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Lisa Fazio

@lkfazio.bsky.social

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Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 17d

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion."

My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy.

www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Here's why Vanderbilt's response to the Trump higher ed 'compact' is not enough | Opinion

With the deadline looming for colleges to sign Trump's "compact," Vanderbilt must resist, says one university professor.

www.tennessean.com

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Efrén O. Pérez

Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · 3h

Do your hands talk when you do? 🗣️✋

Check out this @duke-university.bsky.social write up about my new work with my postdoc Esha Naidu (she is on the job market!) showing gestures reflect culture & identity—our nonverbal “accents” can shape interracial communication.

trinity.duke.edu/news/talking...

Talking with Our Hands: Duke Study Reveals How Culture Shapes Our Gestures

You are having dinner with friends, and the conversation is lively. Do your hands join the chat, or do they stay focused on your knife and fork?

trinity.duke.edu

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 9 more Lisa W. Fazio, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, Ian Campbell, Alan Richardson, Andrew L. Whitehead, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Erol Akçay, Jennifer A. Johnson, Julie Novkov, David Stott, Anne Hilborn

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Alan Richardson, Adrian Daub , and 1 more Lisa W. Fazio, Alan Richardson, Adrian Daub, Kathleen Kennedy

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.

In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”

And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Kate Starbird

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13h

I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post.

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

The Shutdown Surrender

I just... I mean... Whatever.

open.substack.com

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 15h

Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap

(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a large retail ...

www.aeaweb.org

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Brendan Nyhan , and 11 more Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild, Jacob Montgomery, Cathy N. Davidson, David R. Miller, James Goodwin, Henry Jones, David S. Tanenhaus, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Colin Woodard

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Brendan Nyhan, Simon Lester

Kickback Committee @kickbackcommittee.bsky.social · 1d

The CPL Final is in the middle of a snowstorm in Canada, true North American soccer heritage...how could it get any better?

HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Melanie C. Green

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

First kids at a Halloween parade getting tear gassed and now this. Abhorrent and unacceptable.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’

Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.

chicago.suntimes.com

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 2d

Vandy's helping this year!!

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

Higher education did not cover itself in glory when faculty members chose to be silent in the face of persecution, all to help keep the "reputation" of the university, and themselves, intact.

Screenshot of p.312 which reads: Part of the reason for the failure of the academic profession to speak out against the political dismissals of the McCarthy period was that many
of its members supported those dismissals. They shared the general hostility to Communists and Fifth Amendment witnesses and felt that such people did not belong in the academic world. Other professors were less sure but did not want to make a fuss. Propriety was the issue here.
Though most of the teachers-certainly most of the tenured ones-at the
schools we have been studying knew that they would probably not get
into trouble for circulating petitions or organizing meetings, they nonetheless kept their distance. They did not want to put themselves in an adversarial position, either with regard to their colleagues or the administration.

Those who did defy the conventional limits of faculty debate and insisted that the rights of an individual took precedence over the well-being of an institution engendered considerable hostility. When, for example, during the course of a heated discussion about the University of Michigan's treatment of its unfriendly witnesses,the eminent mathematician R. L. Wilder denounced the administration's cooperation with HUAC as beyond all bounds of morality and decency, many faculty members,
though presumably deploring much
what HUAC was doing, were shocked at Wilder's lèse majesté. Attacking the president of the University in public did not accord with the "gentlemanliness" expected of a member of the Michigan faculty. Wilder, who later became president of the American Mathematical Society, had sufficient prestige to withstand such collegial disapproval; people with lesser credentials were more vulnerable and more circumspect. So pervasive was this pressure for respectability that even the most committed civil libertarians reined themelves in.

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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 3d

This agreement maintains that Cornell has full autonomy. Cornell also maintains that it has not done anything wrong.

So, essentially, Trump used the power of his office (e.g. by not paying ongoing grants) to force a $30 million payout.

I understand why Cornell did this, but it doesn't feel good.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.

Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds

The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.

nyti.ms

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Alan Richardson, Margot C. Finn

M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 3d

Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 4d

Go apply to work with Raunak!! I can testify that he's an amazing mentor and brilliant scientist.

Raunak Pillai @rmpillai.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Stony Brook in Fall '26!

My lab will take a social cognitive approach to studying how we form/update our beliefs and why we disagree about what is true vs false

I'll also be reviewing grad apps! See below for more info

Photo of me next to a bronze statue of Wolfie the Seawolf, Stony Brook's mascot

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

Raunak Pillai @rmpillai.bsky.social · 4d

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 4d

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Families "horrified" after daycare teacher pulled out of school by federal agents.

The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...

www.chalkbeat.org

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 5d

Ahh, YAY!!!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

How many kids first experience of the state will be of masked men grabbing people?

Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 5d

Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.

The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care

Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.

19thnews.org

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

Zoo Boise @zooboise.bsky.social · 5d

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠

Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.

📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

A male prehensile-tailed porcupine stands on rocks and a stream inside a zoo habitat.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Gordon Hodson, Allison Eden

mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 5d

Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social!

Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!*

*not necessarily a selling point, just a fact

Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 5d

Come work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social!

I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

Off their phones and into the streets

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

A Little-Noted Element
Propelled Mamdani's Rise:
Gen Z Loneliness
Members of Gen Z found something unexpected in the mayoral race: a chance to hang out. Their enthusiasm turned into real votes.
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 5d

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 6d

Last week, my Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction class covered an older paper about “social translucence” where they explain how the design of online systems shapes the norms & behaviors w/in those systems. But the framework they create can be applied more broadly, eg to our political moment.