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Roy Salomon

@royesal.bsky.social
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Prof. University of Haifa. Connoisseur of Consciousness and its varieties salomonlab.org

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Thrilled to have lab alum Dr. Yoni Stern presenting our research on the Self, VR and Psychosis today(Monday 6/7) at Haifa Mental Health Innovation Summit. Leveraging our VR paradigms to improve early detection of psychosis. Register @ hil.haifa.ac.il/haifa-mental...
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
New publication from the lab in Cortex How does the brain generate the feeling that “I am the one causing my actions”*? In our preregistered EEG + VR study, we manipulated visual feedback of finger movements to see neural correlates of Embodied Agency. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neural responses to sensorimotor conflict in an embodied agency task
The Sense of Agency (SoA), the subjective experience that ‘I am in control of my actions’, has been proposed to involve both early implicit sensorimot…
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Does PTSD risk leave traces in the body’s daily rhythms? Our new study, just published in @translational psychiatry followed Supernova festival survivors after Oct 7 using real-world sleep and heart-rate data. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PTSD #Wearables #UniveristyofHafia #Psychiatry #sleep
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Circadian instability following mass trauma predicts PTSD risk - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Circadian instability following mass trauma predicts PTSD risk
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Roselyne Chauvin @roselynechauvin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The 6x US memory champion – Nelson Dellis – can memorize a deck of cards in 40 seconds and knows the first 10K digits of pi. To figure out how, he let us peak inside his brain. Here is what we learned in our precision brain mapping study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... youtube.com/shorts/MryMq...
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how does his brain do it ? #neuroscience #memory #sport Nelson Dellis 6x US memory champion
YouTube video by Roselyne Chauvin
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Just back from Prague, where, in a typically overambitious move, I gave two talks in one day. At NUDZ, I spoke about Self and Reality in the Human Brain, and how VR and neuroimaging implicate abnormal "Self" in psychosis. Learned about exciting work on psychedelics and mental health at NUDZ (1/2)
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
On December 16, I gave a talk at Charité on our work with the NOVA survivors on trauma under psychedelics. In 1933, my grandfather, Prof. Dr. Karl Salomon, was expelled from the Charité for being Jewish. He fled Germany and rebuilt his life in Israel. Happy to close this circle.
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
So great! To paraphrase @lucinauddin.bsky.social: If we (researchers) aren't clear, it has downstream effects on translation (eg to) psychiatry. We must strive not just to publish papers, but to be clear!
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Yoav Livneh @yoavlivneh.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Insular cortex predictions regulate glucose homeostasis
Brain-body interactions are essential for physical and emotional homeostasis. The brain uses information from the external world to predict upcoming bodily changes. This process involves interoceptive...
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🧪 Friends of all backgrounds: please enjoy this new paper whose findings “reveal that bees engage higher-order cognitive mechanisms under temporal uncertainty, suggesting that core features of awareness may be evolutionarily conserved across distant taxa.” Yeah. 🫢 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Serotonergic-dependent awareness is required for trace conditioning in honeybees
Entomology; Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
**How do we make long-lasting emotional memories** Looks very interesting. #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Yes pls
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Somehow I love these scientific sleuth stories.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/11/2025
It’s a good night for it.
Interior of the Funhouze in Seattle with a can of Nazi Punks Fuck Off beer.
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Honored to speak at the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin on Breaking the Walls of Trauma: Psychedelics and Recovery with Dr. Dimitris Repantis and Prof. Eric Vermetten discussing the opportunities and challenges psychedelics bring to trauma and PTSD recovery. falling-walls.com/programme/br...
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Breaking the Walls of Trauma: Psychedelics and Recovery
Trauma and mental health challenges are increasingly examined through the lens of psychedelic-assisted therapies. Insights from research and clinical practice highlight the potential of substances suc...
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Now, Prof Bessel Van der Kolk discussing how trauma is encoded in the mind and body. Stressing the importance of agency and action during the TE for better post traumatic recovery.
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Then the outstanding Rick Dublin showed the efforts to advance MDMA assisted therapy for PTSD in many areas of conflict around the world.
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Honored to be presenting at the SafeHeart conference on trauma, psychedelics and therapy during wartime. Showed our results of two years work with the Nova survivors.
