Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Covariation among higher-order psychopathology dimensions is driven by nomorbidity, not comorbidity: https://osf.io/3t2cm

What a week! It's been an absolute joy and extremely rewarding to teach the first-ever Oxford Psychological Network School (#OxPNS2026) at Magdalen College (@magdalenoxford.bsky.social) University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk)!

Did a 90 minute webinar workshop for APA on depression measurement. They were kind enough to allow me to share this on youtube. youtu.be/5OwYjWao1hs

What Scale is Best? Understanding Sources of Validity Evidence for Depression Measurement

YouTube video by Eiko Fried

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One of the best parts of academia is mentoring students & witnessing their growth: intellectually, professionally & personally. This privilege also makes the job bittersweet when students complete training. It's been an absolute joy to supervise this wonderful group of students at Oxford EDGE Lab.

A very insightful talk by Vikram Patel on reimagining healthcare for 1.5 billion people last night, followed by a thoughtful conversation with Alan Stein on the challenges and implementation steps required to move toward universal health care coverage in India.

🌟 Out in Clinical Psychology Review after years in the making: Pleased to share the 1st meta-analytic network analysis (MAGNA) investigating core maintaining features of anxiety symptoms pooling 156 networks (N = 303,151). w/Belli, Tichelaar, @sachaepskamp.bsky.social & @cycology.bsky.social 🧵:

I had a wonderful time connecting with colleagues and presenting my recent work at APS! And thank you @aaronjfisher.bsky.social for the kind shout out! Running around to give 3 talks on a Friday was worth it after all. #APS26BCN

Aaron Fisher@aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

OK, it's official. @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social is a future super duper star. Just killing it at APS in Barcelona.

Very excited for this symposium with friends and the opportunity to present some updated analyses on symptom-level timing of improvement during citalopram treatment. Come say hi at #APS26BCN

Omid V. Ebrahimi@omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1: Data-Driven and Computational Approaches for Improving the Characterisation and Treatment of Mental Disorders 👥 With @shirleybwang.bsky.social, @dpmoriarity.bsky.social, @maddyfrumkin.bsky.social, & @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social 📍 Friday 29th of May, 5:30-6:50pm, Room 124, P1 Level

#aps26bcn it was a pleasure to present my work on loneliness development across the lifespan and its implications for work-related outcomes using Norwegian register data + longitudinal survey data 📈 Thanks to all my collaborators at uni of Oslo @cktamnes.bsky.social and others :-)

First DPhil paper just published in NMH! ✨ In this Perspective, we examine how social digital environments (e.g., social media) interact with key processes that maintain social anxiety (e.g., self-focused attention, social comparison). 📱🔄🫣 See summary below 🧵

Looking forward to connecting at APS in Barcelona next week! #APS26BCN I'll be presenting & contributing to discussions on (a) Data-driven & computational approaches in assessing & treating MH disorders; (b) Advances in predictive modelling of MH using EMA; & (c) measurement challenges in the field

Pleasure to speak at the Society for Psychotherapy Research (@sprofficial.bsky.social) at King's College London last week Here w/JM Penedo, @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social & F Mink after our panel discussion on the future of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) in clinical psychology and psychotherapy

🌟 NEW PRE-PRINT! 🌟 “It seems that everyone has got something”: A qualitative study of adolescents’ attitudes towards self-diagnosing with mental health problems from me and @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

One of the most challenging issues in studying mental health during COVID-19 was separating the impact of containment policies (lockdowns) from pandemic severity (societal infection rates), as both can contribute to mental distress. In this extensive international effort, we aimed to address this 🧵

I learnt a heck of a lot working on this piece, now out in American Psychologist. Big thanks to all collaborators particularly the mentorship of @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social and @ludvigdb.bsky.social. And of course the amazing resource that is the UKHLS @usociety.bsky.social

Omid V. Ebrahimi@omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our new article on socioeconomic disadvantage, mental distress & functional impairment is out #OpenAccess in American Psychologist. Led by the brilliant @emkbridger.bsky.social, with J. Maltby, @eikofried.bsky.social, co-supervised by me & @ludvigdb.bsky.social. 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Our new article on socioeconomic disadvantage, mental distress & functional impairment is out #OpenAccess in American Psychologist. Led by the brilliant @emkbridger.bsky.social, with J. Maltby, @eikofried.bsky.social, co-supervised by me & @ludvigdb.bsky.social. 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Can LLMs infer depression severity from clinical notes? Here, we evaluate GPT-5.2 on outpatient psychiatry notes to infer depression severity. Results show moderate agreement with PHQ-9 and stronger agreement with clinician chart review (see comments). www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Multi-Criteria Validation of LLM-Inferred Depression Severity from Outpatient Psychiatry Notes

Background Longitudinal measurement of depression severity in outpatient psychiatric care is limited by infrequent standardized assessments. Although psychiatric clinical notes capture illness burden ...

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A pleasure to host the Oxford-Modum Bad Clinical Research Symposium today, at @magdalenoxford.bsky.social, University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). First up: Keynote by Prof. David M. Clark showcasing the policy engagement roadmap to increase the accessibility of evidence-based treatments.

✨ Only a few spots left for the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! Held at the magical Magdalen College in Oxford, from June 22-26, 2026. Sign up here: oxfordpns.com

Omid V. Ebrahimi@omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵

Anyone willing to confidentially share their successful 2025 VICI application docs with me? Thanks gang.

Very excited to share that our paper “Symptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis” has been published in European Child & Adolescence Psychiatry doi.org/10.1007/s007...

Symptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Previous fMRI studies have documented links between internalizing problems in youth and brain functional connectivity of the default (DN), frontoparietal (FP), and salience (SA) networks. Characterize...

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Tropical diseases spreading in Europe due to global warming. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

📝 New preprint on the threat of cyborg propaganda to democracy. We discuss how the key divide in online influence is no longer bots vs humans. We are entering an era of 'cyborg propaganda': Verified human identities disseminate centrally generated, AI-crafted narratives 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

The distinction between grassroots activism and automated influence is collapsing. We typically worry about "bot farms" or "troll factories." But a distinct, more complex threat is emerging. We call it "Cyborg Propaganda."

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Fabolous course on network analysis and psychometrics in Oxford this summer - highly recommend!

Omid V. Ebrahimi@omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵

So sad to be missing this! If any of you are lucky enough not to have other commitments late June and are interested in psychological networks, I would highly recommend the summer school (below) organised by @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social (who has the amazing skill of making complex topics accessible!)

Omid V. Ebrahimi@omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵

Excited for the 1st lab paper to be live @biologicalpsych.bsky.social ! @emilyrperkins.bsky.social @keananjoyner.bsky.social and I discuss testing biology as simultaneous + unique predictors of different levels of psychopathology hierarchies 1/7🧵 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Hierarchical Phenotyping of Psychopathology: Implications and Opportunities for Precision Psychiatry When Biology Could Be Associated With Both Symptoms and Syndromes

As psychiatry increasingly embraces precision medicine principles, there have been efforts to characterize the specificity of biology-psychopathology associations (e.g., is biology associated with syn...

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An essential take amid article inflation & overburdened reviewers Editors aren't supposed to excessively return manuscripts & outsource decisions to reviewers Many psych journals can learn a lot here from medicine & epi, where these decisions are equally robust, but far more efficient (eg. Lancet)

Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.