Kelli Vaughn-Johnson
@kvaughnjohnson.bsky.social
Psychologist-Historian in training lost in history of women in psych gendering of mind-lab-science & body politic she/her LotsO’Rt #histpsych @feministvoices
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What Cory Booker spoke about for 25 hours: the programs holding America together
Threats to public education, Social Security and Medicaid were at the heart of the senator’s record-setting floor speech against the Trump administration.
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“What is more needed now is less people sitting on the sidelines. Less people being witnesses of American history and more people being determined to make it. To make history, to call to the conscience of this nation,” - Cory Booker 19thnews.org/2025/04/cory...
“Your Gift Will Be Matched
We are thrilled to announce a $1 million matching gift challenge for the Archives Renovation Initiative. “ #psychology #science #museum #humanity #archives #christmas www.uakron.edu/chp/giving-t...
We are thrilled to announce a $1 million matching gift challenge for the Archives Renovation Initiative. “ #psychology #science #museum #humanity #archives #christmas www.uakron.edu/chp/giving-t...
Help Preserve History: Consider the Archives this Giving Tuesday
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December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“Your Gift Will Be Matched
We are thrilled to announce a $1 million matching gift challenge for the Archives Renovation Initiative. “ #psychology #science #museum #humanity #archives #christmas www.uakron.edu/chp/giving-t...
We are thrilled to announce a $1 million matching gift challenge for the Archives Renovation Initiative. “ #psychology #science #museum #humanity #archives #christmas www.uakron.edu/chp/giving-t...
Geneva, Switzerland
11 June & 12 June 2026
This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. #histsci #history #science #histpsy
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11 June & 12 June 2026
This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. #histsci #history #science #histpsy
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call for papers | HISRESS
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November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Geneva, Switzerland
11 June & 12 June 2026
This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. #histsci #history #science #histpsy
hisress.org/cfp/
11 June & 12 June 2026
This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. #histsci #history #science #histpsy
hisress.org/cfp/
My mom was a 10 yr old white girl watching this sit in through the window from the street. It changed her .. love to see the recognition now www.news9.com/story/69042c...
Movement Makers: Clara Luper Plaza honors Oklahoma City sit-in that helped desegregate Katz Stores
Sixty-seven years after a group of kids started a sit-in protest for equal rights in Oklahoma City, their impact on the civil rights movement is being recognized.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My mom was a 10 yr old white girl watching this sit in through the window from the street. It changed her .. love to see the recognition now www.news9.com/story/69042c...
“Some of those strategists have spoken of their desire to dismantle public #education. Others hope to push it in the same direction as Oklahoma “ www.propublica.org/article/trum...
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Some of those strategists have spoken of their desire to dismantle public #education. Others hope to push it in the same direction as Oklahoma “ www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half … So it begins www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half … So it begins www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.
October 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.
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“Iraq’s new Personal Status Code further institutionalizes discrimination against women, legally relegating them to second class citizens...It should be repealed immediately.” - Sarah Sanbar, Iraq researcher at @hrw
Read more: https://bit.ly/4n4E9oA
Read more: https://bit.ly/4n4E9oA
Iraq: New Personal Status Code Makes Women Second Class
Iraq’s new Ja’afari Personal Status Code, passed by parliament on August 27, discriminates against women by favoring men in matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and children’s guardianship and c...
www.hrw.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Iraq’s new Personal Status Code further institutionalizes discrimination against women, legally relegating them to second class citizens...It should be repealed immediately.” - Sarah Sanbar, Iraq researcher at @hrw
Read more: https://bit.ly/4n4E9oA
Read more: https://bit.ly/4n4E9oA
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It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?
October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?
“ White House is initiating layoffs during shutdown by choice – administrations are not required to carry out firings when gov funding lapses. Layoffs are separate from the furloughs when government funding runs out. “ www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...
Firings of federal workers underway as government shutdown drags on, Trump budget chief announces | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has begun firing federal workers, the White House’s budget chief announced Friday, as Republicans look to maximize pressure on the Democratic Party more than a week into the g...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“ White House is initiating layoffs during shutdown by choice – administrations are not required to carry out firings when gov funding lapses. Layoffs are separate from the furloughs when government funding runs out. “ www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...
His latest work to appear in English is “Herscht 07769,” features only one period in its 400 pages…
“I wanted to be free to stray far from my literary ancestors, and not make some new version of Kafka or Dostoyevsky or Faulkner.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
“I wanted to be free to stray far from my literary ancestors, and not make some new version of Kafka or Dostoyevsky or Faulkner.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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October 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
His latest work to appear in English is “Herscht 07769,” features only one period in its 400 pages…
“I wanted to be free to stray far from my literary ancestors, and not make some new version of Kafka or Dostoyevsky or Faulkner.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
“I wanted to be free to stray far from my literary ancestors, and not make some new version of Kafka or Dostoyevsky or Faulkner.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Rest in Power & Peace
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
October 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rest in Power & Peace
Christmas comes early to the Oklahoma education system, parents , children, random strangers .. Today was a good day. bit.ly/485HjEZ
Supt. Ryan Walters announces resignation
State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced his resignation on Wednesday night on FOX News.
