America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
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"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
Another morning of ICE sightings happening around Chicagoland and the northwest burbs as yes, they are still here, operating under the surface as they were before Bovino's spectacle.
This is cause for celebration. May the entire white supremacist international he helped create also fall.
Larisa studies (among other things) how incarceration impacts moral reasoning of children and families, it's great work.
That she has been winning grants and awards while mentoring incredible students during it all tells you everything about the scholar she is!
JUST IN: Viktor Orban conceded his defeat in Hungary.
The far-right leader & Trump ally will no longer be prime minister.
What remains to be seen is the size of his defeat — and whether the opposition wins a supermajority to amend the constitution and reverse Orban’s rule.
Hang in there 🫶🏻
1. A few weeks ago, I learned that there was a negative vote on my tenure case at Columbia. Posting some quick thoughts below:
I’ve been lucky to benefit from @drlarisa.bsky.social’s scholarship, friendship, and mentorship. There’s no doubt that her contributions to the field merit tenure at any institution. Fingers crossed the right academic home opens its doors! Also deeply appreciate the courage to normalize this.
This tenure denial is absurd! Larisa is extremely productive, has an NSF CAREER, and won multiple early career awards, among other accolades.
It pains me to think about what she’s going through, having gone through a similar experience at that department (Columbia Psychology) 3 years ago.
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
“The idea that the civil rights movement achieved all its goals – the idea that it ended at all! – is contradicted by the words, deeds and most of all, the plans of activists themselves. They knew the work would go on and they would be horrified by anyone who implied there was nothing left to do.”
some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this
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One of my favorite things to do is to catch up with our alumni from the summer internship program (www.summerpsych.com) we started in new haven, CT in 2017. 32 interns have passed through the program since that time, 7 are current PhD students, 2 are current/incoming faculty at universities.
The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE.
The vote was unanimous.
🎉🎉🎉
I do a lot of things that I think have impact, but few rise to this level. We're looking to fund the program now through donations if you are interested in being involved: www.societyworkshop.org/get-involved
One of my favorite things to do is to catch up with our alumni from the summer internship program (www.summerpsych.com) we started in new haven, CT in 2017. 32 interns have passed through the program since that time, 7 are current PhD students, 2 are current/incoming faculty at universities.
We fund the program in 2026 and beyond through our activities at Society Workshop. If you want to help an undergraduate student become more immersed and engaged in social science research for societal good, consider helping us out! www.societyworkshop.org/get-involved
infographic showing some statistics from the summer psych internship which has happened in two cities, with 6 cohorts, and 32 total interns. Overall 7 interns are current PhD students, 2 are current/incoming academic faculty, and 59% currently do research as part of their work. Of the training in the program, two in three interns went on to advanced degree programs and use their training right now.
This summer, summer psychology interns will participate in two months of immersive research. The program started in 2017 in New Haven CT and has trained 32 interns across six cohorts in that time. At this time, 7 interns are current PhD students, and 2/3 have gone on to advanced degree programs.
"On the one hand, you have an imaginative property beloved by millions, and on the other, there are actually existing trans people." 🎁 defector.com/its-time-to-...
Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement Omar Wasow∗ Jacob M. Grumbach∗ April 1, 2026 Abstract What precipitates the collapse of seemingly durable social orders like Jim Crow? During the 1920s, approximately 5,000 “Rosenwald Schools” were built across the rural South through a partnership between philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and Black communities who raised matching funds, donated land, and petitioned local governments. Local elites saw vocational training that would preserve the racial order. We argue Black educators used this accommodationist cover to build veiled capacity: organizational infrastructure for collective action behind a veil of compliance. Counties with more Rosenwald Schools show greater civil rights protest in the 1960s. Mediation analysis reveals that pre-existing social capital predicted protest through Rosenwald teacher placements, not enrollment. Instrumental variable models suggest the effect is not driven by community selection. Moving from no Rosenwald teachers to the 75th percentile predicts 45% more protest. The political effects of education may depend less on what elites intend than on what educators build where elites cannot see.
Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement"
The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...
A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.
NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October.
No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out.
Why...?
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source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
🟦🧠 #academicsky
When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.
Fixing the NIH by destroying every layer of accountability, crushing the dreams of budding scientists around the nation, and purposefully sowing lies and causing confusion!
MIND YOU, Podcast Jay wouldn’t tell me that the polio vaccine was better than the disease.
@health.nationalacademies.org wtf
Scientists are fighting for the future of biomedical research in America right now. So please don’t tell me how sitting down with the architects of the destruction of a decades-old legacy of research in the United States is a good idea.
