Lisa Starr

Very late! We had 80 degree weather earlier this week. I’ve been in tank tops and sandals. The last couple days have been the first that I’ve gotten out my sweaters.

I forgot about all my basil! We brought in our little pepper plants that we planted late that we're still hoping will ripen. Hoping it stays above freezing today-- my garden is GORGEOUS and I can't let it go.

'The New York Times' takes OpenAI to court. ChatGPT's future could be on the line In three consolidated suits, publishers allege that OpenAI broke copyright law by copying millions of articles without permission or payment. OpenAI counters that the fair use doctrine protects them.

I guess it may depend on a) whether PsyArXiv has a content sharing agreement with the OpenAI, Google, etc. (doubt it!), b) the outcome of lawsuits like this one ⬇️. LLMs also scrape pubmed etc. which posts material journal-copyrighted material www.npr.org/2025/01/14/n...

It just kind of sucks how 1) unvetted work will now get synthesized into general science knowledge (bad bc some of it may change by publication as Dan says, but also bc there's a lot of crap out there), and 2) openly sharing work means feeding copyrighted material to plagiarism machines

I just googled the title of a paper of mine that hasn't even been published yet (as a lazy way to find the preprint) and Gemini popped out an AI summary of it. So I guess preprints on PsyArXiv are being used in AI training sets? 🤔

Could not endorse this more. We’re clinical psychologists. Guiding people empathetically towards adaptive change is supposed to be our thing.

WTF. This is HORRENDOUS news, and horribly misguided.

Clinical science is science.

As expected I am feeling major FOMO for missing SRP this year. 😭😭😭

Also, any program that charges tuition (including 50% “reduced”) during internship is almost certainly predatory.

I once asked a friend who is a former PsyD faculty this same question bc I kept getting it from students. Her answer overlapped heavily with @anthonyperillo.bsky.social’s, but also:
-faculty went to reputable PhD programs
-faculty maintains active research programs
-mentorship model

Transphobic ramblings

Giant middle finger

...and here's my beef with school phone bans being enacted based on a lay ideas about screens & mental health:
No need to invest in evidence-based mental health resources bc we have the phone bans (and nutrition and sunshine!).

Screenshot of Washington Post editorial by Linda McMahon & RFK Jr entitled Children Need Natural Sources of Mental Health, with subheading overzealous use of therapy can cause the crises it claims to cure

Oh, WaPo. Please don't give a forum for dangerous, ignorant charlatans to spout pseudoscience.

From this paper:

(Holy Cow! Reminds me also of how Bullshit Receptivity items can glom together!)

😭 So glad my youngest didn’t start kindergarten until 2021 when things were in person again. Zoom 3rd & 4th grade was bad enough!

Mine too (9 & 14). I don’t know how I got through those early years! Esp during covid

Having kids, on the other hand, is a choice that will unequivocally add stress and busyness to your life.

Any career where you are deeply invested in your work is going to be stressful sometimes, particularly if you also balancing family demands. But I don't think my life is necessarily more stressful than my friends my age in other industries. Everyone's busy. But I have job security!

I'm glad you are in a place & position where you are happier! But the thread you are quoting was really arguing the opposite.
bsky.app/profile/dran...

I hear there are dentists that specialize in teeth.

It’s almost as if it’s possible to conflate cohort effects and age effects.

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

Dependent Stressor Occurrence, Stressor Severity Appraisals & Stressor Controllability Appraisals Link Attentional Control Deficits To Engagement in Repetitive Negative Thinking in Daily Life - Journa... Worry and rumination share a common process of repetitive negative thinking (RNT). RNT is a transdiagnostic risk factor for internalizing psychopathology. Theoretical models suggest deficits in cognit...

New from my lab, lead by stellar grad student Elizabeth Marsh (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For all of you stress generation fans, the preprint is now unavailable while the good folks at PsyArXiv do the important work of culling out AI slop. Never fear: the preprint is also up on @researchgate.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/impr...

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

It's not just that this dilutes education. It's that it promotes the toxic practice of spouting ideas from the gut, and then retrofitting the evidence around them.

Homemade yogurt on the radiator seems kind of scary, but maybe you knew what you were doing! There is now a mini Pittsford Dairy location right on Park, where Abbotts used to be, so today’s incarnation of your college self no longer has to trek out to Pittsford for dairy goodness.

Love Pittsford Dairy! They sell this milk at Wegmans around here (but worth a trip to the dairy for some ice cream and amazing local eggs)

‼️Academic job alert‼️ Our dept at Queen's University (Canada!) is looking to hire a TT assistant prof in clinical psychology... Applications due end of Sept! Re-posts very much appreciated www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...

My understanding is that all IFs were inflated for a while because of increased pandemic related publishing, and that has now petered out.

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings.

When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities.

When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes