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Matt Patton
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Annapolis, Maryland, USA
So refreshingly candid. Gosh I hope the USA fixes its constitution after all this insanity.
January 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Looks like their only explicit measure is a 7-point preference scale, which they acknowledge isn't even the only explicit measure collected by Project Implicit. (Definitely not a standard measure of explicit anti-gay attitudes; the rationale for focusing on it looks shaky.)
January 21, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Reposted by Matt Patton
#4- We published two papers on how DNA-methylation changes longitudinally with child development. And we submitted papers on how DNA-methylation responds to an anti-poverty intervention....stay tuned for results in 2026.

academic.oup.com/chidev/artic...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Stability of Aging- and Cognition-Related Methylation Profile Scores Across Two Waves in Children and Adolescents
ABSTRACT. DNA-methylation profile scores (MPSs) index biology relevant for lifelong physical and cognitive health, but information on their longitudinal st
academic.oup.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Wow…what a waste of paper.
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Do researchers avoid it because the DSM-5 criteria aren't seen as coherent? I know the symptoms straddle the two externalizing dimensions in HiTOP.

I guess it's not like the disorders that do get GWASed all have a ton of coherence. But that one is a poster child for diagnostic creep.
December 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
You’re up late! But thanks for this.
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Omg thank you so much!!!
December 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Congratulations!!! Your work gives me hope.
December 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Congrats!!!
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM