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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 01:25:01 JST Cat Hicks

   Got brunch with a dear friend who is a psych professor at a public university and so is deeply affected by state laws passing restricting what they can teach; we talked a great deal about the laws in her state that include not questioning "meritocracy." Every aspect of psychology that has informed a more just and holistic understanding of human ability, entire subfields of our work that include important evidence about underestimation and misestimation in achievement systems, disallowed.

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     Betsy Bee (betsybeeee@toot.community)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 01:25:01 JST Betsy Bee

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     @grimalkina Shocking. I couldn't imagine having to teach under such circumstances and hope I never will. For a country that supposedly values freedom of speech above all things, the US sounds like it's becoming more openly authoritarian every day.