Lisa Starr
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lisastarr.bsky.social
Lisa Starr
@lisastarr.bsky.social
Clinical psychological scientist at U of Rochester with interests in depression, life stress, interpersonal factors, daily processes, clinical affective science. Mom of 2. Probably tired right now.

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Tagging my typographer friend to shout about the importance of kerning @kernsandcairns.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
That’s an interesting take. The others are just morons who drank their own Kool-aid.

Some people just make the decision that it’s worth to sell out for money and power.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
And a heart surgeon at what looks like a cardiac event (or stroke)
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Dr Oz has a strange duality. On one hand, he’s a sellout, pseudoscience-peddling charlatan. On the other, he’s a highly respected heart surgeon who has more medical expertise than anyone in the administration (way more than the nominee for surgeon general, the head of NIH, or his boss RFK jr)
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
We’ve been told that phone lines are shockingly expensive.
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Reunion put me to sleep. Really, shooting hoops?
Pretty sure at this point the vast majority are faking it to get instagram followers or to launch their wellness brand or whatever. Like Megan wouldn’t shut up about her “lifestyle” and how rich she is, and it just doesn’t add up.
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It's almost as if demolishing a historic national treasure that symbolizes our great democracy is an allegory for something.
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Maybe you could overthrow fascism if you smiled more.
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Also why do media outlets reflexively add “Gen Z” to every headline now, how is that an informative modifier here? How unusual that this guy applying to college is between ages of 13 and 28.
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
There are so many shocked articles about kids getting rejected from colleges despite founding a tech startup that it’s like ok maybe it’s just not that impressive to found a start-up. Like maybe it’s just another thing that rich kids do to get into college
October 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Very late! We had 80 degree weather earlier this week. I’ve been in tank tops and sandals. The last couple days have been the first that I’ve gotten out my sweaters.
October 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I forgot about all my basil! We brought in our little pepper plants that we planted late that we're still hoping will ripen. Hoping it stays above freezing today-- my garden is GORGEOUS and I can't let it go.
October 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I guess it may depend on a) whether PsyArXiv has a content sharing agreement with the OpenAI, Google, etc. (doubt it!), b) the outcome of lawsuits like this one ⬇️. LLMs also scrape pubmed etc. which posts material journal-copyrighted material www.npr.org/2025/01/14/n...
'The New York Times' takes OpenAI to court. ChatGPT's future could be on the line
In three consolidated suits, publishers allege that OpenAI broke copyright law by copying millions of articles without permission or payment. OpenAI counters that the fair use doctrine protects them.
www.npr.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It just kind of sucks how 1) unvetted work will now get synthesized into general science knowledge (bad bc some of it may change by publication as Dan says, but also bc there's a lot of crap out there), and 2) openly sharing work means feeding copyrighted material to plagiarism machines
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Also, any program that charges tuition (including 50% “reduced”) during internship is almost certainly predatory.
September 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I once asked a friend who is a former PsyD faculty this same question bc I kept getting it from students. Her answer overlapped heavily with @anthonyperillo.bsky.social’s, but also:
-faculty went to reputable PhD programs
-faculty maintains active research programs
-mentorship model
September 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Giant middle finger
September 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM