This is also what’s happening in science: break the social contract between science, the public, and the govt and extract the value for the billionaires. THIS is why @standupforscience.bsky.social is fighting for more than a flat budget. We are fighting for science for the public’s good.

one notes that he does not say, why haven't university presidents as a class held press conferences and protests since the first day of the admin when the first NIH theft came down

A lawsuit filed by a group of New York City employees against their health insurer cites ProPublica's reporting on ghost networks, where health plans list providers who supposedly accept that insurance but who are not actually available to patients. By @maxblau.bsky.social

This is an important case- the freedom to express yourself is a fundamental right in the United States-as long as it’s not incitement, it Is not limited to whether a public institution or a politician approves of the speech www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Here is the CBS Sunday Morning piece for which I was interviewed about findings from my book Coverage Denied. Health insurance barriers ration health care by inconvenience, imposing hurdles to get prescribed care with administratively burdensome appeals many can’t navigate. youtu.be/SRPOoPDN-7w?...

"We must never be shy about characterizing the university as one of the key means of realizing the human need to know, to understand, and to search for truth. It must be repeated endlessly and with all the infinite variations that will come over time."

Ohio higher education funding has lagged at or below inflation for the last 25 years.

20 out of 25 CIO director positions at CDC are vacant and filled by actings (or eliminated), just in the past year via CDC Data Project www.cdcdataproject.org/leadership-c...

Bright Way Zen is hosting a free intro to Zen meditation tomorrow 🧘 Could you use some meditation in your life? Have you tried meditating but could use some guidance? Join us in person or online for this free, beginner-friendly workshop on Zen meditation! #DBT teamup.com/event/show/i...

Just came across this today - Brief thoughts on Zen and behavior therapy by Linehan & Sargent. Worth a quick read. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #DBT

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

too many people seemed to learn the wrong lesson about minneapolis from the George Floyd uprising–— that it is just a bad, place with racist cops. the real lesson should have been that people in minneapolis actually care about their neighbors and are willing to do something about injustice.

Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -- James Baldwin

this is why teaching history feels so important to me right now.

The institutional memory of NOAA has suffered: “All these leaders of things who’ve been around for a long time and know how it operates, we’re kind of moving on.” NOAA lost 2,000 of its 11,800 employees through layoffs and retirements since Trump took office”. Now at its lowest staffing level ever.

Worried about increased surveillance of syllabi & course curricula at your institution? Check out these resources from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom to integrate in your course, such as language for academic freedom to put in your syllabus, a teaching module, and a reading list.

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Updated data - Firearms are still the leading cause of death for 18 and under in the US. The number of states where this is true is also quickly increasing. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #suicideprevention

"increased funding for counselors led to large increases in high school graduation and measures of school climate. The policy also led to more modest gains in California high school exit exam performance and some public college enrollment rates." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Does etable really have no option to have each stat in its own column instead of vertically stacked in #stata? Maybe this is doable with collect? Collect is maddeningly hard to use though…

Stratified Stepped-Care for Reducing Suicide Attempts and Self-Harm in Youth: A Randomized Clinical Trial #jaacap #articleinpress https://twp.ai/4iuAL7

Nationwide Children’s Hospital was just awarded $16 million for a study on school-based suicide prevention programs. https://nbc4i.co/494bWdZ?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Large, well-conducted (at first glance) RCT finding no difference between 1.5 g of ω-3 fatty acids vs placebo in children and adolescents with moderate to severe pediatric major depressive disorder. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New piece from the local news paper on Page today ❤️ www.ack.net/education/pa...

As I’ve been saying, Dem candidates really need to take seriously the imperative to fix public education, or Rs will take advantage and destroy it. We can support educators and serve students, but we need to admit there’s a problem. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/29/d...

Books read in 2025. Can’t say I recommend finishing out one of the worst years of your life by reading The Road. Yikes. 😣

We cannot afford another eight years of RFK Jr. We will be paying the price in tiny coffins and mounting hospital bills. MAHA Action has a war chest worth millions, and have been organizing for years. We cannot throw in the towel. Science must get their act together, and fight back in 2026.

And this is just less than a year. Each day RFK Jr. stays in office as the head of our science and health system, the more his negligence compounds. Congress made a mistake confirming him, but they still have a chance to fix it. It's time they #ImpeachRFKJr www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The 2025 US school shooting data has been compiled. There were 232 school shootings this year (down from 336 last year). There were 148 people shot this year in school shootings (down from 276 last year). For 2026, resolve to lock your firearms or get rid of them. k12ssdb.org/all-shootings

Hello friends! I am partnering with the Zur Institute to offer a 3-hour training on January 16 (CE credits available) titled: "Understanding Suicide to Prevent Suicide: A Deeper Dive". Please consider joining or spreading the word. Would love to see you there! www.zurinstitute.com/webinars/und...

From cutting summer school and after school programs last June, to deep Medicaid and SNAP cuts, to now gutting community school grants in the middle of a school year, McMahon’s actions are hurting young people and increasing stress and anxiety for thousands of families. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Today we filed a lawsuit against the Dept of Ed's abrupt & unlawful decision to stop millions of $$ in funding 4 Full-Service Community Schools in the middle of approved, multi-year projects-projects that give students tutoring and after school & health care at school. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Meta-analysis finds that social norms messaging (telling people what others do or think they should do) has no effect on improving health behaviors once publication bias is accounted for. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Guess this explains why I haven't got reviews back yet...

"the priorities of [school] board members have large causal effects...the effect of electing an equity-focused member for low-income students is equivalent to assigning every such student a teacher who is 0.3 to 0.4 SDs higher in the distribution of teacher value-added" www.nber.org/papers/w34590

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 8 , 6 pm CET titled Inference for non-probability samples with nonprobsvy package in R by @mberesewicz.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

The road to autocracy is paved with false equivalences.

Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university. Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.

The reality for the other students is that they are no longer enrolled in a psychology class. It is a Psychology plus My Personal Christian Beliefs class. Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class. Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.

Rates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) among youth are high and increasing. This article reviews the implications of real-time monitoring for evidence-based assessment and intervention with high-risk youth. Read more: tinyurl.com/mrysb2e3 #psychiatry #selfharm

Exciting News: 🎊 Faculty members Dorothy L. Espelage and Marisa E. Marraccini will lead North Carolina’s efforts in a $16 million, multi-state study funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to reduce adolescent suicide risk through school-based prevention programs. unc.live/4s9j3cr

It's a failure of the academic imagination to think cutting core mission is the best route to right-sizing. Keep your teachers and researchers and lower class sizes (post pandemic students need more attention). Get ur savings by cutting admin fat and all the contracts with groups like Huron.

A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.

Digital single-session interventions for depression and self-injurious thoughts and behaviours in young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis - eClinicalMedicine www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

Democracy Now! coverage of the administration’s efforts to criminalize pediatric gender affirming care. youtu.be/-BxVp8OhyUY?...

They want us to not want to be professors: So our students don't question their propaganda. So our research doesn't challenge their lies. So our institutions can be replaced with so-called AI.