"of the almost 300,000 federal jobs slashed in 2025, Black women were a stunning 33 percent of those cuts." @natalieymoore.bsky.social shares the stories of four Black women laid off from federal jobs at CDC, USDA, USAID, and DOJ under DOGE. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged From the Federal Work Force?

Over a year later, they are struggling to find financial footing and make sense of the racist backlash that displaced them.

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Very exciting that our paper on qualitative researchers' experiences of the peer review process has struck a chord and is the third most downloaded article from an APA journal in 2025! @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social

APA Journals@apajournals.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The 3rd most downloaded APA article of 2025 dives deep into a big challenge for #qualitative researchers: #peerreview feedback that doesn’t align with their values and methodology. Check out the study in Qualitative Psychology: https://bit.ly/3NIXcbY @vicclarke.bsky.social @ginnybraun.bsky.social

The Sheriff in Cumberland County, Maine confirmed that ICE detained a U.S. citizen who is a Black corrections recruit. This is racial profiling, unchecked power, and state violence happening in real time. #AbolishICE #Maine #FDT

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

When someone cites you and you realise you said something quite clever.. :) young people’s capacity for agency is “socially, relationally and materially constituted, rather than being an essential quality or production of the individual child” (Callaghan et al., 2025, p. 8).

Beautiful ochils today. Glensherup (ben shee, scad, tarmangie, innerdownie). Nine icy cold miles!

See also this recent article by @ginnybraun.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social #PhilSci #Epistemology #OpenSci #MetaSci

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Where are the findings? You only provide quotes.” New article considers qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0... Few quotes follow 🧵

I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill Or about who bought his house in Frinton

What’s Scotland supposed to do? Consult Nostradamus to find out how we have another referendum? Rachel Reeves says that even if the SNP wins a majority on its own at Holyrood the UK government will still not permit another vote. It’s a democratic outrage My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Must Scotland consult Nostradamus to find out how we hold another referendum?

The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves says there won’t be another vote even if the SNP wins a majority at Holyrood in May – that’s a democratic…

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#16days 🎨 This artwork by a young person we've worked with, 💬"visualises how someone can look completely fine if they want to, but once a light is shone on their life it can become visible that something might be going on in their life, such as abuse" - Girl, age 16 💜Shared with permission 💚

Child Sexual Abuse Language Guide: This guide is designed for anyone working in child protection, policy, practice, education, healthcare, research, justice or communications. Reflects the perspectives of 100+ victims and survivors of child sexual abuse nationalcentre.org.au/resource/chi...

Child Sexual Abuse Language Guide - The National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse

This guide provides victim and survivor-informed language and definitions that are respectful, inclusive and trauma-informed.

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Amazing work by Barnardos Ireland. bsky.app/profile/barn...

Barnardos Ireland@barnardos-ireland.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hear children and young people we work with describe what childhood domestic violence and abuse is (CDVA) - in their own words.💜 Over the next #16Days, we'll be sharing the words of those effected by CDVA. Children deserve to be heard - all children have a voice. ▶️ https://youtu.be/Zqo6vonh1Z8

Gorgeous walk up the back of the dumyat with my fogs this morning.

Gorgeous walk up the back of the dumyat with my fogs this morning.

The predator's predator. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

For victims, the burden of truth is high. For perpetrators, any old bullshit seems credible. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“The Burden of Truth is Just Very High: Inequalities in Institutional Responses to Family Violence” - Journal of Family Violence

Purpose This paper explores how institutions meant to help victims exacerbate the physical, psychological, and emotional harms of family violence that result from broken or enduring family bonds. It f...

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Well #sophiefromromania and I are tangoing #strictly

"another word for austerity is living within our means" So how come in the "5th richest country in the world" (as we're often told), it's the poorest whose kids are dying from mould & the disabled clobbered to death by the govt? How come the most precarious die and the richest are just fine? #bbcqt

If you ever have to get top up insurance for a young driver, don't bother with Veygo Tay crashed my car 3 weeks ago. These jokers havent even got it out of storage yet. £750 excess, no customer service, no sense of urgency. It is so bad it borders on a scam.

New paper, the amazing luke ward www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“You’re a kid, you don’t know where you are”: the voiced experiences of nonbinary youth navigating discursive realms of legitimacy

Nonbinary youth’s gender identities are often dismissed and continue to be marginalised due to growing transphobic discourse. This article explores how youth navigate these developmental and gender...

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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Quite bizarre. Why turn away from the very thing that has made teen vogue relevant.

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 9mo ago

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties. Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan. Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

Very disappointing to see such political interference in the curriculum. Whatever one might think about aspects of the existing curriculum (and I certainly have my own criticisms of it), it must be remembered that many individuals and communities gave their time and expertise in its development.

Vincent O'Malley@vomalley.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Don't see the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum online yet. But Act are already crowing about having gutted it. community.scoop.co.nz/2025/10/new-...

I climbed a mountain in the andes today. It was a small one (1638m). But still. It was in the andes and i climbed it! :)

Important article on the challenges of access to domestic abuse sevices journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Demographers & sociologists assemble! I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged. #sociology #demography

Today is a good day to remind everyone that the US narrative claiming the President of Venezuela is a drug trafficker is 100% lies. The Trump administration knows this, the Nobel committee knows this... it is a campaign to manufacture consent for invasion. Don't fall for it.