🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝 Google search interest shows a stable pattern: 🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve 🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier #MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁 📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024) #dataviz #ggplot2

Cool study in JAMA Psychiatry confirms what many have suspected for a while: PHQ (depression questionnaire) instructions are widely misinterpreted by patients. It is unfortunate that a questionnaire as shitty as PHQ-9 has become so ingrained & ubiquitous jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New paper out in Obesity Reviews #openaccess: Mobile interventions to promote healthier lifestyles are popular, but they risk widening existing health inequalities, and this already starts at intervention uptake! Work funded by @ehps.bsky.social. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/obr....

📑 New paper by Stephanie Wong et al. captures exactly why m-Path exists. A phased, user-centered study showing how EMIs can be built quickly, affordably, theory-informed, and at scale, and they used m-Path as their no-code platform. What struck me was why they needed a platform like ours 👇:

Want to learn everything about #ESM / #EMA (and visit beautiful Leuven 🤭)?

A full week of new insights in #ESM / #EMA measurement! 📏📱

A "frontier" RCT showing college students preferred LLM (ChatGPT-4) and peer feedback to teacher feedback, but teacher feedback most improved performance. I hope they analyze feedback for style. I wonder whether students positively responded to sycophancy in LLM. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

1st day of #MITNB meeting at @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social. Excited for the week ahead, where we'll tackle measurement issues in #ESM, e.g. modeling processes across timescales, building a formal theory on measurement, and evaluating statistical assumptions in #ESM data. Go teamwork <3

Another milestone for our little team! 🎉 200 publications have now cited m-Path according to Google Scholar! Huge thanks to everyone who uses (and mentions 😜) our #ESM / #EMA platform in their papers 🙏 👉 Check out the list: blog.m-path.io/publications

Damn, what an effort! 💪

Can't wait to see / read the full movie... 😜

Cool #ESM / #EMA study by Domensino and colleagues about (changing) cognitive abilities in patients with acquired brain injury. Assessed with mobile cognitive tests! 🧠📱 O-A: doi.org/10.1177/2055...

🚀 50,000+ Android downloads! What began less than five years ago with a simple “hello world” has grown into a trusted platform supporting researchers and clinicians across the globe in capturing the richness of daily life. We feel deeply thankful (and a little proud too). 💙

When we measure personality multiple times in a study, does it matter if we ask people about their personality *in general* or *since the last time point*? Turns out: yes! We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Velkommen, Danmark! At m-Path Software, we’re thrilled to welcome Danish to our growing list of supported languages. And of course, what better symbol than the 🚲, a nod to Denmark’s world-famous cycling culture and smooth, user-friendly journeys. #ESM / #EMA / #blendedcare

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...

Just out in JMIR - A team from Salzburg uni built and validated a full mobile stress induction toolbox entirely inside m-Path. No external software company. No custom coding. Just researchers developing their own digital paradigms through the m-Path prototype pipeline: www.jmir.org/2025/1/e75785

Save the date for the 2026 REAL ESM/EMA Workshop!

🚨 New preprint: We compared 13 methods for detecting momentary careless responding in the WARN-D data (206k+ obs.). Tutorials guide you through each method. The takeaway? Diverging results, inherent subjectivity (to varying degrees), and a clear need for further validation. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Cool preprint from @ajwright.bsky.social et al. demonstrating that personality change occurs at different time scales! www.researchgate.net/profile/Aman...

📦 A new chapter for m-Path! We may be moving (real) offices, but one thing is certain: Our trusted coach is joining us!! From feature brainstorms to deep dives into implementation (and a few philosophical detours 🤓)… our coach has heard it all!

🤔 Can people with dementia participate in intensive experience sampling studies via smartphone? 🧐Yes, they can! Even with high-frequency sampling schemes (8 times / day)! Work from @lauradewitte.bsky.social in npj Dementia: doi.org/10.1038/s444...

📣 We are looking for a test audience! We’re excited to introduce a powerful new addition to our mobile sensing packages: m-Path Keyboard Tracking! #EMA #ESM #mobilesensing #behavioraldata #psychresearch

Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like

Interested in #AA methods? Join Maddy's lab! 🔥

Cool example of #CitizenScience meets #EMA / #ESM: A large-scale study on how nightly sleep duration 😴 shapes daily emotional experience 🎭. Bonus points for running a full multiverse of analyses! 🧠🏆 online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

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...

Cool work by Vanhasbroeck et al. (2024) relevant for #EMA / #ESM research: 🔁 Moderate to good retest consistency in fast-paced affective measures 📏 Whether it is VAS, Likert or 2D affect grid: Scale type doesn't seem to affect reliability! 🔗: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

📱 Want to know when to schedule your #EMA / #ESM beeps for the highest completion rates? ⏰ Timing matters: some moments during the day and week are more receptive than others. See: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🆕 New in m-Path: Text-to-speech voice narration! 🎙️✨ We're making #EMA / #ESM more inclusive by enabling items to be read aloud — supporting participants with visual impairments or reading difficulties. Currently available in 5 languages! 🌍 For more info: manual.m-path.io/knowledge-ba...

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

Join me at the University of Witten/Herdecke for research on meta scientific topics, replication work or other fun things :-) as well as teaching some IMO wonderful students short.sg/j/56902143

📢 New paper alert! Invited review led by Francis Tuerlinckx for BJMSP on the latest developments in #EMA / #ESM research 📱🔍 doi-org.kuleuven.e-bronnen.be/10.1111/bmsp... A (very) short 🧵 below: @saa2025leuven.bsky.social

(2/2) #m-Party #SAA2025

How to deal with overnight lags in #EMA studies? 📱🛏️🤔 There's more than one way to handle them, and the *best* way depends on your variable of interest! As always: It's complicated 😉 New work by Sophie Berkhout et al. in #PsychMethods

(1/2) 📸 What a night! Huge thanks to everyone who came out and made the #m-Party unforgettable. 🎶 Special shoutout to m-Path's very own DJ @dejonckheere.egon.bsky.social for keeping the dance floor alive all night! The full photo album will be shared with all #SAA2025 participants stay tuned! ✨

#HPGVienna is so excited to host @ambulatory-assessment.org #SAA2026 conference in Vienna @univie.ac.at next year! 📆 Save the date: 3 to 6 August 2026

Leuven seems to be an outlier in this attendance time series, discussed in @aneubauer.bsky.social secretary report at the #SAA2025 general assembly! 📈

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

Live at the m-party! 💃🪩

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...)

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

Happening now at #SAA2025! @gudruneisele.bsky.social leading a symposium on ESM data quality & quantity. Kicking us off @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student, @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on careless responding. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #ProudSupervisor

Inez Myin-Germeys sheds light on the promise of #EMA in clinical practice ✨, and the hurdles we must overcome 🧩. ✅ personalization of surveys ✅ intuitive dashboards ✅ real-time inteventions Important take-aways for m-Path! 📲 #SAA2025

@rayyantutunji.bsky.social showing at #SAA2025 that wearable data (EPA) is not enough to predict mental well-being (R2 = 0.01). My bet is more on timing (triggering) surveys compared to leaving out surveys. Impressed by the commitment to correct validation (not even touching test set until later)!

Cool #SAA2025 talk from Niels van Hasbrouck about how an extreme response style can have a severe effect on affect dynamics. Should we push everyone to have the same response style by only allowing discrete answers?

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

#SAA2025 has just kicked off. We are grateful to the organisers for welcoming us to KU Leuven this year, and we are looking forward to an exciting three days! @saa2025leuven.bsky.social