“I’ll be very upset if you get pregnant while in this program.” -My first doctoral advisor.

I am once again yelling from the rooftops that this man is a eugenicist. He fundamentally believes that he and his ilk are "superior" and anyone who needs extra support isn't worthy of life. Miller is the one who put RFK Jr. in place. Miller has a LONG and loud history of this behavior.

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." ~ B. F. Skinner

How good is it when you get that perfect intellectual impedance match with someone and conversation feels like a mind-meld? I swear I could chase that feeling like it’s a solar eclipse.

So this confession by an Epstein victim actually naming Trump as one of her rapists is why we are back at war with Iran…funny how war works

If we’re allowed to build houses that could collapse on top of you, we can build a lot more houses!

They’re right to worry. Hegseth is clearly resegregating the military by race and sex.

My word of advice to doctoral candidates on defense day: do NOT get on social media. Stay in the headspace of your defense. Don’t be distracted with the craziness.

Clinical psychologist here! That’s the MoCA—it’s not an IQ test or a diagnostic tool, it’s a cognitive functioning screener. It’s used to monitor cognitive decline and test functioning after strokes. (Practice effects are a consideration…four times in a year is a lot.)

It's been said a billion times already, and it still can't be said enough: I don't see how US democracy survives if blatant, intentional lying remains cost-free

Memorial Day asks something simple of us: remember. Remember the service members who lost their lives, the families who carry that loss every day, and the responsibility we all share to never treat that sacrifice lightly.

Fascinating thread, and study, about the relationship between age and academic creativity www.science.org/eprint/BWAPG...

May the 4th be with you 🛸

When I was seeing patients in a treatment resistant depression clinic, easily 70% of my consult reports explicitly said something like “stable housing/healthcare/living wage/nutrition would significantly alleviate depressive symptoms…” You can’t out-therapy hunger, poverty, and instability.

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news. But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials. Keep funding science!

I take off for my son, but not myself.

I had no idea you could “recall” emails in Outlook until today, when an email disappeared from my inbox. What is this sorcery?!?

Pet your dogs, everyone, and appreciate that they have no idea what is happening in this fucked up world.

Anyway, let’s all send our little emails and teach our classes and parent our children and cook dinner and drive around like the President didn’t just threaten to annihilate an entire civilization thus cutting off all diplomatic talks. *turns on Ms. Rachel* *fills up water bottle for the day*

As a trained behavioral psychologist, putting my manuscript in Chicago Style Manual is one of the most painful tasks I’ve ever had to do.

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

I was spanked as a kid and I turned out fine and also I do not spank my kids and think it’s morally wrong to spank children, ultimately it’s lazy parenting because hitting them is quicker and easier than teaching natural consequences

The greatest sickness in modern life is the rise of performative cruelty. Many no longer hide their sadism but revel in it. It’s not hard to trace the root cause. The book is an empathy machine. It’s no surprise the decline in reading has been accompanied by a spike in inhumanity. It’s hand in glove

I have an R-squared joke, but it only explains part of it.

🧪🧪 Did anyone else notice their publication count change on Pubmed? Last week I had 275 publications indexed and today it is 237.

Find someone who believes in you like researchers believe in pre-post differences as valid treatment effect estimates.

This is insane. Trying to convince these young people to embrace becoming cannon fodder. www.rawstory.com/military-267...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Dude made $4 billion last year, but sure.

Flashback to how these same folks reacted to vaccine cards...

Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. It’s eminently logical — not “extreme” — for athletes who’ve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition

My heart goes out to our Olympic athletes right now — as they attempt to navigate an extremely difficult time to be an American on the world stage. Trump is the worst of America. These elite athletes are the best. We can stand with them and against him at the same time. 🇺🇸

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Anything less than the immediate and complete dismantling of ICE is the end of American Democracy.

Americans: gosh, a living wage, healthcare, affordable groceries, 1A rights, and childcare that doesn’t cost $2k a month would be so nice. Trump and the GOP: best we can do is start world war 3 because Donny didn’t get a trophy! HOPE THAT HELPS!

Absolute immunity is the realm of tyrants. I used to litigate Section 1983 cases against local govt officials for constitutional violations. The absence of a similar avenue to hold fed agents liable for their attacks in constitutional rights is a major problem. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.” (H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )

I just keep thinking about Renee Nicole Good's son...and more generally, the children that are being left in the aftermath of all this ICE shit.

At this point, anyone in Congress who isn't actively working to remove RFK Jr. from office is willing to sacrifice the lives of children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised. It's that simple, unfortunately. Save lives. Remove RFK Jr. #impeachrfkjr

MAGA wants us to believe that Dems are the Warhawk’s, but for the last quarter century it’s been republicans taking us to war for oil. Talk about cognitive dissonance.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

I just want to live somewhere where there are major winter storms.