for Those Who Executed DOGE's Orders talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-d...

In Early-Phase Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial, Investigational mRNA Vaccine Induces Sustained Immune Activity in Small Patient Group Learn how MSK researchers are deploying mRNA vaccines against pancreatic cancer.

An #NIH-funded research team has developed an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer. Results from the clinical trial were published this week in Nature.

#pancreas #cancer #mRNA #vaccine #medsky #science #medicine #bluesky

Workplace Bullying Accountability Act Healthy Work · Episode

New podcast episode on proposed legislation to prevent workplace bullying with @davidyamada.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6IN8...

Bruh. Constantly.

If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

Public comments are open for gender marker changes for trans people on passports.

DS-11 Application for passport: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

DS-82 Passport Renewal:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

DS-5504 Name Change and Corrections.
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I felt the same way

The SIFT method - STOP, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claims, quotes & media

Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action.

I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.

Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.

Start with SIFT method:

The Alabama case charged that Harmony Hospitality LLC discriminated against an employee who identifies as a gay nonbinary male by firing him hours after co-owners learned of his gender identity. The New York lawsuit alleged that Boxwood Hotels LLC fired a transgender housekeeper who complained that a supervisor repeatedly misgendered them and made anti-transgender statements, referring to the housekeeper as a "transformer" and "it." Another suit alleged that Wendy's franchisee Starboard Group, Inc. subjected three transgender employees to pervasive sexual harassment at a Wendy's restaurant in Carbondale, Illinois, claiming a supervisor demanded to know if one employee had a penis. In another Illinois case, a transgender Reggio's Pizza cashier at Chicago O'Hare International Airport was "outed" by her manager, called a racist, homophobic slur by coworkers, and fired when she complained. In southern Illinois, at a hog farm called Sis-Bro, Inc., a coworker allegedly exposed his genitals to a transgender employee and touched her breasts.

There isn’t a way to interpret the Trump administration’s decision to outright dismiss these EEOC gender identity cases other than “the Trump administration wants more stuff like this to happen more often” apnews.com/article/eeoc...

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

This tax season, we're here to remind you about TurboTax's 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free.

(Published Oct. 2019)

The Kerr article is worth a read! I’ve assigned it to my grad students for nearly 20 years now, and it still
holds up.

A little dark humor for a serious question.

#iopsych

Thinking Big, Thinking Small: Pushing Occupational Health Psychology into the Micro and Macro - Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology This forum will bring together scholars interested in workplace health and wellness to develop research ideas at the intersection of micro (physiology, momentary experiences) and macro (economic trend...

Join us for an OHP focused preconference research forum: www.siop.org/events/the-a...