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clinical psychology PhD student at UMN | researching schizophrenia and psychosis | NSF graduate research fellow | they/she 🏳️‍🌈
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Jess @jessica-arend.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hey! I’m Jess. Here for #PsychSciSky to talk about #psychopathology and #psychosis research, and also share/learn together about #DEI and #SocialJustice topics. Aka, here to help put the rainbow 🏳️‍🌈 in the blue sky!
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hedahunter.bsky.social
4 years ago, President Biden issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples Day meant to “honor America’s first inhabitants and the Tribal Nations that continue to thrive today.”

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa...
Is Indigenous Peoples Day 2025 a federal holiday?
Here is a look at why it's called Indigenous Peoples Day, the history behind it and how people celebrate.
www.nbcwashington.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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drcompton.bsky.social
Measurement strategies for sexual identity in U.S. pop data are evolving but still fall short in capturing the complexity of multiple and diverse identities. #DataInclusion #SOGIData @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social @clairekampdush.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Visualizing Multiple Sexual Identity Responses Using a Network Approach - Christopher A. Julian, Lauren Newmyer, Wendy D. Manning, Claire M. Kamp Dush, 2024
Measurement strategies for gauging sexual identity within the United States’s population-based data infrastructure are evolving. Despite notable advancements, m...
journals.sagepub.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Wrote about the temptation to put Gaza on the back burner now that the ceasefire is solidifying—and why we can't let that happen. Gaza still needs you, and me, and everyone to fight until real Palestinian liberation is won. www.discourseblog.com/p/gaza-still...
Gaza Still Needs You
This fight is not over.
www.discourseblog.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
jessica-arend.bsky.social
“From a business perspective, it seems fiscally irresponsible to stop supporting an approved project midstream and risk compromising the results of the research.” 💸
jeremymberg.bsky.social Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Oct 13
This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing.

undark.org/2025/10/09/o...

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NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation
The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.
undark.org
October 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
jessica-arend.bsky.social
Mercedes Hernandez gave a great presentation on the importance
of family support for #Latinx people experiencing serious mental illness. Family involvement is hugely influential in promoting recovery; however, few family members report receiving psychological support or psychoeducation. #SRP2025
A person is speaking at a podium. Behind them, a slideshow reads “role during psychiatric episodes” and lists forms of family support
September 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
jessica-arend.bsky.social
Scott Sponheim kicked off #SRP2025 with an excellent talk on “time, brain, and #schizophrenia.” Neural oscillations are impacted in #psychosis and may be a treatment target for neuromodulation!
A man is speaking at a podium. A slideshow behind him reads “we still have a problem” with sections “we know…” and “we don’t know…”
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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bensaunders.bsky.social
For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...
Information flyer for graduate program in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. Virtual open house events on October 6th and 30th.
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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mishliu.bsky.social
For those looking for postbacc positions, here are some resources that you might find helpful! (See thread) 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
jessica-arend.bsky.social
And all the scientists rejoiced 🙌🏻
thomasp85.com Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Hi I know we're all talking about something else at this particular momennnttt, but can I interest any of you in educational posters?

I've got 'em in a pack & seasonal lightning bugs too!

It helps support SaS and makes it easy for you to spread important messages in your community!

SquidFacts.net
A poster hanging on a brick wall that says Leave your leaves for lightning bugs! with lightning bugs on new purple asters . There's too-small-to-read text in a box with the heading Lightning bugs are struggling to survive, help them thrive by taking these actions. The actions are: 1) Leave your leaves. Lightning bug babies live in fallen leaves. When we send away our leaves, we kill the babies! Leave your leaves on the ground, or pile them in a corner. 2) Don't use Pesticides. Pesticides kill lightning bugs! Cut them out of your yard care routine. 3) Turn off the lights. Lightning bugs need darkness to communicate. 4) Tell your friends! Our actions become much more powerful when we take them as a community. Get your friends and family involved too. 4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
September 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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allisonharvey.bsky.social
Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)?
If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants.

Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
Since it's a topic many people are talking about today, just want to share some resources I have found helpful when responding to someone who is actively experiencing suicidal thoughts, bc most of us are only ever told to post a hotline number and not how to actually *respond*
jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Aug 27
The times I've helped someone when they've been actively ideating, my experience was you have to walk a very fine line of validating the *feeling*- "I know you're in pain + feel like a burden-" while then *immediately* following up with "-but that's not true, your brain isn't telling you the truth"
August 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
The "How is science discussed on Bluesky?" study finds posts about science 🧪 articles here have more content originality (not just article title/journal name) than posts on X. And, as has frequently been noted, science research posts here tend to generate A LOT more engagement.
Despite these similarities, Bluesky has two notable distinctions in scholarly communication. First, it demonstrates a substantially higher level of interactive engagement than has been reported in prior studies of X. Earlier research on X found that the proportion of tweets receiving at least ten interactions varied by discipline, ranging from 3.9-7.5% for likes, 1.4-4.4% for reposts, 0-0.2% for quotes, and 0-0.1% for replies (Fang et al., 2022). In contrast, our findings show that 48.2% of Bluesky scholarly posts received at least ten likes, 34.4% received ten or more reposts, 10.4% received ten or more quotes, and 11.0% received ten or more replies. The prevalence of likes and reposts on Bluesky is more than an order of magnitude higher than that previously reported for X, while quotes and replies occur at rates approaching two orders of magnitude greater, indicating a markedly higher level of active engagement with scholarly content on the emerging platform. Second, Bluesky shows a higher level of content originality in scholarly discourse. Our analysis of cosine similarity between post texts and article titles revealed that only 6.3% of Bluesky posts replicate article titles nearly verbatim (i.e., cosine similarity between 0.9 and 1). In contrast, prior studies of X reported title replication rates ranging from 11.8% to 92.4%, varying by discipline (Didegah et al., 2018; Kumar et al., 2019; Na, 2015; Sergiadis, 2018; Thelwall, Tsou, et al., 2013). Bluesky was also found to have a higher proportion of original posts and a lower proportion of reposts compared to X (Taylor & Areia, 2025). This contrast suggests that, whereas X has primarily served as a dissemination tool (Htoo & Na, 2017), Bluesky may support a more interpretive, reflective mode of science communication.
August 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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cjdenial.bsky.social
My copy of the wonderful -Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff- arrived! I'm honored to have the first essay in this collection; it's far past time for us to talk about all the minds that work (sometimes idiosyncratically, always creatively) in higher ed
A photograph of the cover of the book Of Many Minds. The main title is in bright blue, green, and red, and down the edges of the page you see a multitude of different pens, pencils, and highlighters, no two the same A photograph of the first page of an essay, by me, called "For Those Who Do Not Love the Archives."
August 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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plosbiology.org
Applying skills gained in one context to different situations enables efficient #learning, even from limited data. This Primer explores a @plosbiology.org study which shows that the #DefaultModeNetwork plays a key role in this ability 🧪 Paper: plos.io/41LOAWf Primer: plos.io/417aTpd
Intermanual transfer and the default mode network. In the study by Rezaei and colleagues, participants initially learned a sensorimotor task with their right hand (the initial learning phase). When they later performed the same task with their left hand (the transfer phase), they made fewer errors at first. Rezaei and colleagues found that brain connectivity patterns, especially those linked to the part of the default mode network (the red region), were notably similar during the early stages of the initial learning (green shaded area) and transfer (orange shaded region) phases. The brain image shows the medial surface of the left hemisphere.
August 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
jessica-arend.bsky.social
Important reminders! To interrupt the cycle of rumination - practice mindful awareness, take breaks, remain compassionate, and identify the next action (no matter how small/simple)!
August 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
jessica-arend.bsky.social
Not only does vaccination help protect you from serious illness - it is also a practical way to show care for your community 💪🏻💉❤️
altcdc.altgov.info Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Aug 18
🧵 Flu Season 2025-26: Key Info (thank you @kffhealthnews.org @politifact.bsky.social )

TL;DR: Get your flu shot this fall. It's safe, effective, and the best way to prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death.
August 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Scientists!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!

We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15

If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a canva graphic that says "How it works Step 1: Go to SkypeAScientist.com Step 2: Click “Sign Up” then “Scientist Sign Up Form” Step 3: Tell us about yourself Step 4: Get matched with a classroom Step 5: Connect with the teacher Step 6: Make a kid’s day isn't that great? @SkypeAScientist"
August 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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putrinolab.bsky.social
Really proud of my team for getting this out. It has been a heavy lift. When we opened the Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness, we wanted to create a place that could provide the very best of care for people with #LongCOVID, #MECFS,
www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/pati...
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Mount Sinai publishes 1st US guide for infection-linked chronic illnesses - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has released the country’s first clinical manual for treating infection-associated chronic illnesses, according to an Aug. 13 news release.  The clinical ...
www.beckershospitalreview.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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mattsouthward.bsky.social
Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle!

There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally.

u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...
Accepting 1-2 new students this cycle! ☝️/✌️
https://u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025/08/06/accepting-1-2-new-students-this-cycle-☝%EF%B8%8F-✌%EF%B8%8F/
August 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
We’re part of the problem (too many podcasts) but also trying to be part of the solution (accessible, fewer episodes + focus on high-quality stress science)!

Your reminder to listen to the Stress Puzzle podcast as prompted by the Las Culturistas Culture Awards!: www.ryanlinnbrown.com/stresspuzzle
August 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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eolasinntinn.bsky.social
uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Relapse in psychosis is a term that is used a lot, but what does it mean?

A (fab) DClinPsy trainee I am co-supervising is conducting an online survey to find out people's views and perspectives. Please consider taking part or reposting this study invitation.
Study advert for Developing a consensus definition of relapse in psychosis: A Delphi Study - an online survey for people who have experienced psychosis, their supporters, researchers and clinicians. by Alice Thomson. University of Glasgow.
August 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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nextgenpsych.bsky.social
How about a Q&A for #psychology PhD #applicants? 👩🏻‍🏫❓🧑🏾‍🏫

Applicants: what questions do have about the graduate application process?

Current graduate students/post-docs/faculty: what advice do you have for applicants?
August 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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realjpcrr.bsky.social
Over 53% of #academic articles on #psychosis use stigmatizing language, like #schizophrenia patient or #schizophrenic. Authors and journals should screen their articles for #stigmatizing language and adhere to person-centered language guidelines. institutionalrepository.aah.org/jpcrr/vol12/...
July 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
jessica-arend.bsky.social
My lab is #hiring! 🎉🧠 TRiCAM lab at the University of Minnesota looking to hire a full-time research assistant to support recruitment and data collection for an EEG study of #psychosis. This position is ideal for a college graduate who wants to grow their #psychology #research career!
Careers
We especially encourage applicants from under-represented minorities to apply.
hr.myu.umn.edu
August 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM