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Nerdy psychologist | “Any decent society has to be built on trust and love, and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things...to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.” ― Myles Horton
- Reposted by nerdpsycheI took this picture with one hand while holding a tricycle and rushing to the car and it turned out perfect somehow. #nature #photography #flowers #summer
- Reposted by nerdpsycheTrump's fake order that will do nothing to cut drug prices was an obvious attempt to distract from a very real assault on Medicaid. Perhaps I'm a Pollyanna, but I don't think it works. Because people can and do notice what they pay for health care. www.politico.com/live-updates...
- Reposted by nerdpsycheAnd about 30% of the US population The math ain’t mathing
- EEOC accuses Harvard of discriminating against white men The evidence? White men were: 64% of Harvard tenured positions in 2013 56% of Harvard tenured positions in 2023 {aside: proud to have contributed to this 8 pp drop} www.chronicle.com/article/facu...
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Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care. - Reposted by nerdpsyche“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration” @policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
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- Reposted by nerdpsycheAn extraordinary story about how scientists in the US are afraid to speak up as the entire science research ecosystem is demolished at the hands of the Republican administration. Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?
- “The lived experience of a scientist right now is terrifying” My colleague Warren Cornwall spoke to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, @rebekahtromble.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social and others about “the fear and self-censorship coursing through the nation’s scientific establishment today”. 🧪
- Reposted by nerdpsycheTrying to understand whether, why, when, and how to take a public stand? It's scary, and difficulty — particularly the how part. I found @philipncohen.com's recent book extremely useful in this regard, for social scientists and natural scientists alike. cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...
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- Reposted by nerdpsycheThe President is explicitly and specifically barred from personally taking foreign payments in our Constitution. Shame on every single person in Congress who, with the duty to defend our Constitution, chooses to abandon us.
- Reposted by nerdpsycheYou can be evicted for: calling 911 too many times; being wrongly accused of shoplifting; having a son with a disability who needs help; being a victim of domestic violence. This is "crime-free housing" in America. A searing, crucial investigation by Sidnee King Pineda:
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- Reposted by nerdpsycheThis kicker is the whole ball game. This is why we cannot rely solely on talking about the ROI of universities to explain its value. Why we have to actually talk about the ways higher ed can be an active force for cultural uplift. That integration is one of the raisons d'être of US higher ed.
- My new piece is up, though behind a paywall. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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- Reposted by nerdpsyche🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest. E.g.: --Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants) --Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate) A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵
- Reposted by nerdpsycheLinocut by contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt
- Reposted by nerdpsycheIn response to a lawsuit filed by organic farmers--represented by @earthjustice.org and @knightcolumbia.org--the USDA has agreed to restore data sets and webpages that it purged illegally. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/c...
- Reposted by nerdpsycheTrump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.” Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
- Reposted by nerdpsycheIllinois Gov. JB Pritzker plans to sign an executive order preventing state agencies from obtaining or disclosing data that personally identifies people with autism, unless required for medical care or legal matters. “Every Illinoisan deserves ... the freedom to live without fear of surveillance.”
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- Reposted by nerdpsycheIt is an understatement to call these acts of censorship and violations of academic freedom “culture wars.” The Trump administration is determining what can be taught, dictating what students can read, saying what ideas are acceptable, and disallowing inconvenient facts and texts.
- Pete Hegseth’s culture war hits West Point. Books banned, syllabuses scrubbed, two professors resign in protest, the librarian quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
- Reposted by nerdpsyche“Imposing high tariffs is good and will make us prosperous” and “Lowering those high tariffs is good and will make us prosperous” is very “We have always been at war with Oceania.”
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- Reposted by nerdpsyche"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. Woolf's writing table by photographer Gisèle Freund #WomensArt
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- Reposted by nerdpsycheLaura Boswell, contemporary printmaker based in Scotland specialising in wild landscape and coastal prints in linocut & woodblock
- Reposted by nerdpsycheTo celebrate, why not read the op-ed she was jailed for weeks over, co-signed by dozens of her peers www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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- Reposted by nerdpsycheBy slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades: propub.li/3RZzqHP 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
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- Reposted by nerdpsycheWhat we're seeing is an all fronts war on objective knowledge. This administration is trying to warp reality to fit with their ideological priors, and this requires purging anyone or anything that produces contradictory facts: researchers, scientists, data collection, universities, etc. 1/x
- Many problems w/ firing the librarian of Congress and presumably seeking to install some stooge. But one that's most alarming is the Congressional Research Service. They do a ton of good and important work, a big resource for both members and others. Corrupting and purging CRS would be catastrophic.
- Reposted by nerdpsychewhat is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”
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- Reposted by nerdpsycheMembers of Congress were also there, but were not arrested. One reason why? It's literally illegal for DHS to bar any member of Congress from entering an immigration detention facility for the purposes of conducting oversight.
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- Reposted by nerdpsycheThey did not storm a facility. Nor were they protesting. They were doing their jobs.
- Reposted by nerdpsycheWhat is happening at FEMA? Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation," says one.
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- Reposted by nerdpsyche🚨New Bright Line Watch report on the state of US democracy -Democracy ratings ↓ w/experts & public, including Rs -Performance ↓ in numerous areas such as free speech/press, abuse of government powers -Faculty report academic freedom decline & self-censorship brightlinewatch.org/threats-to-d... 🧵
- Reposted by nerdpsycheWhat we witnessed was a political kidnapping of an elected official and I don't know what more to say than that.
- Reposted by nerdpsycheThankful that Rumeysa is free. Thankful that she is alive.
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- Reposted by nerdpsyche**** Judge Sessions GRANTS BAIL/RELEASE to Rümeysa Öztürk: "The court finds that [Rümeysa Öztürk's] continued detention cannot stand."
- Reposted by nerdpsycheJudge Sessions: Third Mapp factor: necessary to make habeas claim effective. Detention is further restriction of Öztürk's First Amendment and due-process rights. Meanwhile, detention "further chills the speech of millions and millions" noncitizens through out the country.
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