“Theory and Model Building in Psychology” New book edited by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and Alexander Wendt, with chapters by @ufeest.bsky.social, @devezer.bsky.social, @mieronen.bsky.social, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Under the hood, we're still using big tech though. (In this case, Claude Sonnet 5). I hope that in the future, we'll be able to run models locally. But to do so, European academia really needs to get to work! 3/3

Over the last few years, we've been developing #Heymans, an AI-tutor for higher education. In-house AI that reflects our own vision on education, as opposed to that of US/China tech companies. I'm especially excited about Chat Quizzes. 1/3 #education @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social @citrug.bsky.social

Excited to share some news: experiencesampling.nl/nieuws/new-c... Looking forward to further strengthening TESC as a platform for collaboration and knowledge dissemination, alongside co-director @eeskevanroekel.bsky.social and project manager Marjolein Triepels. @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social

New Co-Director TESC: Leonie Vogelsmeier - Experience Sampling

Leonie is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University, where she obtained her PhD in 2022. She develops new methodology to address the urgent […]

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New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

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.

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.

Mixed methods in ESM? Still very uncommon. 💥 That should change, we think: we should go beyond numbers, and know what people mean with their numbers. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We are looking forward to our next conference #SAA2026 in Vienna, Austria, hosted by @lauramkoenig.bsky.social @univie.ac.at. Submit your abstract by January 16: univie.eventsair.com/cmspreview/s...

The latest @ambulatory-assessment.org newsletter is out with important changes: 📖 from now on, our newsletters will be public, so everyone can read them on our website 💡 we created a new structure so that there is even more relevant info for the community

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The first SAA newsletter of 2025 was just sent to our members - and you can read it, too: ambulatory-assessment.org/interval-sig... Learn more about the upcoming @saa2025leuven.bsky.social conference #SAA2025, relevant deadlines, meet the conference organisers, and much more.

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/

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New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

Has anyone looked at this paper more closely? I've seen many of my bachelor students refer to it when it comes to depressive disorders. Authors find worldwide depression rates doubled from 1990 to 2020, which seems like a lot. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40313474/

Trends in Prevalent Cases and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years of Depressive Disorders Worldwide: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study From 1990 to 2021 - PubMed

<span><b>Background:</b> Depression is a primary public health challenge that affects individuals of all ages. This study aims to reveal information on spatial and temporal changes in depression by de...

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After long time spent working on this with Jasmina, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, I'm proud to share the preprint showing that uni students cannot recognize their own EMA networks above chance level and they prefer the annotated time series. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Cool work by Josip, Jasmina, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social & @domimaciejewski.bsky.social in which uni students were unable to identify their own estimated EMA networks above chance level. Looking forward to seeing whether this replicates in people w mental health problems! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hoe denken jongeren over hun emoties — en wat doet dat met hun welzijn? Voor mijn NWO Vidi project zoeken we (@domimaciejewski.bsky.social & @charlottev.bsky.social) een PhD-kandidaat die dit samen met ons gaat uitzoeken! 🎓 Solliciteer voor 27 april! 👉 tiu.nu/23638 @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social

💭 Come work with me, Mark Hoogendoorn, and Dimitris Rizopoulos! We are offering a 3 year PostDoc to do research on the intersection of machine learning (ML) and statistics. 🔢 💫 You will be part of the Stress in Action consortium: stress-in-action.nl/science-of-s... Vacancy: lnkd.in/ewN5T6AA

The "Theory Paper Format" is a template for writing psychological theory papers, developed by the Taskforce Theoretical Psychology (Lorentz Workshop, 2025). Use it to structure your theoretical paper, or (for editors) consider creating journal space for theory papers doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

We’ve created an overview of the current state of theory development in psychological science (doi.org/10.31234/osf...). We're now conducting a survey on the topic to collect your views on the current state of theory development: --> forms.gle/Ct4qq4a4raun...

The current State and Status of Theory in Psychological Science

Welcome and thank you! Thank you for taking part in this survey. We are collecting views from psychological scientists on the current state of theory development in psychology and how this may affect ...

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Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research. #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Perspective: Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Great perspective piece on open-ended questions in ESM data by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and colleagues that came out of this year's #MITNB meeting!

Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 5mo ago

Perspective: Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

What a week! After 5 days, the #mitnb workshop has come to an end. We had a keynote on time scales and two workshops on careless responding and reliability. The central part of the workshops were the hackathons. We had super diverse hackathons, all designed to assess measurement in #ESM. (1/4)

1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions

This survey study assesses whether responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire reflect symptom frequency and severity.

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From my master’s thesis to my first PhD project — excited to share that this work (together with @jordanrvl.bsky.social, @ginettelafit.bsky.social, Anja Franziska Ernst, Josip Razum, Eva Ceulemans, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social) is now published in AMPPS! Link: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Meeting the Bare Minimum: Quality Assessment of Idiographic Temporal Networks Using Power Analysis and Predictive-Accuracy Analysis - Yong Zhang, Jordan Revol, Ginette Lafit, Anja F. Ernst, Josip Razu...

The network theory of psychopathology inspired clinicians and researchers to use idiographic networks to study how symptoms of an individual interact over time,...

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A new publication from my PhD project on model selection for nonstationary time-series data is out, co-authored with an amazing team (Anja Franziska Ernst, @ginettelafit.bsky.social , Ward B. Eiling, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social)! Link: doi.org/10.1111/bmsp...

On the first day of December, we’re excited to announce that abstract submission for the #SAA2026 Conference in Vienna is now open! Instead of sending a letter to the North Pole, send us your abstract! We look forward to your contributions 🔗 univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/ @ambulatory-assessment.org

Any recent (or old too is fine) literature or review on most common stated reason for presenting to therapy or psychiatric treatment? I don't just mean the diagnoses people get, I mean the presenting complaint. Anything?

Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳

Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology

This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.

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1st day of #MITNB meeting at @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social. Excited for the week ahead, where we'll tackle measurement issues in #ESM, e.g. modeling processes across timescales, building a formal theory on measurement, and evaluating statistical assumptions in #ESM data. Go teamwork <3