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Zachary Cohen

@depressionlab.bsky.social
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assistant prof. Personalized Treatment Lab @uarizona clinical psychology, intervention science. Precision Mental Health/Digital Therapy. Dad+Husband. He/him.

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Due to challenges with the current funding climate I won’t be reviewing clinical psych PhD applications this cycle. Sorry to miss out on the chance to mentor more amazing ECRs but hopefully things improve in the coming years.
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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reviewing applications for the Clinical Psych PhD at UC Berkeley this fall! We develop and test transdiagnostic treatments (soon including sleep-interfering media use) and study how to get them into real-world care. #ClinicalPsychology #PhD #SleepResearch #UCBerkeley
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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!
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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
1/ @sadcatlab.bsky.social research "in press" at Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. In 274 adults with 7 weekly measurements, we find that cognitive change in CBT predicts subsequent symptom change, controlling for time-invariant confounds + linear trends osf.io/preprints/ps...
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CAUSALab @causalab.org · 20/08/2026
Apply now for CAUSALab Clinics! Free #causalinference consulting w/ postdoc fellows. Offered to Boston early-career investigators who research comparative effectiveness or safety of health interventions. Fall 2026 dates: 📅 Oct 14 📅 Nov 18 📅 Dec 9 Apply: hsph.harvard.edu/research/cau...
Apply now for CAUSALab Clinics! Fall Dates: Oct 14, Nov 18, Dec 9, 2026. Learn more and apply at causalab.org
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Review of applications for tenure-track assistant professor position in @uarizona.bsky.social department of psychology (clinical area) begins Sept 1. Apply to join a fantastic department with truly wonderful colleagues and amazing students. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychological Science (T/TE)
The candidate will be expected to build and sustain an externally funded, nationally recognized research program.Provide effective instruction at the ...
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Meme of a young person assisting an old lady. The old person said “I remember when you could store data on osf.” The young person said “sure professor. Let’s get you to bed”
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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Excited to share a new Annual Review paper with @eriknook.bsky.social : "Large Language Models in Mental Health Research and Treatment." Here lay out what LLMs actually are and aren't, then take a census of how mental health research has used them so far, where it's heading 🧵1/n
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Really proud of this work that came together as a pet peeve project of a few NSMD PhD candidates, and now ended up in New Ideas in Psychology. What are symptoms? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Rethinking ‘symptom’: A critical look at terminology in mental health research
The term symptom pervades mental health research, yet its meaning remains ambiguous. In this paper, we argue that the lack of clarity and consensus on…
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
@lluaces.bsky.social with another banger! Thoughtful research design plus amazing writing equals another paper that will go on my lab’s required reading list.
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Aleksa Kaurin @aleksakaurin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Thrilled (really) to share recent evidence from our READY study led by @paulaphilippi.bsky.social w/ @aidangcw.bsky.social: "Minutes that matter: A microburst approach to adolescents' resolution of affect in response to daily stressors" 🧵1/9
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Those of us who were trained at CTSA by Edna Foa will be very familiar with this. I love Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)! I've licked the bottom of my shoe many times when working with OCD (and still do it 2x per year when I teach my undergrad and graduate courses on CBT). And much more...
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Eiko is the best! If I didn’t have a family I’d quit my job and move to the Netherlands to work with him. Highly recommend these positions to any who might be interested!
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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What to do when #AI meets #OpenScience? @stokel.bsky.social spoke to me & other colleagues about this pressing issue for this @nature.com article. @drandreahoward.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social @miriforbes.bsky.social @debruine.bsky.social
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Dawson Haddox @dawsonhaddox.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I had a great time giving my first conference talks, sharing my work on depression assessment and digital phenotyping at #APS26BCN! Grateful to my mentor (@depressionlab.bsky.social), my collaborators (Drs. Fried, Allen, Craske, Sachdeva, and many others), and everyone I met and learned from there.
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Fantastic work by @cherilev.bsky.social and her team - truly a joy getting to collaborate with all of them to integrate/adapt their work on treating eating disorders into our digital therapy ecosystem (credit/thanks as always to Michelle Craske ~ UCLA DGC/ADRC). @personalizedtx.bsky.social
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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
1/ New paper 👀 TL; DR the COMET single session intervention (SSI) was superior in reducing depression, anxiety, and to a lesser extent improving well-being than a waiting control in college students. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An Online Wellness Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms in College Students: A Multi-site Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Efficacy of The Common Elements Toolbox (COMET)

