I’m at the Garbage concert with @ashleylwatts.bsky.social and Shirley Manson just mentioned Britney and this is the crossover I needed 😭

The people whipping up panics about "academic freedom" rarely speak up when academic freedom is actually imperiled. This is absolutely chilling.

89 of my journal articles were used to train Meta’s AI. You can alert the lawyers handling the class action suit if your intellectual works were used as well at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com.

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them. Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well

some fun peer review irony 😅

this is simply extortion and theft of state monies

Stalin ass shit

PSA: Just trotting out the aphorism that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” doesn’t mean *your* model is among the latter…

If Congress approves the cuts proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%: from 95,700 students and postdocs this year to 21,400 in 2026 www.science.org/content/article/it-s-nightmare-u-s-funding-cuts-threaten-academic-science-jobs-all-levels

Cremieux’s real name is Jordan Lasker. I put his name in the newspaper. He’s a scientific racist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Excruciatingly embarrassing

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti... and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

BBC: Why don't women use ChatGPT? Woman: I tried it and it just barfed out useless garbage BBC: Women don't use ChatGPT because it's too difficult for their pretty little heads

I really dislike the trend on this site where people mock Hegseth for having a drinking problem. It is stigmatizing. We can be scornful of fascists without also stigmatizing problems that lots of people struggle with. We should mock him for being an incompetent bootlicker. Isn't that enough?

Society for Research in Psychopathology folks, pls submit nominations for the Early Career Award by April 30th! No better time to do all we can to elevate our EC colleagues and recognize their research contributions

‼️ New paper @ Child Development discussing why it is inappropriate to use traditional common factor models to model adverse childhood experienced (ACEs) and other stressor inventories ‼️ Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky 1/9

Here's my hot take of the day. Unless you're doing research on an actual intervention, your paper does not need a clinical implication section They suck (including mine) and it undermines the value of basic science. You're buying into the idea that research isn't valuable unless it's applied.

One of our undergraduate students in philosophy at Columbia, Mohsen Mahdawi, has been arrested by ICE at an immigration appointment (that he thought was for his citizenship application) in Vermont. I am standing up to say: hands off our students.

man every time I deposit a manuscript in NIHMS for eventual open access via PubMed Central, I'm floored by how well it all works. it's wild that people pay piles of grant money to for-profit publishers rather than relying on this already-excellent, govt-funded system

Columbia’s reward for bending over backward to comply is *checks notes* $700 million in more funding freezes. www.science.org/content/arti...

Just to recap: Multiple sieg heils at the inauguration and CPAC SecDef with “88” and Jerusalem Cross tattoos Health Sec said “COVID was engineered to spare the Jews” and met with literal German Nazis FBI Director appeared 6x on a podcast that advocates for a “final solution” for America’s Jews

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

Tim Walz: "You you claim to love freedom but want to restrict certain groups, you don’t love freedom. You love privilege." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #MomSky

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

Trump is an absolute evil sack of shit who is decimating higher education in this country. If you’ve said out loud that you’re grateful that your work isn’t being targeted by the current administration, super cringe, and maybe also don’t hold your breath.

Trump and Musk are trying to block all NIH spending. Trump and Musk are trying to block all NIH spending. (Legal aside: so they’re admitting that regulations matter. That’s good.)

With the end of the semester approaching, a month of my lab meetings are dedicated to practice talks. What do you think makes for a good talk? What advice do you give folks?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

New plan is apparently fuck around. Don’t find out.

Things that are not cool to do: kidnap someone, throw them into an unmarked van, and put them in prison in a different state because they wrote an op-ed that you didn't like.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

In Denver for the @hitop-system.bsky.social meeting. I’m joining @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social at the rooftop pool (only brought sweaters). Come say hi if you’re willing to tolerate my current 20/10 levels of nihilism!!! Life is great!

Finally some coverage of NIH grant cancelations that asks lawyers, on the record, "isn't this illegal?" (the answer is "yes") www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

I need to get off this timeline.

Community notes ftw

Imagine being in charge of a university and believing it was clever and strategic to sacrifice all your values, only to be tricked by the dumbest and most dishonest president in history.

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

This month’s issue of Clinical Psych. Sciences is 🔥 🔥 🔥 with papers by @ashleylwatts.bsky.social @miriforbes.bsky.social @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social @simongoldberg.bsky.social

oh this is a big mystery

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic

When 7% of University of Virginia students are Black, in a state that 18% Black, that's DEI run amok. When 50% of Federal Judges are members of the Federalist Society while 5% of law students are members of the Federalist Society, that's the meritocracy at its finest.

Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people

Oh my god when I first read on social media that by “trans” they probably meant “transgenic” I didn’t want to believe they were so dumb but apparently they are 😂

David Condon and I are very pleased that our Unidim paper is finally out at Psychological Measurement: Open access at dx.doi.org/10.1037/met0... We describe the unidim statistic which has been available in the psych package for several years. We compare u to CFI, omega_h, and other estimates.

Pretty convinced that this administration is looking at the death total they racked up the first time around due to Covid and trying to beat it

My favorite Kurt Vonnegut quote--"you are what you pretend to be"--comes from Mother Night, a novel about an American spy who pretends to be a Nazi propagandist only to realize later in life he was just being a Nazi propagandist

The primary donor to #openscience seems very supportive of massive cuts to scientific funding that jeopardize research. I don’t think it’s edgy at this point to say that reform is being weaponized and the community needs to stand up against it.