Claire Cusack

A Christmas tree with a cat underneath it

First tree with a cat is going well

Omg the patchwork tree skirt 😍

Have the “hard” Pips been getting easier over time or am I getting faster at solving them?

In the spirit of celebrating every tiny victory, today I sent an email to schedule my dissertation defense 🥹

A large black and white dog looking pissed with snow in the background

Mood 😅

But seriously, it was a lovely time and seeing family in this season of grad school is a trip 😅/🥲

Catawba falls, North Carolina

Blue ridge mountains

A beautiful week in western North Carolina trying to explain the internship process and match system

A hand holding two records. The War on Drugs Lost In The Dream and The Beach Boys Pet Sounds

No-work Saturday strong 🙂‍↕️

Sad to miss abct this year! Hope you have a good time and that we get to bring back the fun run at a future conference!

Establishing minimally sufficient conditions reduces the complexity of symptom presentations in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders internalizing disorders - PubMed This article contends that many of the chief complaints about the <i>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</i> can be obviated by a set-theoretic, combinatorial approach. Arbitrary cutoffs, polythetic criteria, and category heterogeneity can be avoided by using a data-driven approach …

This work makes me think of @aaronjfisher.bsky.social’s paper identifying minimal sufficient symptom sets necessary for diagnosis, clinical distress, & impairment. And something he said that’s stuck with me [paraphrase] “polythetic criteria are a feature not a bug” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41051852/

Can’t wait to hear about the engagement and questions you get on your talk at ABCT!

Four people wearing climbing gear smiling at the camera in front of a sandstone crag

A person rock climbing outside, another person belaying, and another person off to the side.

A person sport climbing outside moving their foot over the rope

Some things I love: climbing, seeing friends who live far away, and matching Connor 🤭

I may be misinterpreting this method but if edges represent rate of symptom change over time, and some increase, that might not be desirable in the case of an intervention? Or perhaps greater absolute values would indicate a network amenable to change vs a more persistent profile. Neat study!

Cool application of Hudson’s EII! I know it wasn’t the point of this paper, but it made me curious about subgroup membership and outcomes, eg did people respond differently to CBT by cluster membership? Or could dynEGA potentially be used in measurement based care

Must We Always Go Idiographic? - Cognitive Therapy and Research Purpose While psychological change processes are increasingly assumed to be “non-ergodic”, prompting a shift toward idiographic approaches, the assumption of ergodicity is often accepted a priori rath...

🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT

A group of people standing in front of a dissertation titled slide that reads “Children’s and Adolescents’ Gender Stereotypes and Sense of Belonging in STEM.” A woman in a green dress is holding flowers

No one warns you how emotional it is to witness people you came in with defend their dissertation. Being a small part of friends’ Big moments >>> congrats, Dr. @patelkhushboo.bsky.social you are easy to celebrate!

A hopeful internship applicant glued to email just to find review requests and another editorial manager created a new account for me 🥲

A cat sitting on a man’s lap in front of a laptop with R studio open.

I know this cat is about add “Purrficient in R” to her CV.

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When I sent slides in advance “just in case something [came] up,” I wasn’t expecting that something to be me forgetting my computer and leaving it at home 😵‍💫 just that human I guess!

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

Claire running on a trail under maple trees with yellow leaves

So much good comes from letting my mind wander 🍂🍁💛

Just accepted at Nature Mental Health:

Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3

1/9

I might learn gen z speak after all

A night for hope! 🩵💙🖤

It’s probably one of my favorite movies 😂

A couple dressed as Hamilton and Meg Swan from Best in Show (2000)

“We were so lucky to have been raised amongst catalogues.” 👻🖤🎃

A living room with black and white dog on a couch and a gray cat curled up on a chair

Writing day. It’s tired in here

Compelling abstract! Excited to read!

Screenshot of a Science paper titled “Positive affect contagion in bumble bees”

“Affect” in bees. I read this paper, and call me cynical, but I’m still not convinced words like affect or optimism fit to describe bumble bee behavior.

I gave a mini guest lecture on biological systems and homeostasis in eating disorders in an undergrad neuroscience class today, and students participated 😭 semester made 🥰