Laura Bringmann 🟥

A new look at networks! With these two new papers published in World Psychiatry (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) and Advances.in (advances.in/psychology/1...) I hope we can think about including context, changes in the means, and how the network may be moderated by contextual factors.

Excited to be in lovely Trier, Germany for the Minerva-Gentner Symposium on Precision in Psychotherapy. Moderating the opening panel on Precision in Measurement with a terrific group: @aidangcw.bsky.social, @hadarfisher.bsky.social, Eva Gilboa-Schechtman & Gregor Domes.

On the way to the Minerva-Gentner Symposium, which more than makes up for the conferences we missed this year! I will present a way to test psychometric network models for robustness against unobserved confounding. www.uni-trier.de/universitaet...

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Psychology needs better theories. Sure. But how do we build such theories? And what actually makes a good theory? Together with Alexander Wendt, I have edited a collected volume, "Theory and Model Building in Psychology," which tries to answer some of these questions. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

“Theory and Model Building in Psychology” New book edited by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and Alexander Wendt, with chapters by @ufeest.bsky.social, @devezer.bsky.social, @mieronen.bsky.social, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Under the hood, we're still using big tech though. (In this case, Claude Sonnet 5). I hope that in the future, we'll be able to run models locally. But to do so, European academia really needs to get to work! 3/3

Over the last few years, we've been developing #Heymans, an AI-tutor for higher education. In-house AI that reflects our own vision on education, as opposed to that of US/China tech companies. I'm especially excited about Chat Quizzes. 1/3 #education @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social @citrug.bsky.social

Excited to share some news: experiencesampling.nl/nieuws/new-c... Looking forward to further strengthening TESC as a platform for collaboration and knowledge dissemination, alongside co-director @eeskevanroekel.bsky.social and project manager Marjolein Triepels. @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social

New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

In addition to a hiring PhD in ~October & hopefully some PhDs and postdocs ~February, if anyone would like to work with me as part of eg a Marie-Curie or something similar, please do get in touch. Topics include depression, classification, measurement, systems, time-series, & theory building.

We are looking forward to our next conference #SAA2026 in Vienna, Austria, hosted by @lauramkoenig.bsky.social @univie.ac.at. Submit your abstract by January 16: univie.eventsair.com/cmspreview/s...

The latest @ambulatory-assessment.org newsletter is out with important changes: 📖 from now on, our newsletters will be public, so everyone can read them on our website 💡 we created a new structure so that there is even more relevant info for the community

Using (multilevel) VAR models? Ever checked how well they actually fit your data? @jmbh.bsky.social & I created VARcheck, an R package for visual model checking for VAR models. Blogpost with workflow: bsiepe.github.io/blog/2026-05... 📝Paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 💻Docs: bsiepe.github.io/VARcheck/

Has anyone looked at this paper more closely? I've seen many of my bachelor students refer to it when it comes to depressive disorders. Authors find worldwide depression rates doubled from 1990 to 2020, which seems like a lot. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40313474/

After long time spent working on this with Jasmina, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, I'm proud to share the preprint showing that uni students cannot recognize their own EMA networks above chance level and they prefer the annotated time series. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Cool work by Josip, Jasmina, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social & @domimaciejewski.bsky.social in which uni students were unable to identify their own estimated EMA networks above chance level. Looking forward to seeing whether this replicates in people w mental health problems! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hoe denken jongeren over hun emoties — en wat doet dat met hun welzijn? Voor mijn NWO Vidi project zoeken we (@domimaciejewski.bsky.social & @charlottev.bsky.social) een PhD-kandidaat die dit samen met ons gaat uitzoeken! 🎓 Solliciteer voor 27 april! 👉 tiu.nu/23638 @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social

💭 Come work with me, Mark Hoogendoorn, and Dimitris Rizopoulos! We are offering a 3 year PostDoc to do research on the intersection of machine learning (ML) and statistics. 🔢 💫 You will be part of the Stress in Action consortium: stress-in-action.nl/science-of-s... Vacancy: lnkd.in/ewN5T6AA

The "Theory Paper Format" is a template for writing psychological theory papers, developed by the Taskforce Theoretical Psychology (Lorentz Workshop, 2025). Use it to structure your theoretical paper, or (for editors) consider creating journal space for theory papers doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

We’ve created an overview of the current state of theory development in psychological science (doi.org/10.31234/osf...). We're now conducting a survey on the topic to collect your views on the current state of theory development: --> forms.gle/Ct4qq4a4raun...

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research. #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Perspective: Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Great perspective piece on open-ended questions in ESM data by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and colleagues that came out of this year's #MITNB meeting!

What a week! After 5 days, the #mitnb workshop has come to an end. We had a keynote on time scales and two workshops on careless responding and reliability. The central part of the workshops were the hackathons. We had super diverse hackathons, all designed to assess measurement in #ESM. (1/4)

1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

From my master’s thesis to my first PhD project — excited to share that this work (together with @jordanrvl.bsky.social, @ginettelafit.bsky.social, Anja Franziska Ernst, Josip Razum, Eva Ceulemans, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social) is now published in AMPPS! Link: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

A new publication from my PhD project on model selection for nonstationary time-series data is out, co-authored with an amazing team (Anja Franziska Ernst, @ginettelafit.bsky.social , Ward B. Eiling, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social)! Link: doi.org/10.1111/bmsp...

On the first day of December, we’re excited to announce that abstract submission for the #SAA2026 Conference in Vienna is now open! Instead of sending a letter to the North Pole, send us your abstract! We look forward to your contributions 🔗 univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/ @ambulatory-assessment.org

Any recent (or old too is fine) literature or review on most common stated reason for presenting to therapy or psychiatric treatment? I don't just mean the diagnoses people get, I mean the presenting complaint. Anything?

Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳

1st day of #MITNB meeting at @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social. Excited for the week ahead, where we'll tackle measurement issues in #ESM, e.g. modeling processes across timescales, building a formal theory on measurement, and evaluating statistical assumptions in #ESM data. Go teamwork <3

🚨 New preprint: We compared 13 methods for detecting momentary careless responding in the WARN-D data (206k+ obs.). Tutorials guide you through each method. The takeaway? Diverging results, inherent subjectivity (to varying degrees), and a clear need for further validation. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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...

New blog post! Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis? (I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler) www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

I'm starting to explore {simDAG}, a nifty #rstats package that has a nice API for specifying DAGs and then simulating data from them: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/

We're searching for a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology here at the University of Arizona! Come to Tucson-- great place to live and work! 🌄🌵🏀 @uarizona.bsky.social arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Experts with theoretical traditions, researchers experienced in approaches to theory construction, educators and policymakers work on the first steps toward creating a mature subfield of theoretical psychology. bit.ly/4nLOWoE @annemscheel.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @jmbh.bsky.social