Looking for a great demonstration of an N of 1 regression discontinuity? Try flights of stairs climbed per day as a function of bringing a baby home from the hospital.

Thank you @TimothySnyder.bsky.social for joining @AFT.org & @AAUP.org in calling on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to reject Trump's proposed compact and to defend the principle that no president has the right to buy obedience or sell off freedom. snyder.substack.com/p/save-ameri...

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

How should university boards prepare? - Strategize in advance (could happen here) - Leverage internal expertise (strategize with political scientists, public policy scholars and law faculty) - Respond collectively and support one another -Stay true to the mission This is the real fiduciary duty!

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"! You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization. We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This postdoc salary is the same as my starting salary as a first year faculty hahaha Seems like an amazing position with great advisors and abundant resources in an awesome city (well, next to an awesome city lol)

What's happening in Chicago is not normal. The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

So proud of my mama @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social!

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at @UVAPsyc in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...).

If "states' rights" mean anything, they must include the right to not get invaded by another state in peacetime. Americans everywhere: Speak up and stand against Trump's outrageous assaults on Illinois and Oregon. gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

I didn’t expect my first interview with the @nytimes.com to be from my 4-day old child’s pediatrician’s appointment! “Singular acts of violence, when they serve a particular narrative, are being spun into a tale of persecution,” Pasek said. “And that is where things feel dangerous to me.”

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

This is America.

correspondent for The Economist

61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza; 40% now say Israel is committing genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... I wish the 40% number were higher but this can hardly be dismissed as a tiny fringe of the community.

History repeats.

Read this and do not pretend not to have known what was happening. My fellow scientist, even if you can still get your next grant, everything will not be fine.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home. Thank you to former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra for explaining.

At a time when federal agents are sowing chaos in Chicago, the Trump administration is holding bipartisan funding hostage. It’s attempting to score political points but is instead hurting our economy and the hardworking people who rely on public transit to get to work or school.

Important new FREE study by Amy Brooke Grauley. Experiments show when Christian leaders warn Christians against Christian nationalism, they're less likely to identify with it, especially if they don't have strong views on it yet. Effects are weaker in the opposite direction. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Almost all of them mainline, politically moderate churches. For a number of reasons, not a great thing. These folks tend to be the most cross-pressured politically. The end of such churches will worsen partisan sorting and with it affective polarization. www.axios.com/2025/10/03/u...

This is absolutely horrific. To attack a synagogue and kill people, and that too on Yom Kippur. Vile and inexcusable.

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

This is catastrophically bad.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

The wannabe king is huddling with his fixer to decide which vital services to rip away from Americans. Shutdown or not, Trump admits this is just more of their Project 2025 assault on our government. And these are the people who want a blank check from Congress? Hell no.

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no. Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

It seems pointless even to say this, but the Fourth Amendment does not permit federal agents to kick down every door in an apartment building just because *some* people in that building are allegedly undocumented. Even in the unlikely event they had a warrant, warrants have to be specific.

GOP values at play here.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

"The documents explicitly show that ICE is choosing this product over others offered by the contractor’s competitors because it gives ICE essentially an 'all-in-one' tool for searching both masses of location data and information taken from social media."

Catoggio: Hegseth’s speech to America’s generals was either the “most frightening” or “most embarrassing” moment of the Trump presidency In case you hadn't heard, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned all his military commanders to Washington yesterday and gave them a lecture. Nick Catoggio…

If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Sounds like a recipe for war crimes - or encouragement to commit them. It will potentially make it much harder for the US to fight alongside allies: I remember tortuous debates in NATO in the late 1980s on differing US & allied rules of engagement - & what Hegseth says implies a much bigger gap.

Trump is talking about protests:

There it is. Yet again.

He’s summoned all the US generals from around the globe at great expense to fat shame them

Trump would rather shut down the government than work with us to protect Americans’ health care. But of course he’s eager to use $20 billion of taxpayer money to bail out his authoritarian buddy in Argentina. It's Trump and his cronies first, everyone else, last.

When I was a younger faculty, I kept wavering on whether I should apply for the Rising Star every year. And then when I finally worked up the courage to apply, I was no longer eligible. Lesson here is that you should not miss your shot and just apply! Don’t pray for someone to secretly nominate you!