Chris Dabbs, Ph.D.
Psychologist | professor | author | researching identity, religion, and autism | #actuallyautistic | he/him | Hoosier transplant 🇺🇸 → 🇨🇦 | opinions my own
- Reposted by Chris Dabbs, Ph.D.There is no reason in this day & age not to offer hybrid events & the ability to participate in events online as well. It’s universal design, & we’ve had the tools for years now. Bonus to the organizations holding the events: it means more participation, more excitement, & (cynically) more revenue.
- We oppose the implementation of generative AI into mental health care. We need to have a discussion about the profit-driven forces that have, instead of fixing the cracks in our mental health systems, have convinced clinicians that generative AI is the path forward. #psychscisky #academicsky
- Open Letter: Against the Use of Generative AI in Mental Health Care We cannot sit idly by while market forces drive a deceitful inevitability narrative surrounding AI use in mental health care. Tools that make people kill themselves are not good for us actually. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
- Open Letter: Against the Use of Generative AI in Mental Health Care We cannot sit idly by while market forces drive a deceitful inevitability narrative surrounding AI use in mental health care. Tools that make people kill themselves are not good for us actually. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
- hey literally everyone in government in both the US and Canada, stop fucking with my trans homies
- Reposted by Chris Dabbs, Ph.D.Led by Grant Bruno, and following from our first Editorial on Global Indigenous Perspectives on autism research, our second Editorial in @journalautism.bsky.social explores integrating Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing to autism research. Free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Chris Dabbs, Ph.D.i need authors and agents to be much louder with their publishers how much they hate gen ai and make it embarrassing/financially harmful for publishers to be associated with it at every level (incl marketing, publicity, and sales)
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- If you want to know why it's so hard to find a testing psychologist who takes insurance, my testing fee is $250/hour and Anthem pays me the equivalent of $32/hour after I subtract material costs. 🙃
- Catching up on email. I received an article review request on Dec. 21, a reminder for that request on CHRISTMAS DAY, and notice of request withdrawal due to lack of response on Dec. 29. Academic folks, please stop doing this. Breaks exist for a reason. Spend time with family. Touch grass (or snow).
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- Reposted by Chris Dabbs, Ph.D.a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product
- I need more people to start saying that these mental health/LLM findings are "horrifying," "repulsive," or "eschatological" and fewer people saying they're "interesting," or "notable."
- A paper acceptance and a paper rejection in the same day is the duality of academia.
- This holiday season, buy your favorite neurodiversity-affirming clinician a copy of Understanding and Affirming Autistic Clients: A Primer for Mental Health Professionals! Find it wherever books are sold: a.co/d/0oOSKCU www.barnesandnoble.com/w/understand... www.bloomsbury.com/us/understan...
- What is happening at University of Oklahoma is disgraceful, but not surprising for anyone who's spent time in Oklahoma. A seemingly coordinated anti-trans attack against an award-winning graduate instructor just doing their job (and very well). It's very blatant and public trans erasure.
- Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: -Protomen -Gogol Bordello -BigX Tha Plug -Coheed & Cambria -Ghost
- Reposted by Chris Dabbs, Ph.D.Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
- It's application season! Here's one piece of advice for references: For the love of all the gods, please only comment on your lived interactions with the applicant. Don't reiterate what they wrote about themselves if you weren't directly involved. If you have to do that, don't submit a letter 🙃
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- Would you take a mental health diagnosis class about superheroes, supervillains, and comic book characters? 🦸♂️ ⚔️ 🦹♂️ Well, I made one and write about it in my new open-access commentary 🙂 digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jti/vol1/iss... #academicsky #edusky
- LORs are one of my favorite parts of my job. You mean I get to write a letter full of great things about an awesome person who trusted me to write said things? For all of the thankless service tasks in our profession, LORs are not one of them.
- Academics are leaving the U.S. for jobs in other countries. I was one of them! In this short opinion piece, I write about my transition from 🇺🇸 to 🇨🇦, and I offer tangible advice for those trying to do the same. universityaffairs.ca/opinion/trad...
- Psychologists stop using AI to write clinical reports challenge (impossible)
- These critics have never been on food stamps. They talk like SNAP is giving $6k a month or something. When I was single on SNAP in 2019-2020, I got $130/month. When my family was on SNAP in the late 2000s/early 2010s, we got like $600/month — there were EIGHT of us.
- Uh oh. The lawyers are pissed 😬
- Today I launched our new clinical text that focuses on affirming autistic clients. To introduce the book, I took time to share my own autistic support needs, how they intersected with writing a book, and I asked why we're still treating disabled people like shit: www.chrisdabbs.com/post/underst...
- Reposted by Chris Dabbs, Ph.D.I really enjoyed doing this webinar - sharing in case it's helpful for people interested in an introduction to HiTOP: novopsych.com/news/webinar...
- We were on food stamps (and WIC) growing up — both my parents worked. My mom as an office assistant and my dad as a carpenter. I was on food stamps five years ago. I was finishing a PhD and working three part time jobs. Working doesn’t guarantee survival in the U.S. That‘s a class myth.
- “I’m trained in brainspotting”
- Since leaving the U.S., I‘ve learned that many White Americans who leave the U.S. call themselves “expats” instead of “immigrants” and that…doesn’t sit right with me.
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