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Max Berg

@maxberg91.bsky.social
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[he/him], psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, Postdoc & permanent position @uni-konstanz.de. Interested in psychotherapy, network analysis, formal modelling and translational stuff.

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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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Dr. Ina Beintner @inabeintner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ich habe gerade diese lustige Urkunde von Focus Gesundheit in meinem Praxisbriefkasten gefunden und möchte die Gelegenheit nutzen, mal ein bisschen Aufklärung zu betreiben.
Zwei Papierdokumente von FOCUS-Gesundheit nebeneinander: links ein Bestellschein für ein kostenpflichtiges Siegelpaket, rechts eine Urkunde „FOCUS Gesundheit Empfehlung 2027" für Psychotherapie.
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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Melanie Fischer @melaniefischer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bewerbungen sind noch bis zum 27.9. möglich. Bei Fragen gern bei mir melden!
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#justsayinmice
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur neuen Stelle 😊
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Melanie Fischer @melaniefischer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser Team zum Aufbau eines Ambulanzbereichs für Psychotherapie mit Paaren/Familien und Paartherapie. Gerne mit Interesse, im Rahmen einer unbefristeten Stelle diesen Bereich im schönen Marburg langfristig mitzugestalten. Ich freue mich sehr darauf! Mehr👇🏻
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in und Psychologische*r Psychotherapeut*in
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I listen to an audiobook at a long train ride. Really good weird fiction! Makes me wonder about dementia, delirium or psychosis… Or anesthesia.
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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One year in: 225 patients in our university outpatient clinic have agreed to participate in the EMA-based Single Case Experimental Design #SCED, #N=1 infrastructure - only 11 declined 🙌. Here's how we set it up 👉 doi.org/10.1026/1616...
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Bringing Single-Case Experimental Designs Into Routine Care: A Stakeholder-Driven Business Model: Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie: Vol 0, No 0
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I care about reproducibility, but I find it deeply problematic that the British ecological society is trying to extract free labour from academics (oh no, you get free membership for a year!) to work for them for 3 years on computational reproducibility checks. apply.workable.com/britishecolo...
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Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) - British Ecological Society
Volunteer role: Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) Organisation: British Ecological Society – Methods in Ecology and Evolution Term: 3 years Closing date: 25th Sept 17.00 BST…
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Defending Cofnas, who had written outrageously racist stuff for years (e.g., that in a meritocracy there would be next to no Black professors because they have lower IQs), is an odd hill to die on. Yet the 100-plus academics who signed this letter are clearly willing to die on it :/
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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In this new study published open access in Translational Medicine @springernature.com we show that in a sample of clinically depressed people, higher symptom burden is related to reduced learning from positive prediction errors and aberrant neural response to neg PEs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Aberrant insula activity to negative and reduced learning from positive feedback underlie maladaptive self-beliefs in depression - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Aberrant insula activity to negative and reduced learning from positive feedback underlie maladaptive self-beliefs in depression
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Zum Glück bin ich in Wien auf Konferenz. /s
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Markus Sulzbacher @msulzbacher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Allzeit-Temperaturrekord von 41 Grad in Wien gemessen
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
On my long train trip to #SAA2026. Looking forward to the talks at the conference. @saa2026.bsky.social
A map with a train-ride from Dornbirn to Vienna.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Instead, I'm much more focused on the fact that in the world we live in, scientists & funders ignored their own very clear data for decades now. The by far strongest predictors for common mental illnesses lie in social & environmental domains. Then psychological. Then biological.
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Max ✊🏽 @maxnum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Alle Slides durchlesen. Ja, auch wenn es unbequem ist, sowas anzusprechen. Mir langt‘s irgendwann auch einfach Mal. Ich bin an einem Punkt, an dem ich auch einfach nicht mehr meine Zeit verschwenden will.
