Our inaugural elections for the HiTOP Society Executive Board are underway! If you're a member you should have received your ballot yesterday. Please vote by November 19th, and thank you for helping shape the future of the society.

Re-upping since we're just over a week away from the deadline to apply to the TT asst prof position in our clinical area at Vanderbilt! Please consider applying if you're on the job market! RTs appreciated.

A colleague said I looked like a movie star today

Academic adulthood is reducing the number of jokes in your presentation by one.

Today's #Muppet GIF of the Day is...

Go blue apparently

Is a swiffer just a napkin that's been roughed up?

Someone is making microwave popcorn in this building and it smells good

It is a known truth that come Christmas season, any Caribbeaner abroad shall receive enquiries about suitcase space from friends and relatives.

So no Love Is Blind discourse in the timeline huh?

Got me one of those SAD light therapy lamps so y'all better be prepared for me to CRUSH winter!

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Students in my class complimented my footwear today:

Really cool publication about scientists' use of social media. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨

@abctnow.bsky.social Please add yourselves (and people you know) to our SGM research mentor list: : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... The list of mentors doing SGM research will be hosted on our website soon. In the meantime, I sent a message about this to the listserv!

Add yourself and other people you know to this list of research researchers doing work on LGBTQ+ health

Teach kids to use ex-#$!@ing-pletives again! It's an absolute tragedy I had to learn about profanity on the streets! This is fast becoming one of my fav accounts.

American football teams should have an ensemble change during half time. Switch up the colors. Keep it fresh.

Faculty perks: Air conditioned box to watch the game

Just because you statistically can doesn't mean you statistically should.

**Discourse**

Fav week in my LGBT Mental Health upper level seminar: Parental Support. Students always begin with outrage about parents' "grieving" upon their kids coming out. And then I get to introduce them to Golden Girls to discuss how stigma affects everyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNv...

Hi bluesky friends! I plan to submit a symposium with @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social for APS 2026 on contextual psychopathology research from ECRs (students welcome!) Content area and methods are wide open. If you are interested or know someone who may be, message me and we'll chat further. 1/2

Me watching Mariah Carey do in-person album signings all over the damn place in New York and I'm living in Michigan.

The justified moral superiority of putting back one's airport security tray.

The lighting in these #SRP2025 rooms is very flattering IJS

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

If you're at SRP later this week, feel free to check out some of the SPLAT Lab's offerings.

Propaganda used to be 🔥🔥🔥! youtu.be/a0Uh2zbqqRY?...

So the rapture is happening on Tuesday, and Mariah is releasing her album on Friday?! Def cant risk being taken up on Tuesday:

Now, why did I tell the lab that I will also present my SRP talk tomorrow after they do all their poster presentations? I have to actually make the slides a WHOLE week in advance?!

Year 2 of Temple's Demystifying Graduate Applications Event!

Watching Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and I am convinced Mr. Barrow got himself a nice little throuple going on there!

Realizing that humanity never fills the mental health practitioner shortage when only one Federation Starship has a counselor on it in the future.

A new Queer Ultimatum season?

Why is it antagonism and not uncletagonism?

Watching the sportsball

Me and the Lab coming to SRP with some FRESH, dripping, new results

Just as a confirmation: I will not be recruiting or interviewing grad applicants this cycle.

The mornings are once again chilly.

Alarmingly, Black student enrollment is decreasing in the University of Michigan's psychology doctoral program. In my year (last year), there were 5 of us. This year, there is 1 student, representing 2% of the entire cohort. Op Ed from Dr. Kevin Cokley. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/blac...

It only took 4 years but I finally hung that plaque that I got in 2021 on my office wall.

Last Friday before the semester begins and I should: (1) make final prep for my course, but instead I will (2) continue watching Dance Moms

Applying for graduate studies in psychology and neuroscience can be challenging and confusing. Frequently, applicants have some support from mentors at their home institutions, but sometimes applicants are looking for additional reassurance, feedback, or perspectives on the processes.

Had half a cup of coffee and sending the lab unhinged emails about data with colorful plots and sh*t today

I have started one as well for various grad programs in psychology: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Hey folks: A little while aback, @jschleiderphd.bsky.social and I created a repository of SOPs to help folks prepare for grad applications. If you'd like to add your SOP, feel free to use this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Of note, mask as you desire as I will be posting them as is.