Benjamin Katz
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Incoming asst prof of child clinical psychology at @UofHaifa . | Posting about mental health, academia, LGBTQ+ and Judaism. | The Dr is out 🏳️🌈
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I JUST CAME ACROSS THE MOST ADORABLE PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH I HAVE EVER SEEN AND HAD TO MAKE A THREAD ABOUT IT HAVE AN AMAZING WEEKEND!!!!
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To summarize:
1. All dogs are good dogs.
2. Some dogs are also useful for identifying if another dog is a dog.
3. Every single one of us has chosen the wrong career path except for the authors of this study.
Happy weekend.
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First, let's meet our subjects in Figure 1 of this article. LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY ALL ARE! THEY ARE ALL SUCH GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS AND CUSCO IS ABSOLUTELY SERVING!!
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Every intro to cognitive psychology course has at least one chapter where we ask how people know that dogs are dogs - after all, they look so different from each other.
This research one-ups our question and asks: HOW DO DOGS KNOW THAT OTHER DOGS ARE DOGS??
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It turns out dogs are pretty good at telling pictures of dogs from pictures of not-dogs.
ALSO I FULLY REGRET EVERY TIME I LABELED MY HUMAN PARTICIPANTS DUMB NAMES LIKE "105" AND "106" WHEN I COULD HAVE CALLED THEM "BAG" AND "VODKA"!!!
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I'm loving all the love on this thread!
Thinking about the time I ran an experiment and a participant brought a seeing eye dog in training. I couldn't use the data because the dog's tail was wagging against the wall all 45 minutes.
So (human) psychology is fun too!
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Next, let's see how they were trained to identify other dogs. They would sit and see pictures of one dog and one not-dog. If they poked the dog picture, they got a treat. LOOK AT BAHIA CHOOSING CORRECTLY BECAUSE BAHIA IS VERY GOOD AND VERY SMART!!!
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I should note that Bounty is a very good girl in general, but she is not very good at identifying other dogs by picture. Sorry, Bounty.
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AND BY THE WAY, IT SEEMS THAT THE PICTURES OF THE DOGS AND NON-DOGS WERE SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR HIGH LEVELS OF CUTENESS AND HUGGABILITY!!!
(except for the cat.)
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The discussion is also adorable. Maybe some dogs did worse because they got more frustrated when they failed 😭😭😭😭😭
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I'm shocked more people don't know about the POMODORO TECHNIQUE! Here's how I use it:
1. Select task (answer reviewer comment)
2. Set timer for 25 minutes.
3. Stare in sadness. Make coffee. Fold clothing out of guilt. Feel more stressed.
4. Write for 5 minutes..?
5. Reset timer
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I wasn't sure how much to disclose, but if my uncle-in-law will go on CNN, least I can do is tweet about it.
Here are my family members currently held hostage by Hamas. We just want them home. Each person who tears down a poster silences our attempts to do so.
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If y'all are worked up about this PNAS paper that discovered Likert scales, lemme tell ya about this pair of psychologists who told economists that people are not purely rational actors and the field collectively lost their shit and gave them the Nobel Prize
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The deck is so stacked against undergrads who support themselves through college. They're learning to code but can't even afford a chromebook. They'll need their PhD funded but can't supercharge their CV b/c they have jobs.
Nothing optimistic to say. Just really down about it rn.
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I crunched the numbers this week and I don't think I'm going to recover the cost of moving for my postdoc before the end of my postdoc (2-3 yrs).
Mostly tweeting this so grad students who choose to continue in this direction know what's coming
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@TheRealKimDana
I spoke with the ethics committee and Rider deserves fair compensation in the form of at least fifteen pets and twenty snuggles. Treats are encouraged but also mandatory
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I just want to wish therapists everywhere a very happy You Can Wear Cardigans Again
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PHD APPROVED!
THIS! KID'S! A! DR!!!
I planned to celebrate in Greece with my mom, my 3 possible dads, and a troupe of background dancers who only communicate in ABBA lyrics.
Since that is no longer an option (thanks 2020!), I went for ice cream w my dissertation instead 🍦👨🎓📃
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The academic job market isn't the Hunger Games. It's Squid Game.
We're not trying to kill each other. We're just trying to survive a system advertised as "fun" where 1st place gets everything and 2nd gets nothing. And we keep choosing to come back.
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These people are not crisis actors. They're not propaganda. Their tragedy deserves witnesses.
I'll never understand who would tear down and deface these posters instead of adding Palestinian stories next to theirs. What a profound lack of empathy. What a lack of humanity.
