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Janet Frick

@jfrickuga.bsky.social

UGA Psychology prof, PI of UGA Infant Lab. Higher Ed, developmental science, prenatal dev, Georgia life. Missouri native and Jayhawk at heart. Lover of podcasts, piano, and professors who use their tenure (while it still exists).

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday. “He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.” She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.” “In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.
Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3w ago

The federal immigration agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford has been identified as David Michael Brouillette. Brouillette, who is 37 and lives in Manchester, was identified by an ex-wife as the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

Amy Needham@amyneedham.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am guest editing a special issue of Behavioral Sciences on The Emergence of Tool Use In the First Years of Life. Send us your research on tool use in the early years, including in children with disabilities. Submissions due March 5, 2027. Please share widely!

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Janet Frick@jfrickuga.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Georgia gov Brian Kemp and his wife Marty campaigned on stopping child trafficking. Kemp has signed several pieces of legislation and Marty has also worked on it for ~10 years. Has anyone seen either of them comment about the Epstein files? @bluestein.bsky.social ? Maybe I missed something?

Photo of Brian kemp and his wife signing legislation about human trafficking. They have seemingly been silent about the Epstein files.
Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 6mo ago

This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Janet Frick@jfrickuga.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This was a super interesting (and disconcerting) discussion. Surveillance cameras have been a big conversation topic at UGA / in Athens since a particular high profile murder last year.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson@profferguson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Really engaging discussion with @llassabe.bsky.social and @americancampus.bsky.social about how surveillance is used on college campuses. We are teaching self-surveillance without thinking about it. americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems." From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

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Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 7mo ago

You're going to hear a lot of lies about what the law allows after the Trump Regime's murder of Renee Good. States can prosecute federal officers, they've been doing it since the 1800s. Trump cannot stop it and cannot pardon it. Here's the legal analysis www.patreon.com/posts/147687...

Minnesota Can & Must Prosecute the Unnamed ICE Agent Who Murdered Renee Good | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

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Justin Raden@jraden.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“What the driver was or wasn't doing with her vehicle is irrelevant; so are the ICE agent's feelings about it. The agents never had to be clustered around the woman's vehicle in the first place. They never had to try to extract her from it.“

ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector

On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Janet Frick@jfrickuga.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One of several reasons that I require students to turn in the actual PDF of the study they are reading /citing with most of my upper level writing assignments. Relatedly, so discouraged today to learn that folks are using AI to grade student papers. Seems unethical to feed LLMs with student work!

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 8mo ago

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Janet Frick@jfrickuga.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I have submitted ALLLLLL the letters of recommendation due on Dec 1 with a full 42 minutes to spare. Please clap. (This is after the batch due mid-October, Nov 1, and mid-November). A few weeks of rec letter peace now arrive, just in time for grading hell! :)

Toobad@mrtoobad.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Blue Sky censored one of the most important writers of our times, and they owe her an apology. In the meantime …

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’m getting back to work. You can stay in touch with me at sarahkendzior.substack.com: my newsletter is free. Finally, please use my suspension to draw attention to other unjustly suspended people including Palestinians attempting to raise awareness of genocide, and the user Link. Thank you.