Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.
@laurenshallion.bsky.social
psychology professor studying worry, rumination, and how to get unstuck | she/her | not medical advice | views my own | 🏳️🌈💪🌊 | #metoo
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This makes sense for mid- and late-career people
Any sense, though, if having a social media presence HELPS early career people?
My gut tells me that PhD/postdocs should focus on publications, but it seems (but who knows) that those visible on social media often get jobs. Need data!
Any sense, though, if having a social media presence HELPS early career people?
My gut tells me that PhD/postdocs should focus on publications, but it seems (but who knows) that those visible on social media often get jobs. Need data!
Anecdotally, it makes you attractive to places that like the cut of your jib.
The most important thing I’ve learned so far about “making waves” is that a lot of people really appreciate the ocean 🌊
The most important thing I’ve learned so far about “making waves” is that a lot of people really appreciate the ocean 🌊
It’s also worth noting that all of this has been infinitely less terrible in Canada compared to the United States (shocking; I know).
But these broader systemic problems belong to all of us, as does the responsibility to prioritize professional ethics over professional advancement.
But these broader systemic problems belong to all of us, as does the responsibility to prioritize professional ethics over professional advancement.
I think many people have been persuaded (or coerced into pretending) that being held hostage via racist, patriarchal gaslighting and blackmail is a normal condition of living. It isn’t.
The result of speaking out includes terrifying, life-threatening experiences. Ask me how I know.
I do it anyway.
The result of speaking out includes terrifying, life-threatening experiences. Ask me how I know.
I do it anyway.
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It’s also worth noting that all of this has been infinitely less terrible in Canada compared to the United States (shocking; I know).
But these broader systemic problems belong to all of us, as does the responsibility to prioritize professional ethics over professional advancement.
But these broader systemic problems belong to all of us, as does the responsibility to prioritize professional ethics over professional advancement.
I think many people have been persuaded (or coerced into pretending) that being held hostage via racist, patriarchal gaslighting and blackmail is a normal condition of living. It isn’t.
The result of speaking out includes terrifying, life-threatening experiences. Ask me how I know.
I do it anyway.
The result of speaking out includes terrifying, life-threatening experiences. Ask me how I know.
I do it anyway.
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I think many people have been persuaded (or coerced into pretending) that being held hostage via racist, patriarchal gaslighting and blackmail is a normal condition of living. It isn’t.
The result of speaking out includes terrifying, life-threatening experiences. Ask me how I know.
I do it anyway.
The result of speaking out includes terrifying, life-threatening experiences. Ask me how I know.
I do it anyway.
If you’d like to read my most damning indictment of academic culture and the field of clinical science in particular, read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you’d like to read my most damning indictment of academic culture and the field of clinical science in particular, read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Reposted by Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.
Meeting this moment is going to require us all to do some new things, that are outside of our comfort zone.
“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
I make most decisions these days by asking myself what I like to think I would have done if I was a scientist (or anyone else) in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and then trying to do that thing.
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Meeting this moment is going to require us all to do some new things, that are outside of our comfort zone.
“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Come join me and my brilliant, talented, kind, and generous colleagues at the University of Regina!
I’m delighted to share this open rank faculty position in Clinical Psychology.
#academicsky #highered #sciencejobs #womeninacademia
https://urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/17692
I’m delighted to share this open rank faculty position in Clinical Psychology.
#academicsky #highered #sciencejobs #womeninacademia
https://urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/17692
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Come join me and my brilliant, talented, kind, and generous colleagues at the University of Regina!
I’m delighted to share this open rank faculty position in Clinical Psychology.
#academicsky #highered #sciencejobs #womeninacademia
https://urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/17692
I’m delighted to share this open rank faculty position in Clinical Psychology.
#academicsky #highered #sciencejobs #womeninacademia
https://urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/17692
After several years of study and major traumas, I’ve concluded that the system underpinning the Epstein sex trafficking ring is the same system that enables predatory male professors to gaslight, sexually exploit, and blackmail their trainees.
Which means covering up either is complicity in both.
Which means covering up either is complicity in both.
What it seems a lot of folks are doing is putting their hands over their ears and going, “la la la la.”
Which is inexcusable from anyone, but especially from tenured professors.
I cannot imagine prioritizing my own safety above that of women students and literal children.
Which is inexcusable from anyone, but especially from tenured professors.
I cannot imagine prioritizing my own safety above that of women students and literal children.
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
After several years of study and major traumas, I’ve concluded that the system underpinning the Epstein sex trafficking ring is the same system that enables predatory male professors to gaslight, sexually exploit, and blackmail their trainees.
Which means covering up either is complicity in both.
Which means covering up either is complicity in both.
Reposted by Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
Reposted by Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.
I know for a fact that thousands of women academics are sitting though this conversation silently right now because they’re still terrified of what could happen if they say anything at all.
Coming forward is risky and terrifying. I’m still so glad I did it. #MeToo
Coming forward is risky and terrifying. I’m still so glad I did it. #MeToo
a woman says " yeah me too " in front of a tv screen
Alt: A woman in casual business attire nodding her head and speaking. The text reads, “Yeah me too”
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I know for a fact that thousands of women academics are sitting though this conversation silently right now because they’re still terrified of what could happen if they say anything at all.
Coming forward is risky and terrifying. I’m still so glad I did it. #MeToo
Coming forward is risky and terrifying. I’m still so glad I did it. #MeToo
Don’t be evil.
Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Don’t be evil.
Reposted by Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.
Honored to be part of this reflective piece led by @laurenshallion.bsky.social. Thinking through these issues was cathartic, then lit a fire, then instilled hope for how to keep moving psych wellness & behavioral health forward. May others feel that hope & drive to keep psych science rolling. 🙏🏼
Just accepted at Nature Mental Health:
Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3
1/9
Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3
1/9
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Honored to be part of this reflective piece led by @laurenshallion.bsky.social. Thinking through these issues was cathartic, then lit a fire, then instilled hope for how to keep moving psych wellness & behavioral health forward. May others feel that hope & drive to keep psych science rolling. 🙏🏼
Just accepted at Nature Mental Health:
Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3
1/9
Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3
1/9
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Just accepted at Nature Mental Health:
Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3
1/9
Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3
1/9
Psychological science is in crisis. We are losing funding, fighting uphill against censorship, and watching as our students, colleagues, neighbors, and friends are attacked because of their nationality, gender expression, or skin color.
Such is life under fascism.
2/9
Such is life under fascism.
2/9
So we wrote a paper about it. With a brilliant group of colleagues, I name several challenges facing our field — some of which already feature prominently in discourse (such as attacks on funding and diversity) — and some that have so far flown under the radar (such as systemic gaslighting).
3/9
3/9
Times of crisis, however, are also times of opportunity.
It’s just like the old saying: when fascism closes the door and sets the house on fire, ingenuity opens the windows and rolls out a ladder.
4/9
It’s just like the old saying: when fascism closes the door and sets the house on fire, ingenuity opens the windows and rolls out a ladder.
4/9
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Psychological science is in crisis. We are losing funding, fighting uphill against censorship, and watching as our students, colleagues, neighbors, and friends are attacked because of their nationality, gender expression, or skin color.
Such is life under fascism.
2/9
Such is life under fascism.
2/9
So we wrote a paper about it. With a brilliant group of colleagues, I name several challenges facing our field — some of which already feature prominently in discourse (such as attacks on funding and diversity) — and some that have so far flown under the radar (such as systemic gaslighting).
3/9
3/9
Times of crisis, however, are also times of opportunity.
It’s just like the old saying: when fascism closes the door and sets the house on fire, ingenuity opens the windows and rolls out a ladder.
4/9
It’s just like the old saying: when fascism closes the door and sets the house on fire, ingenuity opens the windows and rolls out a ladder.
4/9
Clinical science needs this wake-up call. Our treatment effect sizes have been stalled for generations. Slight variations on the same ideas and methods, formerly the most reliable way to gain funding, have not made a difference in people’s lives.
Something has to change.
5/9
Something has to change.
5/9
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
So we wrote a paper about it. With a brilliant group of colleagues, I name several challenges facing our field — some of which already feature prominently in discourse (such as attacks on funding and diversity) — and some that have so far flown under the radar (such as systemic gaslighting).
3/9
3/9
Times of crisis, however, are also times of opportunity.
It’s just like the old saying: when fascism closes the door and sets the house on fire, ingenuity opens the windows and rolls out a ladder.
4/9
It’s just like the old saying: when fascism closes the door and sets the house on fire, ingenuity opens the windows and rolls out a ladder.
4/9
Clinical science needs this wake-up call. Our treatment effect sizes have been stalled for generations. Slight variations on the same ideas and methods, formerly the most reliable way to gain funding, have not made a difference in people’s lives.
Something has to change.
5/9
Something has to change.
5/9
We have both the opportunity and the need to rethink major aspects of the way we conceptualize, conduct, and evaluate our work.
Non-incremental progress requires us to consider, tolerate, and attempt non-incremental change.
6/9
Non-incremental progress requires us to consider, tolerate, and attempt non-incremental change.
6/9
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Times of crisis, however, are also times of opportunity.
It’s just like the old saying: when fascism closes the door and sets the house on fire, ingenuity opens the windows and rolls out a ladder.
4/9
It’s just like the old saying: when fascism closes the door and sets the house on fire, ingenuity opens the windows and rolls out a ladder.
4/9
Clinical science needs this wake-up call. Our treatment effect sizes have been stalled for generations. Slight variations on the same ideas and methods, formerly the most reliable way to gain funding, have not made a difference in people’s lives.
Something has to change.
5/9
Something has to change.
5/9
We have both the opportunity and the need to rethink major aspects of the way we conceptualize, conduct, and evaluate our work.
Non-incremental progress requires us to consider, tolerate, and attempt non-incremental change.
6/9
Non-incremental progress requires us to consider, tolerate, and attempt non-incremental change.
6/9
We name several more opportunities: to pursue the lines of work we believe in, without deference to funding priorities. To learn to do more and better with less. To exercise our academic freedom and refuse to comply. For many of us, to discover the actual reasons that tenure exists.
7/9
7/9
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Clinical science needs this wake-up call. Our treatment effect sizes have been stalled for generations. Slight variations on the same ideas and methods, formerly the most reliable way to gain funding, have not made a difference in people’s lives.
Something has to change.
5/9
Something has to change.
5/9
We have both the opportunity and the need to rethink major aspects of the way we conceptualize, conduct, and evaluate our work.
Non-incremental progress requires us to consider, tolerate, and attempt non-incremental change.
6/9
Non-incremental progress requires us to consider, tolerate, and attempt non-incremental change.
6/9
We name several more opportunities: to pursue the lines of work we believe in, without deference to funding priorities. To learn to do more and better with less. To exercise our academic freedom and refuse to comply. For many of us, to discover the actual reasons that tenure exists.
7/9
7/9
Progress in the face of fascism, inertia, and universities governed in practice by teams of lawyers will not be easy. These are objectively difficult problems.
Fortunately, those are exactly the kinds of problems that many of us are paid to figure out how to solve.
8/9
Fortunately, those are exactly the kinds of problems that many of us are paid to figure out how to solve.
8/9
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We have both the opportunity and the need to rethink major aspects of the way we conceptualize, conduct, and evaluate our work.
Non-incremental progress requires us to consider, tolerate, and attempt non-incremental change.
6/9
Non-incremental progress requires us to consider, tolerate, and attempt non-incremental change.
