Megan Chen (she/her)
@megancchen.bsky.social
Research Assistant UMich mHail Lab 〽️ | NYU Psychology Alum 🗽| computational/quantitative methods to understand mechanisms of suicide and self-injury 👩💻 | www.megancchen.com
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
The mHail Lab at University of Michigan is recruiting post-docs for 2026! Positions are available for child and adult applicants through the APA-accredited Consortium. We have NIH funded clinical trials developing digital/mHealth technologies for suicide prevention. See below for more details!👇
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The mHail Lab at University of Michigan is recruiting post-docs for 2026! Positions are available for child and adult applicants through the APA-accredited Consortium. We have NIH funded clinical trials developing digital/mHealth technologies for suicide prevention. See below for more details!👇
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If you're at SRP later this week, feel free to check out some of the SPLAT Lab's offerings.
September 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If you're at SRP later this week, feel free to check out some of the SPLAT Lab's offerings.
Reposted by Megan Chen (she/her)
Casual inference: where we all run models in our pajamas.
July 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Casual inference: where we all run models in our pajamas.
Reposted by Megan Chen (she/her)
‼️ New paper @ Child Development discussing why it is inappropriate to use traditional common factor models to model adverse childhood experienced (ACEs) and other stressor inventories ‼️
Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky
1/9
Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky
1/9
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are highly impactful stressors that increase individuals' risk for a plethora of negative developmental and health outcomes. Furthermore, minoritized groups and u...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
‼️ New paper @ Child Development discussing why it is inappropriate to use traditional common factor models to model adverse childhood experienced (ACEs) and other stressor inventories ‼️
Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky
1/9
Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky
1/9
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In critiques of research you often hear about "samples of convenience" as being a major limitation.
I've been thinking that for longitudinal research we need to introduce the terms "designs (i.e.timescales) of convenience" and "models of convenience" because they can be just as problematic.
1/6
I've been thinking that for longitudinal research we need to introduce the terms "designs (i.e.timescales) of convenience" and "models of convenience" because they can be just as problematic.
1/6
March 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In critiques of research you often hear about "samples of convenience" as being a major limitation.
I've been thinking that for longitudinal research we need to introduce the terms "designs (i.e.timescales) of convenience" and "models of convenience" because they can be just as problematic.
1/6
I've been thinking that for longitudinal research we need to introduce the terms "designs (i.e.timescales) of convenience" and "models of convenience" because they can be just as problematic.
1/6
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Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data: A Tutorial
Longitudinal studies are frequently used in medical research and involve collecting repeated measures on individuals over time. Observations from the same individual are invariably correlated and thu....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Megan Chen (she/her)
🚨📝 New Voices of Academia blog
Doing a PhD with OCD by Isabelle Berrow
"Days would pass by where all I had done was cry and hide myself away, punishing myself for how I felt."
voicesofacademia.com/2025/01/27/d...
##AcademicMentalHealth
Doing a PhD with OCD by Isabelle Berrow
"Days would pass by where all I had done was cry and hide myself away, punishing myself for how I felt."
voicesofacademia.com/2025/01/27/d...
##AcademicMentalHealth
Doing a PhD with OCD by Isabelle Berrow
Write a sentence. Delete it. Write a sentence. Delete it. Why isn’t it good enough? What am I missing? Maybe I need a break – go downstairs, get a drink. Turn the light off, check the door’s …
voicesofacademia.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🚨📝 New Voices of Academia blog
Doing a PhD with OCD by Isabelle Berrow
"Days would pass by where all I had done was cry and hide myself away, punishing myself for how I felt."
voicesofacademia.com/2025/01/27/d...
##AcademicMentalHealth
Doing a PhD with OCD by Isabelle Berrow
"Days would pass by where all I had done was cry and hide myself away, punishing myself for how I felt."
voicesofacademia.com/2025/01/27/d...
##AcademicMentalHealth
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This looks like part of a massive multi-faceted attack on scientists and universities from the Trump admin.
They have cancelled funded federal grants, frozen NIH panels, promoted anti-scientific figures and conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr in positions of oversight.
This is just beginning…
They have cancelled funded federal grants, frozen NIH panels, promoted anti-scientific figures and conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr in positions of oversight.
This is just beginning…
January 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This looks like part of a massive multi-faceted attack on scientists and universities from the Trump admin.
They have cancelled funded federal grants, frozen NIH panels, promoted anti-scientific figures and conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr in positions of oversight.
This is just beginning…
They have cancelled funded federal grants, frozen NIH panels, promoted anti-scientific figures and conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr in positions of oversight.
This is just beginning…
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So, first semester teaching grad psychopathology is over. The final papers, in which students were tasked to define psychopathology, all had basically the same theme:
"It's complicated, and I now have a much greater appreciation for just how complicated it is."
I guess I consider that a success?
"It's complicated, and I now have a much greater appreciation for just how complicated it is."
I guess I consider that a success?
December 21, 2024 at 1:22 PM
So, first semester teaching grad psychopathology is over. The final papers, in which students were tasked to define psychopathology, all had basically the same theme:
"It's complicated, and I now have a much greater appreciation for just how complicated it is."
I guess I consider that a success?
"It's complicated, and I now have a much greater appreciation for just how complicated it is."
