Katherine Jonas PhD LP
@kgjonas.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Stony Brook Psychiatry
{Molecular, Psychopathology, Statistic, Nosology} choose 2
Lab webpage: jonaslab.festyland.org
{Molecular, Psychopathology, Statistic, Nosology} choose 2
Lab webpage: jonaslab.festyland.org
Proud to be at SUNY Stony Brook. ✊
SUNY's University Faculty Senate and Faculty Council of Community Colleges, the system-wide governance bodies for SUNY's 64 schools, have both signed America's Compact for Higher Education 🎉 ✊️
October 26, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Proud to be at SUNY Stony Brook. ✊
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Integrating HiTOP and computational psychiatry
Perspective by T.Allen, A.Schreiber, S.Blain, C.Carlisi, C.DeYoung, A.Fornito, C.Gillan, V.Goghari, N.Hall, P.Homan, A.Kaczkurkin, R.Kotov, R.Krueger, R.Latzman, A.Okan, J.Tackett, HiTOP Workgroup & M.Hallquist
go.nature.com/3VEgfZe
Perspective by T.Allen, A.Schreiber, S.Blain, C.Carlisi, C.DeYoung, A.Fornito, C.Gillan, V.Goghari, N.Hall, P.Homan, A.Kaczkurkin, R.Kotov, R.Krueger, R.Latzman, A.Okan, J.Tackett, HiTOP Workgroup & M.Hallquist
go.nature.com/3VEgfZe
October 13, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Integrating HiTOP and computational psychiatry
Perspective by T.Allen, A.Schreiber, S.Blain, C.Carlisi, C.DeYoung, A.Fornito, C.Gillan, V.Goghari, N.Hall, P.Homan, A.Kaczkurkin, R.Kotov, R.Krueger, R.Latzman, A.Okan, J.Tackett, HiTOP Workgroup & M.Hallquist
go.nature.com/3VEgfZe
Perspective by T.Allen, A.Schreiber, S.Blain, C.Carlisi, C.DeYoung, A.Fornito, C.Gillan, V.Goghari, N.Hall, P.Homan, A.Kaczkurkin, R.Kotov, R.Krueger, R.Latzman, A.Okan, J.Tackett, HiTOP Workgroup & M.Hallquist
go.nature.com/3VEgfZe
There are at least 4 emails on my inbox reminding me I need to do FERPA/data security/misc trainings.
October 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
There are at least 4 emails on my inbox reminding me I need to do FERPA/data security/misc trainings.
Reposted by Katherine Jonas PhD LP
Reposted by Katherine Jonas PhD LP
Today is day i overcome burnout
September 23, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Today is day i overcome burnout
Outing my 5-month New Yorker backlog, but that's what happens when you're writing grants like your career depends on it.
August 17, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Outing my 5-month New Yorker backlog, but that's what happens when you're writing grants like your career depends on it.
Reposted by Katherine Jonas PhD LP
reason 47 why government funding for fundamental research is the only stable route to scientific progress
Google can’t see what commercial return they are getting on AlphaFold
August 6, 2026 at 10:21 PM
reason 47 why government funding for fundamental research is the only stable route to scientific progress
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New Yorker cartoon feels about right
August 5, 2026 at 5:47 AM
New Yorker cartoon feels about right
Wendy syndrome: It’s that time of year when students are moving on from the lab—research assistants starting their PhDs, graduate students finishing theirs—and new students are joining. Somehow the students stay the same age, while I keep growing up.
August 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Wendy syndrome: It’s that time of year when students are moving on from the lab—research assistants starting their PhDs, graduate students finishing theirs—and new students are joining. Somehow the students stay the same age, while I keep growing up.
Reviewing page proofs for a manuscript in press at journal X. The editor asks me to add the issue and page number to a reference. Said reference has not yet been assigned to an issue, which the editor should know because the paper is in press at…the very same journal X. 🧪
July 2, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Reviewing page proofs for a manuscript in press at journal X. The editor asks me to add the issue and page number to a reference. Said reference has not yet been assigned to an issue, which the editor should know because the paper is in press at…the very same journal X. 🧪
I am at the HiTOP conference awaiting said radar plots. @hitop-system.bsky.social
June 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I am at the HiTOP conference awaiting said radar plots. @hitop-system.bsky.social
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Come on, @nytimes.com. You can print 2k words (w/o a single hyperlink to a scientific study) saying psych meds are overprescribed, hitting all the beats you'd expect in a B- student paper (Szasz, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) without one mention of psychotherapy?
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...
May 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Come on, @nytimes.com. You can print 2k words (w/o a single hyperlink to a scientific study) saying psych meds are overprescribed, hitting all the beats you'd expect in a B- student paper (Szasz, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) without one mention of psychotherapy?
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...
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🤔Wait... What happened to that US Research funding line? Seemed like it was almost parallel to China, and then something weird happened recently?
What happened recently?
You can't do science if you fire the scientist, cut their funding, put anti-scientists in charge, and put your energy into hate.
What happened recently?
You can't do science if you fire the scientist, cut their funding, put anti-scientists in charge, and put your energy into hate.
April 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
🤔Wait... What happened to that US Research funding line? Seemed like it was almost parallel to China, and then something weird happened recently?
What happened recently?
You can't do science if you fire the scientist, cut their funding, put anti-scientists in charge, and put your energy into hate.
What happened recently?
You can't do science if you fire the scientist, cut their funding, put anti-scientists in charge, and put your energy into hate.
“They realized, well, that was a mistake,” said Sheriff Sam Hulse of Bonneville County, a Republican. “You started seeing deaths occurring in the community. We started seeing the numbers in the crisis system rise. The very thing we told them would happen was beginning to happen.”
Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
“They realized, well, that was a mistake,” said Sheriff Sam Hulse of Bonneville County, a Republican. “You started seeing deaths occurring in the community. We started seeing the numbers in the crisis system rise. The very thing we told them would happen was beginning to happen.”
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The people developing the treatment for your cancer diagnosis in 25 years are not ok.
American Science is not ok...and Republicans are letting it happen.
www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...
American Science is not ok...and Republicans are letting it happen.
www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...
National survey of NIH-funded researchers shows precarious state of U.S. science — ‘This is like the Titanic’
A nationwide STAT survey of NIH-funded researchers reveals that, a year after Donald Trump's return to the White House, many scientists are reeling
www.statnews.com
March 19, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The people developing the treatment for your cancer diagnosis in 25 years are not ok.
American Science is not ok...and Republicans are letting it happen.
www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...
American Science is not ok...and Republicans are letting it happen.
www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...
Round two. Let's go!
NEW YORK CITY!
Important update for your local March 7th National Day of Action rally!
The rally will now be located at CITY HALL PARK
from 12pm - 2pm
Visit this link fight2win.standupforscience....
to volunteer at the NYC rally or for more info!
Important update for your local March 7th National Day of Action rally!
The rally will now be located at CITY HALL PARK
from 12pm - 2pm
Visit this link fight2win.standupforscience....
to volunteer at the NYC rally or for more info!
March 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Round two. Let's go!
Reposted by Katherine Jonas PhD LP
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
White House stalls release of approved US science budgets
The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.
www.nature.com
February 27, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
Reposted by Katherine Jonas PhD LP
The Call for Abstracts has been extended until March 2nd, and we're excited about building an engaging scientific program. We hope you'll consider submitting your work, and hope to see you in June!
The HiTOP Society will have its first free-standing conference this year on June 4-6. The Call for Abstracts is now open, and we hope you'll consider submitting your HiTOP-related work!
www.hitop-system.org/hitop-2026-c...
www.hitop-system.org/hitop-2026-c...
HiTOP 2026 Conference
Call for Abstracts for the HiTOP 2026 conference
www.hitop-system.org
February 18, 2026 at 11:38 AM
The Call for Abstracts has been extended until March 2nd, and we're excited about building an engaging scientific program. We hope you'll consider submitting your work, and hope to see you in June!
As things stand today, all NIH institutes will have empty advisory councils by the end of 2026. NIMHHD will have an empty advisory council in 1 month, NIMH in 8 months.
🧪 Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026
Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
As things stand today, all NIH institutes will have empty advisory councils by the end of 2026. NIMHHD will have an empty advisory council in 1 month, NIMH in 8 months.
🧪 Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Enroll in my new workshop to realize your dream of learning IRT
#quantpsych #psychometrics #psychsky #statssky
#quantpsych #psychometrics #psychsky #statssky
Foundations of Item Response Theory
This workshop from Wes Bonifay focuses on the foundations and application of item response theory, particularly as applied to binary items.
centerstat.org
January 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Enroll in my new workshop to realize your dream of learning IRT
#quantpsych #psychometrics #psychsky #statssky
#quantpsych #psychometrics #psychsky #statssky
'Tis the season (for collider bias)! Check out Michel's very nice simulation and explanation of why you shouldn't pull your kid out of varsity chess club just yet.
This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
"Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'Tis the season (for collider bias)! Check out Michel's very nice simulation and explanation of why you shouldn't pull your kid out of varsity chess club just yet.
And if you're interested in this kind of work and looking for a postdoc position, we are hiring! Please see the ad on my website, linked from my bio.
Have you wondered why higher bipolar polygenic scores (BP PGS) seem to predict better outcomes among people with psychosis? Here’s why (1/6) 🧪#PsychSciSky
#ThisWeekInNPP
Inconsistent clinical associations of bipolar disorder (BP) polygenic risk score (PRS) largely reflect collider bias from case- & treatment-based sampling, which distorts correlations between scores & alters BP-PRS links to outcomes 🧠🧬 / @kgjonas.bsky.social
Inconsistent clinical associations of bipolar disorder (BP) polygenic risk score (PRS) largely reflect collider bias from case- & treatment-based sampling, which distorts correlations between scores & alters BP-PRS links to outcomes 🧠🧬 / @kgjonas.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
And if you're interested in this kind of work and looking for a postdoc position, we are hiring! Please see the ad on my website, linked from my bio.
Have you wondered why higher bipolar polygenic scores (BP PGS) seem to predict better outcomes among people with psychosis? Here’s why (1/6) 🧪#PsychSciSky
#ThisWeekInNPP
Inconsistent clinical associations of bipolar disorder (BP) polygenic risk score (PRS) largely reflect collider bias from case- & treatment-based sampling, which distorts correlations between scores & alters BP-PRS links to outcomes 🧠🧬 / @kgjonas.bsky.social
Inconsistent clinical associations of bipolar disorder (BP) polygenic risk score (PRS) largely reflect collider bias from case- & treatment-based sampling, which distorts correlations between scores & alters BP-PRS links to outcomes 🧠🧬 / @kgjonas.bsky.social
The impact of collider bias on genetic prediction in psychotic disorders - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - The impact of collider bias on genetic prediction in psychotic disorders
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Have you wondered why higher bipolar polygenic scores (BP PGS) seem to predict better outcomes among people with psychosis? Here’s why (1/6) 🧪#PsychSciSky