Sign in

Christian Bean

@cbean.bsky.social
533 followers 1K following 66 posts

Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology | Depression risk, ESM/EMA enthusiast | anime enjoyer | very amateur weightlifter

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Christian Bean
Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw
youtu.be
Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)
YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA
67440
Reposted by Christian Bean
Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excited this measurement manuscript is out. 6+year effort to address what we saw as limitations in how we use the PHQ-9. Work by @dawsonhaddox.bsky.social in collabo w my partner in (measurement) crime @eikofried.bsky.social. If you use PHQ for weekly assessment or symptom-level analyses, read this!
4436
Reposted by Christian Bean
Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Congrats @yinrulong.bsky.social! We had a great time at SRP catching up with friends and hearing about new research in psychopathology. Very grateful for this community!
083
Reposted by Christian Bean
Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
1016651
Reposted by Christian Bean
Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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...
nature.com
Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less
514754
Reposted by Christian Bean
Leonie Vogelsmeier @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🚨 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...
osf.io
OSF
35318
Reposted by Christian Bean
Daniel Coppersmith @danielcoppersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I’m starting a suicide prevention research lab at UMass Amherst! I’ll be reviewing applications for our clinical psychology PhD program. Come to our virtual open house to learn more about the program and speak with faculty accepting students. www.umass.edu/psychologica...
12512
Reposted by Christian Bean
Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV). 📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418 Please share!
01722
Reposted by Christian Bean
Sarah Victor (she/her/dr) @sarahevictor.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I am barely on this app, because of *gestures wildly* life, the universe, and everything, but I should announce that I plan to review apps for clinical psychology PhD admissions this cycle! Please read my website for more info! www.sarahevictor.com/contact
sarahevictor.com
Contact & Apply | Sarah Victor, PhD | United States
Information on how to reach TRTL and how to join the lab.
0208
Reposted by Christian Bean
Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt @medvanderbilt.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Don't miss our wonderful MED Lab members at SRP this week! #SRP2025
0165
Reposted by Christian Bean
Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I think about this diagram a lot. This is a *simplified* schematic of *some of* the brain regions and circuits involved in behavioral control. (From: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
A diagram showing dozens of brain regions densely interconnected by complicated loops
59819
Reposted by Christian Bean
Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
📱EMA is increasingly used in intervention studies to acquire a more fine-grained and ecologically valid assessment of change. But EMA is relatively burdensome. What's the added value? We tried to address this question in our new paper now out @jmirpub.bsky.social www.jmir.org/2025/1/e69297 1/n
jmir.org
Ecological Momentary Assessment as a Measure of Intervention Change: Evaluation in 4 Digital Mental Health Trials
Background: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is increasingly being incorporated into intervention studies to acquire a more fine-grained and ecologically valid assessment of change. The added uti...
14314
Reposted by Christian Bean
Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation".
We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks.
For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations.
Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations.
These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. 
For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions.
Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors.
Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models.
Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.
6303106
Reposted by Christian Bean
ODU Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program @oduclinpsycphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Old Dominion University (ODU) has launched a solo Clinical Psychology PhD program. ODU led the administration of the APA-Accredited Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology, training doctoral clinical psychologists for >43 years. Check out the department at www.odu.edu/clinicalpsycphd
odu.edu
Clinical Psychology Ph.D.
The PhD in Clinical Psychology is a doctoral concentration in the Old Dominion University (ODU) Department of Psychology.
042
Reposted by Christian Bean
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/09/2025
New paper out with @boryslaw.bsky.social 🥳 In which we sketch out how to rethink measurement invariance causally for applied researchers. And provide a causal definition of measurement invariance! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rethinking measurement invariance causally

