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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 1d

Read this while listening to Opeth...not symphonic but prog is close enough! 🤘

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Muna Aikins @munaaikins.bsky.social · Apr 10

New #MPRGBiosocial paper in Molecular Psychiatry:
“Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health & epigenetic biological aging across childhood & adolescence”

w/ @yayoukwillems @denizfraemke.bsky.social @laraffington.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Blog Post: lnkd.in/dKsgagYc

Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence

www.nature.com

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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 2d

New LIB is good, finally! denver really brought the heterosexuality and the cringe. PERFECT

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 3d

I just googled the title of a paper of mine that hasn't even been published yet (as a lazy way to find the preprint) and Gemini popped out an AI summary of it. So I guess preprints on PsyArXiv are being used in AI training sets? 🤔

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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks everyone for retweeting this! We've gotten all the speakers we need so far. Looking forward to sharing more with yall in a few months :)

Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 11d

Hi bluesky friends! I plan to submit a symposium with @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social for APS 2026 on contextual psychopathology research from ECRs (students welcome!) Content area and methods are wide open. If you are interested or know someone who may be, message me and we'll chat further. 1/2

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Divyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · 9d

New paper in Nature Mental Health where we show that macroeconomic income inequality is associated with brain structure and function over and above individual-level SES and other state-level factors. These alterations may serve as pathways to mental health problems.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health - Nature Mental Health

Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people.

www.nature.com

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Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 9d

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Varun Warrier @vw1234.bsky.social · 10d

This was a fantastic collaboration with lots of people including @hilarycmartin.bsky.social @jakobgrove.bsky.social, Experts by Experience, and several others who I can't seem to find on this app.

Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis - Nature

A study of several longitudinal birth cohorts and cross-sectional cohorts finds only moderate overlap in genetic variants between autism that is diagnosed earlier and that diagnosed later, so they may represent aetiologically different conditions.

www.nature.com

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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 10d

Tom I would never go to an academic conference just to have octopus everyday...who do i look like to you, someone who loves tapas and enjoys a rioja??? no way that CANT be me i am a serious scientist (pls program committee let me into spain)

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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 11d

We're looking for work that examines context factors (broadly defined) in a theory-driven, rigorous, and integrative fashion. We want to advance more nuanced ideas of how environments affect mental health (ie, not just a demographic IV in a regression). hit me up if you have any leads. EXCITED!! 2/2

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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 11d

Hi bluesky friends! I plan to submit a symposium with @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social for APS 2026 on contextual psychopathology research from ECRs (students welcome!) Content area and methods are wide open. If you are interested or know someone who may be, message me and we'll chat further. 1/2

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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · Sep 9

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Mark Chen | Department of Psychology

psychology.fas.harvard.edu

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 29

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting

All going really well

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 29

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

www.wsj.com

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Aug 7

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.

Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.

share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 11

The National Institutes of Health has removed gender identity variables from the ongoing Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/gender/abcd-...

ABCD Study omits gender-identity data from latest release

The removal counteracts the goals of the longitudinal study by “pretending that some aspects of adolescent brain development don’t exist,” says sex differences researcher Nicola Grissom.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · Jun 13

Using paris is burning quotes in a work meeting during pride month...oh we're queering clinical science.

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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · Jun 13

The way you beat me to blue-skying this

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · May 18

I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.

AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state

Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.

www.theverge.com

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · May 7

MASSIVE RCT of app-based CBT skill delivery showing all active conditions (isolating behavioral activation, cognitive restructuring, problem solving, + assertion training) beat 3 different control conditions

h/t to team led by @toshi-frkw.bsky.social

#PsychSciSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cognitive behavioral therapy skills via a smartphone app for subthreshold depression among adults in the community: the RESiLIENT randomized controlled trial - Nature Medicine

A trial that used a master randomized design found that the skills commonly found in smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy, when tested alone or in combination with behavioral activation, were...

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · May 6

New Viewpoint in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science on the use of the term “normal” in the DSM over time.

It’s increasing, and it’s an unclear term. I found the discussion of this fascinating.

Check it out.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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Lindsay Gillikin, M.S. @lindsgillikin.bsky.social · Apr 30

I was wondering if anyone who got a clinical psych PhD in the US and/or got licensed in the US has experience applying for predoctoral internships in Canada. I would love to hear more about what this process looked like from folks who have experience navigating it.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · Apr 2

No. Next question.

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Apr 1

Post-bacc RA job posting is now live! Great fit for applicants interested in graduate degrees clinical psychology and/or precision medicine. Please repost + share with potentially interested candidates. So excited to find a new team member to work closely with

wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · Apr 1

Amazing! Congrats

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Julian Burger @julianburger.bsky.social · Apr 1

Some personal news: This fall, I’ll be joining Stony Brook’s Clinical Psychology faculty as Assistant Professor! So excited to start my lab, and hope to accept PhD students next cycle. Looking forward to working with prosp. students interested in computational clinical psychology / personalization.

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