@rschacht
Associate Professor of Psychology studying treatment for PTSD and substance use disorders. Training clinic director. Clinical psychologist. University of Washington -> Baltimore VA -> Johns Hopkins Medicine -> University of Maryland, Baltimore County #UMBC
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Looking for field study, for class, using unobtrusive observation for DV?
Our new paper, led by Siobhan Murray (w Rose Meleady) is for you!
Cafeteria allowed menu boards with & without animal images
Odds of choosing vegetarian meals rose 22% if animal image present.
I find the news very frightening right now, but one thing that helps me is noticing the birds all around me
Do you want a reason to spend 10 minutes a day noticing your local birds? Then join me for this spring’s #TenMinMerlin, using the (free) app Merlin to notice birds. No experience needed!
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Reupping
Sadly, the match imbalance, which we thought had peaked in 2009-10 and in recent years had almost disappeared due to APPIC et al.’s hard work, seems to be returning 😞
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
OSINT folks, the bar has been raised
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Freeman Hrabowski III, the President Emeritus from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, giving a TED talk.
This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski.
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I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Woo hoo!!! Love to see it 🙂
Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.
The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.
The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.
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Nice! September will be 20 years quit for me, after 20 years of smoking. Zyban, a quit date, & gradual tapering was 🗝️. 1st 3 days sucked but since then I haven’t looked back. My only regret was that I didn’t try sooner. Anyone out there wondering: you can do it. You’ll be glad you did ❤️ 🫁 🎉
If we continue to compromise with people whose stated goal is to destroy NIH, then we will not be successful in saving it.
The summer undergraduate internship is a paid opportunity during the summer of 2026. Interns are expected to work a minimum of 30 hours/week and are paid $18.50/hour. This internship is available to undergraduate students with an interest in public opinion, survey research, and data science. Pew Research Center is an office-based workplace, with all staff working in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Staff have the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week. A modest relocation stipend is available for candidates who need it. Internship dates: June 1-Aug. 14, 2026 (with alternative dates of June 15-Aug. 28, 2026 also available) Education/Training/Experience College students who are pursuing a bachelor’s or associate degree and have completed a minimum of two years (in other words, rising juniors and seniors).
Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org!
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Apply soon!
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
sabbatical plans
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
Great tips for all kinds of fields
#AcademicSky
A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk
The first two hours this morning
excellent cover
Riptide, Puerto Rico, age 6
give peas a chance in 2026 I say
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
sabbatical plans
#AcademicSky
The proposed changes reported over the weekend to FDA vaccine approvals are unethical to patients and healthcare providers across our nation.
We have real healthcare delivery issues in need of clear headed leadership. Not this.
@msnowreports.bsky.social @nicollewallace.bsky.social
amazing
If you are applying for grad school, I recommend you build time into your process to get feedback on your materials from someone with experience evaluating application documents.
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Surreal to read the words of the late Sharon Begley in STAT's obituary of James Watson, whom she describes as legend of science but also a man whose "public and unrepentant racism and sexism ... made him a pariah in life and poisoned his legacy in death"
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
