After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necessary.”

Great new blog by David Jobes on improving inpatient services for suicidality www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #suicideprevention

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I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ Thrilled to announce this new $900,000 project headed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social

Excited for this viewpoint! Measurement is the foundation of what we do, and we need to be thoughtful about what we’re measuring.

It also impacts their ability to be good peer reviewers and catch the statistical errors and bad method choices in papers-but more concerning is whether the way we train leads to future innovation

I’ve been concerned about the lack of strong statistical and methods training for psych students. It is often very basic and means students don’t have the skills to answer complex questions

Parents and youth needed for a research study! The Tracking Risk over Time Lab at Texas Tech University is leading an IRB-approved study about suicidal thoughts and behaviors. To learn more, click here: evaluate2.ttu.edu/surveys/?s=A...

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🎉My lab (webbslab.com) is hiring 2 full-time research assistants to work on NIMH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ tinyurl.com/naexvxdc

New fellowship sponsor guidance: "NIH recognizes that the trainee’s research may be funded through a variety of means and that early career faculty may be excellent mentors for trainees. The emphasis. . .is on the individualized nature of the training plan " 👏 grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c...

we will see what happens, but I think that it's a quite likely outcome. The GRE was (and is) biased, but it's likely less biased than personal statements (based on mentorship in writing), lines on someone's CV (based on access to opportunity), and recommendation letters

Oh no. This is so, so bad. www.science.org/content/arti...

I’m offering a FREE workshop May 3rd 10am ET through www.smart-workshops.com for grad students and mentors new to the game that provides intro to NIH, fellowship grants (F31, F32), and recs for successful proposals! Sign up if relevant and please RT/share smart-workshops.com/workshops

New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep. 🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

@jkflake.bsky.social made such a good case for a really fundamental and devastating realization-if we can’t show thar our measures are measuring what they are suppose to be measuring-then everything after the methods section in a paper is meaningless. This should give us all pause and reflection

Psychology really needs to go back to square 1 on measurement. Even the major replications haven’t taken the lack of valid measures seriously. We are making up questions and questionnaires daily w/o validating constructs or tasks. This means our foundation is seriously shaky @jkflake.bsky.social

So, now that GRExit is over and the GRE is gone, is your program continuing conversations about reducing bias in graduate admissions? Is there a systematic evaluation of other practices, like letters of recommendation, access to prior lab experience, weighing UG institution? If not, why not?

Read this. There is a lot of fear of too much criticism in psychology, talk of protecting ECRs from this threat, etc. What about protecting ECRs from the damage of being silenced or worse when they raise legitimate criticism of famous people’s work? https://www.theorgplumber.com/posts/statement/

Our submission portal for #SRS24 is now open; you can find the link on our website! We have also extended our submission deadline to November 9!

The Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science is looking for 4 Editorial Fellows (EFs) for the 2024 calendar year. EFs are a PAID mentored position intended to give individuals from underrepresented backgrounds frontline editorial experience. Ad attached www.apa.org/pubs/journal... 1/3

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Hiring my first full time staff (EVER). Looking for a bilingual person w/ a psych (or related) background who’s interested in working in community engaged quant and qual projects. CRC will publish with me, perfect for a future PhD or MD applicant. Link below, please re-share! 🙏🏽

Writing personal statements and rec letters for yourself:

In case this hasn’t made it over to the sky yet Survey: bit.ly/3Lu8JrL Data: bit.ly/3Pq74os

Not impressed with ABCT prioritizing well known authors for conference submissions

That’s the core problem with every analysis method that’s a little bit complex. Just running it gives your whole study a veneer of sophistication. I cringe in peer review a lot.

I have found this especially difficult as a trainee when I’m often learning as I go - I rarely feel I know enough at the start of a project to provide a specific enough preregistration to be very useful.