Saturday's Weather Rating: 10/10 🥳🎉THE FIRST PERFECT DAY OF 2026!!! High temperatures reach the upper 70s with comfortable dew points, sunny skies and a southerly breeze. That's the secret formula, man. The vibes are immaculate out there!!
Sonali Rajan
@sonalirajan.bsky.social
professor @teacherscollege @columbia | senior director of research at everytownresearch.org | founding president: https://www.firearmresearchsociety.org/our-team | runner | mom to the best kid
This is an excellent deep dive on a terribly hard and heartbreaking problem. Proud of the brilliant @sonalirajan.bsky.social, whose vital work is featured in this piece. She and others in this field work tirelessly to make a seemingly intractable problem incrementally tractable.
What Will It Take to Prevent School Shootings?
Metal detectors, bulletproof chalkboards, pepper-ball-spraying drones — in our desperation to protect children, we’re turning our schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are now leading a nation...
magazine.columbia.edu
Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.
The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭
The call for abstracts for this year's National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms is now open! Threading all the key details below! (1/n) --
Iconic that NASA woke up the #Artemis II crew with Pink Pony Club
What a grift from Haidt. Book 1: parents, it’s not your fault, it’s the phones Book 2: parents, it’s not your fault for being busy, in fact that’s better for your kids.
Wow @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. It's not just the physical violence, it's also the data surveillance apparatus--data we voluntarily and involuntarily share, weaponized by the state. "It is important enough that a federal cowboy kept one hand on his phone even as his other hand reached for his gun."
Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 7mo ago“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
Friends, we have been so happy to see the excitement and interest in our Inaugural RFP! To provide support for potential applicants, the wonderful Meg O'Toole and I will be hosting an optional webinar tomorrow (Feb 2nd) at 12:00PM ET. Link to register is here! lnkd.in/e8QvjJ8r
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Sonali Rajan@sonalirajan.bsky.social · 7mo agoI'm so proud to share that our @everytown.bsky.social research team launched an Inaugural RFP today for a new seed grant program. All details on how to apply/deadlines/eligibility are included in the link below. Please share widely friends and thank you! shorturl.at/sESve
Hello Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ! I encourage you to ignore any advisor recommending remote schooling instead of a snow day if a storm hits. Kids will learn much more playing outside (or in!) with friends and family than they will doing digital worksheets. Keep up the good work!
have lived every bit of this with my fellow scientists, but seeing the destruction of our nation’s research infrastructure all bundled into one piece like this made me weep: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
nature.com
SCOTT JENNINGS: "Let's not get our knickers in a twist here." LEIGH McGOWAN (PoliticsGirl): "Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…" [I love her. bsky.app/profile/poli... ]
Thanks so much to @danimcclain.bsky.social for this powerful, heartbreaking piece and for highlighting some of the work I have been fortunate to do with my wonderful collaborators at BU on the staggering disparities in exposure to firearm violence that Black children face in this country --
Dani McClain@danimcclain.bsky.social · 7mo agoDeaths by suicide are increasing at a faster rate for Black children and young adults than for any other racial or ethnic group. I looked at the city where I'm raising a tween to find out why www.thenation.com/article/soci...
This is a genuinely good (shockingly rare!) use of an LLM. A tool that scrapes news articles to build a detailed, live, and human-verified database of gun violence across the US. The resulting database can then can be used to better research and stop our violent epidemic.
Sonali Rajan@sonalirajan.bsky.social · 7mo agoI'm so proud to share that our @everytown.bsky.social research team launched an Inaugural RFP today for a new seed grant program. All details on how to apply/deadlines/eligibility are included in the link below. Please share widely friends and thank you! shorturl.at/sESve
Oh gosh -- so grateful for our field and for people like @robincogan.bsky.social who continue to devote so much to ensuring our kids are safe and cared for 💖
Robin Cogan@robincogan.bsky.social · 7mo ago@sonalirajan.bsky.social Proud to know you, hope we can finally meet in real life one day soon. Sharing the new RFP by @everytown.bsky.social relentlessschoolnurse.com/2026/01/16/t...
