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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

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Christian A. Meissner @cameissner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“The time to act is now. The scientific community needs to flood OMB with responses during the public comment period, open until 13 July. Universities and associations must speak out…”

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 14/02/2026

The drawing Kamilla made at Dilley while I spoke to her parents over Zoom this week. It shows her near the lone tree that stands on the detention center’s grounds, butterflies fluttering around it — one of the few places, her mother said, where children sometimes see something alive and colorful.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 14/02/2026

What’s it like to celebrate your 12th birthday in an immigrant detention center? No cake. No presents. No party. Kamilla’s parents told me they planned to buy their daughter a pack of M&Ms — among the only sweets available in the commissary — and pray they get out soon. Please read their story:

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'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention

A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/01/2026

Get in, dorks. We're ready for round two. RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊ March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (link in our bio.)

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Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"“Liam is all the kids there." Powerful and disturbing report from @mikehixenbaugh.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.

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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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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.

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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

“The quiet power of program officers lies not in control, but in care. Care for the science, for the people who conduct it, and for the public it is meant to serve.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

José Andrés really is one of the absolute best Americans.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A great post from @djnavarro.net, providing an accessible explanation of why statistics that can appear to reveal our ignorance may actually do the opposite. Makes excellent use of #datavis to provide visual support for the argument. blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

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Some notes on probability judgement – Notes from a data witch

For the love of fuck, literally nobody thinks that 20% of the population is transgender. Please stop sharing that ridiculous YouGov statistic

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This was very clever: After collecting fines from speed cameras, Stockholm ran a lottery where non-speeding drivers could win the money. www.wired.com/2010/12/swed...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

And we each must have something that keeps us fueled through this— something that nourishes the deep parts of us. Could be meditation or prayer. Could be making art or cooking, long walks in trees— hell, parenting will do it if you show up with the right lens. Concrete ideas & suggestions here:

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fortify inside

why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide

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Rock The Bells @rockthebells.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is such a beautiful thread and was so exactly what I meant, and I'm so over the moon that it was helpful in any way-- and here are some other ideas if you want some:

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fortify inside

why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I've got two new poems in an absolute banger of a double issue of July/August POETRY, along w/luminaries like Kevin Young, Danez Smith, Carey Salerno, Joanna Klink, & a folio from Wang Ping of Chinese poets following the Yellow & Yangtze Rivers from their headwaters. Full issue here:

Shiftless (Day off that begins with James Tate & ends with Charles Wright)

The wind makes a salad
Of the countryside & we still refuse

To learn each other's last names. You get
What you pay-what-you-can-for, is all. Love

Is not the thief love is still choosing to sleep
In the house the night after the thief

Has robbed it. Money burning
A hole in my tip jar. My kiltered love

Like a window AC leaking off
A second-floor sill. Almost everything

I can touch is an artifact I will have wanted
To've preserved as proof it all happened

Just this way. Sweet family meal—wave
Me down, however many seconds

It takes, the quiet *Mississippi* between
Them. Definition of prayer: let the perfect be

The memory of the good. If all you
Have is scissors, everything looks like

It's hanging by a thread. Our days, these
Peonies are so brief & bound as fists.

When everyone shuts it down is when
We clock in. *All explorers must die of heartbreak.*

$Brunch Shift We burn in daylight but we love the dogs until they Become stardust again. Like all dogs do, they love us Better. Small trash in our front yards as we leave, soft pack Wrapper, drugstore receipt. Like stardust our life is penciled In, imagines itself forward only as a name a day On a schedule. Noon is the loneliest number sing The sparrow & I've got my bloodshot eye on him. Jolt On the timecard like setting a fractured bone. Sweetheart, Praise the checkered kitchen floor, still sticking To its late-night story. Marry the ketchups & loosen The tin caps on all the salts. How many hungry girls Until the mourning dove tries to make the last train Home. The math of what to leave us: move the decimal To the left & then double it. Then swallow it. Then cough It up until it's not the cup that's bottomless. The filter Is what keeps my mouth & two fingers from turning To ash right along w/the cig when I inhale. Too many Of us will measure out our hours here In smoke. I swear it'll be funnier when it happens If you think I've been joking. I was above all Waiting for your fondness, the softest punch Of light like pushing a pill through its foil packet.$

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/06/2025

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

slate.com

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness

This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

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Jen Woolard @jlwoolard.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Showing a gun to intimidate a six-year-old? Beyond monstrous.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort

Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

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Grey @mgreys.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Sunday thoughts. ☕️

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"If we only fight because we think we’ll win, we aren’t going to last as long as we’re needed." I appreciated so much a work colleague sharing this today.

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What U.S. v. Skrmetti Did, What It Didn’t Do, and What It Can Never Do

There is going to be a lot of catastrophizing today. We lost U.S. v. Skrmetti, one of the biggest transgender civil rights cases of our…

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 11/06/2025

Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⤵️

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What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid?

Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Floridas’s child-welfare agency — in a reversal of a 30-year policy — is now willing to turn minors over to ICE. This 17-year-old was taken from his foster home in handcuffs and shackles. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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Florida child welfare agency calls ICE on teen migrant in foster care, sparking criticism

‘If this is a policy decision, it is a huge deal.’

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Scientists saved lives. The village was evacuated a week ago. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social will go down in history. It is the cry of a nation going down in flames. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

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Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Posted this afternoon. Masked ICE agents arresting immigrants at their court hearings in Dallas.

Cristina Salazar Law

CONFIRMED: ICE agents in Dallas Immigration Court are detaining people as soon as they exit the courtroom.
WHO: If your case is dismissed by the government attorney or judge AND you have been here less than 2 years.
WHY: If you have been here less than two years, ICE can then use the "Expedited Removal" process to detain and remove you from the U.S.

WHAT CAN YOU DO: Depending on your case, do not agree to get your case dismissed if you have been here less than two years, request a date for an individual hearing on your claim (most are requesting asylum).* Go to your hearing with an attorney or a trusted family member.

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR: ICE agents are arriving undercover, masked, in jeans, and hang out in groups of 2-3. They will be hanging out in the hallways.

I personally observed three arrests today, with no warrant and no identification by the ICE agents.

*Please speak to an attorney or BIA accredited representative before making your decision on whether you should decline or agree to a dismissal.

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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"No trial can be fair that leaves a person with mental illness alone before a court." A counsel-appointed program for detained immigrants with mental health needs and cognitive disabilities has been gutted. Providers say people will languish in detention and be deported without a fighting chance.

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Trump's DOJ stripped lifeline legal services from the most vulnerable detained immigrants

"Without a lawyer, people don't have a prayer. They don't have a chance in hell."

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 07/05/2025

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle

After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

this is so bleak treatments of cystic fibrosis are a perfect example of basic research (by Francis Collins as an assistant professor) that moved forward to save so many lives

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Drawn 6 years go today. It was rejected and called unfair and alarmist.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

DOGE appears to have ordered a 50% cut in the budget of the National Science Foundation, leading its director, appointed by Trump in his first term, to resign. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy

“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

you can find things to quibble with in every Francis piece, but I picked this one to share because I feel like everything everyone is saying about him boils down to this: he was a Jesuit, through & through. I'll remember the times he made the church feel just a little bit bigger, if not big enough.

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Pope Francis, trailblazing Jesuit with a heart for the poor, dies at 88

When the cardinals voted to elect Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the 265th successor of St. Peter on the evening of March 13, 2013, few of them imagined what kind of pope he would be.

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