New research with @ryanbk.bsky.social, Phillip Smith, & @kristamehari.bsky.social examines links between views on guns & gun policy generally and support for 6 specific gun policies. Some surprising findings in here! rdcu.be/e5BFe (🧵 1/2)

I am one of those early career researchers (described at the end of this piece) whose work has been possible because of these projects. I’m grateful for the risk folks took to prioritize such investments. This is a huge loss.💔

Rising number of Americans report owning firearms for protection at public political events

Did Americans’ reasons for gun ownership differ in 2025 vs 2023? Yes. In ways that signal an important warning for public safety and for democracy. Read the full (but brief!) report here: rdcu.be/e3EJD (or check out this 🧵) @vuartsci.bsky.social @jhucgvs.bsky.social

Gun ownership for political protection or armed political expression: a nationally representative analysis of differences in 2025 vs. 2023 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Every time I talk to someone outside of Minnesota, we always spend time on *really* basic things they have don’t understand about what is happening here. So let’s do a Q&A. What are your most basic questions about what’s going on in Minnesota?

I wrote this last year. Seems incredibly relevant today in light of the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good: open.substack.com/pub/johnshja...

The best use of force/firearms policies should severely restrict shooting at moving vehicles (terrorist/ramming attacks notwithstanding), while instructing officers to do everything possible to move out of the path of a moving vehicle.

New Research: Using virtual reality to understand gun owner decision-making doi.org/10.3389/fpub... 🛟🧪 @jhucgvs.bsky.social @vuartsci.bsky.social

New research out today. We describe the injured people & the situational characteristics involved in shootings by police during mental or behavioral health involved policing responses in the US. …Almost 2500 shootings over a 6-yr period - all carefully reviewed (twice!) by my very hard working team.

New research out today. We describe the injured people & the situational characteristics involved in shootings by police during mental or behavioral health involved policing responses in the US. …Almost 2500 shootings over a 6-yr period - all carefully reviewed (twice!) by my very hard working team.

I have a list of things we can do to change this tempo of tragedy The proposals are based on real data They have had signals of efficacy It may feel hopeless today but: I refuse to give up. Because - Our babies & our communities deserve better than a rolling litany of horrors.

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

⏳ There is just over a week left to apply for our #postdoc in violence prevention research, with apps due June 15. Please send yours in or share the posting with a qualified applicant! cvp.ucdavis.edu/get-involved...

Home from #SAVIR2025 and pleased to share that “Characteristics of Behavioral and Mental Health Involved Injurious Shootings by Police in the US” was recognized with the Early Career Outstanding Science Presentation award! #InjuryResearch #GVP #ScienceMatters 🛟 @thesavir.bsky.social

Really timely new research about the possible role of agency policy in preventing shooting-related harms, particularly in light of the current Barnes v. Felix SCOTUS case. It was great to collaborate with @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social on this one!

"When a civilization is limited to work that produces profit... we distance ourselves from the values of care and generosity—and the simple but profound belief that what happens to one of us affects all of us." A marvelous piece by @annehelen.bsky.social.

Study underscores the critical need to identify and develop effective public health + policing strategies aimed at reducing the number of young people shot by law enforcement each year. Read more: publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

Ditto to academics

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

Okay, this is pretty great. I didn’t realize how much friction it was to look up each phone number until this app had them ready to go, one after another. Plus it tells you how many other people used the app to call about the issue (14,700 on the federal funding freeze alone!)

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

New open access article out today in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities w/ a fantastic team. In a nationally representative sample of Black Americans, we find that just anticipating police + community violence is harmful to various aspects of health. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

UW School of Nursing, Dept. Of Child, Family, & Population Health Nursing is hiring 2 TT faculty! 👀 Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/159379 Professor (Open Rank): apply.interfolio.com/159582 Spread the word! Would love to see more great folks in this former department of mine. 💜💛

Thanks, @vuartsci.bsky.social, for getting word out about our recent advances in research on shootings by police & what it all means for prevention. #publichealth Summary of 3 articles’ key findings + links here: bit.ly/3On2wiv @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social @Vanderbilt MHS 🤝 @jhucgvs.bsky.social

What happens inside America's vast network of privately run deportation flights? Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com‬ reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.

