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Nigel Jaffe

@nigeljaffe.bsky.social
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Clinical psych PhD student, Penn State. Psychotherapy, personality, emotion. NSF GRFP. Previously McLean Hospital

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 11h
Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...
the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience
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Nate Phillips @nphillips36.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thrilled to share our registered report at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! In it, we mapped all funding from NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA, and NICHD from 2020-2024 according to HiTOP (@hitop-system.bsky.social) osf.io/preprints/ps...
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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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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Blog post on new preprint by @ashleylwatts.bsky.social et al. They argue that correlations among internalizing & externalizing may not derive from comorbidity, but nomorbidity. I use an accessible simulatiom study tosupport this, & relate the preprint to prior work. eiko-fried.com/blog/psychop...
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Psychopathology structure changes with severity | Eiko Fried
A simulation study showing that psychopathology structure changes with clinical severity
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Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New in Nature Mental Health: our SMART-D precision medicine trial tested biomarkers to guide sertraline vs bupropion in MDD (rdcu.be/fsf2V). Biomarker-positive patients had better symptom trajectories than those without biomarkers (71.4% vs. 42.9% response rates). #Depression #PrecisionPsychiatry
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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Did a 90 minute webinar workshop for APA on depression measurement. They were kind enough to allow me to share this on youtube. youtu.be/5OwYjWao1hs
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What Scale is Best? Understanding Sources of Validity Evidence for Depression Measurement
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
APA no longer shows me the actual paper, authors, abstract etc when I click on a paper in a search engine. Everything gated now, including basic paper info. Screenshots: (1) search hit (2) resulting APA site. Tried for a few papers now. What on Earth.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
22 year wait. We did it. Arsenal are Premier League champions. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.
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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
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Opinion | We’re Thinking About Mental Health Diagnoses All Wrong
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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I'm so happy to see this monster finally out - a preregistered metaanalysis of youth personality-psychopathology associations with a bonus preregistered independent replication metaanalysis! Years in the making, now out in Psychological Bulletin. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods
Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Penn State bloom 🌸
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Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Campbell Linker @campbelllinker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Super excited to share that after graduating from Smith College this May, I’ll be joining @shirleybwang.bsky.social‘s Computational Clinical Science Lab at Yale University as a lab manager! Huge thank you to everyone who supported me throughout the process, so excited for everything ahead 🥳
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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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NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN) @dpn-journal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This Deep Dive covers work by @hadarfisher.bsky.social @nigeljaffe.bsky.social @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social @christianwebb.bsky.social exploring whether smartphone passive sensors & LLMs can track activation in adolescents w/ anhedonia receiving behavioral activation therapy youtu.be/K1Lo50QBcQM?...
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Can we track therapeutic change outside the clinic?
YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN)
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Hadar Fisher @hadarfisher.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Now out in npj Digital Medicine 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our systematic review and meta-analysis examines how well language-based models detect depression from text. We reviewed 123 studies (40,000 + observations) using NLP and machine learning.
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Language-based detection of depression with machine learning: systematic review and meta-analysis - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Language-based detection of depression with machine learning: systematic review and meta-analysis
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...
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Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research
On reasonable resistance to using GenAI in research
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New paper from our team: Can ML identify which adolescents benefit most from school-based mindfulness? In 8,376 students (MYRIAD trial), models detected statistically significant but clinically negligible differential effects (d ≈ .07–.08). Precision prevention is hard...
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Our partnership with the @inclivio.com continues as we get closer to #SAS2026. Inclivio provides EMA researchers with tools that make data collection easier and more participant friendly. Like (1 pt) and repost (3 pts) to enter a drawing for free access to Inclivio! inclivio.com
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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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Nigel Jaffe @nigeljaffe.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Fantastic post-bacc opportunity! ⬇️
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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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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
(1/9) New year, new preprint alert!! 🤩🚨 We provide new evidence linking intolerance of uncertainty and death anxiety in religious/spiritual individuals. Link: doi.org/10.31234/osf... See 🧵 for a brief summary 👇 #deathanxiety #intoleranceofuncertainty
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Honored to have our work recognized by @bbrfoundation.bsky.social, alongside many colleagues doing important work in the field.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

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When we empathize with someone going through something, we often draw on our past experiences with the someone and the something. These kinds of experiences ground "thick empathy", a form of empathy that has been largely overlooked in the psychology and neuroscience literature. Consider how a mother, empathizing with her daughter about to give birth, can draw on her own experience of childbirth, and her relationship with her daughter, to deeply grasp what her daughter is going through in a way that others who lack those experiences cannot. I argue that thick empathy deserves more empirical attention because it is associated with well-being and helps us build networks of effective mutual social support. My analysis highlights novel risks and dilemmas posed by "empathy machines" that promise to enhance or even replace human empathy and are becoming increasingly popular as a potential solution to widespread loneliness. Even when empathy machines provide value to individuals, their widespread adoption risks imposing collective emotional and epistemic costs that ultimately make it harder for us to empathize well.

Keywords: empathy, understanding, experience, thick description, ethnography, phenomenal knowledge, interpersonal knowledge, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, chatbots
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Johannes Zimmermann @jzpsych.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Sometimes, doing research feels truly fulfilling. Working on this paper was one of those moments. doi.org/10.1037/ccp0...
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Shari Hamm @sharinahamm.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New preprint alert! (1/5)🌟 I’m thrilled to share the preprint of my first first-authored PhD paper! We test whether shared reinforcement functions help explain why adolescents who engage in one self-destructive behavior often engage in others. Summary⬇ osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hadar Fisher @hadarfisher.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
💫 Excited to share new preprint a systematic review & meta-analysis of 123 studies (40k+ ppl) on how well language-based models detect depression from text. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
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Language-Based Detection of Depression with Machine Learning: Systematic Review and Meta- Analysis
Early detection of depression is critical for timely intervention. Natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) approaches have increasingly been used to automatically detect depression...
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Although most of my photos right now are of State College autumn, here's Happy Valley from the sky this August. It was awe-inspiring to get this view. So, come join us here! I'll be recruiting a graduate student to the Empathy & Moral Psychology (EMP) Lab during this cycle, to start in fall 2026.
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mareike @mareike.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
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Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology
This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.
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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
1: In 2023, I wrote this paper arguing that research on active ingredients of CBT, and by extension on their mechanisms, is not close to improving therapy outcomes. I just read a paper on inhibitory learning improving outcomes of exposure. Egg on my face? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Identifying active ingredients in cognitive-behavioral therapies: What if we didn't?
Identifying active ingredients of psychological interventions is a major goal of psychotherapy researchers that is often justified by the promise that…
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Tim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 24/10/2025
New paper led by Nele Assmann, in which we used causal forests to test the heterogeneity of treatment effects of Schema Therapy vs. DBT for severe Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Differential effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy and schema therapy in patients with borderline personality disorder: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be treated successfully with specific psychological treatments, but there is no clear evidence of superiorit…
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment. Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Thanks to @bbrfoundation.bsky.social for highlighting our lab's study (led by @hadarfisher.bsky.social & @nigeljaffe.bsky.social) using📱smartphone sensors + LLM-derived text ratings to track behavioral activation and symptom change in teens with anhedonia. bbrfoundation.org/content/smar...
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Smartphone Sensors + ChatGPT Successfully Tracked & Predicted Symptoms in Adolescents with Anhedonia | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
The ubiquity of smartphones and the rapid advance and widespread public adoption of “AI” tools like ChatGPT (especially among the young) have raised hopes among some researchers that such technologies...
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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to. Learning Statistics with R learningstatisticswithr.com Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...
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Learning statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners. (Version 0.6.1)

Danielle Navarro (bookdown translation: Emily Kothe)

2019-01-11

Overview

Learning Statistics with R covers the contents of an introductory statistics class, as typically taught to undergraduate psychology students, focusing on the use of the R statistical software. The book discusses how to get started in R as well as giving an introduction to data manipulation and writing scripts. From a statistical perspective, the book discusses descriptive statistics and graphing first, followed by chapters on probability theory, sampling and estimation, and null hypothesis testing. After introducing the theory, the book covers the analysis of contingency tables, t-tests, ANOVAs and regression. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book.A screenshot with the following 

Welcome!
Welcome to the online version of “Doing Meta-Analysis with R: A Hands-On Guide”.

This book serves as an accessible introduction into how meta-analyses can be conducted in R. Essential steps for meta-analysis are covered, including pooling of outcome measures, forest plots, heterogeneity diagnostics, subgroup analyses, meta-regression, methods to control for publication bias, risk of bias assessments and plotting tools.

Advanced, but highly relevant topics such as network meta-analysis, multi-/three-level meta-analyses, Bayesian meta-analysis approaches, and SEM meta-analysis are also covered.

The programming and statistical background covered in the book are kept at a non-expert level. A print version of this book has been published with Chapman & Hall/CRC Press (Taylor & Francis)
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Hadar Fisher @hadarfisher.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Now out in NPP – Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience! 📱🧠 Can LLMs and smartphone sensing help us track therapy progress in real time?
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NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN) @dpn-journal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🆕 study by @hadarfisher.bsky.social @nigeljaffe.bsky.social @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social @christianwebb.bsky.social tested whether smartphone mobility sensing & LLM ratings of text can track behavioral activation in teens to boost engagement in rewarding activities www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Client Challenge
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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
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Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
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Center for Healthy Minds @centerhealthyminds.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Congrats to CHM Core Faculty member Simon Goldberg and Founder/Director Dr. Richard J. Davidson on receiving a $2.8M grant from National Institutes of Mental Health to support their research on digital interventions for mental health interventions! @sgoldbergphd.bsky.social @d3center.bsky.social
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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Had a great time presenting my poster exploring people's thoughts & feelings about death w/ #BERTopic this evening at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat– it was wonderful learning more about others' work and nerding out! 💀🪦 #SRP2025
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Shannon Sauer-Zavala @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Why We're Like This Ep. 1: Shannon Sauer-Zavala on how to be less neurotic open.substack.com/pub/olgakhaz...
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Why We're Like This Ep. 1: Shannon Sauer-Zavala on how to be less neurotic
I'm starting a podcast, duh
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