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New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti... and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

BBC: Why don't women use ChatGPT? Woman: I tried it and it just barfed out useless garbage BBC: Women don't use ChatGPT because it's too difficult for their pretty little heads

submitted 593 days ago • 52 comments

I really dislike the trend on this site where people mock Hegseth for having a drinking problem. It is stigmatizing. We can be scornful of fascists without also stigmatizing problems that lots of people struggle with. We should mock him for being an incompetent bootlicker. Isn't that enough?

submitted 55 days ago • 12 comments

Society for Research in Psychopathology folks, pls submit nominations for the Early Career Award by April 30th! No better time to do all we can to elevate our EC colleagues and recognize their research contributions

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

‼️ New paper @ Child Development discussing why it is inappropriate to use traditional common factor models to model adverse childhood experienced (ACEs) and other stressor inventories ‼️ Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky 1/9

submitted 56 days ago • 10 comments

Here's my hot take of the day. Unless you're doing research on an actual intervention, your paper does not need a clinical implication section They suck (including mine) and it undermines the value of basic science. You're buying into the idea that research isn't valuable unless it's applied.

submitted 62 days ago • 10 comments

One of our undergraduate students in philosophy at Columbia, Mohsen Mahdawi, has been arrested by ICE at an immigration appointment (that he thought was for his citizenship application) in Vermont. I am standing up to say: hands off our students.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

man every time I deposit a manuscript in NIHMS for eventual open access via PubMed Central, I'm floored by how well it all works. it's wild that people pay piles of grant money to for-profit publishers rather than relying on this already-excellent, govt-funded system

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

Columbia’s reward for bending over backward to comply is *checks notes* $700 million in more funding freezes. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 68 days ago • 28 comments

Just to recap: Multiple sieg heils at the inauguration and CPAC SecDef with “88” and Jerusalem Cross tattoos Health Sec said “COVID was engineered to spare the Jews” and met with literal German Nazis FBI Director appeared 6x on a podcast that advocates for a “final solution” for America’s Jews

submitted 68 days ago • 18 comments

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

submitted 69 days ago • 193 comments

Tim Walz: "You you claim to love freedom but want to restrict certain groups, you don’t love freedom. You love privilege." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #MomSky

submitted 69 days ago • 128 comments

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

submitted 69 days ago • 132 comments

Trump is an absolute evil sack of shit who is decimating higher education in this country. If you’ve said out loud that you’re grateful that your work isn’t being targeted by the current administration, super cringe, and maybe also don’t hold your breath.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Trump and Musk are trying to block all NIH spending. Trump and Musk are trying to block all NIH spending. (Legal aside: so they’re admitting that regulations matter. That’s good.)

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

With the end of the semester approaching, a month of my lab meetings are dedicated to practice talks. What do you think makes for a good talk? What advice do you give folks?

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

submitted 76 days ago • 327 comments

New plan is apparently fuck around. Don’t find out.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Things that are not cool to do: kidnap someone, throw them into an unmarked van, and put them in prison in a different state because they wrote an op-ed that you didn't like.

submitted 79 days ago • 11 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 82 days ago • 1901 comments

In Denver for the @hitop-system.bsky.social meeting. I’m joining @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social at the rooftop pool (only brought sweaters). Come say hi if you’re willing to tolerate my current 20/10 levels of nihilism!!! Life is great!

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Finally some coverage of NIH grant cancelations that asks lawyers, on the record, "isn't this illegal?" (the answer is "yes") www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

I need to get off this timeline.

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments