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Kathryn Paige Harden

@kph3k.bsky.social

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Psychology & behavior genetics. Author of THE GENETIC LOTTERY (2021) and ORIGINAL SIN (coming 2026).

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · Aug 3

I wrote another book & I'm very excited (& nervous) for it to be released into the world: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714593...

Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden: 9780593447628 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An intellectually daring and deeply intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment and moral responsibility—from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic....

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 57m

BROWN UNIV.: “.. the compact by its nature and by various provisions would restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 8h

it really dramatizes the CBT triangle of thoughts, behaviors, emotion so well

Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 8h

We are late to this party, but if you are looking for an opportunity to have a conversation with your tween daughter about perfectionism, negative emotions, critical self-talk, watching KPop Demon Hunters together is the *perfect* opening

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 1d

Tenure is absolutely meaningless if “controversial statements”, particularly ones made outside the classroom, constitute “misconduct” that gets you fired.

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 2d

New from @ent3c.bsky.social in The Atlantic --

7 years (!) after Charles Murray made a bet with us that we'd "understand IQ genetically" by 2025, Eric describes how far we still are--and might always be--from that goal

www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 4d

Virginia Senate leaders say UVa should cease considering the “compact”:

“The conditions outlined … are fundamentally incompatible with the mission and values of a premier public research university.”

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Virginia Senate leaders express “unequivocal opposition” to Compact

The letter calls upon the University to immediately cease consideration of the Compact, and if not, the state will work to negatively impact the University’s funding.

www.cavalierdaily.com

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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 5d

"dependence is the modal human condition"

Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · Aug 19

I wrote about the Don't Die biohackers who want to live forever, Viviana Zelizer's sociological history of the life insurance industry, and Ira, the cute nurse who fixed my grandmother's IV at 1 AM:

open.substack.com/pub/kathrynp...

Don't Die

Thoughts on aging, fragility, and care from my grandmother's hospital room

open.substack.com

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 5d

"Perhaps the most enthusiastic response came from the University of Texas at Austin, which is in a state that has aggressively tried to control what professors can teach in the classroom on sensitive topics like gender." 💔

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 5d

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 9d

From Forward magazine:

"a revelatory, at times horrifying deconstruction of the New Right; it shows how we arrived at this moment, and it discusses the intentions of those who hope to push it further. ... We recommend her book for the essential knowledge it contains"

Mind the Truth

I write to you consumed by worry. I want to celebrate the beautiful stories in this issue, with their fairies and saints, their quests and luminescent LGBTQ+ love stories—and you should relish in each...

www.forewordreviews.com

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 9d

My friend @lkatfield.bsky.social has a book coming out that I think is essential reading for everyone. A starred review in Publisher's Weekly called it a "formidable debut ... a meticulous and unsettling revelation of a right-wing plan for a 'new old-fashioned world.'"

Furious Minds

The story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, and democracy

press.princeton.edu

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 12d

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 13d

We left Austin (and UT) for personal reasons, not political ones. That said, this story makes me relieved that we got out when we did—and despondent for the future of an amazing institution that played a really important role in my life; and whose students, staff, faculty, and alumni deserve better:

New Trump plan offers UT funding benefits with conditions on academics

The Trump administration named the University of Texas as one of nine schools that can access funding benefits in exchange for demands outlined in a compact.

www.statesman.com

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 13d

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Elliot Tucker-Drob @tuckerdrob.bsky.social · 14d

Non-paywalled link to my commentary on @vw1234.bsky.social and colleagues new paper in @nature.com rdcu.be/eI2NG

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Dave Morningstar @davemorningstar.bsky.social · 14d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A global academic freedom group has warned that the Trump administration’s assault on universities is turning the US into a “model for how to dismantle” academic freedom. ...

‘Unprecedented in history’: global academic freedom group warns of dismantling in US

Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025

www.theguardian.com

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 17d

“People who believe so richly in the inherent goodness of whiteness that they believe empathy alone will grow the hearts of fascists are both hustlers and easily hustled.” - Hanif Abdurraqib, There’s Always This Year

Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 17d

Only one of these men sounds like he’s ever been near an Evangelical church before.

Sincerely wish that Klein would have someone like Jen Hatmaker on, to disabuse him of this notion that no one on “our” side is having difficult conversations in Evangelical churches

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 18d

Hard to choose just one quote from this piercingly articulate essay:

www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

But a similar process can be seen even among those who recoil from such cruel and explicit othering. Many people come to be deeply invested in condemning the disruptive act that threatens to upend order—whether it be Kirk’s killing or a protest in the streets—even as they eagerly accept the far greater violence that structures their daily lives. In this case, what is repressed is the violence of order itself; what is disavowed is our own entanglement with it and ethical responsibility to confront it. What cannot be acknowledged, because it is too incriminating or compromising to one’s identification with order, is projected outward onto the system itself. In this scheme, “political violence” can only be what threatens this system, not what the system itself does.

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 18d

in addition to not seeming to get the scandalous claim at the heart of her religion—count it all joy, the meek shall inherit the earth, God incarnate was an innocent victim—she also really doesn’t understand how science works:

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 18d

The irony of two people who both profess to worship a crucified Christ complaining about ”culture of victimhood.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

Opinion | The Grand Strategy Behind Trump’s Crackdown on Academia

www.nytimes.com

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 18d

“There is no state or federal law that prohibits instruction on gender identity in college classes.“ This sentence is essential. They aren’t even bothering to pass laws now. The SB17 law in Texas specifically exempts instruction! They are just making things up and calling it law.

Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 19d

Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.

Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities

Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities.

www.texastribune.org

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