New from us: Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis link.springer.com/article/10.1... Developed and completed in collaboration a diverse team including members from @headwaylondon.bsky.social

Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Journal of Neurology

Background Personality change is a debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet its prevalence, characteristics, and treatment remain poorly understood. Methods We completed a pre-reg...

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Out now in eLife, our new and improved paper on Attention and planning. Here, we explore how attention acts like an inductive bias that selects relevant information on which to plan. 📍🗺️👀 (1/5) elifesciences.org/articles/108... @smfleming.bsky.social

How attention simplifies mental representations for planning

Spatial attention controls the information people become aware of and, in turn, incorporate into simplified perceptual representations for use in multi-step planning.

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What’s driving the overlap between psychopathology dimensions? Not comorbidity – nomorbidity. Most of our samples contain people with little psychopathology, and shared absence of psychopathology dimensions can look like shared presence if you assume a linear association in the population.

Exciting day. My set-theoretic reconceptualization of the DSM (w/ MDD, GAD, and PTSD as empirical examples) is out today in JPCS, along with four invited commentaries and my response. I'm biased, but I recommend all six papers. I was really jazzed by all four commentaries. 1/25

Happy to be part of this paper. 1. Depression and personality functioning are pretty fungible. 2. It is hard to statistically work one's way around latent correlations of .75 to .87. 3. The perils of partialling remain grossly underappreciated (see www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...)

The Questionable Practice of Partialing to Refine Scores on and Inferences About Measures of Psychological Constructs

Partialing is a statistical approach researchers use with the goal of removing extraneous variance from a variable before examining its association with other variables. Controlling for confounds thro...

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Josh Miller@jdmiller.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share a new commentary set to be published in J. of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Co-authored with @vizecolin.bsky.social (shared 1st), @nphillips36.bsky.social, and @drlynam.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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I'm really excited to share a new preprint! Lab studies have consistently shown that stress and negative emotions make people drink alcohol, but studies of daily life (EMA) keep failing to find it. What does that mean for the shared theoretical prediction both designs test? osf.io/preprints/ps...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Human-AI relationships and their therapeutic implications www.emerald.com/mhdt/article...

🌟 Out in Clinical Psychology Review after years in the making: Pleased to share the 1st meta-analytic network analysis (MAGNA) investigating core maintaining features of anxiety symptoms pooling 156 networks (N = 303,151). w/Belli, Tichelaar, @sachaepskamp.bsky.social & @cycology.bsky.social 🧵:

AI in education = commercialisation of a collective responsibility outsourcing a social, civic, and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to commercial and capitalist enterprise whose priority is profit

Using (multilevel) VAR models? Ever checked how well they actually fit your data? @jmbh.bsky.social & I created VARcheck, an R package for visual model checking for VAR models. Blogpost with workflow: bsiepe.github.io/blog/2026-05... 📝Paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 💻Docs: bsiepe.github.io/VARcheck/

What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io

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Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 3mo ago

Reading this report about one in seven Brits swapping their doctors for chatbots sets off alarm bells, especially coming after the report from the Auditor General in Ontario about all the mistakes chatbots make in medical settings

read this and tell me again that long term memory is organized semantically

warrior cop@wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.

Heartbreaking, really really disturbing and gross: AI toys aren't remotely a good idea www.wired.com/story/the-ne...

A review of 18 studies found no consistently reproducible subtypes of schizophrenia, suggesting that differences in brain structure across patients may reflect a spectrum rather than discrete biological categories.

Neuroimaging-Based Subgroups in Schizophrenia: A Critical Appraisal of Clustering Studies

Efforts to define biologically grounded subtypes of schizophrenia have increasingly leveraged neuroimaging data and clustering algorithms. Such approaches aim to capture patient-level heterogeneity…

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Investigating differences in common mental health symptom expression and co-occurrence across ethnicities rdcu.be/fgmQl - using moderated network analysis to show the influence of ethnicity on both symptom levels and symptom co-occurrence

Exploring the dynamic system changes underlying the resolution of social anxiety in individuals receiving cognitive behavioural therapy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exploring the dynamic system changes underlying the resolution of social anxiety in individuals receiving cognitive behavioural therapy

Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) provide theoretical frameworks that explain maintaining factors and guide treatment protocols. While…

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Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

After 150 years of boring wooden Galton boards, I finally fixed it! Now with lasers, bazookas, bombs, pinball bumpers, and extremely serious sci-fi hamsters. 🎯 EXTREME GALTON 👇 sachaepskamp.com/extreme_galton

What makes behavioral interventions work beyond the psychological theory they implement? Their format, level of engagement, delivery modality? In a new paper analyzing 274 interventions from 15 megastudies (4.1M+ participants), we tested 19 features: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/2

World Psychiatry ~ The lived experience of persons who attempt suicide: a bottom-up review co-designed, co-produced and co-written by experts by experience and academics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The lived experience of persons who attempt suicide: a bottom‐up review co‐designed, co‐produced and co‐written by experts by experience and academics

This is the first bottom-up review of the lived experience of persons who attempt suicide. The study has been co-designed, co-conducted and co-written by experts by experience and academics, focusing...

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Officially out TODAY in Child Development! It's good to try challenging tasks and explore on your own, but not when it might be too hard and help isn't available. Children get that. w/ Kat Shannon, Aneesa Conine-Nakano, Willem Frankenhuis, @mcxfrank.bsky.social academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners

Abstract. The effectiveness of social learning depends on whether learners receive help when they need it. In four preregistered studies, U.S. 4–6-year-old

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Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon@hyogweon.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hello bsky! Excited to share this paper as my very first post / repost :-) We show that children are sensitive to whether an adult offered promised help, and strategically consider this to decide what task to pursue (easy or hard?) and whether to explore vs. seek help!

I am so pro-behavioral sequences. Especially excited that the network metrics outperformed total screen time in predicting mental health.

Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨New pre-print🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps... What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.

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📝 New preprint on the threat of cyborg propaganda to democracy. We discuss how the key divide in online influence is no longer bots vs humans. We are entering an era of 'cyborg propaganda': Verified human identities disseminate centrally generated, AI-crafted narratives 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

I've been inspired to become a founder of a new startup that develops brain-to-brain interface technology. It's called Talk. We're going to reinvent communication for the digital age. The best part is that we're able to zero-shot transfer the full computational stack already used by your brain!