Sign in

Liz Casline, PhD

@lizcasline.bsky.social
236 followers 182 following 3 posts

Clinical Psychologist, Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s @impactinstitute.bsky.social, #LGBTQ Teens #mentalhealth #sexualhealth, Measurement Based Care, #impsci (she/her)

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
391215046119
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Amelia (Amy) Van Pelt, PhD, MPH @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
📣I’m thrilled to share that Northwestern is launching two new programs: 🔸Implementation Science Certificate (open to NU and non-NU constituents) 🔸MPH Concentration in Implementation Science Applications for Fall 2026 now open! It’s a privilege to serve as the Director of these initiatives.
021
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/09/2025
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"
12989503440
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)? If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants. Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
13029
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds. www.gao.gov/products/b-3...
gao.gov
Department of Health and Human Services—National Institutes of Health—Application of Impoundment Control Act to Availability of Funds for Grants
Congress appropriated amounts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out various research objectives for fiscal year 2025. In accordance...
4489224
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 02/08/2025
Illinois sues the Trump administration to protect access to gender-affirming care. The multi-state lawsuit says the Trump administration has intimidated providers into ceasing care with threats of investigations and criminal prosecutions.
buff.ly
Illinois sues the Trump administration to protect access to gender-affirming care
The multi-state lawsuit says the Trump administration has intimidated providers into ceasing care with threats of investigations and criminal prosecutions.
05212
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul @ilattygeneral.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This morning, I joined @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov and @agwilliamtong.bsky.social to announce a lawsuit against the federal attacks on gender-affirming care. I will fight for hospitals to continue this medically necessary and lifesaving health care for trans youth: tinyurl.com/3d2vyfp6
24110
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.
71506351
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Just in case anyone wants a reminder of how Trump helped create the situation he's now using as justification to bomb Iran. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ira...
abcnews.go.com
What was in the Iran nuclear deal and why did Trump withdraw the US from it?
Known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, the deal followed two years of negotiations during the Obama administration.
22944419
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/06/2025
Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.
242166113543
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The #SCOTUS majority decision in Skrmetti contains frank misinformation. No such evidence exists here.
1337
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Eating disorders are chronic diseases. But instead of focusing on these- MAHA is terminating funding. 1 in 5 kids have an ED. Eating disorder research has always been underfunded — about $55 million in NIH grants went to eating disorder research in 2023 www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...
statnews.com
Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions
Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.
04113
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Amelia (Amy) Van Pelt, PhD, MPH @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This was a fun project! Our team ran an innovation tournament to crowdsource ideas for injectable PrEP in Chicago. #impsci
011
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
She Votes Illinois @shevotesil.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🎉 🏳️‍⚧️ The IL House adopted HR221, recognizing Trans Day of Visibility on March 31. 💬 ""Illinois has always been a welcoming and inclusive state...& no amount of bullying is going to convince us to throw our trans community under this President's bus." - Rep Kelly Cassidy #TDOV bit.ly/3S0Xpq3
bit.ly
State Rep Kelly Cassidy Introducing HR 221
Adopted on May 8th, HR221 celebrates Trans Day of Visibility on March 31st. This is footage of Kelly introducing the House Resolution, celebrating the work of Trans people in Illinois and making it clear, "Illinois has always been a welcoming and inclusive state for our Trans neighbors, and no amount of bluster and bullying is going to convince us to throw our Trans community under this President's bus. While he and his ilk stoke hatred to score political points, we embrace and uplift the Trans community and their many contributions to our State."
23914
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
12756002841
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
⚖️ Terminated NIH grant litigation update: There's a hearing on a motion for preliminary injunction today at 11:30a EDT in Mass. v RFK et al, a case brought by some states against HHS. This is 1 of 2 diff. cases on this topic. I'll be live-tweeting it later this morning. Check back on this thread.
421772
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 30/04/2025
The Trump administration’s claim that everyone is male or female goes against science, according to a researcher who has studied the claims of biological determinists.
buff.ly
How Trump promotes a radical, unscientific theory about sex and gender in the name of opposing ‘gender ideology extremism’
A gender studies expert explains why the Trump administration’s claim that everyone is male or female defies science and ignores the complexity of human sexuality.
23217
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NIH bans funding to all institutions with DEIA programs or that boycott Israel. Applies prospectively to new, renewal, supplement, or continuation awards issued on or after the date of this Notice. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov
NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH
074
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Impact Institute at Northwestern University @impactinstitute.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"We are on the precipice of being able to end HIV in our country," ISGMH's @mustanski.bsky.social tells @axios.com. "We have the tools to solve it, ... but if we back off that, if we take our foot off the pedal, we will have more #HIV cases in the United States." www.axios.com/local/chicag...
axios.com
"We will have more HIV cases": Chicago researcher discusses NIH cuts
Leading LGBTQ+ researcher says Trump administration funding cuts could have widespread impact.
045
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBT health funding, upending research field The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBT-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century. My latest for @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
nbcnews.com
Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field
The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century.
17037
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
9052799713787
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/
18493031951
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Sara Reardon @sarareardon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"We spent all this money on this research and we’re not even going to be able to give taxpayers the outcomes." DOGE's cuts to NIH grants may save money on paper, but terminating studies without notice ultimately wastes money, our analysis shows. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Are terminations of NIH grants wasting billions of taxpayer dollars?
