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✨ Excited to share our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/osf/… ✨ In this paper, Nick Jacobson and I dive into the challenges researchers face when developing prediction models for just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI). 🧵👇 #EMA #JITAI #CrossValidation #PassiveSensing

Looking forward to chatting with everyone - I have Center for Technology and Behavioral Health up on a pedestal, along w Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, as the leading DMH groups in the US; both incomprehensibly full of awesome people doing amazing digital health work - will be an honor to share some of what we’re working on

#StandUpForScience2025 #StandUpForScience

Super exciting cluster hire at one of the country’s new leading hotspots for depression research!

Recording of my Center for Technology and Behavioral Health seminar "Synergistic Applications of Digital Mental Health and Precision Treatment Approaches" is now available: c4tbh.org/seminar/zachco…

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

#HiringFreeze across all 10 UC campuses. Devastating doesn’t begin to cover it. Make no mistake, the ripple effects will be felt far outside of academia. This is bad for healthcare, statewide revenue, upward mobility etc etc etc.

Rotstein (Natalie Rotstein) et al., protocol paper now available online: "Investigating Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound Pulsation in Anhedonic Depression - A Randomized Controlled Trial." frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

NIH funding cuts could cost the U.S. $16 Billion and 68,000 jobs. An interactive tool from Joshua Weitz and team shows the local impact across the U.S. - down to the county level. This isn’t abstract - these numbers affect real communities and real lives: scienceimpacts.org

If you have a kid / family member or know somebody that’s non verbal or has autism then you know this feeling. This was so cool to watch today.

washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/04… thank you for helping reduce stigma around suicide and mental health

CTBH in the news! The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now - NPR npr.org/sections/shots… via @GoogleNews

Has the quality of clinical trials of mental health apps improved over time? Not really, but we offer promising paths forward - mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1/e… Simon Goldberg, PhD John Torous, MD MBI Shufang Sun, Ph.D.

Update: Postdoc applications are live! Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital health - Intervention Development: apply.interfolio.com/166165 Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Health - Digital Therapeutics: apply.interfolio.com/166169 Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Health Systems:

1/3: in light of recent developments across the US academic landscape, which might have presented challenges to colleagues, we decided to extend the submission deadline for our three faculty openings focused on depression until May 14, 2025.

📢Work w/ Chris Kennedy Dr. Taylor Burke Jordan Smoller Jasmin Brooks Stephens, Ph.D. + others📢 Clinicians stratify patients for risk of suicide attempt at above chance levels in routine practice, but statistically incorporating routinely collected info during suicide risk assmt improves predictive accuracy

Applying computational models of reinforcement learning can help to improve psychotherapeutic interventions by helping to identify the therapeutic mechanisms of change and identifying for whom therapies will be most effective. Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s4427…