Great week! Second minor revisions paper accepted 🎉 (last authored one this time). This is a great start of summer ☺️

During my writing retreat this week I worked on a manuscript with a minor revision. Still a bit of work, because I had to rerun analyses, but was able to submit it by the end of the retreat. The reward: acceptance within 24h 🎉 So satisfying!

A panel with some of my favorite people. I too would present with these people at 4am in the morning @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social ! Maybe next year SPR needs to do a Night of Science 😅 @neuomancer.bsky.social & Jaime Delgadillo #SPR2025Krakow

My student Roel Luijsterburg presents the first results of our RCT on therapist training at #SPR2025Krakow

New output from the INSPIRE group in World Psychiatry: Synthesis of expert opinions on measurement-based care, how it works, and how it should develop. Led by Christian Moltu, with @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @kimdejong.bsky.social and many more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Excellent example of data-informed psychological assessment in the diagnostic stage of treatment in @davidvandenberg.bsky.social ‘s talk at the NIP Psychodiagnostiek conference today. Exciting development! #psychodiagnostics #psychologicalassessment #datainformedtreatment

@unileiden.bsky.social & Hogeschool Leiden are kicking off the national relay strike against the massive budget cuts in higher education. #StakingHO #StrikeHE

Absolutely maddening how DT’s policy is threatening scientific reporting 😡 insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Very important research, covered @thementalelf.bsky.social. Original study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 6% individuals with a lifetime suicide attempt did not meet criteria for a lifetime psychiatric diagnosis. 20% did not meet criteria before 1st suicide attempt.

I just submitted my first manuscript of 2025 on physiological and acoustic responses to therapy situations. Took me ages to write and submit due to a variety of personal circumstances. I am aiming for this year to be my year of cleaning out the pipeline. Let’s get those papers out!

I just talked to one of our bachelor students who is very motivated to become a psychotherapist for the abandoned children in China, who were left behind in rural areas while their parents worked in cities. I would love to provide her with resources. Anyone familiar with work in this area?

Does anyone else spend half of Christmas Day in jogging pants and a t-shirt in the kitchen, to only change into the glitter outfit of the day half an hour before leaving

This feels like an accurate representation of keeping a work-life balance in academia (in reality this was an amazing Christmas circus show by Kerstcircus Den Haag that we went to with the family)

Just finished a 550 students exam, now it is time for a well deserved break! 😴

Let there be cake she said… I promised my department that I would bake a cake for them if I would reach 10 accepted publications in one year, and low and behold, I reached that last week! Happy holidays everyone! 🎄🥂

In this white paper, we discuss how to use our shiny app (link in paper) for power analysis for loglinear growth models osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our paper on Facilitative Interpersonal Skills just came out in RIPPPO as part of a special issue on therapist training www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/rpsy/article... #therapisteffects #therapisttraining #therapist

Methods folks, how does a person publish a white paper? Two colleagues and I have developed a shiny app for a priori power analyses for log linear growth models (multilevel) in which we explain how its done, both theoretically and practically. Now that it is done we are not sure how we get it “out”

Protesting at the national protest against budget cuts in higher education in the Netherlands #stopdebezuinigingen

If you see this, please repost with a favorite photo of the sky that you have taken recently.

💥Join us for the #DSxHE Mental Health Webinar coming up this week! I will present on "Using Data from Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback to Improve Psychological Treatment Delivery." 📅Thurs 21 Nov @ 12pm GMT 👥Everyone can join 🖇️RSVP now👇 www.datascienceforhealthequity.com/event-detail...

What a magnificent sight: a herd of five Triceratopses reconstructed at @naturalis.bsky.social My 10yo takes a course of scientific lectures for kids at the museum and has a lecture about the digging out and reconstructing, so of course we had to see them for ourselves!

My department chair Bernet Elzingawon the Spinoza Award from the Dutch science organization for her interdisciplinary research on trauma in families. This is basically the Dutch version of Nobel price of science. #breakingtheclassceiling #womenscientists

AI is not magic--it's drawing on existing data to generate it's output. It is simply reflecting back at us the existing bias in the labor market. There's nothing surprising about this, unless you don't think the bias exists or you misunderstand what AI is doing.

@unileiden.bsky.social faculty staff and students are protesting against 1 billion euro budget cuts on higher education in a small country like ours (with only 10 universities). We are not giving up without a fight! No innovation without education! #protest #HEbudgetcuts #highereducation

My feed is finally starting to look a bit like the old academic twitter again, especially now that I am connected with my academic mom friends again ☺️❤️

Dutch universities have a rich tradition in PhD defenses and it is in toga / regalia. This used to be only for full professors, but in 2024 several universities have extended the toga right to Associate and Assistant profs. Just in time for me to wear one to the defense of Marjolein Koementas-de Vos

Did you know these psychological terms are often misused: triggering, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder, self-care, imposter syndrome, bipolar and gaslighting? These words have deeper meaning than we sometimes think. Misuse can downplay real struggles people face. www.apa.org/monitor/2024...

For all things psychiatry, psychology and mental health. Message below if you’d like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/C36fgiD

Nice surprise to see my book on display amongst the books on deliberate practice and the therapeutic alliance in Aerjen Tamminga and Simone das Dores’ workshop on deliberate practice #VGCt #njc24 #deliberatepractice

I went to this workshop on Deliberate Practice, where two clinicians shared how they integrated it into their way of working. Integral part of getting feedback on your performance as a therapist is always routine outcome monitoring, which helps you identify the cases where you need to adapt.

My last VGCt annual conference as a board member of the Dutch Association for Behavioral and Cognitive therapies. It’s been fun and informative so far. In the past 9 years the VGCt has grown so much on knowledge dissemination and valorisation, and I am proud to have been a part of that!

Wir suchen dringend noch Psychotherapeut*innen und Rechtsanwält*innen für unsere Studie, die sich mit Psychotherapie im juristischen Kontext befasst. Vielleicht hat jemand gerade 10 Minuten Zeit?

This e-mail from a former student in my Psychotherapy course really touched my heart: “I still remember that special moment, watching the psychotherapy tapes, thinking to myself: “yes, this is what I came here to become””. It truly is an honor to walk alongside students on their journey. ❤️

Now that academic Twitter has made its way over here, I really need a function to save/bookmark posts! I have seen so many things that I want to save to come back to for teaching or research over the past few days.

🌟 I will be reviewing applications for a new clinical psych Ph.D. student this cycle! 🌟 My group focuses on suicide risk and prevention research. Check out my lab website! Please share! 🙂 www.drseanmmitchell.com/join-our-team

I promise the matchy-matchy between my outfit and the EABCT logo were entirely accidental. Have to say that I had a blast in Belgrade, and can’t wait to go again in Glasgow next year!

I’m excited to have this paper out - my first published experimental lab study on Facilitative Interpersonal Skills. www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/rpsy/article...

Patients receiving transdiagnostic group psychotherapy in addition to their usual treatment (mostly pharmacotherapy) show symptom-specific add-on effects in this network intervention analysis (RCT with N = 1061).

@bringmannlaura.bsky.social made networks understandable. What a lovely keynote at the New Science of Mental Disorder annual meeting

I had such a great time at the New Science of Mental Disorders Meeting. Inspiring talks, wonderful people and research to move the field forward. Thank you for having me!

Great keynote by @saskiascholten.bsky.social at the annual New Science of Mental Disorders meeting.

Just received a very angry email from a fellow researcher that our latest narrative review did not cite his work. This is the third time in my career that I receive such an email from this person. Apparently I just don’t seem to learn. 😅 Funny thing is that it wasn’t even intentional.

Always fun to find your own book in the Psychotherapy Research section in another university’s library during a work visit! This one was found in Brno, where I am visiting this week to teach a few lectures and talk about ROM research with Tomas Rihacek’s group

New paper alert! Sabine van Thiel developed an alternative method to score the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills performance task. Check the Open Access paper out below! doi.org/10.1002/jclp...

My first steps in the world of VR: learning how to make 360 degree videos and upload them to a VR headset www.instagram.com/p/C4qaEdAs_K...

In this pilot study we were interesting in measuring eye tracking using regular webcams. My RA and I had a first glance at the data today… check it out! www.instagram.com/reel/C38FQak...