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...

📝 Collecting signatures for @stopsb1oh.bsky.social at the Columbus Actors Theatre’s *free* production of Emma last night in Schiller Park! Let me know if you want to sign and can’t make it to other events

Franklin County, Ohio #stopsb1oh Where to sign the petition:

NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness." Thousands of scientists disagreed. We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers!

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

📋 I’ve got SB1 referendum petition forms! If you’re a registered voter in Ohio & want to put SB1 to a vote in November, let me know and I’ll get you one to sign 📝🙌

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Home recording of the invited talk I gave at APS last week. I discuss inferential problems that can arise from linear models and statistical control, offer sets as an alternative means for aggregating information, and provide examples from an ongoing study in my lab. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olab...

They made it really easy. Do it!

Shoutout to @abctstudentsig.bsky.social & Chair @francesghart.bsky.social for a rewarding & enriching FREE student research symposium today! 🤩 Honored @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social could be a part of it.

The other bright spot of #APS25DC was getting to visit the mind-blowing & powerful National Museum of African American History & Culture. It seemed timely and I hadn’t been! They do an amazing job highlighting how much of the US was built by slaves & how our current ideas of race developed. 💯

Sonya Mishra shows how, when women’s gains are framed as increasing their power (control of resources), men are less likely to support them & more likely to worry they’ll be disadvantaged compared to when women’s gains are framed as increasing their status. Women show no differences. 🚻 #APS25DC

There's still plenty of time to register! Join us next Saturday (May 31) for an exciting day of student research - and don't miss our keynote and professional development panel! Register here through May 30! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

To better communicate science, we should: Use appropriate metaphors, analogies, & examples Talk in narratives Remember we read 3 words, then, if interesting, 30 words, then, if still intrigued, 300 words Start with the main point ➡️ narrative ➡️ takeaway point #APS25DC

Whitney Whitted looked at how different aspects of social media impacted mental health. People were more likely to endorse a dx when info was framed as a dx (vs a resilience framing) They didn’t distinguish expert credentials from posters’ lived experiences & info helped many feel understood!

@lluaces.bsky.social shows a stronger within-person effect of reappraisal than expressive suppression predicting session-to-session reductions in distress across two 6-week guided self-help studies of mindfulness & behavioral treatments! #APS25DC

At @psychscience.bsky.social, @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social shows how basic reinforcement learning with affective content and distractors naturally leads to repetitive negative thinking, at least over ~200,000 trials before it can get corrected. That’s a lot of thought records! #APS25DC

So, no young person lives with their grandma, works in a hospital, or is the girlfriend of a 73-year old retired coach We don’t live in age-segregated pods. If your goal is to protect high-risk groups, protecting people under 65 is part of the strategy

Join us behind the scenes, tomorrow…

Warm summer evenings call for naps on cool windowsills

[email protected] Buckeyes 🌰! We only have *43* days to collect 250k signatures to hold a referendum on SB1. We need all the help we can get (thanks to the AG & legislature for making referenda so hard) To volunteer or donate (to buy petition booklets) see & share: ohsb1petition.com

It was such a fun surprise to see @natehaines.bsky.social’s congratulations video at Jay Myung’s retirement party this weekend 🥳

Insane is exactly the phrase I would have used! ‘This is insane:’ New NIH policy on funding foreign scientists stirs outrage www.science.org/content/arti...

Hard pass (as in "no", not "pass it")

"[The U.S. attorney] should not ask for information and they should not be trying to encourage them to publish different types of editorials or change their editorial practices based on what a U.S. attorney feels is appropriate."

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This week’s main story is about the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, how those cuts will impact all of us, and some foolproof ideas for what scientists can do in the absence of totally superfluous stuff like, y’know, centrifuges.

Columbus absolutely showed up at today’s protest! ✊🏻🇺🇸🌰 And @youngstownstate.bsky.social’s faculty’s SB1 referendum movement did a great job gathering signatures: ohsb1petition.com/sign-the-pet...

There's nothing like a great talk from @centerstat.org & UNC's Dan Bauer on the cool plotting benefits but statistical and interpretational drawbacks of non-linear interactions! (topped off with a sneaky Taylor Swift reference 😏)

🧪 Most cognitive-behavior treatments for mood & anxiety, including the Unified Protocol (UP), lead to similar outcomes for people from different racial/ethnic backgrounds. But are the processes of change the same? We (Alex Urs, @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social, & Tom Adams) investigated. 🧵

Says Harvard alum Stefanik (AB’06) And illegal freezes on cancer/Alzheimer’s/depression treatment research help how? 🤡

Fallon Goodman stopped by our clinical affective science seminar today to talk all things social anxiety & emo reg: how people with social anxiety feel more positive with others than alone & how consolidating knowledge after expectancy violation using EMA may be a promising light intervention!

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

1/ I often like Mad in America but I fear this paper is being misrepresented. There have been previous studies on this issue that find that patients prefer therapist skill teaching over other things (e.g., patient leading). In these data, skill acquisition is preferred by a majority (see below).

Recognizing there won't be a *good* time to ask this for at least 4 years: What self-report measures of Opposite Action or Behavioral Activation do people like/use? I've found a few but I'm sure I'm missing some...

Happy #TraineeTuesday! 🎉 Today, we're featuring Martina Fruhbauerova, a 5th-year doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Kentucky. Her research examines the intersection of suicidality and personality traits, focusing on identifying key mechanisms that contribute to

🗣️ Heads up to any @abctnow.bsky.social members interested in personality or personality disorders! The P/PD SIG would love for you to join! We've got task forces for all types of interests & training levels. Check out our info below and follow us at @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social 📲

Happening TODAY in 1 hour! ⏰

🗣️ @abctnow.bsky.social’s Personality/Personality Disorders SIG is now on Bluesky! @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social Give them a follow if you’re a member, if you’d like to be a member, or just want to keep up with the great personality/PD work this group does

What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon FOR FREE than with this star-studded crew (and me)?? Sunday, March 23, 2:30-4:00 ET Register below to join over 130 of your friends and colleagues! 👇

I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say. Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January. 1/

HUGE shoutout to Liz for taking the initiative and organizing this for Columbus (and leading so many great chants)! 📣🌰🙌🏻

Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC: "What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