Universities: “we are committed to social, cultural, and moral service” Also universities: “we are replacing our philosophy, ethics, history, and literature departments with an expanded business/crypto double major”

🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in JAMA Network Open on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology. w/ hadar fisher and linked to excellent paper by Whitney Ringwald Aidan Wright & team. Link -> tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e

explain it to me like i'm 42 with terrible sleep habits

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In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 wks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. forbes.com/sites/kimelses…

What if we did not need so many specialized health apps? What if transdiagnostic apps that can help across many conditions worked just as well? New review led by Jake Linardon has the answer-transdiagnostic as good as specialized apps! Free in npj Digital Medicine nature.com/articles/s4174…

Smartphones can help people stay healthy by monitoring their sleep, steps and heart rate, but they also can help reveal issues tied to mental health, new research shows. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the University of Michigan U-M College of LSA, University

We forced a bot to watch 10,000 hours of academic writing then asked it to produce an article. It told us it would start next month when things will have probably settled down but it also has a new idea for an interesting, unrelated article

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

I’m a psychiatrist. In 2025, I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI. Online, I’m seeing the same pattern. Here’s what “AI psychosis” looks like, and why it’s spreading fast: 🧵

Academics need private offices - this should not be a controversial statement. Unless your goal is to kill on-campus culture, then by all means proceed!

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Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion Wiley: $1.8 billion Taylor & Francis: $800 million Sage: $500 million They pay: Authors: $0 Reviewers: $0

Don’t be in such a rush that you forget the important things in life, like circling back on emails and two-factor authentication

We are hiring! The Stanford Psychology Department is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus in affective science. Our ad, including application link, can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lELuYH…

This is going to revolutionize education 📚 Google just launched "Learn Your Way" that basically takes whatever boring chapter you're supposed to read and rebuilds it around stuff you actually give a damn about. Like if you're into basketball and have to learn Newton's laws,

We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM. 💬When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up 🗳️When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned—we call this Moloch’s Bargain

A short-and-sweet guide to developing research questions published in nature. Lots of good advice here 👍

A great job, with great mentors, for any researchers interested in viewpoint diversity, bridgebuilding, and improving the intellectual climate on campus

The academic system is cratering. Grades are inceasingly disconnected with performance or knowledge.