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Lisa Starr

@lisastarr.bsky.social

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Clinical psychological scientist at U of Rochester with interests in depression, life stress, interpersonal factors, daily processes, clinical affective science. Mom of 2. Probably tired right now. Opinions my own

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 5d

Could not endorse this more. We’re clinical psychologists. Guiding people empathetically towards adaptive change is supposed to be our thing.

Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 5d

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: Open science discussions that are largely hostile and condescending toward non-adopters will not motivate behavior change. Are we doing altruism, or antagonism?

Signed, someone who practices open science

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 11d

WTF. This is HORRENDOUS news, and horribly misguided.

Clinical science is science.

Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 11d

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

This means individuals in the following statuses at the time of application are eligible:

Undergraduate in the final (senior) year of a bachelor’s degree program
Bachelor’s degree-holder with NO enrollment in a graduate degree program (non-degree graduate coursework allowed)
Individual enrolled in a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree program with at least three undergraduate years completed
First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar)
Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs are considered graduate students. For GRFP, joint bachelor’s-master’s degrees are defined as degrees concurrently pursued and awarded.
Not be a current NSF employee.

Applications that do not meet eligibility requirements will be returned without review as being ineligible for a fellowship.

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 12d

As expected I am feeling major FOMO for missing SRP this year. 😭😭😭

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 13d

Also, any program that charges tuition (including 50% “reduced”) during internship is almost certainly predatory.

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 13d

I once asked a friend who is a former PsyD faculty this same question bc I kept getting it from students. Her answer overlapped heavily with @anthonyperillo.bsky.social’s, but also:
-faculty went to reputable PhD programs
-faculty maintains active research programs
-mentorship model

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 27d

Giant middle finger

Transphobic ramblings

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 27d

...and here's my beef with school phone bans being enacted based on a lay ideas about screens & mental health:
No need to invest in evidence-based mental health resources bc we have the phone bans (and nutrition and sunshine!).

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 27d

Oh, WaPo. Please don't give a forum for dangerous, ignorant charlatans to spout pseudoscience.

Screenshot of Washington Post editorial by Linda McMahon & RFK Jr entitled Children Need Natural Sources of Mental Health, with subheading overzealous use of therapy can cause the crises it claims to cure

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 27d

From this paper:

(Holy Cow! Reminds me also of how Bullshit Receptivity items can glom together!)

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 28d

😭 So glad my youngest didn’t start kindergarten until 2021 when things were in person again. Zoom 3rd & 4th grade was bad enough!

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 28d

Mine too (9 & 14). I don’t know how I got through those early years! Esp during covid

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 28d

Having kids, on the other hand, is a choice that will unequivocally add stress and busyness to your life.

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 28d

Any career where you are deeply invested in your work is going to be stressful sometimes, particularly if you also balancing family demands. But I don't think my life is necessarily more stressful than my friends my age in other industries. Everyone's busy. But I have job security!

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 28d

I'm glad you are in a place & position where you are happier! But the thread you are quoting was really arguing the opposite.
bsky.app/profile/dran...

Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 29d

Yeah so do I. There is so much variation in the workloads of faculty that it’s really unhelpful to just paint the entire profession as struggling with balance, or that the job by nature is incompatible with work life balance. I just don’t think that’s true.

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · Sep 4

I hear there are dentists that specialize in teeth.

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s almost as if it’s possible to conflate cohort effects and age effects.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · Aug 28

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · Aug 19

New from my lab, lead by stellar grad student Elizabeth Marsh (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dependent Stressor Occurrence, Stressor Severity Appraisals & Stressor Controllability Appraisals Link Attentional Control Deficits To Engagement in Repetitive Negative Thinking in Daily Life - Journa...

Worry and rumination share a common process of repetitive negative thinking (RNT). RNT is a transdiagnostic risk factor for internalizing psychopathology. Theoretical models suggest deficits in cognit...

link.springer.com

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · Aug 19

For all of you stress generation fans, the preprint is now unavailable while the good folks at PsyArXiv do the important work of culling out AI slop. Never fear: the preprint is also up on @researchgate.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/impr...

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · Aug 18

It's not just that this dilutes education. It's that it promotes the toxic practice of spouting ideas from the gut, and then retrofitting the evidence around them.

Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · Aug 18

Also: “Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing.”
So not just formatting. But finding evidence to support your argument after you’ve made it and without you reading the cited source.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 18

What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · Aug 17

Homemade yogurt on the radiator seems kind of scary, but maybe you knew what you were doing! There is now a mini Pittsford Dairy location right on Park, where Abbotts used to be, so today’s incarnation of your college self no longer has to trek out to Pittsford for dairy goodness.

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · Aug 17

Love Pittsford Dairy! They sell this milk at Wegmans around here (but worth a trip to the dairy for some ice cream and amazing local eggs)

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Vera Vine @veravine.bsky.social · Aug 15

‼️Academic job alert‼️ Our dept at Queen's University (Canada!) is looking to hire a TT assistant prof in clinical psychology... Applications due end of Sept! Re-posts very much appreciated www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...

Employment Opportunities | Department of Psychology

Available Positions Position Title Position Details Posting Date Closing Date Assistant Professor - Tenure-Track Appointment in Psychology

Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · Aug 15

My understanding is that all IFs were inflated for a while because of increased pandemic related publishing, and that has now petered out.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 13

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings.

When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities.

When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes