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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Super exciting!!! You both are fantastic - can’t wait to see what yall do!

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 · 03/09/2026

This doesn’t cover all clinical psych research but: for a subset (RCTs) there are certain requirements that maybe reduce this (eg clinicaltrial.gov trial registration, data and safety monitoring boards, monthly reporting requirements, etc.); + the need for huge teams when running RCTs (lots of eyes)

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Big shoes indeed (literally: “Defining empirically supported therapies”, Chambless and Hollon, 1998 - I mean… come on. Dianne teaching that topic was unreal) but I know you’ll do a fantastic job and those students will be lucky to learn from you!

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Awesome - thanks! @dawsonhaddox.bsky.social let’s discuss in our 1-on-1 this week :)

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Awww Dianne’s class. Great memories. Miss her.

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@paperbag1.bsky.social - that’s one of the reasons we framed it as modular. No need to add these if you aren’t interested in them - the findings about past week and single vs double barreled items still hold regardless of whether you’re interested in irritability and libido.

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@paperbag1.bsky.social - you know me and my nonsense - I was just interested in those symptoms and wanted to track them too. Can’t you just let me do stuff in peace 😂

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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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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

Agreed! We think a lot about how to maximize the degree to what we do is evidence based. Are you asking about monitoring fidelity of delivery or fidelity of receipt/application? Or something else?

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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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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Any openings for a post-post doc ;) will work for food, specifically Indonesian-Dutch multi course dinners

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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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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

iPhone with normal safari browser - it gave up almost no information :) well done Apple!

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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

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

@ashleylwatts.bsky.social your rewrite is still one of if not the best edits to a written document of mine I’ve ever seen (of the K I missed the submission deadline for while on postdoc). 2nd place goes to Bunmi Olatunji’s brutal and much needed edits to my personal statement for grad school apps.

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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

9/25

$A line graph showing the fraction of R01 applications funded as a function of percentile for NIMH. The estimated success rate for FY2024 was 20.4% compared with 10.0% for FY2025.$

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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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