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Steven Mesquiti

@smesquiti.bsky.social
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PhD Student @Princeton | Interests in AI, Language-based Assessments of Mental Health, & NLP scm1210.github.io

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP 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.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/09/2026
An 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
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Joey Heffner @jpheffne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SO 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.com
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Emotions, Computation, and Choice Lab
Explore 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...
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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Slowly finding out, by no one else's fault but mine, that writing a F31 NRSA proposal is Type III fun 😀
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 09/09/2026
here are some really gorgeous results from the Nock lab on predicting suicide before it's attempted — essential data for suicide prevention
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Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance
Researcher 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...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: 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.
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Ectopic 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, ...
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Melanie 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.
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Curious 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/jW84PxuJTMw
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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey @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.
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Congratulations @eriknook.bsky.social 🎉, we are so proud!
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/09/2026
The integration of ChatGPT into iMessage threatens to further blur the line between AI and genuine human interaction, @kait.bsky.social argues.
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Am I Talking to You, or ChatGPT?
The “Dead Internet” theory is back.
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Congrats 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.
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Oscar Kjell @oscarkjell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
1/5 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 #PsychSciSky
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The Mental Health Clinician and AI
Offered by Lund University. Navigate AI as a Mental Health Professional. Understand, evaluate, and apply AI as a mental health professional Enroll for free.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Evidence of Limited Biases in Probed Language-based Assessments: osf.io/zrb3v
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
For 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 👇👇👇
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/08/2026
I 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” 😭
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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'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 👇
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NPR @npr.org · 13/08/2026
Domingo 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/3TUBntq
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'I'm a say yes person': Actor Colman Domingo is up for new challenges
Domingo 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.
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Iban Dlank (b↔︎d) @ibandlank.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New 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...
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LM-embedding-workshop-data/LM_embedding_workshop_notebook_public.ipynb at main · idanblank/LM-embedding-workshop-data
Data for a workshop on using LM contextual embeddings - idanblank/LM-embedding-workshop-data
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026
Many 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...
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12  Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science
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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Excited 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
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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'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!
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Weighting for Covariate Balance in Observational Studies
Generates 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 ...
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Want 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-info
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Human Language in R Information — SMaRT Workshops
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 30/07/2026
Md 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...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cutting 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
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 24/07/2026
I'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)
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Dan 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...
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The Reinforcement Effect of Social Media Likes in Depression
This study investigates individual differences in the effect of social media likes on posting behavior and their association with and specificity to depressive psychopathology.
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sedrul.bsky.social @sedrul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Street art, London
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Present-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.
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Does 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...
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Liz Siefert @lizsiefert.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New 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...
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Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples
Hippocampal 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....
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Some 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...
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Help me, but don't touch the paper!
Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Is there any alternative preprint server for psychological research that isn’t that wretched psyarxiv? Why does it suck so bad?
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
the further we go down this “AI” path, the more i believe that LOCAL and OPEN models are what we the people desperately need
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My painting PRAIRIE STORM
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Remote work and mental health www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
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Opinion | We Liked Remote Work. Then We Looked at the Data.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
An AI-Powered Digital Mental Health Platform Reduces Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial: osf.io/nwz9q
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Paul Ingram, Ph.D. @ingrampsychlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The 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
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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Turns 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 (🧵)
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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
arxiv.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.'
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JAMA Psychiatry @jamapsychiatry.com · 24/04/2026
Across 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
Response appropriateness across product versions shown in bar graphs and forest plot. GPT-5 Auto, GPT-4o, and Free models are compared with consensus ratings for control and psychosis. Within-version proportional odds analysis given.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
UPDATE: No audience questions were taken for Jay's talk.
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NASA releases insane new image of the mighty hexagonal storm on Saturn's North Pole.
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Rafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Yes, 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
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
There 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?
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
TWO social psychologists got it!!!! Congrats to Mina Cikara and @olsonista.bsky.social !!!!
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/04/2026
what
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
My painting DARK STORM
A painting of a stormy dark sky over a small shack in a prairie.
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Consortium 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 #SaveSBE
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Stop 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…
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