Students, instructors protest course review process on Texas Tech campus as Board of Regents meet in Dallas Texas Tech students and faculty gathered at Memorial Circle Thursday afternoon to protest against new restrictions on course materials.

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This week's cover @thelancet.com

And my lab. yall. I appreciate you.

I am so proud of the students and my fellow faculty @texastech.bsky.social speaking out against censorship pushed on us by system

Education needs to be open. Diversity and inclusive science is the only way.

Free speech
#wreckem
#ttu

Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.

“the Epstein files highlight issues that women in academe have mostly discussed in whisper networks: Who is unsafe to be alone with? Which advisers are to be avoided? Whose connections may come with a price?”

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Yep. That’s why we are rallying around the nation to save science, protect health, and defend democracy on March 7th!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Standupforscience.net/march7

This year saw almost a 50 percent decrease in funded grants on mental health. This is not okay. There is a literal mental health crisis in our country & instead of funding more work on cures we are cutting the amount of work in half.

Our children will suffer from this.

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patenting a new term "wagswag"- the rating scale for dog cuteness.

here is me with two 10s in wagswag

I'm sure the prediction rate would be high. higher = better in those in most ways. My question is really more about discrimination power given range restrictions all around. lmk if you ever wanna plot this study. it's super interesting and relevant to academic culture for sure

I wish. I remember seeing a poster early in process. It was by Buce Leise about 10 years ago. struggling to find.

mentors product resources.
resources predict outcomes.

it sounds more like a bias of "anyone can do it if you try hard enough ", which aligns to messaging from lots of deans even when on spite of fact🤣

totally. I was thinking about the model to test it and it gets lost to me in the contextual and situational factors (program opportunities, first gen, faculty success/career stage, data access, etc.). I saw some work from KU years back looking at student success and it was all mentor related

I agree with you on an empirical question but like, I wonder what the mean C of a competitive market applicant is (job or student even). High N + C seems to be the standard course by default.

Oh yeh 100%. I'm not even sure what that would mean. seems akin to GRE predicts academic ability approach to testing... so bad in other words (not that it has to be, I agree)

I don't disagree that assessments can be useful. I'm less than impressed with their actual behavioral prediction.

Not sure why that makes me have two heads.. Measuring C is likely not gonna give us much. We are dealing with a range restriction on the upper end no matter the level. my point is that our assessments don't target these things so the purpose isn't suited...snow tires are good, but not for everything

only weird if the measure isn't aligned to the outcome. I'm not sure most assessments are well suited for the type of prediction wanted, or nuanced enough when measuring broad traits to tap it.

also. most don't assess mentor success, which is a large predictor 🤷‍♂️

‘Disruptive’ science: in-person teams make more breakthroughs than remote groups Analysis of millions of papers shows that farflung collaborators produce fewer foundational discoveries than groups working together in person. Analysis of millions of papers shows that farflung colla...

An analysis of 20 million articles + 4 million patents finds that long distance collaborators produce fewer discoveries than groups working in person. nature.com/articles/d41...

When collaboration distance went from 0 kms to 600 kms, the probability of disruption fell from 28% to 22% for papers.

How do your favorite disorders fare in a data-driven reorganization of the DSM-5?

Find out in this new preprint where we followed the patterns in 14,762 individuals’ symptoms with the goal of overcoming limitations in both the DSM and @HiTOP_system

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A very thoughtful and important considerations. I really enjoyed this

I've been watching squid games a lot. It really inspires my teaching.

yes plz

Turns out binary determinations are pretty much bad in every field, Psychology diagnostics, gender, and definitions of life

The SIBS Lab is gearing up for the #ncfr2023 conference next week! Check out our research on how siblings, parents, & stress can affect teen/early adult relationships, regulation, & mental health.
@derekmorgan.bsky.social

We need a section of the news letter reporting on porch personality of the board lol

LESS THAN ONE WEEK to submit your proposal for the inaugural SCP conference!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Great work Tristan! Such a great proposal. 🤞

according to the SSRI hypothesis,

no. likely not

Absolutely fantastic work!!

I’m looking for creative ways to obtain ~$3000 in funding for a preconference. If accepted, this preconf would primarily serve ECRs eager to learn about the hidden curriculum. Cost is always a barrier to participation and we want to remove this barrier. The main conf is a psych conf. 🧪 #PsychSciSky