do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter

(5/5) 🚨 It’s time to flood the zone. NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn. 📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration ✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support 👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

Want to develop effective single-session interventions for youth? Come join the workshop I'm running on Friday 6/27 with Atina Manvelian!

The 5th International Single Session Therapies Symposium is in ONE MONTH! Our lab is excited to host ~200 attendees from 17 countries. Register here! sites.northwestern.edu/sst5/register/ Bonus: I'll be 9 months pregnant during SST5. Will there be 201 attendees by the end?? Register to find out 😅

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices. My latest post: buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

Want to join our multidisciplinary, impact-driven department (Northwestern Medical Social Sciences) as TT faculty? Now's your chance! Happy to chat with folks about my own experience transitioning to MSS (in my case from a traditional psyc dept)! facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MTk0MQ==

📢 Our lab's latest, out today in JAMA Pediatrics: "State Parental Consent Law and Treatment Use Among Adolescents With Depression" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... TL;DR Teens with depression living in states that require parent consent for mental health treatment may be less likely to access care 🧵

Thank you so much to the Jacobs Foundation for this unmatched opportunity to learn with+from science leaders across the globe. Funds will support our lab's ongoing efforts to sustainably deploy single-session mental health supports into schools across the US 🥰 jacobsfoundation.org/ground-break...

THREE DAYS until the priority abstract deadline (Nov 22) for the 5th International Single-Session Therapies Symposium (Jun 27-29 in Chicago)! We're finalizing an all-star roster of invited speakers, TBA soon. We hope you'll join to learn, share, & make change in mental healthcare. Links/info below!

**Today (11/18) 1pm-2pm ET** - free to all who are interested! I hope you'll join Tom Insel (formerly NIMH), Margaret Laws (Hopelab), Rob Morris (Koko), and me for this virtual roundtable, on a topic close to my heart and professional mission. Register: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This year's #ABCT2024 is truly special. I got to cheer for nearly-Dr Jenna Sung as she accepted her Student Dissertation Award--right after I received the Dissemination and Implementation SIG Early Career Award. So, so proud of Jenna, & grateful to our stellar lab, who make our D&I work possible 💜

go.bsky.app/SsNPcGP Here is the Starter pack!!! We have over 100 spots available (and if we hit the limit of 150, I'll make a part two). PLEASE share, ask to be added, and let me know if you'd like to see anyone added.

TIL that some international governments define "youth" as individuals up to 35 years of age. Delighted to announce I'll be channeling Steve Buscemi at all my ABCT presentations this year

Shout out to all whose default mental state right now is precisely this, and you're doing the thing anyway (Mochi capturing the cultural zeitgeist as per usual)

Headed to ABCT this week? Check out some of our lab's latest work & meet many of our wonderful team members! And, join us in celebrating PhD candidate Jenna Sung, who will be accepting the Leonard Krasner Student Dissertation Award at Friday's ceremony!! 🤩 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Huh.

The revised Declaration of Helsinki explicitly mandates study registration predating recruitment, complete reporting, declaration of all funding and COI and making negative or inconclusive results publicly available jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Logged in for the first time in months to hundreds of new follows in the past couple of days - did all the science people migrate here at once?? Anyway, here is Mochi, protecting me from working on a Sunday by comandeering the desk as her lounge chair. Good kitty.

Can't believe ABCT is next week! I'm excited to be part of the presidential panel with @jschleiderphd.bsky.social, Riana Elyse Anderson, Maggi Price, Miya Barnett, & Rob Morris. Thanks so much to @drehrenreich.bsky.social for organizing this new format to the traditional Presidential Address!

I understand that there are well meaning, thoughtful people on the APCS executive committee, but this statement is so thoroughly and deeply disappointing. This falls short. I can't say it any other way. We need a movement that seriously considers the total abolition of internship. Full stop.

How can we optimize single-session mental health supports, to radically expand access to care for people with unmet needs? I got to discuss my favorite topic (and my new book) on the Wondros podcast :) watch: youtu.be/ezA8W4re24k or listen: spotify.link/NnJZpJMeNDb

Health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy. More: www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016...

