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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 8d

Dan did a marvelous job integrating ideas in this paper - check it out!!

Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 9d

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.

We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.

With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 11d

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 11d

Three cheers to @raziasahi.bsky.social for a *fantastic* talk on her work with @veravine.bsky.social investigating emotion vocabulary in therapy! And keep an eye out for opportunities to join her in her new lab at Rutgers!

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 12d

#NSFGRFP, just signed, recommend to other u.s. academics (easy to do and can’t hurt, even if it doesn’t help?) #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky 🐦🐦

Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 12d

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 12d

Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩

Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...

(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social

Family friendly waiting room for participants

Family friendly waiting room, picture shows children's play area

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Natalie Markowitz Wittlin 🏳️‍🌈 @nataliemwittlin.bsky.social · 14d

Apply to work at the psych program at @bardcollege.bsky.social with me! I love it here and would be happy to answer any questions you have. Review starts 10/1.
www.bard.edu/humanresourc...

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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 14d

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name!
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

docs.google.com

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 14d

we were just talking about all your awesome work, Dan!!

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 14d

Welcome @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social!! Very excited to have you with us for a few weeks!!

Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 14d

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 18d

📚 Dr. Brown (@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social) will be speaking at Princeton in the Department of Psychology’s Social Talk Series next week! If you’re on campus, be sure to check it out this Monday (9.22) at 12pm.

Talk details: psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/...

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 21d

huge congrats!!!!!!

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Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · 26d

Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year.
dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...

Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows

We encourage early career scholars to pursue a career in academia by supporting their postdoctoral work at Princeton

dof.princeton.edu

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 26d

Huge thanks to Mostafa Abdou, @raziasahi.bsky.social, and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social for the great collab!

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 26d

Really pleased with how this turned out, giving new insight into the linguistics of therapy: Found that LLMs estimate psychological distance better than dictionary-based methods used in prior work (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...), also finding that therapists who *encourage* distance fare better

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them.

Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · Sep 1

Paper accepted today in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, "Establishing minimally sufficient conditions reduces the complexity of symptom presentations in DSM internalizing disorders." A quick thread, below. (link is to a PDF on the paper's OSF page) 1/15
osf.io/fxdm6

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Behavior Change for Good Initiative @bcfginitiative.bsky.social · Aug 26

BCFG is co-hosting a conversation between & @katymilkman.bsky.social and Team Scientist Emily Falk on her new book, What We Value.

📅 Wed, Sept 10 | 4–5:30PM
📍 The Agora, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Co-hosted with @appc.upenn.edu, @asc.upenn.edu, and @pennmindcore.bsky.social

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Vera Vine @veravine.bsky.social · Aug 15

‼️Academic job alert‼️ Our dept at Queen's University (Canada!) is looking to hire a TT assistant prof in clinical psychology... Applications due end of Sept! Re-posts very much appreciated www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...

Employment Opportunities | Department of Psychology

Available Positions Position Title Position Details Posting Date Closing Date Assistant Professor - Tenure-Track Appointment in Psychology

www.queensu.ca

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · Aug 15

We're hiring!!! Princeton Psych has an Assistant Prof search in cog neuro (joint with @princetonneuro.bsky.social). Apply apply apply! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

puwebp.princeton.edu

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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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João Guassi Moreira @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at
@uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold!

psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

Joao Guassi Moreira – Information for Prospective Graduate Students

Dr. Joao Guassi Moreira – Information for Prospective Graduate Students Website: https://psych.wisc.edu/staff/guassi-moreira-joao/ Current research: Dr. Guassi Moreira’s Computational Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory (CDNLab) studies the neurodevelopment of affective and social phenomena between late childhood and emerging adulthood. Currently, CDNLab is particularly interested in the development of emotion regulation and decision-making, and the nexus between the two.…

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · Aug 4

Issue 61, Volume 8 is out @ Developmental Psychology!

psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

Topics Include

-Multilevel Targets of Intervention
-Cardiac Markers of Development
-Well-Being Over Time
-Maternal Depression
-Early Object Play
-Genetically Informed Approaches

@apajournals.bsky.social

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APA PsycNet

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Aug 4

📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team!

Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!

Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology

actcompthink.org

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · Jul 23

Huge congrats to @bennydemayo04.bsky.social, Nat Gallagher, @rachelesh.bsky.social, & @olsonista.bsky.social on this monumental work!

Society for Research in Child Development @srcdorg.bsky.social · Jul 23

💙 SRCD is pleased to announce the latest Monograph on gender identities and sexual orientation across childhood and adolescence. Read the full issue here: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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