When we consider children in cultural evolution, we tend to cast them as recipients of adult culture. In our BBS target article, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argued there's more: through 'peer cultures', children actively drive cultural adaptation. Our final paper + a rich set of responses is out now!

Interested in doing a postdoc with me in Auckland, New Zealand? 🇳🇿 See info below on a competitive award opportunity, and please spread the word!

New JPSP registered report + coordinated data analysis led by Tiko Yoneda: identical models across 11 aging cohorts (N=175,070; 18 countries). Loneliness—not simply social isolation—was more robustly associated with cognitive impairment and mortality risk psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Thrilled to share a new consensus statement just published in Nature Mental Health: "Ambulatory assessment in mental health: expert consensus and recommendations" Glad to have contributed to this group effort. Open-access read cube link here: rdcu.be/fnxDZ

Thrilled (really) to share recent evidence from our READY study led by @paulaphilippi.bsky.social w/ @aidangcw.bsky.social: "Minutes that matter: A microburst approach to adolescents' resolution of affect in response to daily stressors" 🧵1/9

Really enjoyed speaking at last week's @ecnp.eu webinar about all things #measurement and #experiencesampling. Find out about what we're getting wrong & what we're doing to make things right! Featuring @esmrepository.bsky.social & ESM-Q, led by @gudruneisele.bsky.social @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social.

Will do a brief thread with highlights: “Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds [i.e., Psychology and Artificial Intelligence]. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot.” 2/🧵

Most #ESM / #EMA studies capture daily-life patterns. But arguments😡, cravings🍫, panic episodes⚠️ or emotional peaks⚡ can happen between prompts. In our new From Paper to Practice blog, we discuss an #m-Path study on event- and threshold-based #burst designs: m-path.io/blog/how-to-...

People who send QR codes as attachments instead of URLs will not see heaven

Have you seen MATILDA (matilda.fss.uu.nl)? Which stands for Measurement, Analysis & Theory for Intensive Longitudinal Data. MATILDA is a website with educational articles that help researchers align theory, measurement, and analysis when studying processes using intensive longitudinal data.

#PhDJobs PhD student position (75% FTE, 4 years) at the interface of health psychology #healthpsych and science communication #scicomm at the @univie.ac.at. Apply by 23 June: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

I'm really excited to share a new preprint! Lab studies have consistently shown that stress and negative emotions make people drink alcohol, but studies of daily life (EMA) keep failing to find it. What does that mean for the shared theoretical prediction both designs test? osf.io/preprints/ps...

Issue 62, Volume 6 is out at Developmental Psychology! psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... Topics Include -Clinical Processes -Ethnicity, Race, and Discrimination -Moral Development -Temperament @apajournals.bsky.social

Looking forward to see many of you at #APS26BCN this week! I'm extra excited to hear about the amazing research of Kendra Wyant (Wisconsin), Paula Philippi (Wuppertal), and @eikofried.bsky.social (Leiden) in our symposium on Saturday at 10:30 in Room 123; their talks are going to be ✨spectacular✨

Using (multilevel) VAR models? Ever checked how well they actually fit your data? @jmbh.bsky.social & I created VARcheck, an R package for visual model checking for VAR models. Blogpost with workflow: bsiepe.github.io/blog/2026-05... 📝Paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 💻Docs: bsiepe.github.io/VARcheck/

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

Minutes that matter: A microburst approach to adolescents’ resolution of affect in response to daily stressors osf.io/preprints/ps...

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Wie ist die psychotherapeutische Versorgung von Kindern & Jugendlichen? Dazu habe ich letzte Woche im Parlamentarischen Gespräch der Bundespsychotherapeutenkammer interessierten Bundestagsabgeordneten Daten vorgestellt: Nur ein Bruchteil bekommt die benötigte Hilfe, Wartezeiten sind monatelang.

If you are interested in EMDR, you probably heard the story about Francine Shapiro "discovering" the method during a walk in the park. This story is largely wrong.

They're looking for people with strong quant skills (psych/sociology/related fields) to work on subjective well-being across the lifecourse at Uni Lausanne! 1 PhD position + 1 Postdoc position career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

project, we‘re hiring a PhD student at the University of Zurich who will be supervised by @wiebkeb.bsky.social and myself. If you are interested or know someone who might be, you can find more information on the position here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... (3/3)

muse.jhu.edu/article/9887... Clarifying the Philosophical Foundations of HiTOP

Very excited to share new findings from an NIMH-funded R21 on the neurodevelopment of worry! Manuscript led by super 🌟 Postdoctoral Scholar in the lab @ceciwestbrook.bsky.social , check it out! 👇👇👇 @psychiatry.pitt.edu

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

We’re hiring: remote-eligible Provost Postdoctoral Fellow, SEA Lab at Vanderbilt. Great fit for candidates interested in early caregiving, developmental psychopathology, neuroimaging, and ecological methods. Start Aug 1-Dec 1, 2026. Apply: [email protected]

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Posting to request any examples people have seen of AI disclosure statements in recent papers that are not just "grammatical edits" or "detect errors in code" - I know there's a lag in publications but surely some folks here are writing them already or seeing them in papers?

Honorar-Kürzungen in der Psychotherapie? Wissenschaftlich nicht begründbar. Die DGPs unterstützt daher die Aktivitäten für eine angemessene Finanzierung und Sicherstellung der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung. Die vollständige DGPs-Stellungnahme ist hier abrufbar: www.dgps.de/aktuelles/de...

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser Team am Therapie- und Beratungszentrum: An der Universität Göttingen ist eine Stelle als Psychologischer Psychotherapeutin / Lehrtherapeut*in (w/m/d) ausgeschrieben – wir freuen uns über Bewerbungen! www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research. #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Prepping for @dgps.bsky.social Methods, few recent papers pushing ctsem and dynamic models in interesting directions #1 Developmental changes in twin cognitive correlation (ACE) across age, test instrument, zygosity, with @evangiangrande.bsky.social @ent3c.bsky.social et al osf.io/preprints/ps...

Clinical psychology depends on scientific evidence, but research from @chopwood.bsky.social et al. suggests that the kinds of data most commonly produced may not always align with what clinicians find most useful in practice. Read the article in American Psychologist: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

‼️ Just out in Psychological Assessment! Check out our new paper exploring the hierarchical structure of the HiTOP-SR scales and their associations with daily life experiences. dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0...

Why do participants stop responding in #ESM / #EMA studies? 📱🔔 Average compliance is about 7️⃣9️⃣%, but that hides massive variation. Our new m-Path blog reviews predictors of response compliance: study design, incentives, participant traits, and time effects. 🔗 blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data. 1/19 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New study out! These results show how our personality is infused in everything we do, even down to our mundane, everyday experiences and passing thoughts.

Issue 62, Volume 1 is out at Developmental Psychology! psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... Developmental Methods in the Majority World The issue brings together work spanning multiple approaches, all grounded in the local context. @apajournals.bsky.social

Last week, we lost our dear friend, colleague, and mentor, Cord Benecke, who passed away at the age of 60. We will never forget you, Cord! 💛 www.uni-kassel.de/fb01/en/depa...

“The illusion that a scientist has a valid and complete explanation tends to be magnified when the data is well described by mathematical and computer simulation models due to the precision of such models, and their ability to predict well; prediction does not imply causality...”

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

Many think LLM-simulated participants can transform behavioral science. But there's been a lack of accessible discussion of what it means to validate LLMs for behavioral scientists. Under what conditions can we trust LLMs to learn about human parameters? Our paper maps the validation landscape. 1/

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

I maintain that this is an excellent benchmark for d-type effect sizes: Sleep satisfaction & duration declined with childbirth & reached a nadir during the first 3 months postpartum, with women more strongly affected (satisfaction d = -0.79, duration minus 62 min, d = -0.90)>

Nothing worse than signing an email "warm regards" and getting a reply with "warmest regards". Oh, now it's ON.

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

We are beyond excited to announce that abstract submissions are now open for #SAA2026, which will be hosted by @univie.ac.at in early August next year. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions. More info: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/subm... @ambulatory-assessment.org

This year explaining regression to the mean took forever but I’m sure next year will be better.