Lindsay Ayearst, PhD
@linzayearst.bsky.social
Digital mental health innovation and research. Talks about diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders and digital health solutions.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Anyone else seeing an alarming amount of AI-slop in reviews? Particularly in digital health journals?
It seems clear manuscripts are being uploaded into large language models (yes, copyright issues aside) and the resulting AI-generated feedback is submitted as if it were a human review.
It seems clear manuscripts are being uploaded into large language models (yes, copyright issues aside) and the resulting AI-generated feedback is submitted as if it were a human review.
October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Anyone else seeing an alarming amount of AI-slop in reviews? Particularly in digital health journals?
It seems clear manuscripts are being uploaded into large language models (yes, copyright issues aside) and the resulting AI-generated feedback is submitted as if it were a human review.
It seems clear manuscripts are being uploaded into large language models (yes, copyright issues aside) and the resulting AI-generated feedback is submitted as if it were a human review.
Hate to complain because as a past AE I know how hard it is to find reviewers, but recently seems time to first decision is about 3-4 months.
Others finding this?
We all complain about the system - but this is truly getting to be ridiculous.
Feeling feisty today.
Others finding this?
We all complain about the system - but this is truly getting to be ridiculous.
Feeling feisty today.
a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers
ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers
media.tenor.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Hate to complain because as a past AE I know how hard it is to find reviewers, but recently seems time to first decision is about 3-4 months.
Others finding this?
We all complain about the system - but this is truly getting to be ridiculous.
Feeling feisty today.
Others finding this?
We all complain about the system - but this is truly getting to be ridiculous.
Feeling feisty today.
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📱EMA is increasingly used in intervention studies to acquire a more fine-grained and ecologically valid assessment of change. But EMA is relatively burdensome. What's the added value? We tried to address this question in our new paper now out @jmirpub.bsky.social www.jmir.org/2025/1/e69297 1/n
Ecological Momentary Assessment as a Measure of Intervention Change: Evaluation in 4 Digital Mental Health Trials
Background: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is increasingly being incorporated into intervention studies to acquire a more fine-grained and ecologically valid assessment of change. The added uti...
www.jmir.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
📱EMA is increasingly used in intervention studies to acquire a more fine-grained and ecologically valid assessment of change. But EMA is relatively burdensome. What's the added value? We tried to address this question in our new paper now out @jmirpub.bsky.social www.jmir.org/2025/1/e69297 1/n
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APS's journal AMPPS has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review. @dsbarra.bsky.social
AMPPS Accepts First Manuscript From Innovative Peer Review System
The APS journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review.
www.psychologicalscience.org
August 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
APS's journal AMPPS has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review. @dsbarra.bsky.social
For me, the future of healthcare is community-first, digital, and value-based (incentivized). Does anyone know of examples of value-based systems for mental healthcare that are working?
July 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
For me, the future of healthcare is community-first, digital, and value-based (incentivized). Does anyone know of examples of value-based systems for mental healthcare that are working?
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Quite astonishing = perfectly predictable in light of well understood incentives and a long standing lack of quality control measures, as for-profit publishers do everything possible to drive mass production of "science", including Springer.
This is quite astonishing - Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review
Read this to find out how much you can fit into a single space after a full stop (if you use a very small font)
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Read this to find out how much you can fit into a single space after a full stop (if you use a very small font)
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review
Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.
www.nature.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Quite astonishing = perfectly predictable in light of well understood incentives and a long standing lack of quality control measures, as for-profit publishers do everything possible to drive mass production of "science", including Springer.
🚨New Preprint:
The AI Integration Matrix: A Framework for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health.
While not prescriptive, the Matrix is a way to ask better questions - earlier, so we can build more responsible systems from the start.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#AcademicSky
The AI Integration Matrix: A Framework for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health.
While not prescriptive, the Matrix is a way to ask better questions - earlier, so we can build more responsible systems from the start.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#AcademicSky
OSF
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July 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🚨New Preprint:
The AI Integration Matrix: A Framework for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health.
While not prescriptive, the Matrix is a way to ask better questions - earlier, so we can build more responsible systems from the start.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#AcademicSky
The AI Integration Matrix: A Framework for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health.
