Phia Salter
@doctaphia.bsky.social
Scholar | Teacher | Social Psychologist
A reminder to support Prof. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard who is being punished for their solidarity with their students and Palestinians if and as you're able. chuffed.org/project/1562...
Mutual Aid for Tiffany
Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of Calif...
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Keep submitting comments, and then join us at this online rally on Monday! events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...
OMB Deadline Day Rally - The Fight is Just Beginning
OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...
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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship 🎉 Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Diane L. Hughes #APS26BCN
The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters
"Here’s a closer look at how the Voting Rights Act, which was dealt a blow on Wednesday by a Supreme Court ruling, changed Black representation in the House in Southern states." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How the Voting Rights Act Bolstered Black Representation in the House (Gift Article)
See more charts on how the passage of the landmark law in 1965 helped increase Black representation in the U.S. House, especially in the South, according to a Times analysis.
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More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
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By taking the departments that study women, queer people, Black people, + Latinos + combining them into a single, ill-defined dept, UT has defined these populations by their lack of whiteness. Their lack of being cisgender, straight + male...These people are now the Other…an object to be dealt with.
UT’s restructuring blurs rich diversity into a single ‘Other’ | Opinion
Folding Black, Latino, gender and cultural studies together risks sidelining the histories these fields were created to center.
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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.
Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom”
Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism
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If you use my semester planning document, here it is for the Spring of 2026! I included some planning spreadsheets as well. Check it out! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Spring 2026 Writing Goals Worksheet [TEMPLATE]
Building a Spring Practice of Writing in 2026 *Download a copy to edit In some ways, writing during the school year is easier than writing during the summer. While there tends to be many more meeting...
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026
*We are 3 days away from the SPSP Preconference submission deadline!* If your research breaks boundaries in social psychology or you are applying exciting methods to your research, apply today!! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...
How could a man who never set foot in a library until he was in college create what is considered the most extensive online collection of global Black history? Maybe it had something to do with the story Dr. Quintard Taylor's father told him when he was a young boy. m.kuow.org/stories/reme...
Remembering Quintard Taylor: Historian of the Black West and beyond
Dr. Quintard Taylor taught history at the University of Washington and created BlackPast.org, an online collection of global Black history. He died Sept. 21, 2025, at the age of 76.
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UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon. Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org www.wral.com/news/local/u...
UNC professor reinstated after investigation into alleged ties with politically motivated group
UNC-Chapel Hill has reinstated a professor who was linked to groups believed to call for politically motivated violence. An investigation found that Dwayne Dixon posed no threat to the campus communit...
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We're accepting abstract submissions for the Critical Psychology Preconference until Oct 23rd. Join us! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...
Mikaela Spruill@spruill.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship 🎉 Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Diane L. Hughes
APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship
Honoring APS Members for their lifetime of outstanding psychological research that advances understanding of historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups and/or understanding of the psychologic...
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honored to share the story of my family in such an impactful book alongside brilliant authors, thinkers, storytellers, and movement leaders. How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, available for preorder. @haymarketbooks.org
Jonathan Stegall@jonathanstegall.bsky.social · last yr.The upcoming collection "How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action" is up for preorder in some places! A great contributor list. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2609-h...
Far larger shares of Americans say AI will erode than improve people’s ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships. www.pewresearch.org/...
I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science: mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...
Did you know the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (of the DOD) created & disseminated materials related to diversity since the 90s? The materials, like this 2009 HHM poster, used to be in the public domain. In compliance w/ EO 14151 the archive was deleted. #HispanicHeritageMonth
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
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I was honored by the @psychscience.bsky.social DEI Committee's invitation to help curate this collection of outstanding articles addressing a range of issues related to anti-Black racism. I also couldn't have asked for a more thoughtful and thorough partner in @johnjost.bsky.social. Please share!
Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis virtual special collection, The Psychological Science of Anti-Black Racism, an Ongoing Social Problem, highlights a selection of articles published in APS journals over the past decade that explore the enduring problem of anti-Black racism in the U.S. journals.sagepub.com/page/aps/cro...
Majorities of adults see decline of union membership as bad for the U.S. and working people
Majorities of adults see decline of union membership as bad for the U.S. and working people
The share of U.S. workers who belonged to a union in 2023 stood at 10%, down from 1983 when 20.1% of American workers were union members.
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard To Remove Black Lives Matter Message From Biology Professors’ Office Windows | News | The Harvard Crimson
A Harvard administrator told two professors on Tuesday that a Black Lives Matter sign displayed in their office windows would be taken down by this Saturday, describing it as a violation of the Univer...
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Call for presentations and sessions in the next round of the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series, September '25 - June '26! Details and formats as well as proposal submission form here: forms.gle/jcs2XEx9igdS... and more information about the series in the thread!
Resistance Psychology Virtual Session Proposals
After the successful conclusion of the third round of our Psychology of Resistance in Repressive and Violent Contexts meeting series, we are excited to launch the submission form for sessions in 2025-...
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