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

delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

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...

Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳

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-...

New 6-month depression RCT in n=65, serial Ketamine infusions as adjunctive care vs active placebo midazolam. Ketamine did not outperform primary nor any of the secondary efficacy, cognitive, economic, or quality-of-life outcomes. 🧪 #psychiary #PsychSciSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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...

New paper in JAMA Psych, from Alex Moussa-Tooks, myself, Leah Gilbertson, and Sarah Kopelovich at @uwspiritlab.bsky.social. Inside, we talk about the important role of clinical psychology in inpatient psychiatric care and the need for more research in this area. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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...

Out today in Molecular Psychiatry our paper on multiverse computational factor modeling (i.e. a lotta lotta factor analyses). Thread below for the full rundown. Last PhD paper from @celinef.bsky.social YOU'RE FREE!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great study! A general implication is that when we infer effects of retrospectively measure variables on outcomes, we’re largely just seeing the effects of how people are currently feeling.

Duke University is holding virtual office hours for students to get feedback on their psychology PhD applications! Due October 31st! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New #MPRGBiosocial paper in Molecular Psychiatry: “Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health & epigenetic biological aging across childhood & adolescence” w/ @yayoukwillems @denizfraemke.bsky.social @laraffington.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Blog Post: lnkd.in/dKsgagYc

New LIB is good, finally! denver really brought the heterosexuality and the cringe. PERFECT

I just googled the title of a paper of mine that hasn't even been published yet (as a lazy way to find the preprint) and Gemini popped out an AI summary of it. So I guess preprints on PsyArXiv are being used in AI training sets? 🤔

Thanks everyone for retweeting this! We've gotten all the speakers we need so far. Looking forward to sharing more with yall in a few months :)

New paper in Nature Mental Health where we show that macroeconomic income inequality is associated with brain structure and function over and above individual-level SES and other state-level factors. These alterations may serve as pathways to mental health problems. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This was a fantastic collaboration with lots of people including @hilarycmartin.bsky.social @jakobgrove.bsky.social, Experts by Experience, and several others who I can't seem to find on this app. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi bluesky friends! I plan to submit a symposium with @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social for APS 2026 on contextual psychopathology research from ECRs (students welcome!) Content area and methods are wide open. If you are interested or know someone who may be, message me and we'll chat further. 1/2

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :) psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really 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...

The National Institutes of Health has removed gender identity variables from the ongoing Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/gender/abcd-...

I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.

MASSIVE RCT of app-based CBT skill delivery showing all active conditions (isolating behavioral activation, cognitive restructuring, problem solving, + assertion training) beat 3 different control conditions h/t to team led by @toshi-frkw.bsky.social #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Viewpoint in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science on the use of the term “normal” in the DSM over time. It’s increasing, and it’s an unclear term. I found the discussion of this fascinating. Check it out. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

I was wondering if anyone who got a clinical psych PhD in the US and/or got licensed in the US has experience applying for predoctoral internships in Canada. I would love to hear more about what this process looked like from folks who have experience navigating it.

No. Next question.

Post-bacc RA job posting is now live! Great fit for applicants interested in graduate degrees clinical psychology and/or precision medicine. Please repost + share with potentially interested candidates. So excited to find a new team member to work closely with wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

Some personal news: This fall, I’ll be joining Stony Brook’s Clinical Psychology faculty as Assistant Professor! So excited to start my lab, and hope to accept PhD students next cycle. Looking forward to working with prosp. students interested in computational clinical psychology / personalization.

My annual psych internship rant, now with even more 🔥. The pre-PhD internship is an outdated model that devalues the expertise psych students bring. Now, we may be requiring students to move to unsafe cities and unstable positions, during a stage when healthcare and reproductive rights are critical.

Though we're in a new version of the world where lies are truth, i do have to correct the record and say I won 10-1.

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

I am an immunopsychiatric researcher and I approve this message. The importance of the immune system as an input/output of so many systems is why it is a critical area of work. But that is also why we need slow, thoughtful science to avoid harm. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

💫💫💫 Extremely excited about our new pre-print leveraging the strengths of hierarchical dimensional models of psychopathology to identify distinct behavior profiles from smartphone sensor data! Check out @aidangcw.bsky.social 's awesome thread on our findings!

Wanted to share news of the publication of this research paper with @auerbachlab.bsky.social and others. Using the EARS mobile sensing platform, we found that being homebound more than usual was associated with increased risk for suicidal behaviors in high-risk adolescents.

I am hiring a full time study coordinator for our EBI-BD study which uses EEG, cognitive testing, EMA, and wearables to study emotion-based impulsivity in bipolar disorder. Excellent position for someone who is interested in grad school! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Forcing your advisor to presave Eusexua by FKA Twigs by withholding labor >>>>

Very much enjoying going through this primer on matrices. Fighting the urge to show my son another way of solving for multiple unknowns that he's started in math... zief0002.github.io/matrix-algeb...

I am thrilled to announce that, starting in July 2026, I will join the Department of Psychology at Harvard University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Clinical area! It really feels like a dream come true. I can’t wait to build my lab in such an incredible department.

Sending your advisor an email with the header being "Christmas Gift Enclosed" but attaching a draft for their review instead

Belated JoPACS wine opening. Poured out a glass for @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social and bluesky-less Taka Suzuki

Question for @shayanasadi.bsky.social and the folks in Michigan: How's the weather over there?

How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️ In this cross-country study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Wow. I’ve expressed concerns about Frontiers for a long time and won’t submit or review for them, but this suggests things are really bad.

Bookmark for all future grants: Use of Promotional Language in Grant Applications and Grant Success: "the percentage of promotional words was positively associated with the probability of receiving funding (NIH grants: odds ratio, 1.51 [95% CI, 1.10-2.11])." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...