Finally someone dared to say it: effective psychodynamic therapy for anxiety disorders is plausibly based on exposure.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🗞️TIPP! Prof. Winfried Rief @loewe-dynamic.bsky.social dazu, warum #Depressionen so häufig sind+ sie oft nicht gut behandelt werden. 💊wirken seltener als gedacht, Therapien sind zu starr, Wartezeiten zu lang. Hilfreich wären flexiblere, indiv. Modelle+ dig.Wege. Mehr➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/proloe...

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The

Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean.

direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Wissenschaft & Psychotherapie verbinden? In unserer Psychotherapie-Ambulanz an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt ist das im Rahmen einer Clinician Scientist Postdoc-Stelle (VT Erw., E14, 80%, befristet zunächst für 3 Jahre) möglich. Bewerbungsfrist: 05.05.2026. Mehr 👉: www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse...

New paper by Amani Lavefjord, @larsklintwall.bsky.social & colleagues: Testing the network centrality hypothesis in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Perceived Causal Networks in a Single Case Experimental Design. Results are mixed, the design is worth a look! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... #ACT

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement.

In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99.

At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Preview: DAS GEWICHT DER WELT | CineStar Berlin - CUBIX am Alexanderplatz Preview: DAS GEWICHT DER WELT (Event) - Jetzt Tickets zum Event in Berlin kaufen!

Hallo #Berlin. Ich habe da einen Wunsch. Heute in drei Wochen ist große Preview-Vorstellung von #DasGewichtDerWelt im CUBIX. Großes Kino, rund 500 Plätze, davon schon 300 gebucht. Bekommen wir den Saal voll? Mit einem Klimafilm? Von dem es anfangs aus manchen Film-Kreisen hieß, das sei „Kassengift“?

Sehen und gesehen werden :)
Selbst wenn’s nur vom Bot ist

Sehen und gesehen werden :)
Selbst wenn’s nur vom Bot ist

Du musst die Reizworte gleich selbst einbauen. Neoliberal… Effizienz… Evidenz… Messbar…

If you’re interested in what the long-term strategy is of those who are currently cutting funding for public research and educational infrastructure, take a look at Trump’s new “science panel.”
Don't believe that this cannot happen in Europe. It can and it will if things progress like they do.

A remarkable AP photo of a protester dressed as Lady Liberty being cuffed by helmeted cops. She is looking straight at the camera with a tired "you seeing this shit?" expression.

RIP editorial cartooning.

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026

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A Large-Group 1-Day RCT Investigating the Effectiveness of Four Different Strategies to Promote the Outcome of Exposure Therapy in 519 Patients with Phobic Fear of Flying Abstract. Introduction: Despite its status as the gold standard for treating fear and anxiety, exposure therapy leaves room for optimization. Clarifying and testing the clinical relevance of proposed ...

519 Patient:innen in 4 Flugzeugen - eine sehr spannende Erfahrung, die nun auch publiziert wurde.
Fazit: One Session Treatment als Gruppentherapie wirkt!

karger.com/pps/article-...

Nice 1. congrats 🎉🎈

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025
Who were most affected?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Early career and women researchers

Bislang wurden übrigens ALLE meine Gespräche über #metoo mit männlichen Kollegen aus Academia (es waren viele) von mindestens 1 derailt durch Artikulation der Sorge von Falschbeschuldigung. Männliche Befindlichkeit steht über allem, sogar über massiven Gewalterfahrungen von & Dauerrisiko für Frauen.

The military campaign against Iran is going so well that the U.S. is now announcing war crimes.

Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology.

Brief summary follows below.

Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

Poster for the talk by Björn Siepe on OpenESM database. The poster contains further information about the event along with the QR code for registration.

🔊 ❗We are excited to be collaborating with Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social for a new free upcoming talk on openESM! The talk will be “Introducing openESM: A Database of Openly Available Experience Sampling Datasets.” Check out the flyer for more details.
✨Register now: forms.gle/2W2Mhh5V2vvY...

Twitter user eoghan: How dare poor people get free medical advice <quote tweet from Twitter user Polymarket: BREAKING: New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.> Twitter user YBrogard79094: JUST MAKE HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBLE Twitter user eoghan: AI is literally free healthcare. Being a communist must be exhausting

Anyone willing to confidentially share their successful 2025 VICI application docs with me? Thanks gang.

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at hig...

Delete your socks, people.

"We show that large language models can be used to perform
at-scale deanonymization...at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator."

🧠🗣️ I’m co-editing a Neuropsychologia Special Issue:
“Language in Psychosis – A Multidisciplinary Approach”

We welcome contributions on:
• neural mechanisms
• predictive processing
• cognitive, computational & clinical perspectives

📅 Deadline: Sept 30, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Infoflyer für eine Umfrage zu therapeutischen Überzeugungen bei Zwangsstörungen. Gesucht werden Studierende im Master Klinische Psychologie für die Teilnahme an der Studie unter https://www.soscisurvey.de/T-A-F/. Als Dank winkt die Chance auf drei 15€ Amazon-Gutscheine.

Wie hängen Überzeugungen seitens Psychologie-Studierender im klinischen Master mit dem Einsatz von Expositionen mit Reaktionsverhinderung bei Zwangsstörungen zusammen?
www.soscisurvey.de/T-A-F/

Gerne an Master-Studierende weiterleiten, danke!

Better than ICE on the sidewalk though

We extended the deadline of our machine learning competition by a few weeks until mid March! Still time to participate. We currently have 233 participants with 111 total submissions (some of them will be test submissions etc).

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