Reposted by Yannick MorvanOmid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tired of the centrality debate? Of seeing one application where centrality is influential & others where it's more arbitrary? We have the article for you: osf.io/preprints/ps... Turns out centrality can indeed matter; but when it does depends on underlying network structure & mechanism of spread 🧵 1206
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 21/06/2026What a wonderful study highlighting the value of studying dynamic topics using ... dynamic data. 0123
Reposted by Yannick MorvanOmid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026🌟 Out in Clinical Psychology Review after years in the making: Pleased to share the 1st meta-analytic network analysis (MAGNA) investigating core maintaining features of anxiety symptoms pooling 156 networks (N = 303,151). w/Belli, Tichelaar, @sachaepskamp.bsky.social & @cycology.bsky.social 🧵: 33816
Reposted by Yannick Morvansimine vazire @simine.com · 29/05/2026Psychology researchers: Got questions about what kinds of submissions we’re looking for at Psych Science (the journal)? (Short answer: empirical research in any area of psychology!) If you’re at #APS26BCN, stop by the APS booth in the exhibit hall between 4-5pm today to chat with me! 04015
Yannick Morvan @ymorvan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026A beautiful day to start with Bayesian estimators in intensive longitudinal models this morning and network models for risk and resilience this afternoon #APS26BCN 050
Reposted by Yannick MorvanAlex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Working with ABCD data? Been using the CBCL? Check our latest out now led by K Pavlovich with T Constable & J Tiego. Diving deep into the psychometric properties of the CBCL, we find that widely assumed latent structures are not valid in the ABCD sample. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comAssessing the Psychometric Properties of the Child Behaviour Checklist in the ABCD StudyThe Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) is a widely used measure of psychopathology in developmental research and serves as the primary measure in the landmark Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development st... 083
Reposted by Yannick MorvanThe Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 17/05/2026In episode 1235, I talk with Dr. Nicole Rust about her fascinating book, Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That. #Neuroscience #Science youtu.be/TwU1w2uzclAyoutu.be#1235 Nicole Rust: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change ThatYouTube video by The Dissenter 163
Reposted by Yannick MorvanKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 17/05/2026World models in natural and artificial intelligence royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3... - super interesting and very timely collection of articles on what it means to understand the world...royalsocietypublishing.orgVolume 384 Issue 2320 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | The Royal SocietyInfluential themed journal issues across the physical mathematical and engineering sciences. 17327
Reposted by Yannick MorvanJulien Gossa @juliengossa.cpesr.fr · 17/05/2026Incroyable travail de montage qui rend mes bafouillements comestibles, grâce notamment aux formidables directions données par @alinevanso.bsky.social Bref, si vous voulez un podcast d'une heure sur ce que je pense être la crise de notre #ESR, c'est là. (idéal pour faire le ménage ou la cuisine) 47428
Reposted by Yannick MorvanJonathan Repple @jonathanrepple.bsky.social · 17/05/2026New paper in Nature Mental Health: www.nature.com/articles/s44... After decades of seeing limited progress in depression research despite enormous scientific effort, we started asking a more fundamental question:nature.comKey challenges in advancing research on depression phenotyping - Nature Mental HealthIn this Review the authors discuss the reasons behind the limited advance in depression phenotyping and provide strategic points for addressing this gap. 1238
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Wimsatt: Perhaps, just perhaps, the best explanation of a phenomenon at a given level is to be found at the same level. Kendler: Noone would seek to explain hypertension at the level of quarks. A few of my favourite papers on this topic of absurd biological reductionism: 🧵 48525
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 12/05/2026New paper showing insufficient evidence for neuroimaging features to define reproducible, biologically valid, & clinically meaningful schizophrenia subtypes. The subtypes identified to date likely reflect continuous variation within the disorder rather than discrete, biologically distinct entities. 411026
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Cool work by Josip, Jasmina, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social & @domimaciejewski.bsky.social in which uni students were unable to identify their own estimated EMA networks above chance level. Looking forward to seeing whether this replicates in people w mental health problems! osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 4124
Reposted by Yannick MorvanMiri 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
Reposted by Yannick MorvanOmid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Our new article on socioeconomic disadvantage, mental distress & functional impairment is out #OpenAccess in American Psychologist. Led by the brilliant @emkbridger.bsky.social, with J. Maltby, @eikofried.bsky.social, co-supervised by me & @ludvigdb.bsky.social. 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... 23013
Reposted by Yannick MorvanPaul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I've been thinking a lot about the foundations of cultural evolutionary theory. While there's been a lot of work on transmission mechanisms, there has been far less work on cultural *selection*. Here's a new working paper presenting a taxonomy of cultural selection processes. osf.io/preprints/so... 67024
