Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

White researchers from wealthy nations will deny Black African patients treatment that we know saves lives in the name of research that has little to no scientific value. Literally the whole reason we have IRBs in this country is to prevent something like this.

All I can say about this particular grading season is that it's not as bad as the time I caught COVID at the department holiday party and had to grade 120 finals exams + 17 final papers while running a fever. But it is running in second place.

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New astrology is which Mountain Goats song is on your birthday in @themountaingoats.bsky.social This Year 365 Songs, and guess what this lady got!

I've invented a new intergenerational party game to improve upon this "OK Boomer" thing unleashed on our family last night. The problem with the box game is that the trivia is instantly dated and also stupidly easy (e.g. "What does clickbait mean?"), and it's not clear what the age groups are.

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

When your senile grandfather can't remember you, and thus can no longer make awkward comments about your "lifestyle".

ICE has targeted and tear-gassed Black and immigrant families on the South Side—and AT&T is profiting from them while they do so. Tell AT&T: #dropthecontracts on Nov 16. Join Chicago's corporate speakout, 2–3 & 4–5 PM: https://ppls.ac/att#dropthecontracts #ATTLovesICE #DropTheContractsATT

Same. To find out that, amidst all the voices telling me to calm down and accept his presence in academia, he'd been palling around with sex trafficers and making clever references to the fact that he genuinely thinks women are less intelligent than men is... validating to be correct? Infuriating?

Fuck, this is correct. They sent Durbin out to vote for it *because* he's retiring.

I had to call his Illinois office because DC's voicemail was overloaded/offline, but @durbin.senate.gov sure got a voicemail from me telling him how angry and disappointed I am.

I suggest we all call our capitulating Democrat senators and give them what for. Dick Durbin will be hearing from me.

Very proud to have been the action editor for this one-- as I was reading it I kept thinking "I can't wait until this is published, I'm going to share this with all of my students!"

Folks in Chicago wanting to do more to resist ICE-- did you know that AT&T has a massive contract with ICE? I'll be taking part in this demonstration to try to pressure AT&T to drop their contract and make it clear that there are consequences for businesses supporting Trump's Fascism. Join me?

Did you know your phone carrier contracts with ICE? Join us for a peaceful demonstration outside the AT&T store to demand they drop their contract with the DHS and stop profiting from terrorizing our communities! 📅 Sun, Nov 16 📍 15 S Halsted ⏰ 2–3 PM https://ow.ly/EiGG50Xlhxh

He was still alive?

Husband bought me a new brand of granola and for some reason it's asking me for a $3500 publication fee.

Saw a trick-or-treating kid dressed as an Amazon delivery person tonight. Cute, or an upsetting commentary on gig work?

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If you need some cheering, I have try pieces of good news from Illinois! 1. The legislature pulled it together and approved needed funding for public transit, preserving vital, green transportation for folks in the state: blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/c...

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The Mountain Goats Beach Bunny Evanston Folk Festival (Iron & Wine/Tune-Yards/Watchhouse/Amythyst Kiah) Toad the Wet Sprocket/The Jayhawks/Sixpence None the Richer

Hell yeah Illinois!!!!

So hang on, Grammarly has abandoned the grammar-check aspect of their product and is now 100% in the AI generated text business?!

Trump gifts the Qataris an airbase in return for a luxury plane, and Spelling Bee says...

The fact that the Supreme Court may overturn bans on conversion therapy is making me feel pretty nihilistic about the purpose of doing psychological research.

This is half a mile from my home, and also immediately next to an elementary school. Is there any oversight? Will there be any consequences for this recklessness and cruelty?

Same. Though I have occasionally wondered if some people would be better served with more investments helping people in poverty (e.g. housing first policies for people experiencing homelessness.) Want to pony up for that, JD?

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

@clauslamm.bsky.social & I contributed to a global study that analyzed 21 million trials across 30 languages, revealing semantic priming [SP] as a robust cognitive mechanism across cultures and writing systems. Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Action Editors in Social Psych: What's your record for the most number of folks declining to review a manuscript? Mine's 39.

It occurs to me that it feels a little self-serving that the only people who have coherent ideologies are we, the smug elites who define what makes an ideology coherent.

Immigration agents shot and killed a man driving AWAY from a traffic stop — not towards them, as they initially claimed chicagoreader.com/news/ice-sho...

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

I've been clear with students in my classes about my opposition to use of generative AI for writing or substituting for reading an actual text, but I think I'm going to need to talk with thesis and MA students about it as well. How are you all handling these conversations?

One of the great omissions from my high school history class was that the sit-in movement to end desegregation started in Greensboro, a 45 minute drive from where I lived. www.wunc.org/race-class-c...

"Typically, people are able to self-attest to a condition and receive a vaccine without showing proof... you should be able to self-report a condition and receive your vaccine." Lotta people on prednisone for all sorts of reasons... just sayin'...

Exciting new research for those of us who are interested in identity during transitions! This study really drills into the compatibility of new identities with old identities, and the impact on well-being.

Can someone make a short, looping video that's someone yelling "Oh my God, put in your damn headphones, you uncouth water buffalo!!" that you could bookmark and audibly play in these situations?

Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

News coverage of Saturday's march in opposition to BBB Medicaid cuts co-organized by The People's Lobby (my political home!) and SEIU (my union!) abc7chicago.com/post/protest...

We got a new HVAC system this year, and the original quote inluded a "smart" thermostat. We were like "Can we just get a normal thermostat...?" and I genuinely think that's one of the best homeowner decisions we've made.

Something scary is that Republicans have clearly been damn good at whipping votes. Both times that monstrosity got exactly what it needed to pass, and the appointed mavericks got to performatively vote against it.

Just kinda feels to me like the Federal government is dead, right? What's the point of a union, anyway?

So nakedly the Supreme Court cannot defend attacks to birthright citizenship, but they're building up the power of the President to say "Who's going to stop me?" What pack of miserable human beings.

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.