Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Trans rights are human rights!

We see you. We stand with you. You are not alone. 🩵🩷🤍

Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

Payton Pritchard tonight

Did you know that there is a tilting luxury high-rise in San Francisco? The Millenium Tower has sunk moe than 20 inches since it was built and is tilting 0.25 degrees northwest. This amounts to a displacement of 28 inches!!! at the top floor. Everytime I think about this damn building I get panicky.

I've answered 'yes' to this query in this journal twice now. I used Gemini to spot check an algorithm and I used Claude to proofread for factual errors and typos. But I've got an in-prep paper for which I used AI to help construct ODE equations from scratch. That is my most substantive use to date.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers vote to rename César Chavez Day state holiday to Farmworkers Day after sexual abuse allegations.

I have a 20 year old child?? Holy moly. Happy happy 20th, @mosss.bsky.social!!

My lab has placed 34 lab members into grad/med school over a 12 year period (26 PhD program, 8 med school), and I'm wondering if this is a good number? Starting to prepare my full prof materials and this *feels* like a positive point, but I realize I actually have no idea! Maybe I'm slacking!

I have a panic patient that just ROCKED their first panic exposure and I'm beaming I'm so proud.

These are Jaylen Brown's season statistics, compared to his career average. He is having a monster season. Crazy.

If you're going to be on a clinical search committee over the next two or three years, keep an eye out for Claire. Future super duper star right here!

46 wins and counting!!!

mlVAR #Rstats 📦 version 0.6.1 is now on CRAN! Major updates include the mlGGM function for multi-level GGM estimation on nested cross-sectional data (e.g., students nested in classrooms) and the inclusion of residuals + predicted values from the mlVAR results. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Let’s help this guy graduate

Seems like folks are generally disappointed with the Best Picture result. I loved Sinners and OBAA and would have been happy to see either win. FWIW, here's my PTA top 5 1. There Will Be Blood 2. One Battle After Another 3. Magnolia 4. The Master 5. Boogie Nights

I want Matt Berry to say 'yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango' so badly.

Kitchen view of the 16 year old. Wonder why everyone in town keep mixing up my two middle kids!

The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.

Ladies and gentlemen, my 14 year old child.

In a world of lemons, Celtics fans are getting some lemonade, but I won't be able to watch it live as I'll be with a patient. Alas. Let's go, Celtics! www.youtube.com/shorts/HP1Wa...

JAY-SON TA-TUM

My senior year of college, my roommate‘s best friend killed herself. I had seen her in the dining hall the day before, beautiful as always, and apparently vibrant. You never know what’s going on with people — remember that when you go out of your way to be cruel.

Our crowdsourced megastudy comparing a diverse set of 12 single-session interventions for depression is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/e6pzz (no paywall) We also published a brief non-academic piece about the study today: theconversation.com/free-10-minu...

First meet of the year and my HS junior PR'd in the triple jump, 200, and 400. Scratched on a PR long jump. Pretty good start to the season!

Anyone willing to confidentially share their successful 2025 VICI application docs with me? Thanks gang.

I am perpetually jealous of fields where this is the standard.

West Coast time zone giveth more than it taketh, IMO. But I chose to sleep in this morning and missed out on a sudden death gold medal. Alas.

I had a stats class where they repeated "regression and ANOVA are the same thing" many times, but taught us completely different ways of doing them. Then I had a class where we actually did everything as a regression (and later in SEM). Took the second one for it to actually mean anything to me

One of the greatest gifts anyone ever gave me was Peter Molenaar showing our SEM class how to run a t test in LISREL with matrix algebra. SEM, MLM regression, ANOVA, are all one.

One Battle After Another --> The Battle of Algiers --> One Battle After Another. Sounds like a chill night :)

For instance: @claireecusack.bsky.social just submitted a paper today in which we show that discrete emotion states predict discrete avoidance behavior in SAD with *very* high accuracy. We know this, right? But now we can locate the phenomenon in *specific moments of time* à la JITAI concepts.

2026 basically

Famously, it doesn't rain most of the year here in California, and we need the snowpack in the Sierras to provide water year round. Levels have been under 50% this winter. Even after this recent storm, the Central and Southern Sierras are at 60% and 80% of normal for this time, respectively.

A niche fantasy I have is that Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey was a Beatles song and, specifically, that it took the place of Maxwell's Silver Hammer on Abbey Road.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Yup. Just got a very polite but nevertheless frustrating email from a journal that our submission hasn't been sent out yet. Meanwhile, I'm on the hook for 6 reviews right now because I'm trying to be a good citizen. Sigh.

Proud and blessed to have Gio as my colleague.

Let's fucking go.

I see the Onion chose to go with "kick 'em while they're down" today.

Woof. Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

Big Boston sports day today. Celtics-Knicks for control of the second seed in the East and then, of course, Pats-Seahawks in the Super Bowl. I find it funny that it hasn't rained in NorCal all January and *now* there's rain forecast for today. Oh well.

LCA to *demonstrate* continua. Up is down and down is up :) psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Have you been interested in any of the set theory stuff I've been doing recently? Wondered at all how you can get in on the fun? Here's an R package @nicolasleenaerts.bsky.social and I built called 'setweaver.' This vignette should get you up and running. Yay :) cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Apologies to anyone who was having a convo on my recent academia v industry salary post. Someone emailed out of concern it was identifiable. I don't think it is/was, as it could describe multiple individuals, but I deleted it out of respect for their concern. Cheers.

I have loved, loved, loved having Anfernee Simons on our team and I am genuinely sad to see him go. So long, Anferno.

I would like to start a veridicality movement in clinical psychology. I've realized this is my primary concern with network models. We *want* them to convey information flow and dynamics, but they're just lag-1 regression models at (relatively) glacial time scales. They don't reflect what we want.

It's a pretty awesome feeling to walk out of my private practice with all of my therapy notes written.