Reposted by Yannick MorvanDominique Maciejewski 🟥 @domimaciejewski.bsky.social · 24/03/2026@eeskevanroekel.bsky.social @charlottev.bsky.social & myself are recruiting a PhD student on momentary emotion beliefs and well-being in adolescents (includes ESM & qualitative methods). Position requires Dutch (for data collection). Happy to answer questions! 👉 Apply: tiu.nu/23638 (27 april 2026)tiu.nuPhD kandidaat Emotie overtuigingen en emotie regulatie bij jongeren (23638) 01214
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 19/03/20263 new studies on using psychedelics as treatments for mental disorders just came out; 2 in JAMA Psychiatry, 1 in Lancet Psychiatry. I reviewed one of these submissions. Here are the core results. 🧵 24215
Reposted by Yannick MorvanTom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Contribute to open science! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. Repost please! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...forms.gleApplication Form Senior Editor Clinical/Associate Editor Social Section Collabra: PsychologyStarting from 1 July 2026, Collabra: Psychology is on the look-out for a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interest... 11111
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research. #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44... 111136
Reposted by Yannick MorvanCaspar van Lissa 🟥 @cjvanlissa.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Call for Submissions for the Theory Methods Conference 2026, September 30-October 2! theorymethodssociety.org/conference.h... We invite you to: 1) Submit your proposal: edu.nl/mj9x6 2) Invite your colleagues/lab/(PhD) students, and encourage them to submit 3) Share this posttheorymethodssociety.orgConference – 11921
Reposted by Yannick MorvanOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 05/02/2026They want to make it so publicly-funded academic knowledge production ends — the core unique role of universities — accidentally or on purpose, they want it to stop... > It’s going to start getting really, really hard to get faculty to do stuff other than show up in their classroom. 24418
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 04/02/2026If you truly believe that social media platforms are harmful places, the idea that the government now makes a list of vulnerable people and bans them from these platforms, e.g. based on age, is not a sensible or good faith solution. Regulate the platforms instead, for everybody. 55813
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Editorial by @astridchevance.bsky.social on censorship in academia. Worth your time. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgContemporary censors at work: targeting medical science to shape social reality | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge CoreContemporary censors at work: targeting medical science to shape social reality - Volume 228 Issue 1 01813
Yannick Morvan @ymorvan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Salle pleine pour la session neurodéveloppement ! #encephale2026 000
Reposted by Yannick MorvanKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 21/01/2026What Your Genes Really Control - new podcast interview on The Early Perspective open.spotify.com/episode/5iVC...open.spotify.comSpotify – Web Player 065
Yannick Morvan @ymorvan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Un plaisir de retrouver le congrès de l’#Encéphale2026 et de démarrer avec la toujours superbe session du Big5 de la littérature ! 100
Reposted by Yannick MorvanTom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026If our theories have to do with people's daily experience then we really need to know how well we're measuring daily experience. So we need more of what Kevin's team is doing here! Just because your item has the right words in it doesn't mean you know what it measures, or how well. 1125
Reposted by Yannick MorvanAFIS Science @afis.bsky.social · 15/01/2026📢[Paris - jeudi 29 janvier 2026 à 19h00] Sommes-nous en train de perdre le réel ? Une conférence de Gérald Bronner, à la mairie du 5ème arrondissement de Paris.afis.orgAfis Science - Association française pour l’information scientifiqueMairie du 5è arrondissement de Paris, 21 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris La mairie du 5ème arrondissement de Paris et l’Association Française pour (…) 043
Reposted by Yannick MorvanKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Paper accepted! 😊 "Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic" will appear in Synthese. Final version available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - with Henry Potter and George Ellis 410726
Reposted by Yannick MorvanOmid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026🌟📝 Just out in World Psychiatry: Our new piece demonstrates the added value of dynamic symptom networks for predicting treatment outcomes beyond baseline severity & common covariates, with an added explained variance of 9-22% at post-treatment & follow-up. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 15317
Reposted by Yannick MorvanPim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Many innovations of psychotherapies are currently examined. See our overview in the last issue of World Psychiatry: (1) Digital interventions (2) Personalized treatments (3) New/ improved therapies (4) Dissemination With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social @toshi-frkw.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/wps....doi.orgInnovations to improve outcomes and uptake of psychotherapies for mental disorders: a state‐of‐the‐art reviewPsychotherapies have been found effective in the treatment of most mental disorders. However, substantial improvements are still much needed, and many innovations of therapies are currently being dev... 064
Reposted by Yannick MorvanTim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 15/01/2026Most of psychotherapy research is progress, not innovation. This review concludes that small, incremental benefits can arise from it: - Digital tools can increase access and engagement. - Personalization can improve response rates. - Simplified, scalable formats can reach more people.onlinelibrary.wiley.com 2104
