Julie, great news and welcome back! We’re lucky to have you back!

Really interesting approach to investigating cross-validity in fMRI data across 3 different large samples, using the same task & protocol. A potential antidote to adventitious findings, and a path forward toward meaningful reliability and validity. Great work!

Next Stop: Houston We’re headed to the Natty! #GoBlue

My editorial on the road ahead for research on adolescent health risk behavior, a major public health challenge, focusing on the robust developmental pattern and the need to attend to valid and actionable research: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iX2t,Nz%7EN…

The final report of the SRCD Task Force on Publications and Ethical Behavior is now available. SRCD members can log in to Commons to read the report. We appreciate the work of the Task Force and its Co-Chairs for their efforts in completing this report. srcd.org/news/srcd-task…

The Task Force is pleased to see the Final Report come out, and the initial actions by President McLoyd with the Governing Council to start implementation. The Task Force encourages members to consider volunteering for the new Implementation Committee.

Apt metaphor. Extension: mistaking the shadows for reality (rather than probabilistic indicators, as the brilliant Ian Hacking noted some years ago), and then treating them as uncontextualized “things” (reification), eg IQ, or neural images.

Thank you @candice_odgers for excellent analysis. Folks hope banning a single villain, smartphones, would reverse the adolescent mental health crisis. This ignores the pervasive social stressors at fault: climate, gun violence, racism etc, inequality, and threats to democracy.

I want to send this review by @candice_odgers to every parent and caregiver I know who are worried about teen mental health and social media/tech use

As one of the most respected scientists in this field almost says: the book will make a boatload of money praying on parents’ worst fears & none of it is supported by data. We’re distracting the public w/ headlines, and not dealing w/ real causes. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Good points. The social media moral panic is not harmless. Some parents will severely restrict use, denying social connections for kids who have few options. Big picture: it diverts attention from real stressors harming mental health- climate, gun violence, inequality, racism etc

Being open to evidence is crucial, especially on causal claims. Could be cumulative or not, and other validity claims need investigation. But Haidt’s assertion is that we have the causal evidence to enact policy. We don’t, as @candice_odgers notes. Much evidence to the contrary.

I haven’t done a systematic review or meta-analysis specifically of possible sex or gender moderation, and haven’t seen one. But overall effects from careful longitudinal studies of population data are small to none, so they wouldn’t have much to work with, I suspect.

1. If the causal claim that social media cause anxiety & depression it should account for large variance in longitudinal population studies. It doesn’t. A few percent at most. 2. Trends in climate fear, school shootings, etc are evident. Their link to outcomes merit more research

Not the best forum, a complex issue. But: the claim-social media causes the mental health epidemic- lacks sound evidence. An alternative hypothesis: increased stress from many sources (see eg APA surveys) has psychological and physio effects. More research on both is needed.

A very cogent take on a very important book by Michele Lamont

No doubt the patriarchy privileges men, greatly. But boys’ uncried tears lead to men repressing their “soft” emotions, then demanding girls and women manage that pain for them. And get angry when they won’t, or can’t. Time to replace the system.

Very few pitchers mastered the screwball. Fernando, who I covered as a beat writer. Carl Hubbell, who I interviewed about Fernando. Jim Brewer, who I covered as a kid beat writer in 73/74. Any others come to mind, thinking fans?

Mike Cuellar, Orioles

A brilliant and balanced overview of the teens and social media research, a must read for anyone offering opinions about it. Not to be overlooked: the clear evidence that mental health risks in development are overwhemingly from "offline" sources like childhood adversity.