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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 3h

My First Genius: Michael Woodford, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, at Fourteen Years Old barbarakerr2.substack.com/publish/post...

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 4h

I am so proud of what he has accomplished. And he started me on a fifty-year long career in developing the talent and full potential of extraordinarily gifted young people.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 4h

It wasn't working out for him at OSU, where he was asked to work on Battelle defense contracts despite his pacifist leanings. I helped him to apply to University of Chicago for a broader education. He just wanted to be a college student taking lots of courses in psychology.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 4h

Michael Woodford, the newest Nobel Prize winner in Economics, was my first genius. As a grad assistant for the Honors College at the Ohio State University, I was assigned to be a mentor to a 14 year old who had been admitted to Physics but estranged from his family.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 9h

Peter Birkenhead "Of course it’s no surprise that David Brooks is calling out Jon Ossof for calling Nazis Nazis. David Brooks is the kind of guy who would scold you for eating babies with the wrong fork."

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are feminists and anti-racists in evo psych and they need support.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

shareholder value notwithstanding

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

in retrospect, letting people who hate society and social life run society and dictate the shape of social life was a stupid thing to do

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It seems like an eternity since Charles Pierce wrote "then comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon..." Yet these are the words I still say to myself when I see him appear on stage with his empty, reptilian eyes. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

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This Vicious Buffoon Is a Vessel for All the Worst Elements of the American Condition

Donald Trump, American president*, disgraces his office once more.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nope. Living will executed. Unplug the ventilator. Last rites. Picking out the urn.

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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.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is that a seagull on Melania's shoulder? Someone should shoo it away.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would say we must do something about Tammany Hall. And express concern that a maid named Mary is spreading typhoid. And insist on being called Mrs. Astor.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am glad I was here for this, but sorry for you.

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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 · 19/09/2026

I was falsely cited for a journal article I wish I had written!

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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 · 10/09/2026

You know how much I agree with this!!

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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 · 03/09/2026

this is why we call it the Chronicle Against Higher Education

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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

I am so sorry this happened to you. I remember the feeling of being pleased to be cited, and then surprised at the Borg-like assimilation of my ideas.

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

Just as Trump will never be classy, Douthat will never, ever be cool, and unlike Trump, he knows it. This is the source of his confused rage.

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

Of course, this assumes that trainees know parts of speech.

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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 · 29/07/2026

Will scientists PLEASE stop using mindset, which has little effect on motivation.

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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 · 27/07/2026

I'm a therapist but is it ok to say I don't want them as clients?

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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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