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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gremlins is really more suitable for Christmas but I suppose watching it at another time of year can do no harm.

Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We eventually outlawed these for my son. My daughter is better at being reasonable (and keeping her friends quiet I guess).

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I will miss some things about having kids in the house but this is not one of them!

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was pretty pleased with this one, but it has the disadvantages of being rather niche and probably only amusing this evening

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a Hawk from a Hawkeye

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Does anyone know on RedCap how to set up a "repeating survey" that corresponds to a repeated "data entry form" so that after some time when data is entered the *survey* goes out to an email from the data entry form (but the email changes with each instance)

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey friends, trying to find a reviewer who could provide a review on an empirical EMA paper focused on emotion regulation. I've had 31 declines so getting a little desperate and feel really bad for the authors. Let me know here or per email (firstnamesecondname@gmail.com)

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm my daughter's marching band's "official photographer" (not an actual position) and so my quite expensive hobby still involves heavy lenses 😅

Marching band marching onto a football field, drum majors in white in front of band in black.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hearing you mention the possibility on @radiofreeskaro.bsky.social I immediately rejected the notion as not lazy enough. Glad y'all didn't agree!

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can AI feel pain? Reminds me a response to the classic article What is it Like to Be a Bat. Atkins (1993) responded: What is it Like to Be Boring and Myopic. Basically, there's not much room in a bat for it to be like much. AI code has neither the room nor equipment for anything like pain.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The thing that's surprised me most about AI are people's intuitions about what must be true about something that quickly produces words in a plausible order. I suppose it makes sense, in nature we never encounter a word machine without a mind, why would we, they are pretty useless without minds

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Honestly I would feel better if candidates had a coffee because then I don't need to worry that they wish they had one. One time a candidate told me later that she couldn't actually drink the tea she accepted from me so I don't even know whether to offer things anymore 🙃

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Request! I am the advisor for a group at VU for women interested in psych. We are hosting a virtual event in October and are looking for speakers who could give a 15-20 minute talk on a panel about the psychology of crime. We are especially interested in work that involves women victims/offenders.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Devils fans hate the 'Canes, though, that checks out. I think this poll is suspect or has too many young people in it, though, because both the Flyers and 'Canes fans should hate the Devils more (because I do). Anyway boo Devils

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using them to evaluate item psychometric properties, perhaps, I can make sense of...

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mostly agree with your critique (as presented here). The trouble is, I struggle to articulate what cross-sectional networks estimate! Once I thought through the contribution of colliders, especially, any attempt to use them simplistically for causal inference of any kind seems hard to justify.

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Ryan Carpenter @rwcarpenterphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm reviewing applications for Notre Dame's clinical psych PhD program this fall! If you like daily-life processes, studying drugs, and talking about pizza, consider applying! Lab website: spiel-lab.nd.edu

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Studying Processes in Everyday Life (SPIEL) Lab

Explore the Studying Processes in Everyday Life Lab at Notre Dame! We study real-time behaviors using mobile devices like smartphones. Research alcohol, substance use, pain, and more.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I had that same worry but did take one or two doses because of the level of pain. Perhaps it got better in a couple days, I don't remember, but I know I didn't want to take any more of the pills!

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I also came here to say I'm glad to find out I'm not alone! Prescribed codeine once, fortunately realized I wasn't required to keep taking it! Horrible.

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fun story. As I was a grad student I published a 1st-author paper on co-rumination in J of Adolescence that got discussed in the NYT (side note, the reporter interviewed me but only named my advisor in the story). Our PR office wanted to build on it for more press, so they wrote up a press release…

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've seen feeds get stuck before, as in behind for minutes/hours, but that looks different!

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looks stuck, nothing since space is the place.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Occasionally snooze will stop working on Outlook (the email just keeps reappearing in a minute) and it's like: But how will I organize my life?!?

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not a stupid question! Probably several ways this happens. A big one is that people typically avoid the nondangerous thing or (potentially a second thing) minimize contact and exploration of it when it's present. In exposure treatment we ask people to really test: Is this dangerous or safe?

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My current Duolingo lessons have a lot of sentences about meeting the chancellor, which sounds like typical Duo arbitrary sentence learning... But my work actually does have a chancellor and I have actually said some of these things in English 😅

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We hear them frequently in north Chapel Hill, rarely seen though!

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I had never heard of her. Such talent and such a tragically short life. The works we have lost! More here:

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Amrita Sher-Gil - Wikipedia

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Glad to know it had an impact! It's easiest to show the difficulties with the difference score, but I think there's a broader difficulty that measuring change reliably is difficult, and one must have a good idea when and how change happens to have a hope of managing it.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Correction: it's actually the more people go up, the higher they are at the end! (It would actually be a lot better for reliability if higher scores in the middle predicted lower at the end... But that's not what happens)

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Reposting for the "I'm an academic I mostly only have time for BlueSky on the weekends" folks. It's possible this is my lab's biggest contribution to anxiety treatment research, not even kidding.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unrelated to the content, I was pleased to use the "Always has been meme," especially after I recently read this explainer and realized the meme was not, in fact, a still from Interstellar (a movie I've never seen but seemed like a likely source) knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-i...

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Wait, It's All Ohio? Always Has Been | Know Your Meme

Wait, It's All Ohio? Always Has Been refers to an exploitable template in which two astronauts are floating in space. One looks at Earth and realizes the e

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We hope this paper gets the field thinking more seriously about measuring change over time in exposure sessions. ALSO: This was a paper in a day for the lab! Ultimately it took a lot longer than a day, but starting off with quick progress made all the difference.

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Kermit the Frog Dancing on Stage

Alt: Kermit the Frog enthusiastically flailing on Stage

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All theories of exposure expect divergence, with some people responding better--so either all of those theories are wrong, or we are not measuring the right thing or in the right way--but that's not the difference score's fault. It's unreliable because your theory is at best poorly specified.

McMahon reaction theme with the steps (1) Our theory predicts change over time (2) Let's test it with a difference score (3) Difference scores are often unreliable (4) Unreliability of the difference score is fatal to your theory

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A thing people often take away is "difference scores are bad," and I want to push back! Within an exposure, difference scores (so far) haven't worked because the middle/worst part tells you most of what you could learn about change. The more people go up, the more they go down. Little divergence.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We provide a shiny tool to walk through the consequences of measurement choices: habapp.shinyapps.io/ExposureHabi... We don't know whether emotional processing theory is right, or inhibitory learning, or any other theory... But we know we need better measurement in order to actually test them.

habapp.shinyapps.io

Habituation Paper

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The literature has more often shown between-session habituation to predict overall change: We show that between-session habituation is more likely to be reliably estimated (in our data). The literature has jumped to "new theory" without addressing the measurement problem: This won't go well.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We show that: Single item measures are sometimes OKish, but of course multiple items are better. Scores within an exposure often correlate so highly that even multiple-item measures can fail. This issue affects other constructs, so change in threat expectancy can also have this problem.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Measuring is hard, measuring change is harder, and most studies have used a simple difference score. This method is intuitive! We want to see change! It also can work well. But if the measurements are (a) individually iffy and (b) correlate highly, it's really challenging to get a reliable score.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We know that purposefully encountering scary but safe stuff (exposure) produces change in anxiety symptoms. Since Foa & Kozak (1986) we've thought maybe change in anxiety during or across exposures would track the key change. But it mostly doesn't! @emmardear.bsky.social led our investigation...

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New from my lab! So, you've heard that habituation during exposure doesn't predict overall treatment change. Emotional processing theory must be wrong and we need a new theory. But... what if the measurement of habituation was unreliable? Free for 50 days link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1noIo39qZA...

The "always has been" theme with the first astronaut saying "Wait it's all measurement" ("Always has been")

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper from me, out soon in Behavior Research Methods: I'm a lil bit obsessed with good online recruitment and the result is this side-quest paper that made use of data we had collected that recruited people online in three ways (met them on Zoom, validated their email, and Prolific). 🧵>>

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He was my main fail on this too. I didn't know for sure where the can opener was, either, but now I do. I show my undergrad students the background image any time there's winter precipitation in the forecast

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you're interested in treatment outcome, do you know about the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) framework? If not, I recommend looking it up. I'm perplexed in particular why there aren't more MOST studies of internet/app interventions. (There are some! Just think there should be more.)

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Jenn Veilleux @jenncveilleux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come be my colleague!! We are hiring THREE tenure-track folks at the University of Arkansas this fall: (1) clinical, (2) social, and (3) cognitive. Clinical is looking ideally for a child/adolescent person but the area is technically open. All ads linked here: psychology.uark.edu

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m accepting applications for PhD students to join my lab in Fall 2027! Our work focuses on psychopathology, personality, classification and assessment, and using AI with intensive longitudinal methods to better understand mental health. See the lab site for more info: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu

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Welcome! | Ringwald Lab

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