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Amazing conference in Dresden on the Multidimensionalty of Trauma. Amazing morning lineup: Carmen Sandi, Talma Hendler, Eric Vermetten & Hermona Soreq. From tRNA to psychedelic treatments of PTSD stress and trauma effects evident at all levels of neurobiology and cognition.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 15/10/2025
Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Yesterday, my heart was filled with hope as all live Israeli hostages returned home. Yesterday was also the funeral of Roee Shalev, Nova survivor suffering from PTSD who committed suicide this week. The trauma suffered on both sides is tremendous and there is much work ahead for this to be healed.🙏
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Tomorrow will be two years since the attack which began this terrible war. I have lived through several wars, but this one has changed me. I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I am not above praying for peace.... Hostages back home, this war can be over. Amen 🙏
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Ophir Netzer @ophirnetzer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our World Psychiatry paper is out! we studied responses to trauma experienced under different psychoactive substances and found distinct patterns across substances. Immense gratitude to our collaborators and above all, to the survivors❤️‍🩹
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....
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Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Impressive data set with interesting findings: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dose-response relationship between accelerometer-measured physical activity and depression: evidence from the UK Biobank - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Dose-response relationship between accelerometer-measured physical activity and depression: evidence from the UK Biobank
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is a fascinating article. Well-researched. And while it doesn't interrogate the reasons why the FDA knocked back the MDMA application at least it reasonably accepts the rejection was based on problems with the science and not solely the result of a tiny "activist" group.
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How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company
Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA
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Deng Pan @dengpan.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The situation in Israel is not good. A crazy government extending a terrible war to retain power while reducing freedoms. Despite the violence against protestors we will continue to stop the war, return the hostages and seek peace.
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This week I came for my last day at the university before setting off for a 1 year sabbatical at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The amazing students in my lab surprised me with a goodbye party. So lucky to be working with such talented and kind people! Thanks salomonlab.org
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Dopamine induces fear extinction by activating the reward-responding amygdala neurons | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Dopamine induces fear extinction by activating the reward-responding amygdala neurons | PNAS
The extinction of conditioned fear responses is crucial for adaptive behavior, and its impairment is a hallmark of anxiety disorders such as posttr...
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Very interesting case. Hope this is indeed a framework for future translation of cog-neuro into clinical improvements
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Xavier Job @xavierjob.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
📣 New preprint 📣 The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈
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Motor prediction reduces beta-band power and enhances cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch to enable its attenuation
Prevailing theories suggest that the brain uses an internal forward model to predict tactile input during voluntary movements, thereby reducing the intensity of the reafferent tactile sensation, a phe...
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
We all know that something is deeply broken in the publishing system, but this is amazing to see the scope of the problem... Well done to all the authors!
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Yuval Nir @labnir.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Closed-loop electrical stimulation prevents focal epilepsy progression and long-term memory impairment: rdcu.be/ezjNt
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Closed-loop electrical stimulation prevents focal epilepsy progression and long-term memory impairment
Nature Neuroscience - Pathological neural communication drives the spread of the epileptic network and contributes to memory impairment in focal epilepsy. The authors show that closed-loop...
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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
We need more human beings.
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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social rdcu.be/exN0e
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Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
Molecular Psychiatry - Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Whats up?
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Proud of the Israel Young Academy, that like many others in Israeli academia sends a clear message to our government - against which many of us have been protesting for 2 years: END THE WAR. Now
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Maor Schreiber @maorschreiber.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The horrendous government here has so little support from the people, that they are moving towards dictatorship. They know they will lose the election so are trying to prevent it. We need to stop the war now! How can anyone not be heartbroken when seeing the outcomes of this conflict.
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The war in Gaza must end. The humanitarian crisis is heartbreaking and tragic.
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Beautifully written and important piece here:
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Julia Ditzer @juliaditzer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵
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A meta-analytic review of child maltreatment and interoception
Nature Mental Health - Interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, is crucial for mental and physical well-being, yet the origins of disruptions in interoception are not well...
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Sorry to be missing #ASSC28 in Crete. The stress of the latest conflicts here is felt and I have decided the best thing to do is to stay here with my family. I wish everyone a great meeting, and thanks to the organizers for making this happen. If someone solves the hard problem pls update.
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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Boss move
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @jamanetworkopen.com on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology w/ @hadarfisher.bsky.social and linked to excellent paper by @whitneyringwald.bsky.social, @aidangcw.bsky.social & team. tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e
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Tracking Psychopathology Dimensions Through Passive Smartphone Sensing
Mental health researchers are increasingly using passively collected data from smartphones and wearable devices (eg, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and smart rings) to continuously and unobtrusively ...
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