Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

Everyone at #APS26BCN wants to talk to Thea McAfee about her work exploring if living more in line with one’s interpersonal values predicts or is predicted by changes in symptoms, the alliance, and personality in BPD Compass! @psychscience.bsky.social

If you missed her at ABCT, SCP, and NASSPD, *now*’s your chance to catch Layla Wahaidi at #APS26BCN! She looked at which values were most important to BPD Compass patients at baseline & how the strength of the alignment between values & behaviors changed over time + with BPD symptoms 👀 Poster 23!

Happening *now* at #APS26BCN! Maya Deutch (poster 131) found that: - Patients in BPD Compass who used skills more frequently reported more severe symptoms BUT - When patients used skills more effectively than normal, this uniquely predicted session-to-session reductions in BPD symptoms

*Everyone* wants to know how we can use intensive longitudinal data to advance predictive models of mental health outcomes! #APS2026BCN @psychscience.bsky.social

At #APS2026BCN, @eikofried.bsky.social runs to another talk on a project led by Marieke Schreuder & Rayyan Tutunji showing that baseline self-report measures explained 15-30% of the individual variability in average EMA emotions & motivations; the most important predictors were optimism-related 🤩

At #APS2026BCN, @eikofried.bsky.social notes biologists have different classification systems for the same animals that don’t always agree with one another. Instead, specific components of animals correlate based on functioning/environmental affordances/etc. And so many great animal pics + puns 🐒

This is the horror cherry on top of the egregious fraud, waste, and abuse sundae. DOGE fired the people who send NIH money to research labs—which is a complicated process—so now even more labs are going to go under. All while Jay Bhattacharya goes on a podcast and says no NIH funding was cut.

At @nasspd.bsky.social, Elizabeth Duraney found no reductions in BSL scores over an 8-week DBT IOP but a significant increase in DBT skill use and sig negative associations between mindfulness & interpersonal effectiveness with weekly BSL scores

I need to get better at cross-posting (but check us out on IG @mattlabatosu!) Last weekend, our lab manager Alex Barnhill made her first trip to Chicago for her first solo conference at ADAA to present her poster on cognitive change as a mediator of cognitive therapy for anxiety! Such a star 🌟

Some HUGE names in this year’s Rising Stars! @cassie-boness.bsky.social! @schwartz-psyres.bsky.social! @dpmoriarity.bsky.social! @emoriebeck.bsky.social! @ajwright.bsky.social! Iony Ezawa! Heather Davis! Aaron Reuben! Even more! Congratulations, everyone 🤩

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

@sprofficial.bsky.social ✖️ @affectscience.bsky.social water bottle conference crossover!

Shoutout to Katie Daniel for letting me share a cool project on non-regulation she led 🙌🏻

How do we best communicate @affectscience.bsky.social?? Jonathan Gratch, Kristen Lindquist, & Karl Niklas advocate seeking out formal communications training. Jonathan Gratch notes in an interview that you don’t have to answer the question asked but use it as a prompt for what you want to say

Luis Flores found that the combination of reappraisal and handholding led to greater reductions in negative affect and negative self-beliefs than either strategy alone @affectscience.bsky.social

What is loneliness and what can we do about it?? @affectscience.bsky.social Anita Restrepo showed that undergrads who were lonelier worked harder for others than less lonelier undergrads (but still worked harder regardless of loneliness when working for themselves) regardless of gain/loss framing

Check out our symposium on translational approaches to loneliness and emotion tomorrow at 9:45am! @affectscience.bsky.social @mattsouthward.bsky.social

Nick Jacobson shows us how we might *think* we could use AI to develop a good mental health app @affectscience.bsky.social However, therapy transcripts aren’t the most enlightening 😅 Shoutout to Nick for doing the hard work to generate an efficacious chatbot! home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/03...

. @jenncveilleux.bsky.social throws down the gauntlet at the @affectscience.bsky.social emotional acceptance preconference panel with a proposed model of willingness suggesting acceptance is NOT a regulatory strategy by itself b/c it’s a full sitting-with of emotions

🎉 I just published my second paper! Woo! In psychotherapy trials we often see that symptoms reduce between screening and start of treatment. A plausible idea about that is that patients self-refer when their fluctuating symptoms are extra bad. We checked! (we tried to check) //

When the higher education sector is organized, we have the power to stop the Trump administration's campaigns against American universities We are proud of our members and allies at UCLA who successfully blocked Trump from extracting $1.2 billion from UCLA over alleged civil rights violations.

