A federal court temporarily reinstated a University of South Dakota professor who was put on administrative leave after making negative comments on social media about Charlie Kirk the day the conservative activist was shot.

The incredible Dr. Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social is out with a new piece about the impact of having a charlatan in charge of science and healthcare. As usual he pulls no punches.

You've heard me talk about it. You've seen me write about it. And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied! Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it! cup.org/4nfM2IM

If the average power of a test in a discipline is ~20% and 1% of published results are nulls, then there is almost no plausible way to work out the math so you don’t see absolutely *enormous* amounts of selection on significance. Sig results are always over like 100x favoured

You're very welcome @vincentab.bsky.social P.S. Check out our preprint on an alternative to staring at coefficients: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

"What I take from Aaron is that the best way to be truly productive on the margin, is to try to build for other people and connect them together."

Check out this opportunity for a postdoctoral fellowship in veteran suicide prevention at the VA Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention in the Finger Lakes Region of New York!

Take a look at this description of the Evelyn Asplundh Clinical Fellowship in Suicide Prevention at the David Farber ASPIRE Center in Philadelphia!

Gun suicide is a preventable public health tragedy affecting American communities. However, the extent of the problem is largely dependent on the amount of guns & strength of prevention policies in each state. Explore new maps with county-level in your state: publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

The Pink Book of #MarginalEffects (aka Model to Meaning) ships next week and I've got a backlog of Zoolander memes. Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline. #RStats #PyData

"In half of cases (i.e., hospitalizations or ED visits for suicidal thoughts or behaviors), children did not receive a followup visit in the week after their discharge—a critical time for intervention." #suicideprevention

New OIG report finds that most children enrolled in medicaid did not receive timely suicide-related follow up care. oig.hhs.gov/reports/all/... #suicideprevention

Is there any research comparing EMA study results to just directly asking participants "How much do you think you varied on [construct x] over the last two weeks?" Or asking people around them/parents "How much do you think this person/child varied on [construct x] over the last two weeks?

Great new interview with David Jobes by Ali Mattu #suicideprevention www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULRJ...

Colors are changing in the canyon 🏃‍♂️

Rethinking measurement invariance causally by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance. A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation. Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results

Students leading the way

Support/push/harangue/encourage your campus leaders to resist whatever pressure they're under. We won't win all the battles but every victory (or stalemate or loss averted) is worth something. See also my op-ed (in a collection with academics in the Philly area) - share.inquirer.com/M8nPzg

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Sigh. This IRB determined digital safety planning was potentially too dangerous to do a fully powered study. 😑https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-49573-001

"STAT’s analysis of NIH Reporter data reveals that the agency will still fund far fewer new projects this year, due to a change in how it awards grants...the number of R grants issued has dropped much more precipitously — from 5,633 to 3,758 newly funded projects."

speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee

President of Texas A&M resigns. This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

He couldn't save himself by firing professors. The cultural revolution marches on. You won't escape it by cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

“What Texas State is doing seems to me to be so obviously unlawful — and so likely to lead to a successful lawsuit — that they must be more afraid of something else, like running afoul of the political priorities of state or federal officials”

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Safe gun storage laws can prevent people at elevated risk for gun suicide from accessing firearms. Nationally, over 60% of gun owners support laws that require a person to lock up the guns in their home when not in use. publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

The #rstats community, generally and specifically at conf, is THE number one reason why I keep using R. It’s like nothing I’ve experienced with other languages I’ve used, and it is POWERFUL.

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Clemson doesn’t have a law school and it shows.

Another termination.

Judith Butler speaks with Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow! on the ongoing fight for academic freedom at UC Berkley and beyond. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUWP...

I 🌟will🌟 be reviewing applications for a new clinical psych Ph.D. student! My group focuses on suicide risk and prevention research. Check out my lab website! Please Share. 🙂 @afspnational.bsky.social @scpdiv12.bsky.social @suicideresearchsym.bsky.social www.drseanmmitchell.com/join-our-team

I'm chairing a search for a clinical assistant professor in school psych. This is a teaching role focused on assessment courses and assessment supervision. (A clinical psych with a child/assessment background could also fit.) Come join us! careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/9516/job #psych #schoolpsych

Important stuff for federal workers and scientists and academics alike:

Psychological Methods invites early-career psychologists to apply to be a 2026 Editorial Fellow. This year kicked off our EF program -- it was enriching for the EFs and rewarding for everyone involved. Let's do it again! For details: www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necessary.”

“If they break LA, they can break any community in this country.”

Great to see @netecr.bsky.social on #Bluesky! Fellow #ECR & #MCR suicide and self-harm researchers - this is YOUR peer support community! Give them a follow!

Strong gun safety laws save lives, full stop. This #SuicidePrevention Awareness Month, learn more from @everytown.bsky.social about policies that help mitigate the risk of suicide: everytownresearch.org/firearm-suicide

The UNL Stats department is slated to be eliminated in our latest round of budget cuts. The metrics used don't take data context into account. I would fail students for this lack of reproducibility, too. thebugeater.com/uncategorize... It's almost like we need #statistics #education! #highered

The new {marginaleffects} release for #RStats (0.30.0) comes with two new vignettes: 1. Speed up computation with automatic differentiation (often 10x gains) marginaleffects.com/bonus/perfor... 2. Power analyses with {marginaleffects} and {DeclareDesign}. marginaleffects.com/bonus/power....

It seems unwise that so much of faculty life is project management and universities don’t provide any project management tools besides Teams. Everyone’s just duct taping things together.

Gotta watch out for rouge pikachus on electric boxes during my run

Some updated #Stata resources for the new academic year. * agrogan1.github.io/Stata/two-pa... * agrogan1.github.io/Stata/data-v...

Yesterday, I posted a graph that showed the differences in 2023 homicide rates for states grouped by party they vote for. Here is the same graph for suicide rates. 🧪☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News

Join us for our First Term Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy. Monday 9/15 Sara Whaley will join us to discuss Opioid Litigation National Best Practices in Action in Baltimore City. Register at: bit.ly/41r3j95