Katherine Duggan, PhD

@olsonista.bsky.social does such wonderful, RIGOROUS work in this area. We in science and society are so lucky to have her!

Super excited to attend the opening night for #Initiative tomorrow at the public! Sounds like I’m in for a night of millennial perfection

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.

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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees

> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

Admittedly, it could be a legit food pantry run at the library w/ access to these prices. We don’t know! But even if it’s not a formal pantry, the library could buy with the same bulk pricing. Cash = flexibility to meet community needs.

(Context: I’ve done research and volunteered at pantries).

Because food pantries have access to special pricing and can buy things for PENNIES at costs we could never find, even when buying in bulk.

Having a giant waiting area is the biggest lab flex :)

And for today in "news I didn't expect to hear, but..."

How do we make America healthy again and work to improve child health if we slash the budget for chronic disease prevention efforts by 98%?

Replying to this so I remember for when I’m in Denver again in 2026!

A view of dodger stadium in Los Angeles, on a sunny day with the sky dotted with clouds.

LET’S GO DODGERS! From growing up watching games on my grandpa’s knee to games in person with some of my favorite people and LA views, I’ll always rep my hometown team. Thrilled about our back-to-back win this year!

They're calling him the most French man in history

Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026

AI hallucinated citations are now showing up in court decisions too…

Tylenol is over 130 years old — why is it still the gold-standard painkiller? Acetaminophen is one of the safest drugs around, but scientists still don’t know how it reduces pain and fever.

Tylenol, or paracetamol, has been used to treat common pains and fevers since 1893, and is one of the safest drugs around

go.nature.com/3IDUgva

In January of 2021, photos started bouncing round the internet of this deeply weird thing happening in the sky above Glasgow, Scotland. Photoshop trickery?

The bizarre truth:
- yes, everyone really saw these
- no, they're not faked or manmade
- they absolutely don't exist.

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a man wearing a sweater that says icon on it ALT: a man wearing a sweater that says icon on it

Let’s put it on the list for the follow up to that climate survey

a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket . ALT: a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals.

In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.

Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...

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How institutions pivot regarding this for current employees might say a lot about whether they’re really “good places to work.” Reminds me of my institution’s Covid policies, which were pretty outstanding

This is the dumbest fucking shit I've ever read and people who talk like this need to go touch grass.

LLM tools only have real case uses in very limited areas when the people using them are actual experts in their fields and can check it carefully for its bullshit.

So, not students.

They are senior level undergrads mostly. If you think that would work for them, I’m all ears!

Ooh if you have any materials to share (readings exercises etc) that your students have found helpful, i'd love to hear them! my class assumes prior methods exposure - its run grad seminar style, but they do their own study as well. a lot of fear + assuming they left apa papers behind!

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Today I had my social psych (seminar style) class read Jordan & Zanna’s “how to read a journal article” paper. So many said they wished they read it in methods! They especially liked the story metaphor. Might be worth sharing w/ your class?

This is outstanding! I sent it around to my group :)

Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions

I'm here for good science... and #thediscourse.

Nice summary by @richarddmorey.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading the paper and potentially including it on my reading list for my grad stats/methods course.