Elizabeth Olson
@eaolson.bsky.social
NLP and ML for clinical science. PhD, clinical psychology.
Heyyyy science peeps. The Valedictorian Project is on the hunt for mentors to support high-achieving students from urban public high schools. I've mentored a student for the past couple of years: minimal time, virtual, huge impact. Now more than ever, young scientists need us. tvpconnect.org/signup
July 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Heyyyy science peeps. The Valedictorian Project is on the hunt for mentors to support high-achieving students from urban public high schools. I've mentored a student for the past couple of years: minimal time, virtual, huge impact. Now more than ever, young scientists need us. tvpconnect.org/signup
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When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share.
These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.
These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.
Why These Trans Teens and Their Families Risked Everything to Get Gender-Affirming Care
It’s as simple as love.
www.teenvogue.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share.
These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.
These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.
Please repost! Great role if someone needs a soft landing into a supportive, collaborative, and very productive team.
Our team has an opening for a contract role for a research scientist with a very strong data science background. Please be a SQL wizard with great data visualization skills! We're a highly collaborative team using NLP/ML to analyze data from 11+ million conversations. Join us! tinyurl.com/5t2pme7h
Senior Research Scientist (6-month contract) - Crisis Text Line, Inc. - Career Page
Apply to Senior Research Scientist (6-month contract) at Crisis Text Line, Inc. in Remote.
crisistextlineinc.applytojob.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Please repost! Great role if someone needs a soft landing into a supportive, collaborative, and very productive team.
Our team has an opening for a contract role for a research scientist with a very strong data science background. Please be a SQL wizard with great data visualization skills! We're a highly collaborative team using NLP/ML to analyze data from 11+ million conversations. Join us! tinyurl.com/5t2pme7h
Senior Research Scientist (6-month contract) - Crisis Text Line, Inc. - Career Page
Apply to Senior Research Scientist (6-month contract) at Crisis Text Line, Inc. in Remote.
crisistextlineinc.applytojob.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Our team has an opening for a contract role for a research scientist with a very strong data science background. Please be a SQL wizard with great data visualization skills! We're a highly collaborative team using NLP/ML to analyze data from 11+ million conversations. Join us! tinyurl.com/5t2pme7h
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New Postdoc Opportunity!
Come work with me on a new NIMH-funded R01 looking at stress-related markers in the prediction of risk for depression in adolescence! We use fMRI, EMA, and smartwatch technology. For more details check out cdasr.mclean.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
Please repost!
Come work with me on a new NIMH-funded R01 looking at stress-related markers in the prediction of risk for depression in adolescence! We use fMRI, EMA, and smartwatch technology. For more details check out cdasr.mclean.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
Please repost!
cdasr.mclean.harvard.edu
May 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New Postdoc Opportunity!
Come work with me on a new NIMH-funded R01 looking at stress-related markers in the prediction of risk for depression in adolescence! We use fMRI, EMA, and smartwatch technology. For more details check out cdasr.mclean.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
Please repost!
Come work with me on a new NIMH-funded R01 looking at stress-related markers in the prediction of risk for depression in adolescence! We use fMRI, EMA, and smartwatch technology. For more details check out cdasr.mclean.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
Please repost!
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I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here.
First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)
bsky.app/profile/rebe...
First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)
bsky.app/profile/rebe...
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 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here.
First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)
bsky.app/profile/rebe...
First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)
bsky.app/profile/rebe...
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In Massachusetts, at Logan airport, immigration thugs stripped an innocent man naked, tortured him, and pressured him to give up his green card.
The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."
March 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
In Massachusetts, at Logan airport, immigration thugs stripped an innocent man naked, tortured him, and pressured him to give up his green card.
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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In case it helps: it's okay to re-calibrate expectations, given the current reality.
I was getting frustrated with myself because, over the past month, I've gotten behind on the things I planned to get done.
Each day, I start with plans, then some element of the chaos throws a wrench in them. 1/
I was getting frustrated with myself because, over the past month, I've gotten behind on the things I planned to get done.
Each day, I start with plans, then some element of the chaos throws a wrench in them. 1/
February 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In case it helps: it's okay to re-calibrate expectations, given the current reality.
I was getting frustrated with myself because, over the past month, I've gotten behind on the things I planned to get done.
Each day, I start with plans, then some element of the chaos throws a wrench in them. 1/
I was getting frustrated with myself because, over the past month, I've gotten behind on the things I planned to get done.
Each day, I start with plans, then some element of the chaos throws a wrench in them. 1/
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Wow. Trump has fired the federal Veterans Affairs staff running the Veterans Crisis Hotline. This will have a major impact here in North Carolina.
February 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wow. Trump has fired the federal Veterans Affairs staff running the Veterans Crisis Hotline. This will have a major impact here in North Carolina.
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A new thread for news coverage regarding NIH
a muppet is sitting at a news desk with the words here is a muppet news flash behind him
Alt: a muppet is sitting at a news desk with the words here is a muppet news flash behind him
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A new thread for news coverage regarding NIH
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I have no words.
Breaking news: The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
RFK Jr. confirmed, elevating anti-vaccine activist to nation’s top health post
The Senate held a final vote on whether to approve Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary after a three-month confirmation fight.
wapo.st
February 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I have no words.
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They want to remove support for disabled students—learning disabilities, behavior problems, developmental delays, speech therapy, accommodations for ADHD, deaf/HoH people, blind and low vision people.
Outrageous, disgusting, barbarian.
What are you doing this week to resist?
Outrageous, disgusting, barbarian.
What are you doing this week to resist?
February 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
They want to remove support for disabled students—learning disabilities, behavior problems, developmental delays, speech therapy, accommodations for ADHD, deaf/HoH people, blind and low vision people.
Outrageous, disgusting, barbarian.
What are you doing this week to resist?
Outrageous, disgusting, barbarian.
What are you doing this week to resist?
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
They purged the YRBS?! That dataset is basic but critical information about what is going on with kids and adolescents in this country. We are losing our ability to do fundamental public health related work.
They're scrubbing health disparities information. This isn't "gender ideology." This is public health data. We need to be outraged and demand the assault on public health stops.
🚨CDC removes data on sexual orientation, gender identity from website. @theresagaff.bsky.social with the receipts. www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c... via @statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
They purged the YRBS?! That dataset is basic but critical information about what is going on with kids and adolescents in this country. We are losing our ability to do fundamental public health related work.
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1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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I hate living in a timeline when we've alienated our society from the absolute wonder and joy that is science. No group or thing in society is perfect but my whole life is full of scientists doing basically modern day miracles all the time to help make our lives better. I love you all for it
January 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I hate living in a timeline when we've alienated our society from the absolute wonder and joy that is science. No group or thing in society is perfect but my whole life is full of scientists doing basically modern day miracles all the time to help make our lives better. I love you all for it
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And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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We are here.
We are strong.
We are fighting back.
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
We are strong.
We are fighting back.
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We are here.
We are strong.
We are fighting back.
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
We are strong.
We are fighting back.
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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So upsetting: "we discovered that 7–10-year-old males and females reported higher rates of suicidal ideation (∼26%) than any other demographic group except 15–16-year-old females (∼27%). This trend was consistent across all racial and ethnic subgroups." #SuicidePrevention #SocialWork
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January 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
So upsetting: "we discovered that 7–10-year-old males and females reported higher rates of suicidal ideation (∼26%) than any other demographic group except 15–16-year-old females (∼27%). This trend was consistent across all racial and ethnic subgroups." #SuicidePrevention #SocialWork
Review of applications starts tomorrow. If you're hoping for a change of scene in the New Year, this is a terrific position on a collaborative, supportive team. Please consider applying, we'd love to hear from you! Reposts appreciated.
Psych friends & colleagues: our team is hiring. New US-based role for someone with advanced training in clinical psychopathology research, suicidology, or computational psychiatry. Please reach out with questions or to chat. Inquiries confidential. Please repost widely!! grnh.se/a92fb7f63us
Principal Clinical Research Scientist
Remote
grnh.se
January 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Review of applications starts tomorrow. If you're hoping for a change of scene in the New Year, this is a terrific position on a collaborative, supportive team. Please consider applying, we'd love to hear from you! Reposts appreciated.
Still hiring for one Spain-based #NLP role here: please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested in working with a highly collaborative interdisciplinary team, & feel free to reach out with questions or to chat!
My team is hiring for two Spain-based #NLP scientist roles. We are a highly collaborative interdisciplinary group performing critically important NLP / ML work on 10 million crisis conversations. If you think you might be a fit, please reach out! grnh.se/601a0b023us
Job Application for SPAIN ONLY - Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist at Crisis Text Line
grnh.se
December 19, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Still hiring for one Spain-based #NLP role here: please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested in working with a highly collaborative interdisciplinary team, & feel free to reach out with questions or to chat!
Psych friends & colleagues: our team is hiring. New US-based role for someone with advanced training in clinical psychopathology research, suicidology, or computational psychiatry. Please reach out with questions or to chat. Inquiries confidential. Please repost widely!! grnh.se/a92fb7f63us
Principal Clinical Research Scientist
Remote
grnh.se
December 16, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Psych friends & colleagues: our team is hiring. New US-based role for someone with advanced training in clinical psychopathology research, suicidology, or computational psychiatry. Please reach out with questions or to chat. Inquiries confidential. Please repost widely!! grnh.se/a92fb7f63us