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Tanya Saraiya, PhD
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Clinical Psychologist/Assistant Professor. Trauma, substance use, mental health equity. Child of immigrants.✌🏽Work in progress.🧿 views mine. https://linktr.ee/tanyasaraiya
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Tanya Saraiya, PhD @tanyasaraiya.bsky.social · Apr 17
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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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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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jul 17
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
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 5
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
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Jul 6
"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.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 25
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.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Apr 24
As others have pointed out, this also underlies recent changes in NIH policy: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Tanya Saraiya, PhD @tanyasaraiya.bsky.social · Apr 17
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...
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
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Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 2
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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Tanya Saraiya, PhD @tanyasaraiya.bsky.social · Apr 1
What is the point of getting grants and doing research if investigators have no power in how said grant funds are used or in building teams who have the skills to carry out the work?
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Tanya Saraiya, PhD @tanyasaraiya.bsky.social · Apr 1
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?
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Tanya Saraiya, PhD @tanyasaraiya.bsky.social · Mar 28
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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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Mar 28
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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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Mar 28
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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US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · Mar 28
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
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 26
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.
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.
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IMB @imb-uofsc.bsky.social · Mar 7
‪Stand Up for Science 2025 - 7 March, Columbia, SC

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025
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Dr. Lana Ruvolo Grasser @scientificruvvy.bsky.social · Feb 28
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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”
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Tanya Saraiya, PhD @tanyasaraiya.bsky.social · Feb 25
Same girl. Same. 💯 tired. 😮‍💨
1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Feb 24
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
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Tanya Saraiya, PhD @tanyasaraiya.bsky.social · Feb 24
All responses will remain confidential. This study is not funded. This IDEA Survey has been IRB approved by Rutgers University and Boston University. For additional information, please contact Denise Hien, Ph.D. at 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 or at [email protected].
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Tanya Saraiya, PhD @tanyasaraiya.bsky.social · Feb 24
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_...
IDEA Experience of Researchers in Academia
We are seeking the experiences of researchers in academia.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Feb 21
This is what leadership looks like
mehr.nz samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Feb 21
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
Email from Yale deans office February 20, 2025 To the YSM Community: We are writing to follow-up on Dean Brown’s email (dated Feb. 9) regarding the Feb. 7 supplemental guidance from the NIH on the indirect cost rate. As most of you are aware, there are currently two temporary restraining orders in effect as this guidance is challenged in the courts. Similarly, there are multiple temporary restraining orders in effect, which have paused "stop-work" orders for funding in specific areas. Thriving during times of uncertainty requires flexibility and creativity. Over the last few weeks, the Executive Group (chairs and deputy deans) of the school continue to develop contingency plans to address potential challenges ahead. As part of this work, we have developed guidelines and a mechanism for bridge funding for any faculty member who receives a premature termination notice for an active grant due to a policy change. This bridge funding is intended to provide time for faculty members who do not have other sources of funding or have been recruited within the last three years to pivot their program.
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Jane Lindsay Miller @jlmiller.bsky.social · Feb 18
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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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · Feb 18
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.
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Janelle S Wong @janellewong.bsky.social · Feb 17
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...
On affirmative action, Asian Americans got played (opinion)
Let’s not get played again, OiYan Poon and Janelle Wong write.
www.insidehighered.com
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