Matt Patton

Just received the recording of my inaugural lecture "Systems All the Way Down: Rethinking Mental Health Science as a Systems Science" and put it on Youtube. I talk about my vision for the DSM-6, and hope to turn this into a paper soon. www.eiko-fried.com/blog/my-inau...

Since our paper on the Changing How I Live Life (CHILL) Study is now out in Psychological Science (doi.org/10.1177/0956...), here's a LONG overdue post on the intervention work we've been doing the past few years! Have you ever wanted to change one of your personality traits?

I'd like to read a piece that grapples with the enormity of the AI-driven loss of the long tail of the internet, that results from e.g. Google directing us to AI answers rather than search. The millions of people running sites that eked out a living, or just paid their hosting costs, with

Something has made this movement incredibly self-sabotaging. 20 years ago, LGBT activists endorsed and campaigned for Dems who opposed same-sex marriage all the time.

I’m sorry but how do you think Roe was repealed

It's Peer Review Week, and I have pledged to review at least one article per year for a diamond open access journal; one that charges nothing to publish and nothing to read, and is run by and for the scholarly community, using the new Diamond Reviewer Pledge (forrt.org/diamond-revi...).

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Great news! Some of us have been waiting a long time for major funders to not just shovel $ into the maws of the big publishers, and instead support the long tail of scholar-controlled journals that are run on a shoestring

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

The Hugging Face incident apparently involved over 1000 agents collaborating and with some sacrificing themselves to achieve the collective end of cheating and fooling the scorer open.substack.com/pub/plannedo...

New from me: Chabuduo World - What happens now that AI is good enough? www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/chabuduo-w...

I wrote about the Moderna cancer vaccine news briefly for our weekly round up www.abundanceandgrowth.org/p/cancer-vac...

enjoying rewatching Attenborough’s Life on Earth, first broadcast in 1979. It still is remarkable in the range of what it covers - and the phenomenal camerawork. Can recommend as a soothing alternative to a diet of world news.

It's unfortunate, but I agree with Sasha. Cofnas should never have been hired (is there a good account of how that happened?), but having been hired I don't like to see him let go for ideological reasons, despite the awfulness of his ideology. I would be fine with dismissing him at his next renewal.

It's finally here! I gave a TED talk in April in Vancouver, and it was released online today. You can watch it here: ted.com/talks/saloni... I've also adapted it into an article, which was published last week: worksinprogress.co/issue/future...

It’s amazing what Brian and OSF have done for science. I can imagine how hard the folks at COS must’ve worked to avoid this outcome. I’m extremely grateful to them for creating the reality we live in now. The fact that we’ll miss these services so acutely is a testament to how much they shaped us.

I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!

The people elected an ignorant rapist who advocates war crimes. The Supreme Court says this one president is special and above the law. A majority in both houses of Congress agree. Military leadership is on board with it or has been purged. That's who's in position to not allow it. So here we are.

Blog post on new preprint by @ashleylwatts.bsky.social et al. They argue that correlations among internalizing & externalizing may not derive from comorbidity, but nomorbidity. I use an accessible simulatiom study tosupport this, & relate the preprint to prior work. eiko-fried.com/blog/psychop...

New post! Most people didn’t think it was possible to develop Covid vaccines fast enough to be useful. In the summer of 2020, I came to a different conclusion. Now I wanted to look back on how it happened, and suggest boldly that we should ask whether that speed should've been the norm all along.

Although we were able to reproduce the numerical results, our reanalysis shows that the reported association is not robust. Specifically, it hinges on a coding error.

HBS' latest filing in the Gino lawsuit contains a few new details: 1. A committee of 26 professors, admins, and fellows reviewed the allegations, and *unanimously concluded* that there was *clear and convincing evidence* of research misconduct.

Did a 90 minute webinar workshop for APA on depression measurement. They were kind enough to allow me to share this on youtube. youtu.be/5OwYjWao1hs

Unpopular opinion but if you're interested in the effects of a medical product, it's 'RCT or bust' for me. I can see the case for observational analyses when randomization isn't possible, ethical, or the condition is too rare or some other such thing, but there's no such excuse here.

APA no longer shows me the actual paper, authors, abstract etc when I click on a paper in a search engine. Everything gated now, including basic paper info. Screenshots: (1) search hit (2) resulting APA site. Tried for a few papers now. What on Earth.

We have 2 new papers out in Nature Mental Health. [1] Led by @jonathanrepple.bsky.social: key challenges in advancing research on depression phenotyping, w focus on heterogeneity of depression, longitudinal disease trajectory & underrepresentation of lived-experience www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Paper arguing it's using the "COD-FISH method" endorsed by Cochrane—a method researchers in the area are not aware of, and that is not listed by Cochrane. The authors also ran 80 subgroup analyses without controlling for multiple testing.

We take it for granted today that DNA is the genetic code of life, but until the 1940s most scientists thought genes were made of protein! In a new piece, @kevinsblake.bsky.social tells the story of how scientists discovered that DNA is the code of life.

Guys, how do you invent a vaccine? Or even wilder, how do you invent a vaccine during your PhD?! In a new episode of Hard Drugs, we talked to someone who did just that: @kat-a-collins.bsky.social! Plus: • Why did the first malaria vaccine take so long? • Could we make better vaccines today?

Had to look up who he. Jared Huffman

New post from me. I thought I was asexual until I was 22 years old. After leaving Mormonism and starting to date men, I claimed confidently my faith's stance on homosexuality had never hurt me. I was wrong, but it took me years to figure out why. www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/on-pain

I forgot to share earlier, but I wrote a round up of news in biology, with @nikomccarty.bsky.social. - Organ transplant recovery has surged - Semaglutide doesn't slow Alzheimer's - A transformative new pancreatic cancer drug - Weight loss drugs that preserve muscle and more! Read it here:

AI conference organizers hid LLM prompts in conference text, instructing LLMs to use specific words as watermarks when generating conference abstracts. This led to the disqualification of 497 submitted papers. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

3 new studies on using psychedelics as treatments for mental disorders just came out; 2 in JAMA Psychiatry, 1 in Lancet Psychiatry. I reviewed one of these submissions. Here are the core results. 🧵

Found a really nice Dutch grant for turning our WARN-D pipeline that forecasts depression onset for young adults into an actionable system for people at risk. Grant requires a Dutch tech partner, preferably with an existing app that can be adapted to ours needs. Any interest? Please get in touch.

People who thought credibility and individual leaders didn’t matter much in international relations were taking years of cultivated and maintained credibility for granted, and didn’t sufficiently consider that a major power would voluntarily throw so much of it away by empowering a leader with none.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

There’s something sad about how many blogposts are simply copy-pasted ChatGPT output now. It’s not writing, it’s content — not voices, but outputs. When the only button you press is for an LLM, blogposts don’t earn applause, they earn scrutiny.

Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year. It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...