Great interview with @nazsa.bsky.social As systems pivot to re-emphasize chronic illness, investing in preventing and better responding to the mental, physical, and social consequences of firearm injuries remains critical. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thanks @khudejha.bsky.social! Grateful to have had you join my Foundations of Population Health students again this semester! Your global health expertise and thoughtful, interactive teaching style has been a real gift to our MHS Vanderbilt students. 🙏

Even one shooting of a child is devastating, but more than 50 per year is a national tragedy. We support stringent accountability policies and better de-escalation techniques among police working with young people. This is not normal and we should not accept it as our reality.

New article out today characterizing juvenile injuries and deaths by the police in Journal of Adolescent Health. Led by Dylan Jackson w/ a great team (@julie-a-ward.bsky.social, @drcrifasi.bsky.social). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Re-upping for the new folks (welcome!) - A just-released, national look at what social and policy characteristics are linked to higher vs lower rates of injurious shootings by police locally. 🔬🧪🛟 Look up your area and read more about our prevention recommendations here: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Over the next 4 years, any steps forward on police accountability/transparency will be at the state & local levels. If you're interested in thinking about what role you can play, sign up for this book club sponsored by Institute for Justice: cophttps://instituteforjustice.quorum.us/campaign/75060/

After the 2008 win by Obama, there wasn’t a lot of sulking by the GOP and little finger-pointing. We also didn’t see the Tea Party coming. Since 11/5, only AOC’s emails have read strategic. Build quietly from ground up. Decentralize. Focus on issues that will matter to families, like health & safety

anyway you should read me on the stakes of this election for our constitutional order (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/o...

“We were not given a democratic Constitution; we made one. We unraveled the elitist & hierarchical Constitution of the founders to build something that works for us… [but] what’s made can be unmade. And at the foundation of Donald Trump’s campaign is a promise to unmake our democratic Constitution.”

🧵 Election Day is quickly approaching — and the stakes for American gun policy are high. Here’s what you need to know:

New research! 🛟 56% of US counties had 1+ shootings by police in 2015-2020. Linked to ⬆️ county incidence: ✔️Income inequality ✔️Residential segregation ✔️Gun availability & weaker licensing systems ✔️Undermanaged substance use ✔️Overspending on police vs health authors.elsevier.com/a/1k1H0-CmV1...

ICYMI - still time for excellent health practitioners & educators to submit their application to our Professor of the Practice position in to the Department of Medicine, Health, & Society at Vanderbilt!

Day 2 of American Public Health Association Annual Meeting: Grateful to all the folks who stopped by to talk about our research on unhoused people who were injured in shootings by police nationally. #APHA2024

🗣️ New position open at Vanderbilt! *Assistant Professor of the Practice in Social Science Approaches to Health* apply.interfolio.com/156486 Review begins 11/5/24

We’ve know that protection from other people is many gun owners’ #1 reason for gun ownership. But protection from whom? And in what circumstances? 🤔 We asked! Turns out it’s more complex than a “primary reason for owning” focus implies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New in AJPM: We find that 1) injurious shootings by police are not just an urban issue, 2) racial disparities exist across the urban-rural continuum, & 3) overall patterns in incident characteristics associated with these shootings were largely similar. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Glad to see this AJPH Podcast out! Take a listen to our conversation about public safety, data reporting, injury prevention, & article 10.2105/ajph.2023.307560 Thanks to Brandon del Pozo, Guy Seymour, Vickie Mays & Alfredo Morabia for the thoughtful discussion. youtu.be/nhe-FZdFTv4?...