Fantastic work by @cherilev.bsky.social and her team - truly a joy getting to collaborate with all of them to integrate/adapt their work on treating eating disorders into our digital therapy ecosystem (credit/thanks as always to Michelle Craske ~ UCLA DGC/ADRC). @personalizedtx.bsky.social

Pretty hard to start off the @psychscience.bsky.social #APS26BCN after spending the evening at the beach. 🏝️ Who's already at the conference venue? Please come say Hi! 👋🏻

🚨NEW PAPER🚨: Using multilevel longitudinal network analysis, this study (brilliantly led by sharp-minded Shaan McGhie) examined how temporal and contemporaneous relationships between PTSD symptom clusters and positive affect differ between two distinct periods: acute conflict vs. relative calm.🕸️ 1/2

First APS, here we go! ✈️ I’m excited to be part of the upcoming #APS26BCN in Barcelona and to share some of our work on Moral Injury in high-risk populations in Germany.👇🏻 Really looking forward to the conversations, diverse perspectives, connecting with new colleagues, and catching up with friends!👋🏻

having one of those days

Another trial questioning the added benefit from phase-based treatments focusing on emotion-regulation techniques compared to trauma-focused treatments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Proposed mechanisms on how psychedelics might influence repressed memory included psychoanalytical reductions of defensive memory blockades and neurobiological alterations of executive control. However, empirical support for these mechanisms was limited."

Related to the previous paper this work of @herzog.bsky.social and @tkaiser.science might be of interest! German only unfortunately. www.psychotherapeutenjournal.de/2025/1/ptj20...

Me: *clicks an OSF link* OSF: gotta be safe, can you login real quick? Me: sure, login completed OSF: cool, I have completely forgotten what link you clicked, here's your Dashboard

Now online (open access) in the Psychological Test Adaption and Development. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10....

Another clinical trial indicating that emotion regulation skills training does not improve outcomes of trauma-focused psychotherapy for PTSD. www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

🚨NEW PAPER📑:Excited to share a short commentary - first-authored by the brilliant Simon Stenkamp - on the potential of experimental paradigms to study both exposure & reactions to potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs), which promises to advance causal inference in Moral Injury (MI) research.💡

Are you an Otrovert? Here's what I'd say. First, that's not really a thing. But, sure, you can take any configuration of traits and call it something. And, there will be people who fit that configuration. Should we have a name for this constellation of traits? Meh.. lsa.umich.edu/psych/news-e...

SPIN GRAND CHELEM 🏆 Psilocybin JAMA Psychiatry trial 🍄 a) Positive framing despite negative primary outcome, b) Inconclusive results presented as supportive evidence, c) Safety concerns downplayed with reassuring wording. See the rest of the 🧵 for the verbatim...

Wie kann Lehrtherapie im neuen KliPP-Master aussehen, welche Herausforderungen gibt es, was sind Gemeinsamkeiten & Unterschiede, wenn der Fokus auf KiJu oder Erwachsenen liegt? Einblicke in unser Modell an der @rptu.bsky.social gibt es hier: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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...

"Many fall for AI-generated junk online" — youth demand social media ban for people above 40. Excellent headline by a German satire magazine.

update: here it is! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #psychotherapy #suicideprevention

🚨OUT NOW IN COGNITION AND EMOTION🚨: Happy to share a new open access paper about an experimental Trigger Warning study led by Hannah Willems - a brilliant PhD student I have the privilege of supervising. 💫 Get your free copy here👇🏻: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #TriggerWarning #Trauma

New paperAlert! We show that generative AI can quantitatively assess personality from brief, open-ended text—with surprising accuracy. 🧠✨ Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Postprint (pending mod approval): osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/10

Interview and self-report measures of personality disorder criteria are not structurally equivalent. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

🎉 Happy to share a Letter with @rief01.bsky.social in @jama.com: We argue that clinicians should be aware of framing effects when communicating likelihoods. Eg, patients perceive "1 in 10 have side effects" as more concerning than "9 in 10 do not have side effects". jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🚨 Upcoming JCCP Special Issue: "Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care" Edited by Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Roee Admon, & me. 🗓 Pre-proposals due March 2, 2026 Will show on JCCP website soon (sharing early for planning) ⬇️ Call for Papers tinyurl.com/3tkps63c

PISS journals 😂 arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

It’s nice to see radical behaviorism and psychodynamics - both massively underrepresented in many psychology programs btw - agree on core assumptions about personality functioning. This preprint by @kimberlyjgilbert.bsky.social argues for the psychodynamic framework. osf.io/rg3zn/overview

My research stay as @unigr.bsky.social Guest Professor @universitedeliege.bsky.social : it was truly an honor and pleasure for me working with Prof. Sylvie Blairy's team - merci! 🙏🏻👇🏻 www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_205351...

"On current evidence, functional imaging across identity states does not support firm claims about identity fragmentation or inter identity amnesia, nor does it decide between trauma based and sociocognitive accounts." Followers of a certain trauma/DID superstar will not like this…

I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply. 1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step? 2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.

While I don't agree with much of the framing, trials like this show that many care systems could profit from more fine-grained stratified care. Not everyone will profit from BA delivered by paraprofessionals, but it will surely take some pressure of waitlists… pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

🔥 New paper, led by my PhD student @selindem.bsky.social: preregistered single-case experimental study showing the positive impact of using the GPNS feedback system on the therapeutic alliance. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Must We Always Go Idiographic? Information-Theoretic Approaches to Testing Structural Ergodicity in Temporal Symptom Networks buff.ly/1ATccXl #CBTworks #PBT #clinpsych

✨Wunderbare Neuigkeiten: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fördert unser neues Netzwerk SNEPP – das Scientific Network for Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy! www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

"You asked for truffle pasta, we gave you a microwave burger"

Only seen this paper this morning but I have emphasize how much this is a fantastic work ! I had a urge to go through this paper (too quickly unfortunately) and it was…wonderfull !!! The paper is open access so few quotes from the discussion that was music to my ears !!!

Another paper in our effort to get folks to stop routinely testing interactions. This time from the angle of stability. Led by @andrew-cast.bsky.social with help from @vizecolin.bsky.social, @jdmiller.bsky.social, @davidbaranger.bsky.social, and me. Forthcoming in AMPPS. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/8

🔔NEW PAPER ALERT🔔👇🏻 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT

What is currently being done to ensure that shared variance (i.e., symptoms) is not constantly confused with shared etiology (i.e., causes) in dimensional models of psychopathology? Asking because I read a certain preprint.

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...

🚨Finally out in AMPPS🚨: Proud to share a new tutorial (led by the fabulous @tkaiser.science 💫) on conformal prediction - a model-agnostic, distribution-free method for generating prediction intervals with guaranteed marginal coverage. 🔮 #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Does changing the therapist and/or method after non-response lead to better outcomes? Not according to this RCT.

Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳

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Philipp argumentiert hier, dass wir mehr Deimplementation unwirksamer und schädlicher Methoden brauchen. Womöglich ist #SciCom nicht nur Kommunikation von Wissenschaft sondern auch Dekommunikation von Pseudowissenschaft.

So that is why you don't prompt people once a day for an entire year... #OpenESM - data from openesmdata.org/datasets/001...

This is a really important paper. Strategies for deimplementation have received too little attention in psychotherapy to date, so it's good that this has now changed!

New paper led by Nele Assmann, in which we used causal forests to test the heterogeneity of treatment effects of Schema Therapy vs. DBT for severe Borderline Personality Disorder.

🔥OUT NOW IN JCCP🔥: Over the moon to share a new conceptual piece in which Carmen McLean and I propose a potential #deimplementation framework targeting unsupported⚠️, proven ineffective⛔️, and potentially harmful therapies☠️. 1/3 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky