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M Green
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Communication researcher and social psychologist studying how stories change minds (narrative persuasion).
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M Green @narrprof.bsky.social · Nov 10
Academic friends who are just joining Bluesky, here's a starter pack that may be helpful (media psych folks, please let me know if you'd like to be added or have recommendations for additions): go.bsky.app/2DHceaS

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CNN @cnn.com · 2d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 4d
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5d
a note from the CBS reporter behind this story to her colleagues tonight
If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.

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Chicago News Bot @chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 7d
If you're staff, faculty, grad or undergrad student, alumni, or other community member of any UNC system school, please send Peter Hans a letter opposing the mandatory public release of syllabi.

First amendment & academic freedoms aside, this policy could actively endanger instructors of record.
Oppose the Public Release of Syllabi!
On Wednesday, December 17th, members of AAUP NC from across the state met with UNC system President Peter Hans to discuss our concerns over the proposed syllabi release policy. This meeting is a direc...
actionnetwork.org

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 8d
Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
 
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

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Attorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us · 8d
I am committed to vigorously defending Minnesota’s medical providers who do incredible work to treat and care for all Minnesotans, including our trans neighbors. I have already taken the Trump Admin to court to stop them from scapegoating the trans community. I will not hesitate to do so again.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Melanie C. Green

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8d
Honestly and sincerely, though: Fuck these guys.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2025 Contact: HHS Press Office 202-690-6343 Submit a Request for Comment HHS Acts to Bar Hospitals from Performing Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children

Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Silvia Secchi, Lesley Bartlett , and 3 more

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 8d
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
"In a related move, the Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to a dozen companies that market chest-binding vests and other equipment used by people with gender dysphoria. Manufacturers include GenderBender LLC of Carson, California and TomboyX of Seattle. The FDA letters state that chest binders can only be legally marketed for FDA-approved medical uses, such as recovery after mastectomy surgery." Screenshot from The AP posted on The Seattle Times.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d
Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Melanie C. Green

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d
also, this is Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill

a good reminder that as much as it’s helpful for her to be sticking knives in Trump she is a terrible nightmare person and you do not, under any circumstances, actually have to hand it to her

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Melanie C. Green

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d
“call your congresspeople and beg them not to sentence trans people to death” is a regular feature of our politics now and it fucking sucks

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9d
Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.

The bill passed only 216 to 214.

4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9d
BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.

This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Brendan Nyhan, Jörg Peters , and 1 more

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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 9d
🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨

We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait

The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...

Reposted by Steve Peers, Melanie C. Green, Ann Bartow

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10d
ProPublica could not find evidence Trump ever lived at either of the two Florida properties he claimed as principal residences in the 1990s.

Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org

Reposted by Will Jennings, Melanie C. Green, Kate Jackson , and 1 more

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10d
A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:

Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.

He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 10d
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 10d
incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs

It’s a eggnog recipe
nina b O 2 days ago ***&& I substituted the eggs for duck eggs and milk with geese fat and it came out terrible!! Please write in the recipe when reasonable substitutions cannot be made. +-2- → Reply Admin Stacy Popham © 5 hours ago | @ Reply to nina b Let me break this down for you.Duck eggs instead of chicken eggs? That's actually fine. Duck eggs work in eggnog. That's not your problem. Goose fat instead of milk? Goose fat is a solid cooking fat for roasting potatoes. Milk is a liquid dairy product. They are not interchangeable You essentially made hot melted goose fat with duck eggs. Of course it was terrible. Bottom line: If you fundamentally change the structure of a recipe by using completely different ingredients with entirely different properties, you're not making eggnog. You're conducting a failed science experiment. Make it again with actual dairy and report back.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10d
Just decline the peer review invitation.

What are you people even doing?
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Melanie C. Green

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 10d
See @jamiecummins.bsky.social 's work
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org

Reposted by Melanie C. Green

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 10d
In Special Damage, Jessica Lake offers a comparative legal history of gendered hate speech, verbal abuse, and sexual harassment across 19th-century America, Australia, and England. #ReadUP

https://www.sup.org/books/law/special-damage
Book cover of Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law by Jessica Lake

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, Melanie C. Green

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 11d
Asa former PO, I can say this level of workload & responsibility would have had me running for the hills. I can't imagine many rotaters nor permanent employees want this & the ones that do want this are definitely NOT the type of scientists you want with this amount of control/power.
hleisthen.bsky.social HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 11d
NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.

(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11d
www.npr.org/2025/12/13/n...?

On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
Fewer characters on TV had abortions this year — and more stories reinforced shame
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning.
www.npr.org

Reposted by Melanie C. Green

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 11d
One of the shocking things I found is that the Trump administration has begun charging a fee for a program for undcocumented, abandoned youth to obtain visas. They are literally demanding money from children - many of whom are orphans - who they know can't work. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/unde...
Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation
At his clinic, John Sirabella is a hard man to talk to. ...
talkingpointsmemo.com

Reposted by Melanie C. Green

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@cjereneta @cjereneta.bsky.social · 11d
On keeping hope right now, from @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on stream with @katmabu.bsky.social.

Reposted by David Lazer, Melanie C. Green, Shelley Boulianne

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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · 11d
FULL PROFESSOR OF DIGITAL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY
...at the DDC and DIAS, here at the University of Southern Denmark 🇩🇰

...open to various disciplines, including law, economics, political science, communication, journalism, or AI.

More info:
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 11d
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org