Nick is a rockstar!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Nick Brdar (he/him)@brdar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share that I successfully proposed my thesis yesterday! Extremely grateful for the guidance my committee provided, both yesterday and over the past several months (@raymopt.bsky.social @matt-calamia.bsky.social & Ryan Hill), and looking forward to getting started on analyses very soon!

The ASSIST Lab @ UW–Madison is hiring a full-time Research Specialist! This position is a great fit for someone interested in clinical psychology research, suicide prevention, intensive longitudinal methods/EMA, and digital approaches to understand mental health. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...

Research Specialist - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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I’ve officially finished my second year of my PhD program… 🤯 Third year here I come!

We've employed measurement invariance and item response theory (IRT) analyses quite a bit in my lab's and colleagues' research over the years. I'll be teaching a 2-day workshop on these statistical approaches this June! smart-workshops.com/inv-irt-info

Happy #EarlhamDay! Earlham College, my alma mater, truly is a "college that changes lives". Every donation (even $1), is matched with an additional $200. Please consider joining me in donating today to this unique, diverse, and passionate little campus who needs us! Donate here: lnkd.in/e6w-4tqR

Meet my long-distance partner’s newly adopted son, Brick. I can’t wait to meet this precious baby. 🥹🧱

Last chance to apply for our virtual summer workshop on R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience. Funded by NSF, this FREE workshop provides direct training in using R to analyze data from psychological experiments. Open to students from any university. Apps due May 15! rworkshop.missouri.edu

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This virtual workshop teaches basic principles of computer programming for psychology and neuroscience. Specific emphasis is given on the skills needed to analyze data from psychological tasks using R...

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Today I had the honor of joining the 16th annual Circle of Support walk organized by the Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center and the LSU School of Social Work! I walk to support those who have struggled with suicidal thoughts or attempts as well as for those who have lost someone to suicide. 💜

📣 The 2026 SMaRT Workshops schedule is officially LIVE — with workshops covering SEM, MLM, dyadic methods, time series, machine learning, clinical trials design, and more. STATS NERD SUMMER is HERE. Come learn something. 🧑‍🎓 smart-workshops.com/workshops Please share and RP🙏 More info 👇 1/n

You mean to tell me if I had just started working on my thesis manuscript again it would start to get done? The procrastination made it that much worse? Who would’ve thought 😅

We're raising money (matched dollar for dollar!) to support paid research experiences for underrepresented students in our department at McGill. No amount too small to show support for science training these days.... crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/pr...

🚨 Thrilled to share our new publication on primal world beliefs, suicide cognitions, and SI! Our findings show primals are correlated with suicide cognitions, and believing the world is unsafe moderated the relationship between cognitions and SI in college students.

The moderating influence of primal world beliefs on the relationship between suicide cognitions and suicidal ideation

Negative, generalized beliefs about the self are strongly related to suicidal ideation (SI). However, no research has explicitly tested cognitive theo…

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I had a wonderful time tabling for the LSU Psychological Services Center at the Planting Seeds of Hope event organized by Rain Will Bring Flowers this evening! It’s heartwarming seeing so many student athletes learn more about suicide prevention and collect therapy resources!

I am thrilled to share my new first author pub in JAD! 🥳 We found minority stress was associated with concurrent and future experiences of defeat, and defeat was associated with prospective minority stress in sexual minority college students reporting SI. authors.elsevier.com/a/1meFzbXYj0...

The Suicide Prevention Research Lab at UMass Amherst is hiring! We are looking for a lab manager to help grow our new lab with a start date of summer 2026. Share and apply! careers.umass.edu/jobs/technic...

Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager, Suicide Prevention Research Lab) - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager, Suicide Prevention Research Lab) Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Psychology and Brain Sci Work L...

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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Our youth suicide prevention lab, @yr2lab.bsky.social, is hiring a full-time research coordinator to join our team this spring/summer! Interested applicants can find additional details here: sites.wp.odu.edu/yr2lab/join-...

New paper accepted to JAD 🥳 I can’t wait to share!!

Supremely talented doctoral student Halle Fowler is hoping to put together an ABCT panel related to Deaf and Hard of Hearing suicide prevention or mental health. We have multiple qualitative and quantitative studies on DHH interpretation in mental health settings. We need help finding panelists!

🚨My trainee Victoria Murphy, data architect Gabriel Mongefranco, and I are pleased to share 🌟EMA-CleanR: R code to pre-process, clean, and visualize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data! Documentation: teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/210... Code: github.com/DepressionCe...

Also had a lovely trip to Pittsburgh over break filled with friends, games, and running outside in the cold!

The holidays can be a challenging time for many. You matter. You are not alone. You deserve care, compassion, and support. Help is available 24/7 by texting or calling 988, which remains confidential. Please check on those in your life this season.

An amazing visit to Minneapolis ♥️♥️♥️ heart is full 🥺🥺🥺

Would highly recommend applying for this!! It’s a wonderful day of learning, mentorship, and networking!

Allie Bond, PhD@alliebond.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So excited to host our second annual Firearm Suicide Prevention Fellowship! Learn more and apply here: gunviolenceresearchcenter.rutgers.edu/conference/g...

Wooohoo!!! 🥳

Morgan Buerke (she/her)@buerkemorgan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Successfully defended my dissertation today!

Thrilled to share I passed my thesis proposal today!! The first of four milestones checked off for my PhD! ✅

Hello mental health/suicide researchers! Do any of you use the SBQ-R? I have a question about it. I have used the measure before and remain perplexed by the fourth question.

And that’s a wrap! 🥳 had such a great time at @abctnow.bsky.social this year!!

Let’s go @abctnow.bsky.social!♥️

New paper out (free link) in Military Psychology led by our mentee and VA partners @docrobphd23.bsky.social Coping self-efficacy scale continues to show a 3-factor structure (now with dynamic fit indices) in LGBTQ+ U.S. military veterans. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TQJBX...

A psychometric evaluation of the coping self-efficacy scale among LGBTQ+ Veterans

Due to unique stressors faced by LGBTQ+ Veterans, it is important to understand how existing strengths, like coping self-efficacy, can be leveraged for health promotion efforts to improve outcomes ...

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