Jonathan D. Schaefer

Assistant Professor of Psychology @VanderbiltU studying the environmental determinants of mental health and substance use.

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

Very excited to share my recent appearance on @sethgillihan's terrific Think. Act. Be. podcast, where we discuss research documenting the extremely high lifetime prevalence of common mental disorders, stigma, and implications for parents. Give a listen!

https://t.co/YWGMihLMmP

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

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.

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

Congratulations! And your quote-tweet is so true and so important.

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you," as they say.

[Jessica Schleider, PhD @JSchleiderPhD]

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...

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

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) https://t.co/s52Ke29xTz

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

Retweeting this for the signal boost (and to save so I can make sure this is read by my future students).

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

@ashleylwatts Thanks for posting this, Ashley!! I'd looked at the Vanderbilt ad earlier, but it was giving me a "This job has expired" message so I'd assumed the search was abandoned. Great to hear that this isn't the case. I'm going to see if I can pull together an 11th-hour application...

[Aeon Magazine @aeonmag]

Words of wisdom from Psyche's deputy editor, @Psych_Writer, in celebration of #10yearsofaeon https://t.co/xHCygU4WHR

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

Oh my, this hits home

[Björn Schumacher @schumacherbj]

Having two PhD supervisors https://t.co/WxOwuKXq0U

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

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! 🤷‍♂️

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

Out today in @TheLancetPsych: A systematic review of studies examining maltreatment timing effects written in collaboration with @cecily_cardew @ErinDunnScD! https://t.co/AoOoxGxTPV

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

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.

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

Worth noting: grad students were more likely (90%) to report difficulties or diagnoses than faculty (70%), and report more recent and significant difficulties.

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

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. https://t.co/Yy2Tnhx79o

It's almost like psychologists are people, too 🤔

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

@FilettiClarissa @NSF @GunnarMegan @MelissaPolusny Congrats Clarissa!!

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

@CharissePickron @UMN_CEHD @UMN_ICD So cool! 😍

[Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe]

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. 🧵

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

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!

[Jonathan D. Schaefer @JonSchaeferPhD]

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.

[Nick Jikomes @trikomes]

New podcast episode with @JonSchaeferPhD is live: "Does Adolescent Cannabis (#Marijuana) Use Cause Psychosis?"

Audio-only: https://t.co/bXkcPGynNV

Video: https://t.co/2js5ivL5vo

[Joseph D. Deak, PhD @Joseph_Deak]

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. https://t.co/rGFXmmsxrc

[R Function A Day @rfunctionaday]

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 ✅📊

https://t.co/4SIIL0u9Jn

#rstats #DataScience