Spruced up the waiting area outside my office with gifts from the four departing interns in the @stresslab.bsky.social 💛 Nikki, are you sure saying goodbye to interns ever gets easier? 😭 @nicoleweiss.bsky.social

Benjamin Katz@benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Thank you to the welcoming graduate students in @stresslab.bsky.social (@hodiana.bsky.social + a few Blueskyless folks!) for curating this lovely waiting area outside my office. Grateful to belong to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social’s phenomenal team 🤗

🚨 preprint alert !!! Emotional and physical abuse have dissociable impacts on punishment learning and task engagement during adolescence osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Probing biomarkers and clinical utility of reward learning across species using the Probabilistic Reward Task: 20 years of findings - Nature Mental Health

This Review addresses anhedonia in major depressive disorder, highlighting the Probabilistic Reward Task’s effectiveness across species for assessing reward learning. This work emphasize the task’s va...

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This is untenable. Something has got to give.

Half of Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas, exclusive poll finds

About 57% of polled Americans also believe economy is worsening in grim portrait of cost of living crisis, according to Harris survey for the Guardian

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Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Covariation among higher-order psychopathology dimensions is driven by nomorbidity, not comorbidity: https://osf.io/3t2cm

Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nat. Mental Health (2026) rdcu.be/fsqkm

Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nature Mental Health - In this meta-analysis of 49 studies, the authors find that self-reports of childhood maltreatment are generally stable, challenging assumptions of inherent unreliability and...

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Have you seen MATILDA (matilda.fss.uu.nl)? Which stands for Measurement, Analysis & Theory for Intensive Longitudinal Data. MATILDA is a website with educational articles that help researchers align theory, measurement, and analysis when studying processes using intensive longitudinal data.

Thrilled to share a new consensus statement just published in Nature Mental Health: "Ambulatory assessment in mental health: expert consensus and recommendations" Glad to have contributed to this group effort. Open-access read cube link here: rdcu.be/fnxDZ

Interesting. Time to learn about the K32...

Matt Wanat@mattjwanat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Email from NINDS announced ending F32 but they are now encouraging K32 submissions. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Sometimes doing the work is really worth it. Our work on #suicide, #suicideprevention, and #lgbtq youth found its way into this important resource. A prideful public #sociology moment. @annamueller.bsky.social afsp.org/story/new-pu...

New Public Resource for LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Launched this Pride Month

This LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), the largest private funder of suicide prevention research, is hosting its first national public presentations of Pride P...

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Trying to play nice in the sandbox, but I don’t understand the accommodation of resource constraints on an already taxed system.

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Many people write grant applications assuming their reader is engaged, but the opposite is more likely. Your evaluators are time- and attention-poor, so you should design your application with this in mind. This slide is part of a talk I'm giving today on writing grant applications

Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief! The SIPS Publications Committee encourages editors with innovative ideas about how Collabra: Psychology can best accomplish its mission to apply.

So proud of Dr. Alana Egan for successfully defending her F31-funded dissertation, entitled "A Qualitative Inquiry of Substance Use, Suicidal Ideation, and Historical Trauma in Pacific Islander Adults." Her expertise, dedication, and thoughtful scholarship really shined throughout the defense!

Important new study out today highlighting unequal impact of NIH grant terminations. “If the NIH is to serve the health of all Americans, it requires urgent course correction to ensure all scientific careers are sustained without targeted discrimination.” www.thelancet.com/journals/TLR...

Targeted termination of scientific grants and minoritised researcher status in a national survey: a cross sectional analysis

Grant terminations targeting health research for BIPOC and SGM communities have disproportionately targeted the careers of BIPOC, SGM, and female researchers and researchers from disadvantaged backgro...

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Thankful for an inspiring @nasspd.bsky.social meeting - meaningful to connect with others dedicated to understanding & caring for those affected by PDs. A banner year for our lab at @umasspress.bsky.social ! Honored to receive Mid-Career award & alum Dr. Elinor Waite the Young Investigator award

Hiring a full-time data analyst to support the management and analysis of EMA + biosensor (Empatica and Skyn) for several grants. Come join our team!

Benjamin Katz@benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Do you enjoy working with intensive longitudinal data or know someone who does? The STRESS Lab (@stresslab.bsky.social), directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social, is hiring a full-time Research Associate/Data Analyst III at The University of Rhode Island.

Do you enjoy working with intensive longitudinal data or know someone who does? The STRESS Lab (@stresslab.bsky.social), directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social, is hiring a full-time Research Associate/Data Analyst III at The University of Rhode Island.

🚨FREE WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Get an early start to #statnerdsummer with a free seminar on how multilevel models and structural equation models intersect. I'll be showing this through MLM and SEM growth curves. Sign up for free! Share widely! You can register here: smart-workshops.com/workshops

Katie Dixon-Gordon @katieleedg.bsky.social is hiring for a full time research assistant! A great opportunity to work on suicide prevention and DBT research: careers.umass.edu/jobs/technic...

Technical Assistant I - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Technical Assistant I Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Psychology and Brain Sci Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work Arran...

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So excited for the next chapters of these 7 future @stresslab.bsky.social PhDs!! Grateful to experience and witness @nicoleweiss.bsky.social’s wholehearted mentorship during this time of transition for all.

Nicole Weiss@nicoleweiss.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As 4 PhD students leave for internship (😭), @stresslab.bsky.social is excited to welcome 3 PhD students: Andrew Rolles, Dominique Sheldon, Jeniska Rivera Galarza. Excited for this dream team to bring new ideas & energy to the lab. I couldn't do it without the support of @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social!

Such a moving quote by @lisaolivera.bsky.social 💛

So proud of the persistence and growth each of you has demonstrated throughout this #APPIC interview season. It has been a privilege to witness your journeys and to mentor alongside @nicoleweiss.bsky.social @stresslab.bsky.social 💛

STRESS Lab@stresslab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Congratulations to @stresslab.bsky.social graduate students on a successful match day 🥳 Catherine Trinh: McLean Noam Newberger: University of Washington Alana Egan: Home to VA Pacific Islands @hodiana.bsky.social: MUSC

📣 Join our team We are hiring 4 research assistants to support work across three grants: 1. EMA and biosensor to predict return to use, 2. Mobile app for co-occurring PTSD-OUD, 3. EMA and biosensor to understand timing and mechanisms underlying alcohol use and suicide. Apply and share widely!

A season for softening.

“Financial incentives may drive for-profit hospitals to turn away more complicated patients… hospitals can save on staffing and other costs if they admit healthier patients and avoid patients with the most severe psychiatric needs — a tactic [Dr. Zhu] called ‘cream-skimming.’”

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 9mo ago

Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations. Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators. By @emcahan.bsky.social

Excited to share the publication of our book: “Addressing Minority Stress and Enhancing Resilience with Diverse LGBTQ+ Clients” Filled with rich case examples, clinical dialogue, and strategies for supporting LGBTQ+ clients in therapy! For more info: tidd.ly/4qI0QC0 Code for 20% off: SPRAUT

Interested in using the PCL-5 to measure PTSD symptoms in your EMA study? We conducted item analysis to examine item thresholds & discrimination parameters & examined DIF across daily surveys www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Psychometric evaluation of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 in daily surveys: An item response theory and longitudinal measurement invariance analysis

The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist for the DSM-5 (PCL-5) has demonstrated excellent psychometric qualities across cross-sectional stud…

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📣 New Pub 📣 Studied PTSD and opioid use across 60 days in people in the community who use opioids and have a history of trauma. 75% met criteria for current OUD 67% met criteria for current PTSD www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Influence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Daily-Level Trajectories of Opioid Use Among Trauma-Exposed Individuals in the Community Who Use Opioids

Objective: Individuals who use opioids are at elevated risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The objective of this study was to examine the influence of PTSD diagnosis on opioid use outcome...

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When “OCD” is used as an adjective, it trivializes and invalidates the real suffering and courage of people living with this serious and debilitating condition.