Are you at #DIscience25? Come to our panel on Demystifying, Combining, and Integrating D&I Science Theories, Models, and Frameworks to learn how we integrated RE-AIM and CFIR to conduct a national evaluation of #IPV screening in VA! Tomorrow (Tues, 12/16) at 2:30pm #ImpSci

Yesterday’s "No Kings Day" rallies were the second largest political protest ever, with 5.5-8.7 million participants. Why isn’t this front page news?! For example, even (left-leaning?) @nytimes.com decided today’s The Morning Newsletter should lead with postseason baseball?! 🤔

For those asking “but does protesting really do anything?”

What the actual fuck?

Grateful to @istss.bsky.social for selecting Baltimore as the host city for #ISTSS2025! Prioritizing self-care while conferencing = lovely sunrise run along the Inner Harbor 🌅

Exactly. They are looking for (or creating…) a pretext to justify dismantling democracy and consolidating power. This is all by design. This is the authoritarianism playbook.

TIP FOR CONSERVATIVES: If you are bereft over the gun shooting of Charlie Kirk, just pretend he was a kid in an elementary school, and you will forget about the whole thing within a minute.

Slashing R&D and pretending climate change doesn’t exist won't stop it from existing, it just delays the solutions we imminently need.

US citizen and army vet was detained during immigration raid and held incommunicado for three days www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/u...

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Thank you for this prayer, @marisaelana.bsky.social 💜

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Trump cut staffing at the VA, and now Dallas vets are waiting months for care. Surgeries are being delayed. Vets are being left without mental health care. I’ve called for an investigation—because if you claim to support veterans, act like it.

Washington Post: 'NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.' 'A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.' www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

More American people and businesses should be distancing themselves from the cruelty, bullying, and xenophobic actions of this administration. Not just for the sake of diplomacy, but to preserve the soul of our nation. Thank you for your thoughtful and compassionate letter, @ricksteves.bsky.social.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Yup. Even if my job is protected or moved to a purely clinical role (I'm a research & clinical psychologist), the majority of my research team are support roles, which if terminated, would halt my program of research, including my ongoing clinical trial in which veterans are currently enrolled.

MAGA trashed posters about the diversity of afferent firing in the cochlea (research on HEARING!) at a conference in FL bc they thought it was DEI. I can't believe we need to tell people now that the word "diversity" is used to convey meaning other than what the administration calls "woke ideology"

The president of the United States is now using SpongeBob memes to troll his federal workforce. What an embarrassment.

Have we started a "wrong answers only" thread yet? And please note, the email doesn't specify what you accomplished AT WORK 😂 #fednews #FederalEmployees #fedemployees #FederalWorkers #feds #altgov #resist

been thinking a lot about this quote lately “There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

These pro-deportation flyers were scattered around my neighborhood this morning. I live in a very blue part of a blue state (New Haven County, CT). Imagine the fear, anxiety, and stigma that immigrant families are enduring in less safeguarded cities nationwide. Hate does not make America great.

Check out our new scoping review of bidirectional IPV (both partners experiencing and using violence in the relationship) in dyadic datasets. #academicsky #IPV #pubalert #violenceprevention #scopingreview #intimatepartnerviolence #bidirectionalIPV

First National Nuclear Security Administration employees and now USDA folks working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak?! 😳 Yikes.

50501 protest in New Haven, CT today. We braved the cold and made our voices heard ✊ #NotMyPresident #BuildTheResistance #FiftyFiftyOne @50501movement.bsky.social

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

This is by design. They want to weaken the VA system and privatize VA healthcare - this has been their stated goal for years, including explicitly in Project 2025

Congresswoman Sarah McBride @mcbride.house.gov delivered a powerful first floor speech on Thursday, despite being deliberately misgendered in the introduction when Rep. Mary Miller introduced her as “the gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride." Please listen beyond just the introduction. (1/2)

In Connecticut - NIH FUNDING: $770M JOBS SUPPORTED: 6609 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $1.68B

Help trans and non-binary Girl Scouts meet their cookie sales goals! 🍪🌈

Disbanding clubs that foster social connection and belonging will make our military (and county) weaker, not stronger. It will weaken morale and cohesion, reduce recruitment and retention, and erode institutional trust. Alienating those being trained to uphold national security is a bold move 😳

This website tracking legal challenges to Trump's actions has been a sliver of hope. Can we do a thread on examples of action/acts of resistance (no matter how big or small!) to help combat the ever-growing dread and despair?

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Now that everyone has had a chance to process their shock and despair, let this week bring voices (and actions!) of resistance, compassion, and sanity. AOC is undoubtedly one of these voices.

Literally said this exact thing to a friend last week 😂💪🌲

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to introduce our new kittens, Oreo and Olive. The timing couldn't be more serendipitous. We got these 4 mo old siblings two weeks ago and they have been the purrrfect welcome distraction from despair and existential dread. #catsofbluesky #catsky

This has been a big concern for me. Does this mean I'll only be able to publish work that aligns with specific ideology? What impact will this have on the advancement of science and knowledge as a whole?

Exactly. Whenever he does something new that he promised to do and people are *shocked*, I'm over here like "when people show you who they are and tell you what they plan to do, believe them." None of this shocks me. It outrages, disgusts, and infuriates me, but it does not shock me.

alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

I don't want to return to the time when many kids died due to now preventable diseases, but it seems we might. Politico has laid out some very scary possibilities, including 1/ www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

A short thread with some tips about Trump fatigue and the next few years: 1. Be prepared to pace yourself. Had too much for one day? Shut it down. Dig into work and hobbies. Find enjoyment.

The latest federal dismantling of DEI efforts. All VHA employees got this email at the end of the day today.

Final push - please share widely and/or reach out with interest! 🤓 #academicsky #IPV #ImpSci #teambasedscience #violenceprevention #postdoc #fellowship #jobalert

I had the privilege of spending yesterday at The Equus Effect, an equine-assisted therapy program we partnered with for a recent pilot RCT. Official findings coming soon, but WOW, the experiential and somatic learning through interaction with the horses truly blew me away! 🐎 💗 #EquineTherapy #PTSD

#20daybookchallenge Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8: In Memoriam, by Alice Winn #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge