Hiring a full-time data analyst to support the management and analysis of EMA + biosensor (Empatica and Skyn) for several grants. Come join our team!
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New paper out! 📄
Postpartum self-injurious thoughts vary by socioeconomic status: The moderating effects of mindfulness and emotion dysregulation
Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mxU%7EbXY...
Low-SES contexts in pregnancy increased the odds of self-injurious thoughts postpartum
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Our paper on 13 methods for detecting careless responding in EMA has been accepted by Psychological Methods. Grateful to have collaborated with this wonderful team of researchers🍀(final post-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...).
Monte Carlo simulations are a great tool for numerical approximations.
In this example, they are used to estimate the value of pi.
I just released a new module on Monte Carlo simulation in the Statistics Globe Hub: statisticsglobe.com/hub
#statistics #datascience #probability #math #analytics
Excited to share that I’ll be starting my PhD in Clinical Psychology at @umassamherst.bsky.social, joining @katieleedg.bsky.social's lab! Grateful for the support from all my mentors. Also thrilled to announce that I was nominated for and have been awarded the Spaulding Smith Fellowship!
First year of PPDI Lab coming to a close!
Out of all the work milestones this year the one that brings me the most joy is seeing a lab culture start to take shape :)
Grateful for the laughter and seeing this group grow, especially in their confidence to ask thoughtful questions!
very very grateful for the past 5 years I’ve spent building community and doing science with so many wonderful people ❤️
Thank you April and everyone who came! Excited to attend the rest of #SRS2026!
Today is Day 1 of the Suicide Research Symposium! I'll be presenting on measuring self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) and assessing SITBs among pregnant and postpartum women of color. @suicideresearchsym.bsky.social
We are getting excited for #SRS2026! Come check us out!
I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II.
She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet.
Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.
It has been so lovely attending ADAA’s 2026 conference. I had a great time sharing my poster looking at change score reliabilities of the PHQ-9 and GAD-7. Thanks to BSky-less Adam Horwitz and Joe Grochowalski for their support on this project! 📏📈🤓
#ADAA2026 #PsychometricsNerd
Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16.
Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8)
Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!)
See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
Dunno who Okta is, but my hatred for them grows daily!
📣 📣 I am beyond excited to announce I will be joining the Yale Dept. of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in July 2027!
Deepest gratitude to my colleagues and mentors, without whom this would not have been possible.
More to come—I'll be recruiting students and hiring staff this coming year!
it is a freezing 25 degrees today so very helpful! ahhh, fool’s spring
Perks of having the best science mentor… handmade, knitted gifts! Many thanks to @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social for the beautiful cowl and even more stellar support! 🧶❤️
Check out our newest paper in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice which examined what graduate students know about suicide risk assessment and intervention in the US
doi.org/10.1037/cps0...
Congratulations! 💕
I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be starting my Clinical Psychology PhD this fall at UMass Amherst under @danielcoppersmith.bsky.social’s mentorship, studying the progression of suicidality! I’m incredibly grateful for this opportunity and for the support of my mentors at the EAT, REDS, and Tad Lab!
These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge
Check out our Perspective now published in Nature Mental Heath:
Confronting Crisis and Reclaiming Purpose in Psychological Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00575-4
📣 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
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Hello, friends, we have a new publication looking at Which depression symptoms matter most for functioning!
Fatigue stands out. Anhedonia, appetite changes, and guilt also play key roles.
Symptom-level approaches may improve functioning more than focusing on total severity.
📢 New Publication Alert at JoPaCS! Many studies use variability as a proxy for flexibility across domains. Using emotion regulation as an example, we show that variability decoupled from context can be harmful volatility. Variability ≠ Flexibility. 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
As a person who’s a big fan of the 1, 2, 3 structure, this saddens me. Listen… I just like it all spelled out!
Reviewer feedback re: listing the implications of our study in (a), (b), (c), format
"The manuscript would benefit from a more cohesive writing style and less of the "AI like" list structure"
I was very much hoping my mid-tier writing would help protect me against AI slander, sad day in Danville
Congrats!!