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Magdalen College @magdalenoxford.bsky.social · 8d

Huge congrats to @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social on winning the prestigious Outstanding Doctoral Thesis of the Year by the Norwegian Psychological Association.

Read more: www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-ebra...

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 14d

I'm beyond words honoured to receive the Doctoral Thesis of the Year Award by the Norwegian Psychological Association!

Deeply grateful to my supervisors and the wonderful colleagues I've had the privilege of working with.

Interview about findings and a 🧵:
www.psykologforeningen.no/aktuelt/pand...

Omid V. Ebrahimi at the Doctoral Thesis of the Year Award ceremony.

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Nora Skjerdingstad @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social · Sep 8

Other highlights included @larsklintwall.bsky.social and the always amazing @cathycreswell.bsky.social's talks 💬

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Nora Skjerdingstad @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social · Sep 8

Had a great time at #EABCT presenting work from both my clinical training and my PhD. Grateful to my fantastic symposium teams for making it such a rewarding experience🥰! @sophie-grant.bsky.social @sakshirajesh.bsky.social @emilykwhitaker.bsky.social

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Nora Skjerdingstad @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Aug 7

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies?

Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out:

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

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Accuracy and Consistency of Visual Analog Scales in Ecological Momentary Assessment and Digital Studies

The ubiquity of digital technologies has increased assessments of thoughts, behaviors, and experiences via electronic devices. Surveys on smartphones or laptops often implement Visual Analogue Scales ...

online.ucpress.edu

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Nora Skjerdingstad @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social · Jun 26

Paper is out!🌼

Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · Jun 26

Happy to share that our article, led by @xinkaidu.bsky.social, on confirmatory network modeling has been published in Psychological Methods!

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

APA PsycNet

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Jun 12

How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️

In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Jun 3

Very excited to speak at the Network Science Conference in Maastricht this week about the utility of psychometric networks in the precision diagnostics field.

Come to our session on Friday at 2pm & check out the program for the many great talks at the conference

@netsciconf.bsky.social #NetSci2025

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · May 20

Our new paper in Depression and Anxiety contrast the impact of theory-driven transdiagnostic mechanisms on anxiety symptoms.

With @sachaepskamp.bsky.social, @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social, @renefreichel.bsky.social and Skyless colleagues.

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

Mapping the Dynamics of Generalized Anxiety Symptoms and Actionable Transdiagnostic Mechanisms: A Panel Study

Background: The long-term dynamic interaction between symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and their theorized mechanistic processes derived from three treatment models of GAD—the emotion d...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Nora Skjerdingstad @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social · May 14

Well done! @emilykwhitaker.bsky.social 👏

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TOPIC Research Team @topicgroup.bsky.social · May 13

Many congratulations to TOPIC's Emily Whitaker on leading this review paper now out in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review! 🎉 This review is supported by Chloe Chessell & Maxwell Klapow.

Read below👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Psychsky #Psychology

A Systematic Review of Guided, Parent-Led Digital Interventions for Preadolescent Children with Emotional and Behavioural Problems - Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review

Emotional and behavioural problems (EBP) are prevalent amongst children, and guided, parent-led digital interventions offer one method of improving access to effective treatments. This systematic revi...

link.springer.com

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STAR-CAT Study @starcatstudy.bsky.social · May 7

We're excited to announce that the trial is now open to recruitment! Welcome to our very first site, Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust 👋

Over the next two years we will be aiming to recruit 650 families - have a read of our website to find out more: osiresearch.org.uk/star-cat 👈

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Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social · May 6

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!

We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵

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

Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour

Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...

www.nature.com

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · May 6

Excited to give a talk at University of Cambridge's Psychiatry Department about precision diagnostics and profiles of depression, this Thursday at 12:30 BST.

The talk is hybrid, so feel free to DM me for a link if you wish to attend.

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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · Apr 6

For those who are interested ESM feedback, happy to announce that a new paper is out, in which we combine qualitative and quantitative feedback! Innovations include clock graphs, stacked graphs, and word clouds with sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Developing a qualitative and quantitative ambulatory assessment-based feedback system within cognitive behavioural interventions for people with persecutory beliefs

Although the application of self-monitoring (ambulatory assessment) and visual feedback in psychological interventions has yielded promising results, …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · Mar 28

Jonathan Haidt has written about the potential harms of social media to girls, but what about boys (currently being widely discussed following the Netflix drama 'Adolescence')? This blog from 2023 discusses the tendency of boys to retreat and withdraw

substack.com/@jonathanhai...

Why I'm Increasingly Worried About Boys, Too

Since the 1970s, boys have been pushed away from the real world and pulled into the virtual.

substack.com

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Mar 13

Excited to share our BMC Medicine article on Modifiable Risk Factors of Vaccine Hesitancy

With 2 independent teams of authors blind to each others procedures, we combine gradient boosting machines & thematic analysis, & replicate results in 2 nations 🧵
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic - BMC Medicine

Background Vaccine hesitancy, the delay in acceptance or reluctance to vaccinate, ranks among the top threats to global health. Identifying modifiable factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy is cruc...

bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Feb 19

Put down the phone! Escape the noise!

Taking a break from smartphones: Study confirms its benefits medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02...

From study: "The intervention improved mental health, subjective well-being, and objectively measured ability to sustain attention..."

Taking a break from smartphones: Study confirms its benefits

A month-long randomized control trial confirms that reducing the time spent on smartphones to access the internet makes people happier and more focused.

medicalxpress.com

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · Feb 17

Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use?

We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time.

Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion!
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Eeske van Roekel 🟥 @eeskevanroekel.bsky.social · Feb 11

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, I want to share an inspiring example: Anne Bülow, who defended her PhD cum laude on Jan 31st with her dissertation "Parenting Adolescents, One Day at a Time."

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Feb 7

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies?

Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/L. Cloos @bsiepe.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social ... 🧵:

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Xinkai Du @xinkaidu.bsky.social · Feb 7

Preprint on using SEM fit indices & conventional cutoffs in confirmatory network analysis updated! Now with a Shiny app for results display.

PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps...
RG: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Shiny app: github.com/xinkaidupsy/...

See 🧵 for the summary of results

(PDF) Moving from exploratory to confirmatory network analysis: An evaluation of SEM fit indices and cutoff values in network psychometrics

PDF | Network models are well-suited for phenomena detection, and most empirical network studies have been exploratory so far. Yet, due to the close... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · Feb 5

We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse.

But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know.

So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Adolescent girls’ explanations of high rates of low mood and anxiety in their population: a co-produced qualitative study - BMC Women's Health

Background From early adolescence, girls face greater risk of experiencing low mood and anxiety relative to boys, with recent evidence that this may be worsening. There is a paucity of mental health r...

doi.org

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