Trevor Williams

Very excited to see this out from @hitop-system.bsky.social! It really seems like these are two literatures poised to advance each other. Looking forward to reading this with my lab.

Captain it's Wednesday

Captain it's Wednesday

YouTube video by HiTOP Using HiTOP in Research

We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo

We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback

Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨

Seen in the department mail room: steampunk statistics

En route to SRP 2025, see you all in LA!

Validation of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology–Self Report (HiTOP-SR): Internal Structure and Construct Validity against the MMPI-3 in a Community Sample.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!

3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.

Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.

DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Love these, especially Mumford, but the last one is tough...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity @ UT Austin!

I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026.

Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats!

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🌐 Lab: www.scoop-lab.com

Seems honest

RIP Ozzy. You blazed your own trail.

So grateful the Bay State Banner highlighted our work in the context of Boston’s youth mental health policy efforts. @randimschuster.bsky.social‬

More school support=more power to prevent, not just respond

We need sustainable, community-centered solutions
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HiTOP Teaching Hub Information about HiTOP self-report measures, including HiTOP-PRO, the harmful substance use module, and B-HiTOP

We’ve just launched the HiTOP Teaching Hub—a space to collect and share materials for teaching dimensional models.

If you have anything you're willing to share, please contact @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social

Here's what we have so far: www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...

Ah I see, interesting. I guess the goals in descending order of urgency are: (1) prevent egregiously bad science, (2) enhance scientific impact, and (3) improve the article quality.

Primarily, whether the (a) aims/hypotheses are reasonable given the literature and (b) methods/results support the conclusion. Secondarily, I focus on the overall article quality (accuracy, clarity, figure efficacy, etc.).

Check out our forthcoming viewpoint article in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science in which we argue that it is well past time to abandon the term 'dark' to describe antagonistic traits. w/ @jdmiller.bsky.social and @drlynam.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Take this brief survey on how mental health stakeholders (students, researchers, clinicians) learn about HiTOP
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Please share to help improve HiTOP education! 💡

Trump is an absolute evil sack of shit who is decimating higher education in this country. If you’ve said out loud that you’re grateful that your work isn’t being targeted by the current administration, super cringe, and maybe also don’t hold your breath.

Three scatter plots with correlations hiding in a partially open trench coat

Mediation models, or "three correlations hiding in a trench coat"

Let the conference-athon begin. Denver for SPA/HiTOP, Chicago for SIRS, and then home, likely filled with science and fun, but not sleep.

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote: If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Measurement of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Information about HiTOP self-report measures, including HiTOP-PRO, the harmful substance use module, and B-HiTOP

A preliminary brief version of the HiTOP self-report measure (“B-HiTOP”) is now available on our website: www.hitop-system.org/measurement-...

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History of the Twentieth Century podcast with Mark Painter. My favorite history podcast and seems... Less known? Starts at 1/1/1900, currently at episode 398 and in the middle of WWII. Covers politics, but also a lot of science, technology, and culture in depth.

New work from us led by the brilliant @drjk.bsky.social from our grant with the @britishacademy.bsky.social

⭐ Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents

A brief explainer below...

📜 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Exploratory Bifactor Analysis of Symptoms and Traits Highlights Aspects of Psychopathology Inaccessible by Other Methods - Holly F. Levin-Aspenson, David Watson, Lee Anna Clark, David A. Smith, 2025 Bifactor analysis has the distinct ability to model general versus specific psychopathology liabilities and the extent to which these liabilities are involved i...

My inaugural post at The Other Place was about a paper I led on bifactor models of psychopathology, so it feels correct to do the same here. Excited to finally have this in press! journals.sagepub.com/eprint/3JDEC...

@TinaGupta has been honored as one of the APS Rising Stars for 2025! This prestigious award recognizes researchers in the earliest stages of their career post PhD who are making innovative and groundbreaking contributions to the field. So well deserved!

www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

I will be in Columbus, Ohio!
📣 Ohioans, come join me!! 📣

New preprint: elaborating the domain-general prediction error driven account of paranoia and delusion contents:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Awesome to work with @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, and @celiaheyes.bsky.social on this

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May your coffee be strong and your day productive.

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