Eric Layland, PhD 🏳️🌈
@ericlayland.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ UDelaware (he/they) 🌈 •
Improving queer development & health • Intersectional approaches to health disparities • Studying Queer & Trans Joy and LGBTQ Socialization • Creating LGBTQ Research community
Improving queer development & health • Intersectional approaches to health disparities • Studying Queer & Trans Joy and LGBTQ Socialization • Creating LGBTQ Research community
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It Takes More than a Village: Involvement in Positive LGBTQIA+ Socialization from Origin Family, Chosen Family, Community, and Parasocial Relationships
Parents remain the focus of LGBTQIA+ socialization, and contributions of other family and non-family relationships remain unknown. We identified who contributes to positive LGBTQIA+ socialization u...
doi.org
Who plays a part in positive LGBTQ socialization?
In our new study in the US and NZ, queer others were the biggest players in helping LGBTQ+ youth understand their queer identity, especially queer peers, family, teachers, and media. #LGBTQ
Read the article👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JSUNR...
In our new study in the US and NZ, queer others were the biggest players in helping LGBTQ+ youth understand their queer identity, especially queer peers, family, teachers, and media. #LGBTQ
Read the article👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JSUNR...
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I went to go look, and this time last year, NSF SBE had funded 216 awards.
This year, they have funded 2.
This year, they have funded 2.
May 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I went to go look, and this time last year, NSF SBE had funded 216 awards.
This year, they have funded 2.
This year, they have funded 2.
Texas Tech issued a new rule to block students from writing theses or dissertations on LGBTQ topics and to block most classes from covering any LGBTQ content. Rerports @erininthemorning.com
The nightmare never ends.
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
The nightmare never ends.
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics
The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.
open.substack.com
April 23, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Texas Tech issued a new rule to block students from writing theses or dissertations on LGBTQ topics and to block most classes from covering any LGBTQ content. Rerports @erininthemorning.com
The nightmare never ends.
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
The nightmare never ends.
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Representing @udelaware.bsky.social at the Society for Adolescent Research. August Wei shares new research from the Queer Joy Project on self-affirmation as a positive developmental process for transgender youth.
April 17, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Representing @udelaware.bsky.social at the Society for Adolescent Research. August Wei shares new research from the Queer Joy Project on self-affirmation as a positive developmental process for transgender youth.
Who plays a part in positive LGBTQ socialization?
In our new study in the US and NZ, queer others were the biggest players in helping LGBTQ+ youth understand their queer identity, especially queer peers, family, teachers, and media. #LGBTQ
Read the article👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JSUNR...
In our new study in the US and NZ, queer others were the biggest players in helping LGBTQ+ youth understand their queer identity, especially queer peers, family, teachers, and media. #LGBTQ
Read the article👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JSUNR...
It Takes More than a Village: Involvement in Positive LGBTQIA+ Socialization from Origin Family, Chosen Family, Community, and Parasocial Relationships
Parents remain the focus of LGBTQIA+ socialization, and contributions of other family and non-family relationships remain unknown. We identified who contributes to positive LGBTQIA+ socialization u...
doi.org
February 18, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Who plays a part in positive LGBTQ socialization?
In our new study in the US and NZ, queer others were the biggest players in helping LGBTQ+ youth understand their queer identity, especially queer peers, family, teachers, and media. #LGBTQ
Read the article👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JSUNR...
In our new study in the US and NZ, queer others were the biggest players in helping LGBTQ+ youth understand their queer identity, especially queer peers, family, teachers, and media. #LGBTQ
Read the article👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JSUNR...
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LGBTQ+ youth in Delaware are facing significantly higher rates of mental health symptoms and substance use compared to their peers. Assistant Professor @ericlayland.bsky.social, from @udcehd.bsky.social, is helping uncover why.
📰: brnw.ch/21wWIs4
📰: brnw.ch/21wWIs4
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
LGBTQ+ youth in Delaware are facing significantly higher rates of mental health symptoms and substance use compared to their peers. Assistant Professor @ericlayland.bsky.social, from @udcehd.bsky.social, is helping uncover why.
📰: brnw.ch/21wWIs4
📰: brnw.ch/21wWIs4
In Delaware, as many as 25% of adolescents may identify as LGBTQ+. In the 2022-24 DE School Survey, mental health symptoms and underage substance use levels were alamring for all youth, and all outcomes were worse for LGBTQ+ youth.
Access our new article: djph.org/wp-content/u...
Access our new article: djph.org/wp-content/u...
August 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In Delaware, as many as 25% of adolescents may identify as LGBTQ+. In the 2022-24 DE School Survey, mental health symptoms and underage substance use levels were alamring for all youth, and all outcomes were worse for LGBTQ+ youth.
Access our new article: djph.org/wp-content/u...
Access our new article: djph.org/wp-content/u...
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I’m not on the asexuality spectrum. But as a queer, feminist researcher, I think we should all care about asexuality.
Why? Because asexual perspectives can help us better understand sexuality—and gender, race, disability, family, love, etc.
Here’s why:
Why? Because asexual perspectives can help us better understand sexuality—and gender, race, disability, family, love, etc.
Here’s why:
November 15, 2024 at 2:51 PM
I’m not on the asexuality spectrum. But as a queer, feminist researcher, I think we should all care about asexuality.
Why? Because asexual perspectives can help us better understand sexuality—and gender, race, disability, family, love, etc.
Here’s why:
Why? Because asexual perspectives can help us better understand sexuality—and gender, race, disability, family, love, etc.
Here’s why:
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By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities.
Supreme Court sides with administration over Education Department grants
By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities.
These and so so many other grants terminated. So much knowledge blocked. Many jobs eliminated instantly. I’m angry and sad. Sending love and solidarity to colleagues and strangers across the country grappling with nonsense actions of this regime.
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 1:17 AM
These and so so many other grants terminated. So much knowledge blocked. Many jobs eliminated instantly. I’m angry and sad. Sending love and solidarity to colleagues and strangers across the country grappling with nonsense actions of this regime.
Reposted by Eric Layland, PhD 🏳️🌈
1. Greg Abbott will direct the state of Texas to consider whether teachers who affirm transgender kids are actually engaging in "child abuse."
He's already attempted to go after parents of trans kids with charges of child abuse before.
The latest from S. Baum.
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He's already attempted to go after parents of trans kids with charges of child abuse before.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Abbot Directs Texas To Consider Investigating Teachers Who Support Trans Kids For Child Abuse
Texas lawmakers want educators who allegedly used a child’s name and pronouns to be investigated by law enforcement.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
1. Greg Abbott will direct the state of Texas to consider whether teachers who affirm transgender kids are actually engaging in "child abuse."
He's already attempted to go after parents of trans kids with charges of child abuse before.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
He's already attempted to go after parents of trans kids with charges of child abuse before.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Any recommendations for best resources, books, videos for helping students learn to write their first research proposal?
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
Alt: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
media.tenor.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Any recommendations for best resources, books, videos for helping students learn to write their first research proposal?
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🚨New research from grad student lab member August Wei shows the protective effect of family connectedness on suicide thoughts/behaviors among LGBTQ+ youth presenting at emergency departments. More family connection associated with lower odds of suicide ideation. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #LGBTQhealth
Redirecting
doi.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
🚨New research from grad student lab member August Wei shows the protective effect of family connectedness on suicide thoughts/behaviors among LGBTQ+ youth presenting at emergency departments. More family connection associated with lower odds of suicide ideation. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #LGBTQhealth
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
(Scroll down.)
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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
www.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Today in a college Zoom meeting attended by 95 of my colleagues, my cat jumped onto my laptop and unmuted me, then jumped onto a small collection of potted plants, shattering them, and I groaned/yelped while OFF MUTE.
So let’s add that to my list of current work stressors.
So let’s add that to my list of current work stressors.
February 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Today in a college Zoom meeting attended by 95 of my colleagues, my cat jumped onto my laptop and unmuted me, then jumped onto a small collection of potted plants, shattering them, and I groaned/yelped while OFF MUTE.
So let’s add that to my list of current work stressors.
So let’s add that to my list of current work stressors.
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New publication alert 🚨
With colleagues @jeffstokes.bsky.social @elliewroten.bsky.social and others not on bsky, we use HRS data to show that purpose in life is a powerful protective resource for the cognition of those exposed to frequent discrimination
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XMUQG...
