New paper alert 🎉🎉 We quantify the contribution of large-scale social and genetic factors on depression symptoms in the short (one year later) and long term (one decade later) using relatedness-based linear mixed models in Add Health. Go have a read!!! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Illuminating the complex interplay of risk factors for depression symptoms within a large-scale US longitudinal cohort - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - Understanding depression susceptibility requires research to assimilate a vast and complex array of risk factors comprehensively. We quantify the...

link.springer.com

🗳️Early voting is now OPEN in Indiana. Vote anytime between now and May 4 at noon for the primary election. Find your location + preview your ballot at IndianaVoters.in.gov. #HoosierSky #GTC #IndianaVotes

🚨 Less than 2 weeks left to register for Indiana’s primary election. Check your registration now—if you’re not registered, you can’t vote. Indiana’s primary turnout is often just 20–25%. Your vote matters. #HoosierSky #VoterTurnout #IndianaPrimary

Wait what. Someone is being held responsible for their actions? What is happening

At long last, we have a lab website!- Come see what we're up to: www.wedowlab.com ( with @ktnthompson.bsky.social and everyone else in the group that isn't on here)

Wedow Lab

Interdisciplinary research at the intersection of genetics, environment, and health using statistical modeling and machine learning methods.

wedowlab.com

There’s a new kid in town! Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence. We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality. With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social

Embryo selection based on polygenic prediction risks reinforcing social inequality

The rise of companies offering embryo selection based on genetic testing has triggered heated debate about ethical acceptability, as well as the accuracy and scientific validity of these techniques. W...

fertstert.org

One important part of The Dunn Lab culture is to spend time together outside the lab! It was so refreshing to be able to host a recent lab lunch for us to reconnect & share ideas in a different setting - always great for creativity ✨🧪

A quick thread of some great Purdue representation sharing our amazing science at @ispg.bsky.social annual conference #WCPG2025! 🧬 🧠 🧪 First up: @ktnthompson.bsky.social presented work investigating whether family acceptance & belonging mitigate depression risk 👪

Looking for a role between postdoc & faculty? We're hiring TWO Senior Research Scholars at Purdue Indianapolis. You'll lead cutting-edge research on #epigenetics of #depression or using baby teeth for mental health #biomarkers 🧬🦷 Learn more & apply: www.thedunnlab.com/join-the...

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question. Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

Not a good look for Indiana Humanities education is super important to a thriving civilization and economy www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...

Editorial: Indiana University, Ball State and Purdue are gutted without logic or thought

Taking an axe to degree programs at Indiana University makes no sense.

chicagotribune.com

STAT story about the ruling www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n... 1/n

Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are 'void and illegal,' federal judge rules

A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”

statnews.com

Live from the conference continues, we are now at 98 club karaoke, first come first serve! @essgn.bsky.social

📣 BREAKING NEWS: Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom. “Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Harvard sues Trump administration for blocking university’s ability to enroll international students – live

In a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Harvard called the revocation a ‘blatant violation of the US constitution’s first amendment

theguardian.com

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

International students upend their lives to join American science, bringing their novel insights that drive innovation. Now, they are being illegally targeted by Trump, because Harvard won't back down. Classic bully behavior. We Stand Up for International Students. www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...

Here is your occasional reminder that The United States has plenty of resources to feed, house, and provide medical care for everyone We have made a choice as a society that, rather than doing that, we would rather allow people to selfishly hoard these resources This is a choice

Is workplace loneliness just about feeling isolated from colleagues, or is there more to it?👨‍⚕️👷‍♀️ In our new paper in SPPE, we found that workplace loneliness goes beyond work relationships + can include disconnection from one’s organisation + society at large🧵 doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02925-0

Conceptualising workplace loneliness: a qualitative investigation with UK workers - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Purpose Loneliness has been identified as an important risk factor for mental health problems, and concern about its impact on workers’ health and wellbeing has grown in recent years. While a body of ...

doi.org

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

scim.ag

The best best best SEM primer out there - it’s free, the bad jokes (mostly) land, and the resources are fantastic - go watch!!

Like so many of the trends of the 1880’s-1920’s, eugenics is on the rise. Scientists have a moral obligation to speak up.

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

nature.com

As someone directly affected by this, let me be clear: I'd rather lose my job because Harvard chose to fight than keep my job and see a generation of white supremacists parade its corpse around like a war trophy.

STAT@statnews.com · last yr.

Researchers at Harvard and its affiliates appreciate that the university resisted the Trump Administration's demands, but worry about what happens next.

Every time you show up - you inspire 10 more people to do so. #HandsOff says Indiana !!

New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):

It looks like HANDS OFF! rallies will be more accessible than women's healthcare on 4/5 and that's just another reason why YOU should show up to one. Stand Up for Science is partnering and you can register at: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s... #handsoffscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

Indy stood UP @standupforscience.bsky.social #DiversityDrivesInnovation #ScienceSavesLives @rogbryant.bsky.social @gbosslet.bsky.social @ausrob-phd.bsky.social @talk-tara.bsky.social

See you all on the South Lawn of the Indiana statehouse in a few hours @standupforscience.bsky.social

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tomorrow is the Stand Up for Science Ralky (Indy’s version) 12-2, South lawn of the statehouse Great speakers Dress warm but it’ll be awesome

Take a good look at who is speaking out. Grad students are running the biggest science protest because no one else would. Institutions are going to be targeted no matter what we do. Might as well go down fighting.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thank you! I, too, am shocked that so many are so quiet as if they think it will protect them from the worst of this. I don't think it will.

Message to our European colleagues : we can help you create events in your country / cities.

Stand Up For Science France@standupforscifr.bsky.social · 2y ago

On March 7, let's stand up for science! 🔬✊ In solidarity with Stand Up For Science US (@standupforscience.bsky.social) and in response to threats against scientific institutions, actions will take place in every university city in France. Info & registration 👉 standupforscience.fr

Calling all Hoosiers!!! #StandUpforScience local rally in Indianapolis is confirmed! 📅 March 7, 2025 ⏰ 12PM - 2PM 📍Indiana Statehouse – South Lawn, Indianapolis Science is for everyone, spread the word 🔥 @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025 #ScienceForAll #ScienceNotSilence