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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TOP TEN MANUSCRIPTS THAT WILL BE DEFINITELY BE PUBLISHED IN A HIGH IMPACT JOURNAL

A list of 10 ways to get published: sex differences, blaming mom for attachment disorder, new impact factor, effects of hard work, smart people not really smart, entrepreneurs good, fMRI pix of anything, achievement despite disability, workbooks for SNAP, and genius teachers.

ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The whole TV top 100 thing put me in a bad mood. Mean- spirited shows seemed to be ascendant. Station 11 and other hope punk shows rarely chosen.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/09/2026

They’re about two weeks away from telling people they can always eat bugs

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Democracy Unite @democracyunite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will support any Democrat willing to take over leadership in the Senate and House who will 100% follow the leadership instruction attached here. No more playing nice with Republican Nazi Party. Time to hold them accountable for their crimes and allowing trump to get away with his criminal acts.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s more to be said about the relationship between Pinker-style stardom and the state of academia. Not because academia is Woke, but because star systems loosen rigor at the top while solid scholarship becomes a dead end lower down. Shoddy celebrities and broke PhDs proceed from the same machine

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Imagine a suited up, lipsticked academic me and a portly, diabetic prof going to the Pentagon to plead for a post 9/11 program for linguistically gifted youth to learn critical languages and understand the cultures with which we are at war. barbarae1e.substack.com/p/barb-and-s...

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Barb and Sandy’s Trip to the Pentagon

When We Pitched a Program for Gifted Linguists at the Beginning of the War in Afghanistan

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have just one thing to say about Labor Day. If you receive pay for the work you do, you are a worker. Big salary, cash, or tips, you are a WORKER, and Labor Day is for you.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Why can't we as a nation bring a class action suit against Trump for like... everything?

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As a researcher, a teacher, and an editor, the most important question I ever asked was, "Whose voice is missing?" That question led to a lifetime of discovering genius in hidden places.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is what can be done to rein in the court.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I want to be like Wendell Berry. When I sat by my pond tonight, I just fretted about the algae and pond weed taking over. Walking through the pasture, I cursed all the stinging nettles. What if I just enjoyed the peace of wild things as they just strive quietly, persistently, to live?

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hi, I'm a little dun mare doing well in training and walking calmly until that cedar branch snapped and hit my butt.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This marks a tremendous advance in understanding of the linguistic variables that mark adolescent risk. When training psychologists, I often asked them to evaluate how their clients used language -- not just focusing on the content. Pronouns, verb tense, prepositions often described processing.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'll bet every educator, psychologist, and researcher who LOVES mindset theory didn't make it into their school's gifted program.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

and he's interviewing David Brooks.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I dunno, you could look for their forever chemicals and nuclear accidents... or the sapient dinosaurs' version of rubber duckies.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Democratic Socialists! They make me want to hug them they make me want to kiss them they make me want to write bad checks!

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Kitt 🌻 @yotenotes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#jimothy is #antifa Made a new sign out of trash because I sold my old one!

A handmade sign, the base is a plasticore for sale sign. Torn newspaper sale ads have been layered on top. A cute cartoon raccoon with very odd proportions has been drawn in black sharpie on brown cardboard and cut out and pasted in the lower right corner. In the upper left a little cardboard cutout reads "jimothy says..." And then painted in all caps " EAT TRASH FIGHT FASH" with a little painted raccoon paw print in the lower left corner. The painted black letters are accented with red posca marker to make them stand out a bit better against the busy background.

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 16/07/2026

If only a dedicated group of scientists had warned us about the record heat, torrential flooding, continental scale wildfires, and apocalyptic orange skies

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Most people I know could not name the person whose Project 2025 and whose actions to implement it have destroyed science, higher education, justice for minoritized people, and individual freedom.

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Centrist panic is because Mamdani is sitting there in office saying we can have nice things while the likes of Brooks and Chait have built lucrative careers and unearned prominence on saying we can't.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I doubt that capital punishment would continue if every citizen had a chance of being chosen to do the deed, just like jury duty. Some people seem to like the vicarious thrill of an execution, but don't want to be the one to do it.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Worried that Trump’s speech might piss off Khrushev and we will all have to duck and cover.

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Angry Uncle Sam @angryunclesam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This Fourth of July, celebrate real American heroes like Jack Smith.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just an ugly boulder atop a mountain of Trump corruption, this one disgusts me the most.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I love these guys, but I'm dreading the related chores in the Kansas heat and humidity.

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 28/06/2026

Algeria did it ethically for all the Jayhawks in attendance

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Imagine being a person for whom other humans aren't real.

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David Partington @davidpartington.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

'Midsummer,' by Edward Robert Hughes, 1908

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/06/2026

Photoshop that shows Trump and the lawnmower kid standing in the green reflecting pool. Trump is yelling at the kid. They're both submerged up to their knees in the green water. Original pool photo by Graeme Sloan; original Trump/kid photo from Getty.

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Zacharydideas @zacharygg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This Mark Rothko painting reminds me of something.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Reading evolutionary psychology and game theory for my work on everyday freedom. The stupidest theories seem to emerge when the authors are all men. The focus on individual vs. group fitness; with "mating" success to make babies vs caring success getting them to adulthood are examples.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So nice that the Masters of the Universe have a little club. A bit of an overlap with Epstein's club. As usual, the psychologists they choose to listen to are super creepy.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

New York City, this is so much better than Pizza Rat.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

At least this Temu horse wouldn’t be asking for cake all the time.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/06/2026

NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This picture represents the ruins of our democracy, environment, education, health, and security.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I dream of the day when we can sing an ode to joy.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I can understand why academics are re-posting this. It sums up the transition from university to neoliberal institution.

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