A huge district court victory for the University of California. District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California. News story here—

After setting it down for a long spell, used a transcontinental flight to read most of How Not to Study a Disease. It's still fabulous. It slso warns against the temptation to prematurely adopt proxy biomarkers, a la fail-fast. Remember the Gramma Scrabble line in Fig 2

Goodman, F. R., Jorgensen, S. L., & Silva, G. (2025). The promise of studying social anxiety in the social world: A guide to using experience-sampling methods. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/tps0...

Ditto

Note the typo. Should read 70% ND. Historically, it was 50% triage.

Whittaker, F., DeFalco, A., Goldblum, R. S., Curtin, J. J., & Bradford, D. E. (2025). Alcohol’s effects on decision making and cognitive processing in a reward uncertainty task. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/adb0...

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Chmielewski, M., Jimenez, A., & Gum, M. A. (2025). Do internship to employment pipelines exist? Implications for graduate training. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/tep0...

#WM #STM #LabJournalClub - I keep posting this paper, but it really is magnificent, and a great anchor for a lab journal club. #DespoLab meets #ShackLab

I can further confirm that @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is experiencing retaliation by “Free speech” Jay and the Trump administration. @standupforscience.bsky.social stands with her and will continue to support public servants who speak out against the harms of this administration.

This is a such a well-written, densely referenced mini-review on the state of the WM/STM literature. Was your last thought about WM circa the Goldman-Rakic era and want to catch up? This is it. Kudos to ClaySpace! www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

When do interaction/moderation effects stabilize in linear regression?: https://osf.io/35t84

👏👏👏👏👏 Kudos indeed! Our #NIH and #CSR colleagues have been through enormous stressors navigating these ‘unprecedented’ times. We see you! 🥰

The situation is coming from inside the room. Yes, the situation room, that's where it's situated. It's collapsing into itself as we speak sir, we have to get you out of here

For Matt Wall

boo-hiss Elsevier - maybe @mariaironside.bsky.social could email me a copy :)

Excited to share our cross-disorder GWAS analysis of neurological and psychiatric disorders (~1 M cases), now out in @natneuro.nature.com! We show more extensive genetic pleiotropy than previously recognized, supporting a more unified view of these disorders rdcu.be/ePmwD

New preprint from the lab! We identified Vipr2-expressing BNST neurons as a distinct subpopulation of the oval nucleus that promotes feeding, is activated by food restriction, is non-overlapping with appetite-suppressing PKC delta neurons, and projects to PSTN & PVN hypothalamic feeding centers.

If your government sends a $40B "gift" to another country while refusing to feed its own children, you need another government. There's nothing wrong with foreign aid (in most cases); but there is something wrong with letting kids and veterans go hungry while sending it.

Ah why not? Here's another Barn Owl picture I have taken. This beauty was flying right towards me. #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife

There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely. *If all goes by the regular schedule

Today in Copenhagen: "People are disappearing. Fear and unrest are permeating the streets."

cool - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants. Appeasers.

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a good analysis of what Democrats can do now. In short: don't cave. But if they do cave, do it for a plan to reopen the government with teeth to stop the lawbreaking by Vought and Trump. "1 mo clean budget extensions in perpetuity, all contingent on the end of rescissions and impoundments"

Presented without comment. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

What Bita wrote! www.cinz.nz/posts/rosali...

Just accepted at Nature Mental Health: Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3 1/9

Apparently the postings are up for several NIH director positions. Deadlines between 11/14 and 11/21. hr.nih.gov/careers/care...

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

Know an early-career statistician who shows potential for great leadership and shaping the future of statistics? COPSS is accepting nominations for the Emerging Leader Award: stattrak.amstat.org/...

I'll be at SFN Saturday and Sunday if folks wanna hang out, chat, co-work, drink, eat tacos, hike, or hit the gym. Hiking prob won't happen, but I could be convinced. 🧠

Windows down, system up

#TeamWebb - www.nature.com/articles/s44...

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ... will it generalize off the stanford campus? sample is TINY

If nothing else, the Trump administration is doing wonders to highlight the importance of jury trials.

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.

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases