Elizabeth Olson

Heyyyy science peeps. The Valedictorian Project is on the hunt for mentors to support high-achieving students from urban public high schools. I've mentored a student for the past couple of years: minimal time, virtual, huge impact. Now more than ever, young scientists need us. tvpconnect.org/signup

Why These Trans Teens and Their Families Risked Everything to Get Gender-Affirming Care It’s as simple as love.

When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share.

These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

Please repost! Great role if someone needs a soft landing into a supportive, collaborative, and very productive team.

Senior Research Scientist (6-month contract) - Crisis Text Line, Inc. - Career Page Apply to Senior Research Scientist (6-month contract) at Crisis Text Line, Inc. in Remote.

Our team has an opening for a contract role for a research scientist with a very strong data science background. Please be a SQL wizard with great data visualization skills! We're a highly collaborative team using NLP/ML to analyze data from 11+ million conversations. Join us! tinyurl.com/5t2pme7h

New Postdoc Opportunity!

Come work with me on a new NIMH-funded R01 looking at stress-related markers in the prediction of risk for depression in adolescence! We use fMRI, EMA, and smartwatch technology. For more details check out cdasr.mclean.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...

Please repost!

I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here.

First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)

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In Massachusetts, at Logan airport, immigration thugs stripped an innocent man naked, tortured him, and pressured him to give up his green card.

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In case it helps: it's okay to re-calibrate expectations, given the current reality.

I was getting frustrated with myself because, over the past month, I've gotten behind on the things I planned to get done.

Each day, I start with plans, then some element of the chaos throws a wrench in them. 1/

Wow. Trump has fired the federal Veterans Affairs staff running the Veterans Crisis Hotline. This will have a major impact here in North Carolina.

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A new thread for news coverage regarding NIH

I have no words.

They want to remove support for disabled students—learning disabilities, behavior problems, developmental delays, speech therapy, accommodations for ADHD, deaf/HoH people, blind and low vision people.

Outrageous, disgusting, barbarian.

What are you doing this week to resist?

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

They purged the YRBS?! That dataset is basic but critical information about what is going on with kids and adolescents in this country. We are losing our ability to do fundamental public health related work.

Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.

It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.

I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.

Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I hate living in a timeline when we've alienated our society from the absolute wonder and joy that is science. No group or thing in society is perfect but my whole life is full of scientists doing basically modern day miracles all the time to help make our lives better. I love you all for it

And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

We are here.
We are strong.
We are fighting back.
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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So upsetting: "we discovered that 7–10-year-old males and females reported higher rates of suicidal ideation (∼26%) than any other demographic group except 15–16-year-old females (∼27%). This trend was consistent across all racial and ethnic subgroups." #SuicidePrevention #SocialWork

Review of applications starts tomorrow. If you're hoping for a change of scene in the New Year, this is a terrific position on a collaborative, supportive team. Please consider applying, we'd love to hear from you! Reposts appreciated.

Still hiring for one Spain-based #NLP role here: please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested in working with a highly collaborative interdisciplinary team, & feel free to reach out with questions or to chat!

Psych friends & colleagues: our team is hiring. New US-based role for someone with advanced training in clinical psychopathology research, suicidology, or computational psychiatry. Please reach out with questions or to chat. Inquiries confidential. Please repost widely!! grnh.se/a92fb7f63us

Snapshot of EMNLP paper on Crisis counselor language and perceived genuine concern in crisis conversations.

News here: we have an open role for US-based hires: Staff ML Research Scientist. We are looking for someone with a very strong #NLP background to come work on a collaborative, interdisciplinary team, working on projects like this recent work from #EMNLP. Re-skeets appreciated! grnh.se/2ee36d763us

My team is hiring for two Spain-based #NLP scientist roles. We are a highly collaborative interdisciplinary group performing critically important NLP / ML work on 10 million crisis conversations. If you think you might be a fit, please reach out! grnh.se/601a0b023us

Screenshot of the paper header, title is 'Crisis counselor language and perceived genuine concern in crisis conversations'

Hello folks, active here after a long hiatus. This week I'm at my EMNLP meeting. My colleague Greg Buda is presenting some really nice work he has led on linguistic features that are related to perceived empathy tomorrow at the 11:00 poster session- please drop by and say hello!

Thanks for putting this together!

this is irresponsible and wreckless. therapy requires care, compassion, sympathy, and being able to listen and relate with the person. AI can do none of that. people's lives are on the line, and bad therapy can cause much more harm than no therapy