"Doctor-Doctor" Zack Williams shares insights into his research and his view of the world, in this spotlight interview with me. Check out the link below. Wishing you lots of luck Zack in the next chapter of your life. www.vanderbilt.edu/autismandinn... @quantpsychiatry.bsky.social

Excited for another year of the Autism PROMnet Special Interest Group at #INSAR2025! Come chat with us about using valid, accessible, and inclusive measures for and by autistic people in autism research 🙌 Friday, May 2 at 10:30AM (#706) www.autismpromnet.org @quantpsychiatry.bsky.social

Excited to share my latest paper in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social (led by the fantastic @drjessicaphd.bsky.social). We pooled data from the Columbia Suicidality Severity Rating Scale from autistic youth and adults in 3 countries (US, Canada, Australia) to assess trajectories across the lifespan...

Really enjoyed being interviewed for this feature on misophonia and misophonia research in @asteriskmag.bsky.social! asteriskmag.com/issues/09/th...

To all of the #INSAR members voting in the upcoming board election, (not that anyone cares but) I'm officially endorsing my good (bluesky-less) friend and colleague Mirko Uljarević for INSAR treasurer! With quant skills like his, the society's money is in good hands.

To all of the #INSAR members voting in the upcoming board election, (not that anyone cares but) I'm officially endorsing my good (bluesky-less) friend and colleague Mirko Uljarević for INSAR treasurer! With quant skills like his, the society's money is in good hands.

Really exciting news - new med soon to be on the market for acute pain, mechanism of peripheral Nav1. 8 channel inhibition (not habit forming). Super exciting to see what this med and others like it can do to transform health care! news.vrtx.com/news-release...

The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer ( @ent3c.bsky.social ) “The empirical end to the Galtonian project is more whimper than bang.” www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-unbear...

You’re allowed to say “I hate being disabled”. This isn’t internalised ableism, it’s your reality. Truth is, being disabled is… disabling. It’s overwhelming, debilitating, and yeah… for me (and I’m sure many others)… it’s shit.

✨ Bluesky search tips and tricks Add `from:me` to find your own posts Add `to:me` to find replies/posts that mention you Add `since:YYYY-MM-DD` and/or `until:YYYY-MM-DD` to specify a date range Add `domain:theonion.com` to find posts linking to The Onion See more at bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Viewpoint discusses the US Supreme Court's decision in United States v Skrmetti, which will determine if Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors violates the Equal Protection Clause. #MedSky ja.ma/4h7WUVv

EMA study of dissociative episodes shows that heart rate does not change in relation to dissociation intensity, counter to predictions of "hypoarousal models" of dissociation. "Dissociative episodes and concurrent heart rate in patients with PTSD..." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As 2024 comes to a close, I'm wishing all the best to my Bluesky family. It's been a hard year for me personally, but I've been able to persevere and come out the other side with a PhD, almost an MD, my marriage intact (no thanks to the PhD), and a bright future. Here's to a better 2025 for all!

just a reminder: it’s okay if you get overwhelmed today. there’s a lot going on: noise, people, emotions. demands for your attention/energy. so take a few minutes. find a quiet space to catch your breath. check your phone. do a quick reset. you’re doing great. hang in there.

An exciting day in autism epidemiology - numbers are out from the 2021 GBD study. Who's "disease" framing and associated language aside, this is a big effing deal for understanding the prevalence and impact of autism across the globe, especially in LMICs! Overall prevalence was 0.79% (0.66-0.93)

Naltrexone treats #alcohol use. Avoiding it in patients with liver problems out of safety concerns is neither helpful nor evidence based, argues new paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39655573 Even in cirrhosis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39640196 #sober #sobriety #addiction #alcoholism #psychiatry

A very solid critique of TBKTS. Also highly recommend reading the 2019 critique by Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/b...), which is a bit more academic but nevertheless spot-on IMO. There's far too much anecdata driving the the book's recs, and it draws many unscientific conclusions.

Brexpiprazole [Rexulti] (2-3 mg flex dosing) + sertraline (150 mg fixed) beat sertraline + placebo for PTSD symptoms in a large-scale trial published in JAMA Psychiatry (n=416; LS mean CAPS difference at 10 wks −5.59, 95% CI [−8.79, −2.38] P < .001). Dropouts high (35%+), but *more* in PBO group.

Thanks to @jonathanstea for sharing my story as both a mother and clinical psychologist grappling with my daughter’s breakdown when she was at university. I know it will help so many others who find themselves facing social media stigma when our family members are struggling.

