The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague! Please RT apply.interfolio.com/172895

I wrote something up about how the H-1B fee could harm US higher education and the communities that rely on it. open.substack.com/pub/brendanc...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

We're now accepting data blitz and poster abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social Emotion Preconference (Feb 26 in Chicago)! We've got an exciting lineup of invited speakers, including a themed panel on emotions in groups. Abstract portal closes October 23. spsp.org/events/annua...

Judith Butler: "It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are right now, invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal and rising authoritarianism."

One professor said it carries "echoes of McCarthyism." "None of us were given the chance to know or rebut the allegation." www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Just the VA governor's office warning state employees that freedom of speech doesn't apply to them, including "outside the office"

The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague! Please RT apply.interfolio.com/172895

The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.

The new American right-wing position on universities is that it would be the highest of crimes to have affirmative action to increase employment of black academics but any opposition to affirmative action for conservative academics justifies the end of universities themselves.

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Key initial win in court for Harvard and academic freedom!! Ruling based on free speech rights under 1st Amendment. Judge ruled that distinguishes the case from recent Supreme Court decision on NIH grant terminations. "This is not Calvinball." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On this Labor Day, let's remember that today isn't likely to offer a respite for those--disproportionately women, and especially women of color, immigrant women, and low-income women--who do the unpaid and underpaid labor of care. In fact, that labor may even be greater on days "off" like today. 1/🧵

It’s not just the faculty, staff, and students who have lost confidence in this Board of Visitors www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

🚨 A man in Middleton, NY, demonstrates how to protect our communities by example. 1/2

The Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley seeks to fill a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in the area of social/personality psychology aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at @uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold! psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

Why did this make me laugh until I cried

🚨🚨Holy Shit!! Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is not fucking around with this fiery speech on the Senate floor.💥🔥💥We need this from every Democrat if we are going to push back on fascism and save our fragile Democracy!! More of this please!! Bravo Senator Booker!!

I'm doing the new annual required CITI training for "research security" and it is such excruciating fluff with so little content (minus the vaguely xenophobic security stuff). Most of it is these made-up characters being like "Great question, Linda."

The UVA Cavalier Daily (our student newspaper) gives me so much hope for the future of independent journalism. They are so fearless and thorough with their coverage. Here's their story about the faculty senate meeting about the BOV. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

This privilege-to-tinfoil-hat pipeline is likely why lots of disaffected young (White) men like both Bernie and Trump. Both Bernie and Trump have focused on telling young men they're right to feel wronged and giving them someone to blame (billionaires or libs/feminists/immigrants/China/etc.).

Anyone else stressed thinking about how much dog hair is on all the furniture in Bluey's house

People are asking what this actually means going forward. The following is from memory so chime in if I misrepresent anything. The resolution demands that the board of visitors explain their role in the forced resignation of Pres. Ryan by the DOJ, what they knew, 1/n

Thank you to my colleagues for standing up for academic freedom!! Watching a room of academics copy edit the resolution in real time was genuinely thrilling.

Okay y’all, gather round for a chat. It’s been a roller coaster, and I thought I’d share what we’ve learned. 🧵 (1/16) bsky.app/profile/luck...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Terrible. Notice the priority is always securing the mask. Happy July 4th.

‼️ Y'all, House Republican leadership just told their members to go back to their offices. The floor has emptied. They don't even have the votes to pass the procedural Rule that's needed to get to a passage vote on the bill. 👀 There's still time to make noise --> 5calls.org

Science didn't turn partisan! It's been politicized & partisanized by conservatives whose cruel, theocratic, destructive policies (banning books, forced birth, climate denialism, gender essentialism) are all directly contradicted by scientific evidence.

Keep your eyes on this superstar, people 🤩

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

I was certain the quote was satirical until I watched the video. He actually called the other presidents dumb 🫠

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

I'm literally reviewing NIH grants today (essentially for free, in my spare time). Where along with other experts, I help decide which proposals are the best. Maybe Sen. Britt should learn more about how NIH grant review works?

A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

holy shit this is the clearest (and most frightening) summary of the latest events that I've seen