The Szaszian Heart of MAHA Psychiatry Moderate-sounding entry points to an unpopular agenda www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-szaszi...

This. Go read this. @awaisaftab.bsky.social cuts right to the core of the Bergner nytimes article. Much better than I ever could.

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Come on, @nytimes.com. You can print 2k words (w/o a single hyperlink to a scientific study) saying psych meds are overprescribed, hitting all the beats you'd expect in a B- student paper (Szasz, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) without one mention of psychotherapy? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...

Free newsletter: Despite stories about gigawatts of capacity coming online, I've found that the vast majority of announced data centers have yet to be built, with many running far behind schedule. I now believe NVIDIA is warehousing at least a million GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/where-are-al...

It appears that Instructure (makers of Canvas) just straight up paid off the criminal gang www.instructure.com/incident_upd...

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...

We are hiring a post-bac! Come join the SPIEL lab on our journey of studying substance use in daily life! We are also in the midst of a clinical trial testing a tailored alcohol intervention for people in opioid treatment. It's a busy time! populationanalytics.nd.edu/resources/ca...

Academic pizza twitter, how I long for thee

My two year old can open heavy hotel room doors, ask me how I know

Excited to share our newest publication. Here we test a central hypothesis in cannabis use, does use alter a person's emotions in a theoretically expected way, and if so for whom and under what conditions is that observable. We found that cannabis use was linked to complex changes in emotions.

Headline: CHATBOTS ARE TAKING OVER Reality: Almost everybody used a chatbot one time and never again

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

NYT doing fine work posting these two stories right next to each other

I remember when you asked a professor for a *strong* letter of recommendation Now I guess you need to ask them if they will write you a letter without using AI

Mark Hyman is a man that is willing to claim that drinking milk causes cancer

I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data. 1/19 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Unconscionable.

This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!” But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling. If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

Damn, and here I've been eating imaginary food this entire time

Just listened to the Maintenance Phase episode on ultraprocessed foods. I highly recommend. It is nutrient rich and dense in scientific fact, just like an all-natural, homemade, whole-food podcast should be maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/epis...

So as RFK ends annual flu vaccine recommendations for children, hospitalizations and deaths among children are rapidly accelerating--with prior data showing that nearly all the mortality is among those not vaccinated. www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Today’s announcement that HHS is drastically altering the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule without a transparent process or clear scientific justification represents the latest reckless step in Secretary Kennedy’s assault on the national vaccine infrastructure. Our statement: https://bit.ly/497Tj8V

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

This is the energy I want to bring to 2026 (Full article: variety.com/2026/film/ne...)

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

🎆🎇🎆2025 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR🎆🎇🎆 🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆GRAND FINAL🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆 After a seeding round and three rounds of voting, we have our finalists: Top seed Pretty Obvious will be facing off against 3rd seed Police Are Scrambling. A reminder of how we got here:

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

So... yeah, this sucks But I think it sucks in a very specific way, one that I haven't seen people talk about much (probably because academic social media is a soulless LinkedIn shell of itself) It sucks that some non-native English speakers are now using generative AI for peer review.

Gutsy #ProBowlVote    + @MicahhParsons11

College football has always been, and will always be, a bad product.

Confirmation of the new triage line at 65-70% of proposals. Introduction of a new “competitive but ND” class to permit exception pay pickups.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

RIP office phones of Notre Dame

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

There's so much being researched and published about GenAI that I update the 'Against Generative AI' resource list almost every day. Check it out catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Gonna stake a pole here and say that you should not be allowed to drive your kids around on your golf cart for trick or treating

Last night I had the best pizza in Columbia, MO. It was good to be home again.

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

In compelling fashion, I've discovered that ribs are much better off unbruised. (Getting too old for soccer, I guess)

Did anyone at Amazon try asking AI how to fix their servers?

My goodness, what an article. I mean, it might have made a bit more sense if they had taken the time to define what "ultraprocessed" is, but that would dilute the emotional impact. I look forward to dissecting this with my next Health Psychology class in the spring www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...

Happy for y’all, Milwaukee. It’s been a bit.

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Just heard a @springernature.com journal is requiring authors to pay for open access (~$5k) to submit an invited paper if they want to be compliant with the new NIH policy. If that's how Springer is planning to handle things going forward, I know of a number of journals I will no longer submit to.