📣🔥Submit your symposium (30 Jan) and poster (12 Feb) abstracts to the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference www.cpconf.org Excited to announce new keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Eyiyemisi Damisah @adredish.bsky.social Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner. See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026

🚨 Upcoming JCCP Special Issue: "Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care" Edited by Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Roee Admon, & me. 🗓 Pre-proposals due March 2, 2026 Will show on JCCP website soon (sharing early for planning) ⬇️ Call for Papers tinyurl.com/3tkps63c

Thrilled to receive this grant! We'll use digital phenotyping & computational modeling to study digital/social media, AI, and mental health in adolescents and young adults. huofamilyfoundation.org/news/updates...

I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏 postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!

Now out in JEP: General, "How working memory and reinforcement learning interact when avoiding punishment and pursuing reward concurrently" psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Preprint with final version: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

Want to join our team as postdoc? This is your chance 👇👇

"From Innovation to Implementation: Artificial Intelligence in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Training and Supervision" New paper led by Roz Shafran, with contributions from a ton of leading experts on AI in mental health (and also, for reasons unclear, me) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Somehow missed that NSFGRFP will no longer consider clinical psychology students (regardless of the focus of the project?). Any recommendations for alternative funding mechanisms for post-bacc and early doctoral students? Want to create a list for our postbaccs and PhD students #AcademicSky

I made one for stats papers

📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!

New preprint alert! (1/5)🌟 I’m thrilled to share the preprint of my first first-authored PhD paper! We test whether shared reinforcement functions help explain why adolescents who engage in one self-destructive behavior often engage in others. Summary⬇ osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint alert🚨 We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question: What do these numbers mean? In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them. More info ⬇️

This American Girl Doll comes with a never-ending supply of coffee, bleary eyes from reading research papers on #digitalmentalhealth, and a passion for improving lives through technology! At CBITs, we are proud of our Modern American Girls (boys, NBs, & all the dolls!) 💜

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

The mHail Lab at University of Michigan is recruiting post-docs for 2026! Positions are available for child and adult applicants through the APA-accredited Consortium. We have NIH funded clinical trials developing digital/mHealth technologies for suicide prevention. See below for more details!👇

If you're at SRP later this week, feel free to check out some of the SPLAT Lab's offerings.

Casual inference: where we all run models in our pajamas.

‼️ New paper @ Child Development discussing why it is inappropriate to use traditional common factor models to model adverse childhood experienced (ACEs) and other stressor inventories ‼️ Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky 1/9

In critiques of research you often hear about "samples of convenience" as being a major limitation. I've been thinking that for longitudinal research we need to introduce the terms "designs (i.e.timescales) of convenience" and "models of convenience" because they can be just as problematic. 1/6

Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨📝 New Voices of Academia blog Doing a PhD with OCD by Isabelle Berrow "Days would pass by where all I had done was cry and hide myself away, punishing myself for how I felt." voicesofacademia.com/2025/01/27/d... ##AcademicMentalHealth

This looks like part of a massive multi-faceted attack on scientists and universities from the Trump admin. They have cancelled funded federal grants, frozen NIH panels, promoted anti-scientific figures and conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr in positions of oversight. This is just beginning…

So, first semester teaching grad psychopathology is over. The final papers, in which students were tasked to define psychopathology, all had basically the same theme: "It's complicated, and I now have a much greater appreciation for just how complicated it is." I guess I consider that a success?

Defining transdiagnostic constructs to advance clinical research Comment by Hilde M. Geurts & Iris L. Rapoport go.nature.com/3VIOxHH

Very cool website, R package, and tutorial paper on preprocessing data from ESM / EMA studies. Website: preprocess.esmtools.com Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

A unified account of why optimism declines in childhood Perspective by Julia A. Leonard & Jessica A. Sommerville Web: go.nature.com/40SULYX PDF: rdcu.be/d0S9D #psychology #psychscisky #devpsych

I started a suicide and self-injury research starter pack! Please share, and let me know if you’d like to be added! 😊 go.bsky.app/SgoBT7Z

Can we coin a new term called post-ABCT depression? What do you mean it’s just my normal Monday in Ann Arbor recruiting teens? That adrenaline rush from all the science at @abctnow.bsky.social #ABCT2024 was amazing! 📈👩‍💻

@eikofried.bsky.social blog on the over-internalization of causes of psychopathology (vs. socio-environmental causal agents). Some fun tidbits re: classic tension between realism + operationalism in psychiatric diagnosis Partner to: tinyurl.com/bdfshtsr eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me... #PsychSciSky

🚨New Preprint on Affective Stress Responses in Daily life (N=248) - w/ @vizecolin.bsky.social and @aidangcw.bsky.social! We used high-density sampling after stressful events to closely examine the dynamic affective response following daily hassles by estimating latent microtrajectories. 1/3

Behavioral science would be much improved if we banned the term “objective” and instead replaced with “consensual” (as in based on consensus)

going to create a starter pack for researchers studying in-group/out-group dynamics and leave about half the relevant people out of it

Published! ”Perceived causal symptom network of adolescent mental health issues”. n = 55 depressed teenagers (PHQ9 > 9) picked symptoms from a predefined list (including criteria for depression, purple nodes), specified these in their own words, and then rated causal relations.