🚨ONLY 2 WEEKS AWAY! 🚨 CBITs webinar on "The Future of Implementation Science & AI in Digital Mental Health" with Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD will be taking place on March 10th at 12pm CT! Come join for this exciting talk by registering now: lnkd.in/gvVaU7Fh

CBITs presents our Spring Webinar for the “The Future of” series with Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD! 🧠 The Future of Implementation Science & AI in Digital Mental Health 📅 Tuesday, March 10 🕛 12-1 PM CT 📍 Zoom - Free registration required 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/gvVaU7Fh

Welcoming to CBITs our newest '25-'26 Postdoctoral Fellows, Dylan Thomas Doyle, PhD @dylantdoyle.bsky.social, and Maya Hareli, PhD 👏 📖 Read the news story and learn all about our newest fellows and their fascinating research: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

Virtual Conference Opportunity! 📣 Check out this free, fully virtual, grad student–planned conference bringing together interdisciplinary scholars focused on underrepresented populations. Date: April 10, 2026 (virtual) Abstracts close: February 27, 2026

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🚨 Rising Star Award nominations close TODAY at 5PM CT ⏳ If you or someone you know is doing exciting work in digital mental health, submit a nomination! Award includes a featured webinar, certificate, and $250 🎉 Apply now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1 DAY LEFT! ⏰ Rising Star Award nominations close tomorrow (Jan 30) at 5pm CT. Early-career researchers in digital mental health: this is your moment ✨ Present at a CBITs webinar + certificate + $250 🤩 Apply today: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We noticed only 32 of you are following us on Instagram 👀 Don’t miss out! We promise we are going to post THE FUN STUFF you won’t see anywhere else. Check us out on Instagram @cbits_nu - there may even be a secret post waiting for you to see 🔍✨

Symposium Highlight: Advancing the Science of Engagement in Digital Safety Research 📣✨ Earlier this month, the symposium brought together experts in research, design, public health, tech, and advocacy to explore ways to ensure tech protects and empowers marginalized users 💫

Deadline approaching - applications due THIS Friday! 🚨 Are you an early career research who wants to share your research with a multidisciplinary audience and earn $250? Apply for the Rising Star Award by this Friday, Jan 30 at 5pm CT. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 1 week left to nominate/apply for the Rising Star Award! 🚨 Early-career researchers in digital mental health: apply by Jan 30. Winner presents at CBITs’ Future of Webinar + earns a certificate & $250 🎉 Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Publication spotlight! 🌟 Congrats to CBITs alumni Tanvi Lakhtakia & Shannon Smith! Their new paper with @jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social and Dr. David Mohr explores how everyday digital signals relate to depression, opening the door for smarter mental health tools. psycnet.apa.org/buy/2026-788...

Less than 2 weeks to apply for the Rising Star Award! 🚨 Tired of applying without knowing how you’ll be evaluated? We wouldn’t do that to you. Our official scoring rubric is public. Apply by Jan 30 at 5pm CT ⏰ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Bittersweet but HUGE congrats to CBITs' stellar Senior Research Coordinator Shannon Smith who will be moving on to Trinity Life Sciences to assist with their marketing research team! 🎉 We’re so proud of you, Shannon! Wishing you the best as you take this exciting next step 💜

Early career investigators!👋 Feeling overwhelmed by application requirements? We got you. Apply for The Future of Digital Mental Health Rising Star Award by Jan 30 with just 3 items and share your research with academic, industry & nonprofit leaders. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

January is Mental Wellness Month 💜 This time of year can be isolating. While devices can sometimes add to that, technology can also help us stay connected and remind us that support is still there. Check out a few ways to remind yourself you’re not alone 💕

Things CBITs is leaving behind in 2025: 📱App glitches 💜 Not making time for our mental health Things CBITs is carrying forward into 2026: 🤝 Partnerships 💻 "The Future of" Webinars 👀 New Director of CBITs 📚 Educational Initiatives We’re excited for what’s ahead, are you?

New article 🚨 The St. Joseph County Universal Wellness Project is a Valinhos Foundation funded Notre Dame + Northwestern collaboration expanding mental health support for local youth. Congrats to @jschleiderphd.bsky.social + @kvalentino.bsky.social and their teams! 🎉 news.nd.edu/news/notre-d...

It's officially a wrap for 2025, and at CBITs we have so much to celebrate from the last year! 🥳🎉 From collaborating with new and established partners to revamping "The Future of" Webinar, we accomplished a lot! See a bit of CBITs 2025 now:

CBITs worked with @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social computer science students to partner on an emerging research project coming out of CBITs. The students did an INCREDIBLE job understanding and expanding the capabilities of DRIVEN. 💜 Thank you to Kristian Hammond, PhD for leading the class!

CBITs is NOW accepting applications for The Future of Digital Mental Health Rising Star Award. Nominations are due by Friday, January 30, 2026 at 5pm! 📆🌟 Click below to read the full story and learn more about the Rising Star Award: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

Congratulations to CBITs Co-Director Andrea Graham, PhD, the trial coordinators, and the ACT Lab Team for wrapping up enrollment on the micro-randomized clinical trial testing FoodSteps, a digital intervention for binge eating disorder treatment! 🤩🎉

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 are so excited to announce, we have LAUNCHED the OFFICIAL CBITs Instagram! At CBITs, we are used to encountering tech challenges…let's just say our last few attempts at Instagram were early prototypes 🫣😂 But we're BACK—follow us now for a look behind-the-scenes ✨ www.instagram.com/cbits_nu/

You could be the recipient of CBITs Inaugural Future of Digital Mental Health Rising Star Award! This award includes the opportunity to present at CBITs' final webinar for the academic year! Applications are NOW OPEN 🌠: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

CBITs’ 2026 Design for Digital Health Reading Course is open for free registration! 👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 Held by HCD Experts Andrew Berry, PhD & Kaylee Kruzan, PhD 📖 Read expert-chosen articles & conference proceedings 🏅Earn a certificate 1/14 - 4/22 @ 12pm CT on Zoom cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

Don’t miss out: 3/10: The Future of Implementation Science and AI in Digital Mental Health with Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD 5/19: The Future of Digital Mental Health Investigators with YOU! (Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...) Register now: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thank you to Clare Purvis, PsyD for her incredible presentation, “The Future of Clinician-Led Ventures and Digital Mental Health” for our second webinar of the “The Future of” series! 🎉🤩 Check out the Recording here: youtu.be/_jlMa-25Pe8 ✨

🚨Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 2 @ 12:00PM CT CBITs will be hosting our “The Future of” Webinar Series with Clare Purvis, PsyD! 🚨 You won't want to miss this, so register now to gain access to all “The Future of” Webinar Series 2025-26 sessions: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026! Check out some of the incredible mentors you can work with and their research interests. Apps will be reviewed early December 2025! Interested? Learn more and apply: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

🚨 We are officially one week away from our “The Future of Clinician-Led Ventures and Digital Mental Health” Webinar Series with Clare Purvis, PsyD! 🚨  Check out this video for an exclusive preview! December 2 @ 12:00PM CT Join us! | Register now: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026! Applications will be reviewed starting December 2025! Be on the lookout for our next post highlighting the remaining faculty hoping to recruit a T32 fellow. Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

“The Future of” Webinar Series with Clare Purvis, Psy.D. is coming up on December 2 at 12pm CT! ✅ Learn a practical framework for understanding why few behavioral health technologies scale ✅ Apply a hands-on evaluation framework Excited? Register now: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CBITs webinar on "The Future of Industry and Digital Mental Health" with Clare Purvis, Psy.D., will be taking place on December 2nd at 12pm CT! 🎉 Register now: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026 🌟 Star-studded mentorship 💻 Training in mental health and human computer interaction (HCI) ✏️ Opportunities to lead projects with multidisciplinary teams Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

With gratitude, we share the news that CBITs’ founder, @davidcmohr.bsky.social, PhD, will step down as CBITs Director. Over the past 14 years, he has advanced digital mental health through his research and leadership. Thank you, David! 💜 Read more: www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/ipham/...

Adjusting to the end of daylight savings time can be a process and you may feel sleepier than normal today. Luckily, CBITs has mental health tips and tricks to help make the time change a little bit easier (a thread):

When we aren't developing innovative digital mental health research, CBITs can be found sharing delicious food and completing word searches of spooky things! We might not fear ghosts, but an app glitching causes spooky terror 👻 Wishing everyone a happy Halloween! Stay safe and have fun tonight 🎃💜

CBITs rockstar and Clinical Psychology PhD student @ariellesmith.bsky.social was recently featured in @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social's newsletter! 💜 📖 Read all about Arielle and her research on single session interventions here: www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/research/abo...

🚨🚨 Reminder to check out @jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social's free virtual seminar on Friday at 1pm EDT / 12pm CDT!

CBITs is back for “The Future of Industry and Digital Mental Health,” where Clare Purvis, PsyD, will share her work leading project teams to create programs supporting behavior change and founding her company, WELL. December 2 @ 12:00 PM CT on Zoom Join us: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Attention #Postdoc researchers and #PhDAward candidates: CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026 with training in both mental health and human computer interaction Apps will be reviewed December 2025! Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

🌟We’re proud to spotlight Kaylee Kruzan, PhD, CBITs Core Faculty, for her dedication to researching theory-driven digital treatments for adolescents and young adults with self-injurious thoughts and behaviors! Check out more: cbits.northwestern.edu

@jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social will lead a free virtual seminar on co-designing digital mental health interventions for young adults with suicidal thoughts and behaviors on: 📆 Friday, October 31st at 1pm EDT/ 12pm CDT. Check out the CPP's website for more info: www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/r...

All of the 👏 for CBITs RC Sarah Popowski for publishing her first first-author manuscript: "Designing Digital Mental Health Tools to Support the Needs of Black Adults in the United States: Qualitative Analysis" in JMIR Formative Research! 📖 Read more: formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e73279/

We are excited to announce that CBIT's Core Faculty @ashleyaknapp.bsky.social, PhD, has been elected as the Community Engagement Chair of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC)! Her role will be to pursue new connections and collaborations. Way to go 🥳

We’re wrapping up CBITs Partnership Week with a tech-powered health care double-header! CBITs helped adapt Ksana Health’s Vira platform, and teamed up with @rushmedical.bsky.social to study its impact on 130 Chicagoans with anxiety/depression Read more bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Today’s CBITs Partnership Week spotlight: Inspiration at Work! Together, we’re building DRIVEN—a 6-week CBT-based app to help unemployed individuals with depression regain motivation and seek work. 💜 Learn how CBITs powers practical mental health tools: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

Thanks to a partnership with LSMH, Montana Pediatrics, Frontier Psychiatry, and Koko, Montana will be the first state to offer single-session digital mental health tools statewide with Project Yes. 💜 Learn how government + CBITs can drive change: www.mss.northwestern.edu/about/storie...

Today we’re spotlighting our work with @mhanational.org, whose digital reach helped launch Small Steps, Plan-Safe, and Coping Compass—tools supporting mental health at scale. 🥳✨ Learn more & explore partnerships: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

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