Had the privilege to give a #SAA2026 keynote today. Showed early results from WARN-D ML competition, & EMA'd the audience on how different parts of the data—Baseline, EMA, Wearables, & Followup—contributed to predicting depression onset, with live leaderboard & two prizes. Got 220 live responses:

Arrived in beautiful Vienna for #SAA2026! Looking forward to 3 days of talking and discussing momentary assessments 🙌... And hiding from the heatwave 🫠😅

Major paper out: A heroic* demonstration that even acute stress increases drug intake in healthy people *4-session 2x2 RCT with ~4 oxycodone injections in 66 volunteers - with repeated blinded 2-panel stress/control inductions (ReSST) 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Effects of psychosocial stress on opioid self-administration in healthy participants: a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial - Nature Mental Health

In this triple-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial, Eikemo et al. tested whether acute psychosocial stress increases opioid self-administration using controlled stress induction, oxy...

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New paper alert! In this paper we were interested to formally test some of the assumptions made by computational psychiatrists - assumptions about parameter recoverability, reliability and validity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms - Volume 56

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Very excited to finally share our latest paper! We meta-analysed 732 effect sizes from 430 studies (> 62,000 participants) to ask whether lower resting HRV is specific to certain mental disorders or shared across many forms of psychopathology. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... 1/

Why do people stop pursuing goals they care about❓ Motivational deficits are among the most disabling symptoms, yet current treatments often have only modest effects. In @lillyt.bsky.social new paper, she asks if we're missing an important piece of the puzzle 🧠 #neuroscience #cogpsyc #psychscisky

Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits

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A key challenge for computational psychiatry is to distinguish state from trait markers and go beyond cross-sectional studies. Here we show that as paranoia waxes and wanes in patients with schizophrenia, so too do volatility priors

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Individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders expect greater volatility in the world, and this cognitive bias is linked to paranoia and delusion severity over time.

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

1/2 New #openaccess Psych Methods paper: "Identifying Careless Responding in Ecological Momentary Assessment: Inconsistent Signals From Different Detection Methods in the WARN-D Data" led by @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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

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/

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...

Call for papers /w @nbkroemer.bsky.social 📢 Cutting-edge work on neuromodulation of vagal afferents in humans or animals using neurostimulation or pharmacological approaches. Robust null results very welcome! Submit by 31.10.2026 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #neuroskyence #interoception

CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics Call for Papers Neuromodulation of Body-Brain Interactions Via Vagal Afferent Projections

CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics focuses on the central nervous system, clinical pharmacology, drug development and novel methodologies for drug evaluation.

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The #SAA2026 conference programme (and presenter guidelines) is now available: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/prog...

Society for Ambulatory Assessment 2026 Conference@saa2026.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The #SAA2026 Conference Programme is now online: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/prog... We look forward to welcoming presenters, chairs, and attendees to Vienna for an inspiring and memorable conference. Take a look and start planning your #SAA2026 experience!

[2] Led by Johanna Löchner: an expert consensus and recommendations on ambulatory assessment in mental health, with recommendations on 8 topics incl. methodological considerations, technological advancements & practical applications. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Job alert! 🚨 We are currently recruiting for two exciting positions as part of a large international Wellcome Trust-funded research project investigating the neural mechanisms of decision-making impairments in #schizophrenia and #OCD.

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ALT: Professor Farnsworth's Crazy Wacko Expression

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Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun! Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics) Please share widely www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD-fellowship (301774) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD-fellowship (301774), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, June 24, 2026

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We @saschafrolich.bsky.social @stefankiebel.bsky.social investigated how habitual- and goal-directed control interact when actions must be made under time pressure. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Context-dependent interaction between goal-directed and habitual control under time pressure - Communications Psychology

This study investigates the dynamic interplay between habitual and goal-directed control. Using RL and drift-diffusion modelling, we show that these systems interact in a context-dependent manner: hab...

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Won't make it to #APS26BCN but my poster did and I couldn't have asked for a more expert presenter than @clairegillan.bsky.social! Enjoy the Friday reception with a deep dive into the habitual properties of transdiagnostic compulsivity 🗝️🍽️📱 For spoilers, check out the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Claire Gillan@clairegillan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally @glassybrain.bsky.social Vanessa Teckentrup could not make it so I have the pleasure or presenting her poster on Experience Sampling of Transdiagnostic Compulsivity! Friday night at 8pm, where she swears there will be 🍷

and a poster from Hanna Sosliuk "Accelerating Habits: The Role of Reaction Time Improvement in Habit Expression" on Saturday at 10am!

We have a poster from @parnianrafei.bsky.social on her project "Linguistic Markers of Temporal Focus In Behaviour Change: Insights from a Smoking-Cessation Trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy". Friday 11am!

Then @eikekofi.bsky.social has a talk on Saturday at 4pm on A Neural Decoding Approach to Understand Habit Formation

On my way to #APS conference #aps26bcn for the FIRST TIME EVER! Here's a few things the lab are presenting. I have a talk on Friday: "Mapping Extreme Deviations In Cognition to Transdiagnostic Compulsivity: A Normative Modelling Approach" with work from @alicemcox.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint from the work of my placement and final year of undergrad! 🚨 We investigated the applicability of normative modelling to large-scale, gamified cognitive data, and explored how corresponding extreme deviations from the norm relate to transdiagnostic compulsivity. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper in Nature Mental Health: www.nature.com/articles/s44... After decades of seeing limited progress in depression research despite enormous scientific effort, we started asking a more fundamental question:

How can 🍪 help us understand anhedonia? What started as a small project is now (> 2 years after the preprint, with revision deadlines landing exactly during my move from Tübingen to Bonn and even during a monastery-based PhD retreat) finally out in Cell Rep Med 🔽🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Blunted anticipation, but not consummation, of food rewards in depression

Schulz et al. show that anhedonia in depression, as measured by a scale often equated with loss of pleasure, reflects reduced anticipation of food rewards rather than impaired enjoyment itself. Linkin...

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Turns out empirically derived phenotypes (data-driven symptom sets) nested within traditional mental disorders can help reduce diagnostic heterogeneity! We learned so much cool and interesting stuff in this study. I could talk (/post) about it all day, but here’s a few highlights (🧵)

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Empirically derived phenotypes can reduce diagnostic heterogeneity: https://osf.io/8wtqx

Excited to share our new paper asking a simple question: Why do mental and metabolic health so often go hand in hand? We (@camillanord.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social) tested whether shared neurocognitive signatures play a role in this relationship www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide

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Introducing meta-🔼! (meta-delta) Really excited about this one. We provide a principled, performance-corrected measure of metacognitive bias, placing it on an equal methodological footing with meta-d, and showing robust test-retest reliability to boot. Check out Kevin's thread for more details! 🧠🧪

Kevin O’Neill@kevingoneill.github.io · 3mo ago

In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Latest preprint from @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social by @teresaberther.bsky.social and @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social on cardio-respiratory modulation of arousal and excitability states in the human brain - overlap, distinctions, and implications for brain-body #neuroskyence. osf.io/preprints/ps...