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Linda Skitka

@lindaskitka.bsky.social

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Emerita Distinguished Professor, U of Illinois Chicago | Michigan & Cal-Berkeley Grad | Social, Political, and Moral Psychologist | Endlessly Curious | https://sites.google.com/view/lindaskitka

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Linda J. Skitka is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Skitka's research bridges a number of areas of inquiry including social, political, and moral psychology. .. more

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 9h

As much as we social psychologists focus on individual contributions to these problems, I genuinely think the only way out is structural/systematic level change.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 12h

Other countries have political structures (e.g., parliaments) that require compromise to even form a government, which might help. We need to bake similar pressures into U.S. politics, e.g., rank choice voting.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 13h

I’d love politics to be boring again. But Biden’s tenure suggests that attempts to return to normalcy/boredom a) didn’t relieve the public as much as he imagined, and b) neglected the urgent need for stronger legislative guardrails and protections to prevent much of what is happening now.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 13h

I hate the fear mongering and welcome the hope. For me, the exhaustion isn’t so much the oscillation, it’s more the utter incompetence, lack of any apparent accountability, and the spinelessness of Congress, university administrators, and others in positions of power in this moment.

https://hope.it’s

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 15h

Also rare in my household (enjoy the pun—it’s free!)

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 16h

New Year’s “massacre” of FEMA employees. (So much for hope that 2026 would be less of a shit show.)

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

One last fucked up 2025 scoop—FEMA has begun issuing termination notices to CORE staff (appointed under the Stafford Act, ordinarily extended for 2 years) effective Jan 2, agency sources tell me. Sr leadership was asked if they could be given more notice but Acting Administrator Karen Evans said no.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 17h

We hosted a couple of visitors from Japan for a week. They were AMAZED we didn’t eat steak for nearly every meal, which led me to think the stereotype is more Texan than NYer. I blame it on the successfully exported TV series, Dallas.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 17h

Fortunately, surgical intervention saved the day (included nose replacement).

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 17h

We’re dog sitting over the holidays. Lulu loves her lamb toy so much she gets a little carried away (this is her surrounded by entrails).

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

We’re sleepwalking into a disaster

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, Washington Post reporters found.

WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.

Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.

(Gift link.)

U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.

Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.

wapo.st

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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 2d

Glad to see the conversation continues to grow and data speak to the enormous class bias that is built into bans on standardized testing, which end up only exacerbating them more.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d

“This year’s flu vaccine has proved an imperfect match to the currently circulating strains. New shots, based on mRNA technology, would have one day enabled us to avoid this kind of misfire. But the nation’s leaders have imperiled that future with the decisions they made this year.”

Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Mark Rice, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Democratic erosion, but for public health. People will die.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 4d

PS Already shared the chocolate croissant recipe with my daughter, who can't wait to try it. #MoreWaistlinesAtRiskinMidwest

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 4d

I 100% get it! Having this yumminess in the house is going to be a severe test of my "limit carbs" rule that helped me lose 30 lbs a couple of years ago. But my husband loves it and finding good commercial versions has been difficult lately, so giving it a go for him.

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 4d

This timeline sucks and my heart really goes out to you and our fellow scientists right now :-(

Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 4d

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

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