Allyson M. Blackburn, M.S.

Assistant Professor -Modern Southeast Asian Humanities - Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

TT Assistant Professor Position in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities at UC-Berkeley!

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Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to firings After the video fueled outrage, two college leaders were removed from their administrative roles for approving plans to teach content inconsistent with the course’s published description.

The Atlantic and NYT lost their minds if there was so much as a trigger warning in classes. Now, professors and Deans are being fired for a class that discussed the existence of trans people and those same publications are quiet. It was never about free speech.

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

Though delayed by my internship year, I have a new paper out in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! In this paper, we examine rates of inconsistency in lifetime reporting of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) among youth in the ABCD Study!

Out in Psychology of Violence! “Stalking and cyberstalking among college students: Prevalence and distinctions between harassment, victimization, and perpetration.”

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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
How does living surrounded by more conservative religious communities impact LGBQ+ mental health?
A small thread (1/3) of our new open-access paper!

<em>American Journal of Community Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library In the United States, mental health disparities persist between sexual minorities – people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or other nonheterosexual identifications – and heterosexuals. Althou....

Out in AJCP!

“Linking the religious and social environment to sexual minority mental health”

doi.org/10.1002/ajcp...

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.

NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

Congratulations, Ben!!!

Trump’s aim is to destroy American universities

I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836

The Academy of Psychological Clinical Science is offering dissertation awards to students in our member programs. Please see: www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/07-07-25-apc... for all the details, deadline 9/1/25.

We also need reviewers, details at same link!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This bill is a real piece of shit it and it would be excellent if that’s all anyone talked about for the next few days. Super interested in your think piece about the NYC mayor’s race but let’s get to that after we try to stop the biggest wealth transfer in American history.” — Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), on X, about the GOP megabill.

Not gonna lie, I’m kind of turned on right now

A view of seattle looking over at Mt. Ranier. The space needle is visible on the left and in top of it there is a progress pride flag.

Happy Pride from Seattle!! So happy to be settling in before starting internship.

My statement on today’s decision in Trump v Casa:

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment.

In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community.

You have a home here always.

US supreme court upholds Tennessee ban on youth gender-affirming care Ruling is devastating loss for trans rights supporters in case that could set precedent for dozens of other lawsuits

This is horrifying and will shorten trans lives.

At the same time, we know that trans people have survived attack and erasure many times over, providing each other with love, care, and basic needs. We won't stop or be stopped.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Filled with gratitude that I was able to be hooded by my advisor and walk with friends this weekend! Excited for the next steps!

I defended! I’m so grateful for my advisor @nicoleeallen.bsky.social who traveled for an in-person defense at @psychillinois.bsky.social & my Chair, Nathan Todd for his constant support, & the rest of my committee: Rachel Garthe, Catharine Fairbairn, and Brian Ogolsky. Thrilled for what’s next!

Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders

In response to Trump's executive orders, RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from sharing resources specific to LGBTQ people, immigrants and other marginalized groups.

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In all seriousness, I will be letting everyone know if I successfully defend my dissertation next week by either releasing a puff of white or black smoke

Me, when they picked an American who was not Stanley Tucci

Me, waiting to find out who the new pope is

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)!

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