*This* is how you Wreck ‘em, Tech.

I applaud TTU AAUP and am proud of my high school classmate Dr. Geiger!

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

Texas Tech System cancels programs focused on gender, orientation Chancellor Brandon Creighton directed provosts to phase out the programs and ordered universities to recognize only “two human sexes.”

TTU just released a memo institutionalizing censorship. As a grad student researching gender minority mental health and suicide prevention at TTU, I see this as an attack on academic integrity & professional readiness. Sharing some/a lot of thoughts as I make sense of this mess🧵(opinions my own)

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement.

In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99.

At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Motivated to share our PCAST report on the value of the social and behavioral sciences. Sigh…
www.erichorvitz.com/pcastreports...

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Scientific pluralism is the only way forward for psychiatry Click on the article title to read more.

Journal link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

(You can read the text here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Awai... )

🚨 New paper out in Current Directions in Psychological Science, with @matnoc.bsky.social! We review recent advances in digital & computational methods for understanding, predicting, and preventing suicide.

a drawing of an open book and a cup of tea with the words drink tea read books be happy ALT: a drawing of an open book and a cup of tea with the words drink tea read books be happy

Counterpoint:

Stand Up For Science Founder and CEO Colette Delawalla speaking at the Washington D.C. Take Back Our Science Rally!

Stand Up For Science Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla states three demands:

1. Remove RFK Jr.

2. Reinstate the American Dream of Science.

3. Science should be driven by scientists not political appointees.

Join the fight!
standupforscience.net/march7

The Future DSM: Bold Redesign, Lingering Blind Spots | Psychiatric Times The future DSM revamp is coming, weaving social context, biomarkers, functioning and symptom dimensions into faster, evidence-based diagnosis.

In the March cover story for Psychiatric Times, I provide an overview of the proposed changes to the future DSM, accompanied by some personal commentary and suggestions of my own.

www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-fut...

We shouldn't be basing higher ed decisions solely on numbers like these because higher ed isn't a business, but we *definitely* shouldn't let people use 'run higher ed like a business' as a pitch and then bury the numbers that show they're killing profitable programs.

Yes! I was annoyed enough by this that I actually submitted a response on their "Suggest a Word" form. "Concomitant" is a perfectly cromulent word, especially if you're going to accept words like "cichlid"

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Everything is on fire, but let me take a second to send good vibes to everyone awaiting Match Day this week. Y’all have worked so hard, and no matter what Friday brings, you will be ok.

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 viewpoint article, "It is time to take chronic suicidal ideation seriously", with Evan Kleiman and @katieleedg.bsky.social now published in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science!
psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Recent paper to read on this:

By @jinxungoh.bsky.social and team.

drive.google.com/file/d/1_MbT...

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

My specific experience is with NIH, but I’ll stand up and say it:

The people who work at NIH are together one of the great wonders of the world. US biomedical science, cancer cures, dementia research all are built on their talent and dedication.

so this is a crime against humanity not a study we all agree right

Conservation of matter with cat food YouTube video by Rebecca Peretz-Lange

want new content for your conservation of matter slides? I caught my toddler claiming that we could give our cat "more food" by spreading out his existing food in his bowl to cover a wider area.

youtube.com/shorts/DJBdV...

If you're an educator and feel anything from disgust to discomfort with AI please consider joining.

We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026.
We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts.
Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)!
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Amazing news! Congratulations!

Collider scope: when selection bias can substantially influence observed associations Abstract. Large-scale cross-sectional and cohort studies have transformed our understanding of the genetic and environmental determinants of health outcome

My boss did that already: academic.oup.com/ije/article/...