Highlights:
It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance
A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation
Standard tests for measurement invariance rely on strong assumptions
Group differences can be thought of as descriptive resultsConceptual graph illustration the central points of the manuscript. A group variable is potentiall connected to a construct of interest which affects items. Measurement invariance is violated if the group variable directly affects the items, for example by modifying the loadings from the construct to the items, or by directly affecting an itemTo make this less abstract, consider a scenario where students take an exam, R, meant to capture some ability, T, and then are admitted to a program, V, depending on their exam results: R → V. This is sufficient to result in a violation of the statistical definition of measurement invariance. Exam results and admission are not independent given ability because exam results have a direct effect on admission. Even if we know somebody’s ability (e.g., we know it’s very high), learning about their admission status (e.g., they were not admitted) can tell us something about their exam result (e.g., it may have been worse than expected). According to the causal definition, this in itself does not constitute measurement bias, which seems a sensible conclusion here. After all, the scenario does not involve any reason to believe that the measurement process varied systematically by admission status. Admission happens after the exams took place, it cannot retroactively influence the measurement process (and, for example, lead to unfair treatment depending on admission status).
311336
Reposted by Christian Bean
Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :) psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...
psychology.fas.harvard.edu
Mark Chen | Department of Psychology
26840
Reposted by Christian Bean
Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Big news! @universityofri.bsky.social just secured its first-ever NIH T32 grant! This T32 will bring together Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering, and Life Sciences to train the next generation of scientists to tackle complex health challenges like addiction. www.uri.edu/news/2025/09...
uri.edu
URI receives first-ever NIH T32 award to launch transdisciplinary biomedical research training program
KINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 3, 2025 – The University of Rhode Island has received its first-ever National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Predoctoral Training Grant, marking a major milestone in URI’s growt...
3397
Reposted by Christian Bean
Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
1091236296051
Reposted by Christian Bean
Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"students evaluate online courses as worse than in-person courses, despite minimal differences in performance ... primarily driven by student perceptions of instructor availability, concern for students, and the ability to stimulate interest in the course." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
The quality of online instruction and returns to instructor experience
We examine student satisfaction and performance in online versus in-person sections at a large research university in the United States, exploring whe…
074
Reposted by Christian Bean
Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep More info in the link!! Please retweet!
psychology.fas.harvard.edu
PPREP Program | Department of Psychology
02735
Reposted by Christian Bean
Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The psych job market isn’t dead! Join us at UIC!!! We are looking for a clinical psychologist (assistant or associate level)!! Chicago is simply the best, and the department is incredibly lovely! I’m not on search committee, but as the “newest” hire, I’m happy to talk about my experience thus far!
16738
Reposted by Christian Bean
Julian Burger @julianburger.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I will be reviewing applications for Stony Brook’s Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. The research streams of my lab are summarized on the department website: www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/psyc...
stonybrook.edu
Julian Burger | Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University
22515
Reposted by Christian Bean
Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We’re hiring an assistant or associate professor to join our psychology department at the University of Illinois Chicago! We’re a vibrant research-active department in a great city, a diverse institution with a purpose-driven mission, and a fun place to work! #psychjobs uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
uic.csod.com
Assistant or Associate Professor - Clinical Psychology (Tenure Track)
Position SummaryTeach at the undergraduate and graduate level, advise students, conduct research in area of expertise, participate in the intellectual...
25433
Reposted by Christian Bean
Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall! Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab Please spread the word!
ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu
Join the Lab | Ringwald Lab
04631
Reposted by Christian Bean
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/08/2025
Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities

Abstract
Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models).
Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve.A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals).

