NSF updated the GRFP website with FAQs, mostly to do with outcry about (many) applications being returned without review. "The number of applications RWR has not changed substantially" they say. Translated: the proportion RWR likely ~doubled.

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INVESTIGATION: Over the last 5 months, the Banner and a coalition of partners analyzed 52 hours of footage and thousands of pages of documents from a joint THP/ICE operation targeting Nashville’s predominantly immigrant neighborhoods. Here’s what we found: (1/11) ✍️ @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

I’m reading Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, about the development of wartime photography. Sontag is so arresting, always: “To catch a death actually happening and embalm it for all time is something only cameras can do”. If only she were still around.

New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients. osf.io/preprints/ps...

STOP putting AI in everything!!!!!!!! I don't need it!!!!!!!! What I NEED is for my computer to not run out of RAM!!!!!!!!

going to start supplementing everyone’s sterile academic bluesky feeds with important insights from gay Twitter

At the point on the dunning kruger curve where I realize I know very little but am also unimpressed by bifactor models

as presented by McNeish & Wolf (2022)

As NSF GRFP is in the news, PLEASE spread the word about the new EGFP program they have for past GRFP honorable mentions. Universities in eligible states can apply to get funding for HMs in the same amount as GRFP. My impression is that many depts don't know this exists and so don't apply.

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

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