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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#AnInconvenientWoman comes out next Tuesday, 9/29! Check out this short video by Dr. Tim Johnson on the roots of Lillian Smith’s compassion & beliefs about civil rights:

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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is book release day!!! So thrilled that An Inconvenient Woman is finally out after years of research & writing. Thanks to everyone who has ordered or told their library to order - I truly appreciate you!♥️♥️♥️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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An Inconvenient Woman

A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

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New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Good thread for folks affected by the OSF change

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Wow. I kicked ass on it, but this is the equivalent to videos that white nationalists were posting of themselves drinking milk. Cringe.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.

“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”

She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

“In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.

Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Heck, I bet Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social would even approve of Kelce county or Mahomes county :) Anyone but SCOTUS abomination Roger Taney. Someone in Missouri needs to get this legislation moving. Thank you! @piperformissouri.bsky.social this feels like a thread you would appreciate! :)

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As far as I’m aware, Taney County Missouri may be one of the last entities in the country still paying honor to him. I think the good folks of Branson should think of a better name for that county — pay tribute to a Missourian who deserves it. How about Truman County? Kit Bond? Even John Ashcroft?

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A Maryland middle school named after Taney was renamed after Thurgood Marshall (outstanding) in 1993! www.washingtonpost.com/archive/loca...

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P.G. COUNTY REPLACES TANEY WITH MARSHALL

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

And here’s the kicker — Taney the Chief Justice was derided *in his own time* by his peers who rightly judged the Dred Scott decision to be terrible. In recent years, statues and busts of him have been removed from the US Capitol and the Maryland State House grounds. www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1...

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Congress votes to remove a bust of the Dred Scott decision's author from the Capitol

The bill calls for replacing the bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the decision upholding slavery, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the high court.

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As best I can tell, Taney the SCOTUS Chief Justice never visited Missouri. He became CJ in 1836 and Taney County (pronounced with a long A like stain, which he is) was incorporated the next year. That’s it. No good reason for it to be named after him. www.taneycounty.org/index.php?se...

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County History - Taney County, MO

Taney County, Missouri government website. The place to find out about all the services the County has to offer!

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Well, it wasn’t until listening to @notalawyer.bsky.social , @aywarhiannon.bsky.social , and @fleerultra.bsky.social talk about this case that I got to wondering… is this idiot Roger Taney possibly connected to Taney County Missouri, home of Branson? Turns out: yes!

Official image of Taney County Missouri, showing a steamboat on a lake or river

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Taney (which he pronounced with an “ah” sound, like fawn) lived his whole life in Maryland and never stepped foot in Missouri, AFAIK. As a native of Springfield who also attended college at Missouri State, and had many childhood trips to Silver Dollar City, I have many fond memories of SW Missouri.

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Five-four is one of my favorite podcasts, as an armchair Supreme Court nerd, and they are doing a series on the worst SCOTUS decisions. Dred Scott is easily at the top of that list — and its indefensible ruling (that Black Americans can never be citizens) was authored by Chief Justice Roger Taney.

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What does this ugly cuss have to do with American racism, country music, and southwest Missouri? A short thread brought to you by a recent episode of the Five-Four podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social !

Mouth breathing racist and Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney, author of the abominable Dred Scott decision

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Amy Needham @amyneedham.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I am guest editing a special issue of Behavioral Sciences on The Emergence of Tool Use In the First Years of Life. Send us your research on tool use in the early years, including in children with disabilities. Submissions due March 5, 2027. Please share widely!

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Jessica Sommerville @jessicas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#ICIS2026: Terrific symposium this morning on the motivations underlying persistence in infants and toddlers with @gracewujiameisun.bsky.social @jaeminhwang.bsky.social @francescopoli.bsky.social @amyneedham.bsky.social

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Enjoyed your talk on visual foraging in infants at #icis2026!

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Just made my voting cheat sheet and was happy to write your name on it! :)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Every publication should publish the names and outlets of the people who attend tonight because most of us will want to be sure we never make the mistake of listening to them again.

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Children and Screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Host Kris Perry dives into the “digital exposome” with Ran Barzilay, MD, PhD, in the NEW episode of #ScreenDeep. Tune in to hear about how researchers are beginning to measure and quantify online environmental factors in child health and more. Listen NOW: bit.ly/4tVGhUe

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I had a bigger crowd in my 3pm psych class 😂

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My big moment has arrived. 😂 it’s a great day to be a GA Bulldawg!

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This was a great conversation, thank you! Going to check out your pod

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Having a very Gen Alpha moment in my lab this morning as two undergrads figure out together how to create a folder in Google Drive. “Wait, what do you mean, right click? Is that like two fingers? Oh my gosh!” 😂

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a woman holding a plate of food with the words you just fold it in

Alt: a woman holding a plate of food with the words you just fold it in (meme from schitts creek tv show)

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The same one where Mecca is permitted in a game that allegedly doesn’t allow proper nouns. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (rules? What rules?)

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Georgia gov Brian Kemp and his wife Marty campaigned on stopping child trafficking. Kemp has signed several pieces of legislation and Marty has also worked on it for ~10 years. Has anyone seen either of them comment about the Epstein files? @bluestein.bsky.social ? Maybe I missed something?

Photo of Brian kemp and his wife signing legislation about human trafficking. They have seemingly been silent about the Epstein files.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/02/2026

This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This was a super interesting (and disconcerting) discussion. Surveillance cameras have been a big conversation topic at UGA / in Athens since a particular high profile murder last year.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This is insane. Brooks says everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows. Then the host asks him what it shows and he refuses to answer. “Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems." From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

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We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I’ve never regretting nuking my account there.

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Great ideas on both. I’ve been doing oral presentations in my smaller classes but it takes a lot of class time.

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I’m a big podcast listener and just came across this one: great conversation and @americancampus.bsky.social is now jumping up in my queue

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Raise your hand if you’re doing more in-class writing and activities on paper and the whiteboard.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 08/01/2026

You're going to hear a lot of lies about what the law allows after the Trump Regime's murder of Renee Good. States can prosecute federal officers, they've been doing it since the 1800s. Trump cannot stop it and cannot pardon it. Here's the legal analysis www.patreon.com/posts/147687...

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Minnesota Can & Must Prosecute the Unnamed ICE Agent Who Murdered Renee Good | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @handle.invalid · 31/12/2025

This is the technology our schools are encouraging our children to use.

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Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

“What the driver was or wasn't doing with her vehicle is irrelevant; so are the ICE agent's feelings about it. The agents never had to be clustered around the woman's vehicle in the first place. They never had to try to extract her from it.“

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ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector

On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

One of several reasons that I require students to turn in the actual PDF of the study they are reading /citing with most of my upper level writing assignments. Relatedly, so discouraged today to learn that folks are using AI to grade student papers. Seems unethical to feed LLMs with student work!

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The Economist @economist.com · 29/11/2025

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

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Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening

Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I had a student protest a grade in a class and allege religious discrimination in the process, and that earned an automatic bump to an EOO office investigation. I was cleared, and it didn’t become national news, but it was still super stressful. Departments & grad coordinators need to have plans.

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