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attitudes • intergroup relations • immigration • GBM health • HIV stigma
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I'm also pleased to announce that I received one of three prestigious stickers for wining drag bingo at the CSRF drag social. This award truly represents the 'getting lucky' needed to succeed in academia
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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in a culmination of @shaynagram.bsky.social's attempts to turn me into a sex r*searcher, i'm excited to have been able to share my work on sexual minority men's experiences of discrimination. mental health, and the buffering effects of having same race / co-ethnic partners at #CSRF2025
October 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I hope to be able to share the (published) versions of my dissertation work soon, as well as my work from my postdoctoral fellowship. I am also currently on the academic job market
Bernie Sanders meme depicting Bernie in a brown winter jacket outside edited to say "I am once again asking you to hire me"
September 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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During my graduate studies, I was motivated to understand if narratives about economic contribution should be used to reduce anti-immigrant prejudice.

Economic thinking and cultural enrichment beliefs about immigration: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Of mice and machines: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Screenshot of PsyArxiv paper title "Economic thinking and cultural enrichment beliefs about immigration: Development and validation of the ETCEI scale" Screenshot of PsyArxiv paper title "Of mice and machines: The asymmetric dehumanization of immigrants as a function of perceived economic contribution"
September 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Last week, I had the honour of presenting my work on anti-immigrant attitudes for the Migration and Ethnic Relations Alumni Reunion at Western.
Image of title slide "Thinking about immigration in terms of economcis and culture: Implications for anti-immigrant sentiment" by Paolo A. Palma, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University and CTN+ James Kreppner Fellow from the CIHR Pan-Canadian Network for HIV and STBBI Clinical Trials Research
September 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Screenshot of thread fro r/powerscales reddit "Ignoring theology and focusing purely on his abilities as depicted in the bible, where does Jesus scale"
September 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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i mean . . .
Screenshot of BBC article titled "Justin Trudeau apologises after Nazi veteran honoured in parliament" Screenshot of Ottawa Citizen article "Victims of Communism memorial faces call to remove over 330 names linked to Nazis, fascists"
September 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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September 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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We should assess candidate preferences with the IAT or AMP
Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting depicting a man in a blue shirt and brown jacket standing up to state his opinion
July 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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gen-z stare
July 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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doi.org/10.1177/0003...
American Sociological Review article titled "Who are the illegals? The social construction of illegality in the United States" by Flores and Schachter. Abstract: Immigration scholars have increasingly questioned the idea that “illegality” is a fixed, inherent condition. Instead, the new consensus is that immigration laws produce “illegality.” But can “illegality” be socially constructed? When initially judging who is an “illegal immigrant,” common observers and even authorities typically do not rely on an individual’s documentation. Instead, people rely on shared stereotypes to assign “illegality” to certain bodies, a condition we refer to as “social illegality.” Ethnographers have documented that individual traits like occupation or national-origin may trigger illegality suspicions, but it is not clear how widespread these stereotypes are, or whether all stereotypes are equally consequential. To address this question, we examine the personal attributes shaping perceived “illegality.” We apply a paired conjoint survey experiment on a nationally representative sample of 1,515 non-Hispanic white U.S. adults to assess the independent effect of each dimension. We find that national origin, social class, and criminal background powerfully shape perceptions of illegality. These findings reveal a new source of ethnic-based inequalities—“social illegality”that may potentially increase law enforcement scrutiny and influence the decisions of hiring managers, landlords, teachers, and other members of the public.
July 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Looking at my health insurance coverage to see that they don't say whether they cover medical devices like CPAP but they *do* cover Christian Science practitioners.
Screenshot of medical expense coverage, highlighting the inclusion of "Christian Science practitioner"
July 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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learning what all these disorders are...
Willam Dafoe Spiderman meme with text edited, where an older white man (Willam Dafoe) in a suit is saying "You know, I'm something of a mental illness myself"
June 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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what it feels like to complain about service work
"Trade Offer" meme depicting man in suit with fingers clasped together. The words "Trade Offer" above his head. The trade offer says "I receive content to farm likes on academic social media" and "you receive my unpaid labour". There is bisexual lighting in the background.
June 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Disrespectfully, why are so many professors obsessed with getting their students to drink with them
When Stephen Harrison was in law school during the early 2010s, his social life revolved around a Thursday-evening get-together with a quippy name, common among juris students: Bar Review. It functioned as a happy hour for those submerged in the muck of legalese—a way to ditch the knotty intricacies of patent protection and tort claims with a couple of cold ones. Students and professors alike would gather at an off-campus pub to get to know their colleagues, bat around some scuttlebutt, and, most importantly, savor the levity of college life. Harrison loved the way Bar Review added enriching color to dreary weeknights; how the ritual could snowball into dinner, after-dinner drinks, and, eventually, lasting friendships. So when he became an adjunct professor at the University of North Texas in the 2020s, Harrison wanted to revive the tradition for a fresh generation of pupils. “I was only seeing them once a week,” said Harrison. “I thought a Friday happy hour could let me interact with the students and fellow instructors more.” However, when Harrison floated the idea in his classroom, his plans went down in flames. Happy hours, he was told, were a thing of the past. In fact, some of his students were downright scandalized by the suggestion.
May 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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its funny when strangers get weirdly aggressive on bluesky because i have this setting turned on so they're literally screaming at a brick wall
Screenshot of Bluesky notification setting with "priority notifications" enabled, limiting notifications for reply and quotes to people I follow.
May 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Tried to argue against a scale one time and was met with "this is a frequently used scale" like I wasn't gonna say "well they were wrong too"
Excerpt from the web page linked in the quote tweet: The Loyalist “We’ve used this survey for years. We have benchmark data.” They trust the legacy. They don’t want to lose the trend line. And they assume that if it worked before, it must still be working now. But familiarity doesn’t equal quality. And even data that is benchmarked can still be bad.
May 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Canada 🤝 Australia
May 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The average American has three friends
Image of the cyberball task, depicting three cartoon players playing catch. In this image, Player 1 is throwing the ball to Player 3, with Player 2 excluded.
May 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Meme showing two men holding hands, and a third man whose pictures are crossed out. Word art caption edited to say "friendship ended with NDP, now Bloc is my new best friend"
April 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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watching the liberals pick up more seats
April 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Meme of stick figure dad in a hat and smoking a cigarette entering your room, asking "are ya winning, liberals?"
April 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Image of Seymour Skinner from the Simpsons, edited to say "Am I in an echo chamber?" Image of Seymour Skinner from the Simpsons, edited to say "No it is others who lack ideological diversity"
April 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM