🌟 Vanderbilt Psychology has an open rank position available in our clinical area! Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/194049 (Note that this position is separate from our other psych department's asst prof search: apply.interfolio.com/194058) RTs appreciated!!

Fun story. As I was a grad student I published a 1st-author paper on co-rumination in J of Adolescence that got discussed in the NYT (side note, the reporter interviewed me but only named my advisor in the story). Our PR office wanted to build on it for more press, so they wrote up a press release…

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 2d ago

I’ve never heard of a university press office that doesn’t ask researchers to review and sign off on press releases. Unless I hear otherwise, this is on the scientists, not the PR office

What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

Ever had opioids & enjoyed them? Our work shows you might be a minority- or the enjoyment stemmed from pain relief? We compared preoperative opioid effects (RCT, N=199, little pain) & found: 🟥 LARGE effects on drug high/sedation/dizziness 🔸SMALL effects on well-being www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Intoxication and other subjective effects of preanesthetic opioids in surgical patients: A randomized controlled trial

Karlsen et al. show that patients experience marked undesirable effects but minimal desirable effects after preoperative intravenous opioids.

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Was just informed that @seattletimes.com is ceasing beat coverage of soccer. Massive loss for both local and national soccer community.

Chris Chambers did some excellent research on where exaggerated claims in science news come from. He came to the conclusion that scientists are the ones responsible pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Polluted at the faucet: Exaggeration and hype of research results in the media often originate earlier at the press office

The mass media are frequently accused of overhyping science and health stories. But often, the press releases by universities and research institutes are the source of hype and exaggeration. Subject C...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

BREAKING: financial systems appear to be shut down at NIH—days before the end of year, as NIH funding is WAY down. More to come. Time to lock in, folks.

"White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants" [everybody up in arms, as they should be, but for those who have been paying close attention, this has pretty much already happened - the realization just hasn't sunk in yet] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

nytimes.com

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

I think the "indirect" versus "direct" distinction is important here. Is your Aim 1 question "are there clusters?"? Don't; the method will never tell you there aren't. If you're using clusters as a handy way of handling variability, and you don't treat them as real and observed, probably fine.

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 6d ago

This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>

I'll be reviewing applications for a new student or two for UNC-CH's clinical psychology PhD program! Social anxiety, pain, intensive longitudinal data, all that fun stuff. What prospective applicants get if they email me (so no need): docs.google.com/document/d/1... Lab: tarheels.live/rodelab/

Welcome to the Rodebaugh Lab Website - Rodebaugh Laboratory

Welcome to the Rodebaugh lab website! Here you can learn about what Dr. Rodebaugh & colleagues are working on and what research is being conducted.

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For those not familiar with #DuaneGish, his eponymous gallop, or the #ICR, see this 1994 essay where Dr. Eugenie Scott coins the term when describing the torrent of logical & factual nonsense spewed by creationists on a “debate” stage. talkorigins.org/faqs/debatin...

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

The "no biomarkers" framework just reveals authors who know little to nothing about psychometrics and testing. There are *lots* of reliable methods for diagnosing psychiatric conditions. And the validity of those methods often approaches "biological" ones. psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-...

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 4w ago

I know that authors usually don’t pick headlines, but even then, this one is a bit bold for a piece that literally says “There are currently no scientifically valid biomarkers for any psychiatric condition, with the exception of certain proteins used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease.”

I see someone beat me to the actual article: bsky.app/profile/frod...

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez@frodsan.bsky.social · 2w ago

This has been circulating recently bsky.app/profile/mzlo...

does anyone have a good tutorial for ordinal regressions for dummies (social psychologist used to multi-item likert scales)

I’m pleased to share that I’ll be considering grad students for Fall 2027 admissions to the University of Rochester’s clinical psychology program. I’m working on updating my website (more to come)— check it out to learn more about who we are and what we do www.psych.rochester.edu/research/sta...

Starr Lab – Internalizing Disorder Research at the University of Rochester

Starr Lab

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I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

Ariely's statements on this are all

I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect

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Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 3w ago

A psychology journal has retracted a seminal 2002 paper on deadlines and procrastination coauthored by behavioral scientist Dan Ariely of Duke University just days after a team of sleuths published analyses of the original study data, finding it had been tampered with.

And you can read all about this and more of the fascinating history of cycling in Seattle in @seattlebikeblog.com 's excellent book Biking Uphill in the Rain! www.seattlebikeblog.com/shop/biking-...

The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com · 3w ago

When a railroad company announced it would abandon a Seattle line, neighbors organized to turn the tracks into a trail. The Burke-Gilman Trail is now marking 55 years.

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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I'm going to be telling my methods class in a few weeks that we need more of this kind of thing, so it's exciting to see in an area some of them are interested in!

Jonas Dora@jonasdora.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm super excited to share a new preprint in which @kevinmking.bsky.social and I propose an update to the affect regulation theory of alcohol use: "A mathematical and computational formalization of the affect regulation hypothesis of alcohol use" doi.org/10.31234/osf...

The dominant affect regulation accounts cannot explain this, but also seem oddly untroubled by it; the field's collective belief in affect regulation appears pretty much unchanged since these daily life findings have been established.

This a very exciting piece of work from @jonasdora.bsky.social . Jonas presents a mathematical and computational theory of affect regulation and alcohol use. This is a major advance in the field.

Jonas Dora@jonasdora.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm super excited to share a new preprint in which @kevinmking.bsky.social and I propose an update to the affect regulation theory of alcohol use: "A mathematical and computational formalization of the affect regulation hypothesis of alcohol use" doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I'm super excited to share a new preprint in which @kevinmking.bsky.social and I propose an update to the affect regulation theory of alcohol use: "A mathematical and computational formalization of the affect regulation hypothesis of alcohol use" doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Seattle Public School teachers might go on strike tomorrow. Negotiations going into the night. And the most up to date coverage? From the Garfield High School newspaper. Pretty awesome work by these teens. www.garfieldmessenger.org/11712/articl...

Strike Live Coverage: Deal Not Yet Reached as School Starts Tomorrow

Students might want to hold off on getting ready to come back to school. The Seattle Education Association (SEA) – the 6,000 member union that represents the district’s teachers, paraprofessionals, an...

garfieldmessenger.org

I am like 90% sure the pheromone research in psychology never replicated. But you do you, drink your pee and stink your stank I guess.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Why are young men so lonely? They're not showering and they're drinking their own urine, so I'm not sure what else they could do to attract women."

Yale Psychology is hiring an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology! Review of applications will begin on September 2, 2026. Link: apply.interfolio.com/188806 Please share widely & apply!

My sources inside NIH tell me that grant applications at NIH will now be screened for policy related research and flagged for non-pay. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

NIH Reportedly Flagging, Freezing Policy-Focused Grant Applications

Political appointees of U.S. President Donald Trump have reportedly been “flagging and freezing policy-focused grant applications” to the National Institutes of Health.

forbes.com

One week to go until I'll be reviewing the applications - can't wait! I've now added information on the top-up funds I have available too. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in doing a PhD in quantitative psychopathology :) miriamkforbes.academic.ws

Miriam K. Forbes, PhD

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. I was awarded my PhD in Psychology in 2014, and went on to do po...

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Miri Forbes@miriforbes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m recruiting two new PhD students to start in 2027, working with me on my program of research in quantitative psychopathology. I’ve put some information for interested students on my website: miriamkforbes.academic.ws Please share with anyone you know who might be interested!

It’s important to understand how rare it is for every single federal party leader to publicly support the PM’s actions. That’s how unhinged of a situation we’re in—nobody is even trying to score political points.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · last mo.

Late last evening I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what the U.S. has offered, and we will not give what they have asked.