Griffin Murch
@griffinmurch.bsky.social
Clinical Research Assistant @McLeanHospital | Treatment & Etiology of Depression in Youth Lab | Distress Intervention + Data Science
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Interesting to see how our lab's recruitment sources have shifted over the last 3 years (see plot).
FB/Instagram used to pull 100+ responses/month, now much less productive. Methods like flyers and mailing lists remain steady.
Curious if any other labs are seeing this or have found new methods?
FB/Instagram used to pull 100+ responses/month, now much less productive. Methods like flyers and mailing lists remain steady.
Curious if any other labs are seeing this or have found new methods?
Interesting to see how our lab's recruitment sources have shifted over the last 3 years (see plot).
FB/Instagram used to pull 100+ responses/month, now much less productive. Methods like flyers and mailing lists remain steady.
Curious if any other labs are seeing this or have found new methods?
FB/Instagram used to pull 100+ responses/month, now much less productive. Methods like flyers and mailing lists remain steady.
Curious if any other labs are seeing this or have found new methods?
February 13, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Interesting to see how our lab's recruitment sources have shifted over the last 3 years (see plot).
FB/Instagram used to pull 100+ responses/month, now much less productive. Methods like flyers and mailing lists remain steady.
Curious if any other labs are seeing this or have found new methods?
FB/Instagram used to pull 100+ responses/month, now much less productive. Methods like flyers and mailing lists remain steady.
Curious if any other labs are seeing this or have found new methods?
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Sleep quality and suicide ideation: Mediating role of rumination and depressive symptoms — new paper out, led by former Hunter College undergrad Sindy Kauch, with support from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social PhD student Lucy Liotta and our co-authors. Link to read here: rdcu.be/e3ip2
February 11, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Sleep quality and suicide ideation: Mediating role of rumination and depressive symptoms — new paper out, led by former Hunter College undergrad Sindy Kauch, with support from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social PhD student Lucy Liotta and our co-authors. Link to read here: rdcu.be/e3ip2
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Actigraphy-derived measures of sleep phase variability and activity amplitude identified individuals at higher risk of relapse in #Depression, supporting their potential as scalable biomarkers in ongoing monitoring.
bit.ly/3OzXlPo
bit.ly/3OzXlPo
February 11, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Actigraphy-derived measures of sleep phase variability and activity amplitude identified individuals at higher risk of relapse in #Depression, supporting their potential as scalable biomarkers in ongoing monitoring.
bit.ly/3OzXlPo
bit.ly/3OzXlPo
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New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Interested in research on depression in youth? New opening for a full-time research assistant in our lab (webbslab.com) to work on a range of projects focused on the causes & treatment of depression in teens. Come join our growing lab. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
webbslab.com/job-postings
webbslab.com/job-postings
January 9, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Interested in research on depression in youth? New opening for a full-time research assistant in our lab (webbslab.com) to work on a range of projects focused on the causes & treatment of depression in teens. Come join our growing lab. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
webbslab.com/job-postings
webbslab.com/job-postings
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Adults exposed to sexual assault were at higher risk of developing functional somatic disorders, including single-organ and multiorgan subtypes—over five years, finds this cohort study. ja.ma/4qKzTgd
January 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Adults exposed to sexual assault were at higher risk of developing functional somatic disorders, including single-organ and multiorgan subtypes—over five years, finds this cohort study. ja.ma/4qKzTgd
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A Practical Guide to Self-Organising Maps in Psychological Research: https://osf.io/dy6z2
December 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A Practical Guide to Self-Organising Maps in Psychological Research: https://osf.io/dy6z2
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💫 Excited to share new preprint a systematic review & meta-analysis of 123 studies (40k+ ppl) on how well language-based models detect depression from text.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
Language-Based Detection of Depression with Machine Learning: Systematic Review and Meta- Analysis
Early detection of depression is critical for timely intervention. Natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) approaches have increasingly been used to automatically detect depression...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
💫 Excited to share new preprint a systematic review & meta-analysis of 123 studies (40k+ ppl) on how well language-based models detect depression from text.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
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Younger adolescents and preteens have become an alarming portion of patients admitted for serious suicide attempts, in addition to those dying by suicide. Refinement in screening and treatment is required.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Younger adolescents and preteens have become an alarming portion of patients admitted for serious suicide attempts, in addition to those dying by suicide. Refinement in screening and treatment is required.
