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Q. Liu, Ph.D.

@qmmmmliu.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology at Boston University. Views my own. Ph.D. in Clinical/Quantitative Psychology from Vanderbilt University. University of Notre Dame/University of Washington Alum. sites.google.com/bu.edu/qpl/home

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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 17h
FYI #SRP2026 if you haven't booked restaurant reservations do it NOW. They weren't kidding about the football weekend issue– Getting a dinner for 6 booked for Friday was an extreme sport. @srpsychopathology.bsky.social
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MC Stan @mc-stan.org · 17/09/2026
Release of CmdStan 2.40, including new Stan Math, core Stan, and Stanc, is now available! Blog post with new features blog.mc-stan.org/2026/09/16/r... Highlights - integrate_1d_double_exponential, a variadic version of old integrate_1d - integrate_1d_gauss_kronrod, a different quadrature rule ...
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Release of CmdStan 2.40
We are very happy to announce that the 2.40.0 release of CmdStan is now available on Github! As usual, the release of CmdStan is accompanied by new releases of Stan Math, core Stan, and Stanc3. Thi…
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Hi friends, we have a new publication in Adversity and Resilience Science doi.org/10.1007/s428... on parental childhood adversity, parenting-specific emotion regulation, and child mental health in SGM parents w/ @vjrp.bsky.social @mingcong.bsky.social @antoniayuxinhua.bsky.social and Kiyan Irani.
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Differential Associations from Parental Childhood Adversity to Child Psychopathology: Evidence from Sexual and Gender Minority Families - Adversity and Resilience Science
Abstract Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) contribute to intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, yet limited work has examined how distinct dimensions of parental ACEs (i.e., threat and deprivation) interact with parenting-specific emotion regulation (ER) in relation to child outcomes in sexual and gender minority (SGM) families. We applied linear regression to examine how threat- and deprivation-based parental ACEs are differentially associated with child psychopathology, and how these associations vary by parenting-specific ER strategies among 568 SGM parents of children aged 3–17. Parental deprivation-based ACEs, suppression, and rumination predicted more child psychopathology symptoms whereas adaptive parenting-specific ER predicted fewer symptoms. Furthermore, low suppression amplified threat-based associations between ACEs and child outcomes whereas high suppression amplified deprivation-based associations between ACEs and child outcomes. Findings are consistent with differential patterns of association between parental ACE dimensions, parenting-specific emotion regulation, and child psychopathology. Parenting-specific ER may represent a potentially modifiable parenting-related process and a potential target for future intervention research. Key Findings Deprivation-based childhood adversity in parents was linked to higher child psychopathology. Parenting-specific emotion regulation showed independent effects, with adaptive strategies relating to lower child psychopathology and suppression and rumination relating to higher child psychopathology. Suppression moderated these associations, suggesting that parenting-specific emotion regulation may be an important target for future intervention research. Differential Associations from Parental Childhood Adversity to Child Psychopathology: Evidence from Sexual and Gender Minority Families.
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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
To celebrate the openESM paper release, I wrote a brief blog post summarizing recent developments: openesmdata.org/blog/2026-07... We: 💠added more data 💠provided descriptive visualizations for each item 💠created a semantic similarity mapping for items, making it easier to find related items
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Updates: Paper published, new dataset & features
Our tutorial paper on openESM has been published, and we have added new datasets and features to the platform.
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hello Friends! New paper out at Journal of Affective Disorders: “Tonic and phasic irritability in adults: Separating temporal forms from expressed presentations.” Check it out at authors.elsevier.com/a/1nSSKbXYj0...
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Society for Research in Psychopathology @srpsychopathology.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 Registration for #SRP2026 in Columbus is OPEN! 🗓️ Early bird deadline: August 23 🎤 Presenting? Register by August 3 (presenter deadline) to be included in the program. Register now: srp.societyconference.com/conf/
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Hi friends, I’m chairing the social media committee for SRP this year and we are now on bluesky. Please retweet and follow our SRP bluesky account here!
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New paper in Developmental Psychology: Rethinking parenting: A function-based framework for understanding caregiving across contexts We move from labeling parenting and focus on the goals behind behaviors (emotional connection, structure, cultural values). w/ Sungha Kang & @qmmmmliu.bsky.social!
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
New paper led by Yasmin Butt on transgender and gender diverse families with @qmmmmliu.bsky.social. We examine how stigma, parenting emotion regulation, and mental health are interconnected using network analysis. Internalized stigma and anxiety were central. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2770...
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Parenting Under Pressure: Network Analysis of Stigma, Emotion Regulation, and Mental Health in TGD Parents
Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) parents face distinct stigma-related challenges that may be associated with emotion regulation in the parenting context and with family mental health. This stud...
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Antonia Yuxin Hua @antoniayuxinhua.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Excited to be attending #ADAA2026 in Chicago this weekend! I’m presenting our poster “Maternal Depression, Parenting Aggravation, and Youth Depressive Symptoms: Insights from Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models”, co-authored with Ashley Yang, @qmmmmliu.bsky.social, and @vjrp.bsky.social
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hello, friends, we have a new publication looking at Which depression symptoms matter most for functioning! Fatigue stands out. Anhedonia, appetite changes, and guilt also play key roles. Symptom-level approaches may improve functioning more than focusing on total severity.
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Philipp Standring @jpstand.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Published my first ever first-author paper in Archives of Suicide Research :)! A massive thanks to my co-authors Kiyan Irani, James Poh, Violeta Rodriguez (@vjrp.bsky.social), and my mentor Qimin Liu (@qmmmmliu.bsky.social)! Check out the paper here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RFJ4T...
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Disparities in Suicidal Ideation and Planning and Unmet Need for Mental Health Services Between Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Adults in the United States
Suicidal ideation and planning affect ∼10.6 million and 3.1 million adults in the United States annually, respectively, with sexual minority individuals experiencing disproportionately higher rates...
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New paper out in Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment @SpringerNature led by co-first author Yangduoduo Luo and our lab! Check it out at rdcu.be/e8nyM
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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 20/02/2026
Big paper release! ConversationAlign - methods for computing lexical and affective alignment between interlocutors in dyadic conversation transcripts. Open Access in Behavior Research Methods. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...
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ConversationAlign: Open-source software for analyzing patterns of lexical use and alignment in conversation transcripts
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
T32 Postdoc position in developmental psychopathology at UMN Institute of Child Development! There are many excellent primary mentors available, as well as an even better set of secondary mentors to choose from (including me). See link for details, due April 1. drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...
Screenshot of job ad for postdoc. Follow link for details.
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Just desk rejected a paper applying parallel serial mediation with a cross sectional sample of <50 participants. I guess that cues my seasonly PSA of NO MEDIATION WITH CROSS SECTIONAL DESIGN. It’s 2026. No more! Read Maxwell and Cole, 2007, for the year of fire horse pretty pretty please.
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New paper w/ @qmmmmliu.bsky.social Network analysis of LGBTQIA+ parents linking parenting, stigma, & mental health. Supportiveness, reinforcement, & transphobia were central. Child psychopathology & parent anxiety bridged domains. Patterns varied by identity doi.org/10.1037/fam0001459
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!
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Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 30/10/2025
Wasn't that happy with how performance crashed as time points grew, so I dusted off some linear algebra to optimize the calculations. Benchmark showed a ~1Mx speedup using new implementation (with 100 time points) 😅
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
New paper in Assessmentauthored by @psychillinois.bsky.social MSPS student @antoniayuxinhua.bsky.social, with @qmmmmliu.bsky.social. We validated the Regulating Emotions in Parenting Scale (REPS) across LGBT parents. Read: doi.org/10.1177/1073...
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Regulating Emotions in Parenting Scale in Sexual and Gender Minority Parents - Antonia Yuxin Hua, Qimin Liu, Violeta J. Rodriguez, 2025
Emotion regulation (ER) in parenting is crucial for parental well-being and children’s mental health. However, ER in parenting is often studied as a general con...
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
@qmmmmliu.bsky.social and I just gave a presentation for the UChicago internship program on writing faculty job statements. We talked through what makes them compelling (and what to avoid). Slides are here if interested 👉 osf.io/3skx4/?view_... Thanks to Dr. Shona Vas inviting us!!
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
🚨 New publication in Archives of Sexual Behavior! ❤️ Co–first authored w/ Dr. Qimin Liu — we applied conditional inference trees to examine intragroup nuances in discrimination + psychological distress among U.S. sexual minority adults. @psychillinois.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Disentangling the Heterogeneity in Minority Stress: A Data Mining Approach - Archives of Sexual Behavior
Minority stress theory posits that discrimination contributes to increased distress among individuals with minoritized identities, including individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual. The...
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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬 Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Information for prospective graduate students
The Translational Lab will be reviewing applications this cycle! Prospective students can apply through Clinical Science or Cognitive and Computational Sciences in the Emory Psychology Department to ...
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall! Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab Please spread the word!
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Join the Lab | Ringwald Lab
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
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Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A critical song that I put on repeat in my marathon of a day writing up my entire dissertation.
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
📣 HIRING! The Health Equity and Action Lab (@ UIUC) is looking for a Coordinator to support an NIH-funded study on parents. 💼 Start by 9/1 📍 Champaign, IL ✍️ Apply: vjrodrig@illinois.edu (CV + cover letter) RT to help us find someone great! 💜 #AcademicJobs #PsychologyJobs #HealthEquity
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Health Equity and Action Lab – A publish.illinois.edu site
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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 25/05/2025
How to read data into R from the OSF without losing your mind. reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_HowOSF...
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Read File into R from OSF without Losing your Mind
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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Looking forward to an invited talk at APS this month. I'll be discussing estimands, linear models, and set theory, debuting a new R package (w/ @nicolasleenaerts.bsky.social), and sharing some data from an ongoing emotion regulation study that identifies sufficient conditions for emotional distress.
Title slide for an invited talk at APS in D.C. on 5/24 entitled "Let's be discrete: The utility of episodic and categorical perspectives".README page from the GitHub page for a new package called 'mitools', which generates sets from categorical data and evaluates those sets for conditional probability and entropy.Example model depicting different sets and the conditional probability of emotional distress on each set.
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Tim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 06/05/2025
Despite the well-polished workflow of this package, I tried to analyze the “useless data set” that comes with it using {mediation}. Treatment and mediator were (strongly) confounded, so we need to pay close attention to the sensitivity analysis!
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Katie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.
To understand the devastation for U.S. science right now. Here is how NIH grants work:
somebody comes up with a research idea, like a tree sapling
NIH invests in the “direct cost” of that idea, aka buys the sapling 
Let’s say that sapling is $100
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
news.arizona.edu/news/new-pre... Out today - our protocol paper describing an ENORMOUS effort led by Ellen Driessen leveraging all available RCT data from depression trials comparing ADM/CT/BA/IPT/PDT (>60 studies, nearing 10K patients) to develop precision treatment selection decision support tools
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New precision mental health care approach for depression addresses unique patient needs | University of Arizona News
U of A psychologists teamed up with Radboud University in the Netherlands to develop a precision treatment approach for depression that gives patients individualized recommendations based on multiple ...
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
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University of Illinois Psychology Department @psychillinois.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, the team of @vjrp.bsky.social & @qmmmmliu.bsky.social shows how the stigma parents in sexual and gender families encounter is associated with their children's mental health. go.illinois.edu/vq
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Violeta Rodriguez Teams up to Examine Effects of Parental Stigma | Department of Psychology | Illinois
A recent study published in JAMA Network Open investigates how stigma experienced by parents in sexual and gender minority (SGM) families relates to their children's emotional and behavioral health. T...
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Check out our new (and timely) publication co first with @mingcong.bsky.social!
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Congratulations! So well deserved!
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New paper alert: Revised Network Loadings, by Alexsander P. Christensen, Hudson Golino, Francisco Abad, and Luis Garrido (2025). Link: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
good piece on last week's devastating cuts to queer health research: "This termination has broader implications ... It sets a concerning precedent where scientific inquiry is stifled by political rhetoric, potentially erasing entire communities from research agendas" - @britshmit.bsky.social
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Scientist speaks out after NIH terminates grants including study of LGBTQ+ teens' mental health
Dr. Brittany Charlton is speaking out after the NIH terminated all of her grants studying how discriminatory laws impact mental health among LGBTQ+ teens.
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Hello friends! New week new publication from me led by the hardworking and talented superstar Tiffany Tran. Who knew perceived parental warmth and control in adolescence could have this long lasting of an impact on adult daily life?! Check it out at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Honestly soul crushing. Hundreds of hours of work from so many dedicated people.🙃 Does anyone have any grant that is being reviewed as usual… or is our grant (related to SGM) special… trying to figure out if this is NIH wide or content specific or grant specific… many thanks.
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Hello Friends, new month new pub! Check out “Practical Problems Estimating and Reporting Power When Hypotheses Are Embedded in Complex Statistical Models” by David A. Cole, George Abitante, Hoi Kan, me, Kristopher J. Preacher, and Scott E. Maxwell journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Practical Problems Estimating and Reporting Power When Hypotheses Are Embedded in Complex Statistical Models - David A. Cole, George Abitante, Hoi Kan, Qimin Liu, Kristopher J. Preacher, Scott E. Maxw...
In both grant proposals and published studies, many research hypotheses (represented by primary parameters) are tested in the context of complex statistical mod...
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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I am thrilled to announce that, starting in July 2026, I will join the Department of Psychology at Harvard University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Clinical area! It really feels like a dream come true. I can’t wait to build my lab in such an incredible department.
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Hello friends, new pub for the new year with pretty new figures w/ Shannon Shaughnessy, @tiffaaanytran.bsky.social, and me, on tonic and phasic irritability in adults experiencing symptoms of depression! Free access till March: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kNHM_3m9t...
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Another semester teaching undergraduate (mostly psychology major) students statistics with R programming:
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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This is the best paper you’ve probably never read. It covers underlying assumptions about what counts as a psychiatric disorder. For example, are disorders defined by their underlying nature or are they categories identified by us for specific uses? psychiatryonline.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
May the year of 2025 be the time when the gospel of Cole and Maxwell (2003) and Maxwell and Cole (2007) finally sink in and I no longer have to review, handle, or hear about papers with cross sectional mediations… or maybe we will have a breakthrough in metaphysics proving instantaneous causation.
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Q. Liu, Ph.D. @qmmmmliu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My fault in misshaping into economics twitter but wow… riveting discussions…
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Cassie Boness, PhD @cassie-boness.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Sharing over here as well! I’ll be reviewing applications for the UNM clinical psych PhD program this cycle. More here: bonessaddictionslab.wordpress.com/prospective-...
Screenshot of tweet from me that reads “will be reviewing applications for the @UNMPsychDept clinical psychology PhD program this fall. Our lab is currently in an exciting period of growth, and we are looking for applicants interested in substance use to join us! More here:” and links to bal.UNM.edu
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