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Osiris Rankin

@osirisrankin.bsky.social
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Clinical psychology PhD student at Harvard. Community college graduate. Current resident of Nova Scotia. I study people’s ideas about life, death, suicide, & seeking support | Science of science | Diversity

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, on a clear September morning, an otherwise ordinary day became one of history’s darkest. Through the darkness, we also saw the best of humanity.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
According to the right, if you teach that racism is an actual problem that needs to be studied and addressed, that is a bad thing. But if you teach that racism is an actual *solution* that needs to be taught and encouraged, well, that is a good thing, a very good thing indeed.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I will never write (because mixed audience) but the heartbreak so many Black people feel isn’t just about neoconfederates and Trump. It’s about how many of our whites friends and colleagues showed how they thought of their Black colleagues.
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Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We got new research out today y'all--if you study TikTok, buckle up because we found something wilddddd... arxiv.org/abs/2608.09917 (accepted @ ICWSM 2027)
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WhichTok? Comparing Three TikTok Data Acquisition Tools
TikTok's global growth has made it a prime platform for both entertainment and political discourse, prompting increased social science research. However, this rapidly evolving research field faces a f...
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This was a deep “bless your heart” with a hint of “I pity the fool.” I felt it.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Academic freedom assessment across the world. The US is on a steep decline, below >120 countries www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
When we talk about misinformation, we often focus on polarization and politics, where the consequences can feel more distant or abstract. But one of the clearest examples of misinformation causing measurable harm is cancer. 🧵
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We have 2 new papers out in Nature Mental Health. [1] Led by @jonathanrepple.bsky.social: key challenges in advancing research on depression phenotyping, w focus on heterogeneity of depression, longitudinal disease trajectory & underrepresentation of lived-experience www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Key challenges in advancing research on depression phenotyping - Nature Mental Health
In this Review the authors discuss the reasons behind the limited advance in depression phenotyping and provide strategic points for addressing this gap.
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
1/ What if a drug for anxiety disorder more likely makes you feel suicidal than help against anxiety? This was found for escitalopram in paediatric generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), but it was nonetheless approved. Let me explain and summarize experiences with trying to get this corrected in a🧵
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’m in Canada right now, but I’m still American and feel this deeply.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Someone totally misunderstood how much rage I generally keep under wraps. This person basically tried to stiff me for a few thousand dollars. It’s a housing scam. Anyway, I just got off the phone with somebody’s mayor and next I’m calling a governor. Sometimes you choose right one but wrong day.
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I like to put on old mystery and detective shows, like Perry Mason, to calm down. The familiarity of voices in the background helps. One of the biggest papercuts in moving to Canada was losing access to Magnum PI on the Roku channel.
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Daniel is one of my favorite people I’ve worked with at any job, and I’ve had A LOT of jobs. Highly recommend!
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This weekend: I watched UNC beat Duke with my wife and son. I watched the Super Bowl (while working to finish this dissertation). I used a semi-automated approach to screen 944,000 research documents.
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Daniel Coppersmith @danielcoppersmith.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
New viewpoint article, "It is time to take chronic suicidal ideation seriously", with Evan Kleiman and @katieleedg.bsky.social now published in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In (un)health and science news…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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!
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Rory O’Connor @roryoc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🆕Please share 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 Call for Abstracts: Closing date 27th March 2026 suicideresearch.info/10th-suicide...
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Center for Suicide Research and Prevention @csrp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
📢 Now accepting applications for the CSRP Pilot Grant Program! 🔗 Read more and apply: csrp.mgh.harvard.edu/funding-oppo...
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Are you someone "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure" and are interested in a two-year, funded post-doctoral fellowship at a German University to do that work? Then check out the link below! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Early Career Rescue Fellowship | Universität Tübingen
Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), the Tübingen College of Fellows (CoF), and the…
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American Foundation for Suicide Prevention @afspnational.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Every breakthrough in suicide prevention starts with data, research, and support. And it starts with people like you. Your #GivingTuesday donation drives the science behind that incredible outreach, funding critical prevention efforts. Give today: afsp.org/givingtuesday
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Center for Suicide Research and Prevention @csrp.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Introducing the next CSRP Webinar: What Are Crisis Hotlines and How Do They Work? Featuring speakers from 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Samaritans, Inc., and Crisis Text Line! 🗓️ December 19, 2025 | 10-11AM EST 🔗 Sign up: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The patterns have been consistent. When students protest against racist speech on campus, they’re labeled as coddled snowflakes who need to welcome outdated modes of thought on campus. It’s a free speech issue when folks are defending others rights to say racist or similar ideas.
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DrMacLeodCartoons @macltoons.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 19/08/2025
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
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Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations
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Center for Suicide Research and Prevention @csrp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The Center for Suicide Research and Prevention invites you to the 2nd Annual CSRP Conference! 💻 Free & virtual 📅 Sept 9, 2025 | 9AM–2PM EST 🌍 Open to all: scientists, clinicians & community leaders 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/csrp-2nd-conf
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It’s apparently now too controversial in the United States to say “racism is bad”
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Devasting.’ NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia
Researchers decry agency’s decision just as new leads reinvigorate search for long-sought vaccine
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Irene Xu @irenexu.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We’re updating the list of suicide researchers who may take a grad student for 2026: shorturl.at/yTT9n Applicants - this year may feel especially heavy. Hope this brings you a little direction, hope, and a reminder that you’re not alone. You are the future. Let your voice shape what comes next.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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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Nadia Brashier @nadiabrashier.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My entire field is now considered ‘censorship.’ NSF has supported my research since graduate school, so I’ve been painstakingly collecting pilot data for a CAREER proposal that will never be submitted. It’s hard to envision a future for myself in the U.S. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research
Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“Extending‌ ‌previous‌ ‌work,‌ ‌we‌ ‌vary‌ ‌the‌ ‌race,‌ ‌gender,‌ ‌and‌ ‌topic‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌constituent’s‌ ‌message, and we‌ observe ‌if elected‌ ‌officials ‌both open‌ ‌and‌ ‌reply‌ ‌to‌ ‌constituents’ messages‌.‌ ‌ We ‌find‌ ‌that‌ ‌Black‌ ‌men‌ ‌are systematically ignored, regardless of the message they send.‌” link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Unheard Voices: The Importance of Intersectionality in Responsiveness and the Systematic Ignoring of Black Men by Elected Officials - Political Behavior
All citizens are not listened to equally, despite the importance of responsiveness and listening to different theories of democracy. We take an ‌intersectional‌ ‌approach‌ ‌to‌ make several novel pred...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Suicide Research Symposium @suicideresearchsym.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The fourth annual Suicide Research Symposium (#SRS25) takes place THIS WEEK, Wednesday (April 23) through Friday (April 25)! Registration is still open for our free, virtual event. Links to register and see the conference platform are on our website: www.suicideresearchsymposium.com
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SRS 2025
We are delighted to announce that the fourth annual Suicide Research Symposium will be taking place April 23-25, 2025. Like previous years, this Symposium will be free and take place virtually. We ...
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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This survey is a vital resource for researchers and the public to track the prevalence and impact of drug use and mental health problems in the US. It's a VITAL database. And it's just going to be gone. Devastating.
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Jonah Meyerhoff, PhD @jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Unconscionable. What a huge loss for this country.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
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‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today’s completely random, not related to the news or anything, song of the day: “Well Paid Scientist” by the Dead Kennedys
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
My family and I took a roadtrip to DC for the Stand Up For Science rally. My son used to come with us to protests before COVID, and I felt like it was important to include him. He’s affected by these issues, too. Our coming move out of the states, due to these issues, directly affects him.
Sign held by protestor with other protestors in the background. Sign is just text and reads “Science stands against fascism” in patriotic colors. Protestor’s face is obscured in shadow.
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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say. Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January. 1/
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Today is as good a day as any to say that I’m moving to Canada. No, really. I’ll be joining Nova Scotia Health in Halifax as a member of their clinical psychology residency this fall.
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This sums up so much.
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