Laura King
kingla.bsky.social
Laura King
@kingla.bsky.social
Personality/social psychologist. Opinions are my own 🏳️‍🌈
Scientists Confirm Aurora Borealis Will Be Visible On Google Images Tonight https://theonion.com/scientists-confirm-aurora-borealis-will-be-visible-on-google-images-tonight/
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Phew!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My class today had an amazing lecture from @h4x354x0r.bsky.social so grateful for those who bring joy in this sometimes dark world!
The Hacky Sack Man (@h4x354x0r.bsky.social)
Columbia Missouri's Hacky Sack Man. Old school computing hacker, grandmaster Hacky Sack / Footbag player. Here's a profile piece Vice did on me: https://youtu.be/K2_Gd0Lo0GU?si=rtuZg8RwFgQPbkF Also ha...
h4x354x0r.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Omg canvas???
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
😡😡😡

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
To the 149 people “still waiting for me to read” their messages on ResearchGate, sorry but I’ve got >1000 emails in
My inbox. Get in line!
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....
Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...
werkenbij.uva.nl
September 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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This old piece of mine is relevant today: How to think about the risk of autism, using the common yardstick of risk ratios.

The only update is that the risk ratio for Tylenol is 1.0, i.e. no added risk. www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/o...
Opinion | How to Think About the Risk of Autism (Published 2014)
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For medical matters, rely on your healthcare professionals.
September 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Announcing SPSP's 2026 Self & Identity precon (bit.ly/4mn2WDT), which will have a timely focus on activist and ally identities. We have a phenomenal set of speakers (Linda Tropp! Kim Rios! Lucy De Souza! Teri Kirby! Dan McAdams!) and are accepting data blitz and poster submissions until Oct 23!
September 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Really troubling.

Faculty should expect to be video recorded and have those videos edited and misrepresented.

Faculty in southern states are looking to leave — either that location or academia entirely.

Blue states could grow higher ed to recruit students and faculty in a red state brain drain.
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
September 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Sports Broadcasters: Speaking for marching band parents everywhere, WHY CAN’T YOU SHOW SNIPPETS OF THE HALFTIME SHOW?!?!?
September 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I wonder how all the finance bros who voted for Trump because they wanted to say slurs without consequences feel right now

www.axios.com/2025/09/05/j...
U.S. economy adds only 22,000 jobs as labor market stalls
It's the first jobs report since Trump fired the BLS commissioner and alleged the data was rigged against him.
www.axios.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:

-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040

How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.

You will note USA is not on this list.
September 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"If the US government persists down this current path...the world will inevitably witness a tragic increase in child deaths..."

Sobering warning from @drsethberkley.bsky.social @science.org

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
They were Romulans not Vulcans. Calm down.
August 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Once the university joined the SEC, we’re shooed off campus on game day afternoons. Priorities!
August 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
thinking about all the times I went with my class across the street to the church for Mass in our blue & green plaid uniforms & only the old people on the back to hear us pray & sing. 😥
August 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Alarmingly, Black student enrollment is decreasing in the University of Michigan's psychology doctoral program. In my year (last year), there were 5 of us. This year, there is 1 student, representing 2% of the entire cohort.

Op Ed from Dr. Kevin Cokley.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/blac...
Making Psychology White Again: The Impact of Dismantling DEI
The dismantling of DEI will likely lead to a decrease in Black psychologists. For psychology to be a tool for equity and justice, we cannot make psychology (only) White again.
www.psychologytoday.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
why do folks use message board posts as course requirements? 1/3
August 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM