I had a great time giving my first conference talks, sharing my work on depression assessment and digital phenotyping at #APS26BCN! Grateful to my mentor (@depressionlab.bsky.social), my collaborators (Drs. Fried, Allen, Craske, Sachdeva, and many others), and everyone I met and learned from there.
Dawson Haddox
Fantastic work by @cherilev.bsky.social and her team - truly a joy getting to collaborate with all of them to integrate/adapt their work on treating eating disorders into our digital therapy ecosystem (credit/thanks as always to Michelle Craske ~ UCLA DGC/ADRC). @personalizedtx.bsky.social
NHS data should be driving innovation & improvement – it’s an amazing resource
We just published the sequel to our 2021 "Road to Hell" paper on using NHS data for research... things are worse!
Buckle up for a long 🧵about *how COMPLETELY mad* system is for accessing NHS data for research
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Can less than 10 minutes daily on a mindfulness app improve the mental health of people of color exposed to discrimination? Based on our new publication in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (@jmirpub.bsky.social), the answer is yes!
www.jmir.org/2026/1/e84328/
A 🧵:
What to do when #AI meets #OpenScience? @stokel.bsky.social spoke to me & other colleagues about this pressing issue for this @nature.com article. @drandreahoward.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social @miriforbes.bsky.social @debruine.bsky.social
1/ New paper 👀 TL; DR the COMET single session intervention (SSI) was superior in reducing depression, anxiety, and to a lesser extent improving well-being than a waiting control in college students.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.jmir.org
Background: Racially and ethnically minoritized individuals (REMs) who experience discrimination are at risk of developing stress, anxiety, and depression, and digital mental health interventions (DMH...
Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard.
Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious psychiatric illness. Despite its severity, most individuals with AN never achieve full recovery and more than 50% o…
We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!
