Julie Ward

I have a list of things we can do to change this tempo of tragedy

The proposals are based on real data
They have had signals of efficacy

It may feel hopeless today but:

I refuse to give up.

Because - Our babies & our communities deserve better than a rolling litany of horrors.

120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.

See what public lands would be available for sale:
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⏳ There is just over a week left to apply for our #postdoc in violence prevention research, with apps due June 15. Please send yours in or share the posting with a qualified applicant! cvp.ucdavis.edu/get-involved...

Fwiw, I agree with the point to not sleep on the role of the sheriffs’ departments. They fired shots in more than 1/3 of injurious shootings in rural areas and nearly 1/4 of suburban. Much higher than we see in urban areas. doi.org/10.1016/j.am...

Related, my understanding is GVA had a source expansion/methods update in 2015 but its included sources have been stable since then. Seems we might have seen more of a bump there if reporting reliability were the main issue.

But, media consolidation has been more severe in rural areas, so - I wouldn’t rule it out entirely but - I would suspect that the loss of local reporting in this time period would at least partially offset any relative gains in rural area perceived “newsworthiness” of shootings by police.

I look at that a bit in this study using a county “news deserts” variable. We see that counties with no local newspapers had lower shooting incidence, which suggests that underreporting has been an issue.
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Also want to note that these patterns hold up when population size and nonfatal shooting injuries are also factored in. www.ajpmonline.org/cms/10.1016/...

Noooo! Dan!!! 😡😩

Really sorry to hear this, Dan. 😡

Home from #SAVIR2025 and pleased to share that “Characteristics of Behavioral and Mental Health Involved Injurious Shootings by Police in the US” was recognized with the Early Career Outstanding Science Presentation award! #InjuryResearch #GVP #ScienceMatters 🛟
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Really timely new research about the possible role of agency policy in preventing shooting-related harms, particularly in light of the current Barnes v. Felix SCOTUS case. It was great to collaborate with @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social on this one!

This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World The Twilight of the American Passion Job

"When a civilization is limited to work that produces profit... we distance ourselves from the values of care and generosity—and the simple but profound belief that what happens to one of us affects all of us."

A marvelous piece by @annehelen.bsky.social.

Study Finds More Than 300 Juveniles Were Shot by Police Between 2015 and 2020, One-Third of Them Fatally | Center for Gun Violence Solutions Study thought to be the first national accounting of both juvenile injuries and deaths from shootings by police in U.S.

Study underscores the critical need to identify and develop effective public health + policing strategies aimed at reducing the number of young people shot by law enforcement each year. Read more: publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

Ditto to academics

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

Okay, this is pretty great. I didn’t realize how much friction it was to look up each phone number until this app had them ready to go, one after another. Plus it tells you how many other people used the app to call about the issue (14,700 on the federal funding freeze alone!)

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”

University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Anticipatory Violence and Health Among Black Adults in the United States - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities This study analyzes the relationship between anticipatory community and police violence and health outcomes including mental and physical well-being, sleep problems, and functional disability. Using d...

New open access article out today in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities w/ a fantastic team.

In a nationally representative sample of Black Americans, we find that just anticipating police + community violence is harmful to various aspects of health.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

UW School of Nursing, Dept. Of Child, Family, & Population Health Nursing is hiring 2 TT faculty! 👀

Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/159379
Professor (Open Rank): apply.interfolio.com/159582

Spread the word! Would love to see more great folks in this former department of mine. 💜💛

Same! (Well, just one, but it’s *the* one. Go Ducks!) 🫣🤗

Majority of Guns Reported Stolen in Nashville Taken from Vehicles The Nashville Police Department strongly encourages Nashvillians to lock their automobile doors, secure any valuables---especially guns, and remove the...

On that note, here are our stats, #Nashville 👀 www.nashville.gov/departments/... Still more than 800 guns stolen from cars so far this year.

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Analyzing police shootings, public safety, and policy A series of three recently published studies have provided the first nationally comprehensive analysis of shootings by law enforcement officers that injured or killed people in the U.S. Led by Julie W...

Thanks, @vuartsci.bsky.social, for getting word out about our recent advances in research on shootings by police & what it all means for prevention. #publichealth

Summary of 3 articles’ key findings + links here: bit.ly/3On2wiv

@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
@Vanderbilt MHS 🤝 @jhucgvs.bsky.social

At Seattle’s Boeing Field, Real-Time Video Offers a Rare Glimpse of America’s Troubled Deportation Flights Key details about what happens inside ICE Air would still be hidden if not for a group of Washington activists and researchers, who are now using a live video feed from the tarmac to document the…

What happens inside America's vast network of privately run deportation flights?

Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com‬ reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.

Great interview with @nazsa.bsky.social As systems pivot to re-emphasize chronic illness, investing in preventing and better responding to the mental, physical, and social consequences of firearm injuries remains critical. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...