They’re going to kill hundreds of thousands of children.

The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague! Please RT apply.interfolio.com/172895

Please, I beg everyone panicking about “kids these days” to just display the full scale on the y-axis of their (not so) terrifying charts. Oh wait, maybe that story would not sell 🤔 mikemales.substack.com/p/how-to-go-...

…yes, AND we have also known that young people with mental health problems often report spending more time gaming and online. Instead of calling them addicted because of it, we should ask what they are searching for and what we can do to help them find what they need.

Jay Bhattacharya’s legacy 😢

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

San Diego is full of dancing and amazing signs and families. Huge diverse coalition has come together for this. So much love and protection energy for our border community is here

Look at downtown LA right now

Chicago #NoKings

Sorry, cancer patients, but we just don't have the money. We had to prioritize spending tens of millions on a military parade so the president could compensate for his many personal inadequacies. I'm sure you understand.

‼️ 🚨🔔 WOW. Martin Kulldorff, who RFK Jr picked to be on ACIP, has been making $$$$ testifying against the HPV vaccine (he lost the case in NC). This is a HUGE conflict of interest. ACIP rules BAN being “a paid litigation consultant or expert witness in litigation involving a vaccine manufacturer.”

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

"Japan readies $700m package to lure talent amid US brain drain" asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Jap...

Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare. Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home. Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl

So, June 14 is my birthday also. I am glad to see there is a MUCH bigger party than his to go to. See you there.

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

This is incredibly courageous and brave. Support NIH staffers. They stuck out their necks for us. Now we have to have their backs.

(3/5) At 7:59 AM this morning, Bhattacharya and RFK Jr. both received the email with the scathing Bethesda Declaration attached. 300+ NIH employees are calling out leadership for putting: ❌ Politics before lives ❌ Loyalty before science ❌ Ideology before the American people This is unprecedented.

“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.” @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/a-permanen...

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

YES!!!

“The global enterprise will adapt to the lack of American leadership, but the steep loss for the country itself is unambiguous. The United States will no longer have the same window into the technologies of the future that will allow it to shape and anticipate commercial and societal advances.”

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰. Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯 Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔

Wow The proposed cuts to NIH indirect cost rates “would lead to about $16 billion in economic loss and around 68,000 lost jobs annually across major population centres, regional hubs and small towns” Devastating

That’s a lede @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Each year, the bill would kick off 1 in 3 parents who work 80+ hours per month in the most common low-wage jobs *even if they manage to fill out the paperwork*, our new research with w/Olivia Howard @hamiltonproject.org finds: www.brookings.edu/articles/wor... 2/n

A must read from @lizananat.bsky.social and @agpines.bsky.social .. “nearly 1 in 3 service workers in households with children *who meet or exceed 80 work hours/month* over the course of the year would fall short of the work requirement in at least one month–and get kicked off basic needs programs”

“I think we desperately need to take some of the heat out of this debate,” @peteetchells.bsky.social says. “And this paper, for me, doesn’t do that. It has the potential to go the other way.” www.science.org/content/arti...

As a reminder, firearms are the leading cause of death in children and adolescents publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-re...

If I am reading this correctly, this version with a rational x-axis provides evidence for a different conclusion than the paper seems to offer: A (slight) majority of experts say that there is any evidence at all for only one of the 26 claims investigated. bsky.app/profile/rube...

Stop asking me about SEM and go take this free workshop instead!

⏰📷 Last week to register for my Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling workshop on May 14-16! I cover 4 of 5 types of stability/change: structural, differential, normative, and individual change in panel data (2-10ish waves) Please RT! 🙏 smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info

Actually, this just broke me. Thank you.

In my essay for @RCInvestigates today I examine school #Smartphones bans. Do they work? On balance, we should probably put a moratorium on such policies until more is known: www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...

Are you a postdoctoral researcher? Don't miss the application deadline for BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants on 4 June. Funding is available for research projects across all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: buff.ly/fLXzGVz

I had a sneak peak at this and it is sooooooo good. Thank you @jenndsn.bsky.social for always clearly communicating the science about and for young people

How many times does this woman need to say “I told you so”? Serious question.

Go 🇨🇦 ❤️

Who hid Americans during the 1979 hostage crisis? Canada. 🇨🇦 👊🏻

Melinda French Gates, my guest on the podcast this week, offers a solution to the one of the biggest barriers for women in the workplace. Full episode: link.chtbl.com/ProfGPod?sid...

Every hour that Kennedy remains Secretary puts lives at risk. We stand with our patients, and Congress must as well.

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

NSCA member @candiceodgers.bsky.social is quoted in @nature.com debating the strength of evidence connecting technology to surging rates of #adolescent mental illness and offering advice to parents and policymakers about how to support adolescent wellbeing. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...