Why is the Yale Board of Trustees absolutely unreachable by any faculty, students, or alumni at this time of crisis for the university, now under assault from the Trump administration? The trustees govern Yale but refuse any direct engagement: this is undemocratic, unaccountable and unacceptable.

Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse

rblimp is so great!

The National Academy of Sciences has been trying to plot a course of appeasement. To not run afoul of this madman. Appeasement never works. It has never worked with bullies. The entirety of academia and the scientific community needs to stand together and fight against this monster.

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

An enraging story about what look like UT's efforts to kowtow to powerful conservatives. “I ask questions that maybe someone in a position of power might disagree with. … We ask these questions because we’re trying to get at what is the truth,” Chaar López said. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️

“A settlement with this administration does not get them off your back." “It’s strange to students, faculty, and alums: Why are you so eager to settle?” 🤔 @yaleaaup.bsky.social

And so after a very brief hiatus, version 0.7.0 of "learning statistics with R" exists. Full rebuild in quarto, stylistic fixes, "epilogues from 2026" to comment on how the world changed since original publication, and as an added bonus, no longer misgenders the author learningstatisticswithr.com

Hilton said: “This horrific chapter of abuse, neglect and trauma has finally come to an end... Today means no child will ever have to endure what we did at Provo Canyon School again.” 🥹

Utah closes Provo Canyon School’s original campus, saying it used abusive discipline, unnecessary restraints, & humiliated kids The decision comes after the state revoked the license for the school’s Springville campus, & after more than 50 yrs of abuse allegations. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/07...

Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?

Craig Spencer has followed every Ebola outbreak since 2014 and seen how the world’s capacity to control the virus has improved—but the U.S. is forgetting what made that possible, he argues.

Great new episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social on the rise of civic centers. USU is going through this right now. 😣 soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought "I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you" and repeatedly calls his actions "depraved" and "evil"

Another blow to US science. PhD programs are routinely more than 4 years (ours is 6). www.dhs.gov/news/2026/07...

Measurement as War: AI Loves a Questionable Metaphor "The two curves are the whole intuition. The naive estimator is a sniper rifle zeroed on the wrong target: tight cluster, reliably off. The SEM estimator is aimed correctly but shakier: it's centered on the truth, at the cost of a wider spread."

Also pointing out again for the record: That this was able to happen in the US is a political miracle.

University business services make me write a justification for not choosing a flight that leaves at 5am with a 35 minute connection in a massive airport. These judges (and their staff) should be able to come up with a few paragraphs of legal reasoning.

988 received 19.1 million calls, texts, and chats from July 2022 through September 2025 #suicideprevention files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-...

New Australian guidelines join NICE and Ireland in recommending against suicide risk stratification and caution providers to move away from a prediction framework #suicideprevention medicine.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset...

Blog post on new preprint by @ashleylwatts.bsky.social et al. They argue that correlations among internalizing & externalizing may not derive from comorbidity, but nomorbidity. I use an accessible simulatiom study tosupport this, & relate the preprint to prior work. eiko-fried.com/blog/psychop...

"American colleges & unis became the envy of the world in part b/c the nation understood that legislators dictating course content, or banning entire subjects outright, is tyrannical. Authoritarians always attempt to capture the institutions that provide an independent check on state propaganda."

Look at the #stats class that is required for a psych degree in Sims 4 😬

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Today's mood is getting hit by a shoe (in a good way) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Li4...

“the trials of interventions that were delivered by internal school staff didn't have a significant effect on symptoms. Whereas those delivered by external practitioners did” 👉 Watch on ACAMH Learn · Free CPD/CME #ChildMentalHealth #Anxiety #Depression

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

🧵 1/ Some facts and figures on suicide from the latest report out of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions #suicideprevention

I would love for anyone to explain the clinical utility of this, or to point to any evidence that placing multimorbid patients into statictially derived clusters has ever improved care or helped elucidate mechanisms leading to novel treatment options.

New annual gun death analysis Our latest analysis of annual CDC firearm mortality data found a major drop in the gun homicide rate while firearm suicides continue to reach all-time highs. Read the full report and explore the trends and solutions here: publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

Suicide prevention depends on good science. A proposed OMB rule would impact suicide research by politicizing federal grant decisions, making it easier to terminate research funding, and restricting research on disparities. Comments close on 7/13 Speak up: afsp.quorum.us/campaign/fed...

The boxed warning regarding treatment emerging suicide with antidepressants keeps on causing controversies. Here is a very recent exchange bw leading psychiatrists and (former) FDA officials. IMO, the latter have more convincing arguments.

A reminder that registration is now OPEN for our 3rd Suicide Research and Prevention Conference coming up on 9/17 🎉 Sign up today (for free!): bit.ly/44lOFAY or go to our website to learn more: bit.ly/4vUfurZ

Here's an updated vignette for the modelbased package, which is probably clearer in its presentation and therefore the concepts are maybe easier to understand. #easystats #rstats easystats.github.io/modelbased/a...

And 1/3 are wrong. 😑

I listened to the freakenomics episode with the Dartmouth pres so you didn’t have to. She said she’s proud she didn’t divest Barnard’s endowment from genocide bc endowments are not political. In case you were wondering what passes for enlightened discourse.

An 8-year-old girl anxiously waiting for fireworks to begin. A woman sleeping in her home. A 9-year-old child celebrating the Fourth of July in the backyard with family. A DeKalb County DA’s office employee spending the evening in what should have been the safety of her home.

The “little girl in me who was told she would never be believed feels so validated today,” she said. “...No institution is too powerful to be held accountable. When survivors refuse to stay silent, change is possible.” - Paris Hilton www.sltrib.com/news/2026/07...

11th Circuit: Academic freedom is specially protected by the First Amendment, though university professors are subject to some ordinary employee management. However, the state has no compelling interest in making academics mouthpieces for a government viewpoint consistent with the First Amendment.

School Psych Review has a call out for a new special issue on “Advancing Integrated Models for Co-Occurring Academic, Behavioral, and Mental Health Difficulties" with great editors. Consider submitting if you have something aligned! Submissions close Oct 30. #schoolpsych

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn

I underestimated Muthén’s marketing budget

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45 years ago.

“Cleveland State’s center has hired seven faculty members and 28 students enrolled last academic year, Broka said.”

I couldn't leave the USA without giving my DAG talk one last time! Come and join my 'farewell lecture' in New Haven (or online!) on 15th July at 4pm Eastern Time! Sign-up to attend in-person or online at: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

FYI the NOFO for the GLS Campus Suicide Prevention Grants was just posted yesterday with only 27 days until the submission deadline. 😵‍💫