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Congratulations to @stresslab.bsky.social graduate students on a successful match day 🥳

Catherine Trinh: McLean
Noam Newberger: University of Washington
Alana Egan: Home to VA Pacific Islands
@hodiana.bsky.social: MUSC

Congratulations!!

If he’s not a fascist dictator…then why is he doing fascist dictator things? People are not angry enough for me.

🚨New pub alert!🚨
Research on the health benefits of LGBTQ+ community involvement is nuanced. Led by Dr. @barnhartwr.bsky.social, our longitudinal study found… 1/4

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New Science Advances paper w/ Jennifer Candipan:

Racial change doesn’t just reshape neighborhoods, it reshapes school punishment. We show Black–White suspension disparities grow in places where Black populations are changing, especially in majority White, suburban, & rural areas.

My second first-author paper is out! Super excited about this one and grateful for my amazing coauthors :)

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this is the adult version of writing to santa for gifts

1 cup of caffeine later and I feel like I’m on the brink of death. How are folks in academia drinking several cups a day???

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

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FYI: The little boy in Bad Bunny's #SuperBowl halftime show wasn't Liam Ramos as some have said, it was a child actor: Lincoln Fox www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/...

Also seeing my home country’s flag on the Super Bowl stage healed something in me 🥺

Climate crisis politics in the Superbowl halftime show

Her tone is sooooo clear #cocojones #superbowl60

Bad Bunny’s performance is now sharing the spot for my personal favorite Super Bowl halftime show with Kendrick Lamar’s. 💃🏾

Props to the person who designed the set.

Supremely talented doctoral student Halle Fowler is hoping to put together an ABCT panel related to Deaf and Hard of Hearing suicide prevention or mental health. We have multiple qualitative and quantitative studies on DHH interpretation in mental health settings. We need help finding panelists!

I'm finally recruiting for my dissertation! If you know anyone who is recently postpartum, send them my way!

THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises

Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact

Jesus.

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This Texas County Is the Deadliest Place in the U.S. for Black Mothers to Give Birth Health care advocates struggle to figure out why this Texas county has some of the nation’s highest rates of maternal and infant mortality.

Harris County, Texas, is the deadliest place in the United States for Black mothers to give birth

This is why Democrats simply cannot work with Republicans in Congress on appropriations or anything else in good faith. Trump will illegally seize money appropriated to Democratic states, refuse them disaster aid, threaten them with Fed invasion, threaten their governors, etc.

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina Adam Scharpf Christian Gläßel Abstract: Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers

“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”

(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

Junior Specialist - Lapate Laboratory, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

📣 Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro 🧠🐬🏖️ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048

I have a note: journalists shouldn’t post AI slop in a time of national crisis

You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.

Interested in research on depression in youth? New opening for a full-time research assistant in our lab (webbslab.com) to work on a range of projects focused on the causes & treatment of depression in teens. Come join our growing lab. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
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We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026.
We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts.
Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)!
#SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics

[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”