Connor J. Smith

@connorjsmith.bsky.social

Clinical Psychology Graduate Student at the University of Washington and the RADLab | Interested in solitary vs social substance use | Previously Lab Manager at @MaRSS_Lab | Football Fan⚽️ (he/him)

In 🇨🇦 we implemented an educational intervention based on motivational interviewing in maternity wards & observed significant increases in newborn vaccine coverage. If you’re interested in helping develop similar community-based approach across 🇺🇸, please reach out to me www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Motivational interviewing: A powerful tool to address vaccine hesitancy, CCDR 46(4) - Canada.ca

Defines motivational interviewing and shows how it could be helpful against vaccine hesitancy. Highlights how it was used to foster vaccine uptake in a public health program in the province of Quebec.

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Dr. Ruth Gottesman has donated $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with instructions that it be used to cover tuition for all students going forward. It is one of the largest charitable donations to an educational institution in the U.S. nyti.ms/3SQQuzS

Dr. Ruth Gottesman wearing a blue blazer and sitting at a desk. The headline reads: "Her $1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School." Photo by David Dee Delgado for The New York Times.

One claim by critics of DEI/'wokeness' in academia that I find ridiculous is that there was a golden age of academia characterized by meritocracy, freewheeling debate, and so forth. Anyone familiar with how academia worked before the 90s knows this is nonsense. 1/3

At the @psychscience.bsky.social journal AMPPS, we publish tutorials and have dedicated tutorial reviewers. TRs are go through all the code and each step of a tutorial, then provide feedback about whether it all works as it should. Grad students and post-docs are welcome to be TRs. Join us?

AMPPS Tutorial Reviewer Form

This form is designed to collect some brief information from potential "tutorial reviewers" for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS). AMPPS is committed to having our tut...

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