Lisa Fazio

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Picture of 8 women under a banner reading "Welcome! Psychonomic Society 66th Annual Meeting" Lisa is in the middle surrounded by multiple graduate students.

Love the pic of the Vanderbilt contingent at #psynom2025

So many brilliant young scientists ❤️

Dr. Jason Goldman of the American College of Physicians says (paraphrasing) that this entire meeting is complete bullshit and should be adjourned.

He has been a constant voice of reason.

EGOT!!!

Fav thing to do in the last class is to have the students pick their top 3 readings that I *must* include the next time I teach the class. Then they get into small groups and have to produce a new top 3 list. Solidifies all that they got from the readings (and gives me some ideas for the future).

ManuscriptCentral Wrapped!
In 2025, you submitted 5 papers
AND all got rejected 🎉
You spent 💯 minutes in total trying to submit your papers!
You reviewed for 10 journals that would never publish your papers ❤️

I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.

The student gotchas might be the second most disruptive thing happening in higherEd. It’s the Heritage “debate me” model with the Turning Point edgelord leveling-up.

I’d like to thank the drunk raccoon for bringing Americans together in a way only an intoxicated feral raccoon could.

as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.

Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Larry Summers banned from the American Economics Association conferences and journals. Can't referee or be an editor for AEA journals.

National Bureau of Economic Research, your turn.

Not an inaccurate giant needle like is used in many stock photos but instead a medically accurate one. Just trying to show that better stock images exist than what's commonly used - not that this set is perfect.

Real headlines in 2025

Self, AAP collaborate on library of vaccine images for free use Photos accompanying news stories about vaccines are notoriously awful, both in effect and in verisimilitude. They often feature large needles…

A few years ago Self and AAP collaborated on a set of free, high-quality stock images for childhood vaccinations - no crying children or giant needles

healthjournalism.org/blog/2019/08...

This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work.

Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.

I'd already pre-ordered a copy but if you're waffling the blurbs will push you over the edge

{Mariah Carey voice}:

🎶All I want for Christmas...
...Is yooooooooooooouuuuuuuu...

...r review of this manuscript submission even though I know you are burnt out and ready for break 🎶

OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay

Universities can't function if they're constantly running scared of an online cancel factory and spineless politicians who won't push back. Should this student have received a bad grade? Don't know. Should the governor of the state be commenting on it? Absolutely not. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...

🧵 Still mad at my Midwestern education that presented Rosa Parks as just some woman who was tired and wanted to sit instead of as a badass activist.

Also another example of how you don't know what actions will be pivotal until after they occur - just keep acting and eventually the spark will light

Notre Dame has three *open-rank* faculty positions in the Institute for Educational Initiatives. These positions are part of a strategic initiative to build on our excellence in educational research and action--both within education and across associated disciplines. Details in thread.

Absurd student complaints aren’t new. I am quite confident they predate higher educational as we know it, and this isn’t that unusual.

What’s concerning here imo are the use of:
1. Admin’s reaction
2. Political pressure from state officials
3. Doxxing and the court of public opinion

“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used this method to conduct a preregistered 10-day field experiment with 1256 participants on X during the 2024 US presidential campaign. Our experiment used a large language model to rerank posts that expressed antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity (AAPA). Decreasing or increasing AAPA exposure shifted out-party partisan animosity by more than 2 points on a 100-point feeling thermometer, with no detectable differences across party lines, providing causal evidence that exposure to AAPA content alters affective polarization. This work establishes a method to study feed algorithms without requiring platform cooperation, enabling independent evaluation of ranking interventions in naturalistic settings.

New paper in Science:

In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization.

🧵

Someone who bought a frog facts advent calendar for a friend's kid last year just emailed me.

Apparently that kid got a different advent calendar this year, and when he opened it he said, “These are HORRIBLE! They’re not teaching me anything about frogs!”

This kid gets it.

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The psychology of this website is so transparent. They're not attacking progressive media (who don't give a shit) so much as they're naming access bootlickers who already often cater to the WH anyway — because they’ll actually freak out and change their coverage *even more.*

Just working the refs.

top notch mascottin'

Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.