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simine vazire @simine.com · 1d

My blog has moved! It’s now at sometimesimwrongblog.wordpress.com If you have links to posts in your syllabus, let me know if you have any trouble finding the corresponding post!

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 5d

In lighter news, the game between the 49ers and Rams was incredible. Mac Jones is physically and mentally tough as nails. And Kyle Shanahan is a special kind of quarterback whisperer.

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 6d

It’s been a mistake to center practices over principles, and I’m sorry I don’t know how to communicate this any better than my previous efforts. I now ensure transparency and robustness sections in all our papers, and keep running notes about our analytic decisions, but find OS practices peripheral.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

Donald Trump's militarization of our city streets isn't about fighting crime or public safety — it's about consolidating power in his hands.

What he plans to do with that, now or during the 2026 elections, should worry all of us.

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 13d

Sarah is a great person in addition to a superb scholar. Apply to her lab!

Sarah Victor (she/her/dr) @sarahevictor.bsky.social · 13d

I am barely on this app, because of *gestures wildly* life, the universe, and everything, but I should announce that I plan to review apps for clinical psychology PhD admissions this cycle! Please read my website for more info! www.sarahevictor.com/contact

Contact & Apply | Sarah Victor, PhD | United States

Information on how to reach TRTL and how to join the lab.

www.sarahevictor.com

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 13d

Agree. Odds ratios are a great effect size when you want to: make a small effect look meaningful, report a metric that defies intuitive understanding, or use a metric that will be hard to integrate with other effect sizes in a metanalysis. In short, they are stupid.

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 13d

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 13d

That's what I tried last night.. and Pacific time no less!!

E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 13d

The last couple hours it's been working at times... And then not. Fingers crossed.

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 13d

I thought I had built in plenty of time to submit my finalized grant application to @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca, but now it's my third consecutive day trying to upload my documents and the site still won't let me. When do we panic?

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Tiago Zortea @tiagozortea.bsky.social · 18d

It’s actually very sad to see that risk prediction has never gone away, despite so much evidence demonstrating how awful we are at predicting suicide and its related outcomes. This is an incredibly important piece of work that we should all read.

netECR @netecr.bsky.social · 23d

Extremely important work by Matt Spittal, @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social and other colleagues published this week!

journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 19d

I had a similar thought — in the end does the US government have control over US-based Internet sources/infrastructure as well?

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 20d

The FCC getting Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air is chilling — especially so soon after Trump said Kimmel was a target. Another step further from ‘land of the free’. The US we knew is ending. Or ended.

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 21d

Great article if you’re interested in ongoing thinking about the future of AI.

Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 21d

This is a really fascinating article on why LLMs will likely always suffer from hallucinations and how the fixes are unpalatable to average consumers. It suggest general use LLMs will always have hallucinations, whereas more bespoke LLMs could be made more reliable, at significant expense.

OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It

OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination".

www.sciencealert.com

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 27d

This was a true mess with a ton of AI-generated word salad slop being submitted as preprints. The field owes these moderators a huge thanks for all the work and energy! 🙏👏

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 27d

PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky

About PsyArXiv – PsyArXiv Blog

What is PsyArXiv? PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is an open preprint archive designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the…

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Sep 6

W T F. Trump’s danger to US democracy can’t be overstated.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall.

Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.

More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...

RADLab - Graduate Applicants

Is the RADLab a good fit for my career goals? Our lab is very research oriented. Our primary goal is to train doctoral students to make outstanding, substantive, and meaningful contributions to the sc...

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 31

Democracy dies in daylight while we offer assistance

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 31

I get the desire to deconstruct the logic of Trump’s choices (inefficient, false dichotomies). But I think we need to call it what it is: authoritarian moves to consolidate power. I don’t know how we stop it. I think we should at least name it.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 31

"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 31

I’d say more but at this moment you prefer your rhetoric world to the real-world — you’re in an in-group echo chamber that filters the info you receive and the interpretations you are allowed to make. I used to argue that only those on the right suffer this affliction; no longer 😢😕

E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 31

I state that an increasing % of progressives have a disease of rhetoric — and you respond by asserting a rhetoric-based progressive purity test 🤔😬 Also, Germany doesn’t support genocide against Palestinians, and invoking the holocaust in this context only means you don’t appreciate the holocaust.

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’m a lifelong progressive, but an increasing % of us suffer from “Rhetoric Exaggeration Disease”. Consider this post’s content & conclusions:
1. Condemn police brutality ✅
2. Germany makes Palestinians pay the price❓🤔
3. Germany genocided Jews ❓Invoking the holocaust to score rhetorical points❓

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ugh, this is concerning. Having human readers call police on AI users in crisis can go poorly. What happens next is like a high-stakes coin flip: some police respond skillfully and kindly, and some accidentally or aggressively escalate the situation the moment they perceive “noncompliance”.

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · Aug 27

NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary

futurism.com/openai-scann...

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

futurism.com

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Cool study. I think I’ve assumed interoception is subjective, like dissociation — so I didn’t see a need to distinguish objective vs subjective (person feels unreal, but are they?) But that assumption was reflexive, not thoughtful. Glad folks are pursuing this work from multiple angles and methods.

Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

www.medrxiv.org

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 22

I don't pretend to know what's best, but in case anyone cares, I declined. My reply read in part:

"I’m going to decline this time...I have concerns about whether the review/funding process will operate according to the scientific and ethical principles that I value...I'm hopeful things will shift."

E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 20

A question for my psych scientist friends please! I’m in Canada and a step removed from the situation at NIH. Are we still participating in study sections as reviewers, or is the process/oversight tainted enough that we should steer clear? 🙏

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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Suicidology has been waiting a long time for this! A measure of capability for suicide that is both reasonably comprehensive and concise. Great work by @meganlrogers.bsky.social and colleagues.

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