My darling (a pedantic footnote I carefuly crafted) was not killed off (supervisor did not edit it out in last round). I will be floating into the weekend, thank you very much

NEW: FDA will lower the number of clinical trials required for medical product approval from two to one. I obtained a draft of the press release and got to talk to FDA Commissioner Makary about it, and some other things, yesterday: www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/f...

FREE, state-funded online training! Boost your evidence-based youth #mentalhealth skills in just 2 hours/per session. Topics include: Dec 8: Trauma Dec 9: Early Childhood Dec 15: Depression Jan 12: Anxiety & more in the new year! Register: bit.ly/FAST-Trainin... @seattlechildrens.org

Can doctors save time and stress with #AI scribes who listen to interactions with patients and create medical notes? After many non-randomized studies without control groups, there are now results from two randomized control trials:

First, #AI scribes saved about as much time as human scribes. That's good, but it may not live up to the hype. Second, AI time savings may've been overestimated because note-taking work that doctors conduct outside the primary electronic health record may not've been captured.

Ashfar et al. didn't find a compelling benefit for fulfillment or burnout: ai.nejm.org/doi/10.1... Neither did Lukac et al. who didn't even find much benefit in productivity: ai.nejm.org/doi/10.1... Review of those two RCTs (and other recent evidence): ai.nejm.org/doi/full...

Genuinely upset that this garbage flew past two rounds of peer review and was published. Although I’m happy the paper will be retracted, things like this continue to undermine the integrity and trustworthiness of science. Le sigh. nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...

Consistent modeling of PTA is key. Ostergaard often: 👉 annotates live in class 👉 shares pics of her own marked-up texts 👉 shows how her thinking changes over time Key point: quality > quantity. Students learn that annotation is about capturing authentic thinking, not filling margins. 5/6 #ELA

Wrapping up this application cycle feeling so fricken grateful and (dare I say) a bit proud. No matter the outcome, I feel like I've made strides in contributing to the research community around me, and that's a really cool feeling.

I suppose it should come as no surprise to me that I have found myself neck-deep in implementation science literature.

How do you support deep thinking for your students? K Collier says, “One helpful strategy is providing students a visual that matches with question type and depth.” Dig into her anchor chart... 🌸 #EduSky

I am so stoked for a snowy winter

Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...

Go riders. Grey Cup Champs 2025!!

I wrote words on the internet. Thanks to editors at Psych Today. Anti-Science on the Rise, but One Book Is an Antidote | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-...

When I share with educators there is no evidence for learning styles, inevitably they ask for other/better ways to differentiate or personalize their instruction. This meta-analysis shows personalization by learner interest positively affects retention and transfer. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

People are lazy--except when they're watching other people work hard. My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Dare I say I'm feeling a glimmer of .... hope.... this morning?

Though it sucks for STM workers to be in a position where they need to strike, I'm very grateful for how they're going about it. Nothing gets Mondays going quicker than racing to the metro to catch the last morning run!

Journalling to keep perspective during the last stretch of my MA. Today's perspective has been brought to me by the Jays' devastating loss. Though this may be tough, it's nothing compared to the heartbreak those dudes experienced last night!

Absolutely heartbreaking World Series. Here's the stat that, to me, tells the story: Yamamoto pitched for ~2 games. In those 17.2 innings, Dodgers beat the Jays 9-2. The remainder of the series? 32-17 for the Jays. The Jays *still* could have won a dozen different ways... but Yamamoto beat them.

Check out the full article from Edutopia's @youkiterada.bsky.social 👇 11/11

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

And that's why I think this is an example of endemic problems in our field. So much of the field thinks of stats as an afterthought. A technicality. The thing you use to tell your story. But if you use faulty heuristics to evaluate the quality of your model, your story could be complete bullshit.

A bunch of headlines are proclaiming that you can boost your metabolism and you don't even have to exercise! Except, that's not really true. Let's look at the study. 1/n

Chantal Kreviazuk did it first — which I’m sure he knew, and replicated #OhCanada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

LLMs should not be used as tutors in classrooms. Error rates are too high (e.g., 45% errors for news content) and get worse the longer a student interacts with them. We need to talk about LLMs for what they are, flawed products ill-suited to education.

I’m going to hold your hand while I say this: better sci-comm isn’t going to fix fascism AND expecting people to get as amped as you are about your niche area of science is unreasonable and out of touch. Not everyone is wired to think science-y things are cool…and that’s totally ok! 🧵

Stoked for this. I have gone back and forth grappling with my relationship to science as a method and as an institution, what "the scientific method" means, and the dynamics of power within and around science. One thing I love about good science is humility. This seems like a step in that direction!

Split infinitives.......... why must you haunt me so

Guilty

A house is not a home, by Rein Kooyman, 2025, 📸 via @mlbonfox

I was in university before I learned people actually had strategies they were implementing when taking notes. Incredible what can happen when teach kids *how* to learn, not just *what* to learn.

Goes back to the three basic psych needs: Autonomy, relatedness, and competence. Three things I keep in mind when working with anyone, but especially kids who are new to everything.

Currently working on a qual project in our lab - eager to discuss this with my fellow newbie qual colleagues!

I was in my early 20s before I learned that not everyone’s mind goes black when asked to multiply just single-digit numbers. And don‘t get me started on subtraction!🤯 Learning that it wasn’t just an issue of trying hard enough was huge for my self-esteem and helped improve my math skills!

This is so important. I wish a teacher had done any of these for me. I just learned coping techniques on my own.

“People say the answer is “restore trust” in agencies. I think the answer is “make the agencies trustworthy” — and the only way to do that is to break up the firms that captured them and restore healthy rivalry.”

So the Mental Elf blogged about our paper where we examine the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and generalised anxiety at preschool age, and trajectories across childhood. Have a read! #Anxiety #Uncertainty #IntoleranceOfUncertainty #MentalHealthResearch

Big takeaway: For students with disabilities, truly individualized plans are required by law. “Personalized learning” is encouraged, not required. “Differentiation” rarely appears in policy. Important differences and implications. doi.org/10.1080/0936... #AcademicSky #EduSky

🔥OUT NOW IN JCCP🔥: Over the moon to share a new conceptual piece in which Carmen McLean and I propose a potential #deimplementation framework targeting unsupported⚠️, proven ineffective⛔️, and potentially harmful therapies☠️. 1/3 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Have a great weekend getting ready for Halloween, #stats!

You should be reading @stephenaguilar.com's newsletter on AI for lots of reasons, and in particular this edition because of the wild story about how ChatGPT did not, in fact, solve open math problems. The last paragraph is preposterous. preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Holy guacamole! This is incredible

"What builds trust is not just open papers, but open processes — the way authors share their data, and what form it’s in"

Universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs had positive effects on academic achievement, detectable in elementary but not beyond. Effects stronger in literacy than math, and for longer compared to shorter programs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky