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Dr. Melissa Beers

@mjbeers1.bsky.social
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Feminist. Scientist. Anti-fascist. Inclusion is not a dirty word. NO WAR. NO VIOLENCE.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
Leo: "The message of the church, the message of the gospel -- blessed are the peacemakers. I do not look at my role as being political. I don't want to get into a debate with him. I don't think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing."
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Sansa supervised my yardwork all day today so she is completely exhausted. Sweet dreams, darling girl.
A sweetly sleeping tricolor corgi snuggled adorably on a blanket after playin outside all day
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hey @stpteachpsych.bsky.social - just read the call for proposals for this year’s ACT. The new GEM (Great Educational Moments) Talk option sounds AH MAZ ING! I will definitely be thinking about submitting for this. Love!!! teachpsych.org/ACT-Proposals
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Society for the Teaching of Psychology - ACT Proposals
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
For years I let the patriarchy and social norms make me think mowing the grass was a “man’s job.” In reality, I was only denied excellent exercise and the deep satisfaction of achieving a perfectly manicured and edged yard for far too long. Women: don’t let anyone deprive you of this pleasure.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It never ceases to amaze me how many college faculty are thrown into classrooms without a minute of formal teaching training. At one time this was there wasn’t enough research/resources on college teaching, but that’s not the case today. Now it’s just willing ignorance and deprioritization.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
On average, I agree. Effective undergrad teaching has less to do with scientific expertise than effort and interest. Most esteemed scientists are mentors to grad students and post docs, a different kind of teaching.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
“How is diversity a strength” well it’s better than racist dumbass homogeneity, you see
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
What the fuck are we doing
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Utterly marvelous movie that did not disappoint. Bravo Ryan Gosling!
Photo of Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The news is uniformly horrible but I’m going to an early screening of Project Hail Mary tonight and I have never been so excited to willingly suspend my disbelief for a couple hours.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This Oscar memorial tribute was ripping me to shreds and then Barbra Streisand started singing and I became a puddle. I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR ANY OF THAT.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
For the record I unequivocally despise violence, war, and warmongering. Celebrating violence of any kind is shameful and wrong. And for some reason I feel like that has to be said straight out. What a world we live in.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I’ve been off social media apps for almost a year. I’m dipping a toe back in to try again because I miss the community I used to know on Twitter. My feed is dark (as one would expect right now) but I need to find some joy & lightness too. Would love suggestions of your favorite follows please.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I really hope the rest of the world understands there are still good people who are being ignored and silenced and hate to see what our country is becoming right now. God help us.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/04/2025
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“As our leaders expect the best of us, we expect the best of you.” www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I’m looking forward to our session this afternoon here at #AACUCLASS. Really enjoying the conversations so far!
AACU Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS) 
Innovation session 3.A 5-5:15: Teaching innovation as untapped potential
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Quote from Stephanie Akunvabey of Pace U cited at #AACUCLASS The work of diversity, equity, & inclusion is like the baking soda in a cookie - you don’t taste it but it’s in every bite. If you take it out you ruin the cookie. But it’s being treated like the icing on a cupcake you can just wipe away.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Article by Dewsberry, et al (2022) mentioned in his keynote at #AACUCLASS 2025: Deep Teaching involves "specific pedagogical approaches and strategies are enacted as a function of carefully cultivated relationships and continuous dialogue with the students." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Inclusive and active pedagogies reduce academic outcome gaps and improve long-term performance
We assessed the impacts of the implementation of inclusive and active pedagogical approaches in an introductory biology sequence at a large, public research university in the northeast United States. ...
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This has been one moving and important keynote. Whew.
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American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) @aacu.org · 04/04/2025
“Teaching students how to engage in difference and respectful dialogue is something every class can do,” says @fiu.bsky.social professor @dewsbury.bsky.social. #AACUCLASS
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American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) @aacu.org · 03/04/2025
Northern Arizona University President José Luis Cruz Rivera’s message to #AACUCLASS attendees: higher education must “move from prestige to purpose, from silos to systems, from resistance to reimagination.”
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Bryan Dewsberry at AACU CLASS: "It's a rare time when words are being weaponized and are being struck from our websites and curricula. I'm struck by the speed of the retreat from those words. These are words presidents stood up and swore they believed in. Did they ever really mean those words?"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Dark Pence is back.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Don’t look at me, I voted for the black lady who didn’t want to burn down our economy.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“Woke” was appropriated from Black culture. Now mainly white people apply it as a blanket term for anything raising consciousness of women, minorities, LGBTQIA+ ppl, indigenous ppls… anything challenging the authority and dominance of white men. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history
Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Let’s call it what it is: wokeness is a pejorative for critical thinking, for challenging the status quo. For some i’ss threatening to examine sources of harm to vulnerable groups & minorities because they don’t want to acknowledge the role they play in preserving of upholding these harms.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Education research cuts are barely moving the needle on the federal budget, but causing massive harm. Great piece by my colleagues who study math cognition. www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinio...
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How much are cuts to the Department of Education affecting the federal budget? | Opinion
We study how people understand numbers. At a time when student math scores are sliding, are Department of Education cuts worth it?
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We are now at the point in Ohio where students are afraid to write about the issues they care about because they are afraid another student in their class might report them for it. This is America in 2025.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I honestly never imagined we would see the return of white supremacy, authoritarianism, or eugenics in my lifetime. Yet, it’s all here right now. My heart breaks more and more every day.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is unabashed fascism. Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology' apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
They are complaining that museums are no longer subscribing to racism.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I swear to god every day I die a little more. Now the museums.
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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me. Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
In this season of Lent, it is chilling to be an American. I have a new understanding of what it must have been like to watch the crowd turn on Jesus & cheer for his shame, torment, & crucifixion. If you’ve ever asked yourself what you would have done in that crowd, the present moment is your test.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“Fascism: a populist political movement that exalts nation & race above the individual; associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, characterized by severe economic & social regimentation & forcible suppression of opposition.” Ex: see arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk
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Ericnonymous @ericnonymous.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If medical research doesn't "direct people to believe one idea over another related to health outcomes" then what was the point of the study?
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Look, I might be crazy but I happen to want NIH to tell us when crackpot claims about health are unsupported. Dangerous even. THAT IS NOT CENSORSHIP THAT IS PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH. YES NIH - PLEASE CENSOR INFORMATION THAT MIGHT KILL PEOPKLE.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison
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Ashley M. London @alondon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We're also taught that the service load belongs primarily to women, often non-tenured. What really grinds my gears is how often bad service in academia is 110% rewarded with a cessation of service assignments. This cycle disproportionately affects women, and I hate it.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is the kind of thing a novice student does in a first-year research paper: only include info that supports their beliefs, ignoring other, stronger evidence. Everyone knows this is not how science works, right?
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
College students on a group chat where one person posts sensitive exam info receive disciplinary sanctions for academic misconduct. They could receive a failing grade or possibly be expelled, just for being on that chat. Just sayin.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Me. I have never done this, certainly never in my work. Never with anything relevant to the security of student information, which is among the most important aspects of my job. If I had I would be unemployed. Don’t accept excuses for this.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Recently a colleague told me she felt confident about what I would say about her and her work when she wasn't at the table. I don't think anyone has ever paid me a higher compliment. This is exactly who I aspire to be at all times. I want colleagues to know where I stand & what I will advocate for.
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Dr. Melissa Beers @mjbeers1.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
On all the letters of recommendation I'm writing from here on out, I'm going to summarize all my key points in bullets and then elaborate, to spare readers from trying to decode the points I want to make. I wish more letter writers would do this, too.
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