Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: -Protomen -Gogol Bordello -BigX Tha Plug -Coheed & Cambria -Ghost

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

It's application season! Here's one piece of advice for references: For the love of all the gods, please only comment on your lived interactions with the applicant. Don't reiterate what they wrote about themselves if you weren't directly involved. If you have to do that, don't submit a letter 🙃

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I'd like our allies to remember that silence is complicit to the violence against Trans people if witnessing mockery, abuse & threatening behavior I know it's hard to speak up Especially when bigots are scary But there is power in every pushback I believe in you!

Would you take a mental health diagnosis class about superheroes, supervillains, and comic book characters? 🦸‍♂️ ⚔️ 🦹‍♂️ Well, I made one and write about it in my new open-access commentary 🙂 digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jti/vol1/iss... #academicsky #edusky

LORs are one of my favorite parts of my job. You mean I get to write a letter full of great things about an awesome person who trusted me to write said things? For all of the thankless service tasks in our profession, LORs are not one of them.

Academics are leaving the U.S. for jobs in other countries. I was one of them! In this short opinion piece, I write about my transition from 🇺🇸 to 🇨🇦, and I offer tangible advice for those trying to do the same. universityaffairs.ca/opinion/trad...

Psychologists stop using AI to write clinical reports challenge (impossible)

These critics have never been on food stamps. They talk like SNAP is giving $6k a month or something. When I was single on SNAP in 2019-2020, I got $130/month. When my family was on SNAP in the late 2000s/early 2010s, we got like $600/month — there were EIGHT of us.

Uh oh. The lawyers are pissed 😬

Today I launched our new clinical text that focuses on affirming autistic clients. To introduce the book, I took time to share my own autistic support needs, how they intersected with writing a book, and I asked why we're still treating disabled people like shit: www.chrisdabbs.com/post/underst...

I really enjoyed doing this webinar - sharing in case it's helpful for people interested in an introduction to HiTOP: novopsych.com/news/webinar...

We were on food stamps (and WIC) growing up — both my parents worked. My mom as an office assistant and my dad as a carpenter. I was on food stamps five years ago. I was finishing a PhD and working three part time jobs. Working doesn’t guarantee survival in the U.S. That‘s a class myth.

“I’m trained in brainspotting”

Since leaving the U.S., I‘ve learned that many White Americans who leave the U.S. call themselves “expats” instead of “immigrants” and that…doesn’t sit right with me.

We just published "Decolonizing autism research: Integrating indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

Man about a month ago I was on here propping up AI tools — not a stan or anything but I thought some could be useful — and smart people gave me some stuff to read and now I’m a for real certified gold star AI-hater. I present: stuff I read that made me realize AI is actually trash.

psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge

See also: autistics

When the Tylenol-Autism discourse is Discoursing

Amid the [gestures at everything], I've been meaning to re-up this piece from April. “‘Nonspeaking’ does not mean ‘non-listening,’” a formerly nonspeaking woman told me. “I was aware of the terrible things people were saying about me, when they discussed me like I wasn’t even there.”

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

Tylenol does not cause autism.

I just saw a call for book chapters about using AI as a “pedagogical partner” to teach psychology. AI can’t be your partner in teaching, because it doesn’t *know* anything. Teaching is part science and part art — AI doesn’t do either of those parts well.

I think the worst thing about living in Canada so far is that there's no Diet Mountain Dew here. They have Mtn. Dew Zero, but that's a soulless beverage for feckless children.

One of our anonymous reviewers said our autistic writing team was too early in our clinical careers to make a meaningful contribution to the field, even though we work almost exclusively with autistic people 🙃 We’re hoping to prove Reviewer 2 wrong. 6 days til release! #autres #actuallyautistic

Online discourse in mixed-neurotype environments is hell for autistics because of this. Folks wonder why we aren't "represented" -- it's because we stick to Tumblr and WrongPlanet. Anywhere else (including here) we're piled on and met with the most bad faith disingenuous interactions.

Eastern Michigan University's Counseling and Psychological Services center is hiring a psychologist! I know one of the staff there, and it seems to be a great place to work (with a burgeoning autism program 🙂) careers.emich.edu/jobs/5c6c438...

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

I have updated this news story to include the text of an open letter signed by over 100 U of L faculty opposing this policy. albertaworker.ca/news/u-of-l-...

Autism is the least-employed disability class worldwide: about 25% of autistic people have jobs of any kind. The fact that this man has held a job for so long means he has beaten the odds. His reward? Getting six of his teeth knocked out by kids.

Hahahaha as an autistic academic who has made…lemme double check my numbers…$0.00 from my research and blogging about autism — y’all are really out here complaining about a paid autism writing gig? Couldn’t be me. This is a great opportunity with a hilarious outlet.

WE’RE HIRING! Comedy writers with lived experience of autism, send us your funniest stuff! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is here: www.patreon.com/posts/137768...

Any recommendations for an affordable website designer for a small business of one? I’ve gotten quotes from $4,000 - $8,000, which can be more than I generate with my business in a year. Where’s the *very* small business designers at?

As an American, Interac blows my damn mind. I can't believe (yes I can) that we don't have something like this in the States. We let private companies -- well, mostly one company since PayPal owns Venmo -- make money off us instead. Canada definitely has some shit figured out.

Next week I'll begin my fifteenth year as a political communication professor. I wrote up some thoughts on what it's like trying to teach this subject while everything falls apart. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

President Trump's decision to mobilize the National Guard to conduct municipal policing in D.C. lacks seriousness and is deeply dangerous. We await outreach from the White House if they want to have a serious conversation about public safety. But we won’t hold our breath.

Having finished my Ph.D. before AI, arguably the largest tech leap since I started college in 2011, I now better understand my supervisors who used to tell tales of typing their dissertations on type writers or flipping through card catalogs and hoping their library had a book they needed.

It isn't a labubu, it's a lagoogoo doll, and it'd give up forever to touch you

I wish this would’ve happened *before* I published my recent entry on Satanism. Could’ve added Labubu to my other Satanic pop culture references, alongside PowerPuff Girls and Doja Cat doi.org/10.1007/978-...

My wife and I were on Canadian Public Television to talk about some realities of living and working with private healthcare in the U.S. Topics include: Our clients having their care denied by insurance The ER bill I’ve been paying on since 2022 Millionaire healthcare CEOs youtu.be/6QkwJv5_DqA

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

I reject the notion that I am not the expert in the room with my client. An explicit outcome of my very long and expensive training is expertise. However, it is part of my job (and my expertise) to disallow my expertise from superseding client experience. Clients are the experts on themselves.

I offer something that remains a myth *inside* my field: There is no "lizard brain" and "mammalian brain." The triune brain idea is largely a myth--or, most generously, a gross oversimplification that borders inaccurate. Subtweet to every trauma CE trainer I've had in the last 10 years.

With my most recent appointment, I've been a professor of psychology, clinical psychology, and counseling psychology. If I can somehow weasel my way onto a school psych faculty, I imagine I'll transcend to a new plane of health service psychology existence.

Hi, I’m Dr. Chris Dabbs PhD, one of the diagnosticians here at Embrace Autism. I’m an autistic psychologist with a passion for clinical work, research, and teaching. Read more about my background and interests here: embrace-autism.com/about-me-chr... #EmbraceAutism #Autistic #Autism

How does autistic self-diagnosis intersect with medical diagnosis? How does our diagnostic training lead us to fear self-diagnosis? We (autistic psychologists) tackled these questions in our open-access piece: scholarworks.gvsu.edu/ought/vol6/i... #autres #psychscisky #actuallyautistic

I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.