Syed Muhammad Omar

all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart

It's confirmed: I've lost my dissertation funding. @universityofkansas.bsky.social

Students across the US lost FLAS fellowships to study foreign languages and fellowships to conduct dissertation abroad.

Contributes to the already precarious challenges to monthly sustenance and dissertation plans.

Today's normalized authoritarianism: Email confirmation that year 4 of our Title VI European Studies grant (& all other NRC/FLAS $ @ @uwmadison.bsky.social) is being held up to ensure "resources are spent in accordance with the President’s priorities & the Department’s statutory responsibilities"

Yesterday, when the shooter was an imagined trans Muslim woke leftist, it was WAR.

Today, when the shooter turns out to be a young, gun-toting white male and the son of a sheriff, it’s “pray.”

Parliament burning

Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.

When the scientists don't have anything unique to add apart from toeing the line of establishment liberals, tells you all you need to know about 'whitestream' Psychology.

Conserving nature, resisting change: Political conservatism and evasion of anti-systemic environmentalisms Conventional wisdom and scientific research suggest that political conservatism is at odds with support for environmentalism. Across two survey studie…

Do conservatives oppose all environmentalist initiatives, or does the compatibility of conservatism with environmentalism vary by sociocultural context? (more below!)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm disappointed to share that my NSF career grant on anti-Asian dehumanization was terminated. This affects ongoing project activities, which have shown great progress so far, and support for my research team and more.

I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.

For my multilevel modeling students, I created a tutorial sharing all the main functions I use for data cleaning in R.

It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)

sites.google.com/view/gabriel...

Both are true at the same time.

However, it's the ignorance of historical construction of modernity (and its function) that fosters this regressive reaction.

It's quite revealing that the group of people who pride themselves on "modernity" and "inclusivity" ensured that one of more prominent genocides of the contemporary was orchestrated and led to it's complete manifestation.

What is the problem here?

Research explores engagement with climate change in state and national parks Click for more on paper in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Many national parks sidestep the opportunity to educate millions and to “inspire civic engagement” around the issue of climate, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social research appearing in the @spssi.bsky.social journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.

news.ku.edu/news/article...

SPSSI Journals Social scientific research from different traditions on collective action under repressive conditions is fragmented across different levels of analysis. The current paper takes a first step toward re...

What a week for this to be published, though never not "timely": On "Collective Action Under Repressive Conditions: Integration of Individual, Group, and Structural Level Research, Recommendations, and Reflections" -led by Arin Ayanian, open access here: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Each of us could write extensively about Dr. Thrasher’s positive impact on our lives and the invaluable mentorship, kindness, and generosity he has offered us."

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/30/l...

Part of what is so difficult to stomach about this is that Professor Thrasher's public scholarly work is so thoughtful, rigorous, and in the service of our collective good. The Viral Underclass is an incredible book, and I think about it often.

A Georgetown University researcher, who was studying and teaching on a student visa, has been detained by federal immigration authorities amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on student activists whom the government accuses of opposing American foreign policy, according to court papers. Masked agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow, outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, on Monday night, his lawyer said in a lawsuit fighting for his immediate release. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told him the government had revoked his visa, the lawsuit says.

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

If various nationalities were to leave/be removed, there wouldn't be a "pristine untouched environment." Invoking such aesthetics symbolize the actual historic and on going cultural erasure of indigenous peoples. This is relevant: blogs.cornell.edu/cornellunive...

It was definitely your post and the harm it causes.

WEIRD researchers and their continued erasure of indigenous people. 🥲

If only they'd realize how they continue to enable fascism rather than scapegoating its manifestation.

I suppose genocide is their trademark.

What is an intellectual's responsibility when witnessing violence--such as, one of genocide?

~550 Palestinians have been killed by air strikes since the cease fire deal. ~400 alone in the past 24 hours.

This discourse is missing on this platform.

Few interesting things happened at SPSP:
1) first Critical Psychology preconference--much to learn and grow 👍🏼
2) Kitayama using stereotypes about Africa as a place of wild animals and safaris 😵‍💫
3) SALAAM meet up. We have something unique to contribute here. 🪴

I'm thrilled to join the EJSP editorial board as a Junior Consulting Editor. I'd like to thank Kim Peters, Kai Epstude (@kaiepstude.bsky.social), and Marco Brambilla for their trust. I’m excited to work with the team and grow in this role by learning from leading experts in our field.

Thanks Trevor. Honor to work on this with you.

Considering racism is built into the structure of everyday ecologies, we reviewed Environmental Psychology journals (JEvP + E&B) to interrogate how the discipline (dis)engages with racism.

We discuss a racism-conscious & racism-centering approach to Environmental Psychology.

Read what Hassan Turi from #Parachinar has to say. #Pashtun

یہاں تو ٹرمپ کے موخالفین جمع ہوئے ہہں۔ انھیں ٹویٹر میں رہ کر اپنے روحانی باپ [امران خان] کو آزاد کرانا چاہئے۔

The racialization of social media ecologies...

It is quite a 'white' sanitized space. The US-centric bubble is growing... Lack of critical voices and international perspectives will only feed US progressives (comfortable) ignorance.