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Mingcong Tang
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affective psychopathology; statistics/computational models; stress; emotions.

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vjrp.bsky.social
New paper in Assessmentauthored by @psychillinois.bsky.social MSPS student @antoniayuxinhua.bsky.social, with @qmmmmliu.bsky.social.

We validated the Regulating Emotions in Parenting Scale (REPS) across LGBT parents.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/1073...
Psychometric Evaluation of the Regulating Emotions in Parenting Scale in Sexual and Gender Minority Parents - Antonia Yuxin Hua, Qimin Liu, Violeta J. Rodriguez, 2025
Emotion regulation (ER) in parenting is crucial for parental well-being and children’s mental health. However, ER in parenting is often studied as a general con...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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mattolm.bsky.social
My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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querbylab.bsky.social
🎉🎉New preprint from graduate students Lily Martin and Ning Yeo! The piece focuses on better understanding / classifying suicide ideation content, and examines how endorsed content is distributed across key aspects of social identity.

Comments/feedback are welcome!

doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
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October 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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pf-hitchcock.bsky.social
We are hiring at Emory Psychology in Developmental!

Come join a wonderful department in a great city ☀️

apply.interfolio.com/173594
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October 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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maddyfrumkin.bsky.social
Interested in a career in digital mental health, but not set on a clinical psych degree? Check out Dartmouth's PhD programs in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences and Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/qbs/
geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/tdi/academic...
Graduate Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences
Dartmouth’s Quantitative Biomedical Sciences master’s and doctoral degrees prepare students to innovatively solve complex biomedical challenges.
geiselmed.dartmouth.edu
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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herzberg-mp.bsky.social
📣 I am excited to be recruiting PhD students to my lab in Psychology and Neuroscience at UGA! If you are applying for Fall 2026 and passionate about environmental effects on brain function, plasticity, and behavior development, consider joining me in Athens!

psychology.uga.edu/how-apply-ou...
How to Apply to Our Graduate Programs
The department offers two graduate degrees: the Ph.D.
psychology.uga.edu
October 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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stepalminteri.bsky.social
Very cool study showing that "apparent" asymmetric update in reinforcement learning can emerge from Bayes optimal principles by Prakhar Godara in @pnas.org

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Apparent learning biases emerge from optimal inference: Insights from master equation analysis | PNAS
Recent studies [S. Palminteri, G. Lefebvre, E. J. Kilford, S. J. Blakemore, PLoS Comput. Biol. 13, e1005684 (2017); G. Lefebvre, M. Lebreton, F. Me...
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October 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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eriknook.bsky.social
Apply apply apply!!
raziasahi.bsky.social Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · Oct 8
Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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meganakpeters.bsky.social
📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…

🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉

The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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improvingpsych.org
SIPS community members worked through the years to develop many resources that help to improve psychological sciences. We gathered them all, so you can find everything you need in one place.

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SIPS Products
If you have a project that started or developed at SIPS, or have updates on listed products, we would love to hear about it! Please email sips@improvingpsych.org to have it added to this list or up…
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October 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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anitadevineni.bsky.social
My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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ondrejzika.bsky.social
🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇

If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at ondrej.zika@pm.me :)

Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.
ondrejzika.bsky.social Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Sep 24
🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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sarahevictor.bsky.social
I am barely on this app, because of *gestures wildly* life, the universe, and everything, but I should announce that I plan to review apps for clinical psychology PhD admissions this cycle! Please read my website for more info! www.sarahevictor.com/contact
Contact & Apply | Sarah Victor, PhD | United States
Information on how to reach TRTL and how to join the lab.
www.sarahevictor.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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dpmoriarity.bsky.social
Daniel is a great guy, innovative thinker, and organically earned the nickname "stats Santa" by consistently posting resources approximately 48 hours before I need them.

Definitely recommend applying!
danielcoppersmith.bsky.social Daniel Coppersmith @danielcoppersmith.bsky.social · Sep 26
I’m starting a suicide prevention research lab at UMass Amherst! I’ll be reviewing applications for our clinical psychology PhD program. Come to our virtual open house to learn more about the program and speak with faculty accepting students.
www.umass.edu/psychologica...
September 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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youngkihong.bsky.social
I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science.

Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/...
Lab info: www.svmlab.org
Colorado Social Vision & Mind Lab
The Social Vision & Mind Lab (Director: Youngki Hong, Ph.D.) at the University of Colorado Boulder explores how people perceive and make sense of the physica...
www.svmlab.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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klhumphreys.bsky.social
Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV).

📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025

👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418

Please share!
September 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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tobywise.bsky.social
Interested in building computational models of anxiety? See below for a potential PhD opportunity with me

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more!

@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

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Understanding Negative Cognition in Anxiety Using Artificial Neural Networks - MRC DTP
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most common mental health problems, but the mechanisms underpinning its symptoms remain poorly understood, limiting the development of novel interventi...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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akmontoya.bsky.social
We're looking for examples of #RegisteredReports with a publicly available Stage 1 manuscript and #OpenData that use one of the following statistical tests! If you know of one, please link it below! (See next post for list of tests)
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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kobedesender.bsky.social
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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annaweinberg.bsky.social
Delighted to share that we are currently hiring for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Come join a great department! Link to apply: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill....
McGill University in early Autumn
September 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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tiffanyito.bsky.social
University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

1/n
Assistant Professor
jobs.colorado.edu
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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improvingpsych.org
🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳

Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission.

Learn more from our blog post👇
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September 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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vjrp.bsky.social
@qmmmmliu.bsky.social and I just gave a presentation for the UChicago internship program on writing faculty job statements.

We talked through what makes them compelling (and what to avoid).

Slides are here if interested 👉 osf.io/3skx4/?view_...

Thanks to Dr. Shona Vas inviting us!!
Faculty Jobs
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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September 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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markschen.bsky.social
My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...
Mark Chen | Department of Psychology
psychology.fas.harvard.edu
September 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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improvingpsych.org
PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky
About PsyArXiv – PsyArXiv Blog
What is PsyArXiv? PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is an open preprint archive designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the…
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September 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM