Liz Roemer
@lizroemer.bsky.social
She/her | Professor | clinical psychologist| mindfulness, values, anxiety | antiracist, social justice & equity | birder🪶| “Worry Less, Live More”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mindfully-doing-what-matters
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2453-5435
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mindfully-doing-what-matters
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2453-5435
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Liz Roemer
@lizroemer.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Trying to extricate from corporate-run social media.
Clinical psych professor & author. I study compassion, mindfulness, & values-based living behavioral approaches to anxiety and external stressors. Do my best to work for antiracist justice and equity. Amateur birder 🪶
#therapistsky #psychscisky
Clinical psych professor & author. I study compassion, mindfulness, & values-based living behavioral approaches to anxiety and external stressors. Do my best to work for antiracist justice and equity. Amateur birder 🪶
#therapistsky #psychscisky
May we all find ways to experience joy without denying pain and suffering. @psychologytoday.com #psychscisky #therapistsky #therapysky #buddhism
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
Blooming in the Mud
Inspired by the example of a lotus growing amid mud, we can notice and cultivate joy and awe amid pain and suffering, preparing us to thrive.
www.psychologytoday.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
May we all find ways to experience joy without denying pain and suffering. @psychologytoday.com #psychscisky #therapistsky #therapysky #buddhism
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
Just spent a beautiful day long retreat (zazenkai) at Morgan Bay Zendo in Surry, Maine. Grateful for the opportunity to practice in a place so many others have practiced before. May all beings be free. 🙏🏻
December 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Just spent a beautiful day long retreat (zazenkai) at Morgan Bay Zendo in Surry, Maine. Grateful for the opportunity to practice in a place so many others have practiced before. May all beings be free. 🙏🏻
Good morning from Belfast, Maine
December 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Good morning from Belfast, Maine
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Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
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Birders Against Fascism. Makes me think of @joshbartok.bsky.social and @lizroemer.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Birders Against Fascism. Makes me think of @joshbartok.bsky.social and @lizroemer.bsky.social
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Dear journals, collaborators, potential trainees, & colleagues: Please be patient with your nih friends. Those of us who are still around are doing everything in our power to focus on science & keep the long view in mind. But life is very much one day at a time, & catch up from shutdown is a beast 🫠
December 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Dear journals, collaborators, potential trainees, & colleagues: Please be patient with your nih friends. Those of us who are still around are doing everything in our power to focus on science & keep the long view in mind. But life is very much one day at a time, & catch up from shutdown is a beast 🫠
Highly recommend this webinar 👇🏻👇🏻
Step 4: Webinar proceeds. Huge turnout. Thoughtful convo. Video posted for the world to watch with family over the long weekend.
lesson: knowledge + organized colleagues > bad faith + propoganda.
5/5
player.vimeo.com/video/113856...
lesson: knowledge + organized colleagues > bad faith + propoganda.
5/5
player.vimeo.com/video/113856...
Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series November Recording - 11/13/25 on Vimeo
player.vimeo.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Highly recommend this webinar 👇🏻👇🏻
Gratitude to everyone who contributed to this excellent webinar being presented.
anatomy of a smear campaign gone bad.
a 🧵about what happened when #MA @aaup.org chapters organized against a pressure campaign designed to smear & shut down a @bostonu.bsky.social webinar on antisemitism.
1/5
a 🧵about what happened when #MA @aaup.org chapters organized against a pressure campaign designed to smear & shut down a @bostonu.bsky.social webinar on antisemitism.
1/5
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Gratitude to everyone who contributed to this excellent webinar being presented.
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“Today, it’s Palestine. Tomorrow, is it the rainbow flag on my door, the fact that I talk about settler colonialism in the southwest, [or] my Black Lives Matter poster?”
truthout.org/articles/edu...
truthout.org/articles/edu...
Educators Worry Palestine Censorship Could Reshape Public Education Entirely
New efforts to shut down honest discussion of Palestine could restrict everything from literature to science classes.
truthout.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“Today, it’s Palestine. Tomorrow, is it the rainbow flag on my door, the fact that I talk about settler colonialism in the southwest, [or] my Black Lives Matter poster?”
truthout.org/articles/edu...
truthout.org/articles/edu...
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And from Lise Brody: "I have seen commissioners willfully misconstrue the words of the panel of Holocaust scholars from Concerned Jewish Faculty and Staff who warned of the dangers of this approach. "
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
And from Lise Brody: "I have seen commissioners willfully misconstrue the words of the panel of Holocaust scholars from Concerned Jewish Faculty and Staff who warned of the dangers of this approach. "
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"By importing the authoritarian tactics of President Trump, turning public hearings into a social media circus, trying to humiliate organized labor and Jewish educators, and by actively bullying non-Zionist Jews, the commission did not combat antisemitism."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/o...
