Suicide prevention requires systemic change. Governments worldwide must: - Decriminalise suicide - Implement national suicide prevention strategies - Fund accessible mental health care Policy saves lives. Let’s demand action. #WSPD2025

The updated version of the database of PhD fellowships produced and maintained by my team can be downloaded by anyone here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... For each of the 187 fellowships, you will find a short description, deadline, $ amount, link, etc. Good luck!

We tried something new this year as part of our orientation… Feeling grateful to Brown’s Swearer Center and to all the community partners who shared their work with us! 🙏 What a great introduction to Providence for our Brown psychology residents! 😊

Currently in the "we're so back" phase

It's a bit off-cycle, but you never know who might be looking and when... Brown has a new T32 postdoctoral fellowship in child health equity! Applications are open now and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. More details can be found in the link below: today.brown.edu/announcement...

Always love a music post! 1. "Any Major Dude Will Tell You," Steely Dan covered by Wilco 2. "Top of the World," The Carpenters covered by Shonen Knife 3. "When You Were Mine," Prince covered by Cyndi Lauper 4. "Hazy Shade of Winter," Simon & Garfunkel covered by The Bangles and just out...

A few years ago, I (w/2 other training directors) participated in an SSCP Q&A on the #ClinicalPsych internship application process. Thinking about applicants who like to use this time of year to get a head start on the process, I thought it might be another good time to share...

Started the process of moving offices, and woah…

Things are feeling especially hard & unpredictable right now, but one thing’s for certain - it’s the eve of our annual internship orientation. Taking a moment to enjoy that same “back to school” excitement that I get each year, when we welcome & launch our next cohort of psychology residents!

Latest pub from our P50 suicide prevention center, NCHATS, led by a great team out of Wayne State & Henry Ford Health in Detroit. JMIR Research Protocols-Suicide Risk Screening in Jails: Protocol for a Pilot Study Leveraging the Mental Health Research Network Algorithm and Health Care Data

And these are just the tangible costs… “…having a loved one in prison or jail is estimated to cost families across the country nearly $350 billion each year — about four times the amount the federal government estimates it costs taxpayers annually to operate the nation's prisons and jails.”

Stand for the things you know are right; It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight. ❤️

Our latest on this: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Feeling this in my bones right now.

Feeling fortunate to collaborate with this great cross-national team + to contribute to this work on criminal justice contacts among suicide decedents in Toronto over a 20+ year period. As a psych/French double major in undergrad, also excited to co-author a MS w/a titre en français!

Check out the article about the unintended harms of school based suicide prevention efforts by yours truly.

Baseline data from our SPIRIT trial are out. Among 800 ppl passing thru jail: ~50% reported a suicide attempt 30 days prior to study enrollment; most (85%) of which were prior to arrest. Given typically short jail stays, data 🔦 the impt need for effective post detention suicide prevention services.

Touché. (💙 go Devils!)

I’m grateful for the opportunity to teach a virtual CE course on a topic I care so much about-Cultivating Hope with Suicidal Clients ❤️ If you’re interested, the details are available here: www.praxiscet.com/events/culti...

Working in care transitions, I’ve often said we need policy solutions to improve continuity of care when a person is dc’ed from one system (eg, hospital) but gets stuck waiting for an appt in another (eg, CMHC). Enabling pharmacists to bridge an Rx during these long waits could be a game changer. 🙌

At least at Brown, neither trustees nor leaders of the Jewish student community are taking the bait. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5

Taking a break from all this {waves hands all around} to say that this is a feeling of hatred that resides deep in my soul… for me, it is Bryan Adams’ “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman.” 😳

Calling all #psychology grad students and researchers - APF has funding opportunities to support your work. ✨ Learn about these upcoming funding opportunities and more on our website! ampsychfdn.org/funding/#psychology#FundingFriday #PsychologyResearch

Having the chance to engage in “regular” scholarly activities has been a comfort these days. So in that spirit, I’m happy to share this upcoming panel on suicide prevention in jails, hosted by @jhsph-cmap.bsky.social on 4/1 from 4-6:30pm (ET), w/in person & virtual attendance options. Join us!

I was a predoc IRTA @ NIMH in 90s. I was lucky to have the chance to move to a GS position, but it got held up during the Lewinsky scandal & threat of govmt shutdown. But my mentor reassured me at the time, "NIH will always be safe b/c Democrats and Republicans both get sick." Haunting words. 😥

Alsupp issuing a PI from the bench. Finding that OPM engaged in sham terminations, claiming they were performance based in an attempt to avoid the procedural requirements of the Reduction in Force Act. Oh holy shit, quote in next post

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

⬇️ Check out the new SRS Bluesky account! And check out the meeting, too. 🤩 I’m excited to present with Drs. @kimvo.bsky.social and Yeates Conwell on methods & innovations in postdoctoral training in #SuicideResearch 🙌 (tho we’ll miss our VA colleague who has had to unwillingly recuse himself 😢)

2hrs of escapism and catharsis last night w/Michael Shannon + Jason Narducy’s REM tribute band. Catch them if they come by! #ThisIsMyLifeAndThisIsMyTime

Working on an R&R of a manuscript led by Canadian colleagues and co-authored by an Australian colleague in the UK. As the only American co-author, I took a moment to reflect back to them how poignant it feels to engage in cross-national collaborations at this moment in time. ❤️

Update: 59 districts across Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California & Idaho now available. I should have the rest of California done by this evening. Other states will follow throughout this week.

What?! Watching this Luther Vandross documentary on HBO and learning the story of how he came up with the backing vocals to Bowie’s Young Americans. Reminds me of how people from different backgrounds + places can work together, appreciate one another’s perspectives, and create something special. ❤️

Briefly reconnecting with a feeling of joy amidst the chaos and sadness, this video left me with happy tears. Super excited to not only catch Michael Shannon + Jason Narducy’s REM tribute band in Boston next week, but to also see Michael Stipe pay tribute to Patti Smith later this month in NY. #GenX

And, just told the discontinuation is now pushed to mid-May. A relief for this project, as data collection will be complete by June. But our team just lost an entire workday, scrambling to solve this problem - not to mention how other studies will still be impacted. Again, how is this efficient? 😔

Want to work for Scientific American? We're accepting applications for our summer/fall internships. Links to follow. Here's the news internship: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

Might be a small thing to others, but not to us. We have been collecting data through the VA instance of Qualtrics in our ongoing clinical trial of a suicide prevention intervention that has enrolled 850 at-risk Veterans - and just got word that VA is suddenly canceling its subscription…

It feels especially poignant to highlight that all of the “lessons learned” shared in this paper came from our collective experiences conducting NIMH-funded suicide research - and the paper itself was inspired by our NIMH colleagues who are dedicated champions of suicide prevention in the US.

I think CITI is now trolling me? 😊

What’s kind of amazing about this is that the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science just happens to conveniently be wrapping up today - in the convention center that is literally adjacent to the particular Tesla dealer in Boston mentioned in this article.

Wandering around the expo at the AAAS meeting and was stopped in my tracks. I might have insulted the representative when I asked to take a picture, because my colleagues would find it funny. 😬 She encouraged me to take some swag. 🤣

Anyone heading to #AAASmtg in Boston? Would love to meet up with like-minded folks! I’ll be presenting some of our work on suicide risk and jail detention on Fri morning as part of the panel, “Aging and Ailing Behind Bars in the United States,” organized by Drs. Linda Teplin & Enrico Castillo.

This is all so exhausting, but I think that’s the intent? But at least there’s this for now.

Third lawsuit challenging NIH indirect cost cuts - this time from schools and AAU, APLU www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Blood is boiling a little about having to address my overdue VA ethics training at this particular moment in time. Indeed, I do have some ethical dilemmas, as a matter of fact. 🤨

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...

As the executive branch initiates rapid orders/changes, and agencies scramble to keep up, implement, or pause implementation of each order, clear, fast communication is needed within the psychological community. This new site will have all of the latest updates you need: updates.apaservices.org

My NIH funding also supports a freestanding postdoctoral fellowship training program for a cohort of new investigators who are committed to careers in suicide research, touching children, adults,Veterans and their families.