Ryan Carpenter

@rwcarpenterphd.bsky.social

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Assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame in clinical psychology.

It's the hottest day on record in Vienna, Austria
Sean Bean as Odysseus in Troy
Anakin: Psychiatric medications are overprescribed and we need alternatives Padme: Alternatives like empirically-supported psychotherapy, right? Anakin: Padme: Alternatives like empirically-supported psychotherapy, right?
Headline that trumpets that half of teens use chatbots for schoolwork. In actuality, the survey found that 54% of students used a chatbot once in their lifetime for schoolwork.
A table showing that most people use generative AI for peer review "never" or "rarely," with somewhat higher rates of use in places other than North America
Me: Does X really want letters of support from co-Is? Colleague: Yes. I'm writing it for you though today Me: Ok thanks! So dumb though, they're not required C: Can't hurt Me: Hurts my soul C: Haha I'm okay with your soul being damaged if the grant is funded Me: Boy, doesn't that just sum up this entire Faustian deal of a career we've chosen for ourselves
The book House of Cards by Robyn Dawes
Uber taking flight (end scene of Back to the Future)