Hi Whisky, you are the cutest!
(Dog looks like it has questions and concerns)

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Via Reddit -- Thankfully not psychologists. Anyone want to guess the field?

I could use a picture of your cat companions today, 🙁.

(No dogjackers please)

Bonus content of James watching cat TV

Alice and James

I share this skepticism- this seems like very peak replication crisis era Psych Science - gee-wiz headline, small sample size, implausible effects without a clear mechanism. Plus so much of the other "mindset" work has failed to replicate.

Why this winter and not last? The heavy snows this winter made a lot of animals desperate- also lots of rabbit damage to tree and shrub bark.

Squirrels and possibly other rodents happened I’m sorry to say. They enjoyed that buffet of tasty bulbs this winter and left only the poisonous daffodils. I’ve pretty much yielded the war at this point though I may try planting some in pots I can store in the garage over the winter.

my #3 would be ability and fortitude to navigate various arcane, antiquated and poorly designed university and grant agency computer systems

Cat lounging on a windowsill

Heat- off
Windows- open
Cats- happy

The Postdoctoral Fellow position in my lab at the UPenn has been posted! I welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds who are interested in exploring the connections among adversity, family processes, epigenetics, and child development & health.

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Academic mass nouns? Wrong answers only. #academicsky

I'm pass that on to her– she isn't on Bluesky (yet - I'm pushing it for networking)

They grow up so fast, don't they? 🥲

The real winners of zoom grant review panels are the cats we snuggled along the way.

New paper lead by my fab grad student Quynh Nguyen (who is on the postdoc job market btw) 🧵link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-0...

Finally, between- and within-person associations between consummatory pleasure and depression symptoms were non-significant. Findings suggest that blunted anticipatory pleasure, compared to consummatory pleasure, might be more strongly linked to depression symptoms.

The directionality of significant cross-lagged paths differed between samples, but these differences, with few exceptions, were not significant. If future research replicating our models finds significant differences, it could be due to the difference in anhedonic vs. other depression symptoms.

Conversely, general depression symptoms prospectively predicted blunted anticipatory pleasure within-person, but not vice versa.

Blunted anticipatory pleasure prospectively predicted anhedonic depression symptoms within-person, but not vice versa.

Every 2 weeks for 2 months during early COVID-19, students completed questionnaires assessing depression symptoms (Brandeis sample, N = 154) and anhedonic depression symptoms (CU Boulder sample; N = 296) and daily diaries assessing anticipatory and consummatory pleasure (averaged for each interval).

Blunted anticipatory and consummatory pleasure has been linked to depression symptoms, particularly anhedonic depression. The current study investigated the temporal directionality of these associations within-person using RI-CLPMs.

New paper lead by my fab grad student Quynh Nguyen (who is on the postdoc job market btw) 🧵link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-0...

Relatedly, I will be hiring a post-bacc / lab manager starting this Fall 2026.

This is a great chance to get hands-on didactic training in computational psychiatry, clinical science, computational cognitive neuroscience, fMRI, & psychopharmacology.

Job ad below, Please share with your networks!

Are you an planning on appyiyng for a PhD in psychology in the fall? Want to learn more about the application process and what programs are looking for? Come to our info session!

Boulder also has tones of local trails - Good practice before heading to higher elevation. Royal Arch and Sanitas are good steep but relatively short choices, or if you want more challenging go for Green mountain to South Boulder peak loop.

I’d consider Boulder as your base unless you really want or need to be in Denver. It puts you much closer to trails plus has a very good restaurant scene. Denver is good for a day or two to do museums etc.

In RMNP some of the most accessible scenic lake hikes are from the Glacier Gorge TH (The Loch, Sky Pond, Andrew’s) but you also shouldn’t miss going up Trail Ridge Rd to the alpine visitor center. The Ute trail up there is flat-ish with great views. Again go early!