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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 9d

So exhausting..

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · Aug 28

The first of our openings has posted. This search is for an associate or full professor with tenure who’s interested in succeeding me as Director of Clinical Training. Research area is open. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

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Julie Cristello, PhD @juliecristello.bsky.social · Aug 5

Excited to share I’ve received pilot funding through an R25 to study substance use among youth in the juvenile legal system. The JLS is a key referral source for adolescent substance use treatment, and we need to do a better job at getting youth engaged in services. Looking forward to sharing more!

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reality check 🤔😕 @realitycheck.bsky.social · Jul 26

The only socially acceptable position here regarding AI is that it's total crap and will never improve.

Completely divorced from reality. But Blueskyers don't want to face reality.

I understand that many feel threatened by AI, but denialism and uninformed attacks on experts are counterproductive.

reality check 🤔😕 @realitycheck.bsky.social · Jul 9

I'm not sure AI is good for humanity. I think it could very well be catastrophic.

But it's useful, for many tasks, and getting better. It's not going away, much as we might like it to.

And the longer we Blueskyers disparage it, the longer we exclude ourselves from the conversation.

reality check 🤔😕 @realitycheck.bsky.social · Jul 9

My background is in software development. Absolutely, AI can replace entry-level coders today.

AI could replace weaker educators in my sons' schools.

And AI is rapidly improving.

I'd love to discuss how to regulate it and strengthen the social safety net.

Denialism blocks that conversation.

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Jul 18

Who says post publication peer review can't work. The first post pub review is in on our paper. Thanks, Joann!

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Jacob Tempchin @jaketempchin.bsky.social · Jul 17

I use AI in my work sometimes, but the amount of resources it uses can give me pause. I imagine 30 minutes of processing uses a lot of energy and fresh water.

I'm curious whether and how you choose to use AI for various tasks is influenced by how much energy you think it will consume for them.

Jacob Tempchin @jaketempchin.bsky.social · Jul 17

We did it! It took more than a day, but we went from practically nothing on paper to submitted in a month! Happy to share resources.

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Juan Del Toro, PhD @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social · Jul 14

My NIH diversity supplement was reinstated! 🥳

This is not the time to keep quiet or feel defeated by this administration. This is the time to raise hell 🔥 and be heard ✊🏽

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Reagan Fitzke @reaganfitzke.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hopecore: a friend of mine at UCCS said her PI had her NIAAA grant focused on LGBTQ+ youth reinstated today. Heeeeellls yessss!!!

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Julie Cristello, PhD @juliecristello.bsky.social · Jun 17

Excited to share that I was elected as Member-at-Large (Early Career Psychologist) for the Society of Addiction Psychology. Looking forward to serving in this role @apadivision50.bsky.social 🎉

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Amanda Taylor 🦋🦋 @botanywillsave.bsky.social · Jun 16

Birdsong and cricket sounds #flowers #gardening #nature #cricket #birdsong

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Jun 16

“Historically, no one lived past age 35”

"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35.

A demography myth that won't die

jenndowd.substack.com

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Jacob Tempchin @jaketempchin.bsky.social · Jun 15

Like what kinda stuff are we talking about?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Jun 10

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · May 30

I thought my job as Senator was to try to keep my constituents alive.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · May 30

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · May 25

In this beautiful, illustrated essay, Brager invites us to think about what we owe to the wildlife whose habitats we've utterly altered and to consider alternatives to killing our way out of "problem" Mute swans and other wildlife: therevelator.org/invasive-swa.... #birds #wildlife 🌎

We Can't Kill Our Way Out of a Problem • The Revelator

As ecologists debate what to do about “invasive” swans in New York City, volunteers fight to keep them alive.

therevelator.org

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · May 25

As of yesterday using publicly available data via Grant Watch grant-watch.us/nih-data.html:

05/24/2025 word cloud depicting 165 unique words or phrases, flagged 10904 times, within 2118 terminated NIH grants.

@standupforscience.bsky.social
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May 24, 2025 word cloud of 165 unique words or phrases, flagged 10904 times, within 2118 terminated NIH grants.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · May 24

Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · May 22

Heartbroken for my colleague @kgamarel.bsky.social

After decades of NIH support, HIV research network gets funding back—but Kristi's study on trans youth of color is singled out & cut

Essential research for most vulnerable—lost

🙏 Powerful reporting @stephaniemlee.bsky.social in @chronicle.com

An NIH Grant Is Restored, With a Catch: Cut a Study on Trans Youth

HIV scientists were given a choice: eliminate a study of transgender youth or lose a shot to recover a larger series of grants. They chose the former.

www.chronicle.com

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Lara Coughlin, PhD & Allison Lin, MD @addictioncaremi.bsky.social · May 21

🎉🎉Congrats to MI-ACRE Co-Director @laracoughlinphd.bsky.social‬ on her recent University of Michigan faculty promotion! This accomplishment recognizes the expertise & dedication Dr. Coughlin gives EVERYDAY to addiction care & research👏We're proud to celebrate this well-deserved milestone with you!

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · May 11

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · May 10

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

This expands a similar purge recently at the Naval Academy library, in Maryland. Last month, civilian Navy officials, following orders originating from Mr. Hegseth, pulled from shelves books including one that critiqued “The Bell Curve,” a 1994 text that argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people. But the academy kept “The Bell Curve” itself on its shelves.

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Jacob Tempchin @jaketempchin.bsky.social · May 4

Mariachi El Bronx?

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Jacob Tempchin @jaketempchin.bsky.social · May 4

Probably just repressed anger

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · Apr 27

Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI

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Benjy Renton @bhrenton.bsky.social · Apr 29

A well-deserved fellowship for my friend @margaretcrane.bsky.social!
psych.med.brown.edu/news/2025-04...

Postdoctoral Fellow Margaret Crane Selected for Implementation Research Fellowship

psych.med.brown.edu

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