Experts with theoretical traditions, researchers experienced in approaches to theory construction, educators and policymakers work on the first steps toward creating a mature subfield of theoretical psychology. bit.ly/4nLOWoE @annemscheel.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @jmbh.bsky.social

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧵:

1/2 Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

New blog post 📣 by @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social's @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on six things you can do with your ESM items apart from your main, substantive analyses. Check it out here: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#M... #ESM #OpenScience #Measurement

Cool perspective on depression recurrence >19,000 observations, n=37 discontinuing anti-depressants Recurrence in ~1/3rd preceded by early warning signals in affect journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Smit et al. @mahelmich.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @eveliensnippe.bsky.social

2 weeks left to apply to join #HPGVienna @univie.ac.at as senior scientist. More information ⬇️ #PsychJob #PhDJob #HealthPsych

What is more useful for explaining human behavior, neuroscience or folk psychology? In this new book chapter, co-authored with Laura Bringmann, we argue for the latter. Featuring mirror neurons, tiny worms, and Steve buying a banana! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I wrote a blog post to celebrate 10 years of loo package 🎉 (R package implementing fast Pareto smoothed importance sampling cross-validation and many other useful methods for cross-validation)

Want to learn about dynamic modeling for daily diary, experience sampling, ecological momentary assessment data? 😎 Register for our online course ‘Modeling the dynamics of intensive longitudindal data’ which starts in October 2025! 🤩 utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

We asked people to reflect on this at each EMA beep for 25 days using open text boxes (100 answers/person). We also conducted 4 interviews in the same time. Currently still coding but comparing with previous ratings or events happens far less often that literature suggests. See design osf.io/md9xa/

Folks, it's time to submit your papers to PCI Psychology. Here is our invitation to you, taken from our editorial osf.io/preprints/ps...

Say you have a simple multilevel model: y ~ 1 + (1 | group). What references are there to say (or contend with) the mean of the group-level means (group-level intercepts) is the same as the population mean (population-level intercept)?

I very much appreciate @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social's openness about challenges in studying markers for careless responding and how to address them live while collecting data - among them lots of issues in dealing with participants' digital footprints #SAA2025

Really happy that @leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social presented the results of our mixed-methods study uncovering response processes in ESM studies 📱. Take-away: people are very inconsistent in how they come up with their answers. Talking to participants in key! 🔐 #SAA2025

Very exciting to see the work from @katiehoemann.bsky.social at #SAA2025! Participants were able to voice record a description of events. Katie clustered these over many different topics. 2 fun ones: - Complaints about rain (study was in Belgium 😅) - Complaints about the study itself (ESM...)

What an insane crowd at the #SAA2025 m-Party (also sublime dance moves)! 💃🪩🕺🏼 #EMA researchers know how to party! 👊🙏

We have a new group of Editorial Fellows at @psychscience.bsky.social journals-- check out their bios here: www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-ma...

To really know what is going on in people's daily life, quantitative data is not enough - we need qualitative data, too! Important talk by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social at #SAA2025 👏

First day of #SAA2025, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social is killing it with her talk on including qualitative options in ESM! @saa2025leuven.bsky.social @ambulatory-assessment.org

Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Meet our candidates! Laura Bringmann is an associate prof at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. Her motto: People are irreplaceable, so let's cherish one another! Follow her at @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and go vote at rug.nl/vote 🗳️

Not-so-modest shoutout to our own paper on interactions in which we discuss both issues — scale dependence and confounding 😋 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

🚨New Postdoc Opportunity We have an opening for a postdoc jointly mentored by Justin Baker and me for work on digital therapeutics and passive sensing using smartphones and wearables (smartwatches + smart rings). More info 👉: webbslab.com/job-postings Please RT & share!

Simulation studies are essential for methods research. How well are they conducted & reported? How can we improve their quality? Out now in Psychological Methods, see 🧵 below. With @fbartos.bsky.social, @timpmorris.bsky.social, @boulesteixlaure.bsky.social, @danielheck.bsky.social & Samuel Pawel

Can we use features of dynamic networks (e.g. centrality) to improve treatment selection and outcome prediction? New preprint on the topic: We highlight the role of uncertainty & introduce a Bayesian multilevel approach for uncertainty quantification of network features 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

news.arizona.edu/news/new-pre... Out today - our protocol paper describing an ENORMOUS effort led by Ellen Driessen leveraging all available RCT data from depression trials comparing ADM/CT/BA/IPT/PDT (>60 studies, nearing 10K patients) to develop precision treatment selection decision support tools

Looking for a PhD position? Come work with me! 🤩 In this PhD project, you will study how decisions in medicine (at the intensive care) can be improved using tools like algorithmic advice in both academic and hospital settings. Talking Dutch is a plus! 😊 www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3514...

I'm not giving up and neither should you. Let's help each other remember why we are here. We are here because we want to know the world together and imagine a better one. In solidarity, we can survive. In solidarity, we can win.

Just heard @erc.europa.eu will increase funding for grantees relocating to #Europe. Researchers based in the US or elsewhere in the world, can apply for €1 million beyond the usual max amount to set up a lab or #research team, if scientifically justified. Now to be €2 million. 🧪 #grants #academic

For those who are interested ESM feedback, happy to announce that a new paper is out, in which we combine qualitative and quantitative feedback! Innovations include clock graphs, stacked graphs, and word clouds with sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟 𝐖𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭!🌟 We have completed the second year of Stress in Action. The report is providing an overview of 2024’s achievements and highlights. Read our annual report here 👉 stress-in-action.nl/annual-repor...

I’m excited to share that we have a new special issue call at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Edited by @joshgrubbs.bsky.social and @cassie-boness.bsky.social Send them your best work on advancing our thinking on “behavioral addictions” www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

📣New preprint 📣 @leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social, @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, Mithra Hesselink and I wrote a paper illustrating the value of qualitative methods for checking the validity of your ESM data. doi.org/10.31219/osf...

[1/3] Cool new work by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and colleagues on digital feedback tools in psychotherapy with m-Path.io! 📊 Link below 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yesterday we were having a lab conversation about whether we’ll still be going to meetings in the US. This might just settle it. Also, I think we should exit the platforms that are obvious monitoring windows, even if they claim end-to-end encryption. Why should we ever trust them?

How do you integrate mobile #AA methods in clinical practice? 🤔 New pre-print perspective by @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social and others outlining different recommendations! ✅ co-create protocol with clients! ✅ tailor assessment modality! ✅ co-determine 'meaningful change'! osf.io/preprints/ps...

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Wondering about #OpenScience Practices for #Qualitative Research? In our new paper, we showcase the use of audit trails to transparently document the full qualitative analysis procedure Equivalent to sharing code in quantitative research. Check it out bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

Hey beautiful causal inference people! I was invited to give a workshop on mediation analysis, ca. 90-120 min. What would you cover? Thinking both in terms of topics to be covered (e.g., mediator-outcome confounding, sensitivity analyses?) & practical implementations (R packages worth introducing)

Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam! Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck. More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!

Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements. delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...

Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials. 🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky

The first preprint from my PhD is out: osf.io/preprints/ps...! 🥳 We explored the temporal dynamics of four careless responding indicators (response time, within-beep standard deviation, an inconsistency index, occasion-person correlation) in ESM data across different samples. Thread below🧵

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

Dundee University staff facing 632 job cuts, and huge restructuring at the university, in efforts to save 75 million pounds a year in costs. Survival of the institution is uncertain.

Help! I have a lumpy posterior! Also my models look funny. We ran imputation with mice in R, and for the two variables involved in this model, everything looked good (psrf < 1.05, chains mixed, etc.) But the intercept estimates and SEs vary widely across imputations. Isn't that concerning?

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

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