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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

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The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026

Advertisement for the Critical Perspectives in Psychology preconference. Displays the invited speakers names & pictures. Includes a QR code to the submission portal.

*We are 3 days away from the SPSP Preconference submission deadline!* If your research breaks boundaries in social psychology or you are applying exciting methods to your research, apply today!!

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Congrats to Monica Biernat, 2025 winner of the Ostrom Award for social cognition!

“Mel titled every talk he ever gave ‘Social Cognition’ because then he could talk about whatever he wanted” - MB

#PMIG2025

Remembering Quintard Taylor: Historian of the Black West and beyond Dr. Quintard Taylor taught history at the University of Washington and created BlackPast.org, an online collection of global Black history. He died Sept. 21, 2025, at the age of 76.

How could a man who never set foot in a library until he was in college create what is considered the most extensive online collection of global Black history?

Maybe it had something to do with the story Dr. Quintard Taylor's father told him when he was a young boy.

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UNC professor reinstated after investigation into alleged ties with politically motivated group UNC-Chapel Hill has reinstated a professor who was linked to groups believed to call for politically motivated violence. An investigation found that Dwayne Dixon posed no threat to the campus communit...

UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon.
Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org
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We're accepting abstract submissions for the Critical Psychology Preconference until Oct 23rd. Join us! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship Honoring APS Members for their lifetime of outstanding psychological research that advances understanding of historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups and/or understanding of the psychologic...

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship 🎉 Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Diane L. Hughes

honored to share the story of my family in such an impactful book alongside brilliant authors, thinkers, storytellers, and movement leaders.

How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, available for preorder. @haymarketbooks.org

Chart shows About half say AI will worsen people’s ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships

Far larger shares of Americans say AI will erode than improve people’s ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships. www.pewresearch.org/...

I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science:
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A large butterfly, tropical leaf, flower, and hope written in Spanish, stylized to look like a mural spray painted on a brick wall. Tagline: "A celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Hope"

Heritage & hope again in 2021. For years, I had students engage w/ these govt sanctioned representations of cultural, religious, gender, & racial diversity- the potential, the limitations. Now diversity is being sanctioned and erased. Good thing I downloaded most of the archives...Happy HHM!

US Latino population density map stylized as a Blueprint. Tagline: Honoring Hispanic Americans: Essential to the Blueprint of Our Nation

Hispanic American Heritage Month. The tagline: "Heritage, diversity, integrity, and honor. America's renewed hope" written in English and Spanish. Flags decorate the border

In 2010, a message in English and Spanish suggested that Hispanic Americans, heritage, diversity, integrity, and honor are the hope of America. In 2019, a DEOMI poster highlighted Hispanic Americans as "Essential to the Blueprint of our Nation". #HispanicHeritageMonth

Hispanic American Heritage Month poster with illustration of Sonia Sotomayor. Tagline: "Embracing the Fierce Urgency of Now"

Did you know the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (of the DOD) created & disseminated materials related to diversity since the 90s? The materials, like this 2009 HHM poster, used to be in the public domain. In compliance w/ EO 14151 the archive was deleted. #HispanicHeritageMonth

The White Civility Council As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...

All right, I wrote about it:

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

LGBTQ students deserve to be themselves at school.

I was honored by the @psychscience.bsky.social DEI Committee's invitation to help curate this collection of outstanding articles addressing a range of issues related to anti-Black racism. I also couldn't have asked for a more thoughtful and thorough partner in @johnjost.bsky.social. Please share!

Majorities of adults see decline of union membership as bad for the U.S. and working people The share of U.S. workers who belonged to a union in 2023 stood at 10%, down from 1983 when 20.1% of American workers were union members.

Majorities of adults see decline of union membership as bad for the U.S. and working people

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Resistance Psychology Virtual Session Proposals After the successful conclusion of the third round of our Psychology of Resistance in Repressive and Violent Contexts meeting series, we are excited to launch the submission form for sessions in 2025-...

Call for presentations and sessions in the next round of the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series, September '25 - June '26! Details and formats as well as proposal submission form here: forms.gle/jcs2XEx9igdS... and more information about the series in the thread!

faculty in these states: stop scrolling and fill out this survey, pls

Critics Say Cassie Ventura "Consented" to Sean "Diddy" Combs's Alleged Abuse. Here's Why That's Never True We must stop treating survival strategies as evidence of consent in cases of abuse, like the one Ventura alleges happened to her.

"To me, it’s clear that this isn’t a story about bad choices. It’s a story about survival in a world that too often mistakes coercion for consent."

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/cassie...

Florida Board Rejects Ono for UF Job The Florida Board of Governors decided against confirming Santa Ono as president of the University of Florida in a contentious vote focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.

After resigning from Michigan and bending over backwards to try and appease them, "The Florida Board of Governors voted Tuesday to reject Santa Ono as the next president of the University of Florida"
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Know Your Education Rights with ReNika Moore | American Civil Liberties Union

Attacks on public education are an attack on civil rights.

Host W. Kamau Bell is joined by ReNika Moore, director of our Racial Justice Program, on this episode of At Liberty to talk about why equal access to education must be protected.

Vice President JD Vance says universities are racially discriminating against whites and Asians Vance’s claims about racial “discrimination” on college campuses come as the Trump administration escalates its political battles with universities over

This is how white supremacist narratives work. This claim has been litigated repeatedly and proven to be NOT TRUE. But they “feel it.” You can’t disprove it. The Lost Cause.
Reverse Discrimination.
Welfare Queens.

The whole thing survives on myths.

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