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.
September 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How about that.
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Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?
May 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?
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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.
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May 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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-...
apatraumadivision.org/spring-2025-...
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DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system—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.
Our privacy laws aren't protecting us!
Gift link.
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.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system—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.
Our privacy laws aren't protecting us!
Gift link.
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We gotta get loud about this 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in *shock*—and who could blame him?
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
May 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
We gotta get loud about this 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Well this is just absolutely fucking disgusting.
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
April 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Well this is just absolutely fucking disgusting.
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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.
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.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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.
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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
April 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
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Jesus, this is bleak. Like, I appreciate that the data is being tracked? But whew.
United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing.
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April 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Jesus, this is bleak. Like, I appreciate that the data is being tracked? But whew.
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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)
April 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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)
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(1/2) 📢 SPR Elections – Call for Nominations! Nominate candidates for:
🔹 President-Elect (2025–2028)
🔹 Treasurer-Elect (2025–2029)
🔹 Board of Directors (2 seats) (2025–2028)
🌟 Self-nominations & nominations of underrepresented individuals encouraged!
🔹 President-Elect (2025–2028)
🔹 Treasurer-Elect (2025–2029)
🔹 Board of Directors (2 seats) (2025–2028)
🌟 Self-nominations & nominations of underrepresented individuals encouraged!
March 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
(1/2) 📢 SPR Elections – Call for Nominations! Nominate candidates for:
🔹 President-Elect (2025–2028)
🔹 Treasurer-Elect (2025–2029)
🔹 Board of Directors (2 seats) (2025–2028)
🌟 Self-nominations & nominations of underrepresented individuals encouraged!
🔹 President-Elect (2025–2028)
🔹 Treasurer-Elect (2025–2029)
🔹 Board of Directors (2 seats) (2025–2028)
🌟 Self-nominations & nominations of underrepresented individuals encouraged!
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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 ☎️
PA folks, add this to your daily calls to congress ☎️
March 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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 ☎️
PA folks, add this to your daily calls to congress ☎️
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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.
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.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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.
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.
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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.
March 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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.
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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.
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.
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.
www.wbez.org
March 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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.
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.
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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
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
scim.ag
March 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️
Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!
More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!
More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
March 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️
Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!
More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!
More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
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Great resource from Just Security on the demolition of DOJ norms.
It can be hard to keep straight all of the alarming instances of politicization/weaponization of the Justice Department since January 20th.
I created a detailed Timeline, with Audrey Balliette.
We also link to all the publicly available documents.
Read the 25+ entries here:
#Democracy
I created a detailed Timeline, with Audrey Balliette.
We also link to all the publicly available documents.
Read the 25+ entries here:
#Democracy
Timeline: Politicization and Weaponization of Justice Department in Second Trump Administration
A detailed timeline of apparent efforts to politicize and weaponize the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration.
www.justsecurity.org
March 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Great resource from Just Security on the demolition of DOJ norms.
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Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes
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Just to clear up some confusion, Wisconsin Indivisibles have endorsed Susan Crawford — 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
Early voting starts soon. Help us stop the MAGA takeover of the Wisconsin Supreme Court: indivisible.org/scowis2025
Musk-backed ad attacks wrong Susan Crawford • 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
wisconsinexaminer.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Just to clear up some confusion, Wisconsin Indivisibles have endorsed Susan Crawford — 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
Early voting starts soon. Help us stop the MAGA takeover of the Wisconsin Supreme Court: indivisible.org/scowis2025
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We all know what they say about people who make assumptions.
March 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We all know what they say about people who make assumptions.
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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.
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.
March 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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.
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.