New Yorker cartoon feels about right

Wendy syndrome: It’s that time of year when students are moving on from the lab—research assistants starting their PhDs, graduate students finishing theirs—and new students are joining. Somehow the students stay the same age, while I keep growing up.

Reviewing page proofs for a manuscript in press at journal X. The editor asks me to add the issue and page number to a reference. Said reference has not yet been assigned to an issue, which the editor should know because the paper is in press at…the very same journal X. 🧪

Scientists: how many times a year do you have a good idea? A legitimately novel, creative, good idea? I'll go first: 4-5 times a year. It's a delight, and I'm currently basking in the glow of this quarter's good idea. 🧪 #psychsky #scisky

I am at the HiTOP conference awaiting said radar plots. @hitop-system.bsky.social

Gladiator: Is That All? Bring It!

ALT: Gladiator: Is That All? Bring It!

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Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Ph.D. 🇹🇹🏳️‍🌈@craiganthonyrs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am having ideas about where I can include this in as many presentation as possible once I know you'll be present

Come on, @nytimes.com. You can print 2k words (w/o a single hyperlink to a scientific study) saying psych meds are overprescribed, hitting all the beats you'd expect in a B- student paper (Szasz, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) without one mention of psychotherapy? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...

The only good radar plot is a deleted radar plot. 🧪 #dataviz

🤔Wait... What happened to that US Research funding line? Seemed like it was almost parallel to China, and then something weird happened recently? What happened recently? You can't do science if you fire the scientist, cut their funding, put anti-scientists in charge, and put your energy into hate.

“They realized, well, that was a mistake,” said Sheriff Sam Hulse of Bonneville County, a Republican. “You started seeing deaths occurring in the community. We started seeing the numbers in the crisis system rise. The very thing we told them would happen was beginning to happen.”

Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began.

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The people developing the treatment for your cancer diagnosis in 25 years are not ok. American Science is not ok...and Republicans are letting it happen. www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

National survey of NIH-funded researchers shows precarious state of U.S. science — ‘This is like the Titanic’

A nationwide STAT survey of NIH-funded researchers reveals that, a year after Donald Trump's return to the White House, many scientists are reeling

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Round two. Let's go!

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 5mo ago

NEW YORK CITY! Important update for your local March 7th National Day of Action rally! The rally will now be located at CITY HALL PARK from 12pm - 2pm Visit this link fight2win.standupforscience.... to volunteer at the NYC rally or for more info!

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

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The Call for Abstracts has been extended until March 2nd, and we're excited about building an engaging scientific program. We hope you'll consider submitting your work, and hope to see you in June!

HiTOP@hitop-system.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The HiTOP Society will have its first free-standing conference this year on June 4-6. The Call for Abstracts is now open, and we hope you'll consider submitting your HiTOP-related work! www.hitop-system.org/hitop-2026-c...

As things stand today, all NIH institutes will have empty advisory councils by the end of 2026. NIMHHD will have an empty advisory council in 1 month, NIMH in 8 months. 🧪 Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026

Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

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Enroll in my new workshop to realize your dream of learning IRT #quantpsych #psychometrics #psychsky #statssky

Foundations of Item Response Theory

This workshop from Wes Bonifay focuses on the foundations and application of item response theory, particularly as applied to binary items.

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'Tis the season (for collider bias)! Check out Michel's very nice simulation and explanation of why you shouldn't pull your kid out of varsity chess club just yet.

Michel Nivard@michelnivard.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

And if you're interested in this kind of work and looking for a postdoc position, we are hiring! Please see the ad on my website, linked from my bio.

Katherine Jonas PhD LP@kgjonas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Have you wondered why higher bipolar polygenic scores (BP PGS) seem to predict better outcomes among people with psychosis? Here’s why (1/6) 🧪#PsychSciSky

Have you wondered why higher bipolar polygenic scores (BP PGS) seem to predict better outcomes among people with psychosis? Here’s why (1/6) 🧪#PsychSciSky

Neuropsychopharmacology@npp-journal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#ThisWeekInNPP Inconsistent clinical associations of bipolar disorder (BP) polygenic risk score (PRS) largely reflect collider bias from case- & treatment-based sampling, which distorts correlations between scores & alters BP-PRS links to outcomes 🧠🧬 / @kgjonas.bsky.social

CDG3 is out, with better-than-ever resolution of the genetic structure of psychiatric disorders.

Andrew Grotzinger@andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social · 8mo ago

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to everyone elected to our Society's 2026 Executive Committee! President: Miri Forbes President-Elect: Chris Conway Secretary: Kelsie Forbush Treasurer: Len Simms Trainee Engagement Chair: Caroline Balling Membership Chair: Holly Levin-Aspenson Conference Chair: Martin Sellbom

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

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Oh, I've been hitting the imaginary brake pedal since Spring.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Impoundment Crisis is alive and well. An anonymous NIH staffer explained to @donmoyn.bsky.social how Trump's team has used the federal register to disappear "study sections" that would have approved grants THAT WOULD HAVE BE GOING OUT RIGHT NOW. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster

An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

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I am really grateful to be part of the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC) and excited that this paper is out in the world! Check it out! #pubs

Elizabeth Atkinson@egatkinson.bsky.social · last yr.

📃 I am excited to share our @naturegenet.bsky.social review paper on the state of psychiatric genetics in Latin America, put forth by the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC)! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thought-provoking symposium on treatment resistance, short-comings of its definitions & of treatment practice @ #SIRS2025 @sirsofficial.bsky.social w/Ingrid Melle & @kgjonas.bsky.social (chairs), Sherry KW Chan, Jose Rubio, Oliver Howes - and my wonderful colleague @kristinwold.bsky.social (here👇)

If no single piece of the original ship remains in the current ship, is the ship still the Ship of Theseus? And if one percent of all my body's cells get replaced every single day, is it really me who, two months ago, accepted your review request?

A preliminary brief version of the HiTOP self-report measure (“B-HiTOP”) is now available on our website: www.hitop-system.org/measurement-... 1/2

Measurement of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)

Information about HiTOP self-report measures, including HiTOP-PRO, the harmful substance use module, and B-HiTOP

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