Friends, we are still a few months out from this paper being public, but I am very excited to share some of my best diatribes with you all. Here is a preview

Minimum. That’s just the count from the (hundreds) of faculty who did the survey, not the thousands we have on campus. Total impact is likely much higher.

“More than half said the policies had prompted them to look for another job.”

According to a new survey, Texas Tech system policies on what can and cannot be taught prompted 277 courses on the Lubbock campus to be altered. https://chroni.cl/4vfb2TW

My new piece looks at recent bizarre overestimates of Long COVID rates. Also, how we can be fairly certain that the true rate of Long COVID is now very low in 2026. open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

Cohen never intended d = 0.2/0.5/0.8 to be applied across *every* field (in fact, he later regretted suggesting these thresholds). He proposed them as a last resort when no prior estimates were available. But they've become the default for interpreting results and powering new studies anyway

This is CENSORSHIP. Period.

The censorship at TTU is so bad that my someone above me, outside my discipline is intersting himself into my students training without my consent, insisting he is required to do so because of the 'policy'. @standupforscience.net

After the passage of Senate Bill 37, Texas Tech University has instituted curriculum review policies that amount to censorship and academic "straitjacketing." “You are effectively destroying the fundamental separation between political power and the production of knowledge." —Texas Tech AAUP

My favorite was Born in the US? If no, country of birth? Pretty sure just leaving that one blank made me instantly identifiable.

University: Faculty, please take our survey to help us better understand if you're thriving! All confidential! Survey: Gender? Race? Years at Institution? Rank? College? I should've just put my name on the survey

If you are a member of the scientific community wondering how to meet this moment, check out this excellent discussion between @holdenthorp.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social. youtu.be/IWNDMwimUP0?...

Lots of great points in here! I like @drandreahoward.bsky.social's suggestions to share the data needed to reproduce a paper and look into different licenses, and others' points about ethics implications/participant consent and how critical it is for data to be airtight in non-re-identifiability

“Texas Tech leaders told faculty not to widely share the chancellor’s memo restricting graduate work related to sexual orientation or gender identity” www.texastribune.org/2026/05/06/t...

And we need to turn this idea into action--on search committees, promotions, etc. Volume is the enemy of innovation and discovery.

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

The team aims to moderate submissions within 24-72 hours, but they are overworked, so if you’re interested in helping, register interest at the link below. forms.gle/sVyqFnFCqDR8...

Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

Good morning! This, right here, is fascism! Source: www.congress.gov/118/meeting/...

On May 6th, I'll be providing a free webinar sponsored by www.smart-workshops.com on Bifactor models I plan to cover what I see as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The good: what these models tell you that others can't The bad: how they are misinterpreted and misued The ugly: challenges modeling

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

1. The paper with the implausibly large effects of Omega-3 fatty acids on mental health was now retracted. A little thread on the process where @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and I was involved. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.

Censorship regime at Texas Tech is too extreme for (checks notes) the American Enterprise Institute. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

There's a reason I highlighted Texas A&M in my column series on the Red Scares. Yet, they remain a member of the AAU in good standing. Sharing with the text of the resignation letter in the alt

I caution against blaming "state politics". This fails those at TTU fighting back & a community losing skilled professionals (esp. as Lubbock is a major hub for healthcare). Pay attention: leadership wants TTU to be a national blueprint for censorship. This is a test case; your campus could be next.

If you’re not at TTU, why care? Creighton has vocalized his intent for this to serve as a "national model". Especially concerning, given his pledge to "protect free speech" (recently at a TPUSA rally, FWIW), but now piloting the most aggressive curriculum censorship in the system’s history.

TTU just released a memo institutionalizing censorship. As a grad student researching gender minority mental health and suicide prevention at TTU, I see this as an attack on academic integrity & professional readiness. Sharing some/a lot of thoughts as I make sense of this mess🧵(opinions my own)

Now that I have finally been paid I made a video about the Dana-Farber legal case from my own perspective: youtu.be/ioRtnMEV46Y

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happy I found @dingdingpeng.the100.ci's blog recently! this post resonates with me particularly well: www.the100.ci/2018/08/02/w... "if people stop exaggerating their skills, there’s suddenly much more authentic information out there for others to re-calibrate their own relative impostor syndrome."

Tip: don't say "our estimates should be interpreted with appropriate caution" after you've shared your estimates with the wider world by press release with no mention of caution.

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

Info needed! Has our team’s work changed how you teach, research, or mentor? I’m working on an award app and I’d be grateful to know how our work is being used, esp. related to training students and consideration of lived identities/ experiences. email is first dot last at TTU dot edu. Thanks!

New viewpoint article, "It is time to take chronic suicidal ideation seriously", with Evan Kleiman and @katieleedg.bsky.social now published in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, on January 24. DHS claims he died after an armed struggle, but videos of the incident appears to contradict that claim. Read our analysis here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Public executions will continue until the citizenry is silent.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

No pretense that this is anything other than attacking one of the United States.

After the first shots are fired, the man collapses on the ground. Agents back away. At least another 5 shots are fired toward the man who is already incapacitated on the ground.

Two different agents are visibly firing their guns, with at least 10 shots being heard in total. Most of them are fired after a brief delay, when the man is already lying motionless on the ground. The current videos of the shooting only show these two agents with guns drawn.

Great read on some basic ideas in psychometrics. This quote was great, and reminded me of a stress induction that @jonasdora.bsky.social used. People told to think of a mild stressor reported everything from being cut off in traffic to a home invasion that caused them to move!

hey European hivemind, I need some help...PhD students here, especially foreign ones, are feeling a lot of concern related to evolving immigration restrictions here. Those students are increasingly looking to postdocs in EU. To help advise them better, what are expectations for postdocs? 1/2

I only argue for more mathematical & statistical rigor in our field because I believe our science requires it. I go through fits every time I try to learn a new math/stats thing. I find the whole ordeal very unpleasant. But it's like working out, this is the way to make our body (our field) strong.

Research questions generated by AI. Questionnaires filled out by AI. Paper written by AI. Paper reviewed by AI. Just make it stop.

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