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I am pleased to share our paper showing that daily assessment improves the precision of #self-harm and #suicide prediction beyond the data available at the start of a hospital admission. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I am pleased to share our paper showing that daily assessment improves the precision of #self-harm and #suicide prediction beyond the data available at the start of a hospital admission. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Network-informed interventions for psychopathology
Journal Club by René Freichel
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Journal Club by René Freichel
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November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Network-informed interventions for psychopathology
Journal Club by René Freichel
go.nature.com/43ispIc
Journal Club by René Freichel
go.nature.com/43ispIc
No one can deny that we need better ways of approaching science communication, particularly right now. Great read below, no matter your field!
"Leveraging the epistemic authority of the 'common man' can then make science seem less elitist and more aligned with community values."
"Leveraging the epistemic authority of the 'common man' can then make science seem less elitist and more aligned with community values."
Cultivating New Ways to Trust Science Amid the Rise of Questionable Health Practices: https://osf.io/fhj3y
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
No one can deny that we need better ways of approaching science communication, particularly right now. Great read below, no matter your field!
"Leveraging the epistemic authority of the 'common man' can then make science seem less elitist and more aligned with community values."
"Leveraging the epistemic authority of the 'common man' can then make science seem less elitist and more aligned with community values."
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Investigating Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Attempts in Bi+ Youth: A Multi-Method Study: https://osf.io/9x4h2
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Investigating Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Attempts in Bi+ Youth: A Multi-Method Study: https://osf.io/9x4h2
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I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it
It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
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It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
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November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it
It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
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It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
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Paraphrasing @emollick.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social here: AI is (so far) much better at assisting with job-specific tasks than replacing entire careers.
Research and science appear to be no exception.
Research and science appear to be no exception.
"The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues."
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Paraphrasing @emollick.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social here: AI is (so far) much better at assisting with job-specific tasks than replacing entire careers.
Research and science appear to be no exception.
Research and science appear to be no exception.
Such a cool paper!
On the common approach of comparing those w/ and w/o given DSM/ICD diagnoses (e.g., case-control):
"[These] models often fail not because of the quality of the computational approach, but because the diagnostic labels they target do a poor job of carving nature at its joints."
On the common approach of comparing those w/ and w/o given DSM/ICD diagnoses (e.g., case-control):
"[These] models often fail not because of the quality of the computational approach, but because the diagnostic labels they target do a poor job of carving nature at its joints."
Integrating HiTOP and Computational Psychiatry for a New Era of Clinical Science: https://osf.io/sbuvd
November 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Such a cool paper!
On the common approach of comparing those w/ and w/o given DSM/ICD diagnoses (e.g., case-control):
"[These] models often fail not because of the quality of the computational approach, but because the diagnostic labels they target do a poor job of carving nature at its joints."
On the common approach of comparing those w/ and w/o given DSM/ICD diagnoses (e.g., case-control):
"[These] models often fail not because of the quality of the computational approach, but because the diagnostic labels they target do a poor job of carving nature at its joints."
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New paper in Journal of Affective Disorders led by Olivia Losiewicz: Daily spread of positive affect is associated with subsequent well-being: A study of idiographic network analysis and emotional inertia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Daily spread of positive affect is associated with subsequent well-being: A study of idiographic network analysis and emotional inertia
Emotional inertia, or the persistence of affect over time, and emotion network density, a measurement of the interconnected or relatedness of one's em…
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October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New paper in Journal of Affective Disorders led by Olivia Losiewicz: Daily spread of positive affect is associated with subsequent well-being: A study of idiographic network analysis and emotional inertia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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From this new post by OpenAI: 0.15% of users (something like 9M people given public numbers) show signs of suicidal intent in their ChatGPT chats each week
But there seems to be progress in making ChatGPT respond appropriately to mental health issues. openai.com/index/streng...
