Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2 171410893
Reposted by Kathryn E. Chaffeemattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN 69216603418
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeGeorgetown CEW @georgetowncew.bsky.social · 08/06/2026“Equal degree attainment does not mean people earn the same. In fact, women need much more education than men to reach the same earnings,” said Jeff Strohl, CEW’s director. bit.ly/4aOgi7F #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd 011
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeFinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I'd rather picture books & children's books where boys just happen to have long hair or a pink coat, or be best friends with a girl who enjoys the same activities as them, or where a monster character is a she rather than a he, or where girls are naughty at school & boys are kind. 1221
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeSociety for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026New #PSPR research explores how men's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are affected by masculinity threats. The strongest consequences emerged when the trigger leads to men themselves concluding their masculinity is inadequate. Read more: ow.ly/LF8o50YMHGV 051
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeSociety for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 15/04/2026The proposed FY2027 budget calls for eliminating NSF's SBE Directorate, which funds 63% of U.S. academic research in social + psychological sciences. SPSP has put together a member action guide with three steps you can take to help advocate for our field. Start here: ow.ly/WIgx50YJU5e 073
Reposted by Kathryn E. Chaffeemarlo @marlo.ooo · 11/04/2026hi if you’re canadian and you hate the horrible LED headlights that are way too bright you have until april 20th (blaze it) to complain to transport canada about it in this surveytc.canada.caCanadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at nightTransport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night. 213461
Kathryn E. Chaffee @chaffeepsych.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Great article from @avial.bsky.social and @adamstanaland.bsky.social about how boys are motivated to avoid femininity by age 5. Their results show that the problematic trend that "masculine" things are cool for everyone but "feminine" things are only for girls/women starts early.theconversation.comGender conformity starts young – and boys and girls fall in line in different waysChildren learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age. 062
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Take, for instance, fields long dominated by women —gender studies & the humanities & social sciences, the disciplines most frequently written off as ‘useless’, or of ‘no value to society’. Unsurprisingly,these are now among the most aggressively targeted. thenoosphere.substack.com/p/anti-intel...thenoosphere.substack.comAnti-Intellectualism Has a Hidden TargetThough it’s increasingly not so hidden anymore 423871
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 28/03/2026we made covid restrictions, not covid, the enemy, success was defined as 'getting back to normal' & in doing so, we missed the opportunity to normalise very lost cost behaviours that would, cumulatively, save a lot of lives 49322
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeErin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Woke professors should fight back on #highered attacks by demanding "viewpoint diversity" among American CEOs. www.nber.org/papers/w30183 #academicsky 03512
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/02/2026I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces. 9566871793
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeCaitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...nytimes.comF.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine 8325154
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeBill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 04/02/2026There are a lot of lies and rage-baiting about immigrants, so from time to time I want to correct the record. 05120
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeSociety for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 03/02/2026New research finds that debunking disinformation works better than prebunking when there is a time delay. Correcting false claims after people encounter them reduced trust in disinformation for at least two weeks across multiple topics. Read more in #PSPB: ow.ly/QE9h50Y7Q7W 0113
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.ms.nowOpinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it. 9478893319
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 19/12/2025this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will 305158303963
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeLora Park @lorapark.bsky.social · 18/12/2025New paper in PSPB on the benefits of giving positive feedback to students, especially from underrepresented groups. Although not the norm in STEM, giving positive feedback boosts self-efficacy and belonging, which increases STEM performance, attitudes, interest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 12716
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeDouglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Remembering when I posted this photo from Glasgow and a guy’s daughter, sheltering from a hurricane in Florida, saw it and drew this amazing sketch to pass the time. My question is, why invest in AI when we have immensely talented humans all around us more in need of investment? 3213
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeRich (Richard) Anderson @richardbanderson.net · 12/12/2025The NEW LIST OF PROHIBITED TERMS . . . www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n... #AcademicSky #BlackSky #8647 174
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/11/2025"Prestige bias" is one of the strongest forms of bias in academia. Reviewers rank paper submissions from top-20 institutions and non-students higher, but this goes away with blinded reviews. haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles... 1287
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Wanna see a visual on the result of the Republican attack on public health? I’ve got you covered. This is from Pew Research Center’s most recent survey, showing a 27% drop in Republican support for school vaccine requirements from 2016-2025. 18327132
