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Yeah, as I brought up before, the reliability of stressor assessment (in absence of highly rigorous, labor intensive interview methods) is a big assumption. There is ample data showing systematic bias related to reporting.

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is very cool and important, but I want to make sure I understand. If they had affect change that did not follow a reported stressful event, this was classified as noise? Did you assume that affect only changes in response to stressors? What about the noise in stressful event measurement?

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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FYI #SRP2026 if you haven't booked restaurant reservations do it NOW. They weren't kidding about the football weekend issue– Getting a dinner for 6 booked for Friday was an extreme sport. @srpsychopathology.bsky.social

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Katie Hoemann @katiehoemann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Come join me in the Emotions in Context Lab at the University of Kansas! I will be taking PhD students in Fall 2027.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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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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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Let's see who was advocating for this change. Scientists, educators, and mental health care advocates, right? Oh, wait... "conversion therapy proponents [who] railed against the organization for its alleged embrace of 'gender ideology.'"

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Arthur's Fist Angry Meme

ALT: Arthur's Fist Angry Meme

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

Hold the phone. Recommending rejection vs R&R vs accept etc is ALSO OPTIONAL?? That never crossed my mind but it’s life changing.

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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

😅thank you. My 2nd pub. It filled an important gap at the time-it was only the 3rd paper ever on co-rum (it was almost the 2nd + the 1st with prospective data, but another pub came out while it was under review). A LOT more work has been done since then but it was neat to get in on the ground floor

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

If anyone is curious, I tracked this coverage down. It looks here like it's in the NYT, but they're just archiving it-- it was in the tech blog ReadWriteWeb. FWIW, the PR release did NOT imply that we looked at girls "talking online" as a predictor of depression. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

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New Illness - Facebook Depression? - NYTimes.com

This may sound like a joke, but it's not: a href="http://www

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

I have learned my lesson. I have no particular interest in pursuing press anymore. Not that the press is interested in me. When I was a new assistant professor, a PR person told me that people don't like stories about depression research because "it's too sad" 🙄

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

One quick addition- some people are interpreting this as my advisor being to blame, maybe seeking attention for herself. Anyone who knows her would know she'd never distort findings to get press, or steal credit. She was super pissed and still has a thing about it on her website, 15 yrs later.

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

Mostly I blame the media landscape where people do little to no factchecking. It was clear that most never read our actual paper! The best outlets did. The original NYT paper was totally accurate. But I was surprised how many people just copied what other people were saying without checking sources.

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

Maybe we should have been more media savvy in understanding how the release would have circulated, but we're not PR experts. FWIW, another PR person said it's highly irregular to make up quotes and have a researcher sign off on them. We never would have come up with those quotes on our own.

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

I don't blame my advisor at all and I hope it doesn't come across that way. She's not the type at all to distort the truth for publicity or to steal credit for herself. She was as horrified as I was and got in touch with the AAP author to try to set the record straight (the author blamed-- us??)

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

I mean, maybe, at least a little???? I replied to one of Jon Haidt's early tweets about social media with this story once, years ago. He liked my tweet and moved on.

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

I don't think it was my advisor. She's not someone who would ever compromise accuracy in pursuit of publicity (she was also pissed about all of this and has a detailed account of it on her website still, 15 years later). I think it was questionable PR +minimal reporter fact checking +lazy author

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

My take-homes: Press is not always helpful. Be very careful w PR releases. And, I should’ve been more upset that many writers credited my 1st-author paper only to my advisor. I thought this is how it works, I’ll start getting credit when I get a PhD. That’s BS. Journalists, students deserve credit

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

So there you have it. A tale of how a finding can wind its way from scientific journal to PR office through a cascade of media outlets ripping each other off, and back into the scientific literature, losing accuracy at each step like the world’s worst game of telephone.

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

The AAP review has now been cited 3,848 times. It has likely influenced public policy and become reified into the scientific canon. Multiple researchers dispute the work it cites. slate.com/technology/2...

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A Cautionary Tale of Pediatricians, Parents, and Facebook

Fellow parents, I’ll bet this sounds familiar: We face a gazillion apps and games claiming to be good for our kids. Yet we are peppered with headlines...

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

Clearly, the authors saw one of the blog posts or whatever and took it as scientific evidence, and then didn’t even do a cursory check of the referenced paper before referencing it to make a major claim! Didn’t even make sure they were citing the right one!

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

“Facebook Depression” sounded suspicious bc I remembered some of the press using that exact term. So I look up the AAP paper. Yup…they cite a paper from our lab as “evidence”…but not even the same one, a DIFFERENT paper, lead-authored by my advisor, same journal & year, also NOTHING to with Facebook

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

Again, this was not even close to the focus of the paper! And there was no way to undo it once the stories spiraled and mutated each other’s inaccuracies. Flash forward to 2011. I’m on postdoc and the media is now salivating over a major AAP article describing something called “Facebook Depression”

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

The story was picked up, a lot. Major news outlets first. My advisor went on the CBS morning show. Then, it filtered down, as sites copied each other’s content without fact checking. The headline evolved: Stony Brook researchers show that Facebook/texting cause depression in adolescent girls.

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

our paper had nothing AT ALL to do with texting, social media, or anything like that. The quotes didn’t say we did, but they sorta speculated, playing up what the PR office likely knew would be a sexy angle. I was a grad student, mid-internship interview travels. I didn’t put much thought into it.

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

making up quotes that they attributed to us. Some were about how co-rum is esp relevant what with teens texting/using Facebook. This was early 2009, the crest of a moral panic about kids texting on flip phones and using FB to poke each other. I’d never done PR so I was like sure, OK. To be clear…

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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

Still. I’ve seen Desmond present on this stuff and it spooked me enough that during the talk I went on my phone and blocked my daughter’s access to chatbots. I can’t believe people have outdated obsessions with teens on social media like it’s 2015 but ignore the prospect of kids getting AI psychosis

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

Conversations, or queries? But yes. Prob a lot of people are using it for emotional support but maybe that could just be a quick query here or there. And people are using LLMs for like everything these days (you’re often forced to even if you don’t want to) so 3% is of a big number

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

Other research says 24% adults and 13% adolescents use it (swiped these %s from the 1st paragraph of this paper, which also cites the 3% stat). Those numbers aren’t mutually exclusive, considering some people use LLMs for basically everything they do online now. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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AI-Generated Empathy: Opportunities, Limits, and Future Directions - Desmond C. Ong, Amit Goldenberg, Michael Inzlicht, Anat Perry, 2026

Greater numbers of people are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) for empathy and emotional support. Here, we review and synthesize recent empirical work on...

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

I sure am mollified. I’m excited for when he’s gonna let us know, after he figures things out.

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

I love this so much! If there's one thing I've learned it's that good opportunities spiral, so embrace them, cultivate them, and spread them to others.

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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

We hope thinking about stress generation as a process rather than an outcome will encourage more research into interventions that modify SG processes, reducing the chronicity and burden of internalizing pathology.

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