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Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!) @bsamjournal.bsky.social · 18h

In a recent meta-analysis and systematic review, Cardenas et al., (2025) found that greater discrimination was associated with higher levels of systemic inflammation based on 161 effect sizes from 47 articles representing ∼74,763 participants

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Josh Miller @jdmiller.bsky.social · 6d

New paper led by @drlynam.bsky.social on the need for more training in and engagement with open science practices in clinical psych programs. It has been difficult to make progress due to a variety of barriers, including students working in labs uninterested or hostile to these approaches.

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 7d

The Open Science Movement and Clinical Psychology Training: Rigorous Science is Transparent Science: https://osf.io/s46wd

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Jul 11

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jul 12

Seems like a good time to be working on a [checks file] T32

EJVallender @ejvallender.bsky.social · Jul 11

Updating @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Graph showing the number of new, competing, and non-competing T32 grants over the past seven years. 2025 is at roughly 1/3rd previous years.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jul 10

As I am going over old blog posts, here is a nice blog by @bwroberts.bsky.social on qualities in graduate students that, in his opinion, lead to a successful career in academia. Still very good advice. pigee.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/a...

A Lay Theory of the Successful Graduate Student/Academic

Just recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a piece on what it takes to be successful in an academic career. It was a pleasant essay, which emphasized some of the usual suspects like indu…

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jul 9

Summer spaniels

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Amummy @amummy.bsky.social · Jul 8

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

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Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!) @bsamjournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨Calling all health psychologists!

Submit to the Special Issue of BSAM on Protocols & Data Notes in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology + share this call widely to support a more open & transparent culture aimed at improving the rigor & reproducibility of our research!

Call for submissions:

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jul 7

➡️Special issue for protocols and data notes at @bsamjournal.bsky.social - any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine welcome! If a protocol was peer reviewed by a funder, it may be eligible for rapid review 👀 Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026. Details: journals.lww.com/bsam/Documen...

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alexis nedd @alexisthenedd.bsky.social · Jun 30

squid game season 1: the juxtaposition between schoolyard games and top-down death is a direct but useful metaphor for the inherent violence needed to sustain a class system under capitalism

squid game season 3: we gave them knives so they can stab each other with knives

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jul 3

😂😂😂😭

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Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!) @bsamjournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

Have you checked out the overview of articles in the June issue of BSAM?

Read here: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Article Summaries for June 2025 Biopsychosocial Science and ... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine

An abstract is unavailable.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · Jul 2

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jul 3

In other news, I had to squash two post hoc power analyses today #editorslife

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APA Division 38 Society for Health Psychology @apadivision38.bsky.social · Jul 3

Apply to be the Society for Health Psychology Postdoctoral Representative (2025–2026) and help shape the future of postdoc support within the SfHP. Be a voice for trainees, create programming, and grow community connections.

🗓Deadline: July 31, 2025

👉 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jun 29

Kentucky “alumni” reunion at #arp2025 @jdmiller.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social @dsamuel.bsky.social

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jun 28

Someone went into the smoothie place carrying a keyboard as I walked by. Secret concert?

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jun 28

Same!

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jun 22

And don’t forget the salsa effect: so many models just create mild, medium, and hot “trajectories”

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · Jun 20

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer..

Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years.

(See Bauer 2007)

Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · Jun 20

i’m not going to write a thread today about problems with latent class growth analyses nope nope NOPE i won’t do it

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Jun 22

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jun 22

Who hurt you

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Julie Lasselin @julielasselin.bsky.social · Jun 21

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️
I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !!

ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

deadline July 31st

@pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychoneuroimmunology

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? Join a dynamic and inclusive research group at the forefront of psychoneuroimmunology, where we investigate the interplay between behavior, brain f

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Jun 21

What he ⬆️ said.

A carrot cake with carrot garden decoration

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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · Jun 18

As #SPSP2026 submission season begins, please consider me for your symposia! My students & I have recent work on:
- Parents' estimates of their children's prejudices
- Development of homophobia in childhood
- Gender essentialism & domestic work disparities
- Structural explanations & stereotypes

👋!

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