Thrilled to receive very positive reviews on my draft for the 2nd ed Internet Sexual Offending, and to start working on revisions. (Did you know that American Psychological Association books undergo peer review?) Current timeline is for release in late 2024 to early 2025.

It’s inevitable that you will do wrong. What matters, at least to the Stoics, is not the mistakes (these simple errors that are a fact of life) but what we do about them.

The nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfake crisis has hit high schools around the world. Now it has even reached middle schools, where victims are around the age of 12. The perpetrators are their equally young classmates armed with deepfake tech. nbcnews.com/tech/misinformat…

A timely story from @CBCNews on the revolving door between the health and criminal justice systems cbc.ca/newsinteractives/feat…

My name is Kristin Song. On January 31, 2018, my son Ethan was shot in the head in his best friend's house. The father/gun owner stored 3 handguns and ammunition in a shoebox. Ethan's friend had been accessing the guns for over 6 months. At the hospital, the ER doctor slid down the wall, put his head in his hands, and whispered, "Your son is gone." At that instant, all I knew, loved and trusted was imploded into a million tiny pieces. I begged to say goodbye to my beautiful boy. I wanted to kiss his forehead, tell him how cherished he was, and tuck him in one last time. But the doctor begged me to remember Ethan as he was, you see, he was unrecognizable even to my eyes. The day before Thanksgiving in 2018, the prosecutor told me she would not charge the negligent gun owner, and if I wanted negligent gun owners to be held accountable, I would have to change the law. So I did. 6 months later, Connecticut passed Ethan's Law, which requires gun owners to secure their weapons if children can gain access. Then, I learned that so many states stood silent on this issue, so in 2019, I turned my attention to passing Ethan's Law nationally. I met with over 400 congressional offices, 130 of them Republican. In 2022, Ethan's Law was passed in the House of Representatives as part of the Safer Communities Act. Sadly, it was not picked up in the final package. When the Democrats lost the House of Representatives in 2023, I pivoted to passing safe gun storage laws in the States. As a result, Michigan, New Mexico, and Maryland passed safe storage laws. Currently, I am working with 5 states to pass Ethan's Law. I am emotionally and mentally exhausted, but I will not stop until there is a cultural shift in this country where it becomes second nature to secure your weapons around unsupervised children. If you believe in protecting children from gun violence, please follow and repost.

More than half of mental health appointments — 55 percent — are being conducted remotely, mainly via videoconferencing rather than in-person visits, according to a brief research report in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. wapo.st/3we3TdH

That Hemingway baby shoes short story can’t be outdon- oh

Putting psychiatric nurses inside a Vancouver Police Department’s operations centre dramatically reduced the number of times “a cop with a gun” was sent to a #MentalHealth emergency, by @fumano vancouversun.com/opinion/col… via @VancouverSun @VancouverPD #nursing

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We are thrilled to announce that our plenary speaker and symposia have been selected for our 50th annual meeting in Berlin! Full details can be found here: iasrsite.org/upcoming-meetin…

NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world. I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.

wake up babe, new unit of measurement dropped

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: The #KinseyInstitute is hiring a #Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work with Dr. Zoë Peterson on collaborative research into #SexualViolence - prevention, measurement, victim experience. #sexresearch #postdoc Please share 🎉 indiana.peopleadmin.com/post…

Our 4th Annual Canadian Forensic Psychology Virtual Conference is only a few weeks away! Register now to join us on February 9th over Zoom. We are looking forward to learning from our many incredible presenters and speakers this year!

Our panel talked about how our researchers are studying the effects of race on the paths of forensic patients, understanding gender and sexual minority stress, and advancing women’s mental health.🌎 Thanks to our panelists for this meaningful discussion. #ResearchAtTheRoyal

#ATSA2024 Call For Abstracts due tomorrow! Tomorrow is the final day to submit an abstract proposal for a preconference and concurrent session as well as symposium and panel discussions. Submit to share your expertise by Tuesday January 16th. Submit now: ow.ly/GW4M50Qqvwk

“Median statistical power in leading economics journals is very low (only 7%), and excess statistical significance is quite high (19%). Power this low and excess significance this high raise serious doubts about the credibility of economics research.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…