On Disorder Within and Outside the Self. Part II: Suffering, Sanity, and Sickness. This is Part II of a series on externalizing psychopathology. Last we spoke on this topic, I provided an historically-informed definition…

I'm writing stuff again. #nosology #psychiatry #DSM #philosophy #externalizing #PhilosophyOfScience medium.com/p/370c9334207e

Development and Evaluation of Criteria for Detection of Spouse/Partner Pairs in the UK Biobank www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07....

Super stoked to have been an author on this (now in-press) paper on couple matching criteria in the UKB. Led by the brilliant Kristen Kelly. If you ever get the chance to work with her, do it. Seriously. #assortativemating #UKB

Fun companion article forthcoming.

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That seems unfortunate.

Good luck. Their music options suck.

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I wrote a thing.

Does anyone else have a running list of "wow this would be interesting to study but who would ever fund this" ideas?

"How did you get interested in your line of research?" #academia

Wow. Crazy how current events are already writing Part II for me.

23andMe says it won permission from a judge to sell customers’ medical and ancestry data. Here’s how to delete yours During bankruptcy 23andMe says, its security regarding genetic data will remain the same, but its privacy policy says these measures can change at will.

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How do people feel about that cute relatable moment in the work day when you’re re-reading your paper for the seventeenth time and dissociating?

Anders Skrondal. Research group is at UC Berkeley. I work for a different group in the Psych department here officially, but this is more of a brainstorming group for people to talk about multilevel modeling projects they’re developing.

Exactly. Also, random: but I am now in a non-genetics research group with someone from Norway who happens to know you.

I’m not typically a fan of hypothesis-driven research, but I can’t tell if it’s because I think it’s bad for science or if it’s because I am too often wrong.

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I am starting a series about #externalizing. What is it? Why do we care? Does it even exist?
#psychiatry #sciencephilosophy #blogging

It's probably a joke....... right?

Um... but... oh. Nope.

Wait.... #statistics

Apparently drinking 7 or fewer drinks a week substantially increases your odds of immortality.

Well, when you phrase it like that...

As a reader, what is the ideal length for a blog post?

As per usual, the bisexuals require intervention

I (Re)-Read “In Defense of Merit in Science” so You Don’t Have to. Part I: A “Measured” Response I don’t remember why, but for some reason, I started thinking about the paper “In Defense of Merit in Science” again recently. The article…

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I wrote a response post to a paper I did not like. #academia #science #essay