🏝️New in Geo!🏝️ '"Operation Hurricane": Narrating climate change as imperial mess' by Charlotte Weatherill This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Political Ecologies of Islands: Environmental & Climate (In)Justices'. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Exactly. A lot of the time, a call for empathy for the dominant group is actually a call for sacrifice from the oppressed. They use the word “empathy” to make the injustice feel like a moral imperative.

Hot off the press! Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability? Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed: openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...

Our paper is finally out! 🎉🎉🎉 Mental Models Matter: Conceptualizations of the Human–Nature Relationship Predict Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions (www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17...)

“We find that two-thirds of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10%, meaning that individual contributions are 6.5 times the average per capita contribution.” [Reminder that 10% wealthiest includes 810 million people, who earn more than $125k annually]

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

Palestinian, Turkish, Indian, Iranian, Gambian-British, Korean — they’re coming after all in a real way. Black, brown, Asian, Muslim or not, this is a story of rounding up, kidnapping, people of color. If you are a member of these groups or an ally, and you’re a citizen, you need to fight back.

We have found the first documented case of an immigrant being imported to the US by politicians and then committing a bunch of heinous sex crimes

4 interdisciplinary huskies at the Boston #standupforscience protest! Representing @northeasternu.bsky.social's Marine and Env Sciences, Psychology, and Public Health. @megansouza17.bsky.social

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Names and faces of the people wrecking our government in the cause of DOGE www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Religion data for reuse! Those stories about U.S. religion you're currently seeing in the news? They're from the Pew 2023-2024 Religious Landscape Study. While anyone can explore the data with their online tools, Pew has also shared the underlying dataset: doi.org/10.58094/3kw...

Researchers find that groups like Farmers for Climate Action and the Investor Group on Climate Change have a more sympathetic reception than typical left-leaning groups. Can these "unconventional advocates" play a role in expanding the climate movement? See below👇 theconversation.com/farmers-inve...

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

Academics have been perfecting our skills at flighting fascism during faculty meetings.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

My friend said that her NIH funding came in 30 minutes before the ban was supposed to go in effect and was approved at 1 in the morning. People aren't giving up.

What is structural racism, and how do we measure it? @tyson-brown.bsky.social, @pahoman.bsky.social, and I have a forthcoming Annual Review article on @socarxiv.bsky.social. Check it before studying structural racism is banned (and follow Tyson and Trish, new to Bluesky). osf.io/6zbgh/

ok tenured faculty. what advice do you have for pre-tenure professors who are expected to write/ get grants for tenure? is it too early to panic? delay clock? hoard startup? cry?

This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak. Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds

I should have made clearer in my original post (to explain this closing remark) We found that specific prejudices (anti-Black, anti-gay, anti-feminist, anti-illegal immigrant) are becoming more correlated over time (2004-2020). #PrejudiceResearch

First time on Bluesky 👋☁️ 🟠 Delighted to share that my book The Ideological Brain will be out in March (and in >10 languages later this year)! 🔵 📘 It’s about what makes some brains susceptible to rigid worldviews, how ideologies infiltrate our minds and bodies, and what it means to break free 📙

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊

DEI-related content was still up on NSF's site last night, so thought maybe someone there was making a stand... but no... pages about diversity are now being removed. LEFT: Yesterday RIGHT: Today [this page was top google hit for NSF + DEI] #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky

In retrospect, getting large numbers of anxious academics to join one small social media platform en masse was a mistake

You can contact CBS 58 at the link below to register a complaint for firing Sam Kuffel for criticising Elon Musk's Nazi salute. www.cbs58.com/contact/

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

If you are ready to advocate to your representatives (or friends and families) about the economic value of NIH funded research, you can check your state at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Lots of groups doing the important work of preserving Federal resources on climate and equity. Here's the @ucsusa.bsky.social page preserving many of the important documents and resources on environmental justice and science. www.ucsusa.org/resources/sc...

It seems only fitting that our (Laurie O'Brien, aaronjmoss.bsky.social, Jake Appleby) paper on political deviants would get published on inauguration day. New pub in JASP assessed how Americans believe Democrats/Republicans view extreme and moderate members in their own political party.

Hi #booksky 👋 My book Disbelief asks why humans are a uniquely religious species, and how atheists arise within it. Musing on culture, evolution, the New Atheists & what they got wrong, morality, and an occasional f-bomb for seasoning. Enjoy & spread the word! 💙📚🧪 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Under Jim Crow, business leaders sometimes complained that the system of separate bathrooms, waterfountains, and waiting rooms was losing money. But they were afraid of white supremacist terrorists (and their fans in legislatures) so they lost money to keep them happy.

Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

After some MIT students publish an opinion piece in the campus paper criticizing a professor's work with the Israeli military, the paper stops publishing op-eds entirely. A perfect example of how campus speech works in 2024. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...

A paper with an important message in a clear title: "'Asian' Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice" Categorizing Asians as a monolithic group in the US misses important - and under-research in psych - variation among Asian subgroups journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #psyscisky

🌍 Substantial behavior changes are needed to address the #climate and #biodiversity crises. But which interventions can help realize such changes? Hint: It's not just about nudging🧵

Asian people and Black people can both face dehumanization in the US, but the type differs: Asian = machine, Black = animal osf.io/preprints/ps... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... #prejudice #socpsych #polpsych #psyscisky

we are aware of the situation

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

My wife (who has managed ERs for many years) was trying to keep her cool reading all the headlines about the CEO and asked when someone was going to write a story about all the violence caused by insurance denials that happen to nurses and staff and doctors because patients can't get to the CEO

Since immigrants (and their children) are a frequent topic of discussion, I thought I'd remind folks that the U.S. National Academies studied the effects of immigration on the U.S. and published a free report. Here's one finding that stands out to me. 1/4 nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2355...

Here you can find a bunch of recs for inclusive practices that include: writing a constraints on generality statement, considerations for who you cite, guides for reporting and measuring sample demographics, etc... spsp.org/professional...

🍃Research: Doing more to protect the environment appears to increase a person's well-being. Reframing green actions as a path to happiness might help policymakers and environmental activists encourage environmental action. #EverydayPsych 🔗: ow.ly/9rUu50UlO9U

Wild to think my parents were born and grew up in a military dictatorship to now live in the US, now also going through a military dictatorship