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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I knew this speculative #feminist methodologies class was going to be incredibly eye-opening. "Dear Ijeawele" (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) cuts right to the heart of things, including me and the things I wish my mother had known when I was a child.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

These rejections are starting to feel personal 😠

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

INBOX: 350 US companies — including some of the biggest (Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple), with collective market cap of nearly $10 trillion — have recently stated their commitments to diversity & inclusion. @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I can’t recommend this enough. UNBREAKING, a new project from @lizneeley.bsky.social & co, documents & explains our many concurrent institutional collapses. It’s beautifully executed work, full of intellectual & moral clarity. 3 pages are live, more will come. It’s SO GOOD, & I learned so much.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. This week I added my 5th teaching award nomination to my CV (which I am really humbled and honored by because it's a student-led nomination process)... along with my 5th notification that I was not selected for said award.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This is definitely all Maddi's doing, but I'm stoked to be even a small part of it. Her and Emily were great to work with!

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We @5calls.org have an app/website to help you do this! Just put up an explainer with phone numbers and call script if you don't know what to say: 5calls.org/issue/omb-fe...

5calls.org

Block Trump's Unconstitutional Federal Funding Freeze ⭑ 5 Calls

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a crucial federal agency tasked with oversight and administration of the federal budget. In a blatantly …

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I don't want to overstate this, but being in DC for #UERU and #AACU conferences feels a little like resistance. "Reaffirming Higher Ed's Public Purpose"

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Apparently I can write everything except my book. I co-authored this piece on teaching practices derived from UDL + why this is a disability justice issue. Preprint doi.org/10.31234/osf... #psychologicalscience #SoTL #eddev #UDL #disability @gernsbacherlab.bsky.social is the only one on this app.

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

New preprint with @emilynordmann.bsky.social and @raechel.bsky.social, where we show how open research tools (preprints, registered reports, open educational resources) may be particularly useful for scholars on the Teaching and Scholarship track osf.io/preprints/ed...

A screenshot of a paper called "Open Research as an Ally to Teaching and Scholarship-Track Academics" which is linked in the post

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Journal of Electronic Publishing @jepub.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New CfP alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on "Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences" edited by Dr. Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/196/ Abstracts due January 30 2025

journals.publishing.umich.edu

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Call for papers: Special Issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences Abstract submission deadline: 30 January 2025 In recent years, research production and communication in the bio...

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I teach methods in psych. How do I gently ask my students "is this what a results section looks like in any of the papers you've read?" (or in the examples or the how-to videos I posted?) I'm not being snarky. How do I tell them - model your writing after other good writing!

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Is having a FT job, teaching a class online, taking a class online, and writing a book too much to do at one time? Yes. Am I doing it? Not well, lol. Book words since Sept = 0. Will I do it again next term? Also yes. Tell me about all you're doing! :)

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

MIT is hiring its first Executive Director of the Institute Community and Equity Office. We need strong leadership here. See link for more details: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

careers.peopleclick.com

Executive Director, ICEO

MIT - Executive Director, ICEO - Cambridge MA 02139

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Blocked a few folks this morning. At least they make it easy to tell who they are.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Does anyone by chance have a reference for the process of theory testing and development? Maybe @devezer.bsky.social ? I'm trying to argue that a basic tenet of theory testing is that it is incremental (ie isolates one feature to test at a time) #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 10/11/2024

one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed

A Probably Incomplete List of Bluesky User Safety Mechanisms

Protecting your posts
• disabling replies on your posts
• limiting replies on your posts to people you follow, mention, or include in specific lists
• disabling quote posting on your posts
• detaching your post from someone else's quote
• changing the above interaction settings even after a post is sent hiding replies to your posts for yourself or for everyone
• self-labeling your media for adult or graphic content to protect other users
• limiting account visibility only to logged in users
• note: this is not 100% enforceable but all major bluesky clients and apps support it

Limiting your interaction
• blocking users from seeing or interacting with your posts
• if you block after an interaction, they vaporize
• if they've replied already, the entire thread below their reply is cauterized for everyone, floating in space detached from your post
• note: your blocks are publicly visible via 3rd party apps
• muting users to remove them from your notis and feeds, and hide them in replies
• note: your mutes are private
• muting or blocking entire moderation lists of users
• note: inclusion in a list is public via third party apps. muting a list is private, blocks via a list are public
• subscribing to other people's mod lists
• note: your subscription is private, muting & blocking work the same
• subscribing to labelers (moderation services) from bluesky or third parties
o decide whether to show, warn, or hide posts that have been labeled in each category
• report content that should be labeled to bluesky and/or third parties labelers

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm so excited. It's NPR Books We Love Day! Books We Love is NPR's interactive reading guide —fully indexed, categorized and handpicked by NPR staff and freelance writers like me. I wrote about nine of my most beloved 2024 releases. apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

apps.npr.org

Books We Love

Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

they could report about this, but it wouldn’t fit their scripted culture war narrative.