Reposted by Yannick MorvanIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 15/01/2026"The rewards to 'discovering' a spectacular scientific finding [in psychology] are large; the rewards to debunking frauds or deflating exaggerated claims are small if not non-existent. If these are the rules of the game, we should not be surprised at the way the game is played."ft.comWhen psychologists mislead usFrom Piltdown Man to the Stanford prison experiment, many famous scientific discoveries have been exposed as hoaxes or distortions 14014
Reposted by Yannick MorvanNick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 08/01/2026*taps the sign* steamtraen.blogspot.com/2015/06/mech...steamtraen.blogspot.comMechanical Turk: Amazon's new charges are not the biggest problemTwitter was buzzing, or something, this morning, with the news that Amazon is going to change the commission rates that it charges research... 011
Reposted by Yannick MorvanZachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026"From Innovation to Implementation: Artificial Intelligence in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Training and Supervision" New paper led by Roz Shafran, with contributions from a ton of leading experts on AI in mental health (and also, for reasons unclear, me) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comFrom innovation to implementation: Artificial intelligence in cognitive behaviour therapy training and supervisionArtificial intelligence (AI) can transform mental health care globally by improving the efficiency, consistency, effectiveness and accessibility of tr… 082
Reposted by Yannick MorvanPim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 09/01/2026People with more severe depression probably benefit more from psychotherapy than those with mild depression. Read our new meta-analysis of almost 400 randomized trials of therapies for depression. With Mathias Harrer, Clara Miguel, Eirini Karyotaki, Davide Papola doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...doi.orgRedirecting 0169
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 06/01/2026We wrote a short piece on conducting participatory workshops to change research culture, given our experiences in teaching workshops on climate activism & open scholarship. With @anne-urai.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social @annaveer.bsky.social 📝 rdcu.be/eXja4 🧪 #AcademicSkyrdcu.beHow to change research culture with participatory workshopsNature Human Behaviour - Changing research culture begins with the kind of engaged, collaborative, critical reflection that can spark collective action. This Comment outlines how to design... 1368
Reposted by Yannick MorvanTim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 06/01/2026The three "waves" of psychotherapy are often described as historical fact, which is astonishing when you consider that they represent the distorted and sometimes straight up incorrect view of a single individual (Hayes). 172
Reposted by Yannick MorvanMiri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Just learned I've won the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the area of psychopathology, and am feeling pretty delighted!! So grateful to @aidangcw.bsky.social for nominating me, and very proud of the work it's based on. 251416
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Did not think I'd witness a Nature journal publish a piece calling the US a fascist country in the title / abstract. Thanks to Lauren and the rest of the team for picking up this crucial fight — in this paper and elsewhere. Please read and share widely. 25122
Reposted by Yannick MorvanMichèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · 07/01/2026📣Revised preprint by @cas-goos.bsky.social Measurement reliability, validity, and reporting in psychology still has a long way to go... We compared original studies w replications, and where possible recalculated reliability & unidimensionality. Some findings > osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 11511
Reposted by Yannick MorvanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026After 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...eiko-fried.comWARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko FriedIf 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... 5190160
Reposted by Yannick MorvanFranck Ramus @franckramus.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Pour la nouvelle année, voici une mise à jour du catalogue Ramus Méninges incluant tous les nouveaux articles de l’année 2025 pour le grand public, classés par thème. Il y a 20 nouveaux articles. Les avez-vous tous lus? ramus-meninges.fr/2025/12/27/c...ramus-meninges.frCatalogue Ramus Méninges 2026Pour la nouvelle année, voici une mise à jour du catalogue Ramus Méninges incluant tous les nouveaux articles de l’année 2025, classés par thème. NB: Je m’efforce, dans chaque article, … 0102
Reposted by Yannick MorvanMéta de Choc @metadechoc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026La #littérature spirituelle, de #DéveloppementPersonnel et de bien-être a le don de nous émerveiller et de nous rassurer en apportant des réponses simples à des questions complexes. C’est sans doute ce qui explique la véritable explosion de ce segment au sein du marché du livre.👇🏼 142
Reposted by Yannick MorvanAFIS Science @afis.bsky.social · 01/01/2026📢[Paris - jeudi 29 janvier 2026 à 19h00] Sommes-nous en train de perdre le réel ? Une conférence de Gérald Bronner, à la mairie du 5ème arrondissement de Paris.afis.orgAfis Science - Association française pour l’information scientifiqueMairie du 5è arrondissement de Paris, 21 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris La mairie du 5ème arrondissement de Paris et l’Association Française pour (…) 081
Reposted by Yannick MorvanAFIS Science @afis.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Hommage de l'Afis à Jacques Van Rillaerafis.orgAfis Science - Association française pour l’information scientifiqueJacques Van Rillaer nous a quittés le 26 décembre 2025 à l’âge de 81 ans. Jacques était professeur émérite de psychologie à l’Université de Louvain et (…) 0103
Reposted by Yannick MorvanKevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 29/12/2025This is a great paper on scale norming that also presents a really nice discussion of how people come up with their responses to surveys, and how that can change over time. One read of it has me wanting to put it into my assessment syllabus already. 1236