First kids at a Halloween parade getting tear gassed and now this. Abhorrent and unacceptable.

So you can do a bicycle kick goal, huh? That’s nice. Can you do one in a snowstorm? #CPL #Canada

They really stuck the landing on this one.

Men like this can't imagine a world where their wealth won't automatically buy them access, influence, and power.

Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space. @lmesseri.bsky.social

So the rich have always been into using their power to push universities to investigate their workers. Bill Ackman and Marc Rowan must be so proud.

Higher education did not cover itself in glory when faculty members chose to be silent in the face of persecution, all to help keep the "reputation" of the university, and themselves, intact.

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

This agreement maintains that Cornell has full autonomy. Cornell also maintains that it has not done anything wrong. So, essentially, Trump used the power of his office (e.g. by not paying ongoing grants) to force a $30 million payout. I understand why Cornell did this, but it doesn't feel good.

In March, our grant and the broader DoD Minerva social science initiative were terminated. I haven’t said much until now. Thank you to Tim Wilson for inviting me to share. #research #socialscience #sciencepolicy #academia

Who ruins the world? Girls.

Go apply to work with Raunak!! I can testify that he's an amazing mentor and brilliant scientist.

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

how is this real

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

I wrote about what I love about not having kids (before you @ me read the piece!) www.patreon.com/posts/big-no...

Interactions with the state teach people how to be citizens. There is a pedagogical aspect to this. So it's not merely the terror of seeing masked men grab people—that is bad enough!—but it's also a particular vision of state-citizen relationship. One that antithetical to democracy.

Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social! Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!* *not necessarily a selling point, just a fact

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

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Bluesky rn

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

Come to the workshop at BUCLD @bucld.bsky.social, and bring a pen ✍🏻 www.bu.edu/bucld/

I love this data essay by some of my @pewresearch.org colleagues looking at how the ways that the U.S. Census has measured race and ethnicity have changed over the country's history and how they're poised to change again in 2030.

I usually like to put pictures of the lizards I'm working on in my presentations, but I think I might get a code of conduct violation for showing Monopeltis. 📷 M. capensis, Alex Rebelo 📷 M. sphenorhynchus, Vanessa446

This is tragic. Lex and team were doing such great work, one of the few bastions of hard-hitting political journalism within mainstream media in recent years.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

TD;DR economic populism is smart; channeling anti-establishment energy is smart. But if you are not willing to tell voters that book bannings are a violation of democratic principles or that robbing people of due process is a violation of human rights, I’m not sure you should be leading people rn.

My biggest beef with all of it is the insistence on treating public opinion as something that is stable and designed to be mined for strategy/platform rather than something that is malleable and can be shaped when you are value driven.

It’s always funny to me that a set of political bros (not Jamelle here, just a type of dude) thinks politics is some rational decision making process. Politics is a soap opera and many people engage it as such. Something silly will end up being the downfall of this, and almost any, administration.

You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

In the wake of searing media stories and big blowback from alums (some of whom threatened to pull planned endowments), Indiana University reversed its decision to stop letting their students print news. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Three examples in one 24-hour period of people threatening to use the power of the state against those holding them to account. www.pbump.net/o/these-are-...

"moving marginalized people to government camps, they say, is an idea with a long and shameful history." You think???

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

New review from me on whether there are ideological differences in science denial. Although Dems/libs are much more likely to report they trust science than Reps/cons in the U.S., similar diffs do not emerge in most countries, and in some, it's the reverse. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really good reminder that the problem isn't that Democrats don't talk about kitchen table issues - it's that voters don't make decisions from policy platforms & speeches - they form impressions from "random tidbits absorbed from a propaganda-filled media environment." newrepublic.com/article/2023...

My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this: Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

These are not things that people say to the press in normal democracies. Dangerous and illiberal - Trumpian demands for impunity and attempts to silence dissent are spreading.

Review of applications begins November 10 - please apply! apply.interfolio.com/172357

"Our culture is built to eternally forgive men, generally, and white men of means, especially, for their mistakes. Every single time, they were young and immature and it would be a shame to hold them accountable for anything they did wrong" Always so many bangers in @tressiemcphd.bsky.social column

New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis) www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n... 1/3

A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.

I know other media outlets around the country are running with "diseased monkeys with COVID, herpes and hepatitis are loose in Mississippi!" And yes, it makes great clickbait. Those posts have thousands of RTs. But it's just not accurate. Our factual report by @nickjudin.bsky.social: