Suzanne Segerstrom

Glad I’m not the only one who likes a good mug.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

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How may abuse in childhood contribute to an elevated risk for such a wide range of maladaptive health outcomes in adulthood?

This study focused on impairments in fear learning processes (i.e., discerning between fear and safety signals in one’s environment). #psychscisky

Free to read this week!:

I can have LAYERS 😀

First time in my life my hair has had any kind of body! It was always thin and super straight, and not in a fun way.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”