The patterns have been consistent. When students protest against racist speech on campus, they’re labeled as coddled snowflakes who need to welcome outdated modes of thought on campus. It’s a free speech issue when folks are defending others rights to say racist or similar ideas.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

The Center for Suicide Research and Prevention invites you to the 2nd Annual CSRP Conference! 💻 Free & virtual 📅 Sept 9, 2025 | 9AM–2PM EST 🌍 Open to all: scientists, clinicians & community leaders 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/csrp-2nd-conf

It’s apparently now too controversial in the United States to say “racism is bad”

NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

We’re updating the list of suicide researchers who may take a grad student for 2026: shorturl.at/yTT9n Applicants - this year may feel especially heavy. Hope this brings you a little direction, hope, and a reminder that you’re not alone. You are the future. Let your voice shape what comes next.

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

My entire field is now considered ‘censorship.’ NSF has supported my research since graduate school, so I’ve been painstakingly collecting pilot data for a CAREER proposal that will never be submitted. It’s hard to envision a future for myself in the U.S. www.science.org/content/arti...

“Extending‌ ‌previous‌ ‌work,‌ ‌we‌ ‌vary‌ ‌the‌ ‌race,‌ ‌gender,‌ ‌and‌ ‌topic‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌constituent’s‌ ‌message, and we‌ observe ‌if elected‌ ‌officials ‌both open‌ ‌and‌ ‌reply‌ ‌to‌ ‌constituents’ messages‌.‌ ‌ We ‌find‌ ‌that‌ ‌Black‌ ‌men‌ ‌are systematically ignored, regardless of the message they send.‌” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The fourth annual Suicide Research Symposium (#SRS25) takes place THIS WEEK, Wednesday (April 23) through Friday (April 25)! Registration is still open for our free, virtual event. Links to register and see the conference platform are on our website: www.suicideresearchsymposium.com

Tomorrow, 23rd-25th April: the 4th annual 2025 Suicide Research Symposium. Attend virtually for free to learn about the larest research on suicide. srs.societyconference.com/conf/#sessio...

This survey is a vital resource for researchers and the public to track the prevalence and impact of drug use and mental health problems in the US. It's a VITAL database. And it's just going to be gone. Devastating.

Unconscionable. What a huge loss for this country.

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

Today’s completely random, not related to the news or anything, song of the day: “Well Paid Scientist” by the Dead Kennedys

My family and I took a roadtrip to DC for the Stand Up For Science rally. My son used to come with us to protests before COVID, and I felt like it was important to include him. He’s affected by these issues, too. Our coming move out of the states, due to these issues, directly affects him.

I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say. Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January. 1/

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Today is as good a day as any to say that I’m moving to Canada. No, really. I’ll be joining Nova Scotia Health in Halifax as a member of their clinical psychology residency this fall.

This sums up so much.

I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful). Let’s call it a Orwellial.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

APA is compiling stories of how researchers are impacted by the executive orders. Share your story here to help them advocate for you! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...

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.

It just sucks to have everything you’ve worked for be unmade by hate.

One of my two favorite ongoing comic book series is The Power Fantasy. It’s something I look forward to each month. Without giving too much away, it’s very well timed for our current situation. The first five issues are being released as a paperback. This primer provides the gist.

Excited to see this paper, led by powerhouse Colin Conwell, finally out! In this work, we wanted to understand the puzzling relationship between seeing & feeling: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm hoping to hire a postdoc this year to join our growing lab at Yale! Looking for someone interested in EMA/digital phenotyping, formal theories, complex systems, & computational psychiatry. If this sounds like you, please reach out! Official ad coming soon.

A fascinating short play.

I put some more work into the suicide research feed for the new year.

Psych friends & colleagues: our team is hiring. New US-based role for someone with advanced training in clinical psychopathology research, suicidology, or computational psychiatry. Please reach out with questions or to chat. Inquiries confidential. Please repost widely!! grnh.se/a92fb7f63us

Please RT 🙏: my student is currently recruiting participants for his Psychology Honours research study, investigating men's suicidality after a relationship breakdown ping @jaeleaskehan.bsky.social @zacseidler.bsky.social @nicholasprocter.bsky.social federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

There’s a good panel coming up with a discussion of some of the opportunities and challenges of using machine learning to predict and potentially prevent suicidal behavior.

I’m thankful for trees, especially people’s favorites, so I made a feed of favorite trees. bsky.app/profile/did:...

There are many layers here, but I want to comment on one aspect of these findings for now--the editorial board representation. Some will see this and immediately think: we need to get more POC on our boards! I understand that impulse, but encourage you to think a few steps down the game tree 1/n.

I created a feed for people who are interested in suicidology, or research on suicide, self harm, and related topics. It also tends to pick up other public reports, like newspaper articles, and job postings, which feels like more of a feature than a bug. bsky.app/profile/did:... #suicideresearch

Expand your Bluesky network with R (repost) " This is reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/expand-your-bluesky-network-with-r.---I’m encouraging everyone I know online to join the scientific ..." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/11/expand-your-bluesky-network-with-r-repost/

New to BlueSky? Interested in Psychology? Click on this post and scroll up for a thread of 40 starter packs containing experts in different areas of psychology. #Psychology #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪

I've created a Black In Psychology Starter Pack to highlight the excellence of Black psychologists, #psychology trainees, psych organizations, & prospective students. Let me know, if you'd like to be added! 👨🏾‍🏫👩🏾‍🏫🧠 Help me spread the word by reposting 🙏🏽 go.bsky.app/KbrZvB8 #BlackSky #PsychSky #SciSky

The survivors interviewed in this story agreed that education was a primary motivator for their storytelling, but to DISRUPT rather than expand on mainstream narratives. View my full report, as well as other insightful reports from my project colleagues, at modernslaverypec.org/resources/to...

I don’t have anything to say at the moment, but I just joined, and I didn’t want for my page to be a blank space.