Excited to be starting fellowship but also sad this means the end of my summer outdoors!

It's the 11th anniversary of Obergefell! I remember exactly where I was when I found out —I remember texting my girlfriend and communities about the news, I remember feeling my future open up, and I remember the loneliness that came with hiding my joy from my family, as I wasn't out.

If you had told me when I started graduate school that by the end my google scholar would look like this, I would not have believed you! We are coming up on the end of internship and I am feeling proud/sad to be entering the next stage and I am excited for whats next.

📢 Call for unpublished data for meta-analysis on anti-bisexual discrimination & self-injurious thoughts & behaviors Details: bit.ly/4cqkWKX Contact by 5/1/26 @apadivision44.bsky.social @abct-sgm-sig.bsky.social @eupha-sgmh.bsky.social @impactinstitute.bsky.social @sexsciencesociety.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s ruling that “conversion therapy” cannot be banned does not change the fact that the literature overwhelmingly shows that sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts cause serious, lasting harm to individuals exposed to such efforts.

Full or Associate Prof not working in Canada but want to be? Canada (University of Calgary) wants you. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054... .

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs, University of Calgary in Calgary, AB, ...

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs, University of Calgary in Calgary, AB, ...

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TT Assistant Professor Position in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities at UC-Berkeley! Further details below --

Assistant Professor -Modern Southeast Asian Humanities - Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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The Atlantic and NYT lost their minds if there was so much as a trigger warning in classes. Now, professors and Deans are being fired for a class that discussed the existence of trans people and those same publications are quiet. It was never about free speech. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to firings

After the video fueled outrage, two college leaders were removed from their administrative roles for approving plans to teach content inconsistent with the course’s published description.

texastribune.org

Though delayed by my internship year, I have a new paper out in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! In this paper, we examine rates of inconsistency in lifetime reporting of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) among youth in the ABCD Study!

Out in Psychology of Violence! “Stalking and cyberstalking among college students: Prevalence and distinctions between harassment, victimization, and perpetration.” psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding

The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

wsj.com

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 How does living surrounded by more conservative religious communities impact LGBQ+ mental health? A small thread (1/3) of our new open-access paper!

Allyson M. Blackburn, Ph.D.@allysnblckbrn.bsky.social · last yr.

Out in AJCP! “Linking the religious and social environment to sexual minority mental health” doi.org/10.1002/ajcp...

Out in AJCP! “Linking the religious and social environment to sexual minority mental health” doi.org/10.1002/ajcp...

<em>American Journal of Community Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

In the United States, mental health disparities persist between sexual minorities – people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or other nonheterosexual identifications – and heterosexuals. Althou....

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NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities

The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

nature.com

Trump’s aim is to destroy American universities

Guy Grossman@guygrossman.bsky.social · last yr.

Given funding uncertainty, the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has decided not to authorize any standing faculty hires during the current fiscal year. Zero hires. Across the entire school.

I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836

The Academy of Psychological Clinical Science is offering dissertation awards to students in our member programs. Please see: www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/07-07-25-apc... for all the details, deadline 9/1/25. We also need reviewers, details at same link!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · last yr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Brooke Rollins, secretary of Agriculture, have suggested that bird flu virus should be left to "rip" through poultry farms across the U.S. — but experts warn that this approach could hasten the beginning of a new pandemic

Not gonna lie, I’m kind of turned on right now

Happy Pride from Seattle!! So happy to be settling in before starting internship.

My statement on today’s decision in Trump v Casa:

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in a huge setback for transgender rights.

This is horrifying and will shorten trans lives. At the same time, we know that trans people have survived attack and erasure many times over, providing each other with love, care, and basic needs. We won't stop or be stopped. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

US supreme court upholds Tennessee ban on youth gender-affirming care

Ruling is devastating loss for trans rights supporters in case that could set precedent for dozens of other lawsuits

theguardian.com

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · last yr.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Best of Dying Twitter@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · last yr.

“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”

Filled with gratitude that I was able to be hooded by my advisor and walk with friends this weekend! Excited for the next steps!

I defended! I’m so grateful for my advisor @nicoleeallen.bsky.social who traveled for an in-person defense at @psychillinois.bsky.social & my Chair, Nathan Todd for his constant support, & the rest of my committee: Rachel Garthe, Catharine Fairbairn, and Brian Ogolsky. Thrilled for what’s next!

In response to Trump's executive orders, RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from sharing resources specific to LGBTQ people, immigrants and other marginalized groups.

Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders

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