Cool study in JAMA Psychiatry confirms what many have suspected for a while: PHQ (depression questionnaire) instructions are widely misinterpreted by patients. It is unfortunate that a questionnaire as shitty as PHQ-9 has become so ingrained & ubiquitous jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Banger by @margaritap.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social et al, in JAMA Psych: “the PHQ’s use rests on a fragile foundation that might not bear the weight of research and clinical decision-making.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Our university press team asked me a few questions in regards to the new chair on Mental Health & Data Science. I sketch a bit of a vision on the importance of transdisciplinary work, and some obstacles to overcome. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

1/ Our paper years in the making is finally out! TL;DR even very strong effects (d=1.00) can be attenuated by sampling from populations where there is variability in their likelihood of natural improvement (e.g., mild depression cases remitting on their own) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice writeup of our new study in @jamapsychiatry.com by Kyle Mittan, a colleague here at @uarizona.bsky.social news.arizona.edu/news/confuse...

1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Inviting submissions to a new special issue on precision and personalized treatment approaches led by @cherilev.bsky.social and @aaronjfisher.bsky.social! It’s gonna be a fantastic collection so send us your favorite new work :) www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Are you working in the personalized treatment/ precision medicine space? If so my co-editors & I would love to review your work for a new SPECIAL ISSUE in Behavior Therapy on personalization in mental health. More info here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... @depressionlab.bsky.social

🚨Model Checking for Vector Autoregressive Models 🚨 In a new preprint, @joranjongerling.bsky.social, @bsiepe.bsky.social, @sachaepskamp.bsky.social, Lourens Waldorp and I provide a tutorial on model checking for Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models: osf.io/preprints/ps...

As the founding president of the EikoBöt fanclub I hereby declare today EikoDäy! Congratulations Dr @eikofried.bsky.social, Sir Eik of Ried. Honored to walk this strange sphere with you.

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

New method to estimate heterogeneity of treatment effects by comparing the cumulative response distributions for the treatment vs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @f2harrell.bsky.social @stephensenn.bsky.social

I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:

What a week! After 5 days, the #mitnb workshop has come to an end. We had a keynote on time scales and two workshops on careless responding and reliability. The central part of the workshops were the hackathons. We had super diverse hackathons, all designed to assess measurement in #ESM. (1/4)

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

New paper in Journal of Affective Disorders led by Olivia Losiewicz: Daily spread of positive affect is associated with subsequent well-being: A study of idiographic network analysis and emotional inertia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tenure track assistant professor @uarizona Psychology Department Clinical Area; many areas of emphasis including the development of next generation, scalable assessment or intervention tools. Come be our colleague! Supportive/awesome colleagues & students arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

🔥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

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...

preprint of Douglas et al's "Assessing the feasibility of large-scale digital sensing for depression and anxiety: The Digital Mental Health Study." Work led by Nelson Freimer @ the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge. comprehensive assessment of almost 4K followed for 12m www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

So grateful for everyone who helped make allcove San Juan Capistrano possible from our youth advisors, to our funders, to our clinicians, this is quite an accomplishment!!

Incredibly unfair to all the 2nd year students and clinical psychology students who have spent months preparing their applications - changes to this year’s NSF GRFP don’t allow Y2 or clinical psychology students to apply… www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

We’re recruiting a Director for @uarizona.bsky.social's newly renovated Behavioral Health Clinic, a core member of our clinical faculty who will help lead grad clinical training. Review starts soon and will continue until we fill the position. Please share widely! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Postdoc with us in Columbus! 🌰 I'm pumped to recruit a 1-2 year postdoc working on: - mechanisms of change in treatment - treatment personalization - emotion reg With a breakdown of: 50% research 30% treatment 20% mentorship/collaboration/conferences osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Finished WARN-D data collection, all cohorts/waves. Cleaning & deidentifying data now so we can share w research community. First look at compliance rates: left 3mo EMA data, right baseline + follow-ups. Super happy with this. Thx to @rayyantutunji.bsky.social for quick graphs.

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

New article written by Heather Stringer about precision treatment work in the mental health space by Kate Bentley, Ellen Driessen, @jorsmo.bsky.social, Leanne Williams, Conor Liston, and others www.apa.org/monitor/2025...

Amazing opportunity to be a colleague with one my favorite people who is doing some of the coolest clinical science @shirleybwang.bsky.social ! Encourage everyone to apply!

The psych job market isn’t dead! Join us at UIC!!! We are looking for a clinical psychologist (assistant or associate level)!! Chicago is simply the best, and the department is incredibly lovely! I’m not on search committee, but as the “newest” hire, I’m happy to talk about my experience thus far!

I will be reviewing applications for Stony Brook’s Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. The research streams of my lab are summarized on the department website: www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/psyc...

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬 Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall! Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab Please spread the word!

It’s been a long time coming. To commemorate August 2024, we celebrate one era at a time, each with a wonderstruck study and a sparkling canine mind. Welcome to The Mind Tour, Dogs’ Version! 🎉

Evidence-based personalized & optimized CBT skills for depression, based on a trial of 4469 adults. The Resilience Training App will augment the efficacy by 35% overall over the group average best, and by 64% for those whose best option wasn’t this group average best! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@pci-regreports.bsky.social -- look at us go!

Definitely hoping I get to join for @ambulatory-assessment.org #SAA2026 in Vienna!

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

Fantastic presentation by @torsachattoraj.bsky.social @juliayarrington.bsky.social et al.! Was so lovely to see Torsa present the work so clearly in Dr. Yarrington’s symposium and to have the amazing discussion by Dr. Bethany Teachman

Very excited for the @isrii.bsky.social panel on global digital health equity organized by @gramos.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: the CHART reporting guideline for studies evaluating generative AI models like #ChatGPT & other #LLMs for providing health advice --> bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/... The explanation & elaboration paper --> www.bmj.com/content/390/... #genAI #chatbots #healthadvice #reporting

The 900 grant reinstatements from @apha.org v NIH and Mass v Kennedy ruling are a huge win. But it’s not a simple or complete fix. Not surprisingly, turning research on, then off, then on again creates major complications, chaos and inefficiency. www.chronicle.com/article/thei...

Year 2 of my NIMH F31 was supposed to have started yesterday. An award that I was proud to have funded on the first submission (13th percentile), which supported my dissertation research on eating disorders in adolescents, and which funded my tuition, stipend, and health insurance for the past year.

Multiple federal agencies are suspending research funding at UCLA over allegations it didn’t properly deal with antisemitism on campus. scim.ag/4lbLAcx

Oh No! Of course participants are probably misinterpreting the PHQ, i.e. depression screener everybody and her mother has been using forever! Though congrats to @shirleybwang.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social et al for warning. I wonder if similar problems are shared by GAD-7 screening for anxiety?

the enshittification of education is underway restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

I made one for stats papers

Awesome 5-year follow-up data from Yoni Ashar and colleagues on their Pain Reprocessing Therapy RCT, now out in @jamapsychiatry.bsky.social! Link to the article...