Adding to this. The title of my talk for this symposium will be:

'Dimensional Psychopathology for Improving Diversity: A Premature Promise'

I have thoughts to share!

APS 2024 roll call! Who will I see there? 🤗

If you're around, check out our panel on the future of psychiatric classification. I'm focusing my talk on the limitations of covariance-based approaches for classification.

Tons of time allotted in the session for audience Qs, too!

Putting it on your radars: Come check me, Ashley Watts, and LauraBringmann (and that Eaton person) at Association for Psychological Science APS Conference in a couple weeks.

Happy course evals day to all who observe 🤢🤢🤢 (choosing peace and not opening them until EOD)

White woman, world renowned academic, brutalised by cops in full view of video cameras and arrested. They still lied on court records about the event. Now think how often cops lie about those without similar privilege

Shame on Emory's administration.

Yet again, Timothy McSweeney nails it. mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mes…

Hi, everyone! I've been lucky to recruit a postdoc and a postbac, but am still looking for a second postdoc and a lab manager. If you're interested in addiction heterogeneity, please reach out!!! RTs welcome, would love to hire some folks. 😊

Campbell's Law Explains the Replication Crisis: Pre-Registration Badges Are History Repeating osf.io/7czpr/

Wednesday wisdom from Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024):

Been seeing so many tweets from people feeling stuck or frustrated w how competitive clinical psych PhD programs have become. Offering my thoughts here as a 🧵

If you think mental health difficulties are universally due to a single thing, you are wrong. No matter what that single thing is.

Fantastic piece by Marten Scheffer on the forgotten half of thinking:

'.. taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking ..'

pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

🚨Announcement!🚨

The 1st annual Symposium on Pain and Alcohol (SPA) is happening before RSoA on Sat. June 22nd in Minneapolis!

Join us for a SPA Day and learn about cutting-edge research on pain and alcohol use!

For more info/RSVP: sites.google.com/umn.edu/spa-me…

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Today one of my intro stats students said, “Dr. Watts really cooked with that one.” AM I ONE OF THE GEN ZS NOW

Academic fam came through with the trolling 🏆

The race science crowd seems to think that the very act of breaking taboo earns them a seat at the table—that the unpopularity of their stance itself shifts the burden of proof onto mainstream scientists. Ofc, it doesn’t work like that, or else we’d have to debate flat-Earthers.

Agree. If you are a journal editor, it’s good to remember that you’re the stage manager, not the star of the show.