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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 24/09/2026

holy fucking shit - see Claude Code (Opus 5.5) rip through a survey eligility test I was really proud of... It requires tracing a route through designated points on a map with server-side Javascript applying eligibility criteria. (1.5 min video)

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When journals ask you to rate a paper 0-100, how do you interpret the scale? Do you use the whole range? Do you treat it like an academic grade where anything below 60 is failing? What about papers that have potential but need revision? Why are we using a scale with no standards or reference points?

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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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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fun story. As I was a grad student I published a 1st-author paper on co-rumination in J of Adolescence that got discussed in the NYT (side note, the reporter interviewed me but only named my advisor in the story). Our PR office wanted to build on it for more press, so they wrote up a press release…

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Jenn Veilleux @jenncveilleux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come be my colleague!! We are hiring THREE tenure-track folks at the University of Arkansas this fall: (1) clinical, (2) social, and (3) cognitive. Clinical is looking ideally for a child/adolescent person but the area is technically open. All ads linked here: psychology.uark.edu

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m accepting applications for PhD students to join my lab in Fall 2027! Our work focuses on psychopathology, personality, classification and assessment, and using AI with intensive longitudinal methods to better understand mental health. See the lab site for more info: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu

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Welcome! | Ringwald Lab

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'll be reviewing applications for a new student or two for UNC-CH's clinical psychology PhD program! Social anxiety, pain, intensive longitudinal data, all that fun stuff. What prospective applicants get if they email me (so no need): docs.google.com/document/d/1... Lab: tarheels.live/rodelab/

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Welcome to the Rodebaugh Lab Website - Rodebaugh Laboratory

Welcome to the Rodebaugh lab website! Here you can learn about what Dr. Rodebaugh & colleagues are working on and what research is being conducted.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In case you missed it--reposting appreciated. If you are working with folks who are applying this year, you may also want to know about this handy list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... that @allisonharvey.bsky.social has organized!

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Accepting Clinical, Counseling or School Psychology Grad Student?

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When people get nostalgic for America's post-9/11 response I can tell they're either really young, really forgetful, or really into jingoistic, anti-Islamic insanity.

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m pleased to share that I’ll be considering grad students for Fall 2027 admissions to the University of Rochester’s clinical psychology program. I’m working on updating my website (more to come)— check it out to learn more about who we are and what we do www.psych.rochester.edu/research/sta...

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Starr Lab – Internalizing Disorder Research at the University of Rochester

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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Saying yes to collaborations: A love story 🧵 Inspired by a conversation w/ one of my grad students today about if she should take on a collaboration. We focus a lot on learning to say no (there are even punch cards) but IMO learning to say yes to the right things is equally important. . .

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

⚠️ATTENTION STRESS GENERATION FANS!⚠️ Presenting THREE new papers in Nature Reviews Psychology and Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! One empirical study One methods guide One conceptual framework All have been baking for a LONG time, so it is a thrill to finally share. 🔗🧵⬇️ #PsychSky

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨New in @natrevpsychol.nature.com w/David Dozois, Katerina Rnic, Angela Santee & Joelle LeMoult Robust research documents risk factors for stress generation, but mostly focuses on WHO generates stress. But what processes translate that statistical risk into the actual generation of life events?

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨Our consensus guidelines paper for research on stress generation is live at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! This paper brings together researchers with a wide range of theoretical perspectives and expertise on SG to converge on the HOW TO.

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨New(ish) lab paper led by my former student Angela Santee (now in a faculty position at @urochester.bsky.social psychiatry), which bridges two of our lab’s foci, stress generation and emotion differentiation! psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am SUPER excited about this paper, which is the beginning of an amazing line of work by @amycarolus.bsky.social that is changing my thinking about emotion differentiation. Check it out! #affectivescience #PsySciSky

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Blair Wisco @bwisco.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are hiring an assistant professor in child clinical psychology! Review ad and apply here: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35832 Please repost and share widely! @cppugach.bsky.social @kwapillab.bsky.social @michaeljkane.bsky.social @mikey-jensen.bsky.social @levirbaker.bsky.social

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lake Ontario sits on the unceded territory of the Haudenosaunee people. Ontario, a name predating the province by 200 years, means "Great Lake" in their language. The name "Ontario" has a richer, older connection to this land than does "America," which is named after an Italian colonizer.

Stones stacked neatly on a rock on the shore of Lake Ontario at Chimney Bluffs, NY

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

SO excited to see that something we have been working on for a very long time is finally in print. I’ll post a thread when I get back from traveling next week, so stay tuned!

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

So now tech companies are just openly helping kids cheat? Cool cool cool

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Screenshot of Google lens homework function. Camera says “Take a photo of a homework question”

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Russia endured Lysenkoism in the 1930s. It forced Lamarck's theory of use & disuse. The WH OMB rule is akin to Russia's Nomenklatura, where a political senior appointee overrides expert peer review. There is still time to comment to stop this TONIGHT. 100k comments so far. 🧪 archive.today/WLYJi

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Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/07/2026

also rochester! you folks have some good bridges

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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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

in rochester just to explore a bit with the family and took some time on my own to reflect on the life of one of the city’s most famous citizens, frederick douglass youtu.be/zTa_qiiZGiQ?...