With colleagues @jeffstokes.bsky.social @elliewroten.bsky.social and others not on bsky, we use HRS data to show that purpose in life is a powerful protective resource for the cognition of those exposed to frequent discrimination
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XMUQG...
Purpose in life moderates the relationship between perceived discrimination and cognitive functioning in midlife and older adults
Discrimination is associated with worse cognitive outcomes, but research is urgently needed to identify modifiable psychosocial resources that may buffer the impact of discrimination on cognition. ...
www.tandfonline.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:17 PM
New publication alert 🚨
With colleagues @jeffstokes.bsky.social @elliewroten.bsky.social and others not on bsky, we use HRS data to show that purpose in life is a powerful protective resource for the cognition of those exposed to frequent discrimination
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XMUQG...
With colleagues @jeffstokes.bsky.social @elliewroten.bsky.social and others not on bsky, we use HRS data to show that purpose in life is a powerful protective resource for the cognition of those exposed to frequent discrimination
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XMUQG...
Me in every section, paragraph, and line of grant writing…
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 5, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Me in every section, paragraph, and line of grant writing…
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Democrats' backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights must stop now! here is my proposed action. Please share widely and please let me know if you plan to participate! #LGBTQNotGoingBack
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...
Planned Action for LGBTQ+ & Allies in Response to Democrats Capitulating on Trans Rights
As most of you are aware, since Kamala Harris’s election loss (which trans people were not in charge of nor responsible for), Democratic politicians and pundits have been signaling that they plan to t...
juliaserano.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Democrats' backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights must stop now! here is my proposed action. Please share widely and please let me know if you plan to participate! #LGBTQNotGoingBack
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...
We are hiring tenure track faculty in our new social work program at UD! Please help us get the word out by sharing.
Assistant professor: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Faculty director: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Assistant professor: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Faculty director: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
University of Delaware - Details - Assistant Professor, Master of Social Work
careers.udel.edu
November 24, 2024 at 11:05 PM
We are hiring tenure track faculty in our new social work program at UD! Please help us get the word out by sharing.
Assistant professor: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Faculty director: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Assistant professor: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Faculty director: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
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Our department is hiring!! @busph.bsky.social is an amazing place to work and our department is full of lovely and dedicated public health folks! Please feel free to reach out if you want more info and spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29058
Boston University, School of Public Health
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academicjobsonline.org
November 23, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Our department is hiring!! @busph.bsky.social is an amazing place to work and our department is full of lovely and dedicated public health folks! Please feel free to reach out if you want more info and spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29058
How do LGBTQIA+ youth learn what it means to be LGBTQIA+? Who are the key players in this process?
Chosen family play a BIG role, and origin family contribute but much less. LGBTQIA+ socialization may be another way we can support youth.
Here's a preview from presentation at @ncfr.bsky.social
Chosen family play a BIG role, and origin family contribute but much less. LGBTQIA+ socialization may be another way we can support youth.
Here's a preview from presentation at @ncfr.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 6:37 PM
How do LGBTQIA+ youth learn what it means to be LGBTQIA+? Who are the key players in this process?
Chosen family play a BIG role, and origin family contribute but much less. LGBTQIA+ socialization may be another way we can support youth.
Here's a preview from presentation at @ncfr.bsky.social
Chosen family play a BIG role, and origin family contribute but much less. LGBTQIA+ socialization may be another way we can support youth.
Here's a preview from presentation at @ncfr.bsky.social
Reposted by Eric Layland, PhD 🏳️🌈
Despite recommendations & requirements to collect sexual orientation & gender identity #SOGI data in electronic health records #EHR there is WILD variability across health care systems and EHR platforms. This will be critical in the coming years...
academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...
academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...
Sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity data collection across electronic health record platforms: a national cross-sectional survey
AbstractObjectives. To assess the current state of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity (SSOGI) data collection options in US electronic health rec
academic.oup.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Despite recommendations & requirements to collect sexual orientation & gender identity #SOGI data in electronic health records #EHR there is WILD variability across health care systems and EHR platforms. This will be critical in the coming years...
academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...
academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...