I'm so proud to share that our @everytown.bsky.social research team launched an Inaugural RFP today for a new seed grant program. All details on how to apply/deadlines/eligibility are included in the link below. Please share widely friends and thank you! shorturl.at/sESve
Apply Now: Request for Proposals to Expand Gun Violence Prevention Research with EveryShot
Everytown has launched a Request for Proposals for a new grant program for scholars in the gun violence prevention research field.
shorturl.at
Super proud of my brilliant and thoughtful @everytown.bsky.social team for launching our Gun Law Rankings today! everytownresearch.org/rankings/ Policies matter. Leadership matters. Take a look through our tool below -- grateful to have so many wonderful colleagues dedicated to this work.
Gun Safety Policies Save Lives
Compares gun policy across 50 states. In states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun laws, fewer people die by gun violence.
everytownresearch.org
Made a quick primer re: calling our reps - see below and please share if helpful❤️ So grateful to every person showing up in all ways big and small - on hard days with difficult news, it gives me a lot of hope to know how many good people there are showing up for and taking care of each other. (1/3)
Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as the 112th Mayor of New York City by Attorney General Letitia James with his hand on the Quran. Happy New Year! 🎉
I want to talk briefly about the implications of using AI in creative work. First of all, we agree so-called "AI" is ruining our society and planet. BUT (yikes right?), AI is also transforming our cognitive relationship to the things we use it for. 1/12
Congratulations to @rsbeidas.bsky.social and her team for winning the $5000 Greenwald Award for research on firearm violence prevention for their paper, "Implementation of a Secure Firearm Storage Program in Pediatric Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial"! static1.squarespace.com/static/63924...
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The very very best - so grateful for these few days in AZ with our brilliant and thoughtful and dedicated research community (and so many of my favorite people)! 💖 #2025firearmresearchconf
The trauma we inflict on children in this country is unconscionable.
Tyler Kingkade@tktk.bsky.social · 9mo agoOver 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
Thank you to my friend & colleague Amy E. Dark DNP, MSN-PH, BA, RN for sharing the article featured in my most recent blog post! @sonalirajan.bsky.social thank you & your colleagues for all you do to support the safety of our nation's children & teens. relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/11/17/t...
The Relentless School Nurse: When the Final School Bell Rings, Danger Rises for Our Kids
Each day, as the final school bell rings and children stream out of buildings, their risk of gun injury spikes dramatically. This alarming reality was spotlighted in a new Boston University School …
relentlessschoolnurse.com
I am just so incredibly proud of this conference and of our Society and, of course, our field. Cannot wait to see so many friends/colleagues next week in AZ -- www.firearmresearchsociety.org
Truly - for some joyful/fun internet content - join @snowdaylearninglab.org, @haenyyoon.bsky.social, and @lmv.bsky.social (my best buds and favorite people in the entire world) tonight!👇
Nathan Holbert@snowdaylearninglab.org · 9mo agoTonight! Join us for a live bsky chat at #popplaypod!
Constantly in awe of my incredible friend @abbeyclements.bsky.social for her brilliance and kindness and leadership and for all the ways she shows up -- every single day -- for our teachers and kids and schools. @teachersunify.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...
These teachers survived school shootings. Now they’re offering help to their peers.
“They don't have to be alone with those thoughts or those fears in the aftermath,” said Kiki Leyba, who was teaching at Columbine High School during the 1999 mass shooting.
chalkbeat.org
“What we should be calling for is for our elected officials to use the tools that we know work to render these drills obsolete…. The burdens we are putting on our schools & our kids to prepare for the potential of this kind of violence is, frankly, unacceptable.” — @sonalirajan.bsky.social 🛟
Sonali Rajan@sonalirajan.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe discourse on active shooter drills, particularly in K-12 schools, is complex. Thank you to Time for this piece, for referencing our recent NASEM consensus study findings, and for including myself and many of my wonderful colleagues in this reporting: time.com/7331491/less...
@sonalirajan.bsky.social sharing the compelling opinion piece you co-authored, recently published in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social via this blog post: relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/11/09/t...
The Relentless School Nurse: “Firearm Violence Prevention in Peril” – What School Nurses Must Do Now
This post is grounded in a recent open-access article in the American Journal of Public Health titled “Firearm Violence Prevention in Peril: Protecting Our Progress in Public Health.” The article…
relentlessschoolnurse.com