Asst. Professor of Psychology @VanderbiltU. Environmental determinants of mental health. Teaching behavioral scientists to use Claude.

Nashville, TN
Joined March 2021
I write a free weekly newsletter on AI for behavioral scientists: new tools, journal and funder policy updates, studies of AI in research, and the occasional cautionary tale. It started as part of a summer AI series at Vanderbilt. New issues every Friday: aiforbehavioralscience.com
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Hi friends! I'm ecstatic to share that I have just recently started at @VanderbiltU as an Assistant Professor of Psychology🥳 Special shout-outs to @WilsonSylia for being the finest postdoctoral mentor I could've asked for, and @ashleylwatts for encouraging me to apply.
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Congratulations! And your quote-tweet is so true and so important. "The wound is the place where the Light enters you," as they say.
My department just voted to support my promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure 🥹 There are more steps to go, but this was a big hurdle and I'm so relieved Quote-tweeting my birthday-post from last year, because that message is hitting me especially strongly today...
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A mostly thoughtful review of the history of failure of psychiatry - Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head - (very wrong on genetics, but right on social factors) bostonreview.net/articles/me…
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Retweeting this for the signal boost (and to save so I can make sure this is read by my future students).
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Words of wisdom from Psyche's deputy editor, @Psych_Writer, in celebration of #10yearsofaeon bit.ly/3i3mJwN
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Out today in @TheLancetPsych: A systematic review of studies examining maltreatment timing effects written in collaboration with @cecily_cardew @ErinDunnScD! bit.ly/3Vd2cUZ
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The surprising finding? No consistent "sensitive periods" of heightened vulnerability emerged. Fortunately, the results *did* help us craft a set of recommendations we think might improve the quality and replicability of future studies aimed at tackling this question.
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Figured we might as well try getting this out there while we can, even if Twitter appears to be careening off of a metaphorical cliff! 🤷‍♂️
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According to recent research, >80% of clinical & counseling psych faculty/trainees endorse lifetime history of a "mental health difficulty" and ~50% report receiving a psychiatric diagnosis. tinyurl.com/3xd62hc2 It's almost like psychologists are people, too 🤔
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Worth noting: grad students were more likely (90%) to report difficulties or diagnoses than faculty (70%), and report more recent and significant difficulties.
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A RANT. Publishing is the coin of the realm in academia, but peer review is a sodden mess. Would a business delegate its most valued functions to unpaid volunteers? Journals depend on free labor from reviewers. This system sucked before the pandemic & is unsustainable now. 🧵
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Really glad to see this change! Especially since data from longitudinal studies suggest upwards of 70-80% of the population will meet criteria for a psychiatric disorder at some point. These conditions really aren't that "abnormal". Kudos @DrMacDonald3rd!
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Great Q&A with @trikomes on the Mind & Matter podcast discussing the utility of twin research and evidence suggesting that adolescent #marijuana use probably isn't a causal contributor to psychotic illness.
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Jonathan D. Schaefer retweeted
Out today, another fun collaboration with @BrianHi07774504 and team examining associations between PGS for regular smoking and educational attainment with GPA, academic motivation, and school discipline at ages 11-14-17 and age 29 educational attainment. bit.ly/3iWw9IG
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Jonathan D. Schaefer retweeted
Sometimes we may wish to check all relevant assumptions for a regression model in one go. 🔍 The {check_model} function from {performance} 📦 does exactly this and also provides elegant visualizations with helpful pointers ✅📊 easystats.github.io/performa… #rstats #DataScience
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Jonathan D. Schaefer retweeted
If you're interested in computing power for interactions between continuous/binary variables in cross-sectional datasets and don't know R, Megan Finsaas ported the major functions of our package over to a shiny app! intmoddev.shinyapps.io/intPo…
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Jonathan D. Schaefer retweeted
Perceived experience of childhood adversity appears to have greater association with development of psychopathology, independent of objective experience. @jessiebaldwin & @Michelle_Degli | @TheJCPPadvances @WileyPsychology acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
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