ProfBarbaraKerr
@barbarakerr.bsky.social
Psychologist and Distinguished Professor, Fulbright Iceland Scholar. Author of Psychology of Liberty. I study creativity and psychological freedom. Kansas Farmer, Know-it-All, Chaotic Good.
Leon has won the JCO v Elon commentary Grand Prix.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Leon has won the JCO v Elon commentary Grand Prix.
A summary of why we are here in this moment.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A summary of why we are here in this moment.
Stages of women in the workplace: 1. We have one woman, she's one of the guys, no problem. 2. We have two women, and they're always talking to each other 3. Now 3 out of 10 of us are women, and they are taking over! 4. Guys, let's leave and form a higher status group. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Stages of women in the workplace: 1. We have one woman, she's one of the guys, no problem. 2. We have two women, and they're always talking to each other 3. Now 3 out of 10 of us are women, and they are taking over! 4. Guys, let's leave and form a higher status group. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Thank you, @mcopelov.bsky.social for the name, Ezra Douthglesius, which from this day forward shall be writ large in history of journalism.
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Thank you, @mcopelov.bsky.social for the name, Ezra Douthglesius, which from this day forward shall be writ large in history of journalism.
A daycare was traumatized today by ICE, and tonight, hundreds of parents and community members organize to support one another. ICE attacks bystanders brutally, and people record it. Ordinary Americans are standing up and pushing back.
Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A daycare was traumatized today by ICE, and tonight, hundreds of parents and community members organize to support one another. ICE attacks bystanders brutally, and people record it. Ordinary Americans are standing up and pushing back.
I donated, and I hope you do, too. These young women are the future of responsible, truthful journalism.
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I donated, and I hope you do, too. These young women are the future of responsible, truthful journalism.
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Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and…
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
Trying to find which group he hates that I belong to.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Trying to find which group he hates that I belong to.
@teenvogue.com Shame on you. Your reporting took young women seriously, provided intelligent political and cultural insights, and powered up a generation of leaders. All gone, now. And for what?
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
@teenvogue.com Shame on you. Your reporting took young women seriously, provided intelligent political and cultural insights, and powered up a generation of leaders. All gone, now. And for what?
Instead of texting me fifty times a day, the Democratic party offices should be stocked to the ceiling with food boxes to give away to people whose SNAP is ending, because that's what we should be about. I would donate to that.
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Instead of texting me fifty times a day, the Democratic party offices should be stocked to the ceiling with food boxes to give away to people whose SNAP is ending, because that's what we should be about. I would donate to that.
Just a little suggestion from a psychologist to world leaders who must talk with Trump. As a group, decide that you will only respond to him with " I don't understand what you are saying" repeatedly, rather than playing along. Or just, "Whut??"
October 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Just a little suggestion from a psychologist to world leaders who must talk with Trump. As a group, decide that you will only respond to him with " I don't understand what you are saying" repeatedly, rather than playing along. Or just, "Whut??"
Here in Kansas, authoritarianism drips slowly into our daily lives. Lose the pronouns in your official emails. Clean up your syllabus of forbidden words. Be careful what the job description says. As I drive home, I see this and say, "But at least I have this." For how long?
October 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Here in Kansas, authoritarianism drips slowly into our daily lives. Lose the pronouns in your official emails. Clean up your syllabus of forbidden words. Be careful what the job description says. As I drive home, I see this and say, "But at least I have this." For how long?
I read this again with detective-like zeal, imagining each person in turn as Nazi or not Nazi. Thompson is a canny observer of individual psychology. Happy, warm people who approach others with curiosity and geniality just don't go Nazi.
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I read this again with detective-like zeal, imagining each person in turn as Nazi or not Nazi. Thompson is a canny observer of individual psychology. Happy, warm people who approach others with curiosity and geniality just don't go Nazi.
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Worst filler arc ever, can we please just provide for our fellow Americans necessities and do more science please?
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Worst filler arc ever, can we please just provide for our fellow Americans necessities and do more science please?
I never thought, that as a scholar of psychology, I would spend an hour reading a court ruling in its entirety. I have a greater admiration for the legal reasoning that goes into these decisions than I ever have.
The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I never thought, that as a scholar of psychology, I would spend an hour reading a court ruling in its entirety. I have a greater admiration for the legal reasoning that goes into these decisions than I ever have.
Watching the terrifying Stephen Miller speech, I was reminded of Freud's descriptions of the two great human instincts (Eros - love, sexuality, cooperation, creativity and Thanatos - aggression, destruction, death). Miller seems motivated entirely by Thanatos.
September 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Watching the terrifying Stephen Miller speech, I was reminded of Freud's descriptions of the two great human instincts (Eros - love, sexuality, cooperation, creativity and Thanatos - aggression, destruction, death). Miller seems motivated entirely by Thanatos.
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I read these articles as they emerged in print. I know how hard it is to write with a broken heart from the broken heart of America, and @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has more courage than most of us to keep writing anyway.
September 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I read these articles as they emerged in print. I know how hard it is to write with a broken heart from the broken heart of America, and @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has more courage than most of us to keep writing anyway.
The latest think from billionaire funded Searchlight think tank is that Biden and Harris weren't moderate enough! That thinking is so 2K24, guys. Keep up.
September 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The latest think from billionaire funded Searchlight think tank is that Biden and Harris weren't moderate enough! That thinking is so 2K24, guys. Keep up.
I realize there has been a lot of news, but Fox news host Brian Kilmeade suggesting TWICE killing mentally ill people by lethal injection ought to warrant a statement from the #APA
September 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I realize there has been a lot of news, but Fox news host Brian Kilmeade suggesting TWICE killing mentally ill people by lethal injection ought to warrant a statement from the #APA
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And I think about all of you, too.
September 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And I think about all of you, too.
This is an important essay. Surprisingly the comments push back, with only scant evidence to support arguments for the use of race as a biological construct.
Medicine Still Treats Race as Biology. As a Physician, I Choose Evidence Instead. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Medicine Still Treats Race as Biology. As a Physician, I Choose Evidence Instead. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | Medicine Still Treats Race as Biology. As a Physician, I Choose Evidence Instead.
Treatment should be tailored to underlying causes of poor health
www.medpagetoday.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
This is an important essay. Surprisingly the comments push back, with only scant evidence to support arguments for the use of race as a biological construct.
Medicine Still Treats Race as Biology. As a Physician, I Choose Evidence Instead. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Medicine Still Treats Race as Biology. As a Physician, I Choose Evidence Instead. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US
The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.
www.thenation.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
I’m in.
July 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’m in.
A book review from my toughest critic -- my daughter!
July 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A book review from my toughest critic -- my daughter!