Tanya Saraiya, PhD
@tanyasaraiya.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist/Assistant Professor. Trauma, substance use, mental health equity. Child of immigrants.✌🏽Work in progress.🧿 views mine.
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Are We Gatekeeping Trauma? A Conceptual Model to Expand Criterion A for Invisible, Identity-Based, and Systemic Traumas
Since the inception of the criterion A framework into the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis in DSM-III, what qualifies as traumatic has b…
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There are 100% more imp. things to talk about in the world today. But--a personal/academic win for me: After 3+ years thinking and working on this article (which started with an idea on a plane), it is finally published. I am proud.
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CBS to cancel "Late Show With Stephen Colbert" after the next TV season, citing a “financial decision"
CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’
CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night
variety.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
CBS to cancel "Late Show With Stephen Colbert" after the next TV season, citing a “financial decision"
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Study finds in states w/ near-total abortion bans since 2022, intimate partner violence rose 7% - 10% (9,271 - 13,998 additional incidents). Women also “found it harder to exit abusive relationships once they were forced to carry that pregnancy to term." news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/30/a...
Abortion bans have led to more relationship violence, new research finds
A Northeastern researcher tracked a spike in intimate partner violence after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
news.northeastern.edu
July 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Study finds in states w/ near-total abortion bans since 2022, intimate partner violence rose 7% - 10% (9,271 - 13,998 additional incidents). Women also “found it harder to exit abusive relationships once they were forced to carry that pregnancy to term." news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/30/a...
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"Though Wu was never charged, Northwestern reassigned her grant funding, closed her lab and forcibly admitted her to the university’s psychiatric hospital..."
American academia is actively hostile to the health, well being and survival of women of color.
American academia is actively hostile to the health, well being and survival of women of color.
"Andrea Chu, the Midwest organizing director for Asian American Advancing Justice Chicago, said that Wu’s death shows the “devastating” impact of the China Initiative."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/04/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/04/n...
Northwestern sued over suicide of professor targeted in China investigation
The estate of Northwestern University Professor Jane Wu, who died by suicide last year after being investigated in a controversial federal probe, is suing the school for allegedly discriminating ag…
www.chicagotribune.com
July 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Though Wu was never charged, Northwestern reassigned her grant funding, closed her lab and forcibly admitted her to the university’s psychiatric hospital..."
American academia is actively hostile to the health, well being and survival of women of color.
American academia is actively hostile to the health, well being and survival of women of color.
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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As others have pointed out, this also underlies recent changes in NIH policy: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
April 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
As others have pointed out, this also underlies recent changes in NIH policy: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
There are 100% more imp. things to talk about in the world today. But--a personal/academic win for me: After 3+ years thinking and working on this article (which started with an idea on a plane), it is finally published. I am proud.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Are We Gatekeeping Trauma? A Conceptual Model to Expand Criterion A for Invisible, Identity-Based, and Systemic Traumas
Since the inception of the criterion A framework into the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis in DSM-III, what qualifies as traumatic has b…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There are 100% more imp. things to talk about in the world today. But--a personal/academic win for me: After 3+ years thinking and working on this article (which started with an idea on a plane), it is finally published. I am proud.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations
Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious
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April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
In the past two weeks, the institution I’m at prevented me access to grant funds to pay a student helping me on my project and now are “terminating” a volunteer on a visa/residing in another country. Is this what is to come?
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In the past two weeks, the institution I’m at prevented me access to grant funds to pay a student helping me on my project and now are “terminating” a volunteer on a visa/residing in another country. Is this what is to come?
I know too many people in one day who have lost PhD program offers, job offers, been notified their postdoc fellowships are ending, and of course, all those whose grants are cancelled. Of course it doesn’t measure to being (unfairly) deported but ‘I am weary of the ways of the world.’
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I know too many people in one day who have lost PhD program offers, job offers, been notified their postdoc fellowships are ending, and of course, all those whose grants are cancelled. Of course it doesn’t measure to being (unfairly) deported but ‘I am weary of the ways of the world.’
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I'm old enough to remember when apa was apologizing for it's racism bc that was just 4 years ago...
