@mattsouthward.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Ohio State / UChicago, OSU, Duke, & UK alum / BPD, DBT, emotion regulation flexibility / CV: bit.ly/3ThEI22 / Scholar: bit.ly/3PMktZT / Lab: u.osu.edu/mattlab/
A classic paper in a day (in a year)!
16.07.2025 18:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@quantitude.bsky.social
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A concerned orange cat at the dining table
Palms: Sweaty
Knees: Weak
Arms: Heavy
📝 Collecting signatures for @stopsb1oh.bsky.social at the Columbus Actors Theatre’s *free* production of Emma last night in Schiller Park!
Let me know if you want to sign and can’t make it to other events
Franklin County, Ohio #stopsb1oh
Where to sign the petition:
NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness."
Thousands of scientists disagreed.
We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇
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Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers!
11.06.2025 02:38 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Spencer Tweedy!
07.06.2025 03:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#nepobabydrummer
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Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.
Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:
1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
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06.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Referendum petition booklets with tons of available places to sign!
📋 I’ve got SB1 referendum petition forms!
If you’re a registered voter in Ohio & want to put SB1 to a vote in November, let me know and I’ll get you one to sign 📝🙌
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04.06.2025 13:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A man of the people!
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Home recording of the invited talk I gave at APS last week. I discuss inferential problems that can arise from linear models and statistical control, offer sets as an alternative means for aggregating information, and provide examples from an ongoing study in my lab.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olab...
They made it really easy. Do it!
03.06.2025 14:37 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
He says without any bias or conflicts of interest ☺️ (fr tho you had such a cool and wide-ranging set of clinical programming!)
03.06.2025 10:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Slide from Dr. Debora Bell's (Mizzou) keynote talk on how to navigate our career paths.
Expert panel on multiple paths we can go with a psych degree!
Shoutout to @abctstudentsig.bsky.social & Chair @francesghart.bsky.social for a rewarding & enriching FREE student research symposium today! 🤩
Honored @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social could be a part of it.
And a timely potential pathway (although comparing White vs Black participants, rather than men and women)!
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
I forgot how close the NMAAHC was to the Washington Memorial. Its architecture and layout are so powerful, starting chronologically on the 3rd & lowest underground level and working your way up (literally) to today.
*Spoiler*: Coming out of the dark, narrow, and winding corridors of pre-1776 slavery into this massive golden text was such an awesome design.
The infographics are incredibly informative! I at least take our current racial definitions for granted but these graphics show how they’ve twisted and turned over the years, usually based on legal definitions, to suit some political purpose or another and just get reified through enforcement and repetition.
A hand-printed, portable copy of the Emancipation Proclamation showing just how powerful it was and how people got creative to share it.
The other bright spot of #APS25DC was getting to visit the mind-blowing & powerful National Museum of African American History & Culture. It seemed timely and I hadn’t been!
They do an amazing job highlighting how much of the US was built by slaves & how our current ideas of race developed. 💯
Sonya Mishra shows how, when women’s gains are framed as increasing their power (control of resources), men are less likely to support them & more likely to worry they’ll be disadvantaged compared to when women’s gains are framed as increasing their status. Women show no differences. 🚻 #APS25DC
26.05.2025 00:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There's still plenty of time to register! Join us next Saturday (May 31) for an exciting day of student research - and don't miss our keynote and professional development panel!
Register here through May 30!
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An unrelated picture of a cat being tall at a window on a clear sunny day
Omg I didn’t even know what the one I picked out of the bag was! Some kind of green plastic 🌀 that seemed like a cake decoration?
All I could think of was change in therapy spiraling out from what happens in sessions to between sessions to beyond treatment 🤷🏻♂️
To better communicate science, we should:
Use appropriate metaphors, analogies, & examples
Talk in narratives
Remember we read 3 words, then, if interesting, 30 words, then, if still intrigued, 300 words
Start with the main point ➡️ narrative ➡️ takeaway point #APS25DC
At #APS25DC
24.05.2025 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Whitney Whitted looked at how different aspects of social media impacted mental health.
People were more likely to endorse a dx when info was framed as a dx (vs a resilience framing)
They didn’t distinguish expert credentials from posters’ lived experiences
& info helped many feel understood!
@lluaces.bsky.social shows a stronger within-person effect of reappraisal than expressive suppression predicting session-to-session reductions in distress across two 6-week guided self-help studies of mindfulness & behavioral treatments! #APS25DC
23.05.2025 21:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At @psychscience.bsky.social, @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social shows how basic reinforcement learning with affective content and distractors naturally leads to repetitive negative thinking, at least over ~200,000 trials before it can get corrected. That’s a lot of thought records! #APS25DC
23.05.2025 20:30 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Mystery dog tho 👀
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