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Robert J. DeRubeis 7
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Giovanni Ramos @gramos.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Can less than 10 minutes daily on a mindfulness app improve the mental health of people of color exposed to discrimination? Based on our new publication in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (@jmirpub.bsky.social), the answer is yes! www.jmir.org/2026/1/e84328/ A 🧵:
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A Self-Guided App-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Individuals Who Experience Discrimination-Related Mental Health Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trial
Background: Racially and ethnically minoritized individuals (REMs) who experience discrimination are at risk of developing stress, anxiety, and depression, and digital mental health interventions (DMH...
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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NHS data should be driving innovation & improvement – it’s an amazing resource We just published the sequel to our 2021 "Road to Hell" paper on using NHS data for research... things are worse! Buckle up for a long 🧵about *how COMPLETELY mad* system is for accessing NHS data for research 1/20
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Effect sizes are useful for understanding the magnitude of study results and for planning new studies via power analysis.
However, despite their wide usage, effect sizes are often misinterpreted. This is mostly due to an over-reliance on general
effect size benchmarks that were not intended for broad application across diverse research fields. Inaccurate effect size
interpretations can lead to incorrect conclusions about the magnitude of study results and incorrect sample size estimates,
thereby increasing the likelihood of false-positive results. This article introduces the ESDist R package, which is designed
to calculate empirically derived effect-size benchmarks or a range of reliably detectable empirical effect sizes for a specific
research question or field of interest by computing effect size distributions (ESDs). This package can be used on data that
can be easily extracted from pre-existing meta-analyses to help researchers more accurately plan new studies or to better
understand how an individual study might relate to other studies in their field. ESDist includes a set of features that make it
easy to use in a priori power analysis. Moreover, the package includes a feature for estimating effect size benchmarks that
account for publication bias and are weighted by effect sizes' variances, which addresses existing limitations of using ESDs
for study planning or interpretation.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Wondering what you shouldn't say in a proposal? Call your program officer. Wondering what happened in panel? Call your program officer. Wondering how the latest federal stuff may affect your proposal? Call your program officer. Call your PO. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/call-your-pr...
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Call your Program Officer
Yes, you. Schedule a phone call. This is the hidden curriculum.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Computationally formalising a verbal theory is an eye-opening experience because it forces you to openly state all the assumptions that the theory rest on
The XKCD  Dependency meme
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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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/...
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How Intensity Profile Drawings Transform ESM / EMA Assessment.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth
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Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters
This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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A line graph showing the fraction of R01 applications funded as a function of percentile for NIMH. The estimated success rate for FY2024 was 20.4% compared with 10.0% for FY2025.
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚨 New paper out in Current Directions in Psychological Science, with @matnoc.bsky.social! We review recent advances in digital & computational methods for understanding, predicting, and preventing suicide.
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Pat McDermott @twinsetpat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Cuts to scientific research will have effects for years to come. @standupforscience.bsky.social has been an important voice connecting scientists & all of us. @cdelawalla.bsky.social leads that group, & her latest post is a call to action to restore funding 👇🏿👇🏼👇🏾👇🏻👇🏽 substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Scientists, it's time to pay your taxes.
This arrangement—where a small number of dedicated scientist activists fight for the whole of the ecosystem—isn’t sustainable.
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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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/...
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Predictors of response compliance in ESM / EMA research
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Looking forward to expanding our small team a bit as the lab prepares for its 2nd year. We will be hiring 2-3 more volunteer, in-person RAs for our team to start in the fall. Details and application info are at our website. share.google/O1hvtUpPLIlp...
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Join Us – Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We at the @personalizedtx.bsky.social already knew how lucky we are to have the best postdoc (@juliayarrington.bsky.social), but lovely to see her recognized with @uarizona.bsky.social's Outstanding Postdoctoral Research award AND the Postdoc-as-Mentor award! postdoc.arizona.edu/news/congrat...
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Congratulations to 2026 Outstanding Postdoctoral Award Recipient and Postdoc-as-Mentor Award Recipient, Dr. Julia Yarrington!
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Great perspective piece on open-ended questions in ESM data by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and colleagues that came out of this year's #MITNB meeting!
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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
For instance: @claireecusack.bsky.social just submitted a paper today in which we show that discrete emotion states predict discrete avoidance behavior in SAD with *very* high accuracy. We know this, right? But now we can locate the phenomenon in *specific moments of time* à la JITAI concepts.
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty. The program focuses on early-career scholars who would benefit from interactions ...
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 09/02/2026
⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
Banner image with screenshot of scientific article from nature Medicine, as well as two panels from the study method and results
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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Have you been interested in any of the set theory stuff I've been doing recently? Wondered at all how you can get in on the fun? Here's an R package @nicolasleenaerts.bsky.social and I built called 'setweaver.' This vignette should get you up and running. Yay :) cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
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setweaver
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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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 🧵
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/01/2026
Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art. She never expected to slay. wapo.st/45BXc3S
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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Looking for a postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry? Apply here to join an interdisciplinary team and work with a large longitudinal transdiagnostic dataset postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0... @RobbRutledge @xiaosigu @DrChrisPitt @PearlsonGodfrey @ACNPorg @YaleMed
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Computational Psychiatry Postdoctoral Associate Opening at Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We're doing summerpsych.com again this year! PhD curious undergrads, come hang out at the CSI lab, help us push forward a project and develop your social science chops Applications are due March 1st:
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the Summer Internship
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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data. 1/19 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Seven Symptoms Over Nearly 4,000 Days: Item-Level Variability in the Psychometric Properties of Daily Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms in Young Adult Drinkers - Kevin M. King, Dahyeon Kang, Megan E. Schu...
People experience symptoms of alcohol use disorders (AUD) in their daily lives, including more impairment-based symptoms (e.g., hazardous use, interpersonal pro...
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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If our theories have to do with people's daily experience then we really need to know how well we're measuring daily experience. So we need more of what Kevin's team is doing here! Just because your item has the right words in it doesn't mean you know what it measures, or how well.
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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!
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Interested in research on depression in youth? New opening for a full-time research assistant in our lab (webbslab.com) to work on a range of projects focused on the causes & treatment of depression in teens. Come join our growing lab. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ webbslab.com/job-postings
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Here is NIMH There were 51% as many new R01s in FY25 as in FY24. Note the large increase in RF1 multi-year awards. 10/n
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"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...
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From innovation to implementation: Artificial intelligence in cognitive behaviour therapy training and supervision
Artificial intelligence (AI) can transform mental health care globally by improving the efficiency, consistency, effectiveness and accessibility of tr…
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy new year? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Flagging the U of A's Provost's Postdoctoral Fellows Program (PPFP) for any ECRs who might be interested... provost.arizona.edu/provosts-pos...
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Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellows Program (PPFP)
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