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Benjamin Straube @straubeb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Now available in Trends Open: How do expectations shape actions? I introduce the ExSA framework, integrating perspectives from motor control, decision-making, predictive processing, and clinical neuroscience Read here: www.cell.com/trends-open/... #Psychology #MotorControl #PredictiveProcessing
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I thought these guys are against gender affirming care. Not all cases it seems…
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Julian Schmitz @jschmitzleipzig.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Der Koalition dämmert es offensichtlich langsam, was ihre Pläne für die Versorgung von psychisch kranken Kindern und Jugendlichen bedeuteten. Ein Entschließungsantrag von CDS/CSU & SPD soll Kinder & Jugendliche von einigen Verschärfungen wie Budgetierung verschonen, das wäre gut und wichtig.
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Versorgung psychisch Kranker: Koalition will GKV-Spargesetz nach dem Sommer etwas aufweichen – Deutsches Ärzteblatt
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ein guter erster Schritt. :) Mögen weitere Schritte folgen!
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Johannes C. Ehrenthal @ehrenthal-lab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Eine weitere Stellungnahme der @dgps.bsky.social zum drohenden Kahlschlag durch Union und SPD. www.dgps.de/aktuelles/de...
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Weitere geplante Änderungen im GKV-Beitragssatz Stabilisierungsgesetz gefährden eine evidenzbasierte psychotherapeutische Versorgung, die Ausbildung zukünftiger Psychotherapeut:innen und damit eine zentrale Säule der wissenschaftlichen Psychologie. Angesichts zunehmender psychischer Belastungen in Zeiten multipler Krisen braucht es eine Stärkung psychischer Gesundheit – nicht den Abbau bewährter Versorgungsstrukturen. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) appelliert daher, wissenschaftlich fundierte Psychotherapie langfristig zu sichern und verlässliche Perspektiven für Patientinnen und Patienten, psychotherapeutische Versorgung und die nächste Generation von Psychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten zu schaffen.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Yeah … we’ll go back to oral exams 🫣
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Sascha @medienmonolog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Es gab Änderungsanträge zum GKV-Beitragsstabilisierungsgesetz. Mit dabei: Die gesetzlich garantierte Mindestvergütung für Psychotherapie soll gestrichen werden. Die Psychotherapie in Deutschland ist in Gefahr. Folgt @abpsych.bsky.social und lest hier mal rein: www.dptv.de/wissensdaten...
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Eintrag psychotherapeutische Wissenensdatenbank | DPtV
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Nice 1! Congrats Björn 🎈🎈
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Philipp Herzog @herzog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🚨OUT NOW IN ASSESSMENT 📏: Thrilled to share that our new paper has been published. In this validation study, we used two promising measures - MIOS by Litz et al. and MIDS by Norman et al. - to examine #MoralInjury outcome and distress in a large German-speaking sample of high-risk occupations.💡 1/3
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The same in real life. Even if the underlying rules of a given task were perfectly deterministic, I am probably to limited to make the outcome deterministic.
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Perfect example. Thanks :)
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
No philosopher here… But this has always baffled me. Also similar arguments that the „physical reality is fundamentally stochastic“ and therefore there is no (perfectly deterministic) causal chain. As if randomness / stochastic processes are „free“ in any desirable sense somehow.
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A big thanks to @danielamier.bsky.social for this opportunity. But also a big thank you to my "old" group in Marburg and to @rief01.bsky.social for the fantastic time as a postdoc! A big shoutout also to @loewe-dynamic.bsky.social for giving me countless opportunities for collaborations. 🎇
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Also be sure to check out the amazing and in depth editorial by the guest editors. It contains great additional discussion about the papers of the issue. Thx to: @leaschumacher.bsky.social @saskiascholten.bsky.social @jpkhl.bsky.social @dkolar.bsky.social ☺️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Network Approach to Psychopathology: Advances in Theory and its Application to Clinical Practice - Cognitive Therapy and Research
While research on the network approach to psychopathology has surged and clinical applications of this approach are frequently discussed, several key conceptual and methodological challenges remain. T...
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jaaa :-) Ich freu mich!
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am really exited about my new responsibilities. I hope to bring my previous research foci and methodological expertise to my new group, while also returning to a greater focus on experimental and biological psychology.
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Some professional news: Effective immediately, I am starting a new job as a leading psychologist and postdoc with a tenured position @uni-konstanz.de. My new position combines clinical and scientific work at a ward for patients with psychoses under the supervision of @danielamier.bsky.social
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Melanie Fischer @melaniefischer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
An unserer Psychotherapiestudie zu Partnerschaft & Depressionen können Paare 👬👫👭aus Marburg & Umgebung teilnehmen. Mehr Infos auch hier: www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb04/team...
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...
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PhD Position on "Mental disorders as harmful stable states"
PhD Position on “Mental disorders as harmful stable states” The departments Clinical Psychology and Methodology & Statistics, at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden Univers...
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Fridays for Future Germany @fridaysforfuture.de · 27/06/2026
Hunderte Hitzetote in Europa, Trinkwasserknappheit, abgesagte Stadtfeste & Sportveranstaltungen: Das ist kein Zufall, das ist das Ergebnis einer Politik, die wieder und wieder die Profite von Kohle-, Öl- & Gaskonzernen über unser Leben stellt.
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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
1/2 🚀 Proud to present our Special Issue on network theory and its application with @leaschumacher.bsky.social, @dkolar.bsky.social, and Philipp Klein. Huge thanks to all authors and reviewers whose excellent work made this a timely, state-of-the-art collection: link.springer.com/collections/...
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The network approach to psychopathology: Advances in theory and its application to clinical practice
A special issue for “Cognitive Therapy and Research” (https://link.springer.com/journal/10608) Guest editors: Lea Schumacher, M. Sc., University Medical ...
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Thomas Meyer @thmeyer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Here we gooo 🤡🤡 Zahlenakrobatik vom Feinsten: Wenn man die Wartezeit erst ab Sprechstunde zählt, nur erfolgreiche Verläufe nimmt, und Probatorik als Therapie verkauft, dann werden aus 6 Monaten 14 Tage. Magie! 🪄📉 #Psychotherapie #Wartezeiten #vdek @tkaiser.science www.aerzteblatt.de/news/kassen-...
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Kassen sehen Handlungsbedarf bei Wartezeiten für Psychotherapeuten – Deutsches Ärzteblatt
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Dr. Carolyn Görres @carolyngorres.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ein direkter Angriff auf unsere Demokratie. Einschüchtern und Angst verbreiten. Rechtsextremisten sind bereit für exzessive Gewalt bis hin zu Mord. www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft...
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Professorin berichtet über Morddrohungen an Uni: "Marburg ist für mich zum Angstort geworden"
Schmierereien mit Mordaufrufen, Störungen in Seminaren und wachsender Druck: Die Marburger Historikerin Christina Brüning spricht erstmals öffentlich über Bedrohungen gegen sie, warum sie sich an ihre...
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Another week full of interesting science :) June 15th-20th reading list.
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ProLOEWE @proloewe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🧠Depressionen früher erkennen, individuel. behandeln + Betroffenen jahrelange Fehlversuche ersparen – genau das ist das Ziel von FUTURE-D, ein. intern. Forschungsverbund, der jetzt vom Wellcome Trust mit fast 6 Mio💶gefördert wird. Auch Forschung von @loewe-dynamic.bsky.social fließt in das Projekt!👌🏽
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Büchereien werden von Preisen ausgeschlossen, Verwaltungen kuschen vor der AfD, Lesungen in öffentlichen Bibliotheken werden abgesagt. Man muss es in aller Deutlichkeit sagen: Wir befinden uns längst inmitten eines autoritären Umbaus, noch bevor die AfD echte Regierungsmacht in den Händen hält. (1)
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/05/2026
Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/
Comic. [Person 1 sitting at desk typing on laptop while Person 2 with shoulder-length hair stands behind.] PERSON 1: Aw man, speedrun.com removed my world record just because I listened to lateralus and ænima to get in the flow. PERSON 2: Oh, a copyright thing? PERSON 1: No, they don’t allow tool-assisted speedruns.
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Jonathan Repple @jonathanrepple.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
New paper in Nature Mental Health: www.nature.com/articles/s44... After decades of seeing limited progress in depression research despite enormous scientific effort, we started asking a more fundamental question:
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Key challenges in advancing research on depression phenotyping - Nature Mental Health
In this Review the authors discuss the reasons behind the limited advance in depression phenotyping and provide strategic points for addressing this gap.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.
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