Reposted by Steven MesquitiLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970192262
Reposted by Steven MesquitiThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/09/2026An ICE agent shot a man in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, local authorities said. The man, an immigrant from Venezuela, was taken to a hospital and then released into ICE custody, a lawyer representing him said. nyti.ms/4jf4uC6 155123
Reposted by Steven MesquitiJoey Heffner @jpheffne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026SO 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.comheffner-lab.comEmotions, Computation, and Choice LabExplore 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... 46618
Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Slowly finding out, by no one else's fault but mine, that writing a F31 NRSA proposal is Type III fun 😀 010
Reposted by Steven Mesquitisamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 09/09/2026here are some really gorgeous results from the Nock lab on predicting suicide before it's attempted — essential data for suicide preventioncurrent.fas.harvard.eduHarvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advanceResearcher Matthew Nock pioneered the technique of using smartphone technology to survey high-risk adults and adolescents in real time. In a new study, Nock and his team report using the technology to... 33310
Reposted by Steven MesquitiProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 34776184459
Reposted by Steven MesquitiMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"At this very moment, we have an emerging alien—and uncontrollable—intelligence that bears scrutiny" Why do pple keep saying the models are "uncontrollable"? Any of them could be put in an unhackable sandbox--these exist! Any of these companies could shut any of these models off at any time. 1515837
Reposted by Steven MesquitiAmanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMwyoutu.beGetting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA 67440
Reposted by Steven MesquitiMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices. 28636174
Reposted by Steven MesquitiLogic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Congratulations @eriknook.bsky.social 🎉, we are so proud! 072
Reposted by Steven MesquitiThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/09/2026The integration of ChatGPT into iMessage threatens to further blur the line between AI and genuine human interaction, @kait.bsky.social argues.bit.lyAm I Talking to You, or ChatGPT?The “Dead Internet” theory is back. 0155
Reposted by Steven MesquitiLogic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Congrats to @talvaldivia.bsky.social for being selected as a Princeton Cognitive Science Graduate Student Fellow! 🎉 Chantal will be a central member of the CogSci Program, attending and presenting in Thursday colloquium series in the fall semester, and jointly organizing departmental events. 042
Reposted by Steven MesquitiOscar Kjell @oscarkjell.bsky.social · 04/09/20261/5 AI is becoming more advanced and more common in mental healthcare, from assessments to psychotherapy support. We built a Coursera specialisation to help clinicians navigate it: The Mental Health Clinician and AI. coursera.org/specializations/the-mental-health-clinician-and-ai #PsychSciSkycoursera.orgThe Mental Health Clinician and AIOffered by Lund University. Navigate AI as a Mental Health Professional. Understand, evaluate, and apply AI as a mental health professional Enroll for free. 196
Reposted by Steven MesquitiPsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Evidence of Limited Biases in Probed Language-based Assessments: osf.io/zrb3v 001
Reposted by Steven MesquitiWhitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 30/08/2026For HiTOP to really make a difference, it needs to be clinically useful. I am really passionate about bridging this translational divide. Reach out to me if your clinic wants to use HiTOP friendly assessments and take part in the field trials! See this article/thread for more 👇👇👇 0237
Reposted by Steven MesquitiJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/08/2026I am once again begging everyone who supervises student theses to stop making students conduct mediation analyses because “a regression isn’t complicated enough for a thesis” 😭 1519823
Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I've been thinking a lot about self-reference lately of how people use the word "I" and whether what that "I" actually means changes over the course of therapy as people improve. So, I'm excited to share a new preprint with @eriknook.bsky.social and team that explores this very idea Thread below 👇 1132
Reposted by Steven MesquitiNPR @npr.org · 13/08/2026Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards for two very different performances — in the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons and in HBO's Euphoria. "I can go very deep with my characters," he says. n.pr/3TUBntqn.pr'I'm a say yes person': Actor Colman Domingo is up for new challengesDomingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards for two very different performances — in the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons and in HBO's Euphoria. "I can go very deep with my characters," he says. 1855338
Reposted by Steven MesquitiIban Dlank (b↔︎d) @ibandlank.bsky.social · 13/08/2026New resource: intro workshop on contextual embeddings in Language Models! Free, standalone Google Colab notebook with lots of explanations. Built for psycholing/cogsci folks (and anyone curious about LM internals). No coding required! Just edit-and-run. 🧵 github.com/idanblank/LM...github.comLM-embedding-workshop-data/LM_embedding_workshop_notebook_public.ipynb at main · idanblank/LM-embedding-workshop-dataData for a workshop on using LM contextual embeddings - idanblank/LM-embedding-workshop-data 1325
Reposted by Steven MesquitiRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...bettercode-book.org12 Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science 317783
Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Excited to share a new Annual Review paper with @eriknook.bsky.social : "Large Language Models in Mental Health Research and Treatment." Here lay out what LLMs actually are and aren't, then take a census of how mental health research has used them so far, where it's heading 🧵1/n 2216
Reposted by Steven MesquitiNoah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I'm so happy to announce version 2.0.0 of my #Rstats package WeightIt is out on CRAN! New features: censoring weights, multilevel propensity scores, improved weights for continuous treatments, bias-reduced ordinal and multinomial models, M-estimation in subgroups Check out the website below!ngreifer.github.ioWeighting for Covariate Balance in Observational StudiesGenerates balancing weights for causal effect estimation in observational studies with binary, multi-category, or continuous point or longitudinal treatments by easing and extending the functionality ... 29136
Reposted by Steven MesquitiAidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Want to join the newest methodological wave of analyzing the growing amount of audio and text data? Consider registering for Oscar Kjell's course next week (8/11-8/13) on using R for language based analysis: smart-workshops.com/lang-r-infosmart-workshops.comHuman Language in R Information — SMaRT Workshops 054