6/9
We name several more opportunities: to pursue the lines of work we believe in, without deference to funding priorities. To learn to do more and better with less. To exercise our academic freedom and refuse to comply. For many of us, to discover the actual reasons that tenure exists.
7/9
7/9
Progress in the face of fascism, inertia, and universities governed in practice by teams of lawyers will not be easy. These are objectively difficult problems.
Fortunately, those are exactly the kinds of problems that many of us are paid to figure out how to solve.
8/9
Fortunately, those are exactly the kinds of problems that many of us are paid to figure out how to solve.
8/9
I was fortunate to write this paper with some of the smartest and most courageous folks in any room:
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
9/9
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
9/9
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We name several more opportunities: to pursue the lines of work we believe in, without deference to funding priorities. To learn to do more and better with less. To exercise our academic freedom and refuse to comply. For many of us, to discover the actual reasons that tenure exists.
7/9
7/9
Progress in the face of fascism, inertia, and universities governed in practice by teams of lawyers will not be easy. These are objectively difficult problems.
Fortunately, those are exactly the kinds of problems that many of us are paid to figure out how to solve.
8/9
Fortunately, those are exactly the kinds of problems that many of us are paid to figure out how to solve.
8/9
I was fortunate to write this paper with some of the smartest and most courageous folks in any room:
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
9/9
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
9/9
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Progress in the face of fascism, inertia, and universities governed in practice by teams of lawyers will not be easy. These are objectively difficult problems.
Fortunately, those are exactly the kinds of problems that many of us are paid to figure out how to solve.
8/9
Fortunately, those are exactly the kinds of problems that many of us are paid to figure out how to solve.
8/9
I was fortunate to write this paper with some of the smartest and most courageous folks in any room:
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
9/9
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
9/9
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I was fortunate to write this paper with some of the smartest and most courageous folks in any room:
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
9/9
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
9/9
Deepest thanks to all those who made University of Regina @uregina.bsky.social Taste of Research Night possible. You visited this skeptical, jaded academic with the true spirit of academia, alive and well.
Each day I feel more blessed by the privilege to be part of it.
Each day I feel more blessed by the privilege to be part of it.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Deepest thanks to all those who made University of Regina @uregina.bsky.social Taste of Research Night possible. You visited this skeptical, jaded academic with the true spirit of academia, alive and well.
Each day I feel more blessed by the privilege to be part of it.
Each day I feel more blessed by the privilege to be part of it.
✨🥹 new library card day 🥹✨
October 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
✨🥹 new library card day 🥹✨
The best course I took @bardcollege.bsky.social was Literature, Language, and Lies, taught by Francine Prose.
Each week’s homework was to read the same story covered by multiple news sources and identify the linguistic choices that helped create different angles.
We need that, but for everything.
Each week’s homework was to read the same story covered by multiple news sources and identify the linguistic choices that helped create different angles.
We need that, but for everything.
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The best course I took @bardcollege.bsky.social was Literature, Language, and Lies, taught by Francine Prose.
Each week’s homework was to read the same story covered by multiple news sources and identify the linguistic choices that helped create different angles.
We need that, but for everything.
Each week’s homework was to read the same story covered by multiple news sources and identify the linguistic choices that helped create different angles.
We need that, but for everything.
Reposted by Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.
So special to attend "JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times" at Bard College. My students saw great talks that touched on lightness, beauty, gratitude, & joy by Teju Cole & others. Thanks for thoughtful moments of reflection! ✨#JoyInDarkTimes #resilience
@vassar.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social
@vassar.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So special to attend "JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times" at Bard College. My students saw great talks that touched on lightness, beauty, gratitude, & joy by Teju Cole & others. Thanks for thoughtful moments of reflection! ✨#JoyInDarkTimes #resilience
@vassar.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social
@vassar.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social
This is profoundly insightful.
Cultivate a compassionate, coherent, evidence-based intellectual framework or live entirely at the mercy of malicious bullshit, those are really the two options.
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is profoundly insightful.