Try to secure funding (if they want to grow or have more resources for students), do positioning/marketing, etc. AND do some research. They are an island in both the best and worst senses.
In industry, those jobs are distributed across many different people, and researchers can just do research.
I guess I should clarify that I do not mean “small business” in the sense of the end goal ($$).
I mean it in the sense that PIs are masters of everything, i.e., hold both all the power and all the responsibility. They set the strategy, hire people, manage them (or at least manage the managers)…
Phenomenal coverage of concerns re: the proposed "new" approach to addiction recovery that takes us back 50 years, and will cause more deaths, higher costs, and more suffering. Beyond proud/impressed with the amazing @ninachristie.bsky.social and her impact on policy. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
Industry or academia, clinical or policy, whatever sector, they are all jobs. There are pros and cons to each, and none is universally better.
Being a small business owner is a great fit for many researchers, and not others. You just have to know that’s what you’re in for, then decide accordingly.
This was one of my major reasons for transitioning to industry.
I love research. I love asking questions, reading, statistics, data visualization, all of it. I saw that for many faculty, time spent on those things shrank over time. Time spent on (essentially) being a small business owner grew.
A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.
The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
New paper on planned missingness. Recently been liking the approach of planned missingness in a survey -> FIML to estimate constructs.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Harvard will not comply.
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
— Harvard President Alan M. Garber
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Excited to see the papers that come out of this special issue on behavioral "addictions" in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! Check out the call for papers here: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
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