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Dr. Apryl Alexander
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Public Health Prof | Forensic Psych | #FirstGen | Hokie | @TEDxMileHigh Speaker | Popular Culture Junkie
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · Dec 21
New publication: Preliminary data shows if you teach op-ed writing skills, most students like it and plan to use it as a tool for scholarly dissemination!

Thanks for my co-authors Stacy Fandetti and Ava Peters for collaborating on this.

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/DYKVI...
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · 5d
Our Center’s suicide prevention training postdoc ad is live! The DoD-funded position will work with Drs. Robert Cramer, Annelise Mennicke, and Jessamyn Moxie on a training e-learning platform in partnership with Dr. Justin Baker and the Ohio State U team!

jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/64918
Postdoctoral Fellow in Suicide Prevention Training
This position is not remote-eligible. The holder of the postdoctoral fellowship will:Coordinate multi-site team meetings and communication.Oversee feasibility/acceptability data collection efforts in ...
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · 15d
We’re hiring a Department Chair for Public Health and Health Administration at UNC Charlotte. See the job listing here:

jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/64712
Department Chairperson
The Department requires a Chair to lead and facilitate all aspects of the Department. The successful candidate must have an earned doctorate in Health Management, a Public Health discipline, or a clos...
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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 19d
ICYMI: My conversation with THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR director Geeta Gandbhir.
812filmreviews.com Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 21d
The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR.

For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.
Geeta Gandbhir
Once we committed to the body camera footage, we were determined to live in it. We wanted to build and recreate the world that this community existed in, which you couldn't do otherwise. So, it was ch...
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · 20d
For our first study (several more to come in the coming months), see here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Public perceptions of castle doctrine and stand your ground cases
Introduction Stand your ground (SYG) and castle doctrine (CD) laws are presently growing throughout the United States. The present study aims to better understand public perceptions of SYG and CD ca...
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · 20d
My research team began studying stand your ground laws and public perceptions after the murders of Ahmaud Arbery & Botham Jean. So I knew of Ajike Owen’s murder…however, I was still unprepared for The Perfect Neighbor. I’m glad this story was amplified but gutted at this tragedy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21d
If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.

If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
casmilus.bsky.social Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 21d
The danger is that degrees are regarded as worthless as nobody believes students have acquired any skills any more, at least not ones they couldn't have hot from just going into an office job from school.
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21d
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 21d
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky

Our new paper out in American Psychologist.

Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.

Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 21d
Good PBS News Hour piece tonight on how abortion restrictions compromise women's domestic safety.

In the US, a pregnant/postpartum woman's risk of being killed is 20% higher than that of other women; she is more likely die by murder than from childbirth-related issues.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Abortion restrictions may be fueling a rise in domestic violence, experts warn
On average, a woman’s risk of being killed in the U.S. increases by 20% when pregnant or after giving birth. Pregnant and postpartum women are more likely to be killed than to die from childbirth-rela...
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 26d
There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location. 
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · Oct 8
Firing squads in 2025? 🤦🏾‍♀️

Latest op-ed published in NC Newsline. The death penalty is not a crime deterrent nor the answer for crime prevention.

ncnewsline.com/2025/10/08/n...
North Carolina needs evidence-driven solutions not retribution to reduce crime • NC Newsline
We are all seeking solutions to deter and reduce crime in North Carolina. But bringing back the death penalty shifts the focus toward retribution rather than prevention of crime
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · Oct 7
The UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center is partnering with The South Piedmont Area Health Education Center (AHEC) to offer multidisciplinary health professions CEUs!
 
Find out more at violenceprevention.charlotte.edu/education-an.... Our next one features our very own Dr. Rob Cramer!
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · Oct 2
“A majority of people who are found incompetent to stand trial are restored to competency,” @drapryla.bsky.social added. “They eventually go back to trial, back to their court case and proceedings continue.” 

www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/10/02/c...
Is Charlotte train stabbing suspect mentally fit for trial? Court-ordered evaluation process may take months.
Decarlos Brown Jr.’s case highlights NC’s rising demand for court-ordered mental health evaluations and capacity restoration treatment.
www.northcarolinahealthnews.org
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · Oct 1
We’re excited to invite you to an upcoming free virtual session:

Dissemination Methods that Work: Supporting Policymakers’ Value and Use of Research

Register here: bit.ly/4gEHOrB
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 14
Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents.

It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually.

This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · Sep 9
Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, passed away on Sept. 4 at the age of 83.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
Joseph McNeil, Young Spark in a Civil Rights Battle, Dies at 83
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · Sep 9
“Basically, it’s a systemic movement of resources away from preventing tragedy to requiring tragedy,” Clark said. “It’s the same population. It’s the same people. It’s just where are we going to serve them: Before they’ve been criminalized or after they’ve been criminalized?”
For People Mentally Unfit For Trial, Waits For Treatment Get Longer
U.S. defendants must be able to understand the charges against them — but many who can’t remain behind bars waiting for mental health treatment.
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Jason Cantone @jasoncantone.bsky.social · Sep 5
If you have already or will successfully defend a legal psychology dissertation in 2025, apply for the @ap-ls.org
Dissertation Award by December 31! Winners will be invited to present their research at the AP-LS Annual Conference in March 2026!

More info here: ap-ls.org/awards/awards/dissertation
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · Sep 5
NYTimes has a sad but ultimately unsurprising report on some Black and brown parents giving their children a new version of "The Talk" - warning them how to react if police enacting Trump's crackdowns on crime and undocumented people come their way. Sigh. loom.ly/Hw_jltc
Race/Related: A version of ‘the talk’ some Black parents are having with their children
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · Sep 3
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
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Dr. Apryl Alexander @drapryla.bsky.social · Sep 2
My latest Judicial Notebook piece in the APA Monitor on Psychology on the Mahmoud v. Taylor SCOTUS decision.

www.apa.org/monitor/2025...
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · Aug 29
Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. At approximately 5:00 AM, the levees broke, flooding 80% of our city. As a result, an estimated 1400 people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands lost their homes. Over half of the victims were Black.
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Michael Seto @mcseto.bsky.social · Aug 27
Pleased to share my inaugural editorial for Archives of Sexual Behavior, sharing my vision for the journal as the incoming Editor-in-Chief

(open access)

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A Vision for Archives of Sexual Behavior - Archives of Sexual Behavior
Archives of Sexual Behavior -
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Aug 27
When even words like “diverse” can’t be used…

Scientists are removing words like “diverse” and “disparities” from hundreds of federal grant renewals to avoid getting flagged by the Trump administration

www.wsj.com/health/scien...
Scientists Strip ‘Diversity’ Language From Research to Keep Federal Grants
Some researchers say NIH employees have told them to make the revisions in order to have funding renewed.
www.wsj.com
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Next with Kyle Clark @nexton9news.bsky.social · Aug 22
The University of Denver ended race-specific scholarships and DEI training to comply with DOJ directives.
University of Denver scales back DEI work after DOJ memo
The University of Denver ended race-specific scholarships and DEI training to comply with DOJ directives.
www.9news.com
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