A couple of years ago, I read a paper with a title like “a questionnaire that may actually measure psychological flexibility (maybe)” but I can’t find it now. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

@quantitude.bsky.social Do you have any go-to references for the ubiquity of the salsa (low/med/high) pattern in LPA/LCA to incorporate into reviews of papers that use LPA/LCA? (Bonus points if you know of anything that might help authors distinguish if there really are classes or it's a dimension)

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...

We had an end of semester holiday/cookie-decorating party and turned it into a holiday card! ❄️

The @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social & friends stayed pretty buttoned-up this @abctnow.bsky.social 😉👔

At @abctnow.bsky.social, Rutgers’ Ellen Wittler found that undergrads who were more depressed demonstrated a stronger momentary association between tiredness and sadness, suggesting they might be experienced more similarly by those folks 🥱😥

Huge congratulations to all the @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social poster presenters at @abctnow.bsky.social this year! 📊📈

Did somebody say...happy hour? Join us at 8:30pm on Friday 11/21! Scan the QR code below to reserve your spot! Kick back after a long day of conference-ing and enjoy food, drinks, and more at Pier 424 Seafood Market! We can’t wait to hear about your ABCT adventures 🥳

Looking for a rundown of P/PD-related events for ABCT weekend? We’ve got you covered 😎 T-3 days! 🎉

BUTTONS. ARE. BACK. Find any @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social member this week at @abctnow.bsky.social in NOLA to get your FREE button(s) to show off your true personality! 📸 credit to Thea McAfee, Alex Barnhill, & Hana Nip

🍁Fall🍂 for Columbus this grad school application season!

A park full of dogs in Halloween costumes in Columbus? A park full of dogs in Halloween costumes in Columbus! 🐶🎃 www.instagram.com/reel/DQSYWtH...

#NoKings in Columbus!

Anyone interested in what we’re up to in mattlab - follow us on Instagram! We’re (@)mattlabatosu and we try to post useful mental health info, study findings, and glimpses into our actual lives 👇 www.instagram.com/mattlabosu

In this behemoth effort led by @anhhtran.bsky.social, we reanalysed 11 experience-sampling datasets, and found limited evidence that context (intensity, controllability, and social features) meaningfully shaped everyday emotion regulation strategy use.

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Despite our schools’ heated rivalry, we’ll still read and discuss great papers from ❌ichigan profs like @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social in our grad psychopathology class at OSU!

When we measure personality multiple times in a study, does it matter if we ask people about their personality *in general* or *since the last time point*? Turns out: yes! We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Update! We'll be accepting applications until 11:59pm ET on Sunday, Nov 30! 📆

What’s Columbus like, you ask? Here are some scenes! Golden foliage on campus 🍁 Making friends with a praying mantis 😺 LCD Soundsystem 🎧 Columbus Pride (feat. several clinical grad students)! 🌈

Re-upping this thread for anyone thinking about applying for grad school who wants to know what life in Columbus is like! (I’m also more than happy to answer questions, snap pics, or provide food recs as needed to give you a better sense of Columbus & OSU 🌰)

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...

Things are rough in the world right now so it’s a little relief to enjoy the rainbows in the Mirror Lake fountain on campus 🌈⛲️

Come to think of it it’s insane psychotherapy works at all. Somebody told you something or told you to DO something and it helps with a problem you’ve had for a long time 🧐

Just enjoying an 8:30pm stroll through the warm summer breeze in Schiller Park #ColumbusThings

New preprint! A Crowdsourced Megastudy of 12 Digital Single-Session Interventions for Depression in American Adults What's the best way to help someone overcome depression with just 10 minutes of their time online? We ran a trial (n=7,505) testing 12 diverse interventions. osf.io/preprints/ps...

In Columbus, we have an entire building dedicated to everyone’s least favorite analytic method 📊

Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle! There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally. u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...