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Chris Larson

@clarsonsbrain.bsky.social

Psychology Professor - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Affective Neuroscientist | Lover of books, travel, hockey, and loud music in the car | she/her

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How about that.

12.09.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 32463    πŸ” 8600    πŸ’¬ 1465    πŸ“Œ 574
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Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?

14.05.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 37355    πŸ” 6446    πŸ’¬ 1142    πŸ“Œ 303
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Federal funding plays a critical role in supporting life-saving research. In the recent APA Div56 newsletter, we outline how Trump policies place trauma research at risk and emphasize the importance of collective action.

apatraumadivision.org/spring-2025-...

13.05.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State (Gift Article) DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance systemβ€”the likes of which we have never seen in the US. Trump could soon have the tools to satisfy his many grievances by swiftly locating compromising information about anyone he doesn't like.

Our privacy laws aren't protecting us!

Gift link.

02.05.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 466    πŸ” 264    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 10

We gotta get loud about this 🀬🀬🀬🀬🀬🀬

01.05.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 283    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 9

Well this is just absolutely fucking disgusting.

22.04.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us' Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

21.04.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 16924    πŸ” 6397    πŸ’¬ 811    πŸ“Œ 524

Society for Research in Psychopathology folks, pls submit nominations for the Early Career Award by April 30th! No better time to do all we can to elevate our EC colleagues and recognize their research contributions

19.04.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Jesus, this is bleak. Like, I appreciate that the data is being tracked? But whew.

10.04.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 634    πŸ” 233    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

Anyone looking to take an amazing clinical psych student who would come to grad school with an NSF GRFP in hand? Interests in stigma, adversity, but flexible! (Side note that it is awful that nsf doesn’t let you defer, apply next yr w/grant in hand, and just count that as 1 of 2 deferral yrs)

08.04.2025 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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(1/2) πŸ“’ SPR Elections – Call for Nominations! Nominate candidates for:

πŸ”Ή President-Elect (2025–2028)
πŸ”Ή Treasurer-Elect (2025–2029)
πŸ”Ή Board of Directors (2 seats) (2025–2028)

🌟 Self-nominations & nominations of underrepresented individuals encouraged!

29.03.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Unsurprisingly, funding has now also been terminated at University of Pittsburgh. Work from my outstanding colleagues in Psychiatry & Psychology, Erika Forbes and Jennifer Silk, investigating suicide in LGBQT young adults, terminated midstream😩

PA folks, add this to your daily calls to congress ☎️

26.03.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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(1/5) Poster (and Faces of the Future talks) and Big Idea symposia submissions for #2025SPR are now open!

24.03.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

22.03.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 28974    πŸ” 9081    πŸ’¬ 851    πŸ“Œ 490
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Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.

13.03.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8712    πŸ” 5097    πŸ’¬ 411    πŸ“Œ 315
Trump’s funding cuts are hitting early-career researchers the hardest Doctoral students at the University of Illinois Chicago say vital work on maternal health is threatened by Trump’s research funding cuts.

Public health is under attack in America.
Maternal and child health is under attack in America.
Health research is under attack in America.

Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.

08.03.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2012    πŸ” 417    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 14
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Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

07.03.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1430    πŸ” 491    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 20
Image of Bill Nye, with text at the top of the image that says Speaker Announcement and at the bottom that says Stand Up for Science, March 7th, 2025 and a link to standupforscience2025.org.

Image of Bill Nye, with text at the top of the image that says Speaker Announcement and at the bottom that says Stand Up for Science, March 7th, 2025 and a link to standupforscience2025.org.

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! β˜€οΈ

Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!

More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! πŸ‘€β˜€οΈ

06.03.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2034    πŸ” 402    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 36

Great resource from Just Security on the demolition of DOJ norms.

04.03.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 615    πŸ” 233    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 9
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Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

04.03.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 16703    πŸ” 4832    πŸ’¬ 1038    πŸ“Œ 471
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Musk-backed ad attacks wrong Susan Crawford β€’ Wisconsin Examiner An Elon Musk-backed political group attacked the wrong Susan Crawford in a social media ad as part of its support of Brad Schimel

Just to clear up some confusion, Wisconsin Indivisibles have endorsed Susan Crawford β€” the Wisconsin-raised jurist who has dedicated her life to putting the people of her state first.

Early voting starts soon. Help us stop the MAGA takeover of the Wisconsin Supreme Court: indivisible.org/scowis2025

03.03.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1015    πŸ” 296    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 17
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We all know what they say about people who make assumptions.

02.03.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4032    πŸ” 729    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 24
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BREAKING: NIH CSR meeting notices in the Federal Register will restart tomorrow (Tuesday, 3/4).

The first notice is for 4 CSR meetings in late March and early April. 3 special emphasis panels, 1 for kidney disease.

This is the first such notice since January 21.

03.03.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…

03.03.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 31309    πŸ” 7864    πŸ’¬ 1294    πŸ“Œ 344
(over images of Elon Musk and Congress) MUSK OR US
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(over images of Elon Musk and Congress) MUSK OR US RECESS MARCH 15-23

Help us make the upcoming congressional recess one for the history books. We’ve put together a detailed toolkit to help you plan events in your districts, make the most of town halls, and put Members of Congress on blast if they try to hide from constituents: indivisible.org/muskorus

03.03.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2823    πŸ” 1435    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 97
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Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
TheRiseRegistry.org

01.03.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 497    πŸ” 272    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 89
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Register now for the 14th annual Reading Emotions on 26-27 June with a stellar interdisciplinary line-up of speakers to discuss β€œFacial expressions of emotion”. Submit abstracts for short talks and apply for travel grants sites.google.com/site/reading.... We look forward to seeing you at #ReadEmo25

01.03.2025 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Have heard of multiple groups getting these grant termination letters. Direct political interference with science. Absolutely unacceptable. πŸ§ͺ

01.03.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 164    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1