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Ginny Vitiello
@gvitiello.bsky.social
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Dev psych, early ed, science, math, individual differences. Trans-inclusive feminist. New College 💔 Mostly re-post stuff.
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October 17, 2025 The United States Department of Education Washington, DC 20202 Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley, Thank you for your letter inviting comment on the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. We wholeheartedly agree that “American higher education is the envy of the world.” We also agree with many of the principles outlined in the Compact, including a fair and unbiased admissions process, an affordable and academically rigorous education, a thriving marketplace of ideas, institutional neutrality, and equal treatment of students, faculty, and staff in all aspects of university operations. Indeed, the University of Virginia leads in several of these areas and is committed to continuous improvement in all of them. We seek no special treatment in exchange for our pursuit of those foundational goals. The integrity of science and other academic work requires merit-based assessment of research and scholarship. A contractual arrangement predicating assessment on anything other than merit will undermine the integrity of vital, sometimes lifesaving, research and further erode confidence in American higher education. Higher education faces significant challenges and has not always lived up to its highest ideals. We believe that the best path toward real and durable progress lies in an open and collaborative conversation. We look forward to working together to develop alternative, lasting approaches to improving higher education. Sincerely yours, Paul Mahoney Interim President
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
It’s likely that the influence of this machine, and its ability to drive young people to the radical fringes, would be diminished if American life today wasn’t governed by a sense of chaos and collapse. Economic insecurity, increasing unemployment, the inability to start families or buy homes, coupled with a livestreamed parade of death emanating from Gaza and the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard into American cities, are just a few obvious factors driving these feelings.
September 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Ice agent in a pink button-down and baggy jeans detains a man in Charlottesville w/out showing a warrant
May 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Um hello, DESSA?
Funny AI-generated image, cartoon-style, with nonsense words about Social-Emotional Learning (e.g., Teamefy Growth, Youlf voice matters, Teamshipy) Another page of funny cartoonish AI-generated images and text (e.g., Self-Awaretness, Self-Emdarethess, Self--Awareness). Text below indicates this is a DESSA self-assessment cover page.
March 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Head Start serves very vulnerable children and families, not to mention that it employs community members as teachers and leaders.
January 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A little on the nose
An American flag flying at half staff, ripped up into ribbons and stuck in some tree branches
January 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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My Stella-bella. Second pic is the look she gives me all day while I work.
Pic of golden doodle, sad to be wearing a flower on her collar Pic of golden doodle, sad to be lying on the floor instead of being fed/walked/played with.
November 12, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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I just realized I hate doing grant proposal appendices.
"The more you know" graphic from 1980s/90s public service announcements - the words "the more you know" riding on the rainbow-colored tail of a shooting star.
August 30, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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Wait what?
August 29, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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why is Massachusetts the best state

www.npr.org/2024/08/21/g...
August 21, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Ok this error is not going to kill anyone but it's so freaking basic
July 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Oh shit Evan, ‘bias’ is you
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July 12, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/o...
July 11, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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My brother got name-checked by Maintenance Phase!!! 🤩🤩🤩🌈🦄💜🫠🥹😍🌈🌈🌈⭐⭐✨✨🦄⭐💜🤩

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Screenshot of Maintenance Phase playing on my phone with Evan Urquhart's name highlighted - he helped them fact check the episode!!
June 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Oof. - UVA's Chief of Police. Wonder what exactly he teaches?
Longo also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Law School, where he teachers Police Use of Force, and guest lectures in a host of other programs related to the criminal justice system.
May 9, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Oof. Even for Charlottesville this is a bit much.
Day camp, $1,029 USD/1 week, Jul 22-26, Check-in Mon-Fri 8:30-9am, Pick-up Mon-Thu 4:30-5pm, Fri 2-3pm
April 10, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Very dorky but many, many years ago, 2 grad student colleagues and I went as a mediation model #memories
mediation model
October 23, 2023 at 7:52 PM
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New levels of predatory journal invites flying around this morning....
invitation to publish in a journal called "Cattle Practice"
October 19, 2023 at 2:11 PM