Periodic reminder that the VAST majority of people who've been to college - something like 85% - do NOT attend the kinds of places that are frequently discussed in the NYTimes. They mostly go to regional commuter colleges, community colleges, etc, w/ acceptance rates >= 75%.

We expanded our eligibility criteria to those who have been discharged in the past FOUR months! Please share widely!!

I will always love this photo:

A lot of the drive to ban history education within segments of self-proclaimed “conservative” America is born out of a belief that young people have been too inundated with the dark sides of the American story, and now view more traditional portions as irredeemable. 1/

Politeness culture in academia means that everyone will lament your departure after someone has treated you poorly enough that you leave, but no one will intervene in or even name the poor treatment for fear of making an abuser feel bad.

A grad school bound student asked if I had any advice. Like many students w this opportunity, she is bright, ambitious, and prepared. So, I had only two pieces of advice: 1. Get a hobby that you can commit to at least two hours a week 2. Get a citation manager (1/5)

Picture this. An investor from the U.S. buys an abandoned building in Puerto Rico for $108k. Holds it for 7 years untouched and lists it for $360k. In the meantime, locals illegally enter and use it to cook for ppl after the hurricane. The “squatters” get to keep the building.

You all did not enjoy the pandemic, y’all enjoyed government assistance. You enjoyed receiving basic income for the first time. You enjoyed not having to work for survival for a few months. You did not enjoy millions of people dying.

The pain felt is nothing like the joy that’s coming

Check out this cool researcher I'm happy to know!

Every interaction we have with other people is filtered through our own experiences, beliefs, and biases. We can be speaking the same language, but often, we leave conversations understanding completely different things. Take, for example…

Reposting this for the disbelievers and the chronically argumentative, and locking comments. vox.com/future-perfect…

everything across the spiderverse all at once

Taking a brief hiking interlude because* our (@KathrynFoxR's + my lab's) team science-driven trial on Project RISE—an online SSI for internalized stigma in LGBTQ+ youth—is now published in Internet Interventions! (*also bc my legs are jelly & demand a break) 🧵doi.org/10.1016/j.inve…

Your manager should be able to tell you: Why you get paid the amount you do Which comp surveys the firm relies on How often pay grades are revised When you can expect your next pay review How pay raises are determined Where your pay rate is relative to the top of your pay grade

To avoid straining your eyes at work, use the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, go for a 20-minute hike and spend the next 20 years in the woods.

My lived experience of chronic pain since my 20s and the many ways I have fought with and ultimately came to live with pain inspired this work and efforts to develop new behavioral treatments journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… also available (free) via osf: osf.io/t7pn2/

Wonderful, groundbreaking research, led by my friend Hans Schroder, shows that framing depression as purposeful, not pathological, has better therapeutic outcomes. Continuing to promote the dysfunction/disease/chemical imbalance paradigm is becoming a serious moral problem.