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Max Stivers (he/him) @mstivers.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is the leadership California needs

A mockup of Chris Kluwe's election site, replacing his campaign slogan with a message all of California needs to hear

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/05/2026

I've made my views on this clear on numerous occasions but this specific one, I ask you to simply imagine how many great Vin Scully stories we would have lost because current-rules innings wouldn't have lasted long enough for him to tell them

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Morgan Buerke (she/her) @buerkemorgan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Check out our newest paper in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice which examined what graduate students know about suicide risk assessment and intervention in the US doi.org/10.1037/cps0...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2026

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. Read more: propub.li/4rBUJOV

Bar chart showing the change in the number of providers — social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists — from the third quarter of 2023 to the end of 2025 on the x-axis and the number of providers from negative 400 to 800 on the y-axis. The trend starts with a peak of about 700 social workers and around 200 psychologists added in the third quarter of 2023, followed by a steady decline across all groups, dropping below zero by the first quarter of 2025 with social worker losses eventually dipping around 400.

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Max Stivers (he/him) @mstivers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Training to become a therapist is weird sometimes: in most professions, nearly bringing a 71-year-old male veteran to tears would be frowned upon, but this morning it was one of the most rewarding moments of my career?

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Raymond Tucker @raymopt.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Supremely talented doctoral student Halle Fowler is hoping to put together an ABCT panel related to Deaf and Hard of Hearing suicide prevention or mental health. We have multiple qualitative and quantitative studies on DHH interpretation in mental health settings. We need help finding panelists!

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Max Stivers (he/him) @mstivers.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

has defended a thesis and presented at conferences and written an op-ed for the student paper and added a few other new lines to my CV this year, but (with all respect to my esteemed colleagues on these publications), this is definitely my most important authorship credit of 2025

A photo of the cover of the author's winter holiday present for his niece: a bedtime story called Maddie and Mikaela. Under the title, a note states that this is a story about a girl and her dog (and a little about their loving parents, sure).

A photo of the author holding his infant niece while shielding her from her best friend, an inquisitive German Shorthaired Pointer that is actively attempting to lick them both

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

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Raymond Tucker @raymopt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Lab thesis presentations this semester include a linguistic analysis of ASL suicide risk interpretations, experimental investigation of single session interventions to increase help-seeking, and ambulatory assessment of suicide ideation vulnerability in sexual minority folks! Such cool work!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/03/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that - “

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes -“

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

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jordynne, final girl 🔜magiccon atlanta @sick1y.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Paul Saunders rt if you agree

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🎗️On World Suicide Prevention Day, we're announcing an event with @d-liveability.bsky.social, to bring together experts on the link between wealth inequality & suicide. 📅 Tuesday 16 September 🕚 11–12:30 📄Full report to follow 📬 Want to get involved? Email anita@fairnessfoundation.com

graphic of a doctor with a pad- text overlay reads wealth inequality and suicide prevention

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Max Stivers (he/him) @mstivers.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

So incredibly proud of the work @raymopt.bsky.social, @obrienemj.bsky.social, @faithstoneking.bsky.social, and the rest of LSU's Consortium for the Advancement of Suicide Prevention have done on campus and in our community for National Suicide Prevention Week/World Suicide Prevention Day.

Tips for Supporting Friends Who Are Thinking about Suicide

About 12% of young adults (almost 4,000 LSU students) have serious thoughts of suicide each year

What Can I Do?
- Break the silence. Start the conversation.
- If you're worried about your friend, you can ask if they are thinking about suicide
- Talk openly and directly about suicide
- Be warm, encouraging, supportive, and offer a listening ear
- Ask how you can support them; say, "I am here for you, how can I best support you?"

Who Can I Ask for Help?
- Did you know, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 (24/7) to talk to a counselor about suicide, and figure out how to help your friend?
- In an emergency, call 911

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.

Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 15/08/2025

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

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Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator

As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like <checks notes> the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.

Ghoul Stephen Miller warns NYC is what happens when a society “fails to control migration”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/06/2025

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight “Oh, I feel very angry a lot of the time," said Tiffany, "but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.”

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11/06/2025

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

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TV-MA @tv-ma.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Between the fires and these protests, I hope this year teaches everyone that most of the shit talking you hear about California and more specifically, LA, comes from racists and gentrifying transplants. Most people love living here and would do anything to protect it.

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Brianne Richson, PhD @bririchson.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Hi, it's me, a younger scientist, not feeling supported

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Max Stivers (he/him) @mstivers.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Never going to forgive my freshman year roommate from Boston for teaching me to love this stupid, wonderful sport #GoKingsGo

A photograph of the box score from Game 1 of the NHL Western Conference Quarterfinals series between the Los Angeles Kings and the Edmonton Oilers, showing a 6-5 win to the good guys, but only just barely

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CAIR @cairnational.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This message of solidarity by American Jews with Mahmoud Khalil and the Palestinians is the best answer to the weaponizing of antisemitism by the Trump administration.

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Martin Pratt @martinpratt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Given parental mental health problems was the ACE most frequently reported in this study, and its cumulative effect was particularly apparent (consistent across outcomes and across cohorts), preventing parental mental illness and mitigating the impact on children is crucial tinyurl.com/2mc9pm73

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Max Stivers (he/him) @mstivers.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Say what you want to about Louisiana politics, but the "I Voted" sticker is simply top-notch

Photograph of a Louisiana "I Voted" sticker, which depicts a crawfish in fancy dress walking from left to right on a yellow background

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Adam Bryant Miller, PhD @abryantmiller.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In case you want to grab the CDC's Suicide Prevention Resources for Action while it's still here: www.cdc.gov/suicide/pdf/... A lot of careful work went into this document from my colleagues.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 31/01/2025

From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.

ICE On Your Campus
Questions to Ask Your Administration
1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities?
2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents?
3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant?
4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant.
5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance?
6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE?
What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now
1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact.
2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night.
3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan
4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney.
Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus
Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators:
1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so.
2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’m really proud of LA. Los Angeles has a reputation of being superficial & selfish. But when facing disaster, it’s a community of 3.8 million with connections around the world. Donations are overloaded & community-led support services are popping up everywhere. We survive together, always.

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Max Stivers (he/him) @mstivers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

ABCT 2024: ✅ Couldn't peg why this year felt so different from prior ABCTs at first, until it finally clicked that *I* was so different (1/3)

Photograph of Poster standing next to his poster - ABCT 2024, Philadelphia, PA

Photograph of Poster and other CBTCers next to their posters - ABCT 2019, Atlanta, GA

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Morgan Buerke (she/her) @buerkemorgan.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

We are recruiting participants for a study examining Minority Stress and Suicidal thoughts among Sexual Minority People. Please see the flyer below for more details. To determine if you are eligible, please take the screener here: redcap.lbrn.lsu.edu/surveys/?s=4...

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