A sign reading “60% of contingent faculty in higher education make less than $50,000 annually.”

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If the idea that this is the best I'll ever feel, pain-wise, makes me cry, please convince me I'm not being dramatic in telling my doctor I don't think I'm better. Feeling a bit hopeless and guilty and ashamed and scared. #disabilitysky

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 20/11/2024

ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications! The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪 www.sciencewrite.co.uk

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If I can add, FIRE's pressure campaign to get universities to adopt "institutional neutrality" is actually a violation of the very principles of institutional neutrality they claim to promote. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

insidehighered.com

Institutional neutrality isn't what I thought it was

As always, these things are complicated. Don’t trust anyone who says otherwise.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Any #AcademicWriting folks out there have advice for how to list a book you're authoring on a CV? You have a contract for the book, but you're still in drafting stages. Thanks! #AcademicSky #HigherEd #PsychSciSky

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

To all conference attendees everywhere, please never decline a mic. The loudness of a voice is not the only thing that makes it intelligible and so some of us cannot hear you regardless of how well you project. This is my 11th year of tweeting this plea at various conference #POD24

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I deleted my Twitter. I'm excited to find old and new community on this app.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Suicide Prevention is a very important cause to me and based on multiple skeets on my skyline: 📞 988 - National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (has text chat, too) 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Lifeline - 877-565-8860 🏳️‍🌈 Trevor Project - 866-488-7386 Or if you are in immediate danger go to the closest emergency room.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

The black coffee just made an appearance, so you know shit (i.e., grading) is getting real

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

UConn Native American Indigenous Studies program within the department of Social and Critical Inquiry is hiring a TT faculty position! We are looking for someone in One Health, TEK, or Environmental Justice, and Tribal governance/law/policy. Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

jobs.hr.uconn.edu

UConn CareersSearch UConnUConn A to Z Index

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 27/10/2024

One guiding principle I really wish people would consider on here: if someone does not ask for advice, do not give advice. If we are building a new culture here, that would be fucking rad.

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 24/10/2024

Please help us spread the word about this postdoc position to study visual perception and imagination using psychophysics and neuroimaging (specifically fMRI). #compneurosky #neuroskyence #mentalimagery #cogpsyc #psychscisky #NeuroAI #psychjobs subjectivity.sites.northeastern.edu/research/arc...

subjectivity.sites.northeastern.edu

The Subjectivity Lab

Interdisciplinary lab in Northeastern's Psychology Department researching visual perception, mental imagery, consciousness and metacognition.

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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

📣📣 JOB ALERT 📣📣 The Human Sexuality and Well-Being Project out of UPenn Positive Psychology Center is hiring a Research Coordinator! Join a really cool team (I'm biased). tinyurl.com/mr3tfmp5 #AcademicSky #LGBTQSTEM #Sociology #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc 🛟 🌈🎓 #LGBTQPoliSky 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #PscyhJob #PhDSky

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

shortbread from the airport in Dublin is better than any I've had in the US

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

It could happen here, it could always happen anywhere under some conditions. And it sounds too pat to be true, but it is: when it doesn’t happen, it’s because people up and down the chains of power, ordinary people and officials alike, stood up for their neighbors and said not here, not today

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ASFP @asfp.io · 11/10/2024

Feeling stuck on how to write your psychology PhD personal statement? Check out our Applicant Tips and submit a draft of your statement Oct. 28-31 for feedback from ASFP! asfp.io/s/ASFP-Appli...

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

My husband's response to me telling him about a necklace I want. I adore him.

Email message that says "Is this spam or a subtle sign you've been kidnapped?"

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

YES! This is an annoying workaround but I don't want AI search results.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

omg omg omg omg omg I just convened an absolute dream team of authors to collab on a review of UDL and its implications for teaching. I cannot wait for this whole thing to come together. Yes, we are all women. Yes, some of us identify as #disabled. Yes, #accessibility matters.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

If you've been considered for a #POD innovation award and would be willing to share your poster with me, could you please let me know? Would love to see some examples.

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Very excited to give a keynote address at the 2024 Northeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology (NECTOP)! "How Bursting My Positivist Bubble Transformed My Teaching" Would love to see you if you're around Massachusetts on October 25th! nepsych.org/nectop-confe...

nepsych.org

NECTOP CONFERENCE PORTAL

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Writing letters of rec feels so high stakes and I absolutely hate doing it*. *I know I should say no more often, but especially my online students have no one else willing to help. I at least have coached them through difficult classes.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

This is such an important point that I think many quant ppl struggle to grasp. It took me years after a heated debate with a sociologist to understand what he'd meant when asking me where my feminism was in my research. What we study, why/how we study/analyse it ... it's all choices. #psychscisky

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Dr. Raechel N. Soicher (she/her) @raechel.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

I conducted a registered report replication + extension in grad school and the entire process was amazing. Why? Because of how much I had to think through the research design at the outset.

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