Went to Regal’s Monday Mystery Movie, which was Slanted. There was moment in the movie that evoked so much fragility that people walked out! 🤯 SMH 😒

53% of Americans surveyed described their fellow citizens' ethics & morality as bad. (92% of Canadians view their countrymen as good.) At least we're not denying it, I guess. The first step in solving a problem... Survey: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202... www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

BIG ESSENCE. FIRST OP-ED. ALL ME. BIG MAMA. RUN IT UP. www.essence.com/news/ai-raci...

At the Violence Prevention Center, we translate evidence into action—training professionals, informing policy, and developing research-driven programs. Your gift this #GivingTuesday fuels that mission. 📚💡 Donate now: tinyurl.com/VPCCLT #EndViolence #CharlotteVPC #GivingTuesday

I’m never going to forget when “Watchmen” had that scene depicting the Tulsa Race Massacre and so many Black people online lamented that they were never taught that history. It was by design. Oklahoma didn’t make it a part of school curriculum till 2020. Whew that was heavy.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three White men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun.

This is beyond damaging to public health. It’s by design of course but still devastating

STATEMENT : "Let us be clear: Donald Trump's approach to homelessness does nothing to address the sky-high cost of rent, which remains the main cause of homelessness. Instead, his reckless actions are cruel and backward and will force even more people to sleep outside”

The @successcollab.bsky.social was so delighted to have @drapryla.bsky.social come talk about her work within the realm of advocacy and public scholarship! We all were inspired and invigorated to do better and use our science to help the public!

I'm in Detroit. It's 25 degrees & dropping. I met a woman who has slept outside for 5 months. Yesterday, all of her belongings, incl her blankets, were thrown away. She has nowhere else to go. It doesn't have to be like this. Housing + support solves homelessness. We need political will.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Our Center’s suicide prevention training postdoc ad is live! The DoD-funded position will work with Drs. Robert Cramer, Annelise Mennicke, and Jessamyn Moxie on a training e-learning platform in partnership with Dr. Justin Baker and the Ohio State U team! jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/64918

We’re hiring a Department Chair for Public Health and Health Administration at UNC Charlotte. See the job listing here: jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/64712

ICYMI: My conversation with THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR director Geeta Gandbhir.

My research team began studying stand your ground laws and public perceptions after the murders of Ahmaud Arbery & Botham Jean. So I knew of Ajike Owen’s murder…however, I was still unprepared for The Perfect Neighbor. I’m glad this story was amplified but gutted at this tragedy.

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree. If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky Our new paper out in American Psychologist. Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp. Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Good PBS News Hour piece tonight on how abortion restrictions compromise women's domestic safety. In the US, a pregnant/postpartum woman's risk of being killed is 20% higher than that of other women; she is more likely die by murder than from childbirth-related issues. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location. 

Firing squads in 2025? 🤦🏾‍♀️ Latest op-ed published in NC Newsline. The death penalty is not a crime deterrent nor the answer for crime prevention. ncnewsline.com/2025/10/08/n...

The UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center is partnering with The South Piedmont Area Health Education Center (AHEC) to offer multidisciplinary health professions CEUs!   Find out more at violenceprevention.charlotte.edu/education-an.... Our next one features our very own Dr. Rob Cramer!

“A majority of people who are found incompetent to stand trial are restored to competency,” @drapryla.bsky.social added. “They eventually go back to trial, back to their court case and proceedings continue.”  www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/10/02/c...

We’re excited to invite you to an upcoming free virtual session: Dissemination Methods that Work: Supporting Policymakers’ Value and Use of Research 
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Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents. It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually. This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.

Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, passed away on Sept. 4 at the age of 83. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

“Basically, it’s a systemic movement of resources away from preventing tragedy to requiring tragedy,” Clark said. “It’s the same population. It’s the same people. It’s just where are we going to serve them: Before they’ve been criminalized or after they’ve been criminalized?”

NYTimes has a sad but ultimately unsurprising report on some Black and brown parents giving their children a new version of "The Talk" - warning them how to react if police enacting Trump's crackdowns on crime and undocumented people come their way. Sigh. loom.ly/Hw_jltc

COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.

My latest Judicial Notebook piece in the APA Monitor on Psychology on the Mahmoud v. Taylor SCOTUS decision. www.apa.org/monitor/2025...

Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. At approximately 5:00 AM, the levees broke, flooding 80% of our city. As a result, an estimated 1400 people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands lost their homes. Over half of the victims were Black.

Pleased to share my inaugural editorial for Archives of Sexual Behavior, sharing my vision for the journal as the incoming Editor-in-Chief (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When even words like “diverse” can’t be used… Scientists are removing words like “diverse” and “disparities” from hundreds of federal grant renewals to avoid getting flagged by the Trump administration www.wsj.com/health/scien...

The University of Denver ended race-specific scholarships and DEI training to comply with DOJ directives.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser's brief argues that conversion therapy — a medically discredited practice in which medical professionals try to change a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity — is substandard medical care for minors that can be prohibited by states.

Dr. Evan Auguste compiled a book I wish I had in school. Thoughts and ideas I had but weren’t acknowledged, recognized, or affirmed. And I’m grateful to be a small part of it. 🖤 Check it out, buy it, or adopt it for your classroom. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch You've GOT to check out this Special Collection on anti-Black racism. 👇 Pulls from across APS journals and the last few years. Could be handy resource for research and teaching.

We honestly cannot count the number of people who asked for this — Sam Sanders and I get together to talk about Cowboy Carter and all the things. youtu.be/NLiQaIhenqE?...

This. The EO—though it doesn't carry the force of the law—calls for even more efforts to criminalize and institutionalize unhoused people, folks with unmet mental health needs, drug users and those deemed to be "vagrants." It aims to render people as disposable, and control, lock up + disappear them

Here's a good piece from VRC colleague @cjsullivan.bsky.social on the benefits of community violence intervention. scholars.org/contribution...

New paper out today in Social Science & Medicine: Higher homicide rates → higher suicide rates the next year, especially with firearms. 50 years of U.S. county data + quasi experimental design. Biggest impacts in rural & White communities. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NIH cuts spotlight a hidden crisis facing patients with experimental brain implants https://trib.al/VxWd49T

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

DEVELOPING: We're hearing that Trump will sign Executive Orders today that will make homelessness worse. Stay tuned for updates.

beautiful piece on a beautiful project. the catnip garden cracked me right open(via @prisonculture.bsky.social) civileats.com/2025/06/18/i...

We each find our way through these times As an academic, I am doing this: Uplift those whose research you admire. Diversify the academy. Many ways to do this: -Nominate for awards (did 2 yesterday) -If you are in an academy, nominate to it (did 3 this month) -cite them in a paper and/or talk