Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

In addition to posting plants and puppies, I also mentor students interested in personality pathology. My lab is recruiting a graduate student in clinical or personality psychology for Fall 2026. So please send folks my way. Feel free to share! Thanks.

If curious about what a virtual Disability Justice 101 workshop from me looks like, here are the slides I used for tonight's hour-long event, so if your organization could benefit from this learning, please know this disabled sociologist could use more paid work! 🫂🫂🫂 docs.google.com/presentation...

Tonight, we did a group reading of this poem among 3 folx alternating by stanza, & it was such a beautiful moment! 🥹

Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep More info in the link!! Please retweet!

Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.

*sigh*

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

Turns out the group had never delved into that discussion, but the participants expressed admiration for both Nikki Giovanni & Maya Angelou, so they were receptive. I have since found this, which makes me think this will be fertile ground for writing very soon! ✨ www.essence.com/celebrity/co... 2/2

I maxed out my FSA this year and I’m down to the end of those coins. It’s… BAD.

One of my friends told me because I refuse to “look like what I’m going through” PPL will always assume I’m okay. And now I’m thinking back to that whole thing Tressie did about “looking poor”. Exactly how sick do I need to look to convey how fucked I am physiologically RN?

Some resources referenced on the show: Block & Build, but make it abolitionist! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al... And the soon to be updated Mapping Community Ecosystems of Collective Care: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

NEW: This candidate is challenging an AIPAC Democrat in LA. Now she has backing from Justice Democrats. They’re betting they can beat Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who got more than $ 1 million from AIPAC and crypto the last time he faced a primary theintercept.com/2025/09/04/a...

The psych job market isn’t dead! Join us at UIC!!! We are looking for a clinical psychologist (assistant or associate level)!! Chicago is simply the best, and the department is incredibly lovely! I’m not on search committee, but as the “newest” hire, I’m happy to talk about my experience thus far!

Y'all, I had to start a wait list for my September online #AcademicWriting group — so you should look through all the OTHER options here, including free hosted co-writing groups that meet weekly on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday ...

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year! Links below: Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903 Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989 Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

Amazing opportunity to be a colleague with one my favorite people who is doing some of the coolest clinical science @shirleybwang.bsky.social ! Encourage everyone to apply!

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

As Chicago braces for immigration raids, the Chicago Teachers Union is urging Chicago Public Schools to be ready to offer online learning options for families who choose to keep their children at home for fear of being targeted. trib.al/1UNKmx3

Black American identity is situated so firmly in the US because after 400 years we can be from everywhere, nowhere, or from here. You pick what suits you. The story of America is one of slavery, genocide and colonization. And even if you erase the books you can't erase the blood.

Getting rid of vaccine mandates for kids while cutting Medicaid and also going after the federal Department of Education means there will be more disabled kids with less structure to help them with infection-triggered disabilities.

We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

Occasionally I find a poster in a window or a sticker on a mirror reminding everyone to do their part to fight the virus’s spread as “we keep each other safe,” and I’m pleased someone forgot to take these down for too many of us have forgotten that we keep each other safe

I called my members if Congress asking them to demand removal of RFK Jr as HHS secretary. Have you?

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We! Are! Hiring! The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26 More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572 #blackademia #academia #PhDSky

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I often think about Imani Perry saying “I’m not surprised but I am horrified.” That really is it.

Kids deserve better.

This was written in 2012, right after Sandy Hook. Everything should have changed after that day, or on so many days before and after. Nothing HAS changed. Our Moloch forbids it! www.nybooks.com/online/2012/...

Per the CDC, physical inactivity and mental illness puts people at severe risk of Covid complications. These are wide categories (though wish it was just open to everyone in this approval).

Biomedical research isn't a YouTube video, you cannot hit pause for an indefinite period of time and then hit play whenever the regime wants. Samples are destroyed, labs dismantled, scientists leave...

I'm nearly 30 and, as a postdoc, still considered a trainee. What are we supposed to do when the government essentially says that you spent 3 decades training for a career that shouldn't exist? I don't know how you can recommend people study biology at this point, especially at higher levels.

If you've been waiting for a propitious moment in the current conjuncture to buy "Fake Work" from @haymarketbooks.org ymarketbooks, this is it, folks: 40% off for the next two days. Thanks to everyone who's already purchased, we've just sold out our initial print run. More soon!

Not a thing more American then a group of grown ass men in media and policy watching a Black woman’s voice be stolen right in front of them For doing what no one else would And just continuing to “raise awareness”

These findings highlight the urgent need for: • Schools & healthcare providers to screen for race-related stress. • Culturally responsive interventions that support girls of color navigating puberty. • Policies that confront structural racism in childhood settings.

📢New Publication Alert 📢 ✅ Bottom line: Puberty isn’t just biological. For Black & Latinx girls, it can open a window of vulnerability to racism—with consequences for health & well-being. Read the full article in Journal of Adolescent Health: authors.elsevier.com/a/1le2I,Nz%7...

Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle! There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally. u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...

For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.

After a slow start, the U.S.’s summer COVID-19 wave is now clearly taking off, with cases increasing nationwide according to all metrics. Read this week's full COVID-19 trends report from @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social: bit.ly/4lj3sCC

Here's the letter that NSF sent UCLA last week about cutting its research funding NSF says UCLA is doing affirmative action by asking applicants' their zip codes, family income and what HS they went to, and that they can discuss race in personal statements storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here are the first areal photos of Trump's immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso. The first detainees started arriving on Friday. Here is my quick rundown of what we know about the site.

shit continues to unfold at St. Agatha y’all —parents pulling their kids en masse —teachers resigning —lemonade stand over the weekend raised $1500 for LGBTQ rights —protest outside Mass got spicy —cowardly priest flailing, desperate to pass buck to Archbishop Sample —the mood is EXPLOSIVE

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

Google Glass is to glassholes as Meta Ray-bans are to…?

Oddly they don’t wear them for a virus still killing & disabling far quicker than smoke.

Mask up and sanitize!

COVID-19 cases are climbing in parts of the US, with rising wastewater levels and ER visits. Updated vaccines are 45% effective for older adults, but uptake remains low, 23% of adults and just 5.6% of young children are vaccinated. #IDsky #MEDsky Read more: www.contagionlive.com/view/rising-...

I'm just going to put this out there, but frankly now is not the time to have a disability or new permanent health condition. Covid can cause both of those things in a shockingly high percentage of people who get it. Each infection increases the risks. Really good time to mask up if you aren't.

Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/g... via @statnews.com

🎯👇 to bookmark and share widely as levels in US, Canada, and some European countries are going back up...