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.

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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.

Found this and couldn't resist ..

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

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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...

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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?