Covariation among higher-order psychopathology dimensions is driven by nomorbidity, not comorbidity: https://osf.io/3t2cm

That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense

"Despite looking like gambling, Polymarket is actually a scam."

I have the radical idea that we SHOULD pick a side in injustice, because failure to choose a side means siding with the oppressor. When I look back, I want to be proud that I didn't waiver in my commitment to my neighbors and my country. If that means some joker calls me partisan, FINE. 7/?

I am really proud to share the Stand Up for Science Foundation's new Impact Report on the OMB Rule Proposal--done by the brilliant @irenesufs.bsky.social @colesci.bsky.social and team! We've got such a great team at @standupforscience.net. www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...

Happy to be part of this paper. 1. Depression and personality functioning are pretty fungible. 2. It is hard to statistically work one's way around latent correlations of .75 to .87. 3. The perils of partialling remain grossly underappreciated (see www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...)

Current distress does not moderate the efficacy of cognitive reappraisal: https://osf.io/fhvnz

Meanwhile the paper on the benefits of the COVID vaccine that Bhattacharya censored as Interim Director of the CDC is now out in JAMA Network Open. This is a paper he really didn't want people to view and download. You know what to do.

GOOD MORNING, DORKS! I have 18k followers and there are just over 8k comments. Which means 10k of you need to head to the link and STAND UP FOR SCIENCE (and democracy) by leaving your public comment. 🔗 fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net

Of course - I don't think anyone would argue that self-report is the only game in town. I think we're all arguing that the diminishment of self-reports of constructs like emotions, mood states, traits, etc. for the fetishization of "objective" measures has been a terrible decision.

New paper out now! We (w/ @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social) start from the observation that among adolescents in Leipzig, the gender gap in life satisfaction has doubled over time and ask: why?> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the study design, data analysis and ethics approval for the research.

The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.

I'm really excited to share a new preprint! Lab studies have consistently shown that stress and negative emotions make people drink alcohol, but studies of daily life (EMA) keep failing to find it. What does that mean for the shared theoretical prediction both designs test? osf.io/preprints/ps...

Mixed methods in ESM? Still very uncommon. 💥 That should change, we think: we should go beyond numbers, and know what people mean with their numbers. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

From 500 views in the first two months to over 100,000 views in the last few days. The ADA opinion piece that was too scary to be distributed at the ADA meeting has gone full Streisand. Y'all are doing the Lord's work.

"When the hype inevitably dies down, as it has done many times before, through AI summers and winters (see my talk here if you were not aware of these cycles), you want to have skills. You want to have a degree that matters." olivia.science/cheating/ 6/n

We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com

Hopping on a plane to DC tonight, because @standupforscience.net is fighting this new OMB rule proposal with everything we’ve got. My calendar is literally booked for 12 hours of meetings, on the Hill, in a row for three days. Wanna sponsor the trip? secure.qgiv.com/for/stop-vou...

Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.

ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

If you're an academic and are worried about AI and feel powerless, don't let it get to you. It's actually what they want. They want us to burn out and give up. You can turn off the internet and chill. I promise. All you need to do is stay strong, with breaks of course. From an email I sent an ally:

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

A quick reminder that every time Bhattacharya's NIH asks you to remove words like "gender," "diverse," or "social determinants of health," they are undermining the institution's foundational statue. Gender: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... SDOH/diverse: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

1/ Another @sadcatlab.bsky.social paper 👀 Cognitive change methods and cognitive change in CBTs: are they important? What do we know? What is anything? Here we draw a link between the literature on cognitive reappraisal and cognitive restructuring in CBTs. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

100% worth your 63 seconds if you have my reading speed. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

"a PRS is not an internal predisposition waiting to be realized; it is a risk estimate derived from a model constructed from population-level DNA associations without clearly defined biological mechanisms."

New commentary (with @jdmiller.bsky.social and @davidchester.bsky.social) in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science pushing back (again) on the use of “dark” in personality research. 1/2 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

1. Transparency is not one optional value among many in science. It is a first principle. Science must be evaluable. If we cannot determine the severity of the tests to which claims were subjected, we cannot determine the evidential value of the claims themselves. 3/8

Turns out empirically derived phenotypes (data-driven symptom sets) nested within traditional mental disorders can help reduce diagnostic heterogeneity! We learned so much cool and interesting stuff in this study. I could talk (/post) about it all day, but here’s a few highlights (🧵)

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!

I'm fond of Ken Kendler's (2005) example that hearts are made up of elementary particles, but that doesn't necessarily mean we should go looking for explanations of heart disease at the level of electrons and quarks.

gotta love when a whole education system makes itself vulnerable by making a large number of institutions dependent on a proprietary lms whose continuity or reliability they have no control over *chef's kiss* now let's do it again, but bigger, with ai

I'm so happy to see this monster finally out - a preregistered metaanalysis of youth personality-psychopathology associations with a bonus preregistered independent replication metaanalysis! Years in the making, now out in Psychological Bulletin. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Tomorrow, I’m participating in the Big Sur marathon (11-mile distance) in support of the ALS Therapy Development Institute. My run group is also sponsored by Hoka! Our team of 10 has already raised over $30,000 for ALS research. Help us reach $35,000! 🙏 fundraisers.hakuapp.com/jaclyn-siegel

Recently, the accrediting body for U.S. medical schools quietly published updated standards that no longer explicitly require med schools to teach about health equity. In my piece, I argue that this rollback harms us all & that medical schools have an obligation to keep teaching this content.

I am so proud of the students and my fellow faculty @texastech.bsky.social speaking out against censorship pushed on us by system Education needs to be open. Diversity and inclusive science is the only way. Free speech #wreckem #ttu

The Developmental Origins of Behavioral Individuality - great review by Benjamin de Bivort www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

*This* is how you Wreck ‘em, Tech. I applaud TTU AAUP and am proud of my high school classmate Dr. Geiger!

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

TTU just released a memo institutionalizing censorship. As a grad student researching gender minority mental health and suicide prevention at TTU, I see this as an attack on academic integrity & professional readiness. Sharing some/a lot of thoughts as I make sense of this mess🧵(opinions my own)

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.