Due to challenges with the current funding climate I won’t be reviewing clinical psych PhD applications this cycle. Sorry to miss out on the chance to mentor more amazing ECRs but hopefully things improve in the coming years.

Reviewing applications for the Clinical Psych PhD at UC Berkeley this fall! We develop and test transdiagnostic treatments (soon including sleep-interfering media use) and study how to get them into real-world care. #ClinicalPsychology #PhD #SleepResearch #UCBerkeley

Excited this measurement manuscript is out. 6+year effort to address what we saw as limitations in how we use the PHQ-9. Work by @dawsonhaddox.bsky.social in collabo w my partner in (measurement) crime @eikofried.bsky.social. If you use PHQ for weekly assessment or symptom-level analyses, read this!

Dawson Haddox@dawsonhaddox.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 New preprint! Across six studies (N=2,467), we evaluated three modular adaptations to the PHQ depression measures: separating double-barreled items, adding irritability and low-libido items, and supporting past-week assessment. 🧵1/7 osf.io/preprints/ps...

1/ @sadcatlab.bsky.social research "in press" at Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. In 274 adults with 7 weekly measurements, we find that cognitive change in CBT predicts subsequent symptom change, controlling for time-invariant confounds + linear trends osf.io/preprints/ps...

Apply now for CAUSALab Clinics! Free #causalinference consulting w/ postdoc fellows. Offered to Boston early-career investigators who research comparative effectiveness or safety of health interventions. Fall 2026 dates: 📅 Oct 14 📅 Nov 18 📅 Dec 9 Apply: hsph.harvard.edu/research/cau...

Review of applications for tenure-track assistant professor position in @uarizona.bsky.social department of psychology (clinical area) begins Sept 1. Apply to join a fantastic department with truly wonderful colleagues and amazing students. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Excited to share a new Annual Review paper with @eriknook.bsky.social : "Large Language Models in Mental Health Research and Treatment." Here lay out what LLMs actually are and aren't, then take a census of how mental health research has used them so far, where it's heading 🧵1/n

Really proud of this work that came together as a pet peeve project of a few NSMD PhD candidates, and now ended up in New Ideas in Psychology. What are symptoms? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rethinking ‘symptom’: A critical look at terminology in mental health research

The term symptom pervades mental health research, yet its meaning remains ambiguous. In this paper, we argue that the lack of clarity and consensus on…

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@lluaces.bsky.social with another banger! Thoughtful research design plus amazing writing equals another paper that will go on my lab’s required reading list.

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD@lluaces.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ @sadcatlab.bsky.social research "in press" at Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. In 274 adults with 7 weekly measurements, we find that cognitive change in CBT predicts subsequent symptom change, controlling for time-invariant confounds + linear trends osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled (really) to share recent evidence from our READY study led by @paulaphilippi.bsky.social w/ @aidangcw.bsky.social: "Minutes that matter: A microburst approach to adolescents' resolution of affect in response to daily stressors" 🧵1/9

Aleksa Kaurin@aleksakaurin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Minutes that matter: A microburst approach to adolescents’ resolution of affect in response to daily stressors osf.io/preprints/ps...

Those of us who were trained at CTSA by Edna Foa will be very familiar with this. I love Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)! I've licked the bottom of my shoe many times when working with OCD (and still do it 2x per year when I teach my undergrad and graduate courses on CBT). And much more...

Aaron Fisher@aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just grabbed the doorknob and licked the palm of my hand for the benefit of a therapy client. That's what you call dedication!

Eiko is the best! If I didn’t have a family I’d quit my job and move to the Netherlands to work with him. Highly recommend these positions to any who might be interested!

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In addition to a hiring PhD in ~October & hopefully some PhDs and postdocs ~February, if anyone would like to work with me as part of eg a Marie-Curie or something similar, please do get in touch. Topics include depression, classification, measurement, systems, time-series, & theory building.

What to do when #AI meets #OpenScience? @stokel.bsky.social spoke to me & other colleagues about this pressing issue for this @nature.com article. @drandreahoward.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social @miriforbes.bsky.social @debruine.bsky.social

Chris Stokel-Walker@stokel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My latest for @nature.com looks at the challenge researchers are facing thanks to bots scraping their data uploaded alongside their research - and what they think ought to be done about it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I had a great time giving my first conference talks, sharing my work on depression assessment and digital phenotyping at #APS26BCN! Grateful to my mentor (@depressionlab.bsky.social), my collaborators (Drs. Fried, Allen, Craske, Sachdeva, and many others), and everyone I met and learned from there.

Fantastic work by @cherilev.bsky.social and her team - truly a joy getting to collaborate with all of them to integrate/adapt their work on treating eating disorders into our digital therapy ecosystem (credit/thanks as always to Michelle Craske ~ UCLA DGC/ADRC). @personalizedtx.bsky.social

1/ New paper 👀 TL; DR the COMET single session intervention (SSI) was superior in reducing depression, anxiety, and to a lesser extent improving well-being than a waiting control in college students. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can less than 10 minutes daily on a mindfulness app improve the mental health of people of color exposed to discrimination? Based on our new publication in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (@jmirpub.bsky.social), the answer is yes! www.jmir.org/2026/1/e84328/ A 🧵:

A Self-Guided App-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Individuals Who Experience Discrimination-Related Mental Health Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Racially and ethnically minoritized individuals (REMs) who experience discrimination are at risk of developing stress, anxiety, and depression, and digital mental health interventions (DMH...

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We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

NHS data should be driving innovation & improvement – it’s an amazing resource We just published the sequel to our 2021 "Road to Hell" paper on using NHS data for research... things are worse! Buckle up for a long 🧵about *how COMPLETELY mad* system is for accessing NHS data for research 1/20

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Wondering what you shouldn't say in a proposal? Call your program officer. Wondering what happened in panel? Call your program officer. Wondering how the latest federal stuff may affect your proposal? Call your program officer. Call your PO. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/call-your-pr...

Call your Program Officer

Yes, you. Schedule a phone call. This is the hidden curriculum.

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Computationally formalising a verbal theory is an eye-opening experience because it forces you to openly state all the assumptions that the theory rest on

Most #EMA / #ESM studies rely on snapshots 📸 But experience is continuous! What if real insights live *between* measurements? 📉 Dr. Leonie Cloos used #m-Path’s continuous line item to collect affective intensity profiles in everyday life: blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

How Intensity Profile Drawings Transform ESM / EMA Assessment.

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Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters

This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

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9/25

🚨 New paper out in Current Directions in Psychological Science, with @matnoc.bsky.social! We review recent advances in digital & computational methods for understanding, predicting, and preventing suicide.

Cuts to scientific research will have effects for years to come. @standupforscience.bsky.social has been an important voice connecting scientists & all of us. @cdelawalla.bsky.social leads that group, & her latest post is a call to action to restore funding 👇🏿👇🏼👇🏾👇🏻👇🏽 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Scientists, it's time to pay your taxes.

This arrangement—where a small number of dedicated scientist activists fight for the whole of the ecosystem—isn’t sustainable.

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Why do participants stop responding in #ESM / #EMA studies? 📱🔔 Average compliance is about 7️⃣9️⃣%, but that hides massive variation. Our new m-Path blog reviews predictors of response compliance: study design, incentives, participant traits, and time effects. 🔗 blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

Predictors of response compliance in ESM / EMA research

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Looking forward to expanding our small team a bit as the lab prepares for its 2nd year. We will be hiring 2-3 more volunteer, in-person RAs for our team to start in the fall. Details and application info are at our website. share.google/O1hvtUpPLIlp...