Getting word that Belgium is planning to bring in a ringer

Thank you for reading this so I don't have to

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

Whatever else happens, ref just singlehandedly set back US soccer decades

Folks have heard me complain vociferously about the fact that there is a lack of programmatic federal funding to study this stuff, and even though I’ve had a few grants on the topic scored, I still haven’t had any that have funded But did you know sportsbooks lobby to prevent that funding?

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Exciting day. My set-theoretic reconceptualization of the DSM (w/ MDD, GAD, and PTSD as empirical examples) is out today in JPCS, along with four invited commentaries and my response. I'm biased, but I recommend all six papers. I was really jazzed by all four commentaries. 1/25

“You’re one of one. You’re unprecedented in the entire line of human history. Only you have your brain. Only you can think of what you can think of. Only you can tell a story in a particular way. Why would you cede that to a machine?” —Dave Eggers

Just inadvertently discovered that a whole bunch of research on AI responses may be invalid. Apparently, even with memory off, ChatGPT is still giving contextual information, including the name of the user! It used my full name casually in conversation; which means that data is in the model.

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Re-upping this as a sit in an RSA symposium (Tbc, I don't think most talks are using AI. Some very obviously are)

#RSA2026 folks! Come to our fabulous symposium on pain and alcohol use tomorrow (Monday) morning! I'll be talking last and to answer your questions: Will I be talking about pizza? Yes Will I have cat-related content? Also yes Will I be extensively quoting from a book published in 1821? Hell yes

Just today I was in a talk where the speaker extolled the potential research benefits of feeding patient records into an LLM. Why are we so credulous about AI?

I'm sitting in a CPDD symposium right now Please do not use AI to make your talk. It's pretty obvious and it does not weigh in your favor

Having fun at my first CPDD

People are really out there telling me that LLMs are inevitable as if the Metaverse didn't just collapse in on itself.

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

I am begging these guys—this Princeton prof in particular, but also a lot of other guys in positions of influence—to stop making their midlife crises everybody else’s problem

There's also a legal reason to attack peer review of grants. 42 USC § 289a REQUIRES that all grants be peer reviewed. That’s statute. So Project 2025 wants to do an end run around it so they can have political hacks, not the scientific community, determine where the money goes.

OH GREAT! Universities are “grateful” that the OMB proposal gives them “some breathing room”… Your weekly reminder that no one is coming to save us. Take action with @standupforscience.net here: fight2win.standupforscience.net

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

fight the power (OBM/Russ). 1/n. go to www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Saving this for the next time someone tells me that I should use AI to analyze my qualitative data

✨If you need a hard copy of Policing Patients in your life, you can get one for half off (!!) with the code SPRING50 on the Princeton University Press website 💃🏻 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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