In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children ‌born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for ​individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.

NEW: Inflation last year hovered around 2%, but pay in Ontario Premier Doug Ford's office shot up by almost 11%. The premier's team now costs over $8 million in salaries, with average pay north of $160,000. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1175063...

While we’re distracted by new convention centres and island airports. While hospitals fall apart and students forced to take on more debt. While housing isn’t getting built. Flooding the zone.

This is a nuclear bomb to Ontario's democracy. The Ford government wants to obfuscate absolutely everything it does.

OMG finally. Huge news for Ontario institutions.

The Trump administration has said its immigration crackdown targets the worst of the worst, but many people without criminal records are getting swept up and detained. https://to.pbs.org/3ZpZ4t3

People will remember this forever. A must read.

Catherine O'Hara, the actor and comedian best known for "Home Alone," "Beetlejuice" and "Schitt's Creek," has died at the age of 71. She died at her home in Los Angeles "following a brief illness," her agency said in a statement.

So sad to hear about Catherine O’Hara’s death today. She was an amazing actor and so, so funny. I think we can all agree that Moira brightened up the darkest of days. An amazing Canadian too.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Waiting for the day when we don't have to hear about what DJT says or does.

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Just reviewed a revision - the authors used gen AI and made up a new intro and references (roughly 20). First noticed that the text strayed from study’s purpose, then I noticed that all of the new refs were from 2024 or 2025 (implausible), then I started to look up refs to find they don’t exist.

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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Super topical!

When I was just starting out in graduate school, I was obsessed with Paul Ekman's work and read numerous papers and book chapters from him in the stacks of UofT. He inspired me to study emotion. www.paulekman.com/blog/the-pas...

💥New preprint!💥 For democracy to be truly representative we need to include many more voices. But young voters (18-25yo) face unique barriers and are often overlooked. We describe these barriers, and propose a psychologically-informed approach to support and increase voter turnout among youth.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

"When I was a kid, we didn't have smartphones. We had to come up with our own extremist views"

As I wrote another manuscript review about how the authors didn't actually measure what they purported to measure, and toggled the rating from major revision to reject, I couldn’t help but wonder: have I become the disgruntled reviewer 2?

This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Still trying to figure out what MAHA hates more: women or vaccines.

Autistic people deserve much better, my latest www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Living in the US seems chaotic right now.

this is a very good and incredibly sad piece about Canadian national treasure Robert Munsch, the author of phenomenal children's books Angela's Airplane, the Paper Bag Princess, Thomas's Snowsuit, and many others Munsch has dementia. Fuck dementia.

In the US, the oppressed are expected to mourn their oppressors who have spent their entire professional lives advocating for and celebrating their death

Hi all, help me spread the word since I'm no longer on Twitter! Know an outstanding mid-career researcher? We're looking for our next "Spotlight on a Researcher" for fall 2025 focusing on those 10-20 years post-PhD. Nominate away!! #abct #psychology #clinicalpsychology #cbt #psychsky

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.” That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X) 🧪

“My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece & lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him & his legacy proud. The nation’s health security is at risk & is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.” Dr. Daskalakis, CDC immunization director

‼️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...

Definitely going to use this one :P

The DERS doesn’t want to leave me alone.

Out now: Single arm mindfulness app trial for those waiting for psych services. Decent adoption (75%), some attrition (30%), and average 1.09 hours of meditation (9.16 exercises) within first 4 weeks. Dose-response effect supported. #mindfulness #digitalhealth #mentalhealth doi.org/10.1186/s442...

Do you use the DERS? Do you know what it measures? Neither do I, but we may be getting somewhere. We looked for evidence of construct validity in 10 years worth of papers in a new study out in JOBA. #emotion #emotiondysregulation #psychopathology #meta-analysis

Reviewed 2 papers this week: Both did not have hypotheses stated, one did not provide all statistics (mostly provided p-values and omnibus F-tests), and one had methods that could not test the authors claims.