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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Dont forget "its just dimensional severity", the x-class solution with one class!

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Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Div.12) @scpdiv12.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Conference day 2 included some incredible presentations including Dr. Emily Gonzalez, Dr. Lisa Faille, and Dr. Kanako Taku, Taylor Elam, and Marina Tagaki-Morris. We also loved presenting well deserved recognition to all of our SCP award winners with a lovely social hour to follow. #APA2026

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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Eight of 201 candidates for high-ranking posts this year have been women, or 4 percent — less than half the average percentage of the past 10 years. @cj-robinson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

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Under Hegseth, Women’s Share of Top Military Promotions Plunged This Year (Gift Article)

The percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The result, in academia, is a white washing of experience, leading to the ivory tower. Assessment psych, and i0s moral influence from business in the 20s, is partially responsible for the way we engage in the world of work.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

ASsessment psychology often measures people through the lens of institutions rather than the lens of human flourishing. Historically, our constructs developed alongside industry, the military, and organizations asking: Who is productive? Who conforms? Who is "well adjusted"?

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I had gotten them out of my system in favor of concise short structured formats. Llm work, plus my daily work with them for personal stuff led to a backside into the euroditic phaseology. That said, sometimes the ai language hits the need we have. Plagiarism alerts are all screwy now

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This happened to me, and a few others I know. Its undeniably changing cultural language. Everyone knows the em dash now.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“… using these tactics would be a flagrant attempt to hold on to power through force and intimidation and an affront to free and fair elections.”

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The utter raw capacity of ai is insane and its influence, without regard to agi, is changing everything. This is 1992, and all of us are on BBS and irc talking about the internet to come. Others are fixated on their laserdisc revolution

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The National Academy of Sciences has been trying to plot a course of appeasement. To not run afoul of this madman. Appeasement never works. It has never worked with bullies. The entirety of academia and the scientific community needs to stand together and fight against this monster.

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️

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UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.

American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Our backdoor maga neighbors today literally threw music away. Instead of donating it. Anyway. Thanks.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...

As Biden warned about democracy's collapse, TV networks aired reruns
While broadcasters typically air a prime-time address by the president, they determined that this speech was more 'political' than newsworthy for live coverage
September 2, 2022
More than 3 years ago

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Gonna get weird when he learns women have T too.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Not yet. In review now. No pre-reg or preprint, sorry. We took same day PAI or MCMI as MMPI2RF in population VA to validate its triatchic scales. Its association with aggression and externalization was clear. Was also negatively assoc'd with over reporting and + with under reporting Some tables

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have never seen such a clear case of a wrong place for a trait.. that isnt moved.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We just used a population sample in the VA. Same usual boldness predicting healthy behaviors and honest test engagement.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yeh but like. Thats just science. What if we believe hard enough? /s

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I dont think its purely a .0 relationship, but it certainly is a smaller and second order one that appears inconsistently and we dont see able to reliably predict it. Or really, any underying assumption about validity (Performance or symptom validity)

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm trying to finish making this simulator to show the thought process, and what it means. Generally speak, it makes sense to me that no-morbidity and co-morbidity will conflate SVT issues as well as a function of zero inflation. We see the same patterns of expanding variance, stable effects etc.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

@eikofried.bsky.social summarizing @ashleylwatts.bsky.social et al's (always awesome) work is worth a read. His blog and simulator sent me down a rabbit hole on Symptom validity assumptions about how symptom domains co-vary and when they occur without that shared pattern. like INT / EXT traits

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Eek! I forgot to add you back in as I was trying to navigate character limits between a vet visit! Sorry! Not my intention at all!

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So conditional PVT–SVT associations may arise partly from this same second-order influence: a broad overreporting process changes how SVT scores covary, making their links with PVT failure appear stronger or more domain-specific than they truly are (see Basso and Boress)

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

this means SVTs may retain useful scale-level differences without functioning as cleanly separate somatic, cognitive, and psychological detectors. Interpretation should emphasize broad response validity first, then domain-specific meaning cautiously.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the simulated overlap is still weaker than the correlations reported in MMPI and PAI studies. Group separation alone is not enough. The published pattern likely also reflects a broader overreporting response style operating across symptom domains.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So what are we seeing? using MMPI-2-RF meta-analytic group valurs shows that mixing genuine and feigning samples can inflate correlations among somatic, cognitive, and psychological SVTs. Part of the apparent “general SVT factor” may be a group-mixture effect.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So, I made a simulator based on Eiko's work The idea is this: if how we understand and express symptoms (eg ext/int) changes as severity changes.. might this same pattern reflect SVT performance Its similar to Nie et al (2025) approoach to svt detection via covariance index / random forests.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sometimes domain led SVTs shine out. But not regularly. Meta analyses are not showing it. We see setting effects that may be consistent, but only when we zoom in there. Generally, domains dont appear. They just appear at times. Even SVT relationships to PVTs is limited, and unreliable.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We assume we can predict and classify far better than we actually can. Leonard did a great series on the methodological and statistical limits we have to address as a field. If you haven't, read them Do. link.springer.com/article/10.1... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This stems from a long history of assuming validity is resolved and then clinical scales are interested. The way I was trained is to "read tests left to right", tho validity signal is always clearly overlapping with bone fide symptoms...

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

First up, assumptions of symptom validity -we assume domains differ in our tests by face validity, a weak form of validity (Meehl) - but most tests get stable effects differing feigned from non.. no matter what the svt is. auc, eigenvalue factors, stable correlations, d between scales

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

1998 I was in France during WC. Traveling between cities we got in right before the match ended, no one visible anywhere. Totally empty streets Match won and BAM Whole street flooded with people. Climbing poles. Cars honking. Flags everywhere. Lasted 5 minutes then everyone went inside Wild fun

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Today is the LAST day to submit a public comment on the proposed OMB rule. We've put together a guide to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

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Act Now: Submit Your Comment to the OMB Proposal

Federal science funding is under the most significant threat in decades — and the window to act closes July 13.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 13/07/2026

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/cY8HD

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"how many lawyers representing Trump et al have or are facing BAR disciplinary procedures?" Is a question that explains why states like texas are trying to move away from BAR oversight. lawreview.syr.edu/texas-become...

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Texas Becomes First State to Part with American Bar Association’s Role in Law School Accreditation

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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The great hall at the National Academy of Sciences. The domed ceiling reads: “To science: pilot of industry, conqueror of disease, multiplier of the harvest, explorer of the universe, revealer of nature’s laws, eternal guide to truth”

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

But a lot folks aren't trained in time series methods, and they don't know about or understand ergodicity, and their mentors and field-specific experts talk about "mechanism" and write big grant with big samples looking for "mechanisms." And they find between effects and call them "mechanisms."

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Im ok with what happened, even if its different than what could happen

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sigh.Im so tired of winning boss. Just wait. The money is gonna go to some MAHA anti vax / other weird toilet licking kinda conspiracy. Not real science.

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

While a problem. This is likely the least problematic as so few steps have been taken to solve it im sure we can find a way. Paying. You know. For instance. Since they make tons of money. The biggie issue is rigor motivation that is rewarded for dysfunctioning

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The future of corporate science is daaaaark

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I wonder how long til these for profit journals train ai on our past reciews and stop asking us or have us only be half of review processes too. Publication needs so much reform

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Most studies apply tools without knowing how to leverage them meaningfully to move the field presivtively, not descriptively imho

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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

And then symptoms (in dx form) only? Are we ignoring the strength of lca? We have demos but not multimodal complex data to guide delivery. Just a zip code, or a state even. Prior tx behaviors? Collateral?

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