Shayan Asadi

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.

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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees

> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

PERF! I chose a great euro101 guide for my first time :)

I can expense one glass of fino sherry and a side of patatas bravas

I will need european 101 tips from you!

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

This paper is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Very compelling evidence that the extensive covariance of diverse psychopathology is not an artifact of cross-sectional factor analysis.

They show extensive "co-morbidity" across generations and within-person, over time.

doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.

Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳

Nice one, Omid! Congrats

Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment.

Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social

Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Serial Ketamine Infusions for Depression This randomized clinical trial evaluates outcomes following adjunctive ketamine infusions vs midazolam for depression.

New 6-month depression RCT in n=65, serial Ketamine infusions as adjunctive care vs active placebo midazolam.

Ketamine did not outperform primary nor any of the secondary efficacy, cognitive, economic, or quality-of-life outcomes.

🧪 #psychiary #PsychSciSky

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

New paper in JAMA Psych, from Alex Moussa-Tooks, myself, Leah Gilbertson, and Sarah Kopelovich at @uwspiritlab.bsky.social. Inside, we talk about the important role of clinical psychology in inpatient psychiatric care and the need for more research in this area.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Statistical evidence in psychological networks - Nature Human Behaviour Psychometric network models have become increasingly popular in psychology and the social sciences. Huth et al. show that a large proportion of reported network findings are based on weak or inconclusive evidence inviting caution when interpreting results.

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out today in Molecular Psychiatry our paper on multiverse computational factor modeling (i.e. a lotta lotta factor analyses). Thread below for the full rundown. Last PhD paper from @celinef.bsky.social YOU'RE FREE!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great study! A general implication is that when we infer effects of retrospectively measure variables on outcomes, we’re largely just seeing the effects of how people are currently feeling.

Virtual Office Hours For Psychology PhD Applicants - Registration Form To broaden the pool of applicants in psychology PhD programs across the country, Duke University's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is holding our 6th Annual Virtual Office Hours Program. All a...

Duke University is holding virtual office hours for students to get feedback on their psychology PhD applications!

Due October 31st!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is a very cool accident and exactly where my mind went (or maybe the king crimson cover?)

Read this while listening to Opeth...not symphonic but prog is close enough! 🤘

Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence

New #MPRGBiosocial paper in Molecular Psychiatry:
“Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health & epigenetic biological aging across childhood & adolescence”

w/ @yayoukwillems @denizfraemke.bsky.social @laraffington.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Blog Post: lnkd.in/dKsgagYc

New LIB is good, finally! denver really brought the heterosexuality and the cringe. PERFECT

I just googled the title of a paper of mine that hasn't even been published yet (as a lazy way to find the preprint) and Gemini popped out an AI summary of it. So I guess preprints on PsyArXiv are being used in AI training sets? 🤔

Thanks everyone for retweeting this! We've gotten all the speakers we need so far. Looking forward to sharing more with yall in a few months :)

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health - Nature Mental Health Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people.

New paper in Nature Mental Health where we show that macroeconomic income inequality is associated with brain structure and function over and above individual-level SES and other state-level factors. These alterations may serve as pathways to mental health problems.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis - Nature A study of several longitudinal birth cohorts and cross-sectional cohorts finds only moderate overlap in genetic variants between autism that is diagnosed earlier and that diagnosed later, so they may represent aetiologically different conditions.

This was a fantastic collaboration with lots of people including @hilarycmartin.bsky.social @jakobgrove.bsky.social, Experts by Experience, and several others who I can't seem to find on this app.

Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tom I would never go to an academic conference just to have octopus everyday...who do i look like to you, someone who loves tapas and enjoys a rioja??? no way that CANT be me i am a serious scientist (pls program committee let me into spain)

We're looking for work that examines context factors (broadly defined) in a theory-driven, rigorous, and integrative fashion. We want to advance more nuanced ideas of how environments affect mental health (ie, not just a demographic IV in a regression). hit me up if you have any leads. EXCITED!! 2/2

Hi bluesky friends! I plan to submit a symposium with @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social for APS 2026 on contextual psychopathology research from ECRs (students welcome!) Content area and methods are wide open. If you are interested or know someone who may be, message me and we'll chat further. 1/2

Mark Chen | Department of Psychology

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...