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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #Menopause Awareness Month & I’m so excited to share the news about our physical activity program for women ages 40-65! ⬇️ Each participant is paired w/another woman in the program for support, accountability beyond coaching sessions. Feasible, acceptable, & promising! #WomensHealth #AcademicSky

Rowan CHASE Lab @rowanchaselab.bsky.social · 10d

🚨We're PUMPED to share our new findings from a pilot test of a partner-based physical activity intervention for women ages 40-65! 👟Program is feasible and acceptable to women in this age range, next = refinements for scaling & efficacy testing. @sbm.org #WomensHealth

Summary: tinyurl.com/3dafv2xk

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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · 10d

‼️🚨 Please share ⬇️ with your networks 🤓 #mHealth #DigitalHealth

Rowan CHASE Lab @rowanchaselab.bsky.social · 12d

📢Calling all adults who *don't* already have physical activity or exercise routines! We're conducting a new study about social influences on activity & we'd love to hear from YOU. Study = entirely remote & paid. Complete this short survey & we'll follow up w/more information: tinyurl.com/yvw9fut4

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 19d

Democratic women are disadvantaged in competitive district primaries, where party elites prioritize electability & view men as safer. Republican women are disadvantaged in safe district primaries, where elites & voters assume they are less conservative.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 10

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · Sep 8

This was supposed to be an in-person conference & I was so excited to contribute as an invited discussant. One of many recent casualties = this moved to webinar. I’m definitely grateful that it’s happening at all, as many conferences were canceled completely. And I now get to wear slippers 😂

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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · Sep 8

I would like (re)establish a daily post here & it keeps eluding me. I jump right into each day & get swept away. Which is (mostly) quite lovely, as I get to do work that I enjoy. But I’m very much out of the loop! Today I’ve been listening to an NIH live cast on health behavior theory. #AcademicSky

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Increasingly, I wonder whether we will be able to do science here in the future."

NIH employees I heard from say things are very grim over there, but they welcome the push for a "fighting CR" to rein Trump in — or a government shutdown if not.

'The Walls Are Collapsing': The View From Inside NIH as Shutdown Looms

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! The public and Congressional attention focused on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in rec...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 6

"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."

Honest Academic Job Postings

English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 3

I can’t believe medicine hasn’t come up with a better way to do mammograms. That is some primitive shit right there.

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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy Tuesday! And happy start to the new academic year for those who celebrate (or cry) - hope it’s off to a great start.

I celebrated 2 years since heart surgery last week, with my longest run since then & day trips to the beach. Gonna be a wild month, but I’m grateful 🤓 #AcademicSky

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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · Aug 29

The world is currently a living nightmare. But this helps ⏬ #AcademicSky

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 29

Now, instead of reading the latest email from the Subdean for Academic Affairs and Climbing Wall Management, simply click on the ADMINISTRATOR LANGUAGE DETECTED icon to reveal the message in simple English and determine the threat level to your department, program, or mental health.

Faculty, Rejoice: Gmail Can Now Translate “Deanspeak”

We are thrilled to announce that Google Translate has recently added “Deanspeak” to its suite of language-detection tools. In addition to offering ...

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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · Aug 28

On a roll this month - so proud of our team’s new scoping review, focused on research methods in #WomensHealth and physical activity! @sbm.org

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#DigitalHealth #SciComm

Rowan CHASE Lab @rowanchaselab.bsky.social · Aug 28

📣🚨August has been full of good news for our work on #WomensHealth! Sharing another new paper - check out our scoping review of intensive assessment studies on physical activity among women ages 18-50, now out in #mHealth. Led by @gsalvatore0923.bsky.social 🤓

Summary & links: tinyurl.com/2resft7z

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our lab is starting a new study on dreaming
🚨GREAT NEWS!🚨: YOU may be eligible to participate!

If interested, follow this link to a screening survey: furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#SleepPeeps #psychscisky #cogsci 🧠🟦

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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 27

Sending military troops to police civilians undermines public trust, puts soldiers in legal and ethical jeopardy, and puts all of us at risk.

If you’ve ever served in the military, join us and @commondefense.bsky.social to send a message to the Defense Department: No troops in our communities.

Military, Veterans, and Families in Defense of the Constitution

Take action with ACLU People Power!

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Aug 27

The new NIH grant review format and the iron law of unintended consequences drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/t...

The new NIH grant review format and the iron law of unintended consequences

The NIH introduced a revised approach to the peer review of grant applications in the most recent summer review rounds. The Simplified Peer Review Framework has a number of new features, some of wh…

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Dr. Betty Murray -Women’s Heath Researcher & Nutritionist @drbettymurray.bsky.social · Aug 23

The FDA's decision on estradiol is a significant step for women's health. Let's discuss what this means for hormone therapy and share our experiences. #HormoneTherapy #WomenSupportingWomen #HealthDiscussion

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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · Aug 19

New preprint led by PhD student Anila Allmeta and with @drdaniarigo.bsky.social: We test which eating and physical activity behaviours are relatively easy for individuals to change to provide guidance for tailored interventions. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · Aug 22

Happy Friday! I’m enjoying today’s cooler-weather running (5K🏃🏻‍♀️) & #acwri alongside @drtessthompson.bsky.social via Zoom 🤓 Busy day of grant & manuscript writing, meetings to discuss these, study prep, & finalizing course materials - weekly #HealthPsych for clinical Ph.D. students starts on 9/4.

a cartoon cat is holding a cup of coffee and says `` coffee time good morning '' .

ALT: a cartoon cat is holding a cup of coffee and says `` coffee time good morning '' .

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Jean M. Lamont, PhD @jmlamontphd.bsky.social · Aug 22

Big, huge CONGRATULATIONS to my former student, Abby Hardy, on her first first-author publication! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#AcademicSky #HealthPsychology #BodyImage

Reflections on the mirror: associations among body image rumination, sleep quality, and self-reported physical health

Poor body image, a common occurrence across the lifespan, has been linked to poor physical health. Rumination, or perseverative thinking about negative events that have already happened, has also b...

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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · Aug 15

📢 My team is looking for a few more women to help us understand experiences of the menstrual cycle & how it affects day-to-day activities. If you're not physically active & you menstruate, contact [email protected] or complete a short survey: tinyurl.com/yc3zm6wv
#WomensHealth #DigitalHealth

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Dr. Dani Arigo @drdaniarigo.bsky.social · Aug 14

Always a good day when @rowanchaselab.bsky.social can share new findings, particularly when they’re about #WomensHealth! Check out our new work on women’s momentary experiences of stress & pain (+ daily experiences of sleep quality), led by postdoc scholar @gsalvatore0923.bsky.social. #AcademicSky

Rowan CHASE Lab @rowanchaselab.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨New research alert! We're delighted to share findings from our Project WHADE EMA study of #WomensHealth experiences (those ages 40-60): Stress predicts pain worsening later in the day (not vice versa), especially on days after poor sleep. @gsalvatore0923.bsky.social

Summary: tinyurl.com/mv686hrk

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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.

Benjamin Paaßen @bpaassen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Large Language models (LLMs) do not simulate human psychology. That's the title of our new paper, available as preprint today (1/12):

arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950

Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology

Large Language Models (LLMs),such as ChatGPT, are increasingly used in research, ranging from simple writing assistance to complex data annotation tasks. Recently, some research has suggested that LLM...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 12

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Aug 13

Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion.

In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners

Error rates of human reviewers during abstract screening in systematic reviews

Background Automated approaches to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews are greatly needed. When testing any of these approaches, the criterion standard of comparison (gold standard) is usuall...

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 12

Cutting Medicaid can seem like an easy way to slash the budget. But, the costs can spread to all of us.

The hidden costs of cutting Medicaid

Cutting Medicaid can seem like an easy way to slash the budget. But, the costs can spread to all of us.

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