How to spot and help someone in a mental health crisis If you know someone is in a mental health crisis, experts say the best thing to do is to spark a conversation and connect them to resources and professional help.

If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.
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We all need a quick burst of that Jennifer M. Gómez, PhD energy and direction!

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We're hiring a neuroscience focused postdoctoral fellow in CHAAMP at UNC. Please share and apply by April 30th:

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It’s true: not all men use sexual force. But 95.1% of men in a recent, anonymous survey of men between the ages of 18 and 34 reported having recently used at least one strategy to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

As Day of Silence turns 30, LGBTQ+ students are stuck in 1996

Opinion: Thirty years after the first Day of Silence, new policies and rising hostility are pushing LGBTQ+ young people back into the same unsafe conditions many thought were left in the past, writes Glisten CEO Melanie Willingham-Jaggers.

Hearing from #NIH sources the peer review office (CSR) is being broken.

"They [top of CSR] want ppl with zero expertise in the review area to run review. I heard they don't want people to be "distracted by the science." (??)
It's crazy to think a person can run good review for any kind of science."

🚨 Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP v. Byrd Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Florida NAACP and Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, moments after Ron DeSantis signed Florida's latest voter suppression bill into law, my firm sued. www.democracydocket.com/cases/florid...

The Supreme Court just gutted conversion therapy bans across America 8 to 1. The court just gave the green light to a practice the United Nations calls torture.

Conversion practices linked to depression, PTSD and suicide thoughts in LGBTQIA+ adults Programs designed to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity are linked to depression, PTSD and suicidality in a Stanford Medicine-led study of more than 4,000 participants.

EIGHT to one?

Not 6-3 along party lines - EIGHT to one???

This is going to kill people. Not an exaggeration. Higher depression, PTSD and suicide rates are guaranteed.

These effects of conversion therapy already cost Americans $9.23 BILLION a year. This ruling will make everything much worse.

The petitions are calling…

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A State-Mandated Overhaul of Sociology in Florida Deepens Rifts in the Field To comply with a state law that bars “speculative” content from general education curriculum, a group of sociologists reworked an intro course from the ground up. Did they find a workable compromise -...

Florida reviewed Intro to Sociology syllabi across its universities last year. Officials concluded: none complied with a state law that bars "unproven, speculative" content from general education courses. https://chroni.cl/3O4H3hG

Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’ Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught

“Levenson pointed to Chile under … Pinochet in the 1970s and ‘80s as one example of where a government … started by banning certain textbooks, then gradually replaced them with state-approved versions and required their use.”

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📣 #CallForPapers: Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry special issue: Children & #YoungPeople's Involvement in #MentalHealth Services & Research 📰

Deadline for submissions 09/26.
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#MentalHealthResearch #PPI #Participation

I believe in year-round Organizing. Applications for my Democracy Summer Fellowship are now open! High school & college aged folks will work directly with my campaign in Central Florida — gaining hands-on experience in Organizing, canvassing, phone banking, event planning, and campaigning.

Attending Psychologist University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!

I’m happy to announce the UCSF Gender Psychiatry Program is expanding!

We are looking to hire a new faculty pediatric psychologist to join our team. Please share with your networks!

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Minnesota Anthem YouTube video by Marc Skjervem

The new Minnesota Anthem! Created for these very times #sisu #minnesota #Minneapolis #resist #iceOut youtu.be/uozLlmUhzZY?...

Pleased to share news that I have been appointed Associate Editor of Archives of Suicide Research. The journal invites refereed contributions on the study of suicide, suicidal behavior and self harm, their causes and effects, their prevention and intervention. www.tandfonline.com/journals/usu...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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Mass grant terminations are back, this time at SAMHSA. We're tracking terminations to support advocacy and possible litigation.

Please report info on specific SAMHSA grant terminations here:

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We'll have a tracker online ASAP. Spread the word!

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026.

For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk...

Please share widely & consider applying!

NIH director says DEI-related grants that were restored under a court order won’t be renewed NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a podcaster that DEI-related grants restored under a court order won't be renewed in 2026

Director Bhattacharya spending more time on podcasts, this time taking about not renewing grants NIH was forced to restore.

Good reporting from @aniloza.bsky.social

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A sad but unsurprising study: bullying victimization is associated with more than double the odds of suicide attempts among sexual minority people.

Good summary from @maxkozlov.bsky.social

I believe the lists of affected applications is public so you can believe that I and others will be tracking them as much as we can.

Hello friends! I am partnering with the Zur Institute to offer a 3-hour training on January 16 (CE credits available) titled: "Understanding Suicide to Prevent Suicide: A Deeper Dive". Please consider joining or spreading the word. Would love to see you there!

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Grants under threat at the US National Institutes of Health Changes to how research grants are assessed and awarded are undermining the world's largest public funder of biomedical research. Washington Correspondent Susan Jaffe reports.

New article in The Lancet on the NIH situation over the past year and into the future.

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These are ALL renewal awards (with a few supplements).

No new or competitive renewal awards!

American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. HHS cuts key AAP grants, citing concerns about “identity-based language” and insufficient focus on agency priorities. The organization said the cuts could harm child health.

American Academy of Pediatrics has grants cut by HHS

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Meanwhile, over at NSF…

NIH specifies how grant reviewers should ensure alignment with Trump priorities In a memo obtained by STAT, the NIH gives specific steps on how grant reviewers can check for alignment with administration priorities.

New stories out about Official NIH Policy about "remediating" NIH applications so that they can be considered for funding.

First, a story in STAT...

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