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@AaronCherniak
@aaReese
I actually tried my hand at decorative foccacia last Channukah and the results were...not the same
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This semester, I stopped opening lab meetings with "how was everybody's weekend" and started opening with "OK, what's the tea", and banter has improved precipitously.
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Did anybody else watch the Secret of Nimh (pronounced "nim) growing up and only many years later realize that the secret is that they were all lab rats at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)?!
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I adore shepherding students through their first papers. We discuss academic norms for how to argue, write, and edit. Posting one big norm that newbies need to hear:
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A grad student has been helping me out with some tasks for my main study. I brought her a homemade cake and thanked her for really raising the level on the next stage of my career. In zero seconds flat, she responds,
"Sounds like you owe me more than just cake"
💀
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Psych Twitter 2021 wrapped:
1. Postdocs are paid how much? Asst profs are paid HOW MUCH???
2. I Circled p Values and Saved Science
3. Society for Neuroscience's Fyre Festival moment
4. NIH director discovers behavioral science
5. The academic urge....
This was three parts horrifying, satisfying, and funny; I remembered at least 2/3 of these moments!
Can someone do psych Twitter???? It will be a rotating set of ten arguments 😂😂😂
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1/ Many are fairly asking why there's a push for retracting old conversion therapy research. So here, I did your homework for you. Take a few minutes and buckle up.
Here's how old behavioral conversion therapy research still impacts people today:
@CraigAnthonyRS
But the research was conducted in a culture that you never experienced.
Hypothetical: Consider the high suicide rate among gay men in the 70s. Suppose “undesired sexual arousal” was a risk factor for suicide. Patients seek treatment. Research efficacy of conversion therapy?
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Our meta-analysis team is expanding! If you are interested in learning a *ton* about LGBTQ+ people's social relationships and their well-being, please apply!
Aiming for a short recruitment period: apps due Dec 12.
RT's appreciated! (1/3)
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How did I, an Israeli-American, talk to my mostly Jewish and Muslim lab in New York about what's going on?
(1/8)
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For 99% of academics, our largest impact is through our students.
Like, I'll be floored if my meta-analysis changes the world more than the 5 RAs working on it. However many papers my EEG project will produce just can't compete with even one grad student becoming a psychologist
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I pray - I PRAY - for the confidence of the guy on Tinder who told me that my dissertation was trash based on what he learned in his intro to psych course
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Been thinking lately about how Academic Twitter provides unique opportunities for students and ppl from excluded backgrounds, and how it would be a real loss if it dies:
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Got back to a manuscript I've avoided for months because the editor's and reviewer 2's comments were so harsh. And you know what? They're even meaner than I remember.
Don't be like that. There's no need, and it slows science down when it makes ppl take time to lick our wounds
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Still in shock, but since Thanksgiving, I've won two multi-year, 100% fellowships (Stony Brook's NIH-IRACDA program and Israel Science Foundation).
This is both really exciting and it means that my postdoc funding is maxed out thru 2024.
Y'all can't get rid of me just yet! 😉
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Sad that academic twitter is quieting down, right as we were on the verge of solving the pressing issues of our discipline such as network vs latent variable debates, GRE requirements, low stipends, signing reviews, academia vs industry, or if racism has an expiration date
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Spoke with an RA who decided not to do a clinical psych PhD and instead do a Masters of Social Work. I told her that sounds wonderful and I'm very proud of her.
Followers, if you decide to get/are getting an MSW, I want you to know that I'm very proud of you too.
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The venn diagram of people who LOVED gossip in high school and people who became psychologists is just a circle
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I know that the MD vs PhD discourse is sooo last week, but I just want to say that I've been on two plane rides where people had panic attacks and none where people had a stroke...
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thinking about the time I had a client with agoraphobia who did exposures at local crowded dance halls and not once did we think to call it Panic! at the Disco
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📣Want to do psych grad school in the US but are not a US citizen? 📣
Thrilled to host
@aijia_yao
on the morning (EST) of October 13 for how to navigate postbacc's and grad applications as a non-citizen.
Please help signal boost and DM/email us for the Zoom info!
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Every year we renew The Discourse™️ about whether Pride is to celebrate being different or to show that deep down we're all the same.
Then this
@AlisonBechdel
comic from *1987* reminds me that
#Pride
has always involved these kinds of questions.
Anyway, happy
#Pride2021
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Everything Everywhere All At Once:
The list of covariates Reviewer 2 wants me to include in my model
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Your manuscript is under review come back in 3 months.
Revise and resubmit you have 2 months.
Your manuscript is under review, 3 months.
R&R, another 5 months.
Your manuscript is accepted, YOU HAVE 48 HOURS TO REFORMAT FIGURE S5 OR SO HELP ME NOBODY GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE!!!
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Happy to share that in September I'm starting a post-doc at (my academic hero...!!!) Daniel Klein's Developmental Psychopathology Lab
@PsychSBU
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I'll study how we develop our sensitivities to social rewards and punishments and when they predict mental disorder. See🧵for more...
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I just submitted a manuscript I care a LOT about for review. It actually made me anxious enough it took me a week of avoidance before I hit "submit". Please clap.
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(Me, a postdoc, getting dressed for lab meeting day): I hope my undergrads think I look cool
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Wordle 293 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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As I pressed Enter, I began to float. Angels with eight eyes and sixteen wings surrounded me. I now see all color and am all color for I have become a being of light.
I am Knowledge.
I am Wordle.
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A very common mistake in clinical psych research statements is that students usually talk about what they want to do (ie help people) and not what they want to study (ie a specific, theory-based psychological process)
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"Being trans isn't what causes high rates of self-harm; it's the cigender people who do...when trans children are given support by their parents, their rate of suicide drops to nearly that of an average child. Again, being trans is not the problem - a lack of support is"
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Never understood why we call crazy situations "bananas". Bananas come pre-portioned, sustainably wrapped, and sensibly bunched for transport. Any good workflow wishes it could be bananas.
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Hello!
I'm finishing up my dissertation now and am on the US post-doc market in clinical psychology so I'd appreciate any leads.
My interests are reinforcement sensitivity, depression/anxiety, and LGBTQ+ mental health.
Shameless thread of recent accomplishments below:
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Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can DIY a prison in your Stanford office basement, shove a bunch of students into it, and condone Geneva convention violations while calling it "science"
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During this dream postdoc, I got to open my own BA/MA lab. Now that we’ve got a fun, visual-punny logo, please welcome the Social Neuro-Affective Predictors of Psychopathology (SNAPP) Lab!
Here's what to (hopefully) expect from SNAPP Lab in the next 1-2 years:
(1/10)
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A paper of ours just got accepted and the managing editor twice noted our "shining example with regard to the use of of open-science research practices." These are practices I picked up from
#AcademicTwitter
and
#openscience
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So thanks to everyone out there who helps me learn!
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Starting a meta-analysis on LGBTQ+'s social relationships and mental health in June.
Since it can be virtual, I'm opening RA slots for undergrads who want more experience in (American) LGBTQ+ psych but can't get it in their home institution.
Details + application link (1/2) ⤵️
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I think that many undergrads who pursue creative careers including academia don't get that money isn't just status or fancy car. It's going on vacation vs not, having large vs small families, living in a house you love or one you like, etc
In seeking my first industry job, I had no idea just how much I was under-earning as an academic. For me, more pay translated to more freedom.
Commenters, back me up: raise your hand if you feel more financially free working outside of academia than when you were in it.
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If you're an academic in my circle, please be cool with your Jewish students who need to reschedule tests and assignments due on the major holidays:
Rosh Hashana (New Year) - eve of Sept 6-9
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) - eve of Sept 15-16
Sukkot/Simcha Torah - eve of Sept 20-29
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Just got a manuscript rejection from my reach submission. Worst part is that the comments were so thorough, respectful, and constructive that I don't even want to curse the reviewers under my breath.
What a bunch of professional, conscientious jerks who I want to emulate!!
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Today is my first official day as a postdoc and my family celebrated by awarding me a certificate for finally having an actual job 😭😭😭😭😭
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My academic hill to die on is that psychology shoots itself in the foot every time it considers "industry" a bad word
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Was looking through a standardized emotional stimuli set and was curious what was rated as the happiest picture in the set. When I tell you I literally put my hand on my heart when I opened this picture 😭😭😭
Source: Open Affective Standardized Image Set (OASIS)
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MY VERY FIRST MA STUDENT PRESENTED HER VERY FIRST POSTER AT
@ABCTNOW
AND SHE KILLED IT!!! MOMMA IS SO PROUD 😭😭😭
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First time, an MD ran in, made lots of noise, mucked it up, and got a glass of wine.
Second time, I sat with the person, did a few exposures until they felt in control, and did not get wine.
Yes, I want my degree respected but looking back, I'm way saltier a/b the lack of wine.
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An RA apologized that she wouldn't be available for an extra task on Friday because she's going back to visit her family. Immediately, another RA shouted, "around here, we don't apologize for spending time with our families!!"
It's Monday and my heart is already full😭😭
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Stony Brook culture is the annual war between the admin staff and the campus squirrels
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Live feed of psych scientists nailing down the definition of mental illness
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There is something calmingly nihilistic in knowing that the only way anybody will actually read my dissertation is if I end up being a woman married to a president-elect.
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There's a lot to say about this ABCT/Barlow/Hayes situation but I think this point is being missed:
Maybe the US has moved on from techniques that Barlow and Hayes helped develop, but much (most?) of the world has not. This work is still being practiced today (1/3)
@bonniebro
@aaronjfisher
@JAMAPsych
Bonnie, these articles are being used by people *today* to harm people *today*. That’s different from the evolution of science and ideas that happens. Our published words continue to exist past when we wrote them. I think we all have a responsibility to correct our harmful wrongs
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I also checked in individually with my Jewish and Muslim students (this semester, that's most of the lab). Everybody is doing fine, pretty stressed, and happy to be validated that they're doing just fine.
(8/8)
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"Mom, guess how many likes my post got"
"It was so fun, Ben. Probably like 500"
"Well, actually....."
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3 aspects of American psych academia that y'all should know are not the same elsewhere:
1. Paying to apply to internship (a job!!)
2. Needing an internship (a job!!) to get your degree
3. Grant committees giving points for previous wins so that the rich get richer
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This weekend, I was on the beach with a good friend and the job market came up.
I asked him if people would think of me differently if I'm no longer an academic.
He thought for a second and said, "Ben, I don't know the right way to tell you this, but already none of us care"
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Message to my undergrad followers:
Been going through a lot of app's for my lab group lately, and I can say with confidence - cover letters and interviews that explicitly outline a track record of accomplishment don't come off as conceited. They come off as playing to win. (1/3)
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I'm not delaying the job market by doing a longer postdoc. I'm leveling up via side-quests before taking on the next boss battle.
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Controversial idea: All new clinical psychology training must involve a module on how to unsubscribe from listservs
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Me putting on Beyonce for a lit search:
🎶🎶OK ladies, now let's get information🎶🎶
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Woke up to this selfie from my (Orthodox) dad at Jerusalem Pride.
חג שמח, ג'רוז
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I will no longer be entering the job market. Instead I invite TT job offers to come to me and I'll be doing you the favor:
Wordle 224 2/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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4 hours.
I spent 4 hours reviewing collinearity and parameters and all things SEM to figure out why my model wasn't converging.
It was because I wrote variable d16 instead of d6.
I can't bring myself to tell my PI how I wasted my day so instead I'm shouting it into the void.
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Me double clicking a .sav file, waiting for SPSS to actually open
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Being a scientist is great because you fill your day with important questions:
-Why would Word think that's how a table should look?
-Can we reschedule that Zoom convo?
-Which misplaced comma throttled my analysis?
-Is my career on the verge of failure or do I just need a nap?
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polyamorous in that I have had a boyfriend while also being in grad school
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Has anybody done a cost analysis of doing a PhD in clinical psych vs MSW?
Hoping someone has looked at:
postbacc vs MSW
8 year grad school vs 8 years working
Recently licensed psychologist vs experienced social work salary
At what point (if ever) does the income balance out?
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If a student went to Stony Brook's master of social work program and then got a job at New York Presbyterian, w/ the avg salary of a licensed social worker.
Vs
If they did a postbacc through postdoc at Stony Brook and then got the avg salary of a licensed psychologist at NYP...
Has anybody done a cost analysis of doing a PhD in clinical psych vs MSW?
Hoping someone has looked at:
postbacc vs MSW
8 year grad school vs 8 years working
Recently licensed psychologist vs experienced social work salary
At what point (if ever) does the income balance out?
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Turns out, in 2023:
@ADAA_Anxiety
conference overlaps with Passover
@PsychScience
conference overlaps with Shavuot
@srp_science
overlaps with Yom Kippur eve
Did y'all synchronize this or did this turn out to be a great year to exclude Jewish psychologists by coincidence?
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Today, I once again discovered that sometimes, I am not a total failure as an academic, and instead I just needed a good night's sleep and a long bike ride.
I have learned no lessons for the next time this happens.
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Absolutely devastated to re-discover that when I learn something new I am not, in fact, already good at it
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Reminder that Twitter can do to your imposter syndrome what Instagram does to your body image, so scroll responsibly
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At the beginning of grad school, I remember freaking out to my group supervisor about the power I wield as a therapist.
"If I can make them better, I can make them worse!" I said.
"Cute that you think it's you who makes them better," he replied.
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I will never fall out of love with the New York Public Library
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My PI: there's a semi-abandoned set of rooms in the buiding that hasn't been cleaned since 2015 or so and if you do, you can use it as a labspa-
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It's the weekend and I've got wine in my belly so here's my spicy opinion:
Too many people are amazed by this year's absurd level of competitiveness for clinical psych programs and not enough people are angry about the fact that it indicates an abysmal systemic failure. (1/n)
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