If a reviewer is asking about power in a sample size of 22,000, then I think you should just be able to point that absurdity out to the editor and not have to address any more of their feedback. I'd honor that as an editor, TBH.

Interested in running multi component intervention trials? Kelley Kidwell will be offering a workshop on the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework on Dec 15th! See link for info, and please share/RT! Available live and as recordings. smart-workshops.com/most-info

I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀 1/

What a time to be doing research. Leading a project now where collaborators are debating whether it is more compelling to have AI review/summarize something or whether we should use our wet-brains to do it. The pro AI one accused me of wanting to "armchair it"

Treating patients as a psychologist is so much better when working with a good psychiatrist. The best psychiatrist I've ever worked with, Xavier Jimenez, has started posting on instagram/YouTube. Check his posts out: www.instagram.com/dr.xaviermd/... www.youtube.com/@Dr.XavierMD...

So, colleagues and I did a pre-registration. Registered a set of primary analyses that all made good sense. Also a bunch of exploratory hypotheses (one collaborator wanted) that seemed reasonable. But now I think the exp models are a bad idea. How would you handle this? Just not do them? 1/2

We're excited this is out! Thanks to the author teams for a range of great contributions and to the reviewers who assisted with this process. The second part of this special issue will be released in November.

At a *cheeky* stationary/novelty store and it seems like they’ve got stuff just for me

An increasingly common interaction in basically every venue and medium: Person 1: Does anyone have any recommendations for good ZYZ? Person 2: Here’s what ChatGPT said when I asked? Does person 2 really think person 1 didn’t ask chat GPT already? I think we’re at a stage where they often haven’t

Very cool issue on intensive longitudinal data, including a piece by @aidangcw.bsky.social and others on minimum sample size for estimating various parameters. Sometimes when we move beyond traditional self-report we neglect psychometrics and publish lots of noise. This work can help prevent that.

Check out our paper examining the ambulatory physiological assessment of PTSD (led by @bwisco.bsky.social) as part of this neat new special issue: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Excited to announce a new special issue on Passive Sensing for behavior in psychopathology at JoPaCS led by Dan Fulford and Nick Jacobson Check out their overview paper here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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-...

Hey @dieworkwear.bsky.social , care to comment?

I will give the antivaxxers this My Covid shot made me feel much worse than my last case of Covid… Must have had extra 5g

I can’t believe how much time and effort has been spent on figuring out and debating the RIGHT or BEST way to test an indirect effect (ie the significance of a*b) when it seems much more intuitive to just say if a and b are both sig, then we have ind effect. Can anyone show me why I might be wrong?

At the on campus vaccine clinic today noticed lots of young folks coming in asking for flu but declining Covid. Just an observation

One of the more satisfying aspects of running a lab is being able to tell people they have to use the Oxford comma in research write-ups.

Job alert 🚨 Open rank tenure-track faculty position working at the intersection of generative AI modeling and computational psychiatry in UMich Psychiatry. Part of a cluster hire across units. Info at link! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Anyone have access to or link to sources for secular trends in responses to NEO-PI at facet level over past two decades?

NASSPD is accepting submissions for our 2026 conference in Toronto, April 24-25th! See nasspd.org/conference for conference information and submission portal. Talks (individual, symposia, data blitz) and clinical workshops due Nov 1st. Posters due Dec 1st. Hope to see you there!

Are you a psychologist with expertise in AI and want a job? My colleagues over at U. Michigan - Dearborn are looking for someone like you! You can find out info an apply here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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.

Exciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology! If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here: Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/... OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...

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...

New lab pic - welcome to the lab Matt! @aidangcw.bsky.social @grantaking.bsky.social @siennarose.bsky.social @jananmost.bsky.social

Just noticed the classroom I teach in has this

We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨

Excellent detailed intro paper on open scholarship in clinical psychology by some of my favourite authors on the topic, including @drlynam.bsky.social @dsbarra.bsky.social @jnfrltackett.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social @jdmiller.bsky.social and others. Perfect paper to turn into an intro lecture!

Pretty excited about this one. In this paper, we discuss the replication/credibility crisis, the factors that contribute to it, and clinical psychology's slow (really slow) progress in dealing with it. We offer a competency-based fraemwork for improving our training of future scholars. 1/2

Spotted in Ann Arbor

Apropos of nothing, remember that polygraphs (i.e., lie detector tests) are so unreliable as to be inadmissible as evidence in federal court.

Honored to present my finished master’s thesis in a symposium at #SRP2025 this weekend with Jessica Hamilton, Jasmine Mote, Renata Botello, and Dan Fulford! @sydadams.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social @jmote.bsky.social

Apropos of nothing, if I was an overpriced chain burger chain, I’d make my soda cheap…on par or cheaper than McDonalds or something like that…so people would then think, “these burgers must be so expensive bc they’re awesome,” not, “I can’t believe how overpriced this place is”

It strikes me that a good context or example for getting people to understand many key measurement principles (reference group, anchoring, sample bias, maybe even reliability and validity) is online reviews

Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25. Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

🚨 Spread the word! We're (w/ @whitneyringwald.bsky.social & @aleksakaurin.bsky.social) organizing a special issue at PD:TRT focused on innovations for measuring context in ambulatory assessment studies of personality pathology. We'd love for you (yes, you) to submit a proposal (deadline Nov. 14th):

‼️‼️‼️ This special issue will be a BANGER! Consider submitting your work linking context and dynamics to personality pathology. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

Just posting this again. If you or someone you know is looking for a tenure-track position please submit your application. Review is ongoing, but you should submit as soon as possible.

The perennial challenge for scientists: being honest with yourself about the limitations of your work but also remaining excited about it.

A tale as old as time. Different methods of measuring the supposedly same construct simply...do not. I'll add that I think "subjective" and "objective" measures both tell us something meaningful, just about different things. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Which takes longest? 1️⃣ IRB approval 2️⃣ Travel reimbursement 3️⃣ The sun expanding to a red giant & engulfing Earth 4️⃣ Peer review 📊 Show results

UPDATE: due to unforeseen circumstances I will NOT be reviewing students this cycle. Apologies to anyone who was interested. This is NOT a program issue, other Michigan clin psych faculty still on!

Why whatever I owe you is late. She really hates when I work…

I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall. Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply. More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud... (PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

People have complained about the use of badges to reward certain open science practices and not others--particularly pre-registration. So, why not offer a badge for "exploratory study?" This would be for studies that identify that they are exploratory and are clear about that throughout the work.

So much said in one (not so little) word 😆🙏

We thank our reviewer for their Verschlimmbessernian suggestions.