Just one week until www.smart-workshops.com kicks off the summer series of livestream workshops. I'm excited that first up is my Intro to Structural Equation Modeling workshop May 7-9. Come learn more powerful and flexible data analysis with me! smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info

New systematic review and meta‐analysis looks at -harm reporting -risk of bias -action mechanism specification -incremental therapeutic effect size in psilocybin-for-depression RCT literature. I'll briefly summarize below. 🧵 🧪 #psychscisky #episky #medsky #psychiatry

Today is the first day of the (free! virtual!) Suicide Research Symposium. This conference is top notch. Come join us! #suicideprevention #SRS25 www.suicideresearchsymposium.com

Autistic people are not a disease. They never have been. Autistic people have fundamentally shaped our world...an incredibly net positive community. To condemn the existence of any autistic person is unacceptable. Autism is an inherent part of our culture and history, and it always will be.

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

Today I joined a lawsuit filed by the @aclu.org, the American Public Health Association, colleagues like @britshmit.bsky.social, and others to challenge the NIH's recent and abrupt cancellations of billions of dollars in research grants. (1/2)

Less than 1% of the US budget. Liquidating federal health agencies is not about saving money. Dismissing these workers will dismantle these agencies and cost American lives and our economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

Glad to see Princeton's president stand up for universities even after the administration suspended their grants. "we have to be willing to speak up, and we have to be willing to say no to funding if it's going to constrain our ability to pursue the truth.” www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

It's autism acceptance month! Autistic people have fundamentally improved my life both personally and professionally in countless ways. I'm so grateful to work with, have friends, and connect with family in this community!

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.

"Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working. Columbia’s leadership made repeated concessions to right-wing critics, only to be the first to come under attack."

I'm excited to announce that this spring/summer Statistics, Methods, and Research Training (SMaRT) Workshops are live! Check out the offerings here: smart-workshops.com/workshops Please repost and share widely! Some more info in 🧵 1/

Really looking forward to this!! #standupforscience2025

it's an odd time to share with so much going on that is much more pressing and important, AND: @shirleybwang.bsky.social and I will be teaching our workshop, Assessing Suicidal and Non-suicidal Self-Injury again this March 27th!

The NIH is being gutted. 🧵 www.science.org/content/arti...

Congress is considering drastic cuts to #Medicaid funding—cuts that could limit essential access to mental health and substance use treatment for millions of people across the country. Take action now to protect Medicaid! #AFSPadvocacy afsp.quorum.us/campaign/110...

URGENT: The House is set to vote tomorrow on whether to advance $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid — eviscerating essential programs that provide lifesaving services for people with disabilities, children, seniors, and more. Tell your representative now: Don't cut Medicaid.

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Call to Action: STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally and protest. Washington DC and nationwide, March 7. If you are a scientist or value science, create your own events in addition to this. Form a science coalition. #3E #EndAutogenocide #standupforscience2025 #Mar7

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.

Troubling: Congresspeople say they are NOT hearing from academics, or university administrators. PLEASE SPEAK UP! Oppose these budget cuts to research, health, student loans! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/... Tell others to do the same!

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

Here is a gift link to the article... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u... 3/3

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Now is the time to Stand Up for Science! 🔬🩺🧠 Links are below. March 7 is the date. 📣Organize, march, speak up and let your colleagues, friends, & neighbors know. @standupforscience.bsky.social 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

This one absolutely breaks my heart. The NIH post baccalaureate IRTA program lets our youngest and most creative minds come together to understand the potential impact of a career dedicated to scientific discovery. It sets trainees on a future not only of science but of *service*.

Happening now: hundreds have gathered in the snow and wind to protest outside Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. The pediatric hospital reportedly paused gender affirming surgeries for trans youth last week—a move organizers are calling out as complying in advance with Trump's fascist agenda.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Some of our members have submitted a letter to Meta protesting their revised policy on hateful conduct that now allows allegations of mental illness on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity You can read the letter and list of signatories here: www.hitop-system.org/letter-to-meta 1/2

Psychologists and psych-adjacent folks concerned about NIH indirect costs reduction: APA has a petition and request you contact your reps. This means APA has decided to pursue this, so I think we should too: www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...

An unspoken requirement to access suicide prevention care on helplines is a person must 1st overcome fear of disclosing to a counselor @danielcoppersmith.bsky.social @kathrynfox.bsky.social & I call for self-guided DMHIs like safety planning to be accessible on helplines along w/counselor support ⬇️

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

🎉My lab (webbslab.com) is hiring 2 full-time research assistants to work on NIMH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ tinyurl.com/naexvxdc

🎉My lab will be hiring 1-2 Research Assistants in the coming months! Official position post coming soon... Lab website: www.chla.org/research/lab... People interested in neurodiversity, clinical research, EEG, & mental health more broadly, please share and stay tuned for updates!

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.

🚨 New year, new paper! Short Report: "Type, content, and triggers for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in autistic youth and their disclosure to caregivers" Link to article below, and a brief summary! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Excited to share my first first-author publication, now available open access! Most research on BPD stigma focuses on mental healthcare contexts—but what about physical healthcare? How might stigma manifest and be experienced on that level? Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky

initially extremely irritated but now I'll embrace this outlook instead:

🧹 Dusting things off over here to share that we are once again recruiting for our NIMH-funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship in suicide research! More information can be found below. Applications are due by 12/04 to receive full consideration. clinical-psychology.med.brown.edu/postdoctoral...

📢 Dec 1 deadline! I am reviewing Clinical Psych PhD applications. Our lab has 2 exciting NIH-funded studies ongoing - 1 using EMA & portable breathalyzers to capture alcohol-related IPV, & another examining minority stress, alcohol use, & IPV among bisexual adults & their partners. Join our team!

“Hundreds of female faculty members at the University of Colorado Boulder will receive backpay as part of a $4.5 million settlement stemming from a class action gender equity lawsuit.” by Jenny Brundin

Hot take - a not often enough celebrated aspect of academia is the amazing colleagues (when you have them and I recognize there are also a lot of not amazing colleagues). Special shout out to phenomenal colleagues who make life better and bring so much joy to doing this work! 🙏👏💖

Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person. eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...

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