The State Commission on Combating Antisemitism draws divisive feedback - The Boston Globe
Some readers roundly praise the commission, while others accuse it of Trumpian tactics.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"By importing the authoritarian tactics of President Trump, turning public hearings into a social media circus, trying to humiliate organized labor and Jewish educators, and by actively bullying non-Zionist Jews, the commission did not combat antisemitism."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/o...
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Above is from @menchik.bsky.social.
See also from @jpygold.bsky.social: "The commission has spent more time defending Israel’s reputation than engaging actual experts of antisemitism, Jewish history, and civil rights."
See also from @jpygold.bsky.social: "The commission has spent more time defending Israel’s reputation than engaging actual experts of antisemitism, Jewish history, and civil rights."
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Above is from @menchik.bsky.social.
See also from @jpygold.bsky.social: "The commission has spent more time defending Israel’s reputation than engaging actual experts of antisemitism, Jewish history, and civil rights."
See also from @jpygold.bsky.social: "The commission has spent more time defending Israel’s reputation than engaging actual experts of antisemitism, Jewish history, and civil rights."
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"We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators."
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
Northwestern’s Complicity With the Trump Regime
We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators.
www.insidehighered.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators."
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
Jewish faculty and staff in MA, if you’re concerned about the weaonization of antisemitism to silence free speech, consider joining @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social. Link to their shadow report below. #academicsky
The MA Antisemitism Commission has approved its final report conflating Judaism with Zionism.
We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...
We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...
CJFS Commission Shadow Report | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Jewish faculty and staff in MA, if you’re concerned about the weaonization of antisemitism to silence free speech, consider joining @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social. Link to their shadow report below. #academicsky
We’ve seen 7 lifers in the past two weeks! It led me to think about the ways birding enhanced well-being, which @joshbartok.bsky.social and I talk about in this @psychologytoday.com post. 🪶
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
Birding Your Way to Well-Being
Reduce stress, boost attention, and find transcendence.
www.psychologytoday.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We’ve seen 7 lifers in the past two weeks! It led me to think about the ways birding enhanced well-being, which @joshbartok.bsky.social and I talk about in this @psychologytoday.com post. 🪶
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
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Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
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This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
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"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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Broad legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazi officials to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn’t absolve troops.
Trump Calls for Democrats to Be Put to Death for Accurately Describing Troops’ Constitutional Duties
Trump accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition "punishable by DEATH" for calling on military members to uphold the Constitution.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Broad legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazi officials to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn’t absolve troops.
For anyone finding it challenging to manage our current context, here are a few suggestions from my piece in @psychologytoday.com on how to care for yourself, even when it’s hard. #psychology #therapysky #academicsky
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
For anyone finding it challenging to manage our current context, here are a few suggestions from my piece in @psychologytoday.com on how to care for yourself, even when it’s hard. #psychology #therapysky #academicsky
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Gaza’s medical system is collapsing. Hospitals destroyed. Children without care.
I’m demanding the State Department act now to restore access to lifesaving treatment and release Palestinian medical workers being held without charge.
Health care is a human right.
youtube.com/shorts/bW3R1...
I’m demanding the State Department act now to restore access to lifesaving treatment and release Palestinian medical workers being held without charge.
Health care is a human right.
youtube.com/shorts/bW3R1...
I’m demanding the State Department to act now to rid humanitarian health care crisis in Gaza.
YouTube video by Senator Markey
youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Gaza’s medical system is collapsing. Hospitals destroyed. Children without care.
I’m demanding the State Department act now to restore access to lifesaving treatment and release Palestinian medical workers being held without charge.
Health care is a human right.
youtube.com/shorts/bW3R1...
I’m demanding the State Department act now to restore access to lifesaving treatment and release Palestinian medical workers being held without charge.
Health care is a human right.
youtube.com/shorts/bW3R1...
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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More great 🪶 sightings in New Orleans
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
More great 🪶 sightings in New Orleans
My first time in New Orleans as a birder did not disappoint! This is an iPhone pic - they were so close! @joshbartok.bsky.social will post his better pics soon. 🪶
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My first time in New Orleans as a birder did not disappoint! This is an iPhone pic - they were so close! @joshbartok.bsky.social will post his better pics soon. 🪶