Happy October 3rd to all who celebrate

Very excited for the opportunity to give a keynote titled Harnessing Community Engagement to Solve Common Methodological Challenges in Social Science Research at the annual @iaphs.bsky.social meetings! Join us if you can!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Tragedies are political. Not bc we want to score points against "the other side" but bc we want to improve the conditions that contributed to those tragedies and prevent future death and destruction. Doesn't matter if it's a school shooting, a pandemic, a wildfire, or a flash flood.

My supervisor is really taking her role seriously today. I swear I am on task…but maybe it’s not the task she wants.

Yesterday was the last day of my sabbatical 😭 …but today is Day 1 of full professor hood 🥳

Firearm suicides reached record highs for the third straight year in 2023—accounting for 58% of all gun deaths in the U.S. Our new report breaks down the data and the urgent need for action. 🔗 Read the news release: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/new-rep...

Today, lenacapavir was approved by the FDA as a twice yearly preventive shot! Here's how we got here:

Sofía and Chaska hope your Sunday evening involves lounging peacefully in a fading sun beam

Sofía wishes everyone a happy Caturday

Has everyone seen @nedasoc.bsky.social 's paper thread game? 👇 Because she has raised. the. bar. (Important, and sobering, paper too)

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

Fair.

The popular story behind one of the most famous maps ever drawn is (partly) a myth www.maps.com/snow-mistake...

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

Outside Not Looking Forward To People Wanting To Walk Around In It Again This Summer

Amazing that this is free … as it should be #suicideprevention

This is worth reading (re: the recent social media consensus preprint): www.science.org/content/arti...

If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.

Americans who say there's a lot of discrimination against people who are: In US illegally 57% Transgender 48% Gay or lesbian 37% Black 36% Muslim 34% Hispanic 34% Jewish 30% Immigrants in US legally 29% Women 22% Asian 21% Religious 17% Older 16% Evangelical 13% White 12% Men 10% Atheist 7%

Dear science journalism, Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.

I am an absolute sucker for a great mental health tshirt…and I love this one from Mental Health America - Monroe County (IN). Proceeds benefit local efforts at harm reduction, suicide prevention, and mental health promotion 💗 www.bonfire.com/mental-healt...

I am an absolute sucker for a great mental health tshirt…and I love this one from Mental Health America - Monroe County (IN). Proceeds benefit local efforts at harm reduction, suicide prevention, and mental health promotion 💗 www.bonfire.com/mental-healt...

Everyone in broader Bloomington area IN should follow Cody

There's about one, maybe two pixels of data that makes me think a tornado is on the ground on Highway 45 southwest of the airport. (7:28 pm) Moving, at the moment, due east toward Clear Creek, not toward downtown Bloomington.

There's the tornado warning that includes Bloomington. Good, tight polygon on it too. Time to take your precautions. Do not drive, too late for that. Interior room, lowest floor, near the center, away from windows. (Krotucky = Clear Creek. Get over it.)

Storm with a confirmed tornado (at 6:50 pm) moving toward Bloomington. Looks like the most dangerous part of the storm will arrive by 7:20 on the west side, but rain is going to start within the next few minutes. No longer time to go anywhere… stay where you are.

Tornado warning to include Bloomington is all but guaranteed at this point -- what I suspect will be the greatest area of risk is outlined in blue. Pink shaded area of radar is the golf to tennis ball sized hail.

Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Peru, yesterday: “argh these damn foreigners bringing crime and ruining the country, we should not accept any more foreigners” Peru, today: “OF COURSE THE POPE IS PERUVIAN HE LIVED MOST OF HIS LIFE HERE WHAT DO YOU MEAN AMERICAN? HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS” 🙄

Amazing and very well deserved!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you for building this space. It’s such a service.

If you missed the talk, but are curious about the book, for Mental Health Awareness month our publisher has made a chapter free to all. This time it’s Ch 6. Safer Memorialization. academic.oup.com/book/56082/c...

Downloaded the #MentalHealthSafety Guide? If not, grab it here: bit.ly/FreeToolsAndGuides Now take the next step Join us June 3 @ 4PM ET - FREE webinar Register: bit.ly/MentalHealthSafety @thementalelf.bsky.social @jbsinger.bsky.social @iaspinfo.bsky.social @annamueller.bsky.social

Great talk by @annamueller.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social on the social roots of youth suicide. Insightful reflections from Haylis Smith + thanks for organising @amychandler.bsky.social

My new-to-blusky friend Nicole Kreisberg @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social is looking for interviewees for her project on immigrant couples! Her research team is in particular need of more respondents from Latin America and/or on student visas. Please share widely! #Socsky

Great job opportunity in philosophy of science and technology in Vienna! #philtech #philsci

AI will help us return to in-person, hand written essay exams.

NEW: A sweeping new study finds three-fourths of North America's bird species are in decline Scientists say it should be a wake-up call for us since some of the pressures on birds — climate change, pollution, etc. — aren't good for people, either www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Very excited for this! If you can’t join in person, join online!!

Also next week - a public lecture with @annamueller.bsky.social & @sethabrutyn.bsky.social in #Edinburgh on 7th May Joined by @roryoc.bsky.social and Haylis Smith - we'll be making connections between work on youth suicide in the US and #Scotland Free tickets: events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

A strong endorsement from Prof. Laura Nelson = A must read article

attn please, here is some further Murderbot footage to enjoy incl the definitely best little moment in All Systems Red

It’s Day 2 of the Suicide Research Symposium! Join us for another fantastic day of research presentations. #SRS25 www.suicideresearchsymposium.com

Really fantastic @afspnational.bsky.social sponsored plenary on the relationship between autism and suicide this morning. Thanks to Lisa Morgan, MEd, Dr. Shari Jager-Hyman, Dr. Carly McMorris for sharing their expertise and research, and to Dr. Jill Harkavy-Friedman for moderating! #SRS25

📣 Attention, all #Nebraska faculty and researchers! Are you looking to expand your impact by collaborating more effectively with government agencies? Join us with @scholars.org on 📅 May 12 at 10:00 a.m. CT for this special virtual workshop 👇 Register: bit.ly/4lO1g7I