Incredible week chasing sunsets & hiking volcanoes with my best friend in Tenerife ☀️ 🌺 🌋

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Currently in Tenerife so the Benito Bowl happened as I slept, but you best believe it was the first thing I watched when I woke up. El amor es más fuerte que el odio

Did the groundhog say six more weeks til impeachment?

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

“Survivors have always been at the center of my work because we live with the consequences long after the headlines fade... If you don’t listen to the people who’ve been harmed, you can’t truly understand the problem—or be a part of the solution.”

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Celebrated 3 years with my best friend yesterday ❤️

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

I don’t even have the appropriate words to express how angry I am seeing a 5yr old detained by ICE this morning. The system is not broken. It was built like this.

First day of a new academic term today! 📚 Today’s agenda: 👩🏻‍💻 teaching fellow for a masters course on preventing interpersonal violence ✍🏼 a few meetings for a UK civil service report I’m in charge of drafting 👩🏻‍🏫 lecture on international organizations roles in democracy 🍽️ PhD dinner with UK MPs

Making Christmas lasagna from scratch (& 251 little meatballs) with nonna’s recipe! 🎄

Always a magical Christmas in NYC ❤️ [Bryant Park Christmas market with my parents 🥰]

Thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a 2026 BRIDGS Emergent Scholar Fellow! BRIDGS (Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society) Initiative advances empirically driven, interdisciplinary research on the multifaceted role of guns in society.

I’ve felt so incredibly heavy during this week’s news cycle

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12... This is very much *not* “all we can do.” Every single shooting is, at its root, a policy decision.

🚨New Paper Alert from #NJGVRC "Preventing and mitigating fraudulent research participants in online qualitative violence and injury prevention research." #NJGVRC PI: Devon Ziminski 📚Read more here ➡️ ow.ly/zjq050XA3ZU

Quantitative research without a qualitative layer will always miss what matters most, how these experiences actually feel and play out in people’s lives beyond the therapy or assessment room.

📚 Academia Wrapped 2025 !!! - Papers downloaded: - Papers read (subset of above): - Submissions: - Desk Rejects: - Revisions: - Publications: - Days with head in hands watching the fall of the U.S. gov:

Register for SAVIR's upcoming Methods Session on 1/29/26: "From Genocide to Gun Violence: Adapting Rwandan Reconciliation Education for US Violence Prevention" featuring professionals from the Medical College of Wisconsin. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New research led by @deannagiraldi.bsky.social finds that impacts of gun violence extend far beyond dominant news statistics. The review analyses 25 years of literature involving survivors, witnesses & their communities. More: dspi.web.ox.ac.uk/article/impa... Full report: doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

New press release on our gun violence research: www.spi.ox.ac.uk/article/impa... “Gun violence does not just harm individuals, it also sends shockwaves through families, neighborhoods, and entire communities with ripple effects that can persist and change over time.”

A lovely friend shared this with me so now I’m sharing it with you! — open.substack.com/pub/theshado...

Every time I travel, one of my favorite things to do is look at street art: a 🧵

Another perk of studying in England: a quick trip to #Paris for exploring & a change of scenery for writing 👩🏻‍💻 #feelinglucky

Qualitative research isn't a consolation prize for when we can't get 'real' numbers. It's a different way of knowing; one that captures complexity, context, and meaning that statistics alone cannot provide.

It's Mamdani! M-A-M-D-A-N-I. You *should* learn how to say it.

It’s a teaching day! First up: political sociology 📚

Mamdani replying “it’s pronounced cyclist” to a woman yelling “communist” at him is absolutely iconic

Le piazze italiane che si animano spontaneamente nel cuore della notte, sono il segno di un' umanità che non cede alla barbarie, che crede nel diritto umanitario e internazionale, nella pace, nei valori.

Gun violence has such a massive blast radius the stats never capture. Those who witness it in person, the medical professionals that handle the wounds, the injured who carry the damage with them forever, the families shattered, the communities permanently scarred.

Incredibly emotional watching the Sumud Flotilla. How loudly and boldly these leaders fight while the “leaders” of our countries are silent.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline provides 24/7 connection to free, confidential support anywhere in the US. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org.

Our nation has a gun suicide rate nearly 12 times that of other high income countries. This #SuicidePrevention Awareness Month, join us in spreading awareness about this preventable crisis and elevating survivor voices:

Mexico’s grito de independencia made me so emotional. The all female color guard. The recognition of indigenous women. The female president.

Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.

Something I want to make sure doesn’t get lost in the conversation about gun violence… A lot of students witnessed the shooting of Charlie Kirk. A lot of students were traumatized by the Denver high school shooting that left three kids in critical condition. That’s a lot of students traumatized.

I’d argue it’s worth no deaths, actually.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Gun violence is, has been, and continues to be preventable, bipartisan crisis.

We're thrilled to welcome @deannagiraldi.bsky.social of @dspi-oxford.bsky.social to the network! Giraldi’s community-led, qualitative research centers the biopsychosocial impacts of gun violence exposure on survivors, their families & communities in the U.S. Learn more: scholars.org/scholar/dean...

Just a reminder to squeeze the people you love a little tighter today

Today’s adventure: 2 wisdom teeth out 🦷😢 Send: distractions

Happy Wednesday 🍃

Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home

Gun suicide is a public health crisis that claims the lives of nearly 26,000 people in America each year. Too many people are dying preventable deaths because the most lethal method of suicide—guns—are far too easy to access in times of suicidal crisis.

In the middle of chaos, working with people who are genuinely passionate about making the world better is its own kind of hope

🚨 New brief: scholars.org/contribution... "The review highlights how gun violence sends shockwaves through families, neighborhoods, and entire communities with ripple effects that can persist and change over time." Access our full review here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #PublicHealth