Emily Pisetsky, PhD

It’s been a big June! My promotion to Associate Professor of @UMN_Psychiatry became official today, and two weeks ago I was promoted to the role of Mom for this little one! 🎉🥰

Well, our summer of ✨big life changes✨ continued... We moved to North Carolina and I’m thrilled to have joined the faculty at @PsychiatryUnc where I’ll be working at @UNCWomensMood and @uncceed! med.unc.edu/psych/director…

@JillFishPhD @Macalester Congratulations, Jill! They are SO lucky to have you!!

The elusive first word Wordle win finally happened! Do I go out and play the lotto?! Go back to bed because this is clearly the peak of my day?! Wordle 294 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@Afrazzaman Thanks so much for the invitation!

Thanks @episetsky for an excellent presentation on Emerging Treatments and Suicide in Eating Disorders

Just got a rejection for an epidemiological study of college student mental health (n ≈ 13,000) and the first reviewer comment was "this paper is methodologically flawed as it only uses self report data" and I just... can't today. Self-report data are not inherently flawed.

@fitzsimmonscraf Can you imagine?! The substantial time and money spent administering what @BBurnettePhD points out is a psychometrically problematic instrument to 13k people just to get what this reviewer deems an acceptable measure of ED?

@episetsky So frustrating -- we have to keep at it with arguing for the need for and importance of scalability - assessments, interventions, etc. Also good luck getting funding for 13K EDEs😵‍💫

@ZFusfeld No, it was eating disordered focused journal. Hence the suggestion to use a hour long eating disordered interview (on 13,000 people?!?) 🤦🏻‍♀️

@episetsky Oh absolutely, the reason I’m curious is because I was curious if it was an epi specific journal or otherwise cause that’s a pretty baseless argument, which I wouldn’t expect from a reviewer in an epi journal (but I could be wrong!)

@ZFusfeld Thanks! To be clear, I’m not upset with the journal that the paper was rejected. It definitely had flaws. I’m frustrated that the self-report nature of the data were seen as inherent fatal flaws by one of the reviewers. Could have happened at many journals though, unfortunately.

@episetsky Out of curiosity, what journal was this rejected from? Really a shame and I’m sorry that happened to you :(

@jenni_tabler Ugh the frustration!

(Let alone not particularly accurate. Can we please finally get rid of this myth that every study examining eating disorders needs an EDE?!)

The feedback "it is well established that an interview like the Gold Standard Eating Disorder Examination should be used" is not helpful feedback for an epi study...

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@fickleblooms Thank you!!

I guess Facebook going down on my birthday when I only use FB to send and receive birthday wishes means it's probably time for me to finally quit FB for good... But, what am I going to do without the HBD from the random high school classmate I haven't spoken to in 15 years?!

@DrKathrynGordon Thanks, Katie!