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Linda Skitka
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Emerita Distinguished Professor, U of Illinois Chicago | Michigan & Cal-Berkeley Grad | Social, Political, and Moral Psychologist | Endlessly Curious | https://sites.google.com/view/lindaskitka

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Linda J. Skitka is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Skitka's research bridges a number of areas of inquiry including social, political, and moral psychology. .. more

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 3d
Congratulations, Calvin!

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 3d
Worth reading—>
jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 3d
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion.

I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.

🧵 Long thread.

Reposted by Kori Schake, Linda J. Skitka, Patrick A. Jansen , and 7 more

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 3d
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion.

I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.

🧵 Long thread.

Reposted by Kori Schake, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 26 more

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 5d
Best holiday dinner dessert?

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Janet Murray, David R. Miller , and 1 more

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 6d
Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
"I guess I have a very different view of the dangers and real-world consequences of your position than what you explored with Justice Kavanaugh. My understanding was that independent agencies exist because Congress has decided that some issues, some matters, some areas should be handled in this way by nonpartisan experts—that Congress is saying that expertise matters with respect to aspects of the economy and transportation and the various independent agencies that we have. "So having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States."

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 8d
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adambonica.bsky.social Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 8d
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com

Reposted by Simon Hix, Brendan Nyhan, Linda J. Skitka , and 15 more

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 8d
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 8d
Sickening.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Richard E. Lenski, Linda J. Skitka , and 7 more

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8d
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 10d
🤔 Curious about career options beyond academia? Join James Dunlea of Healogix for a Free-Form Friday session that will focus on navigating this transition and best practices for tackling the industry job-hunt.

📆December 5, 2-3 PM ET

👉Sign up: https://ow.ly/viEY50XByLq
Colorful banner for Free-Form Friday event on leaving academia, hosted by James Dunlea of Healogix, scheduled for Friday, December 5, 2-3 PM ET.

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 11d
Leviticus knew his hot dogs, after all.

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 11d
Way to cancel a kosher hotdog, right?

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 11d
Still not sure of the purpose of the cream cheese, but brat and grilled onions are a winning combo, and better than hot dog and grilled onions any day.

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 11d
I love grilled onions, and have no doubt that I would be able to resist it under the circumstances you describe! But the mechanics mystify me: How do you smear cream cheese on a hot dog bun? A bagel has the structure to handle it…but but…

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 11d
LOL. Given your geographical origins, I think I can guess the direction here ;-)

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 11d
I learned today for the first time what a Seattle style hot dog is. I like to think I’m pretty food flexible, but this one broke my brain a little. Seriously: Cream cheese on a hot dog?

Reposted by Will Jennings, Linda J. Skitka, Scott A. Imberman , and 2 more

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 12d
Ds don't seem to be getting what they need out of Nashville. But if the margin lands at R+3, that's a D+19 shift from 2024 -- we're not talking a wave, we're talking tsunami
johncluverius.bsky.social John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12d
again @gelliottmorris.com says behn still has a chance but damn 3 points in this district is 🦇💩

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Ben Crum , and 2 more

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 12d
Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy

Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Brendan Nyhan, Linda J. Skitka , and 8 more

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Jordan Axt @jordanaxt.bsky.social · 12d
New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 12d
And why the anti-vaccine movement is so utterly baffling.
cjfrieman.bsky.social Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 12d
This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"
snowden.st Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13d
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 5 more

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 12d
“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025.
Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Linda J. Skitka, Karen Benjamin Guzzo , and 5 more

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12d
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 12d
This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"
snowden.st Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13d
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 14d
100% endorse.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14d
Would the Supreme Court rule that taking a bribe for a pardon was an "official act" by the president and immune from prosecution? I'm serious. If Trump announced he was selling pardons for $1M a pop, could anyone do anything about it, short of impeachment? (Which carries no prison sentence.)