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Megan Chen (she/her)

@megancchen.bsky.social
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Research Assistant UMich mHail Lab 〽️ | NYU Psychology Alum 🗽| computational/quantitative methods to study the complex and dynamic processes underlying suicide and psychopathology 👩‍💻

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 20h
I had a wonderful time chairing my symposium at SRP this weekend I hope we conveyed the importance of examining social context in psychopathology Thank you @markschen.bsky.social, Yiqin Zhu, Yinghao Zhang, and @reneejthompson.bsky.social for sharing your amazing research and concluding remarks
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Jonah Meyerhoff, PhD @jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social · 17h
We're recruiting postdoctoral fellows in digital mental health at Northwestern's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) for July 2027! I'm both an alum and current mentor of our NIMH-funded T32 program, and happy to share my experience from both sides!
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Lauren M. Busuito @laurenmbusuito.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yesterday, I presented a poster at @srpsychopathology.bsky.social with the support of Dr. Kelly Ryan, Dr. Sarah Sperry, and the UM Prechter Bipolar Research Program. Analyses are a subset of models from a first-author manuscript of mine currently under review. I always look forward to SRP! #SRP2026
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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thanks for making SRP such a great conference, everyone! 🌰 + shoutouts to my grad student, Thea McAfee, for her talk on when & why values change in BPD Compass, & my lab manager, Alex Barnhill, for her poster on how the alliance & in-session cognitive change promote between-session cog change 🤩🤩
Thea McAfee (2nd yr OSU grad student) presenting her analyses that symptom change and the alliance tend to predict more values-consistent interpersonal behaviors in BPD Compassmattlab lab manager, Alex Barnhill, describing how in-session cognitive change or the alliance can predict improvements in between-session cognitive change in cognitive therapy for anxiety
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Leily M Behbehani @leilyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I had such a wonderful time at SRP 2026 @srpsychopathology.bsky.social! So much exciting and thoughtful working being done, and I feel especially grateful to have received this recognition. Thank you @shirleybwang.bsky.social for all your mentorship & support. Congrats to all the amazing presenters!
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Congratulations to the brilliant @leilyb.bsky.social for winning the SRP EDI poster award!! Such incredible work and well-deserved recognition 🤩🥂 And congrats to @jananmost.bsky.social & all awardees 🥳 one of my favorite parts of SRP is how it celebrates & supports the work of trainees!
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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our data is available upon unreasonable request
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DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
💜Applications are OPEN for the 2027 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program! Join our 7th year of connecting disabled people in STEM with mentors & community. Mentors can be disabled or nondisabled allies! 📅 Apply by Dec. 11 Mentees: forms.gle/121MAZgCWBHW...
 Mentors: forms.gle/LU1NFBxCz43M...
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DisabledInSTEM Mentee Application 2027
Thank you for your interest in becoming a mentee. This marks the seventh year of the program, and we are deeply grateful for the continued support from our community. The program features mentoring po...
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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
⚡ Out now: Psychological and health sciences increasingly study how phenomena dynamically influence and reinforce one another over time: for example, to understand the mechanisms maintaining mental disorders. Can we identify reliable clusters of these dynamics? A thread 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SRP required slides to be uploaded by yesterday, so my Saturday talk is already written?? Here are some teasers for my talk on applying configural psychometrics to the HiTOP Internalizing Spectrum (data from @miriforbes.bsky.social's rebuilding HiTOP paper in JPCS).
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Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 06/10/2026
Addiction has become the default framework for interpreting problematic social media use. It shapes how it is measured, discussed, regulated, and what support young people are offered. But does it match the experiences of young people who report feeling addicted to social media? 🧵(1/7)
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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My new preprint: Psychiatric Overdiagnosis As Diagnostic Stretching In Response To Clinical Need osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Psychiatric Overdiagnosis as Diagnostic Stretching in Response to Clinical Need
I define psychiatric “overdiagnosis” as the observation that there has been a rapid rise in the rate of mental health diagnoses in recent decades, combined with the suspicion that a substantial propor...
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Megan Chen (she/her) @megancchen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
applying for PhDs really makes me realize how lucky I am to have my little academic village 🥺 how did I win the mentor lottery?!?
