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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......

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Well, That Was Really Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 20/09/2026

gives us nice picture of the dependent variables at work, and allows us to get a better insight into what possible changes we might want to make. This paragraph gives a good illustration of how an analysis might look.

To illustrate this, imagine working with a personal trainer to achieve your fitness goals. If the trainer were to say something like “brisk daily walks will help you to meet your goals”, you may understand this as “if I walk each day, then I will achieve my goals”. Consequently, because you want this outcome, you walk each day. So, in this example, you understand and follow a rule delivered by the trainer. Applying a relational frame interpretation, we might say that you have coordinated word classes (e.g., “walk”) with some event classes (e.g., the actual act of walking), further relating these verbal classes conditionally, with “if” and “then” bringing additional arbitrary relations to bear. Understanding the rule in this way alters the functions of walking, with transformations of stimulus function connecting the act of “walking” to the desirable consequence of “achieving goals”. As such, when next invited on a walk with colleagues during lunchtime, you may decide to join them, especially if you have not yet walked that day. You now experience your colleagues inviting you on a walk differently from how you experienced it before the rule since before the rule, an invitation from colleagues to walk at lunch may have simply been neutral or even mildly aversive (e.g., interrupting work or causing social discomfort). After the rule is understood and related to personal values, such as those underlying one’s fitness goals, the function of “walking” is transformed. Consequently, an invitation to walk evokes behavior (joining the walk) because it is relationally connected to achieving personally significant outcomes. So now, when colleagues invite you to walk, that verbal stimulus functions as a cue to engage in goal-aligned behavior because it participates in a relational network that includes valued outcomes. This differs from an establishing operation in traditional behavior analysis because establishing operations alter the value of a reinforcer and the probability o…

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is hilarious. 😂 😂

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Keep sharing this link - even after you write to your own MP to ask them to attend the "join the EU" debate... just keep sharing to family and friends. This is a huge campaigning drive just starting up...

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Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe

On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 31/08/2026

Because "Lake Fragile Ego" and "Lake Insecurity" were too on the nose. gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/...

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Lake Make It About Me - MapQuest

Check out my custom map where I renamed Lake Ontario to Lake Make It About Me!

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Despite all the "missed takes" and imperfections in the paper, I just wish my past self knew how good he was (and thus kinder to himself). All of us should be kinder to not just our present selves but our past selves. A lot of peace can come from that.

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Dr Nicky Lambert @niadla.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The Autistic and OK toolkit was co-produced by autistic young people to equip schools with practical resources and peer-led workshops to help improve autistic young people’s wellbeing. www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk/what-we-do/s...

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 31/03/2026

OOPS! GB News owner Paul Marshall tried to rebut Christian leaders, who criticised his channel's dodgy climate coverage…but in the process he made 25 dodgy claims of his own 🫠 Impressively, he packed the 25 dodgy claims into just 340 words 👏 Receipts: docs.google.com/docu...

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Excited to share our latest paper on computational mechanisms of self-enhancement with links to mental health. We used hierarchical Bayesian drift diffusion modeling to decompose choices on a social comparison task and relate them internalizing symptoms. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GPFSV...

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Computational Mechanisms of Self-Enhancement During Social Comparison and Their Relationship to Internalizing Symptoms - Moriah S. Stendel, John A. Clithero, Robert S. Chavez, 2026

Internalizing disorders, such as anxiety and depression, commonly feature cognitive biases in self-evaluation, particularly in the context of social comparison....

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

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Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters

This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

How austerity is making us sicker with Dr Amir Khan. WATCH FULL EP: youtu.be/NmZgRJ_7Oxw

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The UN Special Rapporteur identified Palantir as complicit in war crimes and "profiting from genocide." Amnesty International, Medact, the British Medical Association, and the Green Party are all now calling for the NHS contract to be cancelled.

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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 12/02/2026

Everyone needs to be aware that this man, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, the man who oversees federal regulation of medicine, seriously rejects the germ theory of disease and believes that illness is an outward manifestation of a lack of moral worth.

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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Not only does the University of Edinburgh have net assets of £3.1bn, but they have a surplus of £43mn. Yet, in the name of savings, the university continues to pursue redundancies which harm students, staff, and the institution itself. An utter disgrace.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2026

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

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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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Constantin Yves Plessen @cyplessen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Are digital interventions for depression effective? We ran 3,638 meta-analyses on 125 RCTs (32,733 participants) to find out. Effect sizes ranged from small to medium (Hedges’ g = 0.16–0.74), with guided interventions & LMICs showing greater benefits. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Digital mental health interventions for the treatment of depression: A multiverse meta-analysis

The varying sizes of effects in published meta-analyses on digital interventions for depression prompt questions about their efficacy.A systematic sea…

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person. eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...

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Are causes of mental disorders in the person or in the environment? » Eiko Fried

Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Tomorrow, I'll be speaking at the EPP workshop in Heeze about "What can (and can’t) the #ExperienceSampling method do for you? Designing and carrying out high-quality, transparent ESM research". If you'd like to find out more about ESM, check out our FREE handbook: www.kuleuven.be/samenwerking...

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