Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship 🎉 Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Diane L. Hughes #APS26BCN

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

"Here’s a closer look at how the Voting Rights Act, which was dealt a blow on Wednesday by a Supreme Court ruling, changed Black representation in the House in Southern states." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

By taking the departments that study women, queer people, Black people, + Latinos + combining them into a single, ill-defined dept, UT has defined these populations by their lack of whiteness. Their lack of being cisgender, straight + male...These people are now the Other…an object to be dealt with.

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

If you use my semester planning document, here it is for the Spring of 2026! I included some planning spreadsheets as well. Check it out! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

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

*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!! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

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

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. m.kuow.org/stories/reme...

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 www.wral.com/news/local/u...

We're accepting abstract submissions for the Critical Psychology Preconference until Oct 23rd. Join us! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

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

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: mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...

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

All right, I wrote about it:

"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

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

"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...

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" www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

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.

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. www.yahoo.com/news/vice-pr...

when trump and co say they're seizing control of research because of the reproducibility crisis, it's pretty similar to when they say they're enacting trans bathroom bans and sports bans because of violence and discrimination against women.

whether at home or abroad, and regardless of identity, beliefs, or background, it is simply cruel and inhumane to allow other human beings to suffer by denying their access to basic needs, and it's especially despicable when done for political gain

It’s pretty remarkable just how thoroughly Target got its shit wrecked for the anti-DEI stuff www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/t...