Shelby Rivers
@ashelbyrivers.bsky.social
She/her. Social/health psych, assistant prof. Views always my own and do not represent my employer. 🐈⬛🧛♀️🎮🪴🥘🎶📖
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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This is an important and information rich article. I wondered about the effects by Institute. The table below (which is snipped here but is in the article) has that info. Broken down by # of grants and $ amounts.
December 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is an important and information rich article. I wondered about the effects by Institute. The table below (which is snipped here but is in the article) has that info. Broken down by # of grants and $ amounts.
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Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program
The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...
psych.princeton.edu
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
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For everyone who replies to stuff like this with "obviously"
- it's NOT LEGIBLE TO MANY INSTITUTIONS UNTIL IT'S MEASURED
- WE NEED TO HAVE EVIDENCE FOR THE THINGS "we all know"
- ACTUALLY SEEING THE MAGNITUDE AND NUANCES OF THESE KIND OF EFFECTS MATTERS AND IT MATTERS OVER TIME TOO
- it's NOT LEGIBLE TO MANY INSTITUTIONS UNTIL IT'S MEASURED
- WE NEED TO HAVE EVIDENCE FOR THE THINGS "we all know"
- ACTUALLY SEEING THE MAGNITUDE AND NUANCES OF THESE KIND OF EFFECTS MATTERS AND IT MATTERS OVER TIME TOO
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
For everyone who replies to stuff like this with "obviously"
- it's NOT LEGIBLE TO MANY INSTITUTIONS UNTIL IT'S MEASURED
- WE NEED TO HAVE EVIDENCE FOR THE THINGS "we all know"
- ACTUALLY SEEING THE MAGNITUDE AND NUANCES OF THESE KIND OF EFFECTS MATTERS AND IT MATTERS OVER TIME TOO
- it's NOT LEGIBLE TO MANY INSTITUTIONS UNTIL IT'S MEASURED
- WE NEED TO HAVE EVIDENCE FOR THE THINGS "we all know"
- ACTUALLY SEEING THE MAGNITUDE AND NUANCES OF THESE KIND OF EFFECTS MATTERS AND IT MATTERS OVER TIME TOO
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We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
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What are the effects of the shutdown on SNAP users? Propel provides an app to SNAP users to allow them to track their spending and so can offer real-time estimates of needs.
About 70% of SNAP households have a $10 or less balance on their SNAP card accounts.
www.propel.app/shutdown-fun...
About 70% of SNAP households have a $10 or less balance on their SNAP card accounts.
www.propel.app/shutdown-fun...
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
What are the effects of the shutdown on SNAP users? Propel provides an app to SNAP users to allow them to track their spending and so can offer real-time estimates of needs.
About 70% of SNAP households have a $10 or less balance on their SNAP card accounts.
www.propel.app/shutdown-fun...
About 70% of SNAP households have a $10 or less balance on their SNAP card accounts.
www.propel.app/shutdown-fun...
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A new permanent R&T position at Lecturer level was just advertised at my favourite department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social (yes, I am biased but for very good reasons). Consider applying if you are looking for an academic home. And please spread the word !
🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025.
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)
Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A new permanent R&T position at Lecturer level was just advertised at my favourite department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social (yes, I am biased but for very good reasons). Consider applying if you are looking for an academic home. And please spread the word !
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Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time).
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
Jobs at Defend Public Health | Defend Public Health
See the paid positions we have open to build the Defend Public Health movement.
www.defendpublichealth.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time).
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
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The words a woman chooses to call her genitals reveals something about her sexual well-being. Using playful/childish terms in non-sexual contexts is linked to negative outcomes; using vulgar terms during sex is connected to positive sexual experiences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Vagina, Pussy, Vulva, Vag: Women's Names for Their Genitals are Differentially Associated with Sexual and Health Outcomes - Sex Roles
Feminist scholars have long emphasized the power of language in shaping women's feelings and behaviors towards their bodies, yet this proposition remains underexplored with regard to women’s genitals....
link.springer.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The words a woman chooses to call her genitals reveals something about her sexual well-being. Using playful/childish terms in non-sexual contexts is linked to negative outcomes; using vulgar terms during sex is connected to positive sexual experiences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I’m picking up my preorder later!
It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
bookshop.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I’m picking up my preorder later!
