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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

San Diego leaning into fall (the high was 88°F today 🫠)

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let’s put together a symposium and party in Seattle! Seriously, let’s chat about ideas. I’m thinking about symptoms in people in moments; identifying risky moments; configural psychometrics in time series data with @aaronjfisher.bsky.social. Please reach out if interested!

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was worried I wouldn’t be able to wear sweaters in San Diego, but my three months here have changed me in that I now find 70° sweater weather

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That feeling when your new glasses come in. Objects have edges again, fam!

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

lol that sounds right. The emo to clinical psych trajectory was my path 🙂‍↕️ you’ll just have to trust I have a similar photo from the aughts somewhere in the archives

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Lauren Forrest @laurenforrest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m accepting a clinical psychology PhD student for Fall 2027 at University of Oregon!🌲 Applicants interested in suicide, eating disorders, and/or quant-y things, esp as related to LGBTQ+ people, would be a good fit. My website includes tons of info and pro tips for applicants. Good luck! ✨💪

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I don’t have a go-to reward for all papers, but I often buy a new record for rewards. Other past rewards have included pajamas, croc jibbitz (lol), movie I want to watch, tattoos, massage, and a day trip to rock climb.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excited about this work! Here we take the configural psychometric framework to individual time series data. Please see Aaron’s thread and the preprint for the specs. Curious to hear folks’ thoughts!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

One week to go until I'll be reviewing the applications - can't wait! I've now added information on the top-up funds I have available too. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in doing a PhD in quantitative psychopathology :) miriamkforbes.academic.ws

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Miriam K. Forbes, PhD

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. I was awarded my PhD in Psychology in 2014, and went on to do po...

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

-Rumors, Tusk, Mirage -Aquemini, Stankonia, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below -Time (The Revelator), Soul Journey, The Harrow & The Harvest -Fever to Tell, Show Your Bones, It’s Blitz!

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A good day to have a good day ☀️ another day of saying *I can’t believe I live here*

Claire standing in front of a banner with arms outstretched. Banner reads Balboa Park 8 Miler San Diego Track Club

Large cacti outside. Blue sky in the background

Claire and Connor wearing hats and sunglasses smiling at the camera. Claire has their arms around Connor’s shoulders. They are outside with blurry palm trees in the background

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I was sad to give up my bike commute leaving Louisville, but as I close month one of internship, I’m pleased with public transportation so far! The only thing that will make me more insufferable is biking to the trolley line

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One of the most rewarding experiences of my PhD was developing and leading a course-based undergraduate research experience. Then, I got to write about it with some of my favorite people 🥹 a preprint on pedagogy and mentorship instead of psychopathology: osf.io/preprints/ed...

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Truly humbled to be among such stellar company and grateful to do this work alongside an *outstanding* network of mentors and peers!

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Made it through our first day of “the longest fastest year.” Training director’s words, not mine. Last big hoop before PhD!

Five people smiling at a camera holding up badges in front of a building

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

One of the hardest parts of completing my dissertation is formatting page numbers on landscape oriented pages in portrait format 💀

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New website is live, including a new blog post :). I respond to the call by @psychscience.bsky.social asking how we can improve APS conferences. eiko-fried.com/blog/in-pers...

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In-person conferences in 2026: yay or nay? | Eiko Fried

Some ideas on improving conferences so they are worth the financial, time, and ecological investments.

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Exciting day. My set-theoretic reconceptualization of the DSM (w/ MDD, GAD, and PTSD as empirical examples) is out today in JPCS, along with four invited commentaries and my response. I'm biased, but I recommend all six papers. I was really jazzed by all four commentaries. 1/25

Screenshot of a portion of the most recent TOC for the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Shows a target article for a recent set-theoretic reconceptualization of the DSM, four invited commentaries, and a response.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Merry statesmas! A great day for new course records at Western States!!! Incredible 🤯😭🎉 #wser100

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Settling in San Diego! Also, we visited Big Lou the Emu (rip) at the Lake Claire Land Trust in Atlanta on our second date.

Two people holding hands in front of a large mural that reads University Heights. There is an emu and flowers on it.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Proving ineffective at explaining why I have to work to two retired folks who just wanna party (ride bicycles)

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

California’s newest residents have landed 🙌🏻

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Some weeks are better left to the poets, and this is one for Mary Oliver. We said goodbye to our gentle giant River. Our house is now painfully quiet, but I know it just means there was a lot of love there, and I firmly believe that we are so damn lucky to love pets ❤️‍🩹

An excerpt from Mary Oliver’s “Her Grave.”

A dog lives fifteen years, if you're lucky.

Do the cranes crying out in the high clouds
think it is all their own music?

A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you
do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the
trees, or the laws which pertain to them.

Does the bear wandering in the autumn up the side of the hill
think all by herself she has imagined the refuge and the refreshment
of her long slumber?

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know
almost nothing.

A dog rolling on his back in a yard covered with yellow ginkgo leaves

A large black and white dog biting a stick in the forest

A large black and white dog standing on a cut tree trunk and Claire petting his head

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Being an eating disorder therapist is hearing your husband mutter to himself “a little light on carbs” while making lunch

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Family sending packing encouragement to get to California

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

That said, I’ve worked with people who see their network and are like “I expected x [variable that isn’t present]!” Idiographic VARs can be messy and complicated. I do like the message of keep it simple!

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Also, in our clinical studies, participants have different symptoms in their networks. Maybe people would identify their network as more intriguing/useful from another persons if the other network had irrelevant symptoms?

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Interesting. I have a generous amount of skepticism about networks for practice *and* it would be cool to account for network density here. Maybe people find interest in densely connected networks?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2026

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Key findings from The 2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People include:

36% of LGBTQ+ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including 40% of transgender and nonbinary young people.
1 in 10 LGBTQ+ young people attempted suicide in the past year.
44% of LGBTQ+ young people who wanted mental health care in the past year were not able to get it.
90% of LGBTQ+ young people said recent anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies and debates caused them stress or anxiety.
LGBTQ+ young people of color attempted suicide at higher rates than their White peers, and nearly a third (32%) also experienced racial or ethnic discrimination, in addition to anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.
Transgender and nonbinary young people who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.
Over half (59%) of LGBTQ+ young people ages 13-17 experienced bullying in the past year, and those who did reported significantly higher rates of attempting suicide in the past year than their peers.
LGBTQ+ young people who reported living in very accepting communities attempted suicide at less than a third of the rate of those who reported living in very unaccepting communities.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

UNREAL. Rachel Entrekin shattered her own record and the overall record 🤯

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We all enjoy good drag, so hear me out: wear derby fits but no derby.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

One of those glorious days you know will rip your heart out

An old dog black and white lying in the grass smiling and looking up expectantly

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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods

Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Still a NorCal person at heart but in visiting San Diego, I get it. Though I think I completed a bingo card of SoCal stereotypes within 5 minutes in Pacific Beach.

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a man in a pink shirt with the words my job it 's just beach on it

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

A fun race and a great cause! Virtual options too!

Claire smiling and running on a track holding a baton.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It’s wild what we keep in the archives!

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A full circle moment. I’m 35 and still have my childhood best friend’s home phone number memorized. This is not a flex; I could use the space.

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Sarah Victor (she/her/dr) @sarahevictor.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Blessed to be an endurance runner with no dreams of running one of the world major marathons. By extension, my family and friends are too.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

“Not all men” but enough for 62 million hits in one month on a r*pe academy website. Horrific.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The liminal space between a dissertation defense and internship (complimentary): It’s 67°F and sunny. I’m working in an R script with Philip Glass playing.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Collaborator: “any cite for this model.” Me: “I think this guy.” Other collaborator: “yeah this is the correct citation, but…it’s like citing Pythagoras for triangles.” In the running for one of the best comments I’ve read in a draft 😂💀

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