So now tech companies are just openly helping kids cheat? Cool cool cool
Lisa Starr
@lisastarr.bsky.social
Clinical psychological scientist at U of Rochester with interests in depression, life stress, interpersonal factors, daily processes, clinical affective science. Mom of 2. Probably tired right now. Opinions my own
Russia endured Lysenkoism in the 1930s. It forced Lamarck's theory of use & disuse. The WH OMB rule is akin to Russia's Nomenklatura, where a political senior appointee overrides expert peer review. There is still time to comment to stop this TONIGHT. 100k comments so far. 🧪 archive.today/WLYJi
Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science
Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.
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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?
PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4w agoCovariation among higher-order psychopathology dimensions is driven by nomorbidity, not comorbidity: https://osf.io/3t2cm
in rochester just to explore a bit with the family and took some time on my own to reflect on the life of one of the city’s most famous citizens, frederick douglass youtu.be/zTa_qiiZGiQ?...
The Fight Never Ends
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nat. Mental Health (2026) rdcu.be/fsqkm
Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Nature Mental Health - In this meta-analysis of 49 studies, the authors find that self-reports of childhood maltreatment are generally stable, challenging assumptions of inherent unreliability and...
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Really, @nytimes.com, an article on facilitated communication? Didn't you see the Law & Order episode in 1995(!) debunking FC? It was a KEY plot point. (seriously, more procedural dramas should debunk pseudoscience as side plots) lawandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Cruel_a... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/s...
An Autism Breakthrough, or an Illusion? The Fight Over Assisted Spelling
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For fifty years, fans, critics, and scholars have debated the meaning of the Eagles’ acclaimed 1976 recording “Hotel California.” Our new paper uses advanced AI analysis to finally reveal the hidden truth: it’s about what if there was a spooky hotel
We’re not talking enough about how so-called anti-DEI policies are transparently intended to exclude people of color from white spaces.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2mo agoShe's straightforwardly saying schools’ federal funds are at risk unless they reduce their Black student population to something Trump is more comfortable with By design, the safest way for schools to avoid suspicion is to not admit Black students at all ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
We looked for the experimental evidence showing that social media bans benefit youth... and found nothing. Like, lots of studies with null results? No, literally nothing-- there are no experimental studies of social media restriction that target minors like these bans do. Check out our new paper!
Frontiers | We don't know how social media bans will affect youth but we're doing it anyway!
Around the world, governments are banning youth from social media. Proponents of bans claim that banning or restricting social media access is necessary to c...
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This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Report: NIH, NASA Restrict Co-Authoring With Foreign Scientists
The National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports.
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What an eventful, wonderful but bittersweet week for my lab. Farewell dinner last Wed for Gwyn DeLap, off to Montefiore for internship Got to hood Katy Chang on Fri, & then made it official with her diss defense today. And a beautiful wedding (Congrats Gwyn & Shane!) I'm so grateful for my students!
Congratulations, Dr. Katy Chang, who defended her superb dissertation today! 👩🎓🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥹 @urochester.bsky.social
Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it
Some evidence of decreasing depression rates among adolescents from the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 60% of teens with depression reported receiving mental health treatment (31% taking meds) www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/d...
Academic patriarchy is how there is nothing inside of doctoral robes to hook the hood to, because they assume you are wearing men’s clothes underneath and can attach it to your belt or shirt buttons.
US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”
this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it
Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 3mo agoUS universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”
📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
Ooo @cdelawalla.bsky.social is super famous now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
She set out to become a clinical psychologist. Now she’s leading a US movement to save science
Colette Delawalla launched Stand Up for Science to push back against the Trump’s cuts to medical and scientific research
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I just looked up a list of the top AI words and I use nearly all of them in my writing all the time. What does this say about me? Am I an LLM? 🤖
There is a Washington Post editorial on how Trump should change the US's official language from "English" to "American" and I just can't.
This is phenomenal. How many disease prevention programs are there that lead to 11% drop in mortality within 2 years? Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...
Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
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I know the summer isn't quiiiiiite here yet (and those who are on the quarter system are cussing me out for even thinking about summer). But here is my Summer Writing Worksheet for those who use it! Share widely, please! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Summer 2026 Writing Goals Worksheet [TEMPLATE]
Building a Summer Practice of Writing in 2026 *Download a copy to edit If January is a mythical month for productivity, the summer is even more magical. It’s the time where you simultaneously get to ...
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Why aren't the kids out protesting? The NYT is on the case. Turns out: They're too sad to protest bc too much TikTok, too much chatGPT, and not enough reactionary centrism!! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...
I got this email and I am so mad! My 2012 Kindle Paperwhite works as well as when I first got it. There’s been essentially no tech improvements in 14 years - my old model is almost exactly the same as the new models. Pure cash grab.
WIRED@wired.com · 4mo agoIn an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store. www.wired.com/story/amazon...
Very excited for this! I've never met Dr. McFall, but my fun fact is that he's my academic great-grandfather (or grandfather if you go by postdoc mentor). In a way, he's an forefather of everyone with clinical science training, and I'm excited for the opportunity learn from him.
Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Div.12)@scpdiv12.bsky.social · 4mo agoJoin one of our sections, the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP), for an upcoming Zoom event on Wednesday, April 15th at 12 PM EST. Dr. Richard M. McFall will present followed by a live Q&A with SSCP President Dr. Rosanna Breaux. We hope to see you there!
⭐️Congrats to this year’s class of Rising Stars! ⭐️ This wraps my 3rd and final year on the selection committee. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the kids are smarter than me, and the future is in good hands🤩
Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 5mo ago⭐️ Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐️ www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...
