How do you assess the reliability of single-item ratings in ESM / EMA?

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Single-item measures dominate #ESM / #EMA.
Fast. Intuitive. Low burden.

But… how reliable are they really? #m-Path research suggests that a large share of within-person variance may be noise...

👉 Read more: m-path.io/blog/from-pa...

Hey nerds, summer is a great time to learn new stats skills! SMaRT workshops are back again. I'll be co-leading a couple on time series and GIMME. The whole line up is really strong this year, check it out.

📣 The 2026 SMaRT Workshops schedule is officially LIVE — with workshops covering SEM, MLM, dyadic methods, time series, machine learning, clinical trials design, and more.

STATS NERD SUMMER is HERE.

Come learn something. 🧑‍🎓

smart-workshops.com/workshops

Please share and RP🙏

More info 👇

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Check out this upcoming special issue on personalized treatment plans if you have work that might fit:

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Ha that's true.

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UNC is hiring in Quantitative Psychology! Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Please share widely! Find details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Starts next week! We have a few spots left for last-minute additions. #ILD #EMA #rstats

FWIW, NIH had already silently barred Harvard and four other schools from receiving funds — and agency staff were forbidden from telling applicants and grantees about it.

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Chaewon Lee lead a (recently accepted) tutorial paper for psychologists who want to classify/predict using autoML: osf.io/preprints/os...

autoML lets you conduct and compare multiple machine learning algorithms quickly without requiring computer scientist-level knowledge of optimization. Try it!

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

This is a good paper to know about, thanks! I found the one I was thinking of here, a really awesome piece of work:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Maybe a shot in the dark but I once read a really good paper that showed that large autoregressive effects can cause bias in cross-lagged estimates.

Anyone know who wrote this, or the title of the paper? Google scholar isn't finding it.

Check out the whole SMaRT line up: smart-workshops.com

Join us for a 2-day remote workshops this summer! First we have one on Time Series Analysis for Intensive Longitudinal Data (intro to the basics) and then one on model discovery with GIMME.
smart-workshops.com/tsa-info
smart-workshops.com/gimme-info

For the gimme one, see info here: smart-workshops.com/gimme-info
Check out the whole SMaRT lineup: smart-workshops.com

Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH

Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸

Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social

Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇

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Nice plots, look forward to reading

Marco Rubio removes LGBTQ+ people & women from annual human rights report - LGBTQ Nation He also removed sections on women, people with disabilities, and government corruption.

The annual State Department human rights report “will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and the disabled as well as sections dedicated to discrimination against indigenous people and corruption in government.”

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...

There is a debate in the addiction field about the affect regulation hypothesis. So let's see what ya got! Papers in favor, papers opposed. Thanks @jonasdora.bsky.social @kevinmking.bsky.social @andreawycoff.bsky.social @drandreahoward.bsky.social @jtwaddell7.bsky.social for being Guest Editors.

Blog posts | ESM Item Repository

📣 New blog post! What if ESM data grew on trees? 🌳 Read more about the EMOTE database in our latest blog by Imogen Smith, Pete Koval, @elisekalo.bsky.social, & Daniel Russo-Batterham! esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#E... #ESM #EMA #OpenScience

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I'm excited to announce that this spring/summer Statistics, Methods, and Research Training (SMaRT) Workshops are live!

Check out the offerings here: smart-workshops.com/workshops

Please repost and share widely!

Some more info in 🧵

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Confirmed (by many sources) news about 50 NIH Study Sections being allowed to announce meetings in the Federal Register.

As usual, MANY more questions than answers...

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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...

🚨This should be amplified!!
Study sections and council meetings are still being cancelled despite the court order unblocking NIH freezes, effectively halting any new research grant from being funded: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Definitely keep it. The paragraph reads as a brief history, and it's important historical context. Plus you aren't argumentative or shaming about it - from how it reads, I'm not even sure your views on eugenics 🤔

Please repost!

Searching for candidate for postdoc who I could work with to apply for a diversity supplement: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Candidates should want a postdoc now or soon, & be psychologists interested in pain, intensive longitudinal data, or both. Should also meet criteria in link👇

Starter pack for EMA, ESM, and Intensive Longitudinal Researchers.

Feel free to share, follow, and nominate. Suggestions welcome!

go.bsky.app/LzqJoUX

#ESM #EMA #AA #IntensiveLongitudinalResearch

Really cool work using penalization to uncover subgroup-specific dynamics in ILD data using VAR.

Yes it does!