Reposted by Steven MesquitiPhiladelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 30/07/2026Md Mahfuzul Haque, a doctor and Bangladesh native, moved to Philadelphia to support his wife's medical career. He was killed during a robbery this month, police say. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/crime/md-m... 2144
Reposted by Steven MesquitiDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Cutting money that provides food and health care but spending $300 million to permanently deploy the military to the streets of the capital in times of peace is tinpot dictator stuff 281550457
Reposted by Steven MesquitiSanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 24/07/2026I'm a fan of Matthias Mehl's work, this is a really neat writeup of the EAR method and what it's uncovered over the years. (paywalled, and I don't have a gift link to give unfortunately) 152
Reposted by Steven MesquitiDan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026🚨 Now out in @jamapsychiatry.com 🚨 Are people with depression less responsive to rewards on social media, just like in the lab? Actually…quite the opposite! 🧵 📄 Read the paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comThe Reinforcement Effect of Social Media Likes in DepressionThis study investigates individual differences in the effect of social media likes on posting behavior and their association with and specificity to depressive psychopathology. 26924
Reposted by Steven Mesquitisedrul.bsky.social @sedrul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Street art, London 213110401562
Reposted by Steven MesquitiSanta Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Present-day LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude can write poetry and solve algebra problems. Some researchers call this "emergence," but not everyone agrees. A new paper by SFI's David Krakauer, Melanie Mitchell, and John Krakauer proposes a framework to clarify whether AI capabilities are truly emergent.santafe.eduDoes intelligence ‘emerge’ in large language models?Present-day LLMs, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can perform complex tasks, such as writing poetry and solving difficult algebra problems, with astounding speed and precision. Some researchers have refer... 1278
Reposted by Steven MesquitiAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate 10156371504
Reposted by Steven MesquitiLiz Siefert @lizsiefert.bsky.social · 29/06/2026New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgArousal state modulates human hippocampal ripplesHippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i.... 38842
Reposted by Steven MesquitiMike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Some thoughts on how to collaborate on reproducible paper writing with AI agents, without them introducing hallucinated references or other issues into your paper. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/06/help...babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.comHelp me, but don't touch the paper!Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science. 3435
Reposted by Steven MesquitiAidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Is there any alternative preprint server for psychological research that isn’t that wretched psyarxiv? Why does it suck so bad? 971
Reposted by Steven MesquitiMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 19/06/2026the further we go down this “AI” path, the more i believe that LOCAL and OPEN models are what we the people desperately need 3596
Reposted by Steven MesquitiJim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026My painting PRAIRIE STORM 573668333
Reposted by Steven MesquitiPam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Remote work and mental health www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Liked Remote Work. Then We Looked at the Data. 041
Reposted by Steven MesquitiPsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026An AI-Powered Digital Mental Health Platform Reduces Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial: osf.io/nwz9q 001
Reposted by Steven MesquitiPaul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The censorship at TTU is so bad that my someone above me, outside my discipline is intersting himself into my students training without my consent, insisting he is required to do so because of the 'policy'. @standupforscience.net 11816
Reposted by Steven MesquitiMiri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Turns out empirically derived phenotypes (data-driven symptom sets) nested within traditional mental disorders can help reduce diagnostic heterogeneity! We learned so much cool and interesting stuff in this study. I could talk (/post) about it all day, but here’s a few highlights (🧵) 19336
Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 06/05/2026arxiv.org/pdf/2602.17791 'Low SES students more likely to fall into the high use bucket than higher SES peers. LLM use associated w sig. larger admission penalties for lower SES applicants...more than 2x the penalty for higher SES students, even after controlling for academic credentials.'arxiv.org 000
Reposted by Steven MesquitiJAMA Psychiatry @jamapsychiatry.com · 24/04/2026Across versions of ChatGPT, responses to psychotic prompts were frequently inappropriate or partially appropriate, raising safety concerns for users at risk for #psychosis. ja.ma/4smwzbN 001
Reposted by Steven MesquitiColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 24/04/2026UPDATE: No audience questions were taken for Jay's talk. 1824972
Reposted by Steven MesquitiSpace @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026NASA releases insane new image of the mighty hexagonal storm on Saturn's North Pole. 4415254892
Reposted by Steven MesquitiRafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Yes, and… those working on these “too technical” papers should also be taught to communicate w/o equations to a broader audience. Clear communication does matter. I don’t see it as dumbing down. In fact, it’s the communication that enables rigorous work w/o needing to simplify the methods 081
Reposted by Steven MesquitiSam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 19/04/2026There seems to be a broad perception across psychology and neuroscience that work shouldn't be "too technical" in order to reach the broadest possible audience. While I think we should strive for accessibility, I feel that this attitude can also be self-defeating: why are we dumbing down? 78816
Reposted by Steven MesquitiJin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026TWO social psychologists got it!!!! Congrats to Mina Cikara and @olsonista.bsky.social !!!! 0444
Reposted by Steven MesquitiJim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026My painting DARK STORM 1627754603
Reposted by Steven MesquitiConsortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) @cossa.bsky.social · 10/04/2026🚨URGENT ACTION ALERT🚨 Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate! Write to your House Representative and Senators TODAY to share your concerns and urge them to act ➡️ cossa.org/action-cente... #WhySocialScience #SaveSBEcossa.orgStop the Administration’s Dismantling of NSF’s SBE Directorate Now!A consortium of Social Science Associations works to communicate the importance of social & behavioral science research to policymakers. The powerful stories come from people who express how it is… 0915