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Wyatt T. Brown

@brownwt.bsky.social
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Graduate student at VCU studying aggression, social relationships, and aggression within social relationships. 🏳️‍🌈

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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Graphic design is my passion
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 22/04/2024
scientist cranking out studies testing LLM-generated hypotheses on LLM-generated participants
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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 13/08/2026
In honor of International Left-Handers Day, we have an updated preprint on scanning left-handed participants in fMRI studies. Although they're 11% of the population, we routinely screen LH people out of fMRI studies due to concerns about functional lateralization 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Left Out: The Effect of Handedness on fMRI Activation in Memory Paradigms
About 11% of the population is left-handed, a significant minority of the potential participant pool for functional MRI (fMRI) studies. However, convention in fMRI research dictates these potential pa...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026
Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...
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12  Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This pride month, if you’re not plugged in, please take a moment to think about what you specifically can do to support trans kids under attack. I get asked all the time about steps people can take, so I hope at least one person takes this to heart. I’ll be adding throughout June. A thread.🧵
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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“we need mental health funding that isn’t consumed with the latest fad (genetics, machine learning, the microbiome, or whatever). Mental health is an incredibly complex problem that needs attention at many different levels”
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Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 27/04/2026
@transhistoryweek.com is next week! There will be loads of fascinating stories to read online, but also there are some cool events that you, too, could come along to 🤗 Money raised from ticket sales will go straight back into raising awareness of trans+ lives. Tickets here 👉🏻
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Trans+ History Week
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Sometimes, being in two labs is a lot. Getting to attend the dissertation defenses of all of the people I get to call my lab mates makes me forget that. Congratulations to the newly-minted Dr. Kiara Brown :-D
The newly-minted Dr. Kiara Brown standing in front of her dissertation defense title slide.
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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 14/04/2026
New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
An image of the article "Desistance": A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I love talking about friendship!!
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures
In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Experiencing the emotional roller coaster of the editorial feedback provided with a desk rejection genuinely strengthening the paper as the revision is both clearer and shorter. I think the pub process is a lot for anyone (esp. grad students), but kind and constructive critiques go a Super Long Way.
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Elena Kalina (she/they) @ekalina.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Excited to share my recent first-author publication! Does EMA impact the use of alcohol and sexual assault protective behaviors among college women? Click below to find out! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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APA PsycNet
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Real-life intense fear is communicated through context, not facial expressions | PNAS
Central emotion theories assume that during threatening and dangerous events the human face signals a prototypical, distinct, and universally recog...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Can you guess what happened when Denmark doubled the amount of parental leave parents could take? ... ... ... Intimate partner violence declined as a direct result.
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
so no one wanted to tell me this is what it feels like to be a doc candidate ????
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I’ve watched Sam give two talks about this topic (once as a first year grad student which was extremely formative for my research trajectory). Very excited to see this in print!
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Sure, why not
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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 15/08/2025
For those interested in reading my article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36736052/
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Trans broken arm syndrome: A mixed-methods exploration of gender-related medical misattribution and invasive questioning - PubMed
Together, these results enhance the understanding of an underexplored aspect of medical discrimination faced by TGD individuals while highlighting commonalities across different experiences.
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Samuel West @sjwest.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Just published in AJCP - one of my students and I (along with an awesome team of collaborators) explored the ostensible impact of historic redlining practices on contemporary violence exposure risk of adolescents living in those communities. Data and code here: osf.io/ekxmf/
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<em>American Journal of Community Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Violent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked wit...
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 05/06/2025
Pachinko is a fantastic book and this clap black is delicious.
Min Jin Lee

@minjinlee11

Thank you. It was written originally in English by an American. Me. I was credited as the author.

Stephen Greene @StepheninKorea 13h

Pachinko by @minjinlee11 was a incredible book. The uncredited english translator really captured all the nuances of the native hangul.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In much better news: after our fury, HHS says “We are now working to fully restore funding to” the Women's Health Initiative. Sharing the gift article. Reminding us all that we're in 'announcements about announcements' territory, but let's keep close eye on this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...
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Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative (Gift Article)
The decades-long research effort has contributed to thousands of research papers, altering medical care for women around the world.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Speaking up takes many forms. I’m mindful that people do so offline and we may not alway see the work people do behind the scene. Not everyone is comfortable with public social media platforms. But we must all resist the growing fascism in this country however we can.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
BREAKING: Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex couples' marriage licenses, loses her appeal at the Sixth Circuit of a lawsuit she lost at trial that was brought by same-sex couples whose constitutional right to marry she violated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
DAVID ERMOLD; DAVID MOORE,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
No. 24-5524
V.
KIM DAVIs, individually,
Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky at Ashland.
No. 0:15-cv-00046-David L. Bunning, District Judge.
Argued: January 30, 2025
Decided and Filed: March 6, 2025
Before: WHITE, READLER, and MATHIS, Circuit Judges.OPINION
HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge. Defendant-Appellant Kim Davis, in her capacity as the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, refused to issue a marriage license to Plaintiffs-Appellees David Moore and David Ermold. Plaintiffs sued Davis under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that Davis violated their constitutional right to marry. After several interlocutory appeals, the district court entered judgment for Plaintiffs on liability and a jury awarded them compensatory damages. Davis now appeals, arguing that she is entitled to qualified immunity, that she has affirmative defenses to liability under the Free Exercise Clause and the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and that Plaintiffs' evidence of their emotional distress was insufficient to support the jury's award. We AFFIRM.
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Congratulations to Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto on receiving the Turing Award in recognition of their significant contributions to ML. I also stand with them: Releasing models to the public without the right technical and societal safeguards is irresponsible. www.ft.com/content/d8f8...
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Turing Award winners warn over unsafe deployment of AI models
Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Mental health misinformation is rampant on social media. In our new study, 33% of top viewed TikTok videos that offered advice and information were misleading. These videos were watched over 1 billion times. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @srmarcon.bsky.social @marcozenone.bsky.social
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Bill Chopik @chops310.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I included these slides in a talk recently. I think it went well? #SPSP2025 #spspcloserels
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Easily popped up at my 3:15 alarm … what was that all about …
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
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BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The absolute whiplash of meeting with grad school applicants to attending a protest to sitting in a statistics class is A Lot to handle on this fine Wednesday …
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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NSF Award Search: Award # 9153967 - THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS: A CHILDREN'S TELEVISION SCIENCE SERIES Lock
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Bad news: my Deep Learning homework takes so long to run Good news: I found several new songs that I really like
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Rebecca Schacht @rschacht.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Many great points in this piece about PTSD disinformation Misrepresenting research in a way that discourages ppl from seeking effective care is extremely harmful Existing evidence-based options for PTSD aren’t perfect & often require flexing to meet individual needs. But they _do_ work
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
my least favorite part of grad school is 100% the graphic design portion
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Brown University transfers 255 acres in Bristol, R.I., to the Pokanoket Indian tribe: ‘We are the original stewards’ - The Boston Globe
“We are not talking about a land acknowledgment or cultural appreciation,” lawyer Taino Palermo said. “They have set a precedent to show other institutions they can do this.”
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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
CU Boulder must pay 386 women faculty back pay for gender discrimination.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person. eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
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Are causes of mental disorders in the person or in the environment? » Eiko Fried
Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Does anyone have any advice for overcoming a writer’s block? Asking for a friend, of course….
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David Chester @davidchester.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
No meta-analytic link between heart-rate variability and aggression. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Theories of Arousal Predict a Link Between Heart Rate Variability and Reactive Aggression: Meta‐Analytic Results Disagree
Polyvagal theory posits that habitually aggressive individuals might have an impaired capacity to calm after arousal, which has led to the investigation of Arousal-based biological indicators - “biom...
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
slowly dragging myself out of a bit of a slump and getting back to writing and designing studies … YAYYYY
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
As part of an undergrad’s development in our lab, I’ve been having individual meetings with her to teach intro grad-level stats (think “what is the general linear model, why do we use it, and when should we not use it”). seeing someone “get it” in real-time is one of the coolest feelings ever
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
If you’re going to SSSP next weekend, I’ll be sitting on the Graduate Student Panel. I would love to see you there!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/10/2024
in any other medical context, results like this would qualify as a miracle - you just don't see this level of satisfaction even with completely uncontroversial, common medical treatments there is simply no serious good faith argument that gender-affirming care hurts people - the opposite is true
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/10/2024
A survey of more than 200 transgender and nonbinary youth who received gender-affirming medical care shows they were largely satisfied with the treatments they received, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Survey of trans youth reports high satisfaction with gender-affirming care
Trans youth survey by Princeton indicates those who received puberty blockers, hormones or other gender-affirming medical care largely did not regret receiving treatment.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Preregistration Deviations Psychologists are more likely to identify deviations in psychology preregistrations than are open science experts. doi.org/10.1002/pra2... #MetaSci 🧪
Undisclosed deviations between preregistration plans and published articles challenge research transparency. This study examines whether open science experts can aid in assessing such deviations by comparing their evaluations with those of psychology experts. Using content analysis, we compared assessments of 25 preregistration plans and articles, following a psychologist studying preregistration discrepancies framework. The 72.6% agreement rate suggests differences stemmed from distinct perspectives. Psychologists leveraged domain knowledge to scrutinize subtle inconsistencies, while open science experts, deeply committed to transparency principles, focused more on procedural adherence. Open science experts, unfamiliar with psychology's implicit norms, faced challenges in discerning field-specific knowledge and interpreting ambiguities as non-deviations due to unclear preregistration formats and ambiguous content. Targeted support and collaborative approaches engaging both expert groups could enhance preregistration adherence evaluations, balancing the open science experts' emphasis on transparent processes with the psychologists' domain expertise, ultimately strengthening research transparency and reproducibility.
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
The only thing more difficult than submitting a F31 is revising the application for resubmission and I’ll die on that hill
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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Lancet Commission on Self-Harm: No significant link between social media and youth mental illness. Broader issues like poverty and inequality have impact. A call to action address root causes—not just blame social media or hide it from kids. We should harness it! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Unhealthy influencers? Social media and youth mental health
Adolescents are spending increasing amounts of time immersed in a digital world—checking messages on X, counting likes on Instagram, or watching YouTube or TikTok. According to the latest evidence, 36...
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