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Tom Olino @olinotom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I will be reviewing applications this admissions cycle (pending funding). This time, I'll be looking for folks interested in research within our training clinic. We have implemented ROM, and want to build on that infrastructure. Other research is possible; the primary goal is clinical research.

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🌟 Vanderbilt Psychology has an open rank position available in our clinical area! Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/194049 (Note that this position is separate from our other psych department's asst prof search: apply.interfolio.com/194058) RTs appreciated!!

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"'My job is gone because of ChatGPT, and I was being invited to train the model to do the worst version of it imaginable,' she says. The idea depressed her. But her financial situation was increasingly dire [...] so she turned on her webcam and said 'hello' to Melvin [an AI interviewer]."

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

📝 Excited to share an accepted first-authored paper at Clinical Psych Science! Why are so many mental disorders treated as unidimensional? We show support for 1-factor models is often just an artifact of conventional psychometric methods -- which weren't designed with psychopathology in mind.

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Have they spoken to a psychologist ever

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

When you share a scathing critique of current psychology and someone sends you a paper by Paul Meehl

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The concept of a bisexual lighting mega Gaudi drone show at the Sagrada Família

Screenshot of Twitter post showing the new topping for the Sagrada Familia + a drone show in the background of Gaudi, drones shining blue and purple and pink

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I’m not a particularly fashionable person, but nowhere do I feel so dismally unfashionable as I do in Copenhagen

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Very excited for #aps26bcn... the schedule is stacked! Any factor analysis nerds or skeptics wanna meet up at my poster? 🗣️ "Accounting for Zero Inflation Worsens the Structural Validity of the DSM-5 Substance Use Disorder Criterion Set" (w/ @ashleylwatts.bsky.social) 📍 Poster 122, 8-9pm Friday

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My favorite thing about Love’s truck stops is their consistently niche selection of Pokémon plushies. Zero recent starters but ten Togetics from Pokémon Gold and Silver (1999)

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

What are good papers squaring high suicidal ideation with low suicide rates during COVID?

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Very stoked to share that I'm joining Temple University's Clinical Psych PhD program this fall! I'll be doing critically minded and methods-heavy work on measurement, depression, and suicide in adolescents with @olinotom.bsky.social. Feeling super grateful! If you're in Philly, say hi :)

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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

If Metro Nashville wants to build dedicated transit lanes on state-controlled corridors, it needs the sign-off of the TN General Assembly. This week, the legislature is nearing approval of the city’s plans for dedicated lanes downtown and along Gallatin and Nolensville pikes. @stelliott.bsky.social

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Dedicated transit lanes in Nashville nearing state approval - Nashville Banner

The Tennessee General Assembly is close to approving dedicated transit lanes in Nashville, paving the way for transportation improvements.

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

“how precarious is research funding in the US these days?“ well there’s a subreddit where students are making ggplots to predict whether GRFP comes out on a Tuesday

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I'm telling you right now, do not trust that cutoff CFI > .95. he is not worth your time. he will give you trust issues and then some

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

NSF updated the GRFP website with FAQs, mostly to do with outcry about (many) applications being returned without review. "The number of applications RWR has not changed substantially" they say. Translated: the proportion RWR likely ~doubled.

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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

INVESTIGATION: Over the last 5 months, the Banner and a coalition of partners analyzed 52 hours of footage and thousands of pages of documents from a joint THP/ICE operation targeting Nashville’s predominantly immigrant neighborhoods. Here’s what we found: (1/11) ✍️ @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

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How ICE, THP targeted Nashville immigrants, inflated safety claims - Nashville Banner

Analysis shows Tennessee state troopers and ICE agents profiled and disparaged immigrants during Nashville enforcement operation in May 2025.

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I’m reading Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, about the development of wartime photography. Sontag is so arresting, always: “To catch a death actually happening and embalm it for all time is something only cameras can do”. If only she were still around.

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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

STOP putting AI in everything!!!!!!!! I don't need it!!!!!!!! What I NEED is for my computer to not run out of RAM!!!!!!!!

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

going to start supplementing everyone’s sterile academic bluesky feeds with important insights from gay Twitter

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

At the point on the dunning kruger curve where I realize I know very little but am also unimpressed by bifactor models

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

as presented by McNeish & Wolf (2022)

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

As NSF GRFP is in the news, PLEASE spread the word about the new EGFP program they have for past GRFP honorable mentions. Universities in eligible states can apply to get funding for HMs in the same amount as GRFP. My impression is that many depts don't know this exists and so don't apply.

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The United States of precarious research conditions and abandoned longitudinal studies. I am 24 years old and want to be a scientist. Why would I stay here?

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Sorry, but if you're in a top-tier PhD program, with a stipend of $40k+, and/or you otherwise have the material resources and clout to afford conferences -- the student travel award is 99.9% chance not for you

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Anyhow, I'm listening to AG Cook and my code is working. That's all! Thank you

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I don't think I'll ever get over how differently psychology is taught, researched, and practiced in different places. The discrepancies between eg the US, Brazil, Belgium, and South Africa in their curriculum, research methods, therapy -- a huge reality check for me

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Why is socioeconomic status used in every introduction to factor analysis. I can hardly think of a worse thing to measure using factor analysis than SES

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Is it a breakthrough in clinical science or is it a psychologist popularizing an idea that a sociologist suggested 30 years ago

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Wow. Researchers at the University of Zurich had LLMs infiltrate subreddit r/ChangeMyView. Models assumed personal roles including as a victim of SA, BLM protestor, and trauma counselor to enhance trust. No permissions. Community is justifiably pissed.

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Beyond excited to see what this edited collection becomes! See full CFP below - we (@jeffreyansloos.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social Jennifer White + me) are working to make space for different kinds of (critical) suicide studies #suicidecultures @d-liveability.bsky.social #critsui

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Applying to PhDs next cycle. Whatever little I have to offer the world, it feels like the universe is conspiring for me to do it anywhere else, under any flag other than the American one, for which I have been left with nothing but contempt in recent months.

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The number of psych NSF GRFP awards decreased from 139 in 2023 to 49 this year (-65%). This is hard to stomach -- not even GRFP per se, but that things in general will be like this for years

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Please share this very neat volunteering opportunity -- Camp Twitch and Shout (Winder, GA, 6/29-7/4) is one of the only overnight camps for youth with Tourette's. We're looking for counselors! If you want to learn about tics and can appreciate camp, this is the place for you: 1/x

The campers and counselors of Cabin Blue 3, CTAS 2024. I'm the one crouched down on the right. We try try to keep a 1:1 camper:counselor ratio. (Photo from album for use by campers and counselors conditional on hiding campers' faces.)

CTAS 2023, me getting dunked with ice water by some of my campers. (Photo from CTAS social media, so campers' faces do not have to be hidden.)

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

"Solving the number of factors problem is easy, I do it every day before breakfast. But knowing the right solution is harder." - Henry Kaiser, sometime in the 1950s, personal communication to John Horn.

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Terrible time to apply for PhD but at least we have gaga

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thinking of a social worker I spoke to in Trieste who’d frequently remark “maledetto Basaglia” — “damn you, you’ve left us with so much to do!” Yet he said this in jest, proud of his work compared to alternatives… community wellbeing cannot be coerced into an optimization problem

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Sent with a link to Borsboom & Cramer (2013)

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

“I’m into machine learning 😌” well Karl Pearson did PCA in 1901 and back then it was just called statistics

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

"your parents immigrated from Ireland? So can you speak any Irish phrases" no we just own dozens of religious statues and wear coats inside

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