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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are at least 4 emails on my inbox reminding me I need to do FERPA/data security/misc trainings.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/04/2026

who did this

always has been meme with 'academic life' as earth, and 'wait it's all just administrative nightmares?' ast he astronaut looking at it

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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today is day i overcome burnout

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hopefully Wayne and Garth are getting licensing fees for what is clearly the Suck Cut, rebranded. youtu.be/y6okyW7SHng?...

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Irony of Suck Cut

YouTube video by Alexandria White

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Good Luck Babe" or "Manchild"? But it would take all my strength to not pick a Sondheim number that would kill the vibe. What's your go to??

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Criminal repercussions for anyone who doesn't have their badge out and ready to swipe into secured areas they visit every single day.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How about the purchase of a karaoke machine, for the membership?

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Outing my 5-month New Yorker backlog, but that's what happens when you're writing grants like your career depends on it.

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

reason 47 why government funding for fundamental research is the only stable route to scientific progress

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wendy syndrome: It’s that time of year when students are moving on from the lab—research assistants starting their PhDs, graduate students finishing theirs—and new students are joining. Somehow the students stay the same age, while I keep growing up.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Agree! It seems like part of the job.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“Clarify this reference, which I cannot for the life of me track down” 💀

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Reviewing page proofs for a manuscript in press at journal X. The editor asks me to add the issue and page number to a reference. Said reference has not yet been assigned to an issue, which the editor should know because the paper is in press at…the very same journal X. 🧪

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm doing it for this upcoming deadline. Will mention in the cover letter.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Please tell me you all are teaching everyone the Perry Como "Seattle" song. 🤞🤞🤞

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

FINALLY someone acknowledges vowels convey 0 information in WRDL (see?)

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Scientists: how many times a year do you have a good idea? A legitimately novel, creative, good idea? I'll go first: 4-5 times a year. It's a delight, and I'm currently basking in the glow of this quarter's good idea. 🧪 #psychsky #scisky

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If council doesn't have scores, how would funding decisions be made? Based on subjective assessment of panel discussion?

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Ryan Carpenter @rwcarpenterphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Come on, @nytimes.com. You can print 2k words (w/o a single hyperlink to a scientific study) saying psych meds are overprescribed, hitting all the beats you'd expect in a B- student paper (Szasz, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) without one mention of psychotherapy? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...

Anakin: Psychiatric medications are overprescribed and we need alternatives
Padme: Alternatives like empirically-supported psychotherapy, right?
Anakin:
Padme: Alternatives like empirically-supported psychotherapy, right?

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

You want to make me happy? Give me a tree I can visit every day.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is also me. My husband would like me to stop asking for trees for my birthday.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

But if you put one in your HiTOP talk I will respect the troll.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I have a visceral reaction to that NASA example. My body rejects it.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

You see them sometimes in personality research. Profiles of people with X versus people with Y.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

That is beautiful!! How clever and charming.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This thread is proof that data viz people are the best people.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is genius. I love it so much. The whole genre of "what sick twisted thing can I make excel do for me" is brilliant. In thinking of this issue I conceived of using geographic mapping tools to create a bar plot, which is twisted in a similarly delightful way.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This post points out how quantifications of radar plots can be misleading, though. Or at least sensitive to how the axes are arranged: rpubs.com/Xtophe/268920

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RPubs - Why you should never use radar plots

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

OK this is brilliant, but hear me out: is it a radar plot? The coordinates in radar plots tend to be (but perhaps don't have to be) finite and categorical.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's a catch-22 though. They're hard to read when you have multiple candidates in the same plot. But if you break them into multiples, it's harder to compare candidates.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The lines between qualitatively distinct axes really gets me.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The only good radar plot is a deleted radar plot. 🧪 #dataviz

Man sits at a table, drinking from a mug. A sign in front of the table says "change my mind: there is no good use for a radar plot"

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/04/2026

🤔Wait... What happened to that US Research funding line? Seemed like it was almost parallel to China, and then something weird happened recently? What happened recently? You can't do science if you fire the scientist, cut their funding, put anti-scientists in charge, and put your energy into hate.

Chart showing that China's R&D spending, adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) and shown in constant 2020 U.S. dollars, surpassed that of the United States for the first time in 2024.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It's free. So if you're looking for a paper to cite but can only read the one in World Psychiatry, you'll cite that one.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“They realized, well, that was a mistake,” said Sheriff Sam Hulse of Bonneville County, a Republican. “You started seeing deaths occurring in the community. We started seeing the numbers in the crisis system rise. The very thing we told them would happen was beginning to happen.”

nytimes.com

Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

What about classification as a means of identifying an appropriate treatment? For instance, the HiTOP distinction of internalizing and externalizing spectra maps pretty well onto the most effective treatments for those types of problems.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A reliable descriptive system is critical for scientific research. It also has the benefit of avoiding the problems that arise when a nosology is wrapped up in etiological theory, like the hopelessness that can accompany statements like “all disorders are disorders of britain circuits”.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is a clear summary of why good description is so important to science. Many of the discoveries we would like to make—about predictors, causal agents, and outcomes of psychopathology—are obscured by nosologies that have these elements baked in.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Russets and some older varieties have a nice dry, tart flavor. What's so wrong with that? Why this incessant search for greater sweetness?? *Shakes fist at sky*

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

We've gone too far w/crispness and sweetness. UMN was so concerned with whether they could, they didn't stop to think whether they should.

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Hope she wins the science fair. What a wonderful thing to see today!

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Katherine Jonas PhD LP @kgjonas.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Was she the one with the study of glue strength? If so, tell her she is amazing!

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