J. William Penrod

“He’s the one with the tweed and the loose grip on reality.” Transdiagnostic approaches to impulsivity & compulsivity. Views are my own.

[Dr. Tessa Benson-Greenwald @GreenwaldTessa]

Y'all I just had a student accidentally refer to Bonferroni as Beeferoni on an assignment and I can't stop laughing

[Eiko Fried @EikoFried]

"There is no scale on X. X is super important. Here we develop a scale, & our validation study show it has decent properties. However, we obviously don't share our scale. Nor tell you where to get it. Nor rules about its use."

How👏does👏this👏still👏get👏published👏in👏2021?

[Eiko Fried @EikoFried]

Just found ADHD scale validation paper tested only in folks with ADHD. This makes no sense, & we should not publish measurement papers like this. Because following this logic, my ADHD scale "have you ever eaten cheese" is better than theirs.

We need sensitivity AND specificity.

[Eiko Fried @EikoFried]

There is a broad coalition in 🇳🇱 academia trying to improve the status quo.

Not surprisingly, there were quick responses to a number of recent pieces pushing back against reforms. You can find these rebuttals here. 🧵

[J. William Penrod @JDzombak]

Somewhere in spacetime, our Pap just sat back in his corduroys and hunter-orange beanie and grinned. Proud of you, Dr. Dzombak!

[Becca Dzombak, Ph.D. @bdzombak]

One meaningful part of my defense day was wearing my grandpa’s hood from his PhD in chemistry from Purdue in 1948. He isn’t with us today, but I was so grateful to have this reminder of him and our family history with me—although he was a chemist, he always loved geology. 🪨🔨

[Eiko Fried @EikoFried]

How it sometimes feels working between disciplines

[J. William Penrod @JDzombak]

And the only possible way to move toward consilience. Progress happens when we're on the same page.

[J. William Penrod @JDzombak]

@andrealgilmore Same, they rarely do me any good. But if it literally takes up my whole screen, doesn't leave, and I can't do anything else while it's there it's a little harder to ignore Drastic, maybe, but effective. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[J. William Penrod @JDzombak]

@andrealgilmore (2/2) include a message to yourself about why you should stop (e.g., Whatever you're doing can wait until tomorrow. Go snuggle your kids/dog.)
If working from home, keep your digital lives as separate as possible. You might create "Work" & "Home" accounts & never mix them.

[J. William Penrod @JDzombak]

@andrealgilmore (1/2) If you can, use a reminder app to push a notification at the end of the day to stop working. (I set mine to be full-screen for a few minutes & I can't click to ignore it; this is great to interrupt hyperfocus.) I use the same thing for telling myself to go to bed. You might

[Victoria Wright @veekster]

Y’all. If you are moved by someone, by someone’s work, by their friendship, anything — TELL THEM. You don’t know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.

[J. William Penrod @JDzombak]

@GregAbbott_TX Tonight, Gov. Abbott did not try to "stamp out hate with decency." The only thing he stamped out is the life of #QuintinJones, a Black man sent to his death even as the victim's family pleaded for his life. Very "decent" of you, Governor.

[Lauren Do Feldman, PhD (!) @lauren__feld]

This semester in my Psychopathology class, I tried something different. Rather than assigning a regular final paper, I gave my students the freedom to choose any medium they wanted for their final project. Thread! 1/10

[J. William Penrod @JDzombak]

"In the absence of psychometrically reliable measurements that complement clinical assessments, we cannot deliver good therapeutics that target etiologic mechanisms or identify early signs that would enable preventive approaches." 💯

[Murat Yucel 🔆 @ProfYucel]

See our New Consensus Framework for Assessment and Treatment in Addiction and Obsessive-Compulsive–Related Disorders https://t.co/lfbpd4EWdJ via @JAMAPsych part of @JAMANetwork @BrainPark @turnerinstitute @Mon_Bio_Imaging @Monash_FMNHS @MonashUni

[J. William Penrod @JDzombak]

"Psychometrics is... a pluralist research area, & it is this plurality that needs cherishing. This does not mean that we should just ‘let things be pluralist’ & each go our own ways, which is [...] happening now." A fabulous opportunity for consilience... if we get after it!

[Eiko Fried @EikoFried]

Interesting work on the past, present, and future of psychometrics by Lisa Wijsen & @BorsboomDenny.

Lisa interviewed 20 past Psychometric Society presidents for the project!

https://t.co/kZq2DnGg1m

[Julia Strand @juliafstrand]

No one is immune from making mistakes, but we can implement systems that make errors in research less likely.

To help, I've created "Error Tight: Exercises for Lab Groups to Prevent Research Mistakes."

https://t.co/koZgF6kJfb

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[Kellyann May Navarré, MA 🐼 🤟🏻 @KellyannNavarre]

1) Here is my experience with the General #GRE as a #Disabled psych student (thread). #Disability #GRExit #DisabilityTwitter #AcademicTwitter This is a hurtful, vulnerable topic for me, so I considered not Tweeting about it. But it’s important to understand and humanize.

[Zachary Cohen @DepressionLab]

Fantastic lineup for the Sept 23-24 Conference on Transdiagnostic Approaches to Mental Health @conference_2021 - Keynotes by @TimDalgleish @DrEhrenreich @EikoFried & Tim Carey - encourage all to attend: registration is free! talk/poster sub deadline July 1
https://t.co/a682eYuKfl

[Jason Luoma @jasonluoma]

Steve Hayes interviewed on his start as a political organizer before he was a researcher and how this has affected his approach to science. My most meaningful interview yet.
@StevenCHayes @myACBS #researchmatterspod https://t.co/VVK0wS8Psz