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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 21h

Apparently this was Portland last night. Gosh I love my home away from home. ❤️

Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 1d

Unfort. no :(. I spend most of my time in grad hospital or south Philly. But fishtown has two of the best in the city: char and pizzeria beddia. That might be a little closer to you.

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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 5d

Sally in grad hospital has a great white pie

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Dylan Foster 🐢 @djfoster.bsky.social · 6d

MSR NYC is hiring spring and summer interns in AI/ML/RL!

Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Microsoft Research Lab - New York City - Microsoft Research

Apply for a research position at Microsoft Research New York & collaborate with academia to advance economics research, prediction markets & ML.

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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 11d

Unfortunately it doesn’. But there’s a robust lot that ties the dictionaries to the 5 factors. Based on what you’re describing a fine-tuned BERT-era model might work well @jinxungoh.bsky.social @talvaldivia.bsky.social

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Gio Ramos @gramos.bsky.social · 12d

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely so all applicants can benefit 🤓.

And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name!

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Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 15d

OPINION: "There is no stopping Kennedy and Trump from spreading misinformation. But the science does not support their claims." — The Inquirer Editorial Board

Follow the science, not RFK Jr., when it comes to lifesaving vaccine use | Editorial

Kennedy, with no training in medicine and accustomed to peddling junk science, is rapidly dismantling America’s vaunted public health system.

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 15d

Timely reminder that 'associative' language leads lay people to confuse correlation and causation, as @tomerullman.bsky.social and I showed a few years ago.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Snapshot from the BBC:
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 28d

These exciting results highlight the potential of LLM-powered linguistic analysis to detect people who are struggling with anxiety and depression. They also deepen our understanding of the interpersonal processes that support effective therapy.

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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 28d

LLMs can also expand beyond only analyzing client language and estimate how strongly therapists encouraged distance in their clients. Ratings also tracked changing symptoms when word-counting approaches could not!

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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 28d

We have a new paper published in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social! We used large-language models (LLMs) to estimate linguistic distance in psychotherapy text and found that these ratings tracked with clients’ symptoms in treatment over time, more strongly than word-counting techniques did.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Sep 6

Examining Social Emotion Regulation in Spanish-English Bilinguals: https://osf.io/uh68j

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · Sep 3

Scientists are using tools and technologies like artificial intelligence to look for new medicines in plants and other natural products, advancing a centuries-old approach to drug discovery.

How Philadelphia scientists turn toxic fungi, snake venom, and trees into medicine

Scientists are using new tools and technologies like artificial intelligence to look for new medicines in plants and other natural products, advancing a centuries-old approach to drug discovery.

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Sep 2

Are you stressed or just excited? What the Garmin Stress Score can say about your mood.: https://osf.io/97pzb

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Language-Based Assessment Model (L-BAM) Library: Open Model Sharing for Independent Validation and Broader Applications: https://osf.io/n8rza

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · Aug 30

Trusting experts is not, in fact, a feature of religion or totalitarianism.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 29

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 28

This Perspective highlights three features of language - attention, construal, and appraisal and explains how they contribute to meaning-making.

The construction of emotional meaning in language - Communications Psychology

Emotional meaning should be studied through language. Language may capture emotional meaning by identifying the concerns that are put in focus within a given situation, the perspective from which the ...

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Behavior Change for Good Initiative @bcfginitiative.bsky.social · Aug 26

BCFG is co-hosting a conversation between & @katymilkman.bsky.social and Team Scientist Emily Falk on her new book, What We Value.

📅 Wed, Sept 10 | 4–5:30PM
📍 The Agora, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Co-hosted with @appc.upenn.edu, @asc.upenn.edu, and @pennmindcore.bsky.social

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 21

Help us tell Congress to stop ‘ducking’ around and impeach RFK Jr.

Info below 🦆🦆🦆🦆⬇️

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 21

🦆DAY 21 of #31DaysOfAction
Help us send a clear message that they must impeach & remove RFK “The Quack.”

$3 donation = someone dressed in a duck costume will deliver a rubber duck stamped with IMPEACH THE QUACK to your Rep’s office.

Help us flock the halls of Congress - Link: tinyurl.com/sufsci

Send a Quack-O Gram, day 21 stand up for science 31 days of action. standupforscience.net/31-days-of-action

a bunch of rubber duckies behind the capitol: "Impeach and remove the quack"

a bunch of rubber duckies behind the capitol: "Did someone order several thousand rubber ducks?" in a chat bubble, "OH! IT WAS YOUR CONSTITUENTS"

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 21

Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could for now cancel NIH grants that the government said were related to diversity.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research

The court’s order was fractured, with the justices splitting over whether individual cancellations and the policy behind them could be challenged in a federal trial court.

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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · Aug 21

@aidangcw.bsky.social Do you happen to have a working link for ur preprint? The PsyArXiv moderation change has seemed to remove ur piece and was v excited to reread it. :(

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · Aug 21

APS, along with 91 organizations, has sent this community letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to underscore a vital point: The gold standard for science exists.

unitedsciencealliance.org/good-science...

Good Science Isn't a Luxury; It's a Necessity

We urge policymakers to recognize that any efforts to strengthen scientific integrity must build upon, rather than undermine, existing foundational pillars.

unitedsciencealliance.org

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 21

The White House said that after the administration eliminates "woke" culture from the Smithsonian, it would expand to other museums around the country. Would that be possible? By @anastasiat.bsky.social

Trump vows to expand his review of U.S. museums. Can he do that?

The White House said that after the administration eliminates "woke" culture from the Smithsonian, it would expand to other museums around the country. Would that be possible?

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · Aug 20

The whole French "take August off" thing is looking better and better.

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