An epic paper led by @tam-pham.bsky.social "Which Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Indices Should I Use? A Data-driven Approach to Identifying Clusters of HRV Indices," recommends a set of 13 indices for resting-state HRV. Paper (paywalled): doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70164 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Folks who are going to APS next summer: @olinotom.bsky.social and I are thinking of proposing a symposium on rethinking/reconceptualizing comorbidity (still finalizing a specific topic) and are looking for a couple of other folks to present. Anyone potentially interested? Feel free to DM!

Our interactive visualisation is now up and running (needs to be on a laptop/desktop for full functionality): hitop-viz.web.app/paper.html And Matt Roberts' code for it is on the project's OSF page if you're interested in doing something similar: osf.io/cuya4/files/...

Our inaugural elections for the HiTOP Society Executive Board are underway! If you're a member you should have received your ballot yesterday. Please vote by November 19th, and thank you for helping shape the future of the society.

If you're a member of the HiTOP Society, I hope you'll consider voting for me for President 💛 I'd be delighted to lead us in this new chapter Ballots went out today so we can join the current deluge of exciting election results And whether or not you vote for me - please do vote!

Oops now also with a public OSF page (data, code, output etc.): osf.io/cuya4/overview We'll add the code for the interactive visualisation too - I'll post it when we have the final bugs worked out!

I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀 1/

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

Next week we will be holding the inaugural elections for the leadership roles in the new HiTOP Society! All members of the Society have a vote, so if you’re not yet a member but are keen to get involved, you can learn more about the Society and how to join here: www.hitop-system.org/join-the-soc...

I really enjoyed doing this webinar - sharing in case it's helpful for people interested in an introduction to HiTOP: novopsych.com/news/webinar...

Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment. Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Excited to announce a new special issue on Passive Sensing for behavior in psychopathology at JoPaCS led by Dan Fulford and Nick Jacobson Check out their overview paper here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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...

@tam-pham.bsky.social has just joined Bluesky! I highly recommend following Tam so you have a front row seat to her fantastic research ✨

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017. 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

*Now with tidy subtitles too

We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

Look no further for an *excellent* overview of HiTOP! This chapter for the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Dimensional Models in Psychopathology does a fantastic job of pulling everything together. Tam Pham is an absolute superstar and I feel very lucky to work with her ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...

I'm beyond words honoured to receive the Doctoral Thesis of the Year Award by the Norwegian Psychological Association! Deeply grateful to my supervisors and the wonderful colleagues I've had the privilege of working with. Interview about findings and a 🧵: www.psykologforeningen.no/aktuelt/pand...

👋🏻 I am so excited to announce that I'll be hiring a postdoc at the University of Kentucky! We study mechanism-focused (e.g., personality traits), transdiagnostic treatment development and personalization. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600... More details in the 🧵 👇🏻

In addition to posting plants and puppies, I also mentor students interested in personality pathology. My lab is recruiting a graduate student in clinical or personality psychology for Fall 2026. So please send folks my way. Feel free to share! Thanks.

🚨 Spread the word! We're (w/ @whitneyringwald.bsky.social & @aleksakaurin.bsky.social) organizing a special issue at PD:TRT focused on innovations for measuring context in ambulatory assessment studies of personality pathology. We'd love for you (yes, you) to submit a proposal (deadline Nov. 14th):

I’m thinking a lot this week about my beautiful cousin Will who we lost to suicide last year. I love this article his sister Alice is featured in, which captures Will’s spirit and Alice’s love and grief.

🇬🇷 Both of our YouTube videos now have Greek subtitles too, thanks to Christoforos Thomadakis's translation of the script! New video on how HiTOP can be applied in research coming soon too, thanks to Tash's hard work.

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity @ UT Austin! I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026. Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats! 📄 Description: tinyurl.com/2jfk8d8m 🌐 Lab: www.scoop-lab.com

I know there’s a lot of broken things in our peer review system, but shit it’s a delight and privilege to be involved in when it works well

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...

Took the day off to paint some fishies

Important news from Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

I don’t know who needs this right now, but I really enjoy browsing “Paper Skygest”, a feed of posts on academic papers *from people you follow*. I think it’s what a lot of us are actually here for

Need to learn how to do simulation based power analysis for project planning and grants? In my last workshop for me for the summer, I teach folks how to use Mplus to do flexible power analysis for everything from regression to multilevel SEMs. Please RT! 🙏 1/ smart-workshops.com/mplus-power-...

Recently flipped the wall calendar from April to July. Today I’m definitely going to change the battery in our clock that’s running 90 minutes slow. I’m so close to having my life together, but I admit I’m worried about what happens when it’s August on Friday

Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.

Well thanks for nothing everyone. I think we all know who’s to blame when I’m an embarrassing mess over there now

Does anyone have tips on how to use LinkedIn as an academic not looking for a job? I'm sensing you 'connect' with people you know and 'follow' people you don't? Should I accept 'requests to connect' from people I don't know? Do we just post the same research stuff as here but with more cheerfulness?

⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity. Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...

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'A 2021 study estimated that UK academics contribute $391 million worth of unpaid labour annually through peer reviewing alone. These non-cash contributions are essential to the functioning of the scholarly publishing system yet are often overlooked in discussions about cost and value.'

A guide to academic event names

I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836

Smartphone sensors used to monitor behavioral markers in adults found associations with transdiagnostic psychopathology domains like internalizing, detachment, disinhibition, and the general impairment factor. ja.ma/44EN9e6

Just found out I can put this gif on my lab website so this is gonna be a game changer 😂 Anyway I will be reviewing PhD applications for UIC social-personality psych area to start in Fall 2026, so please let your students know. More info on my website: www.pbandjlab.com/team

1 week out folks! If you're gearing up for your first meta-analysis, check out the link below.

First paper from my lab @upenn.edu (open access) @ Biological Psychiatry w/ @emilyrperkins.bsky.social [email protected] We discuss the need to falsify theories of biology predicting syndromes vs. syndromes in ways that allow both to be true 🧵1/10 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

New blog post! Let's say you've measured two variables repeatedly and want to investigate how one affects the other over time. Here are some recommendations for how to do that well. www.the100.ci/2025/06/25/r...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 HiTOP Trainee Research Awards!! This year we had two winners: Reilly Diemond @reillydiemond.bsky.social and Marie Zelenina @mariezelenina.bsky.social You can find more information here: www.hitop-system.org/trainee-awar...

Please share widely and let us know if you have any classroom activities, readings, syllabi, case examples, slides, recorded teaching segments, or other resources you're willing to share to help teach dimensional models!

Just got an email from my Dean asking if he can entrust me with a task, and I’m pretty sure it’s legit because the email is from [email protected], which is surely only possible if it’s mail from a Dean?