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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me, to the perpetually-jammed paper towel dispenser in our department's bathroom: "I can fix him!"

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of my favorite foods growing up was my grandmother's "grits au gratin", and it turns out it's just grits and velveeta.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A lot of the time I feel like my whiteness, my relative wealth, and my feminist family have protected me from the worst aspects of patriarchy. But they alone can't give me a field of medical knowledge that knows how to treat my body.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know we scientists have already been tracking all of this, but some parts of it still hit me hard. www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n... Specifically the cuts to funding research on women's health, against the backdrop of how much women have already been left out of our medical knowledge.

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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am a 2nd or 3rd gen academic, and I think it's important to acknowledge the implicit cultural capital I got from that (which was tremendous) AND some perspective is that I have friends who were given their family's business for their careers.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok, I've got everything except the guy on the left

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'd add some extraversion-linked sensation-seeking.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When I was a student in a seminar, a professor once yelled "Steve! Go get a coffee!" at a student who was apparently falling asleep, and he promptly got up and came back 10 minutes later with coffee. Epic moment, I've only dreamed of being such a boss.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I swear, for any foreign names, British people will intentionally pick the wrong pronunciation of "a" vowels.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Exactly-- why even bother faking data when you can just write a bestseller or whip up a multi-level-marketing-adjacent training business?

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I buy the claim that there's a strong career path in clinical psych for people who want attention and money and don't care about doing good science. If anything, I think social psych lacks the PhD-to-guru pipeline option that draws people out without requiring an academic appointment.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Shoutout to all the Midwesterners with HOMES stickers on their trucks, thinking of you rn

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Anybody know what the "Sensitive Geopolitical References" are that Outlook is offering to autocorrect for me? Should I try typing "Gulf of Mexico" and see what happens?

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I sensed that he was going to be the Jason Mendoza of that show

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I was thinking of the gingkos in West Philly! Gingkos/Bradfords gripping hands meme?

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Rotting gingko fruits will one-up those any day.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Claiming that "predicts" implies a causal claim. My turn signal predicts which way I'm going to turn. My turn signal does not cause me to turn.

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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The People's Lobby @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Medicaid is under attack, and we must fight back! Join us, @ericaforil47.bsky.social, and @mcadamsforil24.bsky.social, for a community listening session on how Medicaid changes are impacting our care. 📅 Sat, Aug 8 🕐 12–2:30 PM 📍 Gary United Methodist Church buff.ly/j9ZJLEQ

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Doing learning assessment for courses like research methods is a delight, because you get to see an effect size of d = 4.3 in the wild!

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One time a family member brought a girlfriend to a party who announced she worked for UnitedHealthcare, and I responded "Fuck them!" before I realized what I was doing.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ah how I love being a CTA commuter

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Watching the World Cup Halftime show with folks in Chicago, and when Coach Beard said they needed someone more soulful and held up a sign saying "JB" we all yelled "Pritzker...?!"

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's this, and it also the fact that I will never get clear information about COVID and flu risk in my area, and transplant patients depend on checking drug serial numbers against a ProPublica list to make sure their anti-rejection meds are effective. FDA and CDC cannot do their jobs. Who will?

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Whenever I get a few extra seconds with elected officials in IL, I tell them that what I need from the state is the capacity to pick up where the Fed is failing in terms of tracking outbreaks and monitoring food and drug safety.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I, like many faculty, have been skeptical of FIRE's genuine support for free speech, so I'm pleased to see they're supporting the lawsuit here against DHS for harassing a man for writing a stern email to a DHS official:https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5883784/dhs-ice-critic-lawsuit-free-speech

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Yeah. Since I don't supervise PhD students, this is not my circus, but it is suprising to me that none of the arguments for going test-optional in the first place have been part of the conversations I've been hearing about bringing them back.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

ICE has abducted dozens of people in my area in Chicago in just the past two weeks. I felt some poignancy yesterday when Obama praised the people of Minneapolis for standing up for their neighbors while there are people still doing the same right here.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

They say he was not the same after that.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Still not! It's still just a citation manager!

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Hey Chicago friends! I'm sure you know this, but our healthcare system in the US sucks. My main hobby outside of work is trying to fix that. My group is putting on an amazing community event on Friday 6/12 around this-- you should come! Deatils & RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/healt...

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Care Over Cost: Healing Toward Liberation

5-9 PM: Doors open, snacks, and community art and resources from 6-7:30 PM: Program Join us for an evening of community building as we create power for our campaign for dignified health care for al...

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Having just learned about how ERISA hampers our hard-fought efforts to make insurers pay mental health providers appropriately here in Illinois, I'm looking forward to it.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Grades are submitted. Time to spend the whole summer doing my two special hobbies/unpaid jobs of community organizing and advising research students who've already graduated!

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The People's Lobby @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Medicaid changes will create new challenges in accessing timely, effective care. This gathering is an opportunity to share experiences and learn more about what’s behind these changes. 📅 Sat, June 6 📍 Fountaindale Public Library District ⏰ 12:45–3 PM buff.ly/uCHIi04

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 26/05/2026

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One of my students told me that they wouldn't imagine segregating their friend groups by fashion aesthetics. I question how broad that is, but maybe they don't see aesthetic preferences in general as being linked to identity.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I think students either mistake my questions that ask them to collectively struggle with a difficult idea for an expectation that they provide a perfect response, or they refuse to engage with that effort. I think the latter, since I'll clearly say "This is hard, let's puzzle through it together!"

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@ctaction.org this had better be a zombie bus-- 21 minute headway on a major commute route at 8:30 am?!

Ventra app showing a 21 minute wait for the 2 bus at 8:21 am

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

But I allow all tech in lectures. Our big team-taught class has banned tech in lectures, but I don't think thats appreciably increased engagement, and mostly just means another opportunity for students to feel policed.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It's becoming more common in our department. I've really like it in seminars for increasing how present students are. For more introductory seminars, it was clearly necessary to keep students from using AI to generate things to say in discussion.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Yep, that's what we had at Sarah Lawrence and I loved it. But class sizes were capped at 15 and teaching load was 2/2 max.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

So it's a balance between making the authors wait an additional few months *just to find reviewers* and potentially accidentally having more reviewers than necessary. Which do you want as an author?

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yeah, but this massively increases the timeline for reviewing because in my experience person 1 never responds, and so we wait until the system times them out (over two weeks) before contacting person 2, who might also leave us on read.

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Alysson Light @alylight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I may have called his DC office and told him I'd advocate for primarying him after I saw this...

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