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Trump’s V.A. Squeezes Mental Health Care in Crowded Offices, Raising Privacy Concerns Clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs say the president’s return-to-office order is forcing many of them to work from makeshift spaces where sensitive conversations can be overheard.

Clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs say President Trump’s return-to-office order is forcing many of them to work from makeshift spaces where sensitive conversations can be overheard. And veterans have noticed the lack of privacy.

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

We can only control what we can control, which is very little, and that SUCKS, but you can work in your community to do SOMETHING, just find 1 thing to put your energy behind, and figure out how to limit your exposure to that which you cant control and will lead you spiraling downward. (2/2)

Section 504 is an important law that protects disabled people. Texas v. Becerra is a court case where people are asking the court to get rid of Section 504, which would hurt a lot of people. You can read about it and learn how to help with this plain language explainer:

Race is a human invention.

Race is not a biological reality.

#Anthropologist

I have literally taught this to undergrads.

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SAMHSA is a small agency that does a ton of stuff; much of the work I do - things I am proud to be able to do/offer - is thanks to them.

They also oversee the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which fields MILLIONS of calls.

They have fewer than 900 employees and half of them are getting fired

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Veterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubicles As part of the Trump administration's frenzied push to end remote work arrangements for federal government workers, the Veterans Administration (VA) is forcing therapists to provide mental health coun...

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The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them

As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles

It is an unethical and likely illegal practice

‘Voices of the Rio Grande Valley’ uplifts stories from the people of an often-overlooked region The collection of creative nonfiction stories is written both for the community and those interested in the region.

The new anthology “Voices of the Rio Grande Valley: Vol.1” lifts up the regional stories written by the folks who’ve lived them.

van with the legend COFFEE SOLVES EVERYTHING! painted on the side

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Repeating the standard message: if you were born before 1989, there's a good chance you didn't get both doses of MMR vaccine as a child, and there are people who lose immunity over time. If your insurance will pay for a titer test to check immunity, get one done. If not, get a booster.

Psychologists and psych-adjacent folks concerned about NIH indirect costs reduction: APA has a petition and request you contact your reps. This means APA has decided to pursue this, so I think we should too:

www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...

I told my therapist that no one is doing anything and that I felt angry and helpless. He said “you just told me you referred two people who got laid off jobs and you’re posting about which boosters to get. That’s doing something.”

Everyone can’t do everything. But you can do SOMETHING

“The gathering at St. Vartan Park, located on 1st Avenue and 35th Street across the way from NYU Langone, stressed that the decision to deny such care to trans youth is a matter of life and death, and their fury hinged on the fear that struggling children could lose their lives to self-harm.”

I created a R script to see how many times one of those words came up in my recent NSF grant submission. The answer was 355 (!) times. Laughing but crying. Mostly crying.

Here's the code if you want to try it on your grant: github.com/calvinklai/d...

Large crowd gathers in McAllen to protest for immigrants rights Large crowds of people took to the streets in McAllen to protest for immigrants rights.

Protest tonight in McAllen, TX www.krgv.com/news/large-c...

This is the money Marge. Reskeet for good fortune. 💰

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Fernando J. Falcone.

Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Anne and Sid Bass Fund

Mario Merz, Fall of the House of Usher, 1979

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Happy to share our special issue on the impact of the pandemic on the wellbeing of Latinx children, youth, and families published in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... @eneblett.bsky.social

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

“We’re just not going to have enough people to take care of women in this state.” The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Study for Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, by Marc Chagall, 1963, 📸 by @natlyphoto

Systemic: How Racism Is Making Us Sick|Hardcover In the spirit of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body; A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science...

For people who need support in how to discuss this subject, here is a helpful book by the all too rare Black woman science journalist — just came out this year — about how racism makes us sick

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/systemic-l...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict, 1982
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For some reason the X-Men animated series theme fits perfectly with the Garfield and Friends intro.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Night Feast by Paul Klee, 1921

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