I guess I consider that a success?
Reposted by Megan Chen (she/her)
Reposted by Megan Chen (she/her)
Defining transdiagnostic constructs to advance clinical research
Comment by Hilde M. Geurts & Iris L. Rapoport
go.nature.com/3VIOxHH
Comment by Hilde M. Geurts & Iris L. Rapoport
go.nature.com/3VIOxHH
December 17, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Defining transdiagnostic constructs to advance clinical research
Comment by Hilde M. Geurts & Iris L. Rapoport
go.nature.com/3VIOxHH
Comment by Hilde M. Geurts & Iris L. Rapoport
go.nature.com/3VIOxHH
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Very cool website, R package, and tutorial paper on preprocessing data from ESM / EMA studies.
Website: preprocess.esmtools.com
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Website: preprocess.esmtools.com
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 8, 2023 at 10:34 AM
Very cool website, R package, and tutorial paper on preprocessing data from ESM / EMA studies.
Website: preprocess.esmtools.com
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Website: preprocess.esmtools.com
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 AM
MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish
Reposted by Megan Chen (she/her)
A unified account of why optimism declines in childhood
Perspective by Julia A. Leonard & Jessica A. Sommerville
Web: go.nature.com/40SULYX
PDF: rdcu.be/d0S9D
#psychology #psychscisky #devpsych
Perspective by Julia A. Leonard & Jessica A. Sommerville
Web: go.nature.com/40SULYX
PDF: rdcu.be/d0S9D
#psychology #psychscisky #devpsych
November 20, 2024 at 3:03 PM
A unified account of why optimism declines in childhood
Perspective by Julia A. Leonard & Jessica A. Sommerville
Web: go.nature.com/40SULYX
PDF: rdcu.be/d0S9D
#psychology #psychscisky #devpsych
Perspective by Julia A. Leonard & Jessica A. Sommerville
Web: go.nature.com/40SULYX
PDF: rdcu.be/d0S9D
#psychology #psychscisky #devpsych
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I started a suicide and self-injury research starter pack! Please share, and let me know if you’d like to be added! 😊
go.bsky.app/SgoBT7Z
go.bsky.app/SgoBT7Z
October 26, 2024 at 10:05 PM
I started a suicide and self-injury research starter pack! Please share, and let me know if you’d like to be added! 😊
go.bsky.app/SgoBT7Z
go.bsky.app/SgoBT7Z
Can we coin a new term called post-ABCT depression? What do you mean it’s just my normal Monday in Ann Arbor recruiting teens? That adrenaline rush from all the science at @abctnow.bsky.social #ABCT2024 was amazing! 📈👩💻
November 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Can we coin a new term called post-ABCT depression? What do you mean it’s just my normal Monday in Ann Arbor recruiting teens? That adrenaline rush from all the science at @abctnow.bsky.social #ABCT2024 was amazing! 📈👩💻
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@eikofried.bsky.social blog on the over-internalization of causes of psychopathology (vs. socio-environmental causal agents). Some fun tidbits re: classic tension between realism + operationalism in psychiatric diagnosis
Partner to: tinyurl.com/bdfshtsr
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
#PsychSciSky
Partner to: tinyurl.com/bdfshtsr
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
#PsychSciSky
Are causes of mental disorders in the person or in the environment? » Eiko Fried
Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
eiko-fried.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:18 PM
@eikofried.bsky.social blog on the over-internalization of causes of psychopathology (vs. socio-environmental causal agents). Some fun tidbits re: classic tension between realism + operationalism in psychiatric diagnosis
Partner to: tinyurl.com/bdfshtsr
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
#PsychSciSky
Partner to: tinyurl.com/bdfshtsr
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
#PsychSciSky
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🚨New Preprint on Affective Stress Responses in Daily life (N=248) - w/ @vizecolin.bsky.social and @aidangcw.bsky.social! We used high-density sampling after stressful events to closely examine the dynamic affective response following daily hassles by estimating latent microtrajectories. 1/3
November 18, 2024 at 7:36 AM
🚨New Preprint on Affective Stress Responses in Daily life (N=248) - w/ @vizecolin.bsky.social and @aidangcw.bsky.social! We used high-density sampling after stressful events to closely examine the dynamic affective response following daily hassles by estimating latent microtrajectories. 1/3
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Behavioral science would be much improved if we banned the term “objective” and instead replaced with “consensual” (as in based on consensus)
November 17, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Behavioral science would be much improved if we banned the term “objective” and instead replaced with “consensual” (as in based on consensus)
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going to create a starter pack for researchers studying in-group/out-group dynamics and leave about half the relevant people out of it
November 16, 2024 at 9:41 PM
going to create a starter pack for researchers studying in-group/out-group dynamics and leave about half the relevant people out of it
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Published! ”Perceived causal symptom network of adolescent mental health issues”. n = 55 depressed teenagers (PHQ9 > 9) picked symptoms from a predefined list (including criteria for depression, purple nodes), specified these in their own words, and then rated causal relations.
November 17, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Published! ”Perceived causal symptom network of adolescent mental health issues”. n = 55 depressed teenagers (PHQ9 > 9) picked symptoms from a predefined list (including criteria for depression, purple nodes), specified these in their own words, and then rated causal relations.