I have been (foolishly?) searching for peak 2015-2017 twitter "science on socials" magic... The time when every new paper would launch a wave of excited back and forth. Twitter was then, for better or worse, a great way to be exposed to a variety of views on psychological science, learn about new people and new fields.
Many of my non-academic writings since leaving what was left of twitter, have in all honesty been ways to try and somehow find a medium for casual but critical discourse about science. But blogging is asymmetrical, and to an extend lonely. In an experiment to recapture that twitter like excitement/conversational back and forth, I talked to Eiko Fried, in what might veer into podcast territory(?), about a new genome wide association study of Depression (a study in 5 million individuals). It’s on Youtube because I honest to god would know how to even publish a podcast?
Check it out, you might get a front row seat to my midlife crisis, or maybe this will just another medium for public science discussion for me. If you feel like having a similar chat with me about any other psychological sciences paper, feel free to reach out! If I don’t change my mind over the next few days, I might reach out to others I wanted to talk to about their wotk for more of this…