Sarah Victor (she/her/dr)

✨ The Quant Family Collective (QFC) is a mentorship and community network aimed at providing resources and support to trainees and researchers in psychology learning advanced quantitative methods.

I haven’t watched Bojack since season one but “When you’re wearing rose colored glasses, red flags just look like flags” lives in my head rent free…

Ooh thanks! I was hoping to do it on a per person basis but this will work!

I am barely on here, but want to reconnect and be more aware of discussions within the field happening here. I’m having trouble weeding through folks’ reposts. Is there no way to continue to follow a person but stop seeing reposts? All I see is mute or block but I want new posts, just not reposts…

Pleased that the deadline is extended to end of July, submission notifications should be before then!

Hey @iasr-suicide.bsky.social @afspnational.bsky.social, I am eager to register for the Summit by your early bird deadline of July 1, but you haven’t told us if our work is accepted to present yet! Abstract guidelines said we’d hear in June…is that still the plan?

📰 We have a new publication! 📰 Check it out!

Hazardous Drinking Amplifies the Association Between Emotion-Based Impulsivity and Negative Thoughts Related to Suicide Ideation Among Adults

doi.org/10.1080/1381...

@sarahevictor.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social @texastech.bsky.social

Care about suicide research? Then you should care about how we measure suicide-related constructs! Very proud to share this viewpoint led by @kirstenchristensen.bsky.social, recently accepted at J Psychopathology and Clinical Science 🥳

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Suicide scholars: looking for peer review opportunities? I’m a new Associate Editor at SLTB and I’d love to send reviews your way (especially to early career folks who want/need the experience!). Feel free to reply below with areas of expertise (and affiliation if I’m not aware).

Now that I have a three year old I have so many more examples of “just because we haven’t done something yet, doesn’t mean we have to do it”…

In local news, campus recently shut down for a week because of explosions and power outages, we are right in the measles outbreak zone, and today it’s heavy snow (in April), so I’m really going to need 2025 west Texas to stop approximating the plagues of the Exodus story please.

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.

New NBC story up about LGBTQ funding...

www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

Study flyer

Parents and youth needed for a research study! The Tracking Risk over Time Lab at Texas Tech University is leading an IRB-approved study about suicidal thoughts and behaviors. To learn more, click here:
evaluate2.ttu.edu/surveys/?s=A...

Explosion at substation on Texas Tech campus cause of power outage It also reports there is a power outage that is affecting multiple areas on campus.

Power outages, gas leaks, and fires coming out of manholes on Texas Tech campus in Lubbock. Areas have been evacuated. Explosion at a substation reported. www.kcbd.com/2025/03/13/l...

Thank you for this.

I took this and I encourage everyone in an academic role to fill it out! Quick and easy (and so important!)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

The state of Texas refused to study the health impact of the abortion ban. So ProPublica did and turns out sepsis rates for pregnant women jumped. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

This seems like a branch off Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

you shouldn’t care about it because they might be coming for you next, you should care that they’re coming for anyone at all

I support trans kids and their families because I’ve had the privilege of talking to trans kids and their families about what matters most to them. After that, it’s an easy call.

Trump signs sweeping order to further restrict trans care for minors nationwide The order says the U.S. will not “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support” transition-related care for minors, which it defines as those under age 19.

The current administration is doing everything it can to irreparably harm trans people and destroy their dignity and well-being.

Yet this is getting way less discussion and conversation than threats to grants.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Trump has just released an EO banning trans care for people under 18.
We must stand with the trans community!!
Show your love! 🏳️‍⚧️

So angry.

Ethical considerations for the use of ecological momentary assessment in non-suicidal self-injury research Research examining non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in daily life has grown substantially; thus, it is essential in conducting ecological momentary assessment (EMA) research with individuals who sel...

Everything's a clusterf**k in America, but that doesn't mean I can't celebrate one of my students' papers getting published, right?!? Check out this important commentary on ethical issues in studying nonsuicidal self-injury using EMA! 50 free e-prints! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UM7YU...

Congratulations! I haven’t been to Regina but Canada is a lovely place to live and work, I’m sure you’ll love it!

Prompted by my closeout paperwork on my R21, I’m wondering if anyone has a polite way to say “we haven’t published the primary aims yet because I value doing science well even if it’s beyond the grant funding period”?

Glad I’ve got some time 😂

How old is he? I need to know how long I have before this happens to me with our toddler 😂

Our kiddo is 3 in April and he still shocks me every day 😂