Shae Nester
@shaenester.bsky.social
Clinical psychology doctoral student. Dissociation, trauma, and self-injury researcher. Lover of mixed methods.
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...
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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/
New team science initiative just dropped! manyscale.org We're looking for collaborators to lead repositories of self-report measures in their own psychology subfields.
ManyScale - A Home for Psychological Measures and Constructs
ManyScale will be a network of repositories for self-report measures in psychology.
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Excited about this! Interoceptive dysfunction is an established risk & maintenance factor for eating disorders, but few interventions target it. In our pilot, RISE-ED was feasible & acceptable in intensive tx and was associated w/ reduced interoceptive deficits: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tuning in: acceptability and feasibility study of an interoceptive awareness program adapted for eating disorders
Interoceptive dysfunction is a known risk and maintenance factor for eating disorders (EDs), yet few interventions directly target this domain. This pilot study evaluated the feasibility, acceptabi...
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There have been less than 10 NIH grants ever awarded to studies focused on trauma-related dissociation, and I’m beyond thrilled to share that I have received one of them :)
The 2027 ISSTD Annual Conference is calling for your innovative ideas! From workshops to posters, we want to hear from you. The Call for Proposals is open June 1 to July 15, 2026. Help co-create the conference by submitting your proposal today! Details at annualconference.isst-d.org.
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...
Experience sampling methods require more than numbers - Communications Psychology
The experience sampling method (ESM) collects real-time reports of people’s feelings, actions, and surroundings, and originally included both numerical and open-ended responses. Whereas most studies t...
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Thrilled to share a new consensus statement just published in Nature Mental Health: "Ambulatory assessment in mental health: expert consensus and recommendations" Glad to have contributed to this group effort. Open-access read cube link here: rdcu.be/fnxDZ
Ambulatory assessment in mental health: expert consensus and recommendations
Nature Mental Health - This Consensus Report addresses the methodological variability in ambulatory assessment studies within mental health. Utilizing a Delphi-adapted process with 26 experts, it...
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New paper out introducing the dissociation-responsive therapy model 💬💡💭! Using a qualitative meta-analysis of therapists’ perspectives, we focused on the how of therapist responsiveness with dissociative clients. Read here: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...
A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods
Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...
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It’s true: not all men use sexual force. But 95.1% of men in a recent, anonymous survey of men between the ages of 18 and 34 reported having recently used at least one strategy to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Our new paper published in Journal of Traumatic Stress: Precision prediction of posttraumatic stress disorder symptom surges: A pilot study integrating real‐time daily data with supervised learning. #PTSD @iasatusc.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Precision prediction of posttraumatic stress disorder symptom surges: A pilot study integrating real‐time daily data with supervised learning
The application of machine learning algorithms to daily diary data represents a valuable tool for improving dynamic prediction of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom escalations. This prospe....
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Sharing our open-access peer-reviewed research report indicating institutional courage buffers the harm of institutional betrayal. Institutions don't have to be perfect but they need to show some courage. @alexisadamsclark.bsky.social, @monikanlind.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Childhood maltreatment has age- and sex-specific effects on brain morphometry.
Childhood Maltreatment and Deviations from Normative Brain Structure: A Mega-Analysis of 3,711 Individuals from the ENIGMA MDD and ENIGMA PTSD Working Groups
Childhood maltreatment (CM), encompassing abuse and neglect, is highly prevalent and associated with elevated risk for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and other…
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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...
Are you a therapist who treats clients with dissociative disorders? See the attached recruitment ad for more details about a study on therapists’ experiences working with these clients around themes of death and dying!
UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557
Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor
The Department of Psychology at UNC-Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2026. The Department of Psycholog...
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Are you an adult with a dissociative disorder? Join our study! #did #dissociation #dissociativedisorder
We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
💫Convergent evidence from 3 studies: amygdala-targeted neurofeedback produced large, dissociation-specific improvements in #PTSD - a step toward new treatments for #depersonalization and #derealization! tinyurl.com/bdsjnzrd
(4/6) We found that: (1) contra-hedonic functions are not just present but prevalent, (2) contra-hedonic functions are most common for NSSI, and (3) contra-hedonic functions are consistently associated with a desire to self-punish.
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Coverage of dissociation and related concepts in psychiatric-mental health nursing textbooks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Coverage of dissociation and related concepts in psychiatric-mental health nursing textbooks
Nurses and nurse educators perceive a lack of knowledge, education, training, and educational materials related to dissociative disorders (DDs) and di…
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New paper alert ⭐️! We make the case that truly trauma-informed assessment must also be dissociation-informed, providing process-related guidance. We outline why dissociation matters in assessment and how to attend to contextual processes to be dissociation-informed. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵
A meta-analytic review of child maltreatment and interoception
Nature Mental Health - Interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, is crucial for mental and physical well-being, yet the origins of disruptions in interoception are not well...
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Congratulations to @shaenester.bsky.social, the 2025 Dr. Christine Blasey Ford grantee! 🌟 Shae is conducting research on trauma-related dissociation, a highly under-researched topic. This award will allow Shae to complete their dissertation & pave the way for future funding opportunities. 👏
Congrats to @shaenester.bsky.social who won the APF Christine Blasey Ford grant! This award will fund their dissertation research examining the relation between dissociation and interoception using ambulatory assessment. Congrats Shae!!! psy.uncg.edu/shae-nester-...
Shae Nester Wins 2025 Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant | Department of Psychology
UNC Greensboro Psychology doctoral student Shae Nester is the winner of the 2025 Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant. The award will provide $3,750 to fund their dissertation project entitled, “A laborato...
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Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!
Exciting to see Bluesky grow! I created a starter pack for folks interested in all things traumatic stress. Please don’t hesitate to add: go.bsky.app/MHqLdaG