Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter

Another post-bacc opportunity!

Info session is February 10th. Deadline is April 15th.

Students looking for a research and coursework opportunity for applying to a board range of doctoral and masters psychology programs should apply!

ps.soceco.uci.edu/post-bacc-pa...

Great opportunity for students to learn more about the clinical psych PhD application process and the University of Michigan’s clinical science program!

I especially encourage underrepresented students in the sciences to apply 😊

Deadline is January 28th!!!

lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

Impeach RFK Jr. Call for supporters! Sign to endorse the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr! Affiliated with an organization? Speak to them about signing on! standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

Show of hands, how many of us are ready for this madness to end — and for Congress to do their job?🙋

Sign on to endorse the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. 👉 standupforscience.net/impeac...

📲Tag your representative below. Let them know that they need to step up and meet the moment!

Psychologists, what are your favorite (open) data sets for teaching multilevel modelling? I have a lot of observational examples, would love a therapy RCT with varying effects for therapists or some such.

It's becoming increasingly clear that many of these events are orchestrated (either a-priori or post-hoc) to target trans people and generate widespread outrage.

We all could benefit from the @onthemedia.bsky.social Breaking News Consumer handbook: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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Chester and Maple are ready for winter!

(They pulled these off shortly after)

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...

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FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️

📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l

PPOL lab on steps outside in front of doors with “Department of Psychology” written on the glass. Top row from left to right: Chris, Grant, Aidan Bottom row from left to right: Janan, Michaelle, Matt, Sienna

New lab pic - welcome to the lab Matt!

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Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Had my first client as a clinical psych PhD student! It was a wonderful experience and such an honor.

Honestly this milestone is super underrated.

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

Me presenting at a lectern in the Crystal room at the Biltmore hotel

Presenters at the interpersonal SRP symposium

Me and Aidan in the Crystal conference room at the Biltmore in front of a projector

Me and my friends at the Biltmore hotel in front of glass doors

Honored to present my finished master’s thesis in a symposium at #SRP2025 this weekend with Jessica Hamilton, Jasmine Mote, Renata Botello, and Dan Fulford!

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Don't miss the EmoTe Lab/Prechter Program presentations at #SRP2025 this year!

Hey #SRP2025! Curious about how context shapes impulsive action and inaction in daily life? Come chat with me about our findings!

🗓️ Tonight (Thurs), 7-9pm
📍 Poster T72, The Topography of Momentary Impulsivity: Context Matters

Had a great time presenting my poster exploring people's thoughts & feelings about death w/ #BERTopic this evening at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat– it was wonderful learning more about others' work and nerding out! 💀🪦
#SRP2025

At #SRP2025?

I'm presenting some findings on antagonism from meta-analyses, large scale text mining, and large language modeling tomorrow at 2:30!

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

🚨NSF GRFP solicitation is out - second year graduate students and clinical psych students are no longer eligible🚨

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Headed to present at Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) if anyone wants to connect during the conference!

Rutgers Discovering Psychology Day!

Provides webinars and panels aimed at preparing prospective students for psych PhD applications.

Apply by October 3rd!

sites.rutgers.edu/rdpd

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-...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities Abstract Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models).

Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve.

A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals). Illustrated are 1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals 2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and 3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?

Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF GRFP deadline published! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

End of October! Solicitation seemingly on the way

Me smiling and standing beside a projector screen displaying the title slide of my thesis: “Dynamic Associations Between Interpersonal Complementarity and Suicidal Ideation in Adults with Borderline Personality Disorder”

Just defended my master’s thesis!

UPDATE: due to unforeseen circumstances I will NOT be reviewing students this cycle.

Apologies to anyone who was interested.

This is NOT a program issue, other Michigan clin psych faculty still on!

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

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Orange cat behavior

Members of the PPOLab standing and smiling for a photo in front of a grand staircase in the psychology building. From left to right: Grant, Chris, Janan, Sienna, Michaelle, Aidan

New school year, new lab pic!

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