There are no words for how evil this is

SAS will hold FIVE different preconferences this year🤩 Of note, each will be a half-day event, so you could even go to 2 if you want! Catch them on March 12th, 2025. For more info: society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...

Technology is cyclical.

Any guesses on the ratio of 2025 psychology faculty searches targeting AI-focused expertise to the number of psychology PhDs on the 2025 market that genuinely have AI expertise?

I just googled the title of a paper of mine that hasn't even been published yet (as a lazy way to find the preprint) and Gemini popped out an AI summary of it. So I guess preprints on PsyArXiv are being used in AI training sets? 🤔

Could not endorse this more. We’re clinical psychologists. Guiding people empathetically towards adaptive change is supposed to be our thing.

WTF. This is HORRENDOUS news, and horribly misguided. Clinical science is science.

As expected I am feeling major FOMO for missing SRP this year. 😭😭😭

Oh, WaPo. Please don't give a forum for dangerous, ignorant charlatans to spout pseudoscience.

From this paper: (Holy Cow! Reminds me also of how Bullshit Receptivity items can glom together!)

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

New from my lab, lead by stellar grad student Elizabeth Marsh (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It's not just that this dilutes education. It's that it promotes the toxic practice of spouting ideas from the gut, and then retrofitting the evidence around them.

‼️Academic job alert‼️ Our dept at Queen's University (Canada!) is looking to hire a TT assistant prof in clinical psychology... Applications due end of Sept! Re-posts very much appreciated www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings. When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities. When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

I will be reviewing applications for the University of Michigan Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. If you are interested in applying, here’s some info I prepared for applicants: sites.lsa.umich.edu/aidangcw-lab...

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

Does PsyArXiv go down a lot? People are having trouble accessing our paper (and I can't get there anymore either)

After nearly 2 years of debating and redrafting, the preprint is out: Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines With a legit superstar team Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵

Because of the non-scientific NY state "bell-to-bell" internet-abled device school ban, my kids can't even wear an Apple Watch or FitBit to school in the fall, and can't even use a device when it's educationally indicated or when they are off-campus during school hours.

Congrats to Dr. Angela Santee, our lab's newest PhD!! 👩‍🎓 Angela has been a rock star student, and true to form she produced & ably defended a rock star dissertation.🤘I miss having her in the lab, but am thrilled she'll stay across the street at URMC Psychiatry for postdoc! @urochester.bsky.social

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

Anyone familiar with PsychoPy/ Pavlovia: Help our lab with a glitch

How can language be used to study, in detail and high dimension, the processes by which people understand and experience their emotions? We have some proposals: rdcu.be/eu6ZR

The Academy of Psychological Clinical Science is offering dissertation awards to students in our member programs. Please see: www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/07-07-25-apc... for all the details, deadline 9/1/25. We also need reviewers, details at same link!

Check out the newest paper from my lab, led by the amazon @amycarolus.bsky.social! #AffectiveScience #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

"...sadly, this seems to be a last ditch attempt by Virginia Governor [Glenn] Youngkin to resuscitate his floundering presidential ambitions by proving he is the chief destroyer of DEI." - @katiecouric.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/06/uva-...

It is unreal that anyone would be put in a position like this by the government of the United States of America. Mourning for my alma matter, and for my country.

This is a watershed moment. Everyone who benefits from higher education should be deeply concerned. Ryan was a moderate who presided over one of the more conservative institutions of higher education. He followed the law when it comes to DEI. But that wasn't enough. Trump demands absolute fealty.

they want to force UVA’s president to resign because he thinks it would be bad if the university reverted to being a lily-white finishing school for the failsons of the old guard southern elite www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

Hey NY, can we adopt ranked-choice voting state wide? It looks fun.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

I am excited to share that @standupforscience.bsky.social is growing! We are looking to hire several positions including: - Event and volunteer coordination - Copywriting (press releases, emails, website, blogs, some social media) - Data analytics and research (marketing, not science 😉) 🧵

Today, NSF added another 500 GRFP awardees, bringing this year’s total to 1500 www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Rewording my earlier post. RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress. I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good. If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?

Emotion differentiation is hard. Sometimes I can't tell the difference between sadness, sadness, and sadsad.

Top article in WaPo right now. Get the word out to the masses— politicization of scientific rigor is harmful bullshit

The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly www.notus.org/health-scien...

OK, in addition to the SCOTUS example, I just came across this snippet in an interview in Vulture with Nathan Fielder. I’ve in circles where “orthogonal” is used in casual conversations routinely, so it’s helpful to be reminded that this is only because I live among giant nerds.

Reminder of that time when the word "orthogonal" impressed and caught off guard multiple members of the US Supreme Court. www.abajournal.com/news/article...

👏🧪 New op-ed from @cdelawalla.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, @carlbergstrom.com, & 2 Nobel laureates: “Meeting that objective [of open science] will not occur by centralizing power over science and scientists according to the whims of any political administration.”

This is the first media coverage that I have seen of the UNC board's quiet decision to largely pause granting tenure outside of the health sciences. This is worth watching over the coming weeks.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

When something threatens the auto or coal industries, mass hysteria about lost jobs ensues. Where's the collective flip-out about threats to higher-ed? 4.7 million Americans work for higher ed institutions. Even more rely on contract work with them. It is one of the biggest sectors in the US.(1/2)

I am not alarmist. I'm writing what needs to be said. Higher ed is on the brink of collapse and so much could be lost. College, alongside the military, is a second family for many adults. It is where people fall in love, pick sports teams, meet lifelong friends, and form a professional identity. A 🧵

Honored to hood the amazing Angela Santee on Friday. Congrats to Angela and all the newly minted @urochester.bsky.social PhDs. Relieved that Dr Santee will just be across Elmwood at URMC psychiatry— Rochester needs her around!