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Kathryn E. Chaffee
@chaffeepsych.bsky.social
Postdoc in Education @ UQAM, Ph.D in Psychology, studying how gender stereotypes in school also affect boys. she/her. On the academic job market!
“Equal degree attainment does not mean people earn the same. In fact, women need much more education than men to reach the same earnings,” said Jeff Strohl, CEW’s director. bit.ly/4aOgi7F #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd
I'd rather picture books & children's books where boys just happen to have long hair or a pink coat, or be best friends with a girl who enjoys the same activities as them, or where a monster character is a she rather than a he, or where girls are naughty at school & boys are kind.
New #PSPR research explores how men's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are affected by masculinity threats. The strongest consequences emerged when the trigger leads to men themselves concluding their masculinity is inadequate. Read more: https://ow.ly/LF8o50YMHGV
The proposed FY2027 budget calls for eliminating NSF's SBE Directorate, which funds 63% of U.S. academic research in social + psychological sciences. SPSP has put together a member action guide with three steps you can take to help advocate for our field. Start here: https://ow.ly/WIgx50YJU5e
hi if you’re canadian and you hate the horrible LED headlights that are way too bright you have until april 20th (blaze it) to complain to transport canada about it in this survey
Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night
Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.
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Great article from @avial.bsky.social and @adamstanaland.bsky.social about how boys are motivated to avoid femininity by age 5. Their results show that the problematic trend that "masculine" things are cool for everyone but "feminine" things are only for girls/women starts early.
Gender conformity starts young – and boys and girls fall in line in different ways
Children learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age.
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Take, for instance, fields long dominated by women —gender studies & the humanities & social sciences, the disciplines most frequently written off as ‘useless’, or of ‘no value to society’. Unsurprisingly,these are now among the most aggressively targeted. thenoosphere.substack.com/p/anti-intel...
Anti-Intellectualism Has a Hidden Target
Though it’s increasingly not so hidden anymore
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we made covid restrictions, not covid, the enemy, success was defined as 'getting back to normal' & in doing so, we missed the opportunity to normalise very lost cost behaviours that would, cumulatively, save a lot of lives
Laurel Krahn@windowseat.bsky.social · 5mo agoBringing this back. Wearing a mask in healthcare settings protects you and protects those around you. (Healthcare setting = clinics, hospitals, pharmacies or stores with pharmacy departments, dentists, medical supply stores, and so on.) Normalizing masks in healthcare saves lives.
Woke professors should fight back on #highered attacks by demanding "viewpoint diversity" among American CEOs. www.nber.org/papers/w30183 #academicsky
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
Jillian C. York@jillian.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
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There are a lot of lies and rage-baiting about immigrants, so from time to time I want to correct the record.
Cato Institute@cato.org · 6mo agoThe US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
New research finds that debunking disinformation works better than prebunking when there is a time delay. Correcting false claims after people encounter them reduced trust in disinformation for at least two weeks across multiple topics. Read more in #PSPB: https://ow.ly/QE9h50Y7Q7W
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
New paper in PSPB on the benefits of giving positive feedback to students, especially from underrepresented groups. Although not the norm in STEM, giving positive feedback boosts self-efficacy and belonging, which increases STEM performance, attitudes, interest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Remembering when I posted this photo from Glasgow and a guy’s daughter, sheltering from a hurricane in Florida, saw it and drew this amazing sketch to pass the time. My question is, why invest in AI when we have immensely talented humans all around us more in need of investment?
"Prestige bias" is one of the strongest forms of bias in academia. Reviewers rank paper submissions from top-20 institutions and non-students higher, but this goes away with blinded reviews. haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
Wanna see a visual on the result of the Republican attack on public health? I’ve got you covered. This is from Pew Research Center’s most recent survey, showing a 27% drop in Republican support for school vaccine requirements from 2016-2025.
Wizened Millennials sneering at Gen Alpha: I told you the old ways are best (Gen X, petting its moldering set of the 1983 World Book Encyclopedia: Soon. Soon.)
The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 9mo agoRelying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 9mo agoTesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
I should mention this again: Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/search?q=mar... has Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon merchandise where the proceeds go to charity. At this point as far as I know there is no other licensed official merchandise.
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Worldbuilders Market is the official online shop of Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide. We carry a wide variety of officially licensed merchandise from ...
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This is a correct framework. Generally, environmental factors linked with increased autism risk occur in late pregnancy and include immune response to illness. (But not postnatal, only prenatal) A powerful protection for that is to be vaccinated.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10mo agoA new study shows that COVID19 during pregnancy was associated with a significant increase in the odds of neurodevelopmental conditions in offspring. This supports literature suggesting that infections during pregnancy can increase the odds of ASD in offspring. It also supports vaccination.
A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives