Our new article on socioeconomic disadvantage, mental distress & functional impairment is out #OpenAccess in American Psychologist.
Led by the brilliant @emkbridger.bsky.social, with J. Maltby, @eikofried.bsky.social, co-supervised by me & @ludvigdb.bsky.social.
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Title page for working paper: "The Varieties of Cultural Selection"
I've been thinking a lot about the foundations of cultural evolutionary theory. While there's been a lot of work on transmission mechanisms, there has been far less work on cultural *selection*. Here's a new working paper presenting a taxonomy of cultural selection processes.
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@eeskevanroekel.bsky.social @charlottev.bsky.social & myself are recruiting a PhD student on momentary emotion beliefs and well-being in adolescents (includes ESM & qualitative methods). Position requires Dutch (for data collection). Happy to answer questions!
👉 Apply: tiu.nu/23638 (27 april 2026)
3 new studies on using psychedelics as treatments for mental disorders just came out; 2 in JAMA Psychiatry, 1 in Lancet Psychiatry. I reviewed one of these submissions.
Here are the core results. 🧵
Contribute to open science! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. Repost please!
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Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research.
#PsychSciSky 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Call for Submissions for the Theory Methods Conference 2026, September 30-October 2! theorymethodssociety.org/conference.h...
We invite you to:
1) Submit your proposal: edu.nl/mj9x6
2) Invite your colleagues/lab/(PhD) students, and encourage them to submit
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They want to make it so publicly-funded academic knowledge production ends — the core unique role of universities — accidentally or on purpose, they want it to stop...
> It’s going to start getting really, really hard to get faculty to do stuff other than show up in their classroom.
If you truly believe that social media platforms are harmful places, the idea that the government now makes a list of vulnerable people and bans them from these platforms, e.g. based on age, is not a sensible or good faith solution.
Regulate the platforms instead, for everybody.
Editorial by @astridchevance.bsky.social on censorship in academia.
Worth your time.
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪
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Salle pleine pour la session neurodéveloppement ! #encephale2026
What Your Genes Really Control - new podcast interview on The Early Perspective open.spotify.com/episode/5iVC...
Carney in Davos:
Un plaisir de retrouver le congrès de l’#Encéphale2026 et de démarrer avec la toujours superbe session du Big5 de la littérature !
If our theories have to do with people's daily experience then we really need to know how well we're measuring daily experience.
So we need more of what Kevin's team is doing here! Just because your item has the right words in it doesn't mean you know what it measures, or how well.
📢[Paris - jeudi 29 janvier 2026 à 19h00] Sommes-nous en train de perdre le réel ?
Une conférence de Gérald Bronner, à la mairie du 5ème arrondissement de Paris.
Paper accepted! 😊 "Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic" will appear in Synthese. Final version available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - with Henry Potter and George Ellis
🌟📝 Just out in World Psychiatry:
Our new piece demonstrates the added value of dynamic symptom networks for predicting treatment outcomes beyond baseline severity & common covariates, with an added explained variance of 9-22% at post-treatment & follow-up.
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Many innovations of psychotherapies are currently examined. See our overview in the last issue of World Psychiatry: (1) Digital interventions (2) Personalized treatments (3) New/ improved therapies (4) Dissemination
With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social @toshi-frkw.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wps....
Most of psychotherapy research is progress, not innovation. This review concludes that small, incremental benefits can arise from it:
- Digital tools can increase access and engagement.
- Personalization can improve response rates.
- Simplified, scalable formats can reach more people.
"The rewards to 'discovering' a spectacular scientific finding [in psychology] are large; the rewards to debunking frauds or deflating exaggerated claims are small if not non-existent. If these are the rules of the game, we should not be surprised at the way the game is played."
*taps the sign*
steamtraen.blogspot.com/2015/06/mech...
"From Innovation to Implementation: Artificial Intelligence in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Training and Supervision" New paper led by Roz Shafran, with contributions from a ton of leading experts on AI in mental health (and also, for reasons unclear, me) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
People with more severe depression probably benefit more from psychotherapy than those with mild depression. Read our new meta-analysis of almost 400 randomized trials of therapies for depression. With Mathias Harrer, Clara Miguel, Eirini Karyotaki, Davide Papola
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
We wrote a short piece on conducting participatory workshops to change research culture, given our experiences in teaching workshops on climate activism & open scholarship.
With @anne-urai.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social @annaveer.bsky.social
📝 rdcu.be/eXja4
🧪 #AcademicSky
The three "waves" of psychotherapy are often described as historical fact, which is astonishing when you consider that they represent the distorted and sometimes straight up incorrect view of a single individual (Hayes).
Just learned I've won the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the area of psychopathology, and am feeling pretty delighted!! So grateful to @aidangcw.bsky.social for nominating me, and very proud of the work it's based on.
Did not think I'd witness a Nature journal publish a piece calling the US a fascist country in the title / abstract.
Thanks to Lauren and the rest of the team for picking up this crucial fight — in this paper and elsewhere. Please read and share widely.
📣Revised preprint by @cas-goos.bsky.social
Measurement reliability, validity, and reporting in psychology still has a long way to go...
We compared original studies w replications, and where possible recalculated reliability & unidimensionality.
Some findings >
osf.io/preprints/ps...