Suzanne Segerstrom

Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email ryan.quinn@insidehighered.com today. Thank you.

This is not the news I needed today.

It's that time of year again. My universal line in recommendation letters:

Please note that I do not provide ratings for unvalidated recommendation questions; please rely on the evaluation in this letter.

BSAM is welcoming submissions on any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine for a special issue for protocols and data notes! Goal is to support open/transparent research culture. Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026.

In a recent meta-analysis and systematic review, Cardenas et al., (2025) found that greater discrimination was associated with higher levels of systemic inflammation based on 161 effect sizes from 47 articles representing ∼74,763 participants

Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

New paper led by @drlynam.bsky.social on the need for more training in and engagement with open science practices in clinical psych programs. It has been difficult to make progress due to a variety of barriers, including students working in labs uninterested or hostile to these approaches.

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Seems like a good time to be working on a [checks file] T32

A Lay Theory of the Successful Graduate Student/Academic Just recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a piece on what it takes to be successful in an academic career.  It was a pleasant essay, which emphasized some of the usual suspects like indu…

As I am going over old blog posts, here is a nice blog by @bwroberts.bsky.social on qualities in graduate students that, in his opinion, lead to a successful career in academia. Still very good advice. pigee.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/a...

Summer spaniels

anti-prime sale

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

🚨Calling all health psychologists!

Submit to the Special Issue of BSAM on Protocols & Data Notes in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology + share this call widely to support a more open & transparent culture aimed at improving the rigor & reproducibility of our research!

Call for submissions:

➡️Special issue for protocols and data notes at @bsamjournal.bsky.social - any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine welcome! If a protocol was peer reviewed by a funder, it may be eligible for rapid review 👀 Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026. Details: journals.lww.com/bsam/Documen...

squid game season 1: the juxtaposition between schoolyard games and top-down death is a direct but useful metaphor for the inherent violence needed to sustain a class system under capitalism

squid game season 3: we gave them knives so they can stab each other with knives

😂😂😂😭

Article Summaries for June 2025 Biopsychosocial Science and ... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine An abstract is unavailable.

Have you checked out the overview of articles in the June issue of BSAM?

Read here: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

In other news, I had to squash two post hoc power analyses today #editorslife

Apply to be the Society for Health Psychology Postdoctoral Representative (2025–2026) and help shape the future of postdoc support within the SfHP. Be a voice for trainees, create programming, and grow community connections.

🗓Deadline: July 31, 2025

👉 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Kentucky “alumni” reunion at #arp2025 @jdmiller.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social @dsamuel.bsky.social

Someone went into the smoothie place carrying a keyboard as I walked by. Secret concert?

Same!

And don’t forget the salsa effect: so many models just create mild, medium, and hot “trajectories”

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer..

Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years.

(See Bauer 2007)

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Who hurt you

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I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !!

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deadline July 31st

@pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

A carrot cake with carrot garden decoration

What he ⬆️ said.

As #SPSP2026 submission season begins, please consider me for your symposia! My students & I have recent work on:
- Parents' estimates of their children's prejudices
- Development of homophobia in childhood
- Gender essentialism & domestic work disparities
- Structural explanations & stereotypes

👋!

We've learned a lot more about the principal drivers of age-related diseases in the past few weeks. And the leads to a unified model to put it all together. (open-access)
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-driver...