Phia Salter
@doctaphia.bsky.social
Scholar | Teacher | Social Psychologist
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026
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*We are 3 days away from the SPSP Preconference submission deadline!* If your research breaks boundaries in social psychology or you are applying exciting methods to your research, apply today!!
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October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
*We are 3 days away from the SPSP Preconference submission deadline!* If your research breaks boundaries in social psychology or you are applying exciting methods to your research, apply today!!
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Congrats to Monica Biernat, 2025 winner of the Ostrom Award for social cognition!
“Mel titled every talk he ever gave ‘Social Cognition’ because then he could talk about whatever he wanted” - MB
#PMIG2025
“Mel titled every talk he ever gave ‘Social Cognition’ because then he could talk about whatever he wanted” - MB
#PMIG2025
October 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Congrats to Monica Biernat, 2025 winner of the Ostrom Award for social cognition!
“Mel titled every talk he ever gave ‘Social Cognition’ because then he could talk about whatever he wanted” - MB
#PMIG2025
“Mel titled every talk he ever gave ‘Social Cognition’ because then he could talk about whatever he wanted” - MB
#PMIG2025
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How could a man who never set foot in a library until he was in college create what is considered the most extensive online collection of global Black history?
Maybe it had something to do with the story Dr. Quintard Taylor's father told him when he was a young boy.
m.kuow.org/stories/reme...
Maybe it had something to do with the story Dr. Quintard Taylor's father told him when he was a young boy.
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Remembering Quintard Taylor: Historian of the Black West and beyond
Dr. Quintard Taylor taught history at the University of Washington and created BlackPast.org, an online collection of global Black history. He died Sept. 21, 2025, at the age of 76.
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October 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
How could a man who never set foot in a library until he was in college create what is considered the most extensive online collection of global Black history?
Maybe it had something to do with the story Dr. Quintard Taylor's father told him when he was a young boy.
m.kuow.org/stories/reme...
Maybe it had something to do with the story Dr. Quintard Taylor's father told him when he was a young boy.
m.kuow.org/stories/reme...
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UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon.
Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org
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Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org
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UNC professor reinstated after investigation into alleged ties with politically motivated group
UNC-Chapel Hill has reinstated a professor who was linked to groups believed to call for politically motivated violence. An investigation found that Dwayne Dixon posed no threat to the campus communit...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon.
Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org
www.wral.com/news/local/u...
Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org
www.wral.com/news/local/u...
We're accepting abstract submissions for the Critical Psychology Preconference until Oct 23rd. Join us! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...
The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026
September 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We're accepting abstract submissions for the Critical Psychology Preconference until Oct 23rd. Join us! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...
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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship 🎉 Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Diane L. Hughes
APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship
Honoring APS Members for their lifetime of outstanding psychological research that advances understanding of historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups and/or understanding of the psychologic...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship 🎉 Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Diane L. Hughes
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honored to share the story of my family in such an impactful book alongside brilliant authors, thinkers, storytellers, and movement leaders.
How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, available for preorder. @haymarketbooks.org
How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, available for preorder. @haymarketbooks.org
The upcoming collection "How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action" is up for preorder in some places! A great contributor list. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2609-h...
How to End Family Policing
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August 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
honored to share the story of my family in such an impactful book alongside brilliant authors, thinkers, storytellers, and movement leaders.
How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, available for preorder. @haymarketbooks.org
How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, available for preorder. @haymarketbooks.org
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Far larger shares of Americans say AI will erode than improve people’s ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships. www.pewresearch.org/...
September 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Far larger shares of Americans say AI will erode than improve people’s ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships. www.pewresearch.org/...
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I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science:
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September 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science:
mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...
mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...
Did you know the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (of the DOD) created & disseminated materials related to diversity since the 90s? The materials, like this 2009 HHM poster, used to be in the public domain. In compliance w/ EO 14151 the archive was deleted. #HispanicHeritageMonth
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Did you know the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (of the DOD) created & disseminated materials related to diversity since the 90s? The materials, like this 2009 HHM poster, used to be in the public domain. In compliance w/ EO 14151 the archive was deleted. #HispanicHeritageMonth
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All right, I wrote about it:
The White Civility Council
As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...
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September 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
All right, I wrote about it:
Job alert! Please share with your networks that include quantitative psychologists. TY in advance! fa-exci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Assistant Professor of Psychology
The Davidson College Psychology Department invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Quantitative Psychology (area of research specialization open), beginning July 1, 202...
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September 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
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September 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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I was honored by the @psychscience.bsky.social DEI Committee's invitation to help curate this collection of outstanding articles addressing a range of issues related to anti-Black racism. I also couldn't have asked for a more thoughtful and thorough partner in @johnjost.bsky.social. Please share!
This virtual special collection, The Psychological Science of Anti-Black Racism, an Ongoing Social Problem, highlights a selection of articles published in APS journals over the past decade that explore the enduring problem of anti-Black racism in the U.S.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I was honored by the @psychscience.bsky.social DEI Committee's invitation to help curate this collection of outstanding articles addressing a range of issues related to anti-Black racism. I also couldn't have asked for a more thoughtful and thorough partner in @johnjost.bsky.social. Please share!
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Majorities of adults see decline of union membership as bad for the U.S. and working people
Majorities of adults see decline of union membership as bad for the U.S. and working people
The share of U.S. workers who belonged to a union in 2023 stood at 10%, down from 1983 when 20.1% of American workers were union members.
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August 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Majorities of adults see decline of union membership as bad for the U.S. and working people
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Call for presentations and sessions in the next round of the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series, September '25 - June '26! Details and formats as well as proposal submission form here: forms.gle/jcs2XEx9igdS... and more information about the series in the thread!
Resistance Psychology Virtual Session Proposals
After the successful conclusion of the third round of our Psychology of Resistance in Repressive and Violent Contexts meeting series, we are excited to launch the submission form for sessions in 2025-...
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August 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Call for presentations and sessions in the next round of the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series, September '25 - June '26! Details and formats as well as proposal submission form here: forms.gle/jcs2XEx9igdS... and more information about the series in the thread!
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faculty in these states: stop scrolling and fill out this survey, pls
The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...
2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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August 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
faculty in these states: stop scrolling and fill out this survey, pls
"To me, it’s clear that this isn’t a story about bad choices. It’s a story about survival in a world that too often mistakes coercion for consent."
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/cassie...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/cassie...
Critics Say Cassie Ventura "Consented" to Sean "Diddy" Combs's Alleged Abuse. Here's Why That's Never True
We must stop treating survival strategies as evidence of consent in cases of abuse, like the one Ventura alleges happened to her.
www.teenvogue.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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"To me, it’s clear that this isn’t a story about bad choices. It’s a story about survival in a world that too often mistakes coercion for consent."
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/cassie...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/cassie...
Critics Say Cassie Ventura "Consented" to Sean "Diddy" Combs's Alleged Abuse. Here's Why That's Never True
We must stop treating survival strategies as evidence of consent in cases of abuse, like the one Ventura alleges happened to her.
www.teenvogue.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"To me, it’s clear that this isn’t a story about bad choices. It’s a story about survival in a world that too often mistakes coercion for consent."
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/cassie...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/cassie...