Not to be a toxic methodologist, but I'm starting to consider that people just don't think about it at all. A eugenicist in 1904 said IQ is a bell curve, and now our measurements of mental illness are extremely questionable.

The United States of precarious research conditions and abandoned longitudinal studies. I am 24 years old and want to be a scientist. Why would I stay here?

Sorry, but if you're in a top-tier PhD program, with a stipend of $40k+, and/or you otherwise have the material resources and clout to afford conferences -- the student travel award is 99.9% chance not for you

Anyhow, I'm listening to AG Cook and my code is working. That's all! Thank you

I don't think I'll ever get over how differently psychology is taught, researched, and practiced in different places. The discrepancies between eg the US, Brazil, Belgium, and South Africa in their curriculum, research methods, therapy -- a huge reality check for me

Genuine question for psych people: do we actually think latent variables are normally distributed, or has everyone just been pretending for the past several decades?

Why is socioeconomic status used in every introduction to factor analysis. I can hardly think of a worse thing to measure using factor analysis than SES

Is it a breakthrough in clinical science or is it a psychologist popularizing an idea that a sociologist suggested 30 years ago

Wow. Researchers at the University of Zurich had LLMs infiltrate subreddit r/ChangeMyView. Models assumed personal roles including as a victim of SA, BLM protestor, and trauma counselor to enhance trust. No permissions. Community is justifiably pissed.

Beyond excited to see what this edited collection becomes! See full CFP below - we (@jeffreyansloos.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social Jennifer White + me) are working to make space for different kinds of (critical) suicide studies #suicidecultures @d-liveability.bsky.social #critsui

Applying to PhDs next cycle. Whatever little I have to offer the world, it feels like the universe is conspiring for me to do it anywhere else, under any flag other than the American one, for which I have been left with nothing but contempt in recent months.

The number of psych NSF GRFP awards decreased from 139 in 2023 to 49 this year (-65%). This is hard to stomach -- not even GRFP per se, but that things in general will be like this for years

Please share this very neat volunteering opportunity -- Camp Twitch and Shout (Winder, GA, 6/29-7/4) is one of the only overnight camps for youth with Tourette's. We're looking for counselors! If you want to learn about tics and can appreciate camp, this is the place for you: 1/x

"Solving the number of factors problem is easy, I do it every day before breakfast. But knowing the right solution is harder." - Henry Kaiser, sometime in the 1950s, personal communication to John Horn.

Terrible time to apply for PhD but at least we have gaga

Thinking of a social worker I spoke to in Trieste who’d frequently remark “maledetto Basaglia” — “damn you, you’ve left us with so much to do!” Yet he said this in jest, proud of his work compared to alternatives… community wellbeing cannot be coerced into an optimization problem

Sent with a link to Borsboom & Cramer (2013)

“I’m into machine learning 😌” well Karl Pearson did PCA in 1901 and back then it was just called statistics

"your parents immigrated from Ireland? So can you speak any Irish phrases" no we just own dozens of religious statues and wear coats inside