My thought for the day is that vegetarian chili is just a salsa

Now with more German… Happy solstice folks

The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026…

As an editor, I don’t know what to do when an author asserts that they didn’t use AI in the preparation of their manuscript but all my experience suggest they did. I don’t care that they used it, its allowed, but the fact that I think they lied makes me really uncomfortable...

Inviting submissions to a new special issue on precision and personalized treatment approaches led by @cherilev.bsky.social and @aaronjfisher.bsky.social! It’s gonna be a fantastic collection so send us your favorite new work :) www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Calling all Affective Neurosci, basic, clinical, animal, mineral & otherwise: SFN's accepting proposals for symposia @ the 2026 DC meeting. Please consider reaching out to your pals &, maybe even dropping a line to someone you admire from afar, & organizing a submission. www.sfn.org/meetings/neu...

As an editor, let me say my strong preference is that if you have good work that fits in my journal's scope, PLEASE keep submitting it over the holidays. We'll get it to it and hopefully give it a good home!

🚨New research drop!🚨 Gather around, one last bit of research to announce before the year ends! This is one that has been incubating for awhile, but the methods have finally caught up with my theorizing! The title is: The Hidden Structure in Reality TV 1/6

Methinks not quite, Strava!

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Yeah, but individual differences in warmth tho

Christmas comes early to journal editors?

Intro stats courses need to provide lots of tangible examples of effect sizes. I remember reviewing a paper about the effect of Tylenol on social exchanges once. It had an ES of d~1. So, as strong as effect of opioids on cancer pain. Just, no way. If it was true we’d need warning labels. 1/2

Mazel tov to grad student Paige Didier on earning the Dept. of Psychology's annual Open Science Award! As noted in her address, it took a village to pull this off (e.g. @aidangcw.bsky.social, Jeff Harring & Chris Conway). Following in the footsteps of her "big sis," @sgrogans.bsky.social

Interested in running multi component intervention trials? Kelley Kidwell will be offering a workshop on the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework on Dec 15th! See link for info, and please share/RT! Available live and as recordings. smart-workshops.com/most-info

Just like it says, 24hrs only, starting Midnight Monday, December 1st 25% off (or 50% off for trainees) for any workshop, including recorded workshops and upcoming live workshops! Get in R, SEM, longitudinal SEM or MLM, MSEM, SMART trials, dyadic analyses and more! 2/2

🚨Cyber Monday Discounts for smart-workshops.com Monday, Dec 1 Only! Give yourself the gift of methods expertise this year! 25% off for professionals, 50% for trainees (usual 33% plus 25%) with codes: cyber25pro or cyber25train Please RT and share with colleagues!🙏 1/2

Of all the AI trainings my employer should offer, and they offer a lot, is one teaching faculty how to edit their emails so they aren’t obviously just chat GPT generated.

Who’s feeling it?

Any recent (or old too is fine) literature or review on most common stated reason for presenting to therapy or psychiatric treatment? I don't just mean the diagnoses people get, I mean the presenting complaint. Anything?

The most regrettable aspect of editing a journal is that desk rejections are by far the most common decision I send out Sometimes authors reply. Often these are positive, disappointed but grateful for the feedback Sometimes they are not. And, often it is best to let the author have the last word

Ibid academia

🚨Cyber Monday Discounts for smart-workshops.com Monday, Dec 1 Only! Give yourself the gift of methods expertise this year! 25% off for professionals, 50% for trainees (usual 33% plus 25%) with codes: cyber25pro or cyber25train Please RT and share with colleagues!🙏 1/2

If a reviewer is asking about power in a sample size of 22,000, then I think you should just be able to point that absurdity out to the editor and not have to address any more of their feedback. I'd honor that as an editor, TBH.

Interested in running multi component intervention trials? Kelley Kidwell will be offering a workshop on the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework on Dec 15th! See link for info, and please share/RT! Available live and as recordings. smart-workshops.com/most-info

I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀 1/

What a time to be doing research. Leading a project now where collaborators are debating whether it is more compelling to have AI review/summarize something or whether we should use our wet-brains to do it. The pro AI one accused me of wanting to "armchair it"

Treating patients as a psychologist is so much better when working with a good psychiatrist. The best psychiatrist I've ever worked with, Xavier Jimenez, has started posting on instagram/YouTube. Check his posts out: www.instagram.com/dr.xaviermd/... www.youtube.com/@Dr.XavierMD...

So, colleagues and I did a pre-registration. Registered a set of primary analyses that all made good sense. Also a bunch of exploratory hypotheses (one collaborator wanted) that seemed reasonable. But now I think the exp models are a bad idea. How would you handle this? Just not do them? 1/2

We're excited this is out! Thanks to the author teams for a range of great contributions and to the reviewers who assisted with this process. The second part of this special issue will be released in November.

At a *cheeky* stationary/novelty store and it seems like they’ve got stuff just for me

An increasingly common interaction in basically every venue and medium: Person 1: Does anyone have any recommendations for good ZYZ? Person 2: Here’s what ChatGPT said when I asked? Does person 2 really think person 1 didn’t ask chat GPT already? I think we’re at a stage where they often haven’t

Very cool issue on intensive longitudinal data, including a piece by @aidangcw.bsky.social and others on minimum sample size for estimating various parameters. Sometimes when we move beyond traditional self-report we neglect psychometrics and publish lots of noise. This work can help prevent that.

Check out our paper examining the ambulatory physiological assessment of PTSD (led by @bwisco.bsky.social) as part of this neat new special issue: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Excited to announce a new special issue on Passive Sensing for behavior in psychopathology at JoPaCS led by Dan Fulford and Nick Jacobson Check out their overview paper here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment. Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Hey @dieworkwear.bsky.social , care to comment?

I will give the antivaxxers this My Covid shot made me feel much worse than my last case of Covid… Must have had extra 5g

I can’t believe how much time and effort has been spent on figuring out and debating the RIGHT or BEST way to test an indirect effect (ie the significance of a*b) when it seems much more intuitive to just say if a and b are both sig, then we have ind effect. Can anyone show me why I might be wrong?

At the on campus vaccine clinic today noticed lots of young folks coming in asking for flu but declining Covid. Just an observation

One of the more satisfying aspects of running a lab is being able to tell people they have to use the Oxford comma in research write-ups.

Job alert 🚨 Open rank tenure-track faculty position working at the intersection of generative AI modeling and computational psychiatry in UMich Psychiatry. Part of a cluster hire across units. Info at link! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Anyone have access to or link to sources for secular trends in responses to NEO-PI at facet level over past two decades?

NASSPD is accepting submissions for our 2026 conference in Toronto, April 24-25th! See nasspd.org/conference for conference information and submission portal. Talks (individual, symposia, data blitz) and clinical workshops due Nov 1st. Posters due Dec 1st. Hope to see you there!

Are you a psychologist with expertise in AI and want a job? My colleagues over at U. Michigan - Dearborn are looking for someone like you! You can find out info an apply here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Great study! A general implication is that when we infer effects of retrospectively measure variables on outcomes, we’re largely just seeing the effects of how people are currently feeling.

Exciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology! If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here: Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/... OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017. 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New lab pic - welcome to the lab Matt! @aidangcw.bsky.social @grantaking.bsky.social @siennarose.bsky.social @jananmost.bsky.social

Just noticed the classroom I teach in has this