🚨My trainee Victoria Murphy, data architect Gabriel Mongefranco, and I are pleased to share 🌟EMA-CleanR: R code to pre-process, clean, and visualize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data! Documentation: teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/210... Code: github.com/DepressionCe...

New neighbors have moved in and are already doing a tear down

Re-upping, as we're still accepting applications. Please consider!

Yes, because what better time to take the LMS down for an entire workday for a scheduled update than five days before the semester starts? It's not like faculty might be needing to work on updating their course pages at all during that time or anything. . . "

Yale Psychology is accepting applications for the Susan Nolen-Hoeksema postdoctoral fellowship! Open to a broad range of areas in psychology, and applicants should identify 1 or more potential faculty mentors. Apply by Feb 1, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/178435

🧵Every week* for the last year I've been taking a photo from the same spot on the Charles near my house, as a exercise in close observation and feeling more connected to the place I've lived for nearly a decade now. (*missed some due to travel so doubled up some) The final photos - Weeks 46-49

Seed catalogs really know how to hit you when winter has made you weak and vulnerable to their wiles. Just one more packet, I swear! I can quit any time, honest!

Ending the year with my to-do list cleared of all trainee drafts! (We will say nothing of the three manuscript reviews still on the list.)

My superpower/special interest is cutting words. PhD student: I've done multiple rounds of editing and I don't think I can cut any more from this paper. Me: Hold my coffee. (800 words cut and I'm only half way through so far)

📣 Reminder: I'm accepting applications for a PhD student to join my lab in Fall 2026, and the deadline to apply is January 1, 2026! More info can be found at graduate.catalog.tcu.edu/colleges/eng...

A lovely thing about Green Valley AZ where my grandmother lives is the many little ad hoc public spaces residents have created like this little free library with comfy seating along a walking path

Hey out there to all my mid-to-late career colleagues, do you want to come work at Carleton? Our government is pushing hard to recruit international talent right now. Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work 1/7

Ok it is already obnoxious when institutions force you to create an account to submit a recommendation for a student but I’ve just encountered one that is forcing me to install an authentication app *for an undergraduate summer program recommendation * 🤯😡🤬

Come be my colleague! We're looking for a clinical assistant professor at IU-Bloomington, primarily a teaching job: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/31053 The initial deadline was 12/15 but we'll keep looking at applicants until we fill the position

Our new EMA paper shows that girls worry more about school than anything else in their lives. These worries are linked to lower positive affect and predict depressive symptoms. More attention is needed on school pressures' role in the mental health crisis! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A proper gentleman cat always matches his bed with his fur coat

52 ways of looking at the Charles, weeks 42-45:

UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557

Spent today updating syllabi and Moodle pages so I guess I've reached the acceptance phase of the stages of grief over sabbatical ending 🥲

Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:

We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

Haleakala- 10/10, amazing views, zero orcs

Come join me and my brilliant, talented, kind, and generous colleagues at the University of Regina! I’m delighted to share this open rank faculty position in Clinical Psychology. #academicsky #highered #sciencejobs #womeninacademia https://urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/17692

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...

30 second timeline cleanse courtesy of last night's Maui sunset

The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at UNL is hiring a Research Assistant Professor! Work with my wonderful colleague Tim Nelson on NIH-funded developmental/health projects and grow your own line of research. The DCN Lab is an amazing team with lots of opportunities and support.

Ok I may have a little turtle obsession but look at these guys- 18 of them in a turtle traffic jam last night! Why, when there was empty beach all around, I have no idea.

This one came up almost right at our feet this afternoon (we backed up quickly though it didn’t seem to even notice us). It definitely earned its nap after all that effort!

Capping off sabbatical with my first ever trip to Hawaii to meet my "rest and reset" goal (highly recommended!). Highlight so far: Honu (green sea turtles) sleeping on the beach

I’m recruiting a new postdoc to join my team at RFU! If you’re interested in LGBTQ+ youth, bi+ mental health, and/or longitudinal/ESM data, consider applying! Prefer a Feb/Mar start date, but open to later. Prefer in-person, but open to remote. For more: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

My fab department is hiring in Clinical at the asst/assoc level! The search is focused on adult psychopathology, brain imaging, or genetics. We have a collaborative, friendly, and supportive department with great conditions for research. Come join us! Ad: lnkd.in/gkJtjCyS

We have at least TWO postdoctoral fellowship openings on our @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social T32 NIAAA Training Grant, best consideration date for applications is Nov 15 2025. Join our phenomenal community and enjoy incredible quality of life in beautiful New Mexico. casaa.unm.edu/training/ins...

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/

Winner of the Reinvent Noodle Kugel But Make It Indescribably Terrible challenge www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/03/l...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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

This paper is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Very compelling evidence that the extensive covariance of diverse psychopathology is not an artifact of cross-sectional factor analysis. They show extensive "co-morbidity" across generations and within-person, over time. doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

OK, one more addition to my list of Pedantic PI Edits (this one 100% channeling my postdoc mentor) It occurs to me that I should just make a style sheet for the lab rather than individually inflicting these lessons on each new lab member.

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

Also this PI. . .

Yes, I've become that PI. . .

Now fully liquified

Help I turned on the fireplace and my cats melted.

More Vanderbilt hiring! Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Computation & Psychology, College of Connected Computing We're searching for multiple Assistant (tenure-track), Associate, and Full Professors working at the intersection of psychology with computation or AI. 1/

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...

52 ways of looking at the Charles, weeks 38-41.