Well look what I have in my hot little hand: Little treatments, big effects and much excitement to dig into @jschleiderphd.bsky.social ‘s book! Purchased from blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ… to get before the US release

The Lab for Scalable Mental Health is hiring a FT Research Coordinator! Work on NIH-funded and nonprofit-/industry-partnered research to make mental health care scalable & accessible WHERE: Chicago [2-3 days/week WFH] WHEN: ASAP! for 2+ yrs Search Job 48813 at careers.northwestern.edu to apply!

I’m thrilled to share, “Cognitive Training for Mental Health Problems: Pitfalls, Promises, and Paths Forward,” which I wrote with Jessica Schleider @jschleiderphd.bsky.social and Kean Hsu, just accepted at Nature Mental Health! Postprint here: psyarxiv.com/w2dpk/ with longer 🧵to follow!

What an honor to work on this viewpoint w Drs. Daisy Singla & Vikram Patel—now open-access in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology! TL;DR— *SIMPLIFY treatments, eg single-sessions *DIVERSIFY workforce, eg task sharing *DEPLOY digital tools for global impact psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Open data sharing is a good thing; Protecting participant privacy is a good thing. Sometimes these two good things are in conflict. Our new preprint introduces a decision-making framework and open source tools to help share as openly as possible and as closed as necessary. osf.io/preprints/me...

Are you getting a PhD in Psych this year and looking for a Post Doc? Do you like Chicago, Digital Mental Health, Pediatric Populations, and Health Equity? Because if so, have I got a post doc ad for you to check out: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #ThisIsPedsPsych

I may have overcommitted to a comical degree on NIH submissions this cycle, but on the bright side, maybe our modal grumpy reviewer comment will finally evolve from "I've never heard of single-session interventions, so they probably aren't a thing" to "this again?!?"

wow I forgot how peaceful it feels to post on one of these sites and reach just a reasonable range of people whom I either directly or peripherally know and like. Please nobody else follow me, this version of social media is much less anxiety-spiral provoking

Part nineteen-million in the classic bajillion-part saga, "university promotion and tenure processes are broken"

I lack the energy for any brand of academic or scientific discourse right now, but ahhhh look at this photo of Penny waiting by the window for us to come home 😭😭😭

Faculty who've switched institutions (esp folks w/ large teams & grants/contracts), please share benchmarking data! How long til things felt >50% manageable? When did your short term memory return? Should I probably or definitely adopt another dog in a misplaced attempt to cope?

For those with a relatively uncommon name (since the search ties to pubpeer), this is a nice tool for visually summarizing your research!

As someone used to openly sharing all potentially helpful work-stuff, it feels weird not being able to share infinite copies of my book for free. But, Amazon UK & Blackwells are both running 20% discounts on it right now, which isn't free but is better than nothing! blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Come work with us at @cbitshealth at Northwestern University -- now accepting T32 postdoc applications from folks interested in digital mental health! I'm so happy to have joined this terrific team. Reach out if interested! docs.google.com/document/d/e...

TIL you can get submissions un-rejected by NIH?!? Will share details when it's official, but for now, YAY, I care so much about this topic and am beyond grateful for the chance to keep building the evidence base around it 😭

Closing a 5yr chapter as I wrap my time at Stony Brook. Today I start as Associate Prof of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University!! Forever grateful to SBU for offering our team the chance to build and grow beyond my wildest dreams. Onward & upward. Also, who wants to hang in Chicago?

Finally getting the NOA for a grant I already had (but needed to migrate to my new institution) after six months of paperwork and unexpected hoops is a uniquely weird combination of "literally crying from joy/relief" and "actually nothing happened" 😭🎉🤷🏻‍♀️

So to summarize what made academic Twitter special and what we can do to improve Bluesky (let me know if I miss anything): helpful academic advice, community/ networking, researchers being human, celebrating successes, commiseration, heterogeneity/ diversity, dog pics, non-academic recommendations!!

I'm grumpy about adding yet another app/site to my daily roster. So here is this photo of Penny, enthusiastically sniffing a rose, to force cheer upon myself and others.