Had a great time providing a workshop on PMDs and integrating the menstrual cycle in clinical assessment and treatment with @clearlab.bsky.social at @abctnow.bsky.social! If you missed it, stay tuned, we will be launching additional opportunities to learn about this content from us very soon!

I feel both called out and seen by this ribbon! #ABCT2025 @abctnow.bsky.social

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

It was amazing that Teen Vogue has been one of the best sources for thoughtful, engaged political coverage over many years now. It’s absolutely shameful that Condé Nast just caved to fascist pressure and functionally killed it.

Reminder, only a few days left to submit talks, symposia, workshops—deadline is 11/1! Posters due 12/1.

Happy to have been interviewed for this @undark.org article on the struggles getting medical care for #PMDD. Thoughtful coverage of a complex topic that warrants so much more research, clinical training, and general awareness!

Yes!!! So excited that we are having clinical workshops this year, which is new for @nasspd.bsky.social I'm going to submit a talk on menstrual cycle effects on BPD symptom expression. Currently submitting as a solo talk, but if you need another one for a symposium and think it could fit, lmk!

I just submitted my abstract to (hopefully) give an intro workshop on #BPDCompass at @nasspd.bsky.social's conference in Toronto this coming April. You should submit something too: nasspd.org/abstract_sub... Let me know in th comments what you're (hoping to) present!!

NASSPD is accepting submissions for our 2026 conference in Toronto, April 24-25th! See nasspd.org/conference for conference information and submission portal. Talks (individual, symposia, data blitz) and clinical workshops due Nov 1st. Posters due Dec 1st. Hope to see you there!

Estimated 32k protesting in Providence!! #nokings

Proud that Brown declined the federal compact, naming restrictions on academic freedom and important merit-based grant processes as key reasons: www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨 I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

Please consider joining us for the ticketed Menstrual Cycle / PMDD workshop at ABCT 2025!!!

This episode covers why acetaminophen use in pregnancy does *NOT* increase likelihood of autism when studied rigorously, despite some articles claiming that a small association suggested a link. Nice epidemiology example of why correlation != causation. Pass along to anyone needing that breakdown!

Excited for an upcoming work trip to the Netherlands (more on that later)—tacking on extra days for a vacation w/my wife to celebrate our anniversary. Spending time in Amsterdam, Leiden, Brussels, and Rotterdam. Any recs, esp for the last 3 which are new to us? 🇳🇱🇧🇪 We will come back. (Probably.)

I drew this 10 years ago, when modeling a lot of zero-inflated poisson models (common for behaviors where a chunk of the sample are total abstainers), to explain it to non stats-y folks. Technically I think this is a hurdle model, since the distributions should overlap slightly, but close enough.

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences go.nature.com/4pBArFH

Multiple peer reviewed studies done by medical researchers indicate that Tylenol does not seem to be a cause of autism. But one heroin-addicted nepo baby says that it is. For pregnant mothers it can be hard to know who to trust.

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

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If you can do so, please consider getting your COVID19 vaccine before ACIP meets on September 18-19. I don’t think it’s out of bounds to guess that, since they are going to manipulate data to falsely claim that the vaccine killed children, they will also recommend pulling FDA approval.

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

"What I can tell you is that in a case where the only way to get the vaccine is to lie, you ought to lie." I cosign this. Get out there and get that COVID booster if you can, and lie if you have to. It's the ethical thing to do religiondispatches.org/lying-to-sav...

Two more Republicans. That’s all we need to force a vote in the House on releasing the Epstein files. If you live in a GOP district, your representative needs to hear from you: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

The beginning of the irregular cycles movement!! Get round it!☺️🧠💪🏼

Clean up your links before you share them with others. It's a small and simple piece of operational security that anyone can integrate into their practice.

We have been following the rumors of the COVID vax being entirely banned. We think this rumor is very likely true.

For those interested, here is a link to a new power paper: Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods. yifengquant.github.io/Publications...

Trump thugs trying to throw their weight around in Little Rhody may find out it doesn't go so well.

Applying for graduate studies in psychology and neuroscience can be challenging and confusing. Frequently, applicants have some support from mentors at their home institutions, but sometimes applicants are looking for additional reassurance, feedback, or perspectives on the processes.

‼️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...

A formal effort to outlaw asking and to censor reporting on specific information in NIH grants is under consideration, according to the Chronicle. It reads that NIH researchers “shall not use NIH funds to request, collect, or disseminate information related to gender.”

Pls comment on this NIH RFI on limiting allowable publishing costs by 9/15. osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form... This is completely in conflict w/ the other new mandate that we must have our research be OA immediately (and publishers like Wiley not allowing submission to PMC immediately if we don't pay)..

RFK Jr. says he wants to “make America healthy again”. Yet the administration he serves has cut SNAP, and he ignores the fact that 13 million kids in the U.S. don’t know where their next meal is coming from. No wonder he’s afraid to release his report today.

Exciting new data to be presented at the upcoming AACAP annual meeting: mental health *four years* after adolescents start gender-affirming hormones (N=277) TLDR: Most had either improving mental health or stable mental health over the study period #trans #transgender #mentalhealth

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

🔴 THREAD: RFK Jr. just canceled 22 mRNA vaccine projects. TL;DR: mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives. Ending these projects puts us at risk and leaves us unprepared for the next big outbreak. Here’s what RFK Jr. did — and why everyone should care. 🧵 (1/12)

Publication Alert 💡 Our new commentary is out in @npp-journal.bsky.social: "Menstrual cycle and mental health in adolescents: A developmental neuroendocrine perspective" For full-text: rdcu.be/ezkcJ

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

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) 🧵

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Trump administration reverses course and lifts pause on NIH grant awards www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t...

Russell Vought has unilaterally decided today that he simply won’t allow anyone outside of NIH to receive research funding. $15 billion in NIH funding is now locked down. If not reversed, it will also take down many Universities in the United States. Forget new cancer treatments or vaccines.

“Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order.” I don’t even know how to respond to this in a coherent way. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Petition to change the name of high fructose corn syrup (HCFS) to “seriously tho the fructose content really isn’t that much higher than sucrose and you know fructose is the sugar found in fruits and vegetables so are they bad for you now also sugar”.