The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

All the anti-trans stuff this week (really, this whole year and the past several leading up to it — but especially this week) has taken a real toll on me. I feel so sad, scared, and angry. I feel like I don't belong in this world, and that really sucks.

1/ Our paper years in the making is finally out! TL;DR even very strong effects (d=1.00) can be attenuated by sampling from populations where there is variability in their likelihood of natural improvement (e.g., mild depression cases remitting on their own) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Update: Dude came up to me this morning and apologized! He said he's been thinking about it for the last two days and realized he had no right to ask me if I was Jewish. Good stuff.

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

This is fucking SICK & CRAZY & DANGEROUS as fuck for our 🏳️‍⚧️ families. My god 😨 🤬 I wish there were a special sanctuary where every trans person in Texas could easily go 😖 unfair, but fuck Texas 😖

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...

Are you working in the personalized treatment/ precision medicine space? If so my co-editors & I would love to review your work for a new SPECIAL ISSUE in Behavior Therapy on personalization in mental health. More info here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... @depressionlab.bsky.social

Random dude at the gym just asked me if I was Jewish and then told me that he was praying for everyone in Australia. Like, ok dude, I'll make sure to tell everyone at the next council meeting.

Bless you, bless you, bless you, @robinince.bsky.social. A true mensch.

Jaylen Brown over the past three games: 102 points, 22 rebounds, 22 assists, and 7 steals.

Jaylen Brown over the past two games: 60 points, 18 rebounds, 18 assists, and 6 steals.

This book has contributed to so much online misinformation. In our study, we've documented now that there's a belief that CBT is HARMFUL or ineffective for trauma :S You know, the literal opposite of what seems to be true. Often propagated by "somatic" therapists www.jmir.org/2023/1/e45571/

Hey, @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social, why didn't the giant eagles just fly Harold and Kumar to White Castle?

For a small fee, I will review your enemy's paper and say, "but don't we already know this?"

It is unbearably cute how excited the 9-year-old is to have the 19-year-old home from college.

Admin at UC have claimed various reasons why they aren’t fighting in court, but they simply are afraid to take on the Feds, believing antagonism will somehow make a terrible situation worse. Thing is, it can’t be much worse, and you can’t placate a bully.

LFG. Love that this came from the faculty and staff. Trust people, not institutions.

“Metacognition” has become increasingly important to advance mental health understanding and treatment, but integration between fields has been difficult with different methods and conceptualizations. We propose bridging these perspectives under a unified hierarchical framework. (2/3)

One of my colleagues was just removed from her class “Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice” for showing a graphic discussing overt vs covert forms of racism… c.org/ywjHswNppr

I am pleased to share our paper showing that daily assessment improves the precision of #self-harm and #suicide prediction beyond the data available at the start of a hospital admission. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

FWIW, Penn State is an awesome place to do your PhD. Hugely underrated graduate institution.

California passes proposition 50, which will mean multiple anti-LGBTQ+ Republican congress people will likely lose their seat. A continual bloodbath for anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans tonight.

As a result, reproducibility speaks more to the design and specification of the experiment than the truth value of a given result.

Wait, am I *joy* scrolling right now??

BIG BREAKING: Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City, in the largest turnout vote since 1969. He becomes the first Muslim and immigrant mayor of New York City, and the first Muslim to be elected of a major U.S. city.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

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/

Amid attacks on such work, NIH-led research links structural racism to increased heart disease. Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/s...

If the proponents of the "P" factor weren't all famous grey hairs, would we be talking about it all?

No model has any inherent worth. The value is derived from how the model is employed within the research question.

I think this is a function of hypostatization and model realism, and extends beyond cluster analysis. Modally, researchers in psychology don't spend much time considering assumptions and assume models = reality. The cluster analysis doesn't require justification because the clusters are 'real'.

dope academic position alert: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05162

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother! www.science.org/content/arti...

While acknowledging that all it takes is one serious Jaylen Brown injury to derail the whole Celtics train this season, I'm planting my flag on 46 wins this year. Let's go C's.

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...

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I think every pundit is wrong about the Celtics. They may not dominate like they did the last two years, but they'll be in the mix. Counting them out seems like lazy, plug-in-the-narrative sportswriting.

Fun fact, Bob once asked me to put together a list of things to do with young children in NYC. When I asked him who it was for, he said "my friend, Al."

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

When the refutation of your argument is built into your argument. There is no execution without the idea it executes. The Manhattan project would have been a pretty futile venture without Einstein's mass-energy equivalence.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

One of the strangest things about middle age is watching all the people who populated the world of your youth leave the world. I've come to drop Annie Hall off of my personal 'best of' list, but only because of my feelings about Woody Allen. My top 5 used to include Godfather, GF II and Annie Hall.

Welcome to #TransTuesday! National Coming Out Day is Oct 11, so let’s get into what can be a difficult and complicated issue for so many of us: COMING OUT AS TRANS. And for the first time since Trans Tuesdays started, I reprint my own coming out thread! www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/10/07/c...

Excited that this one is live and doubly excited that I've already been able to replicate the majority of the findings in NESARC wave 1 (GAD & MDD) and wave 2 (PTSD). If anyone knows of any publicly available data sets with *DSM-5* PTSD, please let me know!! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Someone please explain to me why people are angry that the CEO of Blue Sky is posting about waffles.