Minimum. That’s just the count from the (hundreds) of faculty who did the survey, not the thousands we have on campus. Total impact is likely much higher.

“The principles of collegiality include academic freedom, shared responsibility, the policy of participation of all concerned in internal decision making structures and practices, and the development of consultative mechanisms.” www.unesco.org/en/legal-aff...

My university assigned me a mandatory training on (the risks and harms of) AI on the last day of duty, due July 1, after our chancellor and board of regents used AI to cull through all our syllabi and course material to decide what to censor. I can’t make this shit up.

I wish I could explain to “regular” people what is being done to the sciences. It is heinous and will take decades to correct.

NEW: They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding. As the NIH bankrolls new research at a significantly slower-than-usual pace, I talked to scientists left in the lurch about the toll on their research and careers: www.chronicle.com/article/they...

The U of Utah is losing great faculty like the author of this piece, and I can’t blame folks for leaving

Internal notes reveal that in March, the mental-health institute (NIMH) projected it'd only be able to issue ~5% of its typical new awards because of the shortage, potentially leaving $500 million unspent.

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

The censorship at TTU is so bad that my someone above me, outside my discipline is intersting himself into my students training without my consent, insisting he is required to do so because of the 'policy'. @standupforscience.net

my job history is so boring… - research assistant (poli sci, psychiatry, psychology) - counselor for middle/hs debate and “gifted” kid camps - office helper for university general counsel (every lawyer had their own specific pen container, also more Diet Coke consumption than I’d ever seen)

This...the fetishizing of unreplicable neuroscience in order to legitimize our work is self-defeating. We don't need to know that depression is in the brain (as opposed to what???) to know it is problematic. How much money have we wasted proving something like depression is "real"?

While the Texas Tech Board Met, Students Attended a Funeral Students held a mock funeral for academic freedom Thursday, four weeks after the university system introduced policies that censor women’s and gender studies content. https://bit.ly/4nrHyQb #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

On Thursday, May 7 Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) and Raiders Against Censorship will stage a funeral at the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents meeting, marking the "death by a thousand cuts" to academic freedom + higher ed in TX. ✊ aaup-texas.org/blog/f/stude...

“Texas Tech leaders told faculty not to widely share the chancellor’s memo restricting graduate work related to sexual orientation or gender identity” www.texastribune.org/2026/05/06/t...

🏳️‍🌈 We're not going back in the closet 🏳️‍⚧️

Excited to share our latest paper, led by my student, Cole! Using intensive longitudinal methods, we examined how suicide safety plans are actually used in everyday life. These findings have important implications for improving intervention timing and clinical care. #SuicidePrevention

you don't want to smoke again, you want to be in your twenties again

How do early/mid career folks build portfolios as consultants? Like, not as a full time gig, but in addition to “your” (PI) projects? I feel like I’m ok at networking but not at this specific aspect of it.

I'm a mid-career researcher insofar as my research career is mid

Gutting Texas education from all sides. Our students deserve better.

This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.

Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.

Letter from the TTU AAUP executive committee in response to the latest round of censorship and phase-outs of courses and programs. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

*This* is how you Wreck ‘em, Tech. I applaud TTU AAUP and am proud of my high school classmate Dr. Geiger!

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

Personal (not professional or employee) take, might delete later: The situation at Texas Tech is, frankly, disgusting. It’s offensive, fascist, and it lays bare the reality of our broken system. If this survives inevitable court challenge, we will no longer be an institution of higher education.

TTU just released a memo institutionalizing censorship. As a grad student researching gender minority mental health and suicide prevention at TTU, I see this as an attack on academic integrity & professional readiness. Sharing some/a lot of thoughts as I make sense of this mess🧵(opinions my own)

🏳️‍⚧️ On this Trans Day of Visibility, a gentle reminder that no one owes you their story. Visibility matters, and it’s wonderful when people can live authentically and share that with the world. If you can’t do that today, you are still a valued and important member of the community. Stay safe 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

👏 👏 👏

Oh look, something not shocking at all.

Katie Dixon-Gordon @katieleedg.bsky.social is hiring for a full time research assistant! A great opportunity to work on suicide prevention and DBT research: careers.umass.edu/jobs/technic...

New Research Alert! 🚨 Our findings highlight the link between negative emotion differentiation and negative affect inertia & variability during EMA among adults at high risk for suicide. w/ the best team @sarahevictor.bsky.social @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social (and others not on Bluesky)

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities. But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham. It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why: 🧵1/

Leading psychiatrists are 'alarmed' that gender clinics refused to uphold really basic responsibilities of data stewardship, privacy and informed consent for research. Trans communities do not hate research. We hate bad faith research designed to harm communities. 1/3

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... If you’re Canadian please sign it. If you’re not, please share ❤️

Info needed! Has our team’s work changed how you teach, research, or mentor? I’m working on an award app and I’d be grateful to know how our work is being used, esp. related to training students and consideration of lived identities/ experiences. email is first dot last at TTU dot edu. Thanks!

Congratulations to the folks receiving their matches today! If you’re headed to Phase Two, you are still amazing, worthy, and capable. You got this.

Everything is on fire, but let me take a second to send good vibes to everyone awaiting Match Day this week. Y’all have worked so hard, and no matter what Friday brings, you will be ok.

Please see all the well-funded and impactful women scientists at Harvard and MIT who somehow did it without friendly lunches with a post-conviction Epstein.

Why is anyone at all surprised?

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

Last call! 📣 @texastech.bsky.social @tlpdc-ttu.bsky.social @texastechlib.bsky.social #NIH #LoanRepayment

My city just announced that library warming centers will close early due to…winter weather. Make it make sense.

I didn’t make any new year’s resolutions on 1/1. Now, sitting here on day six of combo strep throat and head cold, I am making two for 2026: 1) don’t work on sick days, and 2) teach our 3.5 year old how to cover his sneezes (with something other than my face).

Faculty governance is a myth. even at my CA school, admin make the final call always, but then emphasize that they listen to input and agree with faculty most of the time, which is not the same thing As true shared governance.

Yesterday my kid (3.5 yo) told us he had to go upstairs first “because I’m the expert!” Today he called me over excitedly to show me his blocks. We apparently created a tiny psychology professor 😂

Reflecting on the past semester, I’m so proud of my students’ perseverance, especially given the absolutely horrifying policy changes coming down from the Chancellor’s office at our university. Our students deserve so much better. [my personal views very obviously do not represent my institution]

Strong message from @newyorkstateag.bsky.social directly to transgender youth and their families. Allies across the country are doing all they can to stand with trans youth, and our community will survive these outrageous attacks from the Trump administration.