At a Christmas party I just attended, one of my (extremely online young professional) friends kept quoting Chicago, saying "It was a murder, but not a crime." Too many lefty millennials are really finding this *heinous crime* unproblematic (IRL too, not just in the context of memes). Sigh...

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

CARES is now through both houses of congress and headed to Biden's desk to be signed into law! Exciting to see that autism research will continue to be funded, but this wasn't without a *significant* lift on all the advocacy orgs' parts. thearc.org/blog/autism-...

@drmbothapsych.bsky.social is here - v important!

📢 Our lab's latest, out today in JAMA Pediatrics: "State Parental Consent Law and Treatment Use Among Adolescents With Depression" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... TL;DR Teens with depression living in states that require parent consent for mental health treatment may be less likely to access care 🧵

So glad to see you here!

Fancy name tag for fancy government work!

This is going to save hospitals a lot of money ! www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re...

Oof - satire that gets me.

We are now up to 78 accounts on our Black In Neuro starter pack! Be sure to check back and make sure you have everyone added 🤗 Please let us know if we missed you! #BlackInSTEM #Neuroskyence #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe

alito comparing being trans to schizophrenia is a slap in the face to both trans people AND people with severe mental illness. not because of the comparison (in either direction), but because they're fundamentally completely different things outside of BOTH DESERVING ACCESS TO PROPER MEDICAL CARE

I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.

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Help, it's too early for this much cringe!

#RSNA24 attendees join us in #hcwvshunger Consider donating to @partnersinhealth.bsky.social www.pih.org/injusticehas... and log for team #DiagnoseAndTreats hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/

I missed it when he joined but @chrisaikenmd.bsky.social (of Carlat Report fame) finally took the plunge and came over here to the good place! Excited to now bother him on a different platform! If, like me, you're missing your "daily dose of practice-changing research," give him a follow.

Let’s make our donations go even farther! 📣Attention TRAINEES: I’ll be matching donations all weekend up to $300. Tell me where you donated and how much, and I’ll match your donation to the same place AND put it toward whatever team you want (not just #Kidvengers). Spread the word! #HCWvsHunger

For sure

I absolutely LOVE the anti-planner, a "choose-your-own-adventure" guide of comedy-filled beautifully-animated executive-functioning hacks by and for ADHDers. On sale for $43 this weekend! From @danidonovan.com (ADHD comics), who hasn't paid me a cent (but I'm sure my patients think she has)!

Want to keep track of the number of bluesky users at any given moment? Look no further than bcounter.nat.vg (23.39 million at the time of posting!)

Data are not biased. Datasets can be small, selective, incomplete, full of error, and is mostly a combination of these. Depending on what you do with such a dataset, some estimators (but not always all of them) may be biased and results unreliable and untrustworthy

Third year of our new Thanksgiving tradition - beef wellingtons! Who needs turkey anyways? Seven hours of cooking, but well worth it!

Watching the national dog show with the family, and clearly my boys want to heckle the competition and day how much cuter they are than the toy breed contestants (subtitles on because we can't hear shit otherwise).

Good morning! Thankful for all of you turkeys out there but especially those that want to help us feed others. #HCWvsHunger 2024 starts tonight at 6pm EST. You can help in many ways 🍎 post/repost 🍎 donate to any org fighting hunger & log donation at HCWvsHunger.org 🍎 invite everyone you know

academic generational trauma (coding things the same weird fucking way that your advisor does, and their advisor before them) because it's become a habit

I love that people think about @blueskydirectory.com when they want to find starter packs, but it's already so much more than that. Excited to add even more to it: blueskydirectory.com If you have any suggestions, please let me know...

Another phenomenal person has joined bluesky! Follow @gertjanvanaken.bsky.social if you want rigorous (philosophically and clinically informed) updates on what it means for a treatment to be "neurodiversity-affirming!" Also, if you haven't, read his paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Huge if this actually goes through (and bigger if private insurers follow suit). May just make the Trump/Oz CMS get some egg-on-face by squashing a popular policy immediately after rolling into office, but wouldn't covered on-label GLPs be nice! www.statnews.com/2024/11/26/w...

Andrew Gelman's take on research lines that just won't die statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/11/26/i...

PSA: One of my favorite people (Heather Brown aka @thriving-w-autism.bsky.social has finally joined this lovely platform)! Give her a follow if you're interested in autism/disability (self-)advocacy, higher education, mental health/well-being, participatory research, or that Canadian politeness!