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Yong people are broke bc they buy Starbucks daily ($42)
Became
bc they buy avocado toast in a sitdown restaurant weekly ($20)
Became
bc of a weekly to-go pastry ($6)
Will soon be
You're broke bc you buy one non-gruel item EVERY month
Even the inequality-absolving caricature is shrinkflating
Became
bc they buy avocado toast in a sitdown restaurant weekly ($20)
Became
bc of a weekly to-go pastry ($6)
Will soon be
You're broke bc you buy one non-gruel item EVERY month
Even the inequality-absolving caricature is shrinkflating
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yong people are broke bc they buy Starbucks daily ($42)
Became
bc they buy avocado toast in a sitdown restaurant weekly ($20)
Became
bc of a weekly to-go pastry ($6)
Will soon be
You're broke bc you buy one non-gruel item EVERY month
Even the inequality-absolving caricature is shrinkflating
Became
bc they buy avocado toast in a sitdown restaurant weekly ($20)
Became
bc of a weekly to-go pastry ($6)
Will soon be
You're broke bc you buy one non-gruel item EVERY month
Even the inequality-absolving caricature is shrinkflating
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Exclusive: Most of the government editorial staff at Preventing Chronic Disease, an academic journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than 2 decades, have been told they’re being terminated, leaving the publication’s future uncertain. https://scim.ag/3LAtvJ6
Exclusive: Future of chronic disease journal in limbo after cuts at CDC
Researchers dismayed by the targeting of Preventing Chronic Disease’s editorial staff
scim.ag
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Exclusive: Most of the government editorial staff at Preventing Chronic Disease, an academic journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than 2 decades, have been told they’re being terminated, leaving the publication’s future uncertain. https://scim.ag/3LAtvJ6
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With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
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Calling all 18-24 year-olds in Boston! 📢 Join our study on young adults’ media habits at @comatbu.bsky.social @bucomresearch.bsky.social. Your insights matter! See below to learn more & sign up. Please share with friends! #Boston #Research #MediaStudy
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Calling all 18-24 year-olds in Boston! 📢 Join our study on young adults’ media habits at @comatbu.bsky.social @bucomresearch.bsky.social. Your insights matter! See below to learn more & sign up. Please share with friends! #Boston #Research #MediaStudy
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Help to memorialize our federal datasets with Dearly Departed Datasets from @essentialdata.us 🎃
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Memorialize the federal datasets that have been terminated or removed
This Halloween season, we're remembering the federal datasets that have met an untimely end — the ones that were terminated or removed. Help us memorialize these Dearly Departed Datasets so we can all...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Help to memorialize our federal datasets with Dearly Departed Datasets from @essentialdata.us 🎃
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Timeline cleanse.
October 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Timeline cleanse.
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Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases. www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards
Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases.
www.brown.edu
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases. www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
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Register for Don't Use This Code's free Open Science Skills virtual training! Learn to:
- Use tools like GitHub, Python & Zenodo
- Make research accessible, transparent & reproducible
- Understand concepts like FAIR & CARE
- Draft Open Science & Data Management plans
🔗: www.opensciencetraining.org
- Use tools like GitHub, Python & Zenodo
- Make research accessible, transparent & reproducible
- Understand concepts like FAIR & CARE
- Draft Open Science & Data Management plans
🔗: www.opensciencetraining.org
Open Science Training
www.opensciencetraining.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Register for Don't Use This Code's free Open Science Skills virtual training! Learn to:
- Use tools like GitHub, Python & Zenodo
- Make research accessible, transparent & reproducible
- Understand concepts like FAIR & CARE
- Draft Open Science & Data Management plans
🔗: www.opensciencetraining.org
- Use tools like GitHub, Python & Zenodo
- Make research accessible, transparent & reproducible
- Understand concepts like FAIR & CARE
- Draft Open Science & Data Management plans
🔗: www.opensciencetraining.org
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."
Also university administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."
Also university administration:
October 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."
Also university administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."
Also university administration:
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Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email ryan.quinn@insidehighered.com today. Thank you.
October 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email ryan.quinn@insidehighered.com today. Thank you.
I shared this with my students in my most writing intensive class today.
Outstanding interview, so many great quotes here. Loved the weightroom analogy:
October 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I shared this with my students in my most writing intensive class today.
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BSAM is welcoming submissions on any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine for a special issue for protocols and data notes! Goal is to support open/transparent research culture. Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026.
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
BSAM is welcoming submissions on any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine for a special issue for protocols and data notes! Goal is to support open/transparent research culture. Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026.
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📢 CALL FOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS 📢
The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (JSPR) and SAGE invite applications for three Associate Editor roles (three-year term, annual stipend, renewable)
For more information, contact Sophie Donnelly (sophie.donnelly@sagepub.co.uk
The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (JSPR) and SAGE invite applications for three Associate Editor roles (three-year term, annual stipend, renewable)
For more information, contact Sophie Donnelly (sophie.donnelly@sagepub.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
📢 CALL FOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS 📢
The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (JSPR) and SAGE invite applications for three Associate Editor roles (three-year term, annual stipend, renewable)
For more information, contact Sophie Donnelly (sophie.donnelly@sagepub.co.uk
The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (JSPR) and SAGE invite applications for three Associate Editor roles (three-year term, annual stipend, renewable)
For more information, contact Sophie Donnelly (sophie.donnelly@sagepub.co.uk