Illustrated are 
1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals
2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and
3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.
461001285
Reposted by Christian Bean
Elena Llaudet @ellaudet.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Teaching/learning intro stats and R? #rstats Explore my teaching materials, including syllabus, lecture slides, exercises, interactive graphs, and self-graded review exercises: ellaudet.github.io/dss_instructor_resources Instructors using DSS: source files from PUP have just been updated!
ellaudet.github.io
DSS Instructor Resources
2308
Reposted by Christian Bean
Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
rwjf.org
Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research
The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.
1202147
Reposted by Christian Bean
Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I am pleased to announce that our APA accredited Counseling Psychology program at Colorado State University has officially transitioned to an APA accredited Clinical Psychology program, adopting the clinical science training model. psychology.colostate.edu/clinicalscie...
psychology.colostate.edu
Psychological Clinical Science – Department of Psychology | CSU
45415
Reposted by Christian Bean
Tom Olino @olinotom.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Applying for graduate studies in psychology and neuroscience can be challenging and confusing. Frequently, applicants have some support from mentors at their home institutions, but sometimes applicants are looking for additional reassurance, feedback, or perspectives on the processes.
22621
Reposted by Christian Bean
Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 15/08/2025
Paper on the problems of using LLMs as replacements for human participants journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com
Six Fallacies in Substituting Large Language Models for Human Participants - Zhicheng Lin, 2025
Can artificial-intelligence (AI) systems, such as large language models (LLMs), replace human participants in behavioral and psychological research? Here, I cri...
24515
Reposted by Christian Bean
rochephd.bsky.social @rochephd.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Job Posting I am pleased to share 2 ads for Assistant Professor of Psych (tenure track) positions at my university (West Chester University of PA). I am chairing the clinical psych search. Please reach out with questions (Mroche@wcupa.edu), review of apps begin in a few weeks. Ad links in comment.
166
Reposted by Christian Bean
Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I will be reviewing applications for the University of Michigan Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. If you are interested in applying, here’s some info I prepared for applicants: sites.lsa.umich.edu/aidangcw-lab...
sites.lsa.umich.edu
2026 Applicants – Personality Processes and Outcomes Laboratory
04422
Reposted by Christian Bean
František Bartoš @fbartos.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: evidence from 350,757 flips. That's the title of our paper summarizing ~650 hours of coin-tossing experimentation just published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association. doi.org/10.1080/0162...
1199
Reposted by Christian Bean
Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New paper by @bsiepe.bsky.social & WARN-D team out now in JoPACS, on the (lack of) relation between EMA selfreport and Garmin passive data. Guardian @theguardian.com coverage: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Paper: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #EpiSky
theguardian.com
Smartwatches offer little insight into stress levels, researchers find
Academic study suggests devices cannot differentiate between someone being overworked and being excited
37130
Reposted by Christian Bean
Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
share.google
Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology
06950
Reposted by Christian Bean
Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle! There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally. u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...
u.osu.edu
Accepting 1-2 new students this cycle! ☝️/✌️
03326
Reposted by Christian Bean
Joar Øveraas Halvorsen @joarhalvorsen.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This title! “What happens to children’s mental health when we treat their parent’s depression? We have no idea. An empty systematic review.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
cambridge.org
What happens to children’s mental health when we treat their parent’s depression? We have no idea. An empty systematic review | Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy | Cambridge Core
What happens to children’s mental health when we treat their parent’s depression? We have no idea. An empty systematic review
14311
Reposted by Christian Bean
Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
After nearly 2 years of debating and redrafting, the preprint is out: Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines With a legit superstar team Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵
22811
Reposted by Christian Bean
Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
wcaleb.rice.edu
Generic Syllabus Maker
1238186
Reposted by Christian Bean
Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
(1/6) New pre-print alert! 🤩🚨 We provide new evidence for contra-hedonic functions of NSSI & ED behaviors in adolescents. See 🧵 for a brief summary 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...
23610
Reposted by Christian Bean
Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Ph.D. 🇹🇹🏳️‍🌈 @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Hey folks: A little while aback, @jschleiderphd.bsky.social and I created a repository of SOPs to help folks prepare for grad applications. If you'd like to add your SOP, feel free to use this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Of note, mask as you desire as I will be posting them as is.
docs.google.com
Example Grad School Personal Statements
Clinical Psychology Graduate School Personal Statement Examples Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, PhD Jessica Schleider, PhD University of Michigan Stony Brook University Updated: June 7, 2021 Why did we c...
23225
Reposted by Christian Bean
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
669197854362
Reposted by Christian Bean
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/07/2025
One of the most common science myths is that we need 10k steps a day...a number originating from a Japanese ad. In general, the more steps the better, right? However, several studies now identify inflection points around 7k as significantly reducing many health risks, from heart to dementia.
thelancet.com
Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis
Although 10 000 steps per day can still be a viable target for those who are more active, 7000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a mor...
16366109
Reposted by Christian Bean
Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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...
universiteitleiden.nl
Does your smartwatch say you’re stressed? It may often be wrong
Consumer grade smartwatches may not be as accurate as promised when measuring tiredness or stress. That conclusion is drawn by researchers Björn Siepe and Eiko Fried based on a comparison between smar...
39233
Reposted by Christian Bean
Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt @medvanderbilt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📣 MED Lab Paper Spotlight 📣 (1/2) Temporal dynamics of positive and negative affect in adolescents: Associations with depressive disorders and risk @abitantegeorge.bsky.social @cbean.bsky.social @akujawa.bsky.social link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
153
Reposted by Christian Bean
Cassie Boness, PhD @cassie-boness.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity. Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...
psych.unm.edu
New Doctoral Degree Area :: Department of Psychology | The University of New Mexico
14820
Christian Bean @cbean.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
#psychjobs
020
Reposted by Christian Bean
Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
We are looking for a clinical psych postdoc to join our team in 2025 or 2026 to help with studies of mood disorders and suicidal behavior in youth and families (using EEG 🧠 and EMA 📱 methods). See www.moodemotionlab.com for more info on the lab and projects.
moodemotionlab.com
Mood, Emotion & Development Laboratory
The Mood, Emotion & Development Lab at Vanderbilt University is directed by Dr. Autumn Kujawa. Our research examines social and emotional development and the ways in which alterations in emotion contr...
12721
Reposted by Christian Bean
Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/07/2025
I recently came across the idea of adding a /ai page to your personal website—similar to /now and /uses—to explain your LLM use (see this for a bunch of different ones slashai.page and this for the overall idea www.bydamo.la/p/ai-manifesto), so I created my own here
andrewheiss.com
AI usage | Andrew Heiss
Here’s how I use AI and LLMs in my work
87312