Katie Thompson
@ktnthompson.bsky.social
She/her | Postdoc Purdue Sociology | PhD SGDP Centre KCL | Interested in mental health, social isolation, longitudinal data, & gene-enviro interplay
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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
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...
www.fertstert.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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
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
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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 ✨🧪
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 ✨🧪
October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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 ✨🧪
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 ✨🧪
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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 👪
First up: @ktnthompson.bsky.social presented work investigating whether family acceptance & belonging mitigate depression risk 👪
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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 👪
First up: @ktnthompson.bsky.social presented work investigating whether family acceptance & belonging mitigate depression risk 👪
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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...
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...
September 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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...
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...
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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
Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky
July 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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
Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky
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Not a good look for Indiana
Humanities education is super important to a thriving civilization and economy
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
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.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Not a good look for Indiana
Humanities education is super important to a thriving civilization and economy
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
Humanities education is super important to a thriving civilization and economy
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
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Live from the conference continues, we are now at 98 club karaoke, first come first serve! @essgn.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Live from the conference continues, we are now at 98 club karaoke, first come first serve! @essgn.bsky.social
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📣 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 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...
May 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📣 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 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...
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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
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
May 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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
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
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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
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
May 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
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
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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
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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.
The best best best SEM primer out there - it’s free, the bad jokes (mostly) land, and the resources are fantastic - go watch!!
May 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The best best best SEM primer out there - it’s free, the bad jokes (mostly) land, and the resources are fantastic - go watch!!
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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.
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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.
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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.
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.
Researchers at Harvard and its affiliates appreciate that the university resisted the Trump Administration's demands, but worry about what happens next.
At Harvard, scientists worry over the consequences of resisting the Trump administration: $2.2B in grants frozen
Researchers at Harvard and its affiliates appreciate that the university resisted the Trump Administration's demands, but worry about what happens next.
buff.ly
April 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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.
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.
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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):
April 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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):
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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
Stand Up for Science is partnering and you can register at: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...
#handsoffscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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
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
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#DiversityDrivesInnovation
#ScienceSavesLives
@rogbryant.bsky.social @gbosslet.bsky.social @ausrob-phd.bsky.social @talk-tara.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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See you all on the South Lawn of the Indiana statehouse in a few hours
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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
12-2, South lawn of the statehouse
Great speakers
Dress warm but it’ll be awesome
March 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
See you all on the South Lawn of the Indiana statehouse in a few hours
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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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.
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.
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.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social is a national hero. Too many of my tenured colleagues are hiding in their offices, hoping the storm will pass over them if they keep their head down. I'm immensely grateful that Dr. Berg has the opposite response to this moment.
March 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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.
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Message to our European colleagues : we can help you create events in your country / cities.
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
February 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Message to our European colleagues : we can help you create events in your country / cities.
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
#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
February 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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
#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