Chris Larson
@clarsonsbrain.bsky.social
Psychology Professor - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Affective Neuroscientist | Lover of books, travel, hockey, and loud music in the car | she/her
Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?
Federal funding plays a critical role in supporting life-saving research. In the recent APA Div56 newsletter, we outline how Trump policies place trauma research at risk and emphasize the importance of collective action. apatraumadivision.org/spring-2025-...
DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system—the likes of which we have never seen in the US. Trump could soon have the tools to satisfy his many grievances by swiftly locating compromising information about anyone he doesn't like. Our privacy laws aren't protecting us! Gift link.
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State (Gift Article)
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
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Well this is just absolutely fucking disgusting.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last yr.When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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Society for Research in Psychopathology folks, pls submit nominations for the Early Career Award by April 30th! No better time to do all we can to elevate our EC colleagues and recognize their research contributions
Anyone looking to take an amazing clinical psych student who would come to grad school with an NSF GRFP in hand? Interests in stigma, adversity, but flexible! (Side note that it is awful that nsf doesn’t let you defer, apply next yr w/grant in hand, and just count that as 1 of 2 deferral yrs)
(1/2) 📢 SPR Elections – Call for Nominations! Nominate candidates for: 🔹 President-Elect (2025–2028) 🔹 Treasurer-Elect (2025–2029) 🔹 Board of Directors (2 seats) (2025–2028) 🌟 Self-nominations & nominations of underrepresented individuals encouraged!
Unsurprisingly, funding has now also been terminated at University of Pittsburgh. Work from my outstanding colleagues in Psychiatry & Psychology, Erika Forbes and Jennifer Silk, investigating suicide in LGBQT young adults, terminated midstream😩 PA folks, add this to your daily calls to congress ☎️
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.New story about grant terminations in Pittsburgh www.post-gazette.com/business/hea... 1/2
(1/5) Poster (and Faces of the Future talks) and Big Idea symposia submissions for #2025SPR are now open!
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.
Public health is under attack in America. Maternal and child health is under attack in America. Health research is under attack in America. Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.
Trump’s funding cuts are hitting early-career researchers the hardest
Doctoral students at the University of Illinois Chicago say vital work on maternal health is threatened by Trump’s research funding cuts.
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Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th! More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
Great resource from Just Security on the demolition of DOJ norms.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2y agoIt can be hard to keep straight all of the alarming instances of politicization/weaponization of the Justice Department since January 20th. I created a detailed Timeline, with Audrey Balliette. We also link to all the publicly available documents. Read the 25+ entries here: #Democracy
Just to clear up some confusion, Wisconsin Indivisibles have endorsed Susan Crawford — the Wisconsin-raised jurist who has dedicated her life to putting the people of her state first. Early voting starts soon. Help us stop the MAGA takeover of the Wisconsin Supreme Court: indivisible.org/scowis2025
Musk-backed ad attacks wrong Susan Crawford • Wisconsin Examiner
An Elon Musk-backed political group attacked the wrong Susan Crawford in a social media ad as part of its support of Brad Schimel
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We all know what they say about people who make assumptions.
BREAKING: NIH CSR meeting notices in the Federal Register will restart tomorrow (Tuesday, 3/4). The first notice is for 4 CSR meetings in late March and early April. 3 special emphasis panels, 1 for kidney disease. This is the first such notice since January 21.
Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…
Help us make the upcoming congressional recess one for the history books. We’ve put together a detailed toolkit to help you plan events in your districts, make the most of town halls, and put Members of Congress on blast if they try to hide from constituents: indivisible.org/muskorus
Register now for the 14th annual Reading Emotions on 26-27 June with a stellar interdisciplinary line-up of speakers to discuss “Facial expressions of emotion”. Submit abstracts for short talks and apply for travel grants sites.google.com/site/reading.... We look forward to seeing you at #ReadEmo25
Have heard of multiple groups getting these grant termination letters. Direct political interference with science. Absolutely unacceptable. 🧪
Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He)@jaceflatt.bsky.social · 2y agoJust received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org
