Someone totally misunderstood how much rage I generally keep under wraps. This person basically tried to stiff me for a few thousand dollars. It’s a housing scam. Anyway, I just got off the phone with somebody’s mayor and next I’m calling a governor. Sometimes you choose right one but wrong day.

I like to put on old mystery and detective shows, like Perry Mason, to calm down. The familiarity of voices in the background helps. One of the biggest papercuts in moving to Canada was losing access to Magnum PI on the Roku channel.

Daniel is one of my favorite people I’ve worked with at any job, and I’ve had A LOT of jobs. Highly recommend!

This weekend: I watched UNC beat Duke with my wife and son. I watched the Super Bowl (while working to finish this dissertation). I used a semi-automated approach to screen 944,000 research documents.

New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New viewpoint article, "It is time to take chronic suicidal ideation seriously", with Evan Kleiman and @katieleedg.bsky.social now published in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

In (un)health and science news…

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!

🆕Please share 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 Call for Abstracts: Closing date 27th March 2026 suicideresearch.info/10th-suicide...

📢 Now accepting applications for the CSRP Pilot Grant Program! 🔗 Read more and apply: csrp.mgh.harvard.edu/funding-oppo...

Are you someone "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure" and are interested in a two-year, funded post-doctoral fellowship at a German University to do that work? Then check out the link below! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Every breakthrough in suicide prevention starts with data, research, and support. And it starts with people like you. Your #GivingTuesday donation drives the science behind that incredible outreach, funding critical prevention efforts. Give today: afsp.org/givingtuesday

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Introducing the next CSRP Webinar: What Are Crisis Hotlines and How Do They Work? Featuring speakers from 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Samaritans, Inc., and Crisis Text Line! 🗓️ December 19, 2025 | 10-11AM EST 🔗 Sign up: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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

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.