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Linda Skitka
@lindaskitka.bsky.social
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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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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19h
Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19h
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 · 2d
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adambonica.bsky.social Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 2d
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.
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Reposted by Simon Hix, Brendan Nyhan, Linda J. Skitka , and 15 more

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
Sickening.

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

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 4d
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📆December 5, 2-3 PM ET

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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 · 5d
Leviticus knew his hot dogs, after all.

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 5d
Way to cancel a kosher hotdog, right?

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
LOL. Given your geographical origins, I think I can guess the direction here ;-)

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 5d
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?

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
And why the anti-vaccine movement is so utterly baffling.
cjfrieman.bsky.social Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 7d
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 6d
“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.
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Reposted by Cas Mudde, Linda J. Skitka, Karen Benjamin Guzzo , and 5 more

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7d
"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."
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 8d
100% endorse.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8d
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.)

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 8d
My husband and I cared for our mothers, an aunt, and a BiL at the end of their lives, and all within the same 5-year window. “Caring for an aging loved one is a journey with no clear itinerary” or end date, and isn’t something anyone really wants to talk about. Article covers the challenges.
cmmullen.bsky.social Claire @cmmullen.bsky.social · 8d
My brother and I have been taking care of my father with dementia for 2 years (mom passed 4 years ago) and so much about this article hits home.

The US is completely unprepared to support its aging population, or to lessen the psychological and financial burdens of those caring for them.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Linda J. Skitka

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Claire @cmmullen.bsky.social · 8d
My brother and I have been taking care of my father with dementia for 2 years (mom passed 4 years ago) and so much about this article hits home.

The US is completely unprepared to support its aging population, or to lessen the psychological and financial burdens of those caring for them.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Steve Peers, Alison Phipps , and 3 more

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 10d
The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Weekly measles cases in the U.S. CDC data plotted by NBC News