While not prescriptive, the Matrix is a way to ask better questions - earlier, so we can build more responsible systems from the start.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#AcademicSky
New Preprint Alert:
The AI Integration Matrix: A Framework for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health.
While not prescriptive, the Matrix is a way to ask better questions, earlier, so we can build more thoughtful, responsive systems from the start.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
The AI Integration Matrix: A Framework for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health.
While not prescriptive, the Matrix is a way to ask better questions, earlier, so we can build more thoughtful, responsive systems from the start.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
June 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
New Preprint Alert:
The AI Integration Matrix: A Framework for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health.
While not prescriptive, the Matrix is a way to ask better questions, earlier, so we can build more thoughtful, responsive systems from the start.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
The AI Integration Matrix: A Framework for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health.
While not prescriptive, the Matrix is a way to ask better questions, earlier, so we can build more thoughtful, responsive systems from the start.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Lindsay Ayearst, PhD
#AcademicSky
It's true. Writing is for thinking.
Think you know something? Try writing a coherent argument on it, and you'll soon learn if you DO know that thing (or well enough).
With AI, we're likely going to end up with: writes vs write-nots:
universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...
It's true. Writing is for thinking.
Think you know something? Try writing a coherent argument on it, and you'll soon learn if you DO know that thing (or well enough).
With AI, we're likely going to end up with: writes vs write-nots:
universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...
May 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#AcademicSky
It's true. Writing is for thinking.
Think you know something? Try writing a coherent argument on it, and you'll soon learn if you DO know that thing (or well enough).
With AI, we're likely going to end up with: writes vs write-nots:
universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...
It's true. Writing is for thinking.
Think you know something? Try writing a coherent argument on it, and you'll soon learn if you DO know that thing (or well enough).
With AI, we're likely going to end up with: writes vs write-nots:
universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...
Looking for some guidance re: open science preprint options. First time user here trying to decide between submission to JMIR preprints or PsyArXiv.
May 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Looking for some guidance re: open science preprint options. First time user here trying to decide between submission to JMIR preprints or PsyArXiv.
If I get a paper accepted at a journal, why can’t I have the option for free open access publication in exchange for agreeing to review, say - 3 manuscripts?
I know, you’re going to say because people will write crappy reviews just to fulfill the obligation vs. provide a quality review.
I know, you’re going to say because people will write crappy reviews just to fulfill the obligation vs. provide a quality review.
a man in a blue shirt is asking would you
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is asking would you
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April 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If I get a paper accepted at a journal, why can’t I have the option for free open access publication in exchange for agreeing to review, say - 3 manuscripts?
I know, you’re going to say because people will write crappy reviews just to fulfill the obligation vs. provide a quality review.
I know, you’re going to say because people will write crappy reviews just to fulfill the obligation vs. provide a quality review.
Reposted by Lindsay Ayearst, PhD
I think this measurement/modelling thread is widely applicable. In psych we seem to treat all constructs as latent constructs. But many are not. For example, in my field, I think suicide capability often fails structural tests because it is a formative construct being modelled as latent.
Often times, people who care about measurement (an admirable motivation) default to common factor models without careful consideration of whether the variables being measured complement the conceptual assumptions of common factor models. 3/9
April 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I think this measurement/modelling thread is widely applicable. In psych we seem to treat all constructs as latent constructs. But many are not. For example, in my field, I think suicide capability often fails structural tests because it is a formative construct being modelled as latent.
My heart is full 💜 as I scroll through all the #StandUpForScience posts from across 🇺🇸
With you from 🇨🇦 💪
With you from 🇨🇦 💪
March 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My heart is full 💜 as I scroll through all the #StandUpForScience posts from across 🇺🇸
With you from 🇨🇦 💪
With you from 🇨🇦 💪
Fantastic work 👏🏻
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 ... 🧵:
Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/L. Cloos @bsiepe.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social ... 🧵:
February 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Fantastic work 👏🏻
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Oh, he wants to take our words?
Good thing we are a bunch of highly educated, widely read, creative, undeterred scientists who have been renaming constructs every decade.
No more LGBT? That's fine, we LOVE a Good Bacon Lettuce Tomato sandwich at Emory.
Good thing we are a bunch of highly educated, widely read, creative, undeterred scientists who have been renaming constructs every decade.
No more LGBT? That's fine, we LOVE a Good Bacon Lettuce Tomato sandwich at Emory.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Oh, he wants to take our words?
Good thing we are a bunch of highly educated, widely read, creative, undeterred scientists who have been renaming constructs every decade.
No more LGBT? That's fine, we LOVE a Good Bacon Lettuce Tomato sandwich at Emory.
Good thing we are a bunch of highly educated, widely read, creative, undeterred scientists who have been renaming constructs every decade.
No more LGBT? That's fine, we LOVE a Good Bacon Lettuce Tomato sandwich at Emory.
When people ask me to explain what I do:
Me: You ever taken one of those quizzes that tell you what kind of potato you are?
Questioner: Yeah!
Me: Not that. Mine are legit.
Me: You ever taken one of those quizzes that tell you what kind of potato you are?
Questioner: Yeah!
Me: Not that. Mine are legit.
February 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
When people ask me to explain what I do:
Me: You ever taken one of those quizzes that tell you what kind of potato you are?
Questioner: Yeah!
Me: Not that. Mine are legit.
Me: You ever taken one of those quizzes that tell you what kind of potato you are?
Questioner: Yeah!
Me: Not that. Mine are legit.
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I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon.
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
January 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon.
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
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EMA/Daily Diary researchers!
Do you have a dataset with momentary or daily loneliness among adults 18+? @kvanbogart.bsky.social is seeking datasets to support a coordinated data analysis
Email Karina.vanbogart@northwestern.edu with a brief description of your dataset to be considered! #psychscisky
Do you have a dataset with momentary or daily loneliness among adults 18+? @kvanbogart.bsky.social is seeking datasets to support a coordinated data analysis
Email Karina.vanbogart@northwestern.edu with a brief description of your dataset to be considered! #psychscisky
January 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
EMA/Daily Diary researchers!
Do you have a dataset with momentary or daily loneliness among adults 18+? @kvanbogart.bsky.social is seeking datasets to support a coordinated data analysis
Email Karina.vanbogart@northwestern.edu with a brief description of your dataset to be considered! #psychscisky
Do you have a dataset with momentary or daily loneliness among adults 18+? @kvanbogart.bsky.social is seeking datasets to support a coordinated data analysis
Email Karina.vanbogart@northwestern.edu with a brief description of your dataset to be considered! #psychscisky
Calling all emotion measurement specialists - seeking a list of preferred psychometrically sound measures.
Society for Affective Science members- special shout out to you if willing to weigh in.
Society for Affective Science members- special shout out to you if willing to weigh in.
spongebob holding a megaphone with the words we need help behind him
ALT: spongebob holding a megaphone with the words we need help behind him
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December 2, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Calling all emotion measurement specialists - seeking a list of preferred psychometrically sound measures.
Society for Affective Science members- special shout out to you if willing to weigh in.
Society for Affective Science members- special shout out to you if willing to weigh in.
Reposted by Lindsay Ayearst, PhD
Are digital interventions for depression effective?
We ran 3,638 meta-analyses on 125 RCTs (32,733 participants) to find out.
Effect sizes ranged from small to medium (Hedges’ g = 0.16–0.74), with guided interventions & LMICs showing greater benefits.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We ran 3,638 meta-analyses on 125 RCTs (32,733 participants) to find out.
Effect sizes ranged from small to medium (Hedges’ g = 0.16–0.74), with guided interventions & LMICs showing greater benefits.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Digital mental health interventions for the treatment of depression: A multiverse meta-analysis
The varying sizes of effects in published meta-analyses on digital interventions for depression prompt questions about their efficacy.A systematic sea…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Are digital interventions for depression effective?
We ran 3,638 meta-analyses on 125 RCTs (32,733 participants) to find out.
Effect sizes ranged from small to medium (Hedges’ g = 0.16–0.74), with guided interventions & LMICs showing greater benefits.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We ran 3,638 meta-analyses on 125 RCTs (32,733 participants) to find out.
Effect sizes ranged from small to medium (Hedges’ g = 0.16–0.74), with guided interventions & LMICs showing greater benefits.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...