Q. Liu, Ph.D.

Omg congrats!!!

Big paper release! ConversationAlign - methods for computing lexical and affective alignment between interlocutors in dyadic conversation transcripts. Open Access in Behavior Research Methods. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

Screenshot of job ad for postdoc. Follow link for details.

T32 Postdoc position in developmental psychopathology at UMN Institute of Child Development! There are many excellent primary mentors available, as well as an even better set of secondary mentors to choose from (including me). See link for details, due April 1. drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

Just desk rejected a paper applying parallel serial mediation with a cross sectional sample of <50 participants. I guess that cues my seasonly PSA of NO MEDIATION WITH CROSS SECTIONAL DESIGN. It’s 2026. No more! Read Maxwell and Cole, 2007, for the year of fire horse pretty pretty please.

New paper w/ @qmmmmliu.bsky.social

Network analysis of LGBTQIA+ parents linking parenting, stigma, & mental health.

Supportiveness, reinforcement, & transphobia were central.

Child psychopathology & parent anxiety bridged domains.

Patterns varied by identity

doi.org/10.1037/fam0001459

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

Wasn't that happy with how performance crashed as time points grew, so I dusted off some linear algebra to optimize the calculations. Benchmark showed a ~1Mx speedup using new implementation (with 100 time points) 😅

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...

Faculty Jobs Hosted on the Open Science Framework

@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!!

Disentangling the Heterogeneity in Minority Stress: A Data Mining Approach - Archives of Sexual Behavior Minority stress theory posits that discrimination contributes to increased distress among individuals with minoritized identities, including individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual. The...

🚨 New publication in Archives of Sexual Behavior! ❤️

Co–first authored w/ Dr. Qimin Liu — we applied conditