Last week, I had the privilege to present some of my work at UIUC and its Clinical and Community Psychology Brown Bag seminar. There were fantastic questions, and I had a blast! Thank you for thinking of me for this, @vjrp.bsky.social! Proud to be a FOP 🤓

It's #FundingFriday at APF!💸 Don't miss out on these opportunities to apply for funding for your psychological research. More info at hubs.li/Q03ZHzZ80#FundingFriday

Proud and blessed to have Gio as my colleague.

The beauty of teaching a class on Latinx Mental Health right now is that every week, I have the opportunity to give my students something that matters to them. This was one of the slides for my class

Welp, the joke just lasted a couple of hours. I guess I can celebrate now, maybe? 🤷🏽‍♂️ 🤓

Sometimes, you just aren't there yet... 🤷🏽‍♂️ 🤣

The @apnews.com recently interviewed me to discuss the impact that Roblox can have on youth's mental health when used to reenact and protest against ICE immigration raids. My takeaway: It can be a healthy process by which youth build community and obtain social support! apnews.com/article/robl...

First day of classes, professor edition! This is the first time I get to teach Latinx Mental Health here at Berkeley, and I am already inspired by my students and their interest in learning more about their communities. By the way, check the last slide of my lecture. If you know, you know 🤓

Huge news: Our lab's first Monte Carlo Simulation Registered Reports was recommended by @pci-regreports.bsky.social. Led by the indominable @jessicalfossum.bsky.social! To my knowledge this is the first completed Registered Report of a Monte Carlo Simulation! rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere...

AI doesn’t just learn data—it learns our biases. A UC Berkeley researcher is working to ensure machine learning helps improve fairness in criminal justice and health care. news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/20/a...

Only two days before Early Bird Registration closes for SIPS@SPSP Virtual Preconference. Register now for a day of productive and enjoyable community building! Extra discounts for students/trainees and low/middle income countries. @improvingpsych.org @spspnews.bsky.social #openscience #psychology

I submitted five grant applications, and today I got the final rejection (0/5). Trying to get results from a pre-registered report published has also been an uphill battle, including reviewer comments that my work is not science but "activism," and rejections despite glowing reviews.

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Just learned I've won the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the area of psychopathology, and am feeling pretty delighted!! So grateful to @aidangcw.bsky.social for nominating me, and very proud of the work it's based on.

I finally received this editorial decision! Many excellent comments from reviewers that will help improve this study and a very firm reminder that, we as a field, still don't know how to peer-review the results from pre-registered reports 🤷🏽‍♂️ I hope this gets published soon 🤓

ABCT’s 60th Annual Convention is now accepting abstract submissions for ticketed sessions! Detailed instructions for submission are found after logging into the portal below. Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2026, 3:00 AM EDT www.abstractscorecard.com/cfp/submit/l...

After this holiday break, I am honored to learn that our work on co-designing ethical guidelines for AI mental health tools with youth was featured in The Berkeleyan, the official weekly newsletter of the University of California, Berkeley! us1.campaign-archive.com?u=646f20d137...

This paper led by doctoral student Lucy Liotta of @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social examined different forms of future-oriented repetitive thought as predictors of suicide ideation among treatment-seeking teens. Free access for a few more weeks: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mJvybXYiyukA

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

Young also has found "pervasive racial discrimination in selecting grants" to cut that will require a permanent restraining order to prevent the government from continuing this. He also finds an "unmistakable pattern of discrimination against women’s health".

Wow! Honored that my essay was named one of Science’s Top Personal Essays of 2025 for the second year in a row! It means a lot that honest stories about the real pressures + joys of research resonate. Grateful to all who read, shared, and reached out. Read here ➝ www.science.org/content/arti...

I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Líderes del Futuro podcast (tinyurl.com/rafapod) and radio show (tinyurl.com/kbbfr), where I spoke with El Profe Rafael Vásquez about the mental health of our Latinx communities! Si hablas español, déjame saber qué opinas ;) tinyurl.com/y28zmsvf

My time to shine! @jonasdora.bsky.social and I never find anything but nulls!

cc: @amengel.bsky.social

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Are you working in the personalized treatment/ precision medicine space? If so my co-editors & I would love to review your work for a new SPECIAL ISSUE in Behavior Therapy on personalization in mental health. More info here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... @depressionlab.bsky.social

Inviting submissions to a new special issue on precision and personalized treatment approaches led by @cherilev.bsky.social and @aaronjfisher.bsky.social! It’s gonna be a fantastic collection so send us your favorite new work :) www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Last invited talk of the year! I am honored to go back to my alma mater, UCLA and its STAND ALACRITY Center, to talk about the state of the science in digital mental health interventions for racially and ethnically minoritized individuals. Friday 12/19 from 11am-12pm. See you there 🤓

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

Amidst mass tech layoffs, what will be the next hot career in an AI-driven world? Ph.D. candidate @laurenmarietta.bsky.social says we need a new generation of "advocacy technologists" who work in the public sector. Read her full Local News Matters op-ed at the 🔗 https://bit.ly/3XyqKef

Congrats to Gio Ramosfor recently receiving the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Latinx Special Interest Groups Early Career Rising Star Award. A former UC Chancellor’s and Ford Foundation Postdoc Fellow in UC Irvine's TEAM Lab, Gio is now an assistant professor at UC Berkeley.

Come for the science, stay for the gifts 😜

Attending the Institute of Personality and Social Research has been a highlight of my time here at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! This is why I am honored to have the opportunity to present some of my work at the IPSR Colloquium tomorrow at 12:10-1:30pm PST 🤓 events.berkeley.edu/events/event...

Congratulations @gramos.bsky.social! This is a well deserved and very honor!

I’m honored to receive this award. The @abctnow.bsky.social Latinx SIG has been my academic home since 2016—almost 10 years! Pa’lante!

What is engagement in digital mental health interventions? @abctnow.bsky.social

Come for the science, stay for the community @abctnow.bsky.social

@abctnow.bsky.social is on!

When in Rome… Now, I’m officially ready for @abctnow.bsky.social conference 🤓

Today, I have the honor of returning to @ucirvine.bsky.social for the third consecutive year to give my guest lecture on generability, diversity, equity, and inclusion in psychological science. I can't wait for this! 🤓

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!

Last week, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at CUNY. I had a blast and enjoyed the questions from students a lot 🤓

What is the state of the evidence for digital interventions for depression? Where can you find the "right" one? What are the areas of improvement in this field? This was a great collaboration with Eirini Karyotaki, David Mohr, and Stephen Schueller! authors.elsevier.com/a/1m0vD,4QFJ...

If you want to know the latest on the government's 'compact' (i.e. extortion) offer to universities, you can use this tracker. Feel free to suggest edits as well. #academia docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Just thinking: I am a double-boarded physician-scientist at @uclahealth.org, but I grew up in poverty. Gov't provided the welfare & foodstamps that aided my refugee family. Gov't grants subsidized my education. I am only where I am today bc of the #America that was. And it makes me want to cry.

In 2024, 79% of all U.S. Latinos were U.S. citizens, up from 71% in 2000.

In 2024, 68 million Hispanics made up 20% of the U.S. population. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

🚨 New publication! Our registered report in Journal of Educational Psychology examines whether common executive function (EF) tasks demonstrated measurement invariance across racial/ethnic groups. Spoiler: they don’t. ⚠️ doi.org/10.1037/edu0...

This weekend, I had the honor of participating in a panel that combined two things dear to my heart: digital mental health and selective mutism. I had a blast and learned a lot from my fellow panelists!