How happy are you right now? Single-item measures dominate #ESM / #EMA. Fast. Intuitive. Low burden. But… how reliable are they really? #m-Path research suggests that a large share of within-person variance may be noise... 👉 Read more: m-path.io/blog/from-pa...

Most #EMA / #ESM studies rely on snapshots 📸 But experience is continuous! What if real insights live *between* measurements? 📉 Dr. Leonie Cloos used #m-Path’s continuous line item to collect affective intensity profiles in everyday life: blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

Hoe denken jongeren over hun emoties — en wat doet dat met hun welzijn? Voor mijn NWO Vidi project zoeken we (@domimaciejewski.bsky.social & @charlottev.bsky.social) een PhD-kandidaat die dit samen met ons gaat uitzoeken! 🎓 Solliciteer voor 27 april! 👉 tiu.nu/23638 @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social

@eeskevanroekel.bsky.social @charlottev.bsky.social & myself are recruiting a PhD student on momentary emotion beliefs and well-being in adolescents (includes ESM & qualitative methods). Position requires Dutch (for data collection). Happy to answer questions! 👉 Apply: tiu.nu/23638 (27 april 2026)

Why do participants stop responding in #ESM / #EMA studies? 📱🔔 Average compliance is about 7️⃣9️⃣%, but that hides massive variation. Our new m-Path blog reviews predictors of response compliance: study design, incentives, participant traits, and time effects. 🔗 blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

Perspective: Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Join us in beautiful Dubrovnik for the XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (21–24 May 2026)! This year’s theme focuses on adaptation and its limits across multiple timescales, individual differences, and mental health. Abstracts from all areas of cogsci welcome! Visit: ducog.cecog.eu

✍️ New m-Path blogpost! Should #ESM / #EMA researchers show participants' previous rating? 🎚️ We tested three response formats in a real-world EMA study. One clearly outperformed the others, with consequences for reliability and affect dynamics. 👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/... 📱

more empirical evidence that the mean (and SD) are hard to beat... Full paper: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... #beatthemean #vanquishthevariance #affectdynamics

m-Path blogpost time! 📝 Should you gamify your #ESM / #EMA study? 🎮 A cautionary tale on the use of virtual coins, streaks and instant rewards to boost response compliance in intensive longitudinal research… 👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/....

📣 We are excited to share that a new paper by Eisele & colleagues has been accepted in Psychological Assessment: “The Distracted Participant? Experience Sampling Response Behavior and Participant Disturbance in Social Situations.” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Are you using experience sampling/ mobile sensing or are interested in incorporating these naturalistic methods? Are you going to SPSP? Are you 0-6 years post PhD? Sign up to join the early career mentoring session at 4:30 PM on Friday 02/27! www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB...

I would like to start a veridicality movement in clinical psychology. I've realized this is my primary concern with network models. We *want* them to convey information flow and dynamics, but they're just lag-1 regression models at (relatively) glacial time scales. They don't reflect what we want.

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵

☕ Time for a new #m-Path blog post! 📱🤔 A classic #ESM / #EMA dilemma: Own smartphone or research-dedicated device? It sounds trivial, but this choice subtly shapes how people respond. A rarely cited paper tested both, with non-obvious takeaways. 👉 Full breakdown: blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

We’re launching a bi-weekly m-Path blog on #ESM / #EMA measurement, new papers & showcases. 🗓️ Every 2 weeks (Wed). First up: item quality. A paper by @gudruneisele.bsky.social introduces ESM-Q: a consensus checklist for good momentary items. 👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/our-blo...

🎄 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