Paul Alexander Bloom

SRS 2025 We are delighted to announce that the fourth annual Suicide Research Symposium will be taking place April 23-25, 2025. Like previous years, this Symposium will be free and take place virtually. We ...

The fourth annual Suicide Research Symposium (#SRS25) takes place THIS WEEK, Wednesday (April 23) through Friday (April 25)! Registration is still open for our free, virtual event. Links to register and see the conference platform are on our website: www.suicideresearchsymposium.com

Congrats!!!

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

Don’t want cancer? Call your representatives.

@suicideresearchsym.bsky.social
SRS 2025 is happening April 23-25! Our 4th annual virtual and free conference on suicide research. Get registered! www.suicideresearchsymposium.com

I’m actually a different person, in a different location :)

I am loving all the protest pictures but please be mindful of sharing photos with others’ faces, given known threats to international students who attend protests.

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

VA Research Funding Slashed Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan

prospect.org/health/2025-...

Detecting Risk of Adolescent Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors With Smartphone GPS Data This case series study examines whether an app installed on adolescents’ personal smartphones could identify risk of next-week suicidal events and clinically meaningful suicidal ideation by using geol...

Wanted to share news of the publication of this research paper with @auerbachlab.bsky.social and others. Using the EARS mobile sensing platform, we found that being homebound more than usual was associated with increased risk for suicidal behaviors in high-risk adolescents.

Congrats!! 🎊

New paper out in #nature #mentalhealth from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you!

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

I created a feed for people who are interested in suicidology, or research on suicide, self harm, and related topics. It also tends to pick up other public reports, like newspaper articles, and job postings, which feels like more of a feature than a bug.

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#suicideresearch

Climate Survey - LGBTQIA+ in Neuroscience | Climate Survey - LGBTQIA+ in Neuroscience Climate Survey - LGBTQIA+ in Neuroscience

Reminder! We have a new Climate Survey for #LGBTQIA+ Academics in #Psychology and #Neuroskyence! This is a quick survey from @network_alba and will really help us out :)
tinyurl.com/LGBTNeuro #queerinstem

What strategies can you use to provide effective peer reviews?

Join us for a virtual workshop with @blackinneuro.bsky.social! We'll discuss the structure & content of peer reviews & provide advice about how to write your first review.

Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989

HEY ACADEMICS – I’ve been invited to review a paper for the first time! I’m excited and hope I can contribute meaningfully to the field.

What are your tips/advice for reviewing (and avoiding becoming reviewer #2 😬), especially for newbies??? 📝📚

On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories Music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) are typically elicited by music that listeners have heard before. While studies that have directly manipulated music familiarity show that familiar mu...

with an uptick in #musicscience interest on here i thought i’d take the time to introduce myself w a few recent pubs! im a 4th yr phd candidate @ northeastern u interested in music, reward, and development. to start off is a recently in press paper at memory: tinyurl.com/2r6jed9r

Would love to be added! Postdoc working in psychiatry studying adolescent depression and suicide

YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center Health Psychology and Clinical Science Training Area at the CUNY Graduate Center

The Health Psychology and Clinical Science (HPCS) doctoral program at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is accepting applications until Dec 1st. See what some alumni and current students have to say about HPCS here: youtu.be/GQT2OuV5_kk?...

The Translational Research on Affective Disorders and Suicide Laboratory (www.auerbachlab.com) at Columbia (NYC) is hiring several research assistants! Please share widely & feel free to reach out with questions

opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/researc...

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MRI economics: Balancing sample size and scan duration in brain wide association studies bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

1. Evidence from @bttyeo &al supports the idea that you need some reasonable amount of data per subject (e.g., 20 min) to all but maximize within-sub reliability—
then you get much greater gains by increasing number of subjects

Paper in card, thread here:
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Are you a mentor interested in improving the culture of academia and supporting the next generation of psychologists?

Check out this special issue of @natrevpsych.bsky.social, and @reviewerzero.bsky.social's paper on challenging biases in the peer review system!

www.nature.com/collections/...

1/4 FRED is online, our open source software to provide feedback to participants in EMA studies.
We (led by @aljoscharimpler.bsky.social) programmed the software to provide feedback at scale to our ~2000 WARN-D participants. Hope it will be useful to researchers & clinicians alike! Details below.

Are there studies that specifically talk about measuring the feasibility of specific measures designed for EMA? Working on a construct validation study and I could use some references for how you might think about whether a measure works in an EMA context.

Very pleased to share that our manuscript - entitled "Stress exposure in at-risk, depressed, and suicidal adolescents - is now published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 🙌 Check it out at the link below - piece is open access!

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Balance between solitude and socializing: everyday solitude time both benefits and harms well‐being | www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm very proud to have contributed to this work by @nettaweinstein.bsky.social, Mark Adams, & @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social.

New paper+package combination for linear estimation with nonlinear inference (LENI) - methods to obtain the results of a nonlinear model without the hassle of nonlinear estimation. Presented this at Flux this fall and really excited to see it out!

osf.io/preprints/ps...
github.com/E-M-McCormic...

We’re excited to develop partnerships with @simine.com and the rest of the Psych Science team!

Read more about our work here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

It will be my first time too - looking forward!

We are excited to announce the 2024 Computational Psychiatry Conference! Back one year later by popular demand - this time in Minneapolis, Minnesota July 16-18. www.cpconf.org