Abhishek Saxena

PhD Student at U of Rochester. Investigating environmental and sociocultural impacts on neural development and risk for mental illness. (he/them) 🏳️‍🌈

[Dr. Christie Petrenko @clpetrenko]

30 Days of #FASDStrong 💪
Day 30 🎉: Christian (age 8), Josh (age 21), Sam (age 20) and their families in the #FASDStrong short film (pandemic style)!

Our goal with this film is to change the story about #FASD and reduce stigma. We'd love your feedback!

https://t.co/UDZdW6kemF

[Abhishek Saxena @PsychSaxena]

Excited to present my poster with @ddodellfeder on discrepant psychotic outcomes for sexual & gender minorities at @srp_science! #SRP2021 🌈

You can donate to the @TransLawCenter at https://t.co/t0xJUrDHh0 to support Trans and Gender Nonconforming folk! #translivesmatter 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[Society for Research in Psychopathology @srp_science]

Some teasers ... Sexual & Gender Minority-related 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #SRP2021 Posters by:

@jnyshen

@JSchleiderPhD

@ll_richmond

@shayanasadi_

@CraigAnthonyRS

@PsychSaxena

@ddodellfeder

[Abhishek Saxena @PsychSaxena]

Just got my first @ProjectShort mentee! If you are looking for FREE mentorship around applying to medical school or STEM grad school, apply to @ProjectShort! If you are already in or graduated a medical or grad school, you can apply to be a mentor too! https://t.co/3P7AmCEt44

[Abhishek Saxena @PsychSaxena]

@cmonique1023's talk about #decolonizing #mentorship in psychology at the @TeachersCollege Decolonizing Psychology Conference was one, if not the best talks I've ever attended on the subject.

[Vox @voxdotcom]

Climate change is a top priority for voters, but tonight's #DemDebate skirted the topic entirely.

@drvox and @umairfan asked every 2020 Democratic presidential campaign to respond to six key questions on climate change.

Their answers: https://t.co/p1I0nfBLK4

[Abhishek Saxena @PsychSaxena]

#sciencegoals, but actually #lifegoals

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

There's this weird belief on Twitter that Democrats are really anti-trade, when that isn't true. By a 72-17 margin, Democrats think NAFTA was good for the US. https://t.co/zV287Dzm8f

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

Waste in the US health care system costs an est. $760 to $935 billion, or ~25% of total health care spending. Interventions to reduce waste, excluding those to reduce administrative complexity, could save $191 to $282 billion and the cost of waste by 25% https://t.co/orVIJWW1sY

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

So Harris doesn't get very much talking time throughout the debate, which isn't her fault — but then she decides to take her big stand on whether Trump is violating the Twitter Terms of Service?

[Negin Farsad @NeginFarsad]

Tulsi Gabbard keeps asking questions of the other candidates she's really vying for that moderator position.
#DemDebate

[Negin Farsad @NeginFarsad]

Elizabeth Warren on breaking up Amazon: "You get to be an umpire in the game or you get to be on the team, you can't do both" - CHURCH! #DemDebate

[Abhishek Saxena @PsychSaxena]

@ddodellfeder

[Kurt Gray @kurtjgray]

Spent 3 hours today learning R. Only managed to open a file and run correlations. Please someone remind me it’s worth it to leave behind SPSS.

[Abhishek Saxena @PsychSaxena]

@siminevazire Having worked on intervention studies, this INFURIATES me! This research requires a lot of taxpayer money and a great deal of time, effort, and trust from participants, and to not respect their contributions is one of my biggest criticisms of research.

[simine vazire @siminevazire]

All of this applies to non-clinical research, too.
“If a randomized trial is judged to be so biased that it cannot be included in a systematic review, then participants in that trial effectively made no contribution to science.”

https://t.co/S5xL2ITetF

[Will Guzzardi @WillGuzzardi]

ALERT: CBP reportedly holding three US citizen children at O’Hare, refusing to release them unless their undocumented parents turn themselves over for deportation. @PASOACTION and others going to Terminal 5 to protest

[Abhishek Saxena @PsychSaxena]

That moment when you hear a crowd chant “Send her back” & it reminds you of one time in HS when a woman yelled “Go back to your country!” to me and my bro in a grocery parking lot and I yelled back “I was born in Atlanta, Georgia!” Good times... #IAmAmerican #AmericaIsMyCountry

[Society for Affective Science @affectScience]

This month we’re counting down to the opening of the submissions portal (on 8/1). We’ll explore the ins and outs of the new journal - including why it was founded, what niche it aims to fill, what makes it different from other journals, etc.

Have questions? Ask them here!

3/31

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school. That little girl was me. #DemDebate

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Rachel Maddow: A "newspaper recently released portions of an interview you gave ... 'My own view on guns is, everything being equal, states should make those decisions.'"

Bernie Sanders: "That's a mischaracterization of my thinking."

Maddow: "It's a quote of you." #DemDebate2

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

"Keep your pistols, keep your rifles, keep your shotguns. But we will take the most dangerous weapons."

—@EricSwalwell, who doesn't know that pistols are the most dangerous weapons

#DemDebate #DemDebate2