Katherine Duggan, PhD
@drkatnaps.bsky.social
Personality, sleep, and health scientist. Nap fan. I enjoying connecting about science, food, hikes, comics, and #allthethings! My opinions are always my own and don't reflect the opinions of anyone who pays me.
Super excited to attend the opening night for #Initiative tomorrow at the public! Sounds like I’m in for a night of millennial perfection
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Super excited to attend the opening night for #Initiative tomorrow at the public! Sounds like I’m in for a night of millennial perfection
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
And for today in "news I didn't expect to hear, but..."
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
And for today in "news I didn't expect to hear, but..."
How do we make America healthy again and work to improve child health if we slash the budget for chronic disease prevention efforts by 98%?
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
How do we make America healthy again and work to improve child health if we slash the budget for chronic disease prevention efforts by 98%?
LET’S GO DODGERS! From growing up watching games on my grandpa’s knee to games in person with some of my favorite people and LA views, I’ll always rep my hometown team. Thrilled about our back-to-back win this year!
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
LET’S GO DODGERS! From growing up watching games on my grandpa’s knee to games in person with some of my favorite people and LA views, I’ll always rep my hometown team. Thrilled about our back-to-back win this year!
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
They're calling him the most French man in history
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They're calling him the most French man in history
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...
October 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026
September 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026
AI hallucinated citations are now showing up in court decisions too…
September 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
AI hallucinated citations are now showing up in court decisions too…
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
Tylenol, or paracetamol, has been used to treat common pains and fevers since 1893, and is one of the safest drugs around
go.nature.com/3IDUgva
go.nature.com/3IDUgva
Tylenol is over 130 years old — why is it still the gold-standard painkiller?
Acetaminophen is one of the safest drugs around, but scientists still don’t know how it reduces pain and fever.
go.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Tylenol, or paracetamol, has been used to treat common pains and fevers since 1893, and is one of the safest drugs around
go.nature.com/3IDUgva
go.nature.com/3IDUgva
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
In January of 2021, photos started bouncing round the internet of this deeply weird thing happening in the sky above Glasgow, Scotland. Photoshop trickery?
The bizarre truth:
- yes, everyone really saw these
- no, they're not faked or manmade
- they absolutely don't exist.
1/
The bizarre truth:
- yes, everyone really saw these
- no, they're not faked or manmade
- they absolutely don't exist.
1/
November 8, 2024 at 5:31 PM
In January of 2021, photos started bouncing round the internet of this deeply weird thing happening in the sky above Glasgow, Scotland. Photoshop trickery?
The bizarre truth:
- yes, everyone really saw these
- no, they're not faked or manmade
- they absolutely don't exist.
1/
The bizarre truth:
- yes, everyone really saw these
- no, they're not faked or manmade
- they absolutely don't exist.
1/
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals.
In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.
Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...
1/4
In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.
Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...
1/4
a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .
ALT: a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .
media.tenor.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals.
In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.
Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...
1/4
In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.
Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...
1/4
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline?
We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨
🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks
#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨
🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks
#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline?
We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨
🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks
#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨
🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks
#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
This is the dumbest fucking shit I've ever read and people who talk like this need to go touch grass.
LLM tools only have real case uses in very limited areas when the people using them are actual experts in their fields and can check it carefully for its bullshit.
So, not students.
LLM tools only have real case uses in very limited areas when the people using them are actual experts in their fields and can check it carefully for its bullshit.
So, not students.
September 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is the dumbest fucking shit I've ever read and people who talk like this need to go touch grass.
LLM tools only have real case uses in very limited areas when the people using them are actual experts in their fields and can check it carefully for its bullshit.
So, not students.
LLM tools only have real case uses in very limited areas when the people using them are actual experts in their fields and can check it carefully for its bullshit.
So, not students.
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions
#publishers #retractions
August 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions
#publishers #retractions
I'm here for good science... and #thediscourse.
Nice summary by @richarddmorey.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading the paper and potentially including it on my reading list for my grad stats/methods course.
Nice summary by @richarddmorey.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading the paper and potentially including it on my reading list for my grad stats/methods course.
August 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I'm here for good science... and #thediscourse.
Nice summary by @richarddmorey.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading the paper and potentially including it on my reading list for my grad stats/methods course.
Nice summary by @richarddmorey.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading the paper and potentially including it on my reading list for my grad stats/methods course.
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
🥁DRUMROLL PLEASE!🥁
Our special guest of the week for @standupforscience.bsky.social's Tuesday's (8/12 8p et/5p pt) Welcome & Action hour...
YOU KNOW HIM, YOU LOVE HIM, AND SO DO WE (so much so I very nearly begged him to be on our advisory board)...
⭐⭐⭐ Dr @jeremymberg.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐
Our special guest of the week for @standupforscience.bsky.social's Tuesday's (8/12 8p et/5p pt) Welcome & Action hour...
YOU KNOW HIM, YOU LOVE HIM, AND SO DO WE (so much so I very nearly begged him to be on our advisory board)...
⭐⭐⭐ Dr @jeremymberg.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐
August 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🥁DRUMROLL PLEASE!🥁
Our special guest of the week for @standupforscience.bsky.social's Tuesday's (8/12 8p et/5p pt) Welcome & Action hour...
YOU KNOW HIM, YOU LOVE HIM, AND SO DO WE (so much so I very nearly begged him to be on our advisory board)...
⭐⭐⭐ Dr @jeremymberg.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐
Our special guest of the week for @standupforscience.bsky.social's Tuesday's (8/12 8p et/5p pt) Welcome & Action hour...
YOU KNOW HIM, YOU LOVE HIM, AND SO DO WE (so much so I very nearly begged him to be on our advisory board)...
⭐⭐⭐ Dr @jeremymberg.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
Just another relatable National Trust sign
August 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Just another relatable National Trust sign
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
"Just because I’m not on the keyboard—and you have to add two extra steps for me to appear correctly—I’m suddenly the product of some soulless technology?"
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
buff.ly
July 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Just because I’m not on the keyboard—and you have to add two extra steps for me to appear correctly—I’m suddenly the product of some soulless technology?"
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
June 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Katherine Duggan, PhD
