Michelle Obama saying she's been at every powerful table you could think of and quickly realizing "they're not that smart." I think about how many women feel that exact same way while in male-dominated rooms/fields.

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*Officially* recruiting for my dissertation! Arab/MENA women are sorely underrepresented in the psychological literature, including eating disorders. If you identify as an Arab/MENA woman, please consider participating in a focus group study. $50 gift card upon completion!

This why the airlines should be federalized during emergencies like this, they can ask for a bailout but wanna hit the consumer pockets when literal death is bearing down on them

Israel can't ban journalists from going into Lebanon like they can in Gaza, so when Israel claimed there was a bunker under a hospital in Beirut the press just sent a bunch of reporters to investigate and they immediately saw Israel was lying. That's why they ban press from Gaza.

Universities: Why do our kids use AI to write their assignments 😭 😭 😭 don’t they know writing is important? Also Universities: What if we made writing instructors into a permanent underclass of peasants that we work to the bone for as little money as possible?

Gisèle Pelicot walking to take the stand today, her strength echoing in every step: “It’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them,” she told the court. "I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too. I don't want them to be ashamed any longer,"

A few more weeks to apply! 😊 My lab uses mixed-methods approaches to examine factors that shape the mental health trajectories of Black youth & adults, with a focus on identifying protective factors to reduce suicide vulnerability and racial trauma psychology.berkeley.edu/students/gradu…

The global south has for long been the punching bag of climate change while the global north has the privilege of debating whether it’s real or not.

Just one week left to apply for either the 2-year post-doc or 1-year Lab Manager roles at my new lab at NYU Abu Dhabi!

Octavia Butler was right about everything, by the way (and it wasn't hard to be, looking at how colonizers have lived and destroyed, how empire consumes) but she wrote about what it would look like so precisely and with such vision.

When they had DEI they spelled countries correctly.

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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

I'm normally not a fan of Piketty (what kind of person calls their book 'The Capital' but simultaneously badmouths Marx and says he "never managed really to read" the original "Das Kapital"?) But, credit when credit is due, this is a genuinely fascinating study. It is in fact

The "evolution" of the word "antisemitism".

Has it ever occurred to you that an 18-year-old whose immediate family history includes at least 3 continents might have had some difficulty figuring out which neat identity box to check? I know this isn’t an issue for your mostly white newsroom so it might be hard to empathize.

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at Department of Psychology at UVA in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psychol…).