Kaitlyn M. Werner, PhD
@kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social
Affective scientist studying motivation, emotion, and behaviour change. Research Fellow in Affective Psychology at the University of Tartu. www.kaitlynmwerner.com
I’m recruiting two new PhD students to start in 2027, working with me on my program of research in quantitative psychopathology. I’ve put some information for interested students on my website: miriamkforbes.academic.ws Please share with anyone you know who might be interested!
Can one minute daily audio recordings replace long symptom surveys? Very excited about our new paper addressing this question! @aidangcw.bsky.social @vizecolin.bsky.social et al. Short 🧵 below...
Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries - Volume 56
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Our article introducing the #openESM database for experience samling data, led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, has now been published 🎉 Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3... openESM interactive website: openesmdata.org GitHub repository: github.com/openesm-proj...
Join our Many-Analysts Simulation Study—yes, you read that correctly—accepted as Stage 1 Registered Report in (AMPPS) @psychscience.bsky.social. We're trying to find out how researchers' simulation design choices shape methodological conclusions. Further info: osf.io/8vcxh/files/...
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...
Can passive sensing make #ESM / #EMA prompts smarter and more personalized? 🤔 Final blog before summer: an internal #m-Path pilot on whether wearables can help detect nicotine craving in smokers, and prompt them at exactly that moment. ⚡ Successes & failures included. 👉 m-path.io/blog/how-pas...
In dyadic daily life research, partners may report on different “shared” events. Our new Feature Focus blog shows a diary workflow that anchors both partners’ reports to the same real-life interaction. 💬 Couples 👨👩👧 Families 🛋️ Therapy 🤝 Other dyads Check out the blog: m-path.io/blog/how-to-...
How to study shared events in dyadic daily life research.
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1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...
PhD Position on "Mental disorders as harmful stable states"
PhD Position on “Mental disorders as harmful stable states” The departments Clinical Psychology and Methodology & Statistics, at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden Univers...
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Jonas Dora@jonasdora.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'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...
Was chatting with a colleague recently about how academics navigate different stages of careers, and it reminded me of this great post from Elliot Berkman that I found helpful when I was getting started (and that I revisit periodically): www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
Advice for Grad Students (and Senior Faculty)
Starting a graduate program? Here is some advice about succeeding that you might not have heard.
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Agreed with all of this. The one note I will add is that this wasn't limited to students from what I saw at APS. All levels were using obviously AI-generated slides. I'm not entirely against using AI for assistance, but to copy-paste the "slides" directly without modification is pretty bad...
Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2mo agoI just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵
Deutsche Bahn is so bad these days that it won't even let me purchase tickets through the app or online.
Looking forward to see many of you at #APS26BCN this week! I'm extra excited to hear about the amazing research of Kendra Wyant (Wisconsin), Paula Philippi (Wuppertal), and @eikofried.bsky.social (Leiden) in our symposium on Saturday at 10:30 in Room 123; their talks are going to be ✨spectacular✨
João Guassi Moreira@jfguassimoreira.bsky.social · 3mo agoExcited to share my latest preprint, with @jasilvers.bsky.social and @raziasahi.bsky.social! We applied hierarchical Bayesian modeling to an EMA dataset of emotion regulation to uncover how trait-like repertoires of emotion regulation relate to momentary emotion regulation and experiences of affect
Already moved to a smaller country that actually values science. Basically got promoted (since "postdoc" doesn't exist here) and get to keep doing my work, business as usual.
Dr Andrew McInnes@drbeard79.bsky.social · 3mo agoBluesky academics! As the sector continues to implode, what are your plan Bs? Asking for a me! I guess mine is to go back to secondary school teaching thru cover work at first? But I’d like to hear other plans because I know this plan B would make me unhappy - it’s really a Plan C or D (or F or U)
Does anyone have examples of successful SHRC Doctoral award applications that they could share with me? We have a Canadian student who is interested in applying for one and we don't have any examples. Thanks in advance!
This paper has now been accepted at Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science!
Jamie Cummins@jamiecummins.bsky.social · 4mo ago1/ "Silicon samples" are becoming more and more common in research and polling. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. The updated version of this preprint is now online! THREAD🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397
I’m on an academic job panel today. ⭐️What advice do you wish you had gotten? ⭐️What thing do you wish someone had told you? ⭐️If you could go back and tell your grad student self one thing, what would it be?
I was revisiting some papers on the person-situation debate for a project I'm working on and I need the world to know that this exists.
This...the fetishizing of unreplicable neuroscience in order to legitimize our work is self-defeating. We don't need to know that depression is in the brain (as opposed to what???) to know it is problematic. How much money have we wasted proving something like depression is "real"?
Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 3mo agoHey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...
Behold! Decades of evidence show adversity affects development, the challenge to advance knowledge is figuring out why and how experience matters. Our latest thinking: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... 🧪 @kesmith.bsky.social #devsci #ClinicalPsychology #ClinicalPsychology #PsychScience
Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Studying Early Adversity and Development
Early life adversity is associated with many negative health, behavioral, and cognitive outcomes. However, the causal mechanisms underlying these associations remain obscure, making it difficult to de...
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Where did this year's #psychjobs market end up? Thanks to an unusually high number late postings, not as bad as it was looking earlier in the year. Still, this is the smallest number of jobs posted since 2012, representing a 26% decline from last year (~2/3rds the size of the covid drop in 2020).
Mark Thornton@markthornton.bsky.social · 9mo agoAnother ~monthly update on the state of the #psychjobs market: more jobs continue to trickle in, though at a decreasing pace. We've nearly hit parity with covid in absolute terms, although the prior year baseline was higher this year than that, so we still see a slightly larger relative decrease.