This was a deep “bless your heart” with a hint of “I pity the fool.” I felt it.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 2w ago

Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be." #cdnpoli

Academic freedom assessment across the world. The US is on a steep decline, below >120 countries www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

When we talk about misinformation, we often focus on polarization and politics, where the consequences can feel more distant or abstract. But one of the clearest examples of misinformation causing measurable harm is cancer. 🧵

We have 2 new papers out in Nature Mental Health. [1] Led by @jonathanrepple.bsky.social: key challenges in advancing research on depression phenotyping, w focus on heterogeneity of depression, longitudinal disease trajectory & underrepresentation of lived-experience www.nature.com/articles/s44...

1/ What if a drug for anxiety disorder more likely makes you feel suicidal than help against anxiety? This was found for escitalopram in paediatric generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), but it was nonetheless approved. Let me explain and summarize experiences with trying to get this corrected in a🧵

I’m in Canada right now, but I’m still American and feel this deeply.

I may be invisible, but you're transparent.@invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don't really know how else to explain how precarious it feels to be Black in America right now to people who are motivated to misread these moments. It's difficult to trust and even harder to expect solidarity from people still looking for common ground with these Confederates.

Someone totally misunderstood how much rage I generally keep under wraps. This person basically tried to stiff me for a few thousand dollars. It’s a housing scam. Anyway, I just got off the phone with somebody’s mayor and next I’m calling a governor. Sometimes you choose right one but wrong day.

I like to put on old mystery and detective shows, like Perry Mason, to calm down. The familiarity of voices in the background helps. One of the biggest papercuts in moving to Canada was losing access to Magnum PI on the Roku channel.

Daniel is one of my favorite people I’ve worked with at any job, and I’ve had A LOT of jobs. Highly recommend!

Daniel Coppersmith@danielcoppersmith.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Suicide Prevention Research Lab at UMass Amherst is hiring! We are looking for a lab manager to help grow our new lab with a start date of summer 2026. Share and apply! careers.umass.edu/jobs/technic...

This weekend: I watched UNC beat Duke with my wife and son. I watched the Super Bowl (while working to finish this dissertation). I used a semi-automated approach to screen 944,000 research documents.

New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New viewpoint article, "It is time to take chronic suicidal ideation seriously", with Evan Kleiman and @katieleedg.bsky.social now published in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

In (un)health and science news…

The BMJ@bmj.com · 6mo ago

ICE agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain illegal immigrants www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!

🆕Please share 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 Call for Abstracts: Closing date 27th March 2026 suicideresearch.info/10th-suicide...

📢 Now accepting applications for the CSRP Pilot Grant Program! 🔗 Read more and apply: csrp.mgh.harvard.edu/funding-oppo...

Are you someone "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure" and are interested in a two-year, funded post-doctoral fellowship at a German University to do that work? Then check out the link below! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Early Career Rescue Fellowship | Universität Tübingen

Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), the Tübingen College of Fellows (CoF), and the…

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Every breakthrough in suicide prevention starts with data, research, and support. And it starts with people like you. Your #GivingTuesday donation drives the science behind that incredible outreach, funding critical prevention efforts. Give today: afsp.org/givingtuesday

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Introducing the next CSRP Webinar: What Are Crisis Hotlines and How Do They Work? Featuring speakers from 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Samaritans, Inc., and Crisis Text Line! 🗓️ December 19, 2025 | 10-11AM EST 🔗 Sign up: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The patterns have been consistent. When students protest against racist speech on campus, they’re labeled as coddled snowflakes who need to welcome outdated modes of thought on campus. It’s a free speech issue when folks are defending others rights to say racist or similar ideas.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

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The Center for Suicide Research and Prevention invites you to the 2nd Annual CSRP Conference! 💻 Free & virtual 📅 Sept 9, 2025 | 9AM–2PM EST 🌍 Open to all: scientists, clinicians & community leaders 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/csrp-2nd-conf

It’s apparently now too controversial in the United States to say “racism is bad”

Adam Crafton@adamcrafton.bsky.social · last yr.

Exclusive FIFA has decided not to show videos or signage which explicitly mention challenging racism or discrimination in US Club World Cup venues FIFA point to statutes - "politically neutral" - when asked if US political climate played part in decision www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Devasting.’ NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia

Researchers decry agency’s decision just as new leads reinvigorate search for long-sought vaccine

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.