Jeff Lees
@leesplez.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior @ University of Groningen | psychology of leadership, sustainability, ideology, and misperceptions | #rstats | #openscience | he/they | 🇺🇸→🇳🇱 | www.jeffreymlees.com
A European colleague came to the US recently for an academic meeting On arrival at JFK, she was whisked off by immigration officers into a windowless office, which had a giant picture of Trump, & relentlessly & aggressively questioned for hours They let her go—but she ain’t coming back to the US
Reuters@reuters.com · 5mo agoTrump deploys ICE agents to assist TSA at US airports reut.rs/4rJ3nvf
We (men) are strongly socialized to (1) have "strong values" that define us, and (2) never let those values interfere in our interpersonal male relationships, especially if it would mean holding male acquaintances accountable for their behavior, double-especially for men's behavior toward women.
Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhy? Because violent misogyny is a highly effective bonding agent among men & it works across all the other boundaries that divide men against each other: class, race, religion, even sexuality. To build a global elite network among men, the fastest & strongest bond to create is "bros before hoes."
The new McCarthyism continues to come for university programs. www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
Texas A&M University cancels programs in women's and gender studies
The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and cancelled six in efforts to eliminate teaching related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8mo agoWeiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
Glad to see my alma mater capitulating to the Trump administration's McCarthyist campaign of censorship. Condemning genocide will get you stripped of your leadership positions at Harvard.
Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights — another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...
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Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
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Shame on @npr.org for regurgitating anti-vax propaganda. The 10 kids mentioned in the headline? That's a lie, something Trump's FDA asserted with zero evidence. How long until this article mentions that? Paragraph Ten. And this article *never* mentions this policy will likely lead to dead children.
FDA to raise hurdles for vaccines, faulting COVID shots for 10 kids' deaths
Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID shots for kids. But public health experts question the agency's analysis.
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Out today! An update to our award-winning Spot-The-Troll Quiz. New trolls, new real users, new tricks, new lessons! Check it out: spotthetroll.org
Internet Troll and Disinformation Quiz
Learn the signs of online disinformation and internet trolls. The Spot the Troll quiz asks you to examine real social media profiles and posts and decide whether they are legitimate.
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This was so fun!
Cancel Me, Daddy Podcast@cancelmedaddy.bsky.social · 10mo agoWhen we first heard that Bari Weiss had been hired as the new editor-in-chief at CBS News, we knew we had to call in the Cancel Guncle himself, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social! An interestingand hilarious conversation ensued... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNlW...
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵 #histsci #sts #philsci #metascience
Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010
Abstract. Anthropologists and human geneticists have long rejected efforts to purportedly scientifically justify racial inequality and colonialism. But race science has persisted, at least on the marg...
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“research suggests that this approach to vaccines is entirely logical in a culture that insists that health is the result of hard work and informed consumer decisions and too often sees illness as a personal failure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | What 20 Years of Listening to Vaccine-Hesitant Parents Has Taught Me
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I'm sure that if we scientists remain "apolitical" that this campaign of scientific censorship will stop, right...right?
Mike Dettinger@mdettinger.bsky.social · 11mo agoEPA has ordered scientists in its Office of Water to immediately pause almost all research & stop publishing studies. Researchers were told that, unless scientific journals had already returned proofs, studies will be subject to an additional EPA review. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
I'm generally averse to left-wing hypocracy-porn But in this instance, I don't think the takeaway is that radical centrists are hypocrites on free speech The lesson is instead that the moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" is and always was a reactionary propaganda campaign 1/2
What is happening at public universities in Red states will not stop at public universities in Red states. The Authoritarians want speech codes, blacklists, and loyalty oaths for all in academia.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 11mo agoSo, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
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Living in Europe, the one thing I find difficult to convey to Europeans is just how completely incompetent and feckless the Democratic Party Leadership is at doing politics.
Eric Blair@protecttruth.bsky.social · 11mo agoNow there's a Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance resolution in the House. The question is whether House Dems will vote for it. Many are arguing they should all vote NO. But @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is reportedly voting YES, to honor Kirk. Why? @andrewsolender.bsky.social:
We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information. Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️ Please share! 🔃 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #PhDJob
Job Offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Disinformation
As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformatio...
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Maybe it's time the media put to rest the decade-long moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" and start seeing f*cking reality for what it is?
Aggy@aggykins.bsky.social · 11mo agoJD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics The free speech advocates are going after free speech… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Is this the "left-wing cancel culture" we've heard so much about?
Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 11mo agoStudent, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Houston Chronicle@houstonchronicle.com · 11mo agoTexas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
It's *almost* as if Kennedy personally profits from people who don't trust real medicine and science and instead get sucked into the scam-filled world of "alternative" medicines The man is a professional con-artists in an administration run by professional con-artists
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 11mo agothat’s a lot of fancy words to call him a dumb bitch
Looking for help from #psychology and #survey folks who study #politics and use Prolific to collect data What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower. Thank you!
We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture:
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Extremely proud of this very thorough and informative Handbook for conducting both Replications and Reproductions! What an amazing team of experts and so much insight into one place! Go @forrt.bsky.social , go 🚀
Lukas Röseler@aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 11mo agoAt the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...