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/11/2025Wizened Millennials sneering at Gen Alpha: I told you the old ways are best (Gen X, petting its moldering set of the 1983 World Book Encyclopedia: Soon. Soon.) 911462208
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/11/2025To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034. 12747392184
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/11/2025I should mention this again: Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/search?q=mar... has Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon merchandise where the proceeds go to charity. At this point as far as I know there is no other licensed official merchandise.worldbuildersmarket.comSearch: 16 results found for "martha wells"Worldbuilders Market is the official online shop of Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide. We carry a wide variety of officially licensed merchandise from ... 13260106
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeAngelle Haney Gullett @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 31/10/2025They literally ruin everything they touch 4689003335
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeSam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 31/10/2025This is a correct framework. Generally, environmental factors linked with increased autism risk occur in late pregnancy and include immune response to illness. (But not postnatal, only prenatal) A powerful protection for that is to be vaccinated. 25216
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/10/2025A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives 231031575
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeJson Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 28/10/2025"Correlation is not cognition" as @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social says 22512
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeConrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Gender pay gap S Korea 31% Israel 25% Japan 21% Canada 17% US 17% Mexico 17% UK 15% Germany 14% Turkey 10% France 9% Spain 7% Italy 3% Belgium 1% 69346
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP. 492017993
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 18/09/2025www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caQuebec to stop offering free COVID-19 vaccines to the general population | CBC NewsCOVID-19 vaccines will no longer be free for all Quebecers starting this fall, the province’s Health Ministry announced Wednesday. 123315
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/09/2025When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design. 9448161
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Also, I know it is a small point in the overall march towards fascism, but the idea that gender is performative and a spectrum is backed by science. The *actual* “gender ideology” is being imposed by the folks who insist, against fact and reason, on a strict binary. 227387
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025There are two competing narratives on this: science changed, or Republicans changed. You can figure out for yourself which one is more likely. 31558168
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025A) This is an interesting finding B) It is from a June poll C) Not linking to your sources when sharing poll data is profoundly annoying behavior D) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/... 14689116
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 25/07/2025🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/enpilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.deBasic Income Pilot Project / Study resultsWhat does a universal basic income really achieve? Find the results of the first long-term German study here. 410543
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeMark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The 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 1416573
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeRense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 01/09/2025WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...uu.nlUniversitair docent sociologieWil jij studenten inspireren en vernieuwend onderwijs geven? Versterk ons team als universitair docent met expertise in migratie en/of sociale stratificatie. 03035
Reposted by Kathryn E. Chaffee[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 27/08/2025probably one of the most important lines of empirical research on this topic 2287
Kathryn E. Chaffee @chaffeepsych.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Our paper about gender segregation in both men-dominated AND women-majority fields is now out at Sex Roles! rdcu.be/eAuNQ (doi.org/10.1007/s111...)rdcu.beUnderstanding Occupational Gender Segregation Through Students’ Program Choices and Career Interests 174
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2025This administration has thrown literal grenades at the rickety foundations of American academia, and for some reason, neither the national media nor university administrations are actually talking about as the economic, social, political and cultural threat/crisis it is. What a terrible loss. 619475
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeNelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 13/08/2025This reminds me of this excellent new article that shows how ChatGPT actually increase language anxiety and linguistic insecurity for Chinese international students for found themselves relying on it more and more in ways that took away their voice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comYou don’t need to prove yourself: A raciolinguistic perspective on Chinese international students’ academic language anxiety and ChatGPT useAdopting a raciolinguistic perspective, this study examines the Chinese international students’ anxiety on academic English writing under ChatGPT use … 25629
Reposted by Kathryn E. ChaffeeHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”bloomberg.comAI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in StudyArtificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study. 11152242557
Kathryn E. Chaffee @chaffeepsych.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Watching YouTube videos about fluid dynamics and carefully rearranging fans through my apartment trying to get yesterday's hot air out before it heats up for the day! 010