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Boogerbear Luckycavity Pixel Art Cat
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Megan Chen (she/her) @megancchen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
pov: when the R&R was a pain but it actually made your paper better
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Stan Marsh: Okay, So.. You Were Right
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Megan Chen (she/her) @megancchen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the thick of the PhD app-cycle, and all I want is to kick my feet back, put DWTS on as background noise, and read/go down research rabbitholes. Combing through lab websites and thinking about what folks are doing now and what might come next gets my brain juices going. I digress. Back to my SOP.
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Bill Nye Exclaims Science!!!
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Ryan Carpenter @rwcarpenterphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I said some words about "addictive personality" and at least a few of them were fit to print time.com/article/2026...
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The Truth About ‘Addictive Personalities’
Addiction is a complex brain disorder that can be brought on by a variety of factors—and it can happen to anyone.
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the University of Miami as an Assistant Professor of Psychology next year! I am recruiting a PhD student to start in Fall 2027 — please reach out if you are interested in joining the lab! For more info check out my website: dan-mirea.com
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Blair Shevlin @bshev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Women with bulimia nervosa typically avoid high-fat foods, yet binge on them during periods of negative mood. Why? In our new paper in @elife.bsky.social, we used computational modeling to find out 🧵 elifesciences.org/articles/105...
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Client Challenge
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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This first gen college student girlie just got her master’s degree
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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Does spreading mental health awareness online amplify self-diagnosis? In my first PhD pre-print, I empirically examine this question (n =3392) with some kick-ass collaborators and tools from cultural evolution A 🧵
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone calculate the ICC for the DWTS judges this season? Gotta be .95+.
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Alfonso Ribeiro & Witney Carson Dance
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Jonah Meyerhoff, PhD @jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So many cool positions opening up for psych folks at different levels. First up, a neat Industry Postdoc at Slingshot. Perfect for someone interested in academic research, industry, and licensure in a state with broad licensure criteria for postdoc hours (e.g., NY): jobs.ashbyhq.com/SlingshotAI/...
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Postdoctoral Clinical Research Scientist
Slingshot AI Slingshot AI is the team behind Ash, the first AI designed for mental health. Our mission is to make support more accessible and help people change their lives in the ways they want. We...
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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀
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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very excited for this review with Michael Hallquist on adolescent personality pathology, a critically understudied topic that has only become moreso in recent years as seen by booming publication rates for depression and anxiety - PD lines at the bottom www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Sean M. Mitchell, Ph.D. @drseanmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📢 I’m recruiting! I’ll be reviewing applications for a new Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student for Fall 2027. 🔬 SRPR Lab: suicide risk, assessment, disclosure & prevention 📅 Deadline: Dec. 1 🔗 www.drseanmmitchell.com/join-our-team Please share! 🔁 #ClinicalPsychology #PhD #SuicidePrevention
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Join Our Team | Suicide Risk and Prevention Research Laboratory
How to join Dr. Sean Mitchell's Suicide Risk and Prevention Research (SRPR) Laboratory.
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 28/09/2026
The Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota is looking for a new tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Approaches to Perception and/or Cognition. Find out more here. 👉️ buff.ly/mvnmqka
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Assistant Professor Position Description
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Computational Approaches to Perception and/or Cognition Department of Psychology University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts Job Opening ID 375565 The…
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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This December, @adelaisvoranu.bsky.social and I are hosting two consecutive 3-day workshops on network psychometrics in Singapore 🇸🇬 Workshop 1: foundations, theory & cross-sectional analysis Workshop 2: psychometric modeling & longitudinal analysis Details: fass.nus.edu.sg/psy/network-...
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Cope Feurer @copefeurer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are hiring a research coordinator who will assist with this multi-site project (Pitt & UNC) involving the co-design, development, and validation of a new adolescent emotional faces stimulus set. We will also test if neural responses to the stimuli uniquely predict depression, anxiety, and STBs.
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Submissions for our 2027 Annual Convention open on October 15! There's a few changes for 2027, including submission types: Empirical Research Systematic Review Meta-Analysis and Meta-Synthesis Methods and Applications www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984
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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🌟 Vanderbilt Psychology has an open rank position available in our clinical area! Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/194049 (Note that this position is separate from our other psych department's asst prof search: apply.interfolio.com/194058) RTs appreciated!!
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Alyssa Smith @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks for having me on the podcast! I hope that my yapping will be useful to others in the future!