But there seems to be progress in making ChatGPT respond appropriately to mental health issues. openai.com/index/streng...
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
From this new post by OpenAI: 0.15% of users (something like 9M people given public numbers) show signs of suicidal intent in their ChatGPT chats each week
But there seems to be progress in making ChatGPT respond appropriately to mental health issues. openai.com/index/streng...
But there seems to be progress in making ChatGPT respond appropriately to mental health issues. openai.com/index/streng...
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Thanks to @bbrfoundation.bsky.social for highlighting our lab's study (led by @hadarfisher.bsky.social & @nigeljaffe.bsky.social) using📱smartphone sensors + LLM-derived text ratings to track behavioral activation and symptom change in teens with anhedonia.
bbrfoundation.org/content/smar...
bbrfoundation.org/content/smar...
Smartphone Sensors + ChatGPT Successfully Tracked & Predicted Symptoms in Adolescents with Anhedonia | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
The ubiquity of smartphones and the rapid advance and widespread public adoption of “AI” tools like ChatGPT (especially among the young) have raised hopes among some researchers that such technologies...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thanks to @bbrfoundation.bsky.social for highlighting our lab's study (led by @hadarfisher.bsky.social & @nigeljaffe.bsky.social) using📱smartphone sensors + LLM-derived text ratings to track behavioral activation and symptom change in teens with anhedonia.
bbrfoundation.org/content/smar...
bbrfoundation.org/content/smar...
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DSM-5 Now Includes Mariners Fanhood as a Legitimate Form of Depression: tinyurl.com/5e8a65zt
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
DSM-5 Now Includes Mariners Fanhood as a Legitimate Form of Depression: tinyurl.com/5e8a65zt
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📢 New large study of ~1.5 million patients in NHS Talking Therapies finds that teens/young adults (ages 16-24) had 17-26% *lower* odds of reliably improving vs 25-65 year-olds. Time to rethink youth-centred mental-health delivery?
🔗 tinyurl.com/532y6v67
🔗 tinyurl.com/532y6v67
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📢 New large study of ~1.5 million patients in NHS Talking Therapies finds that teens/young adults (ages 16-24) had 17-26% *lower* odds of reliably improving vs 25-65 year-olds. Time to rethink youth-centred mental-health delivery?
🔗 tinyurl.com/532y6v67
🔗 tinyurl.com/532y6v67
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Chronic diseases were more strongly linked to suicide attempt, while severe conditions and psychiatric polygenic scores were more associated with suicide, indicating overlapping but distinct risk factors for attempt and death by suicide.
ja.ma/3IVjPZ2
ja.ma/3IVjPZ2
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Chronic diseases were more strongly linked to suicide attempt, while severe conditions and psychiatric polygenic scores were more associated with suicide, indicating overlapping but distinct risk factors for attempt and death by suicide.
ja.ma/3IVjPZ2
ja.ma/3IVjPZ2
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We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content.
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content.
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
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Suicidology has been waiting a long time for this! A measure of capability for suicide that is both reasonably comprehensive and concise. Great work by @meganlrogers.bsky.social and colleagues.
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August 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Suicidology has been waiting a long time for this! A measure of capability for suicide that is both reasonably comprehensive and concise. Great work by @meganlrogers.bsky.social and colleagues.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Work by Xin Hu and Lauren Bylsma demonstrates combining self-report EMA and passive psychophysiological measures improves prediction of active SI in adults with ASD. #2025SPR @therealspr.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Work by Xin Hu and Lauren Bylsma demonstrates combining self-report EMA and passive psychophysiological measures improves prediction of active SI in adults with ASD. #2025SPR @therealspr.bsky.social