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The Fight Never Ends

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Really, @nytimes.com, an article on facilitated communication? Didn't you see the Law & Order episode in 1995(!) debunking FC? It was a KEY plot point. (seriously, more procedural dramas should debunk pseudoscience as side plots) lawandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Cruel_a... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/s...

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An Autism Breakthrough, or an Illusion? The Fight Over Assisted Spelling

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ceej @ceej.online · 28/06/2026

For fifty years, fans, critics, and scholars have debated the meaning of the Eagles’ acclaimed 1976 recording “Hotel California.” Our new paper uses advanced AI analysis to finally reveal the hidden truth: it’s about what if there was a spooky hotel

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We’re not talking enough about how so-called anti-DEI policies are transparently intended to exclude people of color from white spaces.

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Monika Neff Lind @monikanlind.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We looked for the experimental evidence showing that social media bans benefit youth... and found nothing. Like, lots of studies with null results? No, literally nothing-- there are no experimental studies of social media restriction that target minors like these bans do. Check out our new paper!

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Frontiers | We don't know how social media bans will affect youth but we're doing it anyway!

Around the world, governments are banning youth from social media. Proponents of bans claim that banning or restricting social media access is necessary to c...

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 18/05/2026

Paging Canadian academics:

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

What an eventful, wonderful but bittersweet week for my lab. Farewell dinner last Wed for Gwyn DeLap, off to Montefiore for internship Got to hood Katy Chang on Fri, & then made it official with her diss defense today. And a beautiful wedding (Congrats Gwyn & Shane!) I'm so grateful for my students!

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Congratulations, Dr. Katy Chang, who defended her superb dissertation today! 👩‍🎓🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥹 @urochester.bsky.social

Dr. Chang poses next to the title page of her dissertation slide. It is entitled: A multi-level examination of the psychological well-being of gender minority adults, by Katharine Chang, M.A., Clinical Psychology Ph.D program, May 2026.

Dr. Katy Chang poses with her committee, after her hybrid defense with some committee members in person and others on zoom. In person is Lisa Starr, Katy Chang, and Ron Rogge and over zoom (on screen) is Brian Feinstein and Ian Cero.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 20/03/2025

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Some evidence of decreasing depression rates among adolescents from the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 60% of teens with depression reported receiving mental health treatment (31% taking meds) www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/d...

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Academic patriarchy is how there is nothing inside of doctoral robes to hook the hood to, because they assume you are wearing men’s clothes underneath and can attach it to your belt or shirt buttons.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/05/2026

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

Screenshot of a paper's title page. Title: "The Difference Between 'Replicable' and 'Not replicable' is not Itself Scientifically Replicable". Authors: Berna Devezer and Erkan O. Buzbas, both at the University of Idaho — Devezer in the Department of Business and the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, Buzbas in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science. Authors contributed equally. Corresponding author: bdevezer@uidaho.edu.
Abstract: Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that matter and do not share a single common data-generating process. We formalize two statistical interpretations of this non-exactness. In a shared latent rate model (benchmark), experiments are exchangeable and depend on a common random replicability rate. In a conditionally independent rates model (operational), each experiment has its own replicability rate drawn independently from a population distribution. Under the shared latent rate model, even small variability among replicability rates induces an irreducible variance floor on the estimated mean replicability rate that cannot be eliminated by adding more replications. Under the conditionally independent rates model, the degree of non-exactness is not identifiable from standard replication data, because one binary verdict per experiment contains no information about between-experiment heterogeneity. Researchers therefore cannot tell which precision regime they are operating in or whether high- and low-replicability sequences can be distinguished in principle. As a result, the usual data structure of one binary verdict per experiment cannot support reliable demarcation between "replicable" and "not replicable" results and systematically understates uncertainty, making high- and low-replicability sequences appear discrim…

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I just looked up a list of the top AI words and I use nearly all of them in my writing all the time. What does this say about me? Am I an LLM? 🤖

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

There is a Washington Post editorial on how Trump should change the US's official language from "English" to "American" and I just can't.

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is phenomenal. How many disease prevention programs are there that lead to 11% drop in mortality within 2 years? Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

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Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline

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Sa-kiera Hudson @sakierahudson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I know the summer isn't quiiiiiite here yet (and those who are on the quarter system are cussing me out for even thinking about summer). But here is my Summer Writing Worksheet for those who use it! Share widely, please! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Summer 2026 Writing Goals Worksheet [TEMPLATE]

Building a Summer Practice of Writing in 2026 *Download a copy to edit If January is a mythical month for productivity, the summer is even more magical. It’s the time where you simultaneously get to ...

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Why aren't the kids out protesting? The NYT is on the case. Turns out: They're too sad to protest bc too much TikTok, too much chatGPT, and not enough reactionary centrism!! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I got this email and I am so mad! My 2012 Kindle Paperwhite works as well as when I first got it. There’s been essentially no tech improvements in 14 years - my old model is almost exactly the same as the new models. Pure cash grab.

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Very excited for this! I've never met Dr. McFall, but my fun fact is that he's my academic great-grandfather (or grandfather if you go by postdoc mentor). In a way, he's an forefather of everyone with clinical science training, and I'm excited for the opportunity learn from him.

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