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Kala Melchiori

@kmelchiori.bsky.social
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she/her Social psychologist at JMU studying confrontation & how people respond to bias. Mom. Quilter. Bi 🏳️‍🌈. WV born, living in VA. Posts reflect my thoughts as a private citizen.

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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We are searching for an Academic Unit Head for the Department of Psychology at James Madison University. Review begins on 10/31/2025; please share with your colleagues who may be interested! jobs.jmu.edu/.../academic.... #AcademicJobs #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
A flier for the Academic Unit Head position for the Department of Psychology at James Madison University
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Talked with a lively table of first time attendees at breakfast! #SPSSICON25
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
JMU Psychology is hiring for an Instructional Faculty position to begin Fall 2025. Review begins June 4. Please share widely with any interested parties! jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/one-yea... #AcademicJobs #PsychJobs
Ad describing a one-year Instructional Faculty position at James Madison University
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Motherhood is political. Motherhood is healthcare and benefits and unpaid labor. Motherhood is education and advocacy and access. Motherhood is work policies and housing and community resources. Motherhood is political. Motherhood is human rights. Motherhood is radical. Happy Mother’s Day
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Deep breaths. We persist. www.breezejmu.org/news/jmu-eli...
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JMU eliminates DEI
JMU’s Board of Visitors approved a resolution to dismantle Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion during Friday’s meeting — a motion which “resolved that the university's Division of Diversity, E...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A researcher just lost their grant funding because their work might help understand why people are hesitant about vaccines.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks. now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
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Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Why It’s Important to Talk about Race with Children
Children start learning about race and racism as early as preschool. Talking about race early, however difficult, will help them become more antiracist
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
What books/websites/resources do you recommend for students interested in organizing on campus?
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance
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OSF
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Language matters. Guantanamo Bay is a concentration camp. Elon did a Nazi salute. The Trump administration is facist. Be accurate. Use the words.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It is ok to not have all the answers right now. Showing up counts. Small acts count. Checking on others counts. Surviving counts.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 29/01/2025
Make them tell you, specifically, what you're not allowed to do. Don't make changes you guess that they want. Don't offer them a menu of things that you infer they might be telling you not to do. Do the work you proposed, and received funding to do, unless instructed otherwise in specific detail.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A fantastic read on why the “smartphones/social media is bad for your mental health” argument is short-sighted. I also love the examples of methodological issues in the cited research - I’m excited to share this one with my methods students.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Gestures always exist in a cultural context. In this cultural context, that was 100% a Nazi salute.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Conozca Sus Derechos: Prepara Para Las Amenazas De Deportación Masiva De Trump Know Your Rights: Prepare For Trump’s Mass Deportation Threats #inmigración #immigration #Trump #deportation #deportación immigrantjustice.org/es/conozca-s...
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Conozca sus derechos: Prepara para las amenazas de deportación masiva de Trump
Todos los individuos en los Estados Unidos tienen derechos, independientemente de su estatus migratorio   Cómo podrían ser las “deportaciones masivas”  El presidente electo Donald Trump ha amenazado a...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19/01/2025
Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/ www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
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Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men
Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
TikTok was great at connecting me to diverse voices, particularly diverse gen z voices. I’ve used social media for almost my entire adult life (RIP MySpace), and TikTok was actually the best at getting me out of my bubble.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I have been a regular TikTok user since 2020 and I am genuinely sad that the app has now gone dark. Even if it returns, it is the end of an era. It feels like the beginning of what’s to come.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
James Madison University is seeking an Academic Unit Head for the Department of Graduate Psychology. Visit the job ad to learn more! jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/academi... #psychjobs #academicjobs #psychsky #academicsky #psychology #academicjobs
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Academic Unit Head for Department of Graduate Psychology - Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
Working Title: Academic Unit Head for Department of Graduate Psychology State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-Time FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligib...
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Spring Roll bag!
Rectangular grey and white bag on a green cutting matOpened grey and white back with blue interior striped fabric. Pictured on a green cutting mat.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 20/11/2024
Do you have trans people in your life who you worry might be losing hope? Are you, maybe, one such person yourself? Or, are you a fan of great writing by incredible trans people and want to read what they're thinking in this historic moment? Assigned Media's Stay With Us package launches today.
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Stay With Us — Assigned
Assigned Media wants you to live! And, what keeps us steadfast and ready to meet the moment is the example of other members of our community who refuse to let fear or hopelessness keep them from their...
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology is seeking a new Editor! I love this journal so much -- lots of open science goodness and they publish "pedagogical points to ponder" which I've always thought is so cool www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
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Call for editor nominations
Find out which APA-published journals are seeking nominations for new editors or associate editors.
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 18/11/2024
Being an involved parent in academia means that you are going to drop balls with regularity; it helps to learn which balls are glass and which balls are rubber; but when in doubt, I’m not going to drop the ones that involve my kids, even if it means dropping a glass work related one
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Men who are trying to be allies: please don’t claim that you will protect women. Say you will stand with them. Don’t answer hostile sexism with benevolent sexism. Both deny me my right to make my own decisions.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I made a couple memory bears out of my partner’s late great-grandmother’s and grandfather’s clothing. Gifting them to my grandmother-in-law next weekend.
Two homemade teddy bears sitting on a grey sofa. The smaller teddy is blue and red. The larger teddy is dark brown.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A mostly quiet, unengaged methods class completely came to life when I asked if they wanted to hear the story of a recent article acceptance from research idea to final submission. They had so many good questions! It was a great conversation.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
My lab group got each other through last Wednesday. I went on a long walk with a friend on Thursday. Group chats with colleagues on Friday, with plans for drinks the following week. A neighbor brought us baked goods on Sunday. Today another (new) neighbor suggested we get together soon. (1/2)
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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Interesting nuance on women’s voting: Educated women turned the hardest against Trump from 2020 to 2024 than any other demographic group.
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Social psychologists! Looking for ways to make your classroom social justice-oriented in the coming years? Check out my chapter with Robyn Mallett, “Implementing anti-oppressive pedagogy in the social psychology classroom” here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/tea...
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Teaching Social Psychology
‘This timely and critically important book brings together some of the finest, award-winning teachers of social psychology in the field. If you are a professor who wants to promote greater belongingn...
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Kala Melchiori @kmelchiori.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Hi Bluesky. I’m Kala, a social psychologist, mom, bisexual, academic, and quilter, among other things. Glad to be here.
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