Is this the toddler equivalent of cats pushing things off of tables? (It’s probably for the best cats don’t have hands.)

Had a great time providing a workshop on PMDs and integrating the menstrual cycle in clinical assessment and treatment with @clearlab.bsky.social at @abctnow.bsky.social!

If you missed it, stay tuned, we will be launching additional opportunities to learn about this content from us very soon!

I feel both called out and seen by this ribbon! #ABCT2025 @abctnow.bsky.social

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

It was amazing that Teen Vogue has been one of the best sources for thoughtful, engaged political coverage over many years now. It’s absolutely shameful that Condé Nast just caved to fascist pressure and functionally killed it.

Reminder, only a few days left to submit talks, symposia, workshops—deadline is 11/1! Posters due 12/1.

Happy to have been interviewed for this @undark.org article on the struggles getting medical care for #PMDD. Thoughtful coverage of a complex topic that warrants so much more research, clinical training, and general awareness!

Yes!!! So excited that we are having clinical workshops this year, which is new for @nasspd.bsky.social

I'm going to submit a talk on menstrual cycle effects on BPD symptom expression. Currently submitting as a solo talk, but if you need another one for a symposium and think it could fit, lmk!

I just submitted my abstract to (hopefully) give an intro workshop on #BPDCompass at @nasspd.bsky.social's conference in Toronto this coming April.

You should submit something too: nasspd.org/abstract_sub...

Let me know in th comments what you're (hoping to) present!!

NASSPD is accepting submissions for our 2026 conference in Toronto, April 24-25th! See nasspd.org/conference for conference information and submission portal.

Talks (individual, symposia, data blitz) and clinical workshops due Nov 1st. Posters due Dec 1st.

Hope to see you there!

Great to see the crowds, but I would like to see speakers more on message though, with so many things to talk about re Trump et al that the whole crowd is presumably united against. Felt this way at the last Prov No Kings rally too. Might check out one of the many smaller ones around next time!

Estimated 32k protesting in Providence!! #nokings

Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...

Proud that Brown declined the federal compact, naming restrictions on academic freedom and important merit-based grant processes as key reasons:

www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

I also find it concerning that it seems like there’s an assumption that there’s something sketchy going on if you are unwilling or unable to publicly share data, despite there being many reasons why that may not be a reasonable idea for a given dataset.

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Yeah I agree, and I think the tone probably genuinely alienates a lot of people.

It also feels very all or nothing sometimes when I think the reality is that it doesn’t have to be all the things to moving toward improved rigor.

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Please consider joining us for the ticketed Menstrual Cycle / PMDD workshop at ABCT 2025!!!

Depends partly on whether it’s prone to baseline or intercept effects on change. Like if someone is coming in particularly high on whatever, does that create a ceiling effect for upward change? Or create greater potential for downward change? Then there’s a lot of potential for stable confounds.

This episode covers why acetaminophen use in pregnancy does *NOT* increase likelihood of autism when studied rigorously, despite some articles claiming that a small association suggested a link. Nice epidemiology example of why correlation != causation. Pass along to anyone needing that breakdown!

a black and white photo of a woman standing in a living room holding a bag and a dog . ALT: a black and white photo of a woman standing in a living room holding a bag and a dog .

Excited for an upcoming work trip to the Netherlands (more on that later)—tacking on extra days for a vacation w/my wife to celebrate our anniversary. Spending time in Amsterdam, Leiden, Brussels, and Rotterdam. Any recs, esp for the last 3 which are new to us? 🇳🇱🇧🇪

We will come back. (Probably.)

Ha, that example is also relevant to many other groups too (and maybe just people broadly).

And also this one, bc it turns out anger rumination (at least in a college sample measured with the ARS), also ends up zero-inflated and looking like a count variable. This was all part of the nerdiest, long-distance crafts night possible with @clearlab.bsky.social 😆 #stats #PsychSciSky

I drew this 10 years ago, when
modeling a lot of zero-inflated poisson models (common for behaviors where a chunk of the sample are total abstainers), to explain it to non stats-y folks. Technically I think this is a hurdle model, since the distributions should overlap slightly, but close enough.

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences

go.nature.com/4pBArFH

Thank you for your work on this important issue!

Multiple peer reviewed studies done by medical researchers indicate that Tylenol does not seem to be a cause of autism. But one heroin-addicted nepo baby says that it is. For pregnant mothers it can be hard to know who to trust.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59