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March 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I'm old enough to remember when apa was apologizing for it's racism bc that was just 4 years ago...
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Had some devastating conversations yesterday about universities and free speech and our international students and scholars.
Neither campus nor the cops are going to protect you. So please, if you've even ever walked by a protest, develop a buddy system so you no longer go places alone. 1/3
Neither campus nor the cops are going to protect you. So please, if you've even ever walked by a protest, develop a buddy system so you no longer go places alone. 1/3
March 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Had some devastating conversations yesterday about universities and free speech and our international students and scholars.
Neither campus nor the cops are going to protect you. So please, if you've even ever walked by a protest, develop a buddy system so you no longer go places alone. 1/3
Neither campus nor the cops are going to protect you. So please, if you've even ever walked by a protest, develop a buddy system so you no longer go places alone. 1/3
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NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
zeteo.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
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Stand Up for Science 2025 - 7 March, Columbia, SC
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025
March 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Stand Up for Science 2025 - 7 March, Columbia, SC
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025
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“It's really disturbing to see how spineless institutions led by liberals have been. People that we thought were our friends have basically thrown Black folks, women, LGBTQ folks under the bus so they can show that they are preemptively complying with executive orders that are unconstitutional”
“It's really disturbing to see how spineless institutions led by liberals have been. People that we thought were our friends have basically thrown Black folks, women, LGBTQ folks under the bus so they can show that they are preemptively complying with executive orders that are unconstitutional”
February 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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“It's really disturbing to see how spineless institutions led by liberals have been. People that we thought were our friends have basically thrown Black folks, women, LGBTQ folks under the bus so they can show that they are preemptively complying with executive orders that are unconstitutional”
“It's really disturbing to see how spineless institutions led by liberals have been. People that we thought were our friends have basically thrown Black folks, women, LGBTQ folks under the bus so they can show that they are preemptively complying with executive orders that are unconstitutional”
Same girl. Same. 💯 tired. 😮💨
Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Same girl. Same. 💯 tired. 😮💨
What better time than now to do a survey on the experiences of inequity among academics? Please share! ~20 min.
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IDEA Experience of Researchers in Academia
We are seeking the experiences of researchers in academia.
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February 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
What better time than now to do a survey on the experiences of inequity among academics? Please share! ~20 min.
rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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This is what leadership looks like
Universities show their true colors during crises so I'm proud to read that my US employer, Yale School of Medicine, is funding faculty whose labs have been hit by political meddling
In addition to bridge funding I gather Yale lawyers are directly challenging anti-science actions in Washington
In addition to bridge funding I gather Yale lawyers are directly challenging anti-science actions in Washington
February 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is what leadership looks like
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I am studying medical school responses to anti-DEI legislation. If only our deans were so courageous. #medicaleducation #meded #medsky #academicsky
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
www.insidehighered.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I am studying medical school responses to anti-DEI legislation. If only our deans were so courageous. #medicaleducation #meded #medsky #academicsky
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Lots of leaders of colleges and other key institutions are staying silent, either out of fear or a misguided view of "neutrality." But not Michael Roth. wapo.st/4k1ueQt
Opinion | The college president who is fighting back against Trumpism
Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.
wapo.st
February 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Lots of leaders of colleges and other key institutions are staying silent, either out of fear or a misguided view of "neutrality." But not Michael Roth. wapo.st/4k1ueQt
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New letter from Trump Dept of Ed suggests racial equity programs/DEI disadvantage #AsianAmericans and whites. Asian Americans, we should challenge this false, dangerous narrative EVERY SINGLE TIME. @oiyanpoon.bsky.social and I show why below
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
On affirmative action, Asian Americans got played (opinion)
Let’s not get played again, OiYan Poon and Janelle Wong write.
www.insidehighered.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New letter from Trump Dept of Ed suggests racial equity programs/DEI disadvantage #AsianAmericans and whites. Asian Americans, we should challenge this false, dangerous narrative EVERY SINGLE TIME. @oiyanpoon.bsky.social and I show why below
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026
February 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026
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8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.
February 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.