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September 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Christmas comes early to the Oklahoma education system, parents , children, random strangers .. Today was a good day. bit.ly/485HjEZ
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Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway. A new DOGE tool called SweetREX Deregulation AI automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.
A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation
Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.
www.wired.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway. A new DOGE tool called SweetREX Deregulation AI automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.
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Congress attempted to take over Washington, DC, in 1989, when crime was actually a problem, and the results were disastrous. wapo.st/3UnZail
Congress tried to control D.C. police in 1989. The results were disastrous.
Today, relaxed criminal laws and a pandemic-era crime spike have again made D.C. a federal target. But little is known about exactly how federal officials plan to improve the conditions they complain ...
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August 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Congress attempted to take over Washington, DC, in 1989, when crime was actually a problem, and the results were disastrous. wapo.st/3UnZail
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Pew poll: Trump job approval
38% approve
60% disapprove
Aug. 4-10, U.S. adults
38% approve
60% disapprove
Aug. 4-10, U.S. adults
August 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Pew poll: Trump job approval
38% approve
60% disapprove
Aug. 4-10, U.S. adults
38% approve
60% disapprove
Aug. 4-10, U.S. adults
“In a letter sent to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, three top White House officials want to ensure the museums..reflect the president’s executive order calling for “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
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Exclusive | White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision
Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.
www.wsj.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“In a letter sent to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, three top White House officials want to ensure the museums..reflect the president’s executive order calling for “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Fun things! A little history of two women’s influence on the founding of clinical psychology. #psychology #history www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Those catalytic women teachers: Mary Marvin, Margaret Maguire, and the social history of the psychological clinic of the University of Pennsylvania, 1870–1920
PDF | The emergence of clinical psychology as a distinct scholarly field is usually traced to 1896, when Lightner Witmer established the country’s first... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Fun things! A little history of two women’s influence on the founding of clinical psychology. #psychology #history www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Rest in power!
Margaret Rossiter, whose #histsci scholarship revealed structural inequalities affecting #WomenInSTEM, has passed away. Dr. Rossiter was co-founder of @historyscience.bsky.social’s Women’s Caucus & namesake of a prize honoring work on the history of women in science. May her memory be a blessing.
August 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Rest in power!
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Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
“The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has removed explicit reference to President Donald Trump from an exhibit about impeachment, a spokesperson said on Thursday.”
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American history museum removes Trump's name from impeachment exhibit
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has removed explicit reference to President Donald Trump from an exhibit about impeachment, a spokesperson said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has removed explicit reference to President Donald Trump from an exhibit about impeachment, a spokesperson said on Thursday.”
www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
“To the stewards of our nation’s cultural and commercial institutions: Don’t dupe yourselves. The illusion that you are smarter than the strongman, that you’ll outmaneuver him with silent cleverness, is just that - an illusion. Your principled leadership matters.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“To the stewards of our nation’s cultural and commercial institutions: Don’t dupe yourselves. The illusion that you are smarter than the strongman, that you’ll outmaneuver him with silent cleverness, is just that - an illusion. Your principled leadership matters.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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DNA of 133,000 migrant children have been added to a criminal database which now allows police to treat them like suspects “indefinitely”
Sen. @wyden.senate.gov criticizes the “chilling expansion” of a sprawling and opaque system that withholds basic facts about its operation
Reports @wired.com
Sen. @wyden.senate.gov criticizes the “chilling expansion” of a sprawling and opaque system that withholds basic facts about its operation
Reports @wired.com
DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children
The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
www.wired.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
DNA of 133,000 migrant children have been added to a criminal database which now allows police to treat them like suspects “indefinitely”
Sen. @wyden.senate.gov criticizes the “chilling expansion” of a sprawling and opaque system that withholds basic facts about its operation
Reports @wired.com
Sen. @wyden.senate.gov criticizes the “chilling expansion” of a sprawling and opaque system that withholds basic facts about its operation
Reports @wired.com
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From @apajournals.bsky.social,"Storytelling as Activism: Combatting Anti-Asian Racism with Asian American Feminist, Critical Autoethnography" by @drsherrycwang.bsky.social - There is a pressing need for women of color and Third World Women feminist autoethnographies psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
July 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
From @apajournals.bsky.social,"Storytelling as Activism: Combatting Anti-Asian Racism with Asian American Feminist, Critical Autoethnography" by @drsherrycwang.bsky.social - There is a pressing need for women of color and Third World Women feminist autoethnographies psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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Damn, I was so close.
July 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Damn, I was so close.