Joseph Sexton

NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP)

Institutions have to submit a formal NSF proposal. The next deadline is June 1. Here's the solicitation: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Anecdotally, grad students on Reddit are saying that no one in their dept X knew about it, but when the student brought it up, dept X contacted dean ➡️ dean was already working on proposal for other depts ➡️ expanded proposal to include dept X.

Most all grants are interdepartmental (see UNM's award). A select number of HMs across the departments *and* prospective students with HMs but not admitted to a program last year (👋🏻🥲) get funding on the same order as a normal GRFP. For UNM as an example -- across these depts, 10 HMs will be funded.

As NSF GRFP is in the news, PLEASE spread the word about the new EGFP program they have for past GRFP honorable mentions. Universities in eligible states can apply to get funding for HMs in the same amount as GRFP. My impression is that many depts don't know this exists and so don't apply.

Not to be a toxic methodologist, but I'm starting to consider that people just don't think about it at all. A eugenicist in 1904 said IQ is a bell curve, and now our measurements of mental illness are extremely questionable.

The United States of precarious research conditions and abandoned longitudinal studies. I am 24 years old and want to be a scientist. Why would I stay here?

Sorry, but if you're in a top-tier PhD program, with a stipend of $40k+, and/or you otherwise have the material resources and clout to afford conferences -- the student travel award is 99.9% chance not for you

Anyhow, I'm listening to AG Cook and my code is working. That's all! Thank you

I don't think I'll ever get over how differently psychology is taught, researched, and practiced in different places. The discrepancies between eg the US, Brazil, Belgium, and South Africa in their curriculum, research methods, therapy -- a huge reality check for me

Also if a dx measurement assumes normal distribution for the trait in population, how would this assumption ever hold in clinical/more severe samples? It makes zero sense to me. You can't chop the top third of a bell curve off and insist that it's still a bell curve?

Genuine question for psych people: do we actually think latent variables are normally distributed, or has everyone just been pretending for the past several decades?

Are you poor because of complex social forces or is it just because you have a low score on the SES latent variable

Why is socioeconomic status used in every introduction to factor analysis. I can hardly think of a worse thing to measure using factor analysis than SES

Is it a breakthrough in clinical science or is it a psychologist popularizing an idea that a sociologist suggested 30 years ago

From the changemyview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

the Reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...

Response from the chair of the university’s arts and sciences ethics committee:

Wow. Researchers at the University of Zurich had LLMs infiltrate subreddit r/ChangeMyView. Models assumed personal roles including as a victim of SA, BLM protestor, and trauma counselor to enhance trust. No permissions. Community is justifiably pissed.

Also seems that students can transfer into qualifying programs and then begin the EGFP which could be useful to HMs from past years who are looking to leave their program. Noting all this for posterity as this thread comes up upon searching “EGFP” :)

So it seems that, for a department in an EPSCoR state, funding would mean (1) any students you have with HM would be compensated same as GRFP and (2) dept can recruit HMs not already in grad school with funding then provided through EGFP.

no problem, it’s wild that searching EGFP on here turns up nothing! I emailed earlier today for some more details and got this response. It’s mostly catered towards potential fellows but FWIW:

I’m really hoping more information can be provided about this as I see it as a means by which HMs might be able to procure funding in the years to come. Especially for HMs that didn’t get in anywhere this past cycle (there are many of us) and will be re-applying for AY 26-27 intake. It’s unclear rn.

NSF 101: EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program

Hi. I’m outside of your discipline but was an HM and am also hoping for more information. It seems institutions apply, then can recruit from an NSF portal: www.nsf.gov/science-matt...

Beyond excited to see what this edited collection becomes!

See full CFP below - we (@jeffreyansloos.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social Jennifer White + me) are working to make space for different kinds of (critical) suicide studies

#suicidecultures @d-liveability.bsky.social #critsui

Cannot believe how much I've come to despise my country. Cannot believe that I'd truly consider leaving.

Instead, all those terrible things I've hated about the US have only grown more central to the its character. Anti-science billionaires and their ilk text war plans on a Signal chat.

It truly feels like all the things I've grown to love about the US are owed to its diversity and strong identification with immigrants -- never mind the fact that my own parents immigrated here in the 80s -- only for these qualities to be wholly rejected by elected fascists.

Applying to PhDs next cycle. Whatever little I have to offer the world, it feels like the universe is conspiring for me to do it anywhere else, under any flag other than the American one, for which I have been left with nothing but contempt in recent months.

To be clear, none of these "de-woke" austerity measures are dissuading me from pursuing science. Us to-be scientists still love research. Now we're just also exceedingly pissed off (moreso than usual)

Very happy to have been awarded an honorable mention, but it's tough in that some large percentage of honorable mentions today would've been awarded the GRFP yesterday... the stupid whimsies of you-know-who.