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 22/09/2026
Join us this Thursday, September 24, at 11:00 AM ET to learn how to get started with preregistration on the OSF, including the templates available to support your research. Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So excited to return to SRP, for my first time as a non-trainee 🥺 Come keep me company during my talk on symptom-specific speed of improvement during psychotherapy (work with @fabiennemink.bsky.social @christianwebb.bsky.social and Lutz) @srpsychopathology.bsky.social #SRP2026
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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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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to another great and productive year in the MED Lab! @medvanderbilt.bsky.social
Lab photo in front of psychology building
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Alyssa Smith @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Since it's the first day of fall, the first day of libra season, and also world narcolepsy day, I think today is my day of peak power (so it is time to actually work on my R&Rs)
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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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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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Megan Chen (she/her) @megancchen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
POV: applying to PhD programs this cycle and watching my carefully curated spreadsheet shrink everytime I find out a PI isn’t taking students
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Grey's Anatomy: Cristina Yang Cries 'Somebody Sedate Me!'
ALT: Grey's Anatomy: Cristina Yang Cries 'Somebody Sedate Me!'
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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨 New preprint: In this paper we make the case for measuring social media use at the level of naturally occurring sessions (i.e., beginning when the app/site is opened and ending when it is closed). Across 7 days and 161 participants this gave us nearly 4,000 paired sessions of use 🧵
Depicts the data collection process. 1) participant opens TikTok, 2) open survey is prompted, 3) participant uses TikTok as normal, 4) participant closes TikTok, 5) close survey is prompted
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Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab @epiclabharvard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited to share that @epiclabharvard.bsky.social members and collaborators will be presenting at #SRP2026! Make sure to catch their posters and talks!
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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'll be reviewing applications for a new student or two for UNC-CH's clinical psychology PhD program! Social anxiety, pain, intensive longitudinal data, all that fun stuff. What prospective applicants get if they email me (so no need): docs.google.com/document/d/1... Lab: tarheels.live/rodelab/
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Welcome to the Rodebaugh Lab Website - Rodebaugh Laboratory
Welcome to the Rodebaugh lab website! Here you can learn about what Dr. Rodebaugh & colleagues are working on and what research is being conducted.
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Joey Heffner @jpheffne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SO excited to share that I'll be joining Stanford University as an Assistant Professor in Psychology starting September 2027!! I’m launching the Emotions, Computation, and Choice Lab, where we investigate how emotions guide social cognition and behavior. www.heffner-lab.com
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Emotions, Computation, and Choice Lab
Explore research on how emotions influence social cognition, decision-making, and AI interactions at the Emotions, Computation, and Choice Lab at Stanford University. Join us to study emotions and beh...
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Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm super excited to share a new preprint in which @kevinmking.bsky.social and I propose an update to the affect regulation theory of alcohol use: "A mathematical and computational formalization of the affect regulation hypothesis of alcohol use" doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What happens when barriers unrelated to scientific ability determine who gets to do science? I wrote about accessibility, mentorship, and the experiments we may never know were possible in my new piece for The Node, The Experiments We Never Run. #DisabledInSTEM thenode.biologists.com/the-experime...
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The Experiments We Never Run - the Node
Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the
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Alyssa Smith @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ooh it’s so official now (my office is labeled)
The sign outside my door. It has 134 in large letters, and below it is a purple nametag that says Prof. A. Smith.
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Society for Affective Science Emotion Regulation Pre-conference is excited to invite submissions for three different talk formats this year: (1) 👥 Panel discussions; (2)🌶️‘Spicy’ talks; and (3)🌟Early career researcher talks. Deadline Oct 1. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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2027 SAS Emotion Regulation Social Media Call for Submissions.docx
The Society for Affective Science Emotion Regulation Pre-conference is excited to invite submissions for three different talk formats this year: (1) Panel discussions; (2) ‘Spicy’ talks; and (3) Early...
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Nate Phillips @nphillips36.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Super excited to share a thread on our recent paper, “Mapping United States federal funding for mental health difficulties from 2020-2024 to the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: A registered report,” now in press at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Honored that the @bbrfoundation.bsky.social featured our work in its Fall 2026 issue. The piece highlights a couple of examples of how we’re combining smartphones, wearable sensing, and AI to better understand teen depression and personalize treatment. tinyurl.com/24h47pfa tinyurl.com/ycxhmaar
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