Excited to report that I'll be accepting at least one doctoral student to the PhD in Clinical Psychology program at UMKC for the 2026-2027 upcoming admissions cycle. Folks can check out our current projects at www.superlabpsych.com!

You just know that on the day when you have a million things due, at the end of the semester, you’ll get the “your proofs are ready!” email

My first doctoral student ever successfully defended her dissertation this morning, and it’s sort of amazing and awe-inspiring and humbling as a mentor, right?

I’ve heard a lot of issues folks are having with using data panels. Does anyone have a party they prefer to go through? I’ve heard rumblings that prolific may not be great and others recommended forthright access. Any recs?

This is the stuff I put on my slides when I’m teaching Cog Assessment So cringe

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5mo ago

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

This morning during a particularly overstimulating and poor vibe Costco trip, while I was looking for some iron supplements, my husband goes “iron helps us play!” and I lost it

Starting my year off right by throwing out every grain of magic sand in my house.

Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7mo ago

Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.

It’s 21% of the world's surface fresh water, Michael, how much could it cost?

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

The way this semester refuses to end.

“Oh, you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting.”

The new Knives Out is great

This year’s RSA symposium deadline

a cat is jumping out of a cardboard box with the words boo cat jumpscare written on it .

Alt: a cat is jumping out of a cardboard box with the words boo cat jumpscare written on it

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I have learned today that there will be a limited release of a restored 1995 Sense and Sensibility next week and when I say my eyes filled with tears I am not exaggerating

100 years of average January-October temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Confession as a Michigan fan: I care more about the Michigan State game than the OSU game. I respect the rivalry, but from a pragmatic angle, I have to interact with way more MSU people than OSU people. Keep in mind, caring is relative. My “caring more” is still very low on caring.

"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

Reboot Frasier except it’s Robin and Steve’s morning radio show

For my musical theater people: This weekend a woman told me that when she and her husband were dating, she told him her favorite musical was “Hairspray” and he wanted to get her tickets but he got them for “Hair” instead. It was his first time seeing a musical

AI is killing the college essay as more professors ditch robot-written papers for in-class exams. So now even fewer students are being taught to write well (an energy intensive task!). Students lose out, bc good writing = good thinking: a training of the brain towards structure, style & substance.

Hey alcohol research folks, is anyone still looking for symposium speakers for RSA? I have some EMA data on rural young adults that I’d love to present but I don’t think I have bandwidth to also organize. Hit me up if you want to hear more!

Learning this news at 9:45pm on a Sunday while folks try to process my tax exempt certificate is somehow a low

As someone who has revamped their psych of gender class assignments to be explicitly focused on critical thinking in response to media, the NYT really gives me a lot to work with

Apologies to everyone who has to be around me for the foreseeable future because I’ll either be 1) watching Diane Keaton movies or 2) quoting Diane Keaton movies at every opportunity

RIFed: Office of Science - CDC Library They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research. You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know. A great soul if ever there was one www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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