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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · 16d

***3 days left to sign up for our virtual conference on Precision Psychiatry***
+CME +free for students and trainees.
Featuring an amazing line-up of speakers.

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · Sep 4

New article written by Heather Stringer about precision treatment work in the mental health space by Kate Bentley, Ellen Driessen, @jorsmo.bsky.social, Leanne Williams, Conor Liston, and others www.apa.org/monitor/2025...

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ending the federal LGBTQ+ suicide prevention line is a public health failure www.statnews.com/2025/07/12/e... via @statnews.com

Ending the federal LGBTQ+ suicide prevention line is a public health failure

Ending the federal LGBTQ+ suicide prevention line is a public health failure, write two leaders in prevention and crisis response.

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Jul 11

The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Jul 10

Twin study suggests genetic variation influences how funny you think you are but not how funny you actually are. 😄

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Heritability of Humor Production Ability — A Twin Study | Twin Research and Human Genetics | Cambridge Core

Heritability of Humor Production Ability — A Twin Study

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Jul 6

New polygenic score resource from Mykyta Artomov and colleagues and @finngen.bsky.social
"All data and predictive tools are accessible via the PGS Browser (pgs.nchigm.org), an interactive web-based platform for PGS analysis and interpretation."

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

PGS Browser: a public platform for personalized polygenic score interpretation

Identifying individuals at elevated risk before disease onset is a cornerstone of personalized prevention, and polygenic scores (PGSs) have proven to be instrumental in this regard. In this study, we ...

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Jun 29

"career staff were told not to respond in writing to panicky grant recipients whose funding had been shut off to avoid a “paper trail,”
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The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down

A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root – among career staffers and new political appointees alike.

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Center for Suicide Research and Prevention @csrp.bsky.social · Jun 25

🆕📽️Last week's webinar is available now on YouTube!

How to Help a Loved One Struggling with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors youtu.be/TMCAikdy2dQ?...

Thank you to everyone who joined, our speakers, moderator, @jorsmo.bsky.social & @matnoc.bsky.social @afspnational.bsky.social

How to Help a Loved One Struggling with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors

YouTube video by Center for Suicide Research and Prevention (CSRP)

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Jun 21

the disturbing old days of medicine and psychiatry in this episode of Medic from 1956:
ulcerative colitis is caused by deep seated personality problems youtu.be/jki-rT92Uog

Medic - Season 2 - Episode 1 - All the Lonely Night | Richard Boone, Mary Stewart, Robert Stevenson

YouTube video by Classic TV Channel

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Jun 14

From back in the day when a two page research paper with no tables or references could still be transformative?

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · May 31

Sad to see this. I used to love these numbers when I was a kid

Vince Vatter @vatter.bsky.social · May 29

interest in the natural numbers is at an all-time low

Google Ngram Viewer line graph showing the frequency of digits 0 through 9 in English books from 1800 to 2019, with usage peaking around 1980 and declining sharply afterward.

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · May 31

Reviewer #2 is now soliciting articles.

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Evan Giangrande @evangiangrande.bsky.social · May 23

🚨🧬 New preprint! We tested whether PGS predicted global functioning across psychiatric hospitalization among 5991 people with schizophrenia. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Polygenic Scores for Schizophrenia and Educational Attainment Predict Global Functioning Across Psychiatric Hospitalization Among People with Schizophrenia

Question Is variation in global functioning among people with schizophrenia associated with genetic differences? Findings In this genetic association study of 5991 adults with schizophrenia and 59,79...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 20

New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts.

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Thoughtful and thorough analysis.

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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually

Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · May 18

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · May 15

Another breakthrough made possible by federal funding The result “is a triumph for the American peoples’ investment in biomedical research”

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · May 7

"let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country"

What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists? www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u... via @statnews.com

What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists?

Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Apr 11

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

Opinion | What Is Actually the Point of Treating the N.I.H. Like This?

Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated at the N.I.H. Scientists are just left to wonder: Why?

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Apr 1

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Mar 26

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Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism

A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Mar 23

New work led by Yi-Han Sheu providing continuous-time and dynamic risk prediction models using Neuro-ODE with application to suicide risk prediction rdcu.be/eeIte

Continuous time and dynamic suicide attempt risk prediction with neural ordinary differential equations

npj Digital Medicine - Continuous time and dynamic suicide attempt risk prediction with neural ordinary differential equations

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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · Mar 20

JAMA 100 yrs ago: "it is generally recognized that men with large heads seem to represent the intelligentsia of man, although this does not mean necessarily that a smaller headed man may not be quite as keen in his intellectual processes."

Large and Small Brains jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...