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Erika Davis
@erikastdav.bsky.social
she/her, social psychology PhD student at UOregon interested in literature and the self 📽️🐋☕️🪐🏳️‍🌈
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🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Fossils of the underwater predator shed new light on biodiversity from the Cambrian period.
Paleontologists discover a 500-million-year-old, 3-eyed predator
Fossils of the underwater predator shed new light on biodiversity from the Cambrian period.
www.npr.org
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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New paper alert!

Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com

nature.com/articles/s41...

THREAD! 🧵⬇️
May 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Strangely applicable...is there value in a life that is neither happy nor meaningful? Shige Oishi and I argue "yes" - that living in interesting times can itself be a third (if unconventional) path to the good life.

Check out our latest TiCS piece (gift link): authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7ERX4sI...
authors.elsevier.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Autistic people don't actually need to prove we can write a poem or wipe their asses, it's actually fine if we can't, our worth is not measured by our productivity and our value to the community does not diminish when we need more support.
April 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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I saw someone sum this issue up really well the other day on TikTok: If your science is focused on stopping autistic people from being born and not on making sure autistic people and their families have support and resources, that's eugenics.
April 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the irony of calling autism an epidemic while the text at the bottom of the screen is about the uncontained measles outbreak...
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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C^2 lab at #SPSP2025 (Shout out @vazjay.bsky.social for the graphic!)
February 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
we wouldn't have Stonewall or Pride without trans women of color. revisionist history is disgusting
The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument.

Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed.

3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened.

Erasure.
February 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Major breaking trans news: The States of Washington, Minnesota, and Oregon have sued the Trump administration to block it from enforcing a national gender affirming care ban for those under 19 years of age.

This is the second major lawsuit over Trump's trans ban EO.

Docs to come.
February 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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It would be nice if people could stop acting like DEI is an only a moral good.

DEI strengthens organizations. People from diverse backgrounds bring new ways of solving problems and serving people.

DEI isn’t a gift to diverse people. It’s a gift to the orgs that hire us.
February 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.

The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.

This one at UVA Hospital.
January 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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RFK Jr is saying that "autism is destroying our kids." Autism didn't destroy me, but ableism almost did, and eugenics/the mainstreaming of disinformation certainly threaten to.
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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DeSantis just appointed a new trustee to University of West Florida and he's a raging misogynist:

Career-oriented women are "medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome"

"The effort to erase the old standard of public men and private woman has been a mistake."

www.wuwf.org/local-news/2...
January 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM