Our new preprint is out! We show a replicable relationship between empathic disequilibrium and eating disorders. Led by Dr Laura Renshaw-Vuillier, @fuzefovsky.bsky.social, and Dr Rachel Moseley. So lucky to be working with this brilliant team.

Paper on moral injury- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper: doi.org/10.1111/jora... What mental health profiles exist during preclinical stages? Data were drawn from 13 studies with over 100,000 young people from community and school samples. Discussed are early-stage profiles spanning from excellent mental health to more at-risk profiles.

#NetworkScience interactioninstitute.org/network-beha...

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now. "Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another awesome video from Numberphile. I’m not going to spoil it, but I will say it is very relevant if you teach research methods (it not just statistical in a narrow sense) youtu.be/VwIKKBL4ldQ?...

"Different people respond differently to therapy." Professor Jaime Delgadillo described his research into personalised treatment approaches at his inaugural lecture at the IoPPN last week. #Psychology #ScienceAtKings www.kcl.ac.uk/news/matchin...

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Love this! Avnor et al. (2025) show that empathy isn’t just in your head, it’s between two brains. Interbrain coupling helps us literally co-regulate distress together. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Morning from Glasgow! Excited for the day ahead at #EABCT!

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Views of #Suicide-Bereaved Adults Regarding the Significance of the Deceased’s Death Date: our new article in the Journal of Loss & Trauma highlights the importance of future dates (eg birthdays; death anniversaries) as potential temporal risk factors for suicide www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Heading to Glasgow this week for #EABCT! It’s my first time attending a conference without presenting, so I’m excited to just soak up the great work and enjoy the discussions. If any of my Bluesky folks are around and fancy a coffee or a chat, let me know!

New paper from our very own @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social and wonderful collaborative led by Prof Sonuga Barke. In RE-STAR we are comparing Emotion Regulation Deficits (ERD) and Emotional Burden (EB) as potential mechanisms underpinning this risk. acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

*New Paper* How genes for IQ shape brain organisation. Amazing work led by Alicja Monaghan @mrccbu.bsky.social reveals 2 ways. First, they’re associated w/ the ‘costs’ of network formation. Second, they define ‘high value’ areas within the network. How she did it…🧵 doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

#psychscisky New publication supporting proposed mechanisms of change Examining interrelations among trajectories of mindful awareness, acceptance, and values-consistent actions in acceptance-based behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New #rstats blog up! solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07... This is the first in a new series discussing causal inference with experimental data using multilevel models. My basic case is g-computation is the way to go.

🚨Thrilled to share a new paper on emotion ensemble processing in anxiety. Threat biases arose in dual fashion, such that individuals with anxiety displayed: • an attentional bias indicating threat avoidance • a judgemental bias favouring threat ➡️ doi.org/10.1037/abn0... 🧠 @pandmlabhku.bsky.social

Highly recommend following Shachar’s brilliant #Rstats demos on his blog. Clear, insightful, and super helpful!

Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵

New research tracks how empathic disequilibrium, the balance between emotional and cognitive empathy, shifts from age 3-12: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excited to share our new study tracking how empathic disequilibrium develops in children aged 3–12! With @fuzefovsky.bsky.social, Prof Rebecca Waller & Dr Nicholas Wagner, we found that both forms of empathic disequilibrium are common across development. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Empathy

Now online and #openaccess: Change in empathic disequilibrium across childhood and associations with socioemotional difficulties by Shalev et al in our #ECAP journal: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #childpsychiatry #ESCAP

On autism, movement & Parkinson's disease (PD), important, free www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "If it is the case that older autistic individuals are sometimes falsely diagnosed with PD on the basis of outward appearances... the PD diagnosis procedure must be overhauled to guard against this"

🚀 Exciting news! The brilliant @isabellakahhale.bsky.social just published an amazing scoping review on early life adversity and empathy! 🧠💖 Her work reviews if/how childhood experiences shape our ability to understand and resonate with others #Empathy link.springer.com/article/10.1... /1

New article with Sarah Hayes-Skelton and Sue Orsillo presents long-term maintenance of treatment effects for acceptance-based behavior therapy for generalized anxiety disorder www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #psychscisky #psychology

Out now in JAMA: Together with Meike Shedden Mora and Winfried Rief @rief01.bsky.social , we share four evidence-supported communication strategies to help health care professionals improve patient expectations—and thereby enhance treatment outcomes. #MedTwitter #Psychology

Why not use cognitive science to test AI social skills? In our new @aclmeeting.bsky.social paper (@eitanwagner.bsky.social, @nitalon.bsky.social, me & Omri Abend), we bring Theory of Mind to AI evals; Richer, more humanlike, more interactive 🧠 Read here 👉 lnkd.in/edDj-r3B #AI #ToM #ACL2025

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New review on the genetics of schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A huge thank you to @estherina.bsky.social and Nimrod! Excited to echo this ECR voice. Here’s to many more wonderful future collaborations ahead! 🎉

I made a shiny app to explore what random and fixed effects means in a longitudinal mixed model: vilgothuhn.shinyapps.io/lmm_explorer2/

Pleased to share new work from our group, led by PhD student Edward He. Edward joined the group as a summer student interested in the genetics of resting state functional connectivity, measured using graph networks. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Love this so much. Disclosing an autism diagnosis made non-autistic people more empathetic and more open and willing to connect across three studies. Beautiful framing and such needed work. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Proud to have contributed to this work led by Dr Adi Meiden under Prof Florina Uzefovsky's supervision! ❤️ Our study highlights the dynamic, bidirectional relationship between maternal and child empathy, and how it evolves in families at high risk for maltreatment.

A framework for vicarious and collective memory, future projections and narrative identity Perspective by Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen, Robyn Fivush, Alin Coman, William Hirst, Olivier Luminet & David B. Pillemer Web: go.nature.com/3DAUQHJ PDF: rdcu.be/edq1t #psychology #psychscisky

Patient priorities for interoception research, just out in Lancet eClinicalMedicine 🧠🫁🫀 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ — the first pub from our @wellcometrust.bsky.social Mental Health Award Led by the brilliant @gabmackie.bsky.social & @lydiajhickman.bsky.social

The whole idea's intriguing.

Need to explain (or understand) linear mixed effects regressions, random intercepts, and random slopes? Look no further than "A Visual Introduction to Hierarchical Models" by Michael Freeman, 2017. It's a banger!

Interesting approach!

Received news that my paper with @minzlicht.bsky.social was accepted at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin🥳. In it, we examine how trait measures of empathy predict everyday state empathy, and what this teaches us about how we measure and experience empathy: osf.io/preprints/ps... #empathy

New preprint! My entry into the ongoing AI empathy discussion: "Reframing the performance and ethics of 'empathic' AI: Wisdom of the crowd and placebos." osf.io/preprints/ps...

How can we reduce conceptual clutter in the psychological sciences? @ruimata.bsky.social and I propose a solution based on a fine-tuned 🤖 LLM (bit.ly/mpnet-pers) and test it for 🎭 personality psychology. The paper is finally out in @natrevpsych.bsky.social: go.nature.com/4bEaaja

New Paper! Online now in JAMA Psychiatry, we have performed a large-scale Mendelian Randomization study of circulating proteins in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and cognitive task performance.