Steve Jones
@highschoolpsych.bsky.social
Semi-retired high school psych teacher, APSI consultant, crossword doer, Bull City NC
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Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World, the new podcast from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social and I - first episode is now live. We hope you enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/screense...
Episode 1: Why does (digital) parenting feel so hard?
Listen now | How should we think about parenting in a digital age?
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World, the new podcast from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social and I - first episode is now live. We hope you enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/screense...
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THE MERITS OF OUR COCAINE - a pharmaceutical advert from 1907. A "first-class, thoroughly reliable preparation" that has "been fully recognized by the majority of physicians, surgeons and chemists."
April 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
THE MERITS OF OUR COCAINE - a pharmaceutical advert from 1907. A "first-class, thoroughly reliable preparation" that has "been fully recognized by the majority of physicians, surgeons and chemists."
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Apropos of the today's executive order, here's my class slide which summarizes the results of vote audits over the past decade or so. To a pretty close approximation, individual-level voting fraud doesn't exist in this country.
March 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Apropos of the today's executive order, here's my class slide which summarizes the results of vote audits over the past decade or so. To a pretty close approximation, individual-level voting fraud doesn't exist in this country.
Can’t wait for haidt and twenge to explain how this all shows social media is to blame
New data from the @economist.com suggests mental health among young people has started to turn: www.economist.com/united-state...
Young Americans are getting happier
Depression and anxiety seem to have peaked a couple of years ago
www.economist.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Can’t wait for haidt and twenge to explain how this all shows social media is to blame
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Since it's #brainawareness week, I want to take a break from the ongoing dystopia to celebrate my favorite organ and repost some of my favorite #neuroscience #sciart!
Let's start with this #scifi brain city I just made for an upcoming Italian graphic novel 🧠 🏙
#cervello #comics #graphicmedicine
Let's start with this #scifi brain city I just made for an upcoming Italian graphic novel 🧠 🏙
#cervello #comics #graphicmedicine
March 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Since it's #brainawareness week, I want to take a break from the ongoing dystopia to celebrate my favorite organ and repost some of my favorite #neuroscience #sciart!
Let's start with this #scifi brain city I just made for an upcoming Italian graphic novel 🧠 🏙
#cervello #comics #graphicmedicine
Let's start with this #scifi brain city I just made for an upcoming Italian graphic novel 🧠 🏙
#cervello #comics #graphicmedicine
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I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon.
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
January 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon.
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
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The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
January 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
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"If we want to make Americans less reliant on smartphones, we have to address the problems of misery among all Americans. [Stresses on parents and kids] enhanced by diminishing promises of a flourishing future... demand a more comprehensive—and political—approach."
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?
Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.
newrepublic.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"If we want to make Americans less reliant on smartphones, we have to address the problems of misery among all Americans. [Stresses on parents and kids] enhanced by diminishing promises of a flourishing future... demand a more comprehensive—and political—approach."
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
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An unusual view of the brain. This wax model was made in Florence by Clemente Susini in the 18thC, and shows internal structures. The forehead is at the top of the picture - you can see the frontal sinuses in the (wax!) bone and at the back (bottom of the picture) the cerebellum, further dissected
January 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
An unusual view of the brain. This wax model was made in Florence by Clemente Susini in the 18thC, and shows internal structures. The forehead is at the top of the picture - you can see the frontal sinuses in the (wax!) bone and at the back (bottom of the picture) the cerebellum, further dissected
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This is a really thoughtful long-read about smartphones, Haidt, and the need for more curiosity about the recent rise in reported MH problems
By @sivav.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
By @sivav.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
January 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is a really thoughtful long-read about smartphones, Haidt, and the need for more curiosity about the recent rise in reported MH problems
By @sivav.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
By @sivav.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
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Campus Map
**My new book comes out next week, pre-order now: bit.ly/OOYM
**My new book comes out next week, pre-order now: bit.ly/OOYM
January 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Campus Map
**My new book comes out next week, pre-order now: bit.ly/OOYM
**My new book comes out next week, pre-order now: bit.ly/OOYM
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New video from OK Go just dropped, with some cool instances of holistic face perception
OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)
YouTube video by OK Go
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January 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New video from OK Go just dropped, with some cool instances of holistic face perception
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My new book comes out in TWO WEEKS (1/28)! Check out this comic I drew, and pre-order a copy for your brain
January 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My new book comes out in TWO WEEKS (1/28)! Check out this comic I drew, and pre-order a copy for your brain
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The point of a trans athlete ban isn’t to save women’s sports, which most right wing commentators openly despise. The point of a trans athlete ban is to hand the Federalist society and the ADF a legal precedent for banning trans women from everything else, too.
January 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The point of a trans athlete ban isn’t to save women’s sports, which most right wing commentators openly despise. The point of a trans athlete ban is to hand the Federalist society and the ADF a legal precedent for banning trans women from everything else, too.
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I can't believe that I can finally share my book. I've worked so, so hard to make statistics accessible and entertaining for our students. Find your Norton rep here: wwnorton.com/find-your-rep. If you want to request a copy, go here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
January 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I can't believe that I can finally share my book. I've worked so, so hard to make statistics accessible and entertaining for our students. Find your Norton rep here: wwnorton.com/find-your-rep. If you want to request a copy, go here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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With a single typo, Steve miseducates years of students about the classic Ponzo illusion
December 29, 2024 at 10:58 AM
With a single typo, Steve miseducates years of students about the classic Ponzo illusion
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Developmental psychologist: it looks like a gap but actually you can crawl right across
Developmental psychologist: it looks like a gap but actually you can crawl right across
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
December 21, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Developmental psychologist: it looks like a gap but actually you can crawl right across
Developmental psychologist: it looks like a gap but actually you can crawl right across
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This wax model from the 19th century shows the internal structure of the brain - complete with its protective covering, the meninges. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when it was difficult to find bodies to dissect.
Photo: Wellcome Collection.
Photo: Wellcome Collection.
December 19, 2024 at 12:48 PM
This wax model from the 19th century shows the internal structure of the brain - complete with its protective covering, the meninges. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when it was difficult to find bodies to dissect.
Photo: Wellcome Collection.
Photo: Wellcome Collection.
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New post! Teach mode by discussing the most common religion in each U.S. county.
notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/12/moda...
notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/12/moda...
December 16, 2024 at 1:52 AM
New post! Teach mode by discussing the most common religion in each U.S. county.
notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/12/moda...
notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/12/moda...
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I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying, published in the Times
Free version here
Free version here
December 12, 2024 at 8:10 AM
I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying, published in the Times
Free version here
Free version here
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I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying
Free version of the article in the next post
Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Free version of the article in the next post
Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
What my dad’s death taught me about the assisted dying debate
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and her sisters knew their father, the neuroscientist Sir Colin Blakemore, had always planned to go to the Netherlands in the face of terminal motor neurone disease. But the real...
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:10 AM
I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying
Free version of the article in the next post
Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Free version of the article in the next post
Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
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I am not critiquing the paper here at all, but this finding is essentially that, when you ask the bias machine to draw a picture of a concept it has biases about, it draws a biased picture
Stigmatising and inaccurate portrayals of mental disorders:
Researchers asked generative AI models to depict different disorders.
Images reflected historical biases & pop-culture references rather than evidence-based clinical representation of these conditions
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...
Researchers asked generative AI models to depict different disorders.
Images reflected historical biases & pop-culture references rather than evidence-based clinical representation of these conditions
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...
December 5, 2024 at 4:28 PM
I am not critiquing the paper here at all, but this finding is essentially that, when you ask the bias machine to draw a picture of a concept it has biases about, it draws a biased picture
Online version here: ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/36_...
December 4, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Online version here: ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/36_...