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The STRESS Lab is recruiting 4 full-time Research Assistant I positions across multiple research projects led by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social (Director and PI of the @stresslab.bsky.social).

Position details and application instructions are linked below.

JOB ALERT 🚨 Postdoc opportunity! Join our NIA-funded collaboration with Northwestern (@ekgraham22.bsky.social) studying social isolation, loneliness, and cognitive aging. Come work with us in beautiful Ithaca! Review of applications begins immediately: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31543

How you measured the AUD symptom could have a dramatic impact on the psychometrics, both in terms of difficulties (e.g. what severity endorsing the item reflected) and discrimination (how strongly endorsement was related to the daily AUD construct).

This gif shows (pink) these differences.

7/19

NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan

NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks
www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Built a pipeline that automatically runs each morning and pulls new papers + preprints, merges them with CV (recent pubs + grants), and prepares an LLM-ready summary of emerging research directions and relevant funding opportunities.
First pass, please improve.
OSF: lnkd.in/ev3T2ibn

Hierarchical Phenotyping of Psychopathology: Implications and Opportunities for Precision Psychiatry When Biology Could Be Associated With Both Symptoms and Syndromes As psychiatry increasingly embraces precision medicine principles, there have been efforts to characterize the specificity of biology-psychopathology associations (e.g., is biology associated with syn...

Excited for the 1st lab paper to be live @biologicalpsych.bsky.social !

@emilyrperkins.bsky.social @keananjoyner.bsky.social and I discuss testing biology as simultaneous + unique predictors of different levels of psychopathology hierarchies 1/7🧵

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Figure 1 shows main results in 5 informative families for each disorder, with bar graphs comparing hazard ratios for major depression, anxiety, alcohol, and drug use disorders across family types: FIF, NLWF, SF, AFA, BFA, G+R, and R only.

Paternal genetic risk for psychiatric and substance use disorders may predict offspring risk, with indirect genetic and rearing effects strongest for substance use conditions. ja.ma/49Ts5mN

Average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" over time, this time split up by age.

Average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" over time, this time split up by age and smoothed.

Now taking into account age *in isolation* is no problem at all. We can simply do that by comparing people of the same age across survey years. The resulting pictures matches what I've broadly found in the literature (loneliness has increased among young people, but not among old people).>

New paper in @acamh.bsky.social's JCPP! We found that early adversity doesn't affect positive emotions uniformly-- youth follow 4 distinct developmental trajectories. & This heterogeneity matters for understanding depression/anxiety risk.
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📊 Paper: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌟📝 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/...

Just so we're clear, failing to get grants/fellowships is normal. The trick is to keep trying.

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026.

For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk...

Please share widely & consider applying!

And that’s a problem from a measurement perspective because if you ask people mostly about behaviours that rarely happen, the scores on the scales end up being really low, and psychometrically uninformative!

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New preprint‼️

Thrilled to end 2025 with new work extending my undergrad honors thesis showing that interpretable machine learning can classify young children’s engagement in dyadic, psychotherapy-like tasks from live fNIRS data of the vlPFC and dlPFC 🧠

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OSF👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Interested in research on depression in youth? New opening for a full-time research assistant in our lab (webbslab.com) to work on a range of projects focused on the causes & treatment of depression in teens. Come join our growing lab. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
webbslab.com/job-postings

Figure 1. shows the striatal dopamine synthesis capacity across diagnostic groups. The y axis is labeled as Ki^cer x 10^3/min. The x axis shows Depression, Controls, Mixed/mania.

#Dopamine synthesis capacity is reduced in psychosis with #depression compared to mixed/mania syndromes, while positive psychotic symptoms correlate with higher dopamine synthesis in the associative striatum.

ja.ma/4pseK9J

Just accepted at Nature Mental Health:

Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism

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

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pdsoros.org US-based fellowship for immigrants & children of immigrants. Seems to be the only one open for post-baccs that isn’t restricted to a specific field of study

Asking once again that researchers spend even half as much time thinking about design, sampling, and measurement as they do tinkering with their favorite R package to analyze and present their results.

Clinical psych PhD programs really need to get a common app moment going the struggle is real for everyone involved

And if you do try to understand methods more deeply, you might hear that “you’re in the weeds,” “leave that to the statisticians” etc. I feel like I’m often trying to convince folks that we need to care about basic methods because it matters for substantive inferences we applied people want to make.

For anyone hesitant on submitting grad apps, DO IT‼️

The worst possible outcome is “apply again next year”. But the best is that YOU GET ACCEPTED ✨

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I applied to 4 grad programs and was rejected from all except one. But they still call me Dr. now 😏

ALL YOU NEED IS ONE 🙌🏾