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Tom Rodebaugh
@drrodebaugh.bsky.social
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Clinical scientist at UNC-CH (anxiety, intensive longitudinal data). Past Pres. of APCS. Senior Editor for Clinical Psychology at Collabra: Psychology. Occasional music, more about Doctor Who than you might expect. Posts are personal, not work.
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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · Jun 10
In case what you need in these trying times is a big dumb dance track, here, I made one for you
youtu.be/KFKcDecQdWQ?...
#music #opxy
dumdumdumwub
YouTube video by Thomas Rodebaugh
youtu.be
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
This is fun, like everyone on BlueSky is ... IN...SPACE...
theo.io Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 1d
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Reposted by Tom Rodebaugh
drandreahoward.bsky.social
Every four years the world gets re-introduced to the glorious sport of CURLING! 🥌

This year I've decided to share a curling fact every day for the duration of the Olympic Games. Follow this thread for everything you never knew you wanted to learn about curling!

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February 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Tom Rodebaugh
lluaces.bsky.social
A couple of years ago, I read a paper with a title like “a questionnaire that may actually measure psychological flexibility (maybe)” but I can’t find it now. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
February 6, 2026 at 10:07 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
Wow. I kept watching because I, a guy who is into solar power already, still learned quite a bit... And then I watched further as this humble tech YouTuber in the Midwest took his gloves off and, wow.

youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?...
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Reposted by Tom Rodebaugh
katiew.bsky.social
🚨Faculty position just dropped. We are seeking a Psychology Clinic Director at the @unm.edu Dept of Psychology psychclinic.unm.edu, this position is focused on clinical training of PhD students in sunny, affordable, and progressive New Mexico.
Come join us!
unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Picture of mountain and sunset with Univ of New Mexico logo
February 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
I have a song stuck in my head.

I wrote it.

Well at least I know who to be angry at I guess
February 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
My university: You must not be on campus before noon.

Also my university: At noon all usual operations resume.

So if you have something at noon you do... What exactly? Magically teleport to campus?
February 2, 2026 at 10:56 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
These made it into a local news station gallery 😊

chapelboro.com/news/weather...

@wchlchapelboro.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 10:44 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
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A deer runs in snowy woodland A mostly frozen creek in the snowy woods Tire tracks stretching away on the snowy road. Camera right next to the ground.
February 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Reposted by Tom Rodebaugh
paulisci.bsky.social
A List of Complaints from 1926

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January 31, 2026 at 2:31 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
So, getting from this that the next DSM will live online (behind a paywall I guess?) include more about causes (that we don't understand) and biomarkers (that we don't have) and "include more voices" somehow (generally a good idea, but does that include input from, say, RFK and friends?).

Idk man
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 10d
The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is known as the DSM-5. What will the next version be called? That's one of several open questions as the "Bible of psychiatry" goes online.
It's the foundation of psychiatric diagnosis. And it's about to get a makeover
The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is known as the DSM-5. What will the next version be called? That's one of several open questions as the "Bible of psychiatry" goes online.
n.pr
January 31, 2026 at 1:19 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
Triumph! There were five snow shovels left in Lowes and I got one!
January 30, 2026 at 10:47 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
It's graduate interview day at UNC-CH psychology!

Snow is expected to start at 7pm tonight and total 6 inches or more!

So many kinds of excitement in the psych building right now, you have no idea
January 30, 2026 at 2:53 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
If you see something strange and alarming in your data, your first step should be to think carefully about what could be leading to it, including all that pesky measurement stuff. Here's an excellent example of what the careful with looks like!
dingdingpeng.the100.ci Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11d
New preprint 🥳
The city of Leipzig conducts large-scale surveys of adolescents. In 2023, the gender gap in life satisfaction has significantly widened, with girls declining more steeply than boys. What's up with that?>
(work with @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social)
Mean life satisfaction in the survey years 2010, 2015 and 2023, separately for female and male gender. In general, girls have lower scores but in 2023, they are drifting even further down The city of Leipzig in Germany conducts large-scale school surveys of adolescents in secondary education schools. Following the regular surveys in 2010 and 2015, the 2020 survey had to be rescheduled to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this latest survey wave, the gender gap in general life satisfaction has significantly grown. While in 2010 and 2015 girls were somewhat less satisfied than boys (0.26 to 0.33 SD), in 2023 this gender gap had doubled (with girls 0.57 SD less satisfied). Why? Here, we probe various explanations, aiming to provide a template for researchers who are asking reverse causal questions (“What caused this?”). First, we find that the widening of the gender gap is much more pronounced among students with a migration background. This could plausibly be explained by a shift in the composition of the underlying population, with a strong increase of Syrian students, and a relative decrease of Vietnamese ones. Second, among students without a migration background, part of the increasing gender gap could potentially be attributed to survey mode: In 2023, for the first time, the survey was conducted on tablets—and unexpectedly, girls (but not boys) reported significantly lower satisfaction when surveyed on tablet rather than on paper. Third, beyond these two patterns, we still find significantly widening gender gaps in satisfaction with leisure time activities and relationships to friends. Thus, there may be a substantive increase in the gender gap in satisfaction in those two domains that is not readily attributable to changes in population and survey mode.
January 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
A fun thread for the science inclined
alexis-verger.cpesr.fr Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 13d
Let's try this #AcademicSky

1 fav, 1 funny, strange, or unexpected scientific anecdote about a paper, a scientist, a fact, hoping that some will be new to you.
January 29, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Reposted by Tom Rodebaugh
standupforscience.bsky.social
Get in, dorks. We're ready for round two.

RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC

Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (link in our bio.)
January 28, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Tom Rodebaugh
lmweinstock.bsky.social
Anyone interested in joining a great group, on a great topic, for an ABCT panel submission? ⬇️⬇️
raymopt.bsky.social Raymond Tucker @raymopt.bsky.social · 14d
Supremely talented doctoral student Halle Fowler is hoping to put together an ABCT panel related to Deaf and Hard of Hearing suicide prevention or mental health. We have multiple qualitative and quantitative studies on DHH interpretation in mental health settings. We need help finding panelists!
January 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
You know it's a bad storm when it's also a top news story in Norway
www.nrk.no/urix/storsti...
Storstilt hamstring i USA før kraftig vinterstorm
Mer enn halve USA står overfor den verste vinterstormen på mange år.
www.nrk.no
January 24, 2026 at 1:52 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
In case this storm has you interested in how to open your garage door that has an opener attached without power, here's a useful video (oh that's what that string with a handle is for): youtu.be/y6q5I_JaEoI?...
Manual Disengage for LiftMaster/Sears Garage Door Opener
YouTube video by Brandon Bailey (FCDoors)
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 1:46 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
Important storm prep
(Forkish recipe for white bread with 80% biga)
A round loaf of bread from above A round loaf of bread cut in half.
January 24, 2026 at 1:17 AM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
Reviewing proofs of a chapter. Copy-editor just jumped to "most trusted" status by recognizing the allusion to Shakespeare I put in one sentence.
January 20, 2026 at 6:26 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
Katniss says do you really need both hands to type, actually why type at all when you could be picking me up
A cat waits at my feet sort of patiently
January 20, 2026 at 2:28 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
Hey, if you're in psych and use longitudinal data, you'll want to read this.

Warning, you may have thoughts
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 PM
drrodebaugh.bsky.social
If our theories have to do with people's daily experience then we really need to know how well we're measuring daily experience.

So we need more of what Kevin's team is doing here! Just because your item has the right words in it doesn't mean you know what it measures, or how well.
January 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM