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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 7 hours ago • 24 comments

Welcome new users! You'll hear people say "BlueSky has no algorithm". That's not strictly true - reverse chronological is an algorithm (albeit a simple one.) That's not just to be pedantic, it's worth pointing out for two reasons (1/3)

submitted 219 days ago • 4 comments

The findings at the recent trial and today's Columbia chaos is pushing me to the edge. I just sent the following email...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

we are about to enter the golden age of scams, people are going to lose millions

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

I’m hearing this was a 16 year old boy who jumped off his bike out of the way of a driver who ran over it and then sped away. The boy is apparently without it major injuries thankfully. Feeling both really angry, and grateful some dad still gets to hug their kid tonight

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏 squinting We had more people at the Lincoln Memorial for our Stand Up for Science rally on March 7th! #StandUpforScience #FailedBirthdayParade

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

I haven’t seen a crowd estimate for the Seattle No Kings protest, but the paper is reporting that the march was 1.5 miles long, so… a lot #nokings www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Congratulations, Nico, on such an innovative paper!! With everything going on in the world, it's important to remember that pregnancy/postpartum is a challenging stage of life. Suicide risk can be high and reseach on these experiences is absolutely critical.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I said walked by Randy Macho Man Savage in the hallway of the Luxor in Las Vegas at 2 a.m. I awkwardly said hi as we passed.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If anyone has or gets information about this issue, I have a grad student over here who is. . . concerned. . .

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Our article on perinatal self-injurious thoughts & behaviors is out today! We found that the odds of engaging in self-injurious behavior were 256% higher at 7 months postpartum relative to 3rd trimester of pregnancy, even after accounting for three risk factors. doi.org/10.1111/sltb...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

People are so poorly trained on power analysis, and so trained to focus just on significance, that they have no ability to think about estimation. Small sample size? Well, you can still: 1. Report your estimated effects and uncertainty 2. Report what effects you COULD have detected given N 1/3

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

What does a 40% NIH budget cut mean for funding chances (now ~15%)? You might think “60% of the money left = 9% success” ❌ NOPE!!! 1-3% because 80% of the budget is for existing grants New science? Starved Ongoing grants? Slashed 😢 #FundingScienceSavesLives

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Medication for addiction IS treatment. There's nothing magical that makes taking a pill to treat addictions somehow similar to the addictive behavior itself. This outdated thinking harms people and hampers our ability to treat addictions.

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People have a lot of critiques of grant review, but they never talk about the harassment you can get from other members of the panel. I was just trying to speak the language of the youth!

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Not unless you are diabetic. Next question.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

(Longish thread. Apologies) I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Betsy McCoach and I have just published a paper in my paper Multivariate Behavioral Research titled “Ruling out Latent Time-Varying Confounders in Two-Variable Multi-Wave Studies.” You can download a copy at doi.org/10.1080/0027... In this thread, I explain what we do in this paper.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Scroll down and check out the scientific consultants. I’m sorry but they know better and should be ashamed of themselves. How much are they paid to endorse this quackery?

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

This is a perfect metaphor.

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We’re now seeing paramilitary ICE raids in LA — with full on military garb, military tanks, flash bang grenades & the arrest of a major labor leader. This is a core manifestation of fascism — using federal forces to put down dissent. If we don’t stop this now, this is the future everywhere.

submitted 12 days ago • 60 comments

It's so so important to understand that these technologies are absolutely failing within a market context, they all lose a ton of money and are set to lose more, the only path to profit for these vultures is to attach themselves to educational and government institutions.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Weekend transit service from cities to trailheads seems to be a growth market. A data point from Seattle.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

This thread from @bxroberts.org is worth your time 👇👇

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

This is the part of the Seattle kiosk proposal that troubles me the most. If we are going to rent out the public right of way, it should be the public treasury that benefits. If it isn’t, then I don’t think this is worth doing.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Of all the things that surprise me about the rush of institutions to embrace AI, this one surprises me most. AI is not currently profitable and the only route from here is either for these companies to fold or to ratchet up prices a lot. When I've pointed this out, the reaction is usually shock.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

It was not all that long ago that NIAAA and NIDA were subsidiaries of NIMH if I am recalling properly. officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/insti_center...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

There has never been an instance where Singal demonstrated he's done basic research. This includes a 2019 Atlantic article about a guy 'inventing' a new academic discipline called 'erisology'. And by 'inventing' he meant 'I think academics should study argumentation'.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Policy impacts behavior. If you tax it or make it illegal, the behavior declines.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

We should really do the find-one-area-of-medicine-where-this-isn't-the-case challenge

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments