Lesley Norris, PhD

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

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Back after a long hiatus with a question for the Bluesky community!

I’m developing a new interest in #PerinatalOCD and would love to connect with researchers, clinicians, or anyone in this area.

If you have resources to share or opportunities to learn more, I’d be so grateful to hear from you! 🙏

If you don’t match to an #APPIC internship today and are wondering what next, join us Monday evening to get some tips about how to move forward with the process in Phase 2 and beyond. This is not the end! #clinicalpsychology

📣 We're looking for speakers for this year's Person-Centered Tx & Prevention Collaborative ✨flash talks✨

🔹 Who: Anyone is welcome!
🔹 Format: 30 minute talk followed by Q&A
🔹 Content: Advancing person-centered approaches in mental health

Interested? Let us know! Drop a reply or DM for more details.

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Measures of psychotherapy quality are needed in research and practice settings. The Exposure Guide is a brief and practical measure of exposure therapy quality that demonstrates strong reliability and construct validity in a clinical trial context.

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Now that‼️grad admissions season‼️is upon us, and some of us are doing this for the first time, what advise do you have for deciding who to short-list?

Suggestions for efficiency, equity, order of documents to review, etc- all tips welcome!

#AcademicSky

Bluesky: What’s the best funding mechanism for an ECR who is relatively new to NIH and why?

NEW BLOG POST 🗣️

Harness the POWER 💪 of…feedback in psychotherapy!!!

Have you ever wondered why some therapists seem to benefit more from feedback than others? 🤔

Read our latest post to learn more ➡️
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Thank you Drs. @herzog.bsky.social, Kube & Rubel!!

Figure 1 from BMJ Mental Health paper, showing AI generated images for different mental disorders.

Stigmatising and inaccurate portrayals of mental disorders:

Researchers asked generative AI models to depict different disorders.

Images reflected historical biases & pop-culture references rather than evidence-based clinical representation of these conditions

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Looking to connect with the #SocialPrescribing community on Bluesky? Check out my starter pack and let me know if I missed someone:

What an incredible resource, thanks for sharing!

Scientists don't have to be in academia to make a huge impact! Check out this new resource for details, salaries, etc on how to pick a career!
#psychology #PsychSky #mentalhealth #PsychSciSky #Skychiatry #Neuroskyence #neuroimaging
#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #ClinPsych

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A flyer for ‘Training for First-Time Reviewers’ Hosted by Reviewer Zero. The bottom left says “So you want to participate in peer review: how to write inclusive and equitable reviews. Learn how to write your first review by learning the general principles and structure of writing an effective review” The date is December 4th, 11 AM PT, 1 PM CT, 2 PM Et. You can RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/YC5U6XWK The Black In Neuro logo is on the bottom right. The top right has a photo of a laptop keyboard with a small notepad and pen.

You won’t want to miss this amazing workshop for first-time reviewers on How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews, with @reviewerzero.bsky.social on December 4th!

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

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #Blackademics 🧪

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Join us for this training workshop on Implementation Science taking place March 12-14, 2025!! 🚀 #impsci #implementationscience

The 25 days of chRistmas: an R advent calendaR Thank you for your interest in this advent calendar and learning R! R is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. At first, it can be really overwhelming, but after you pick up the basics,...

It's Dec 1 and you want to finally start learning R? The R advent calendaR by @kiirsti.bsky.social is an excellent place to start. Do it now! #rstats kiirstio.wixsite.com/kowen/post/t...

(PDF) Enduring effects of psychotherapy, antidepressants and their combination for depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis PDF | Introduction Although depressive disorders are frequently associated with relapses, the sustained efficacy of therapies after their termination... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

Which treatments have enduring effects on depressive disorders? In this meta-analysis of follow-ups at least 12 months after treatment termination, psychotherapy as well as combined treatment showed better effects than pharmacotherapy alone.

Of course! Done :)

Of course, I agree! Done :)

🚨 If you haven’t seen it yet…

📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition.

Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Thank you!!

I’d love to be added! :)

I took a shot at a Starter Pack of people actively involved in both clinical research AND practice. If this is you & you'd like to be added, let me know!

go.bsky.app/5HTmjE3

Hey BSKY, I'm building the Digital Health Starter Pack to stay up to date with the innovation and POVs.

Who should I add? Please nominate/share, thank you!

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RESEARCHERS & PRACTITIONERS IN SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH 🏫📚🧠

to complement the lovely general C&A MH lists from @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social (go.bsky.app/mJXZrD) & @olademk.bsky.social (go.bsky.app/KSGUBYg)

Hoping this will be primarily crowd-sourced, so please tell me who to add: go.bsky.app/5EXucz1

Starter pack on #PublicInvolvement #PPI #PPIE #Coproduction and #ParticipatoryResearch.

Kindly put together by @louca-mai.bsky.social 🌟

Of course, sounds like your group is doing fascinating work! Added :)

Done! :)

Congratulations on this awesome work Sean!

So happy to share this open access work developed by such great partners in the work:

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The book is meant to distill what we know about providing mental healthcare to children and make it actionable for clinicians!

#impsci #cbtworks #mentalhealth #psych

The effect of positive mental imagery versus positive verbal thoughts on anhedonia Anhedonia, the loss of interest in and pleasure from previously enjoyable activities is a core symptom of depression and presents a major challenge to treatments. Interventions involving positive men...

Very pleased that our paper “The Effect of Positive Mental Imagery versus Positive Verbal Thoughts on Anhedonia” is now published in Applied Psychology: Health and Wellbeing! With @marcellawoud.bsky.social , Angela Rölver, & Jürgen Margraf /1

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