DOGE argues killing grants saves money, but a Science analysis suggests more than $1.4 billion in sunk research costs may produce few results
314685
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 31/03/2025
There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.
269166083420
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.
31472193720
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Lauren Forrest @laurenforrest.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:
26502202
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Today, many more NIH grants were terminated including many focused on HIV prevention -such as the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) research program focused on adolescents & young adults living with or placed at risk for HIV. This is necropolitics.
68633
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
ACLU @aclu.org · 18/03/2025
BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.
161340308784
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Kalev Freeman @uvmtraumalab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
U of Michigan @umich.edu set aside funds from central to support researchers with unexpected disruption in federal funding for up to 6 months. Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move. #Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪 record.umich.edu/articles/uni...
record.umich.edu
University launches new research support program | The University Record
1027584
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Mallory Smith, PhD @malsciencegal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Though all of scientific research is sitting under the gun, the most vulnerable among us are our postdocs. The nations 72,000 postdocs often go unnoticed in national discourse but are essential to the American research enterprise across all disciplines. www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p...
statnews.com
Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership
In a new National Postdoctoral Association report, 43% of postdocs said Trump administration policies have threatened their positions, while more than one-third said their research is delayed or in je...
177
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Bluetorial: My NIH grant got funded; The money is in the bank What happens behind the scenes with NIH fund transfers
media.tenor.com
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
332397
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/03/2025
1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
93164014805
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people All to save 0.08% of the budget. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
vox.com
Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people
All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.
113262
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org · 07/03/2025
NEWS: Today, alongside our partners at @aclu.org, we filed a motion in federal court asking the court to enforce its nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from restricting funding for providers of gender-affirming medical care to people under 19.
A news graphic with the headline: 'BREAKING NEWS: Families and Doctors Ask Federal Court to Enforce Injunction Blocking Trump Administration’s Anti-Trans Healthcare Policy.' The background features a photograph of multiple hands holding and waving transgender pride flags, which are light blue, pink, and white.  A graphic featuring a large quotation mark at the top, followed by a block of white text on a dark blue background. The quote reads: ““These notices are a transparent attempt to coerce medical providers to ignore their best medical judgment and instead follow politically charged edicts from the President, injecting his ideology into the medical lives of thousands of transgender people and their families. The Trump administration is not above the law. Like anyone else, it must abide by and respect federal court orders. We are asking the court to enforce the preliminary injunction and make clear that the Trump Administration cannot threaten medical providers or hospitals’ federal funding for providing necessary gender-affirming medical care while the injunction is in place.”  The bottom of the graphic prominently displays 'Lambda Legal + ACLU' in bold text, with 'Joint Statement' underneath. The Lambda Legal logo appears in the lower right corner.
19722
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
we stood up for science, our jobs, and the health, wellbeing, and futures of LGBTQ teens everywhere 🏳️‍🌈@standupforscience.bsky.social
0122
Liz Casline, PhD @lizcasline.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Proudly Standing Up for Science with Teen Health Lab in Chicago 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #truthpersistsanyway #curebrainworms @karmacap.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
Teen Health Lab members at Chicago Stand Up for Science holding signs reading “Powered by Science, Strengthened by Diversity”, “Science Saves Lives Blood on Your Hands”, “Fund Facts Not Fascists”, “HIV is Real”, “Science Cures Brain Worm”, “NIH Funds Illinois”, “Truth Persists Anyway”, and “Leave the NIH Alone”
07714
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"Transgender issues ...have little identifiable [ROI], and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans.." Actually, when you centerprioritize for support, research, care, etc. those who are the most burdened by society's structural violence it usually ends up benefitting everyone.
chronicle.com
The NIH Is Canceling Grants for Research About Trans People
At least a half-dozen research grants were terminated last week by the NIH, which said that “programs based on gender identity are often unscientific.”
14013
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
To all of those whose science will be targeted, attacked, and cut: remember that they are doing so because an oligarchical elite and fascist class are threatened by it. There is no greater sign that your work is terribly, terribly important. ❤️
22813
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
391304889
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 04/03/2025
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
98118313082
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
New article about my colleagues' and my LGBTQ+ publishing guidelines paper in this month's APA Monitor! www.apa.org/monitor/2025...
apa.org
0116
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org
90496271
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The American Psychiatric Association’s stance on #trans people in the military:
014438
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Since Psychology Today no longer lets you update articles, people have been asking for a new live list of the studies examining the impact of gender-affirming medical interventions for adolescent gender dysphoria on mental health. Here you go in my latest subtack! open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...
open.substack.com
The Evidence for Gender-affirming Medical Interventions for Adolescent Gender Dysphoria
Research suggests gender-affirming medical care results in better mental health. Here are the studies.
216267
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Dear Republicans, Leave LGBTQ people the hell alone, you perverted ghouls. Sincerely, Well-Adjusted Human Beings
311705255
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
7793853310118
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
591337237216
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
ACLU @aclu.org · 13/02/2025
BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under age 19 nationwide. This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.
4458191394
Reposted by Liz Casline, PhD
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/02/2025
As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.
1221582298002