Steven Mesquiti
@smesquiti.bsky.social
PhD Student @Princeton | Interests in AI, Language-based Assessments of Mental Health, & NLP
https://scm1210.github.io/
https://scm1210.github.io/
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Excited to share my 1st grad school preprint w/ @eriknook.bsky.social
We review how AI is used in mental health research & treatment (from detecting symptoms w/ language to powering therapy chatbots) and highlight ethical/safety issues w/ rapidly bringing AI into this space.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We review how AI is used in mental health research & treatment (from detecting symptoms w/ language to powering therapy chatbots) and highlight ethical/safety issues w/ rapidly bringing AI into this space.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🚨📣 We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣🚨
Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing?
Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905
Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing?
Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905
Postdoctoral Researcher
www.asc.upenn.edu
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🚨📣 We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣🚨
Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing?
Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905
Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing?
Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905
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Global well-being in 2025: A multidimensional analysis of mental, financial, and social health in 92 countries: https://osf.io/3jyda
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Global well-being in 2025: A multidimensional analysis of mental, financial, and social health in 92 countries: https://osf.io/3jyda
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Young voters played a key role in elections across the country last week. It’s fantastic to see record turnout in so many communities AND we still have so much room to grow!
For ideas on how to motivate and support youth to vote check out our new commentary:
osf.io/kyzh9_v1
Key points in 🧵
For ideas on how to motivate and support youth to vote check out our new commentary:
osf.io/kyzh9_v1
Key points in 🧵
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November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Young voters played a key role in elections across the country last week. It’s fantastic to see record turnout in so many communities AND we still have so much room to grow!
For ideas on how to motivate and support youth to vote check out our new commentary:
osf.io/kyzh9_v1
Key points in 🧵
For ideas on how to motivate and support youth to vote check out our new commentary:
osf.io/kyzh9_v1
Key points in 🧵
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LLMs have been shown to provide different predictions in clinical tasks when patient race is altered. Can SAEs spot this undue reliance on race? 🧵
Work w/ @byron.bsky.social
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.00177
Work w/ @byron.bsky.social
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.00177
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
LLMs have been shown to provide different predictions in clinical tasks when patient race is altered. Can SAEs spot this undue reliance on race? 🧵
Work w/ @byron.bsky.social
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.00177
Work w/ @byron.bsky.social
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.00177
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October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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“Each generation has had to learn how to work with its newly acquired cognitive prostheses, whether stylus, scroll, or smartphone,” Kwame Anthony Appiah writes—But what’s different with AI is its speed and the intimacy of the exchange with it. https://theatln.tc/6wgCQscd
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“Each generation has had to learn how to work with its newly acquired cognitive prostheses, whether stylus, scroll, or smartphone,” Kwame Anthony Appiah writes—But what’s different with AI is its speed and the intimacy of the exchange with it. https://theatln.tc/6wgCQscd
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LLMs are known to perpetuate social biases in clinical tasks. Can we locate and intervene upon LLM activations that encode patient demographics like gender and race? 🧵
Work w/ @arnabsensharma.bsky.social, @silvioamir.bsky.social, @davidbau.bsky.social, @byron.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2502.13319
Work w/ @arnabsensharma.bsky.social, @silvioamir.bsky.social, @davidbau.bsky.social, @byron.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2502.13319
February 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
LLMs are known to perpetuate social biases in clinical tasks. Can we locate and intervene upon LLM activations that encode patient demographics like gender and race? 🧵
Work w/ @arnabsensharma.bsky.social, @silvioamir.bsky.social, @davidbau.bsky.social, @byron.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2502.13319
Work w/ @arnabsensharma.bsky.social, @silvioamir.bsky.social, @davidbau.bsky.social, @byron.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2502.13319
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Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.
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What if we did a single run and declared victory
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What if we did a single run and declared victory
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Buried in Meta’s latest round of layoffs were cuts to its team responsible for monitoring risks to user privacy.
Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy
While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems.
nyti.ms
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Buried in Meta’s latest round of layoffs were cuts to its team responsible for monitoring risks to user privacy.
Reposted by Steven Mesquiti
Reposted by Steven Mesquiti
Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they. n.pr/47mqC61
Outage at Amazon Web Services disrupts websites across the internet
Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they.
n.pr
October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they. n.pr/47mqC61
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Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Treatment and Research: https://osf.io/jvf2z
October 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Treatment and Research: https://osf.io/jvf2z
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LLMs can mirror expert judgment but often rely on word patterns rather than reasoning. A new study introduces epistemia, the illusion of knowledge that occurs when surface plausibility replaces verification. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/ry7S50Xcv9b
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
LLMs can mirror expert judgment but often rely on word patterns rather than reasoning. A new study introduces epistemia, the illusion of knowledge that occurs when surface plausibility replaces verification. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/ry7S50Xcv9b
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Check out Steven’s excellent review of an extremely important topic: Views from lots of perspectives are going to be crucial in how we handle this moment in history!
Excited to share my 1st grad school preprint w/ @eriknook.bsky.social
We review how AI is used in mental health research & treatment (from detecting symptoms w/ language to powering therapy chatbots) and highlight ethical/safety issues w/ rapidly bringing AI into this space.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We review how AI is used in mental health research & treatment (from detecting symptoms w/ language to powering therapy chatbots) and highlight ethical/safety issues w/ rapidly bringing AI into this space.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Check out Steven’s excellent review of an extremely important topic: Views from lots of perspectives are going to be crucial in how we handle this moment in history!
Reposted by Steven Mesquiti
🚨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
Thread ⬇️
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
Thread ⬇️
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚨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
Thread ⬇️
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
Thread ⬇️
Excited to share my 1st grad school preprint w/ @eriknook.bsky.social
We review how AI is used in mental health research & treatment (from detecting symptoms w/ language to powering therapy chatbots) and highlight ethical/safety issues w/ rapidly bringing AI into this space.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We review how AI is used in mental health research & treatment (from detecting symptoms w/ language to powering therapy chatbots) and highlight ethical/safety issues w/ rapidly bringing AI into this space.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
October 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Excited to share my 1st grad school preprint w/ @eriknook.bsky.social
We review how AI is used in mental health research & treatment (from detecting symptoms w/ language to powering therapy chatbots) and highlight ethical/safety issues w/ rapidly bringing AI into this space.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We review how AI is used in mental health research & treatment (from detecting symptoms w/ language to powering therapy chatbots) and highlight ethical/safety issues w/ rapidly bringing AI into this space.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Steven Mesquiti
🚨 New preprint 🚨
Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273
Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273
October 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨 New preprint 🚨
Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273
Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273
Reposted by Steven Mesquiti
50% of American adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. Just 10% are more excited than concerned.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
50% of American adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. Just 10% are more excited than concerned.
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Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
October 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.
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Apparently this was Portland last night. Gosh I love my home away from home. ❤️
October 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Apparently this was Portland last night. Gosh I love my home away from home. ❤️
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MSR NYC is hiring spring and summer interns in AI/ML/RL!
Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
Microsoft Research Lab - New York City - Microsoft Research
Apply for a research position at Microsoft Research New York & collaborate with academia to advance economics research, prediction markets & ML.
www.microsoft.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
MSR NYC is hiring spring and summer interns in AI/ML/RL!
Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
Apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely so all applicants can benefit 🤓.
And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?
docs.google.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely so all applicants can benefit 🤓.
And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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OPINION: "There is no stopping Kennedy and Trump from spreading misinformation. But the science does not support their claims." — The Inquirer Editorial Board
Follow the science, not RFK Jr., when it comes to lifesaving vaccine use | Editorial
Kennedy, with no training in medicine and accustomed to peddling junk science, is rapidly dismantling America’s vaunted public health system.
www.inquirer.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
OPINION: "There is no stopping Kennedy and Trump from spreading misinformation. But the science does not support their claims." — The Inquirer Editorial Board
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Timely reminder that 'associative' language leads lay people to confuse correlation and causation, as @tomerullman.bsky.social and I showed a few years ago.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Snapshot from the BBC:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Snapshot from the BBC:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
September 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Timely reminder that 'associative' language leads lay people to confuse correlation and causation, as @tomerullman.bsky.social and I showed a few years ago.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Snapshot from the BBC:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Snapshot from the BBC:
www.bbc.com/news/article...