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Jess Peters, PhD

@jrpeters.bsky.social

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Assoc Prof @ Brown University | Clinical Psychologist borderline personality disorder | anger/irritability | menstrual cycle/PMDD | LGBTQ+ she/her 🏳️‍🌈 views = my own

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · Nov 11

(reposted 🧵 from the Bad Place)
My and @clearlab.bsky.social's Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework was published in Mol Psychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity.
rdcu.be/dQYfU

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 8d

“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...

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."

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 8d

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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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨
I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 9d

@abctnow.bsky.social

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Tory Eisenlohr-Moul (CLEAR Lab) @clearlab.bsky.social · 9d

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

Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · May 21

Amidst all the badness, still super excited to present a ticketed workshop with @clearlab.bsky.social and Jackie Ross on the menstrual cycle at #ABCT2025 @abctnow.bsky.social this fall in New Orleans!

(Decisions on talks/posters still to come.)

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 9d

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.

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 14d

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!

Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 15d

Earlier this week, President Trump claimed that using Tylenol during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of autism in children. But does research support that? We spoke with an epidemiologist who led one of the largest studies on the topic.

Is Tylenol Use During Pregnancy Connected To Autism?

We dig into the details of the science of Tylenol and autism with a researcher who led one of the largest studies on the topic.

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 15d

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.)

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 .

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 15d

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

Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 16d

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.

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Nature @nature.com · 16d

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

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.

go.nature.com

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you for your work on this important issue!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19d

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.

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ACOG @acog.org · 19d

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

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 19d

I’ll be curious to hear what they say!

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Jeanne @toomany2choose.bsky.social · 20d

'Morning 🌞☕

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 19d

Even if you hadn’t recommended rejection, I’ve definitely reviewed papers where I recommended what I saw as key changes that ultimately weren’t made. And that’s fine, it’s how it goes sometimes, but I wouldn’t necessarily want my name as reviewer public in that context either.

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 22d

Congrats to you both!!!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29d

If you can do so, please consider getting your COVID19 vaccine before ACIP meets on September 18-19.

I don’t think it’s out of bounds to guess that, since they are going to manipulate data to falsely claim that the vaccine killed children, they will also recommend pulling FDA approval.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · Sep 8

"What I can tell you is that in a case where the only way to get the vaccine is to lie, you ought to lie."

I cosign this. Get out there and get that COVID booster if you can, and lie if you have to. It's the ethical thing to do

religiondispatches.org/lying-to-sav...

Lying to Save Our Lives: Why You Should Say Whatever It Takes to Get the COVID Vaccine

Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise domestically and globally while the FDA makes it harder and more confusing for Americans to get vacci...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Sep 3

Two more Republicans.

That’s all we need to force a vote in the House on releasing the Epstein files.

If you live in a GOP district, your representative needs to hear from you: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Only two more Republicans needed to force vote on Epstein files release, bill co-sponsor says – live

Donald Trump calls clamor over Jeffrey Epstein files a ‘Democrat hoax that never ends’ as bipartisan group of lawmakers try to force vote on legislation

www.theguardian.com

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · Sep 2

But then there’s no way you could have anything close to the same level of scientific and medical research at universities. It’s one thing for a college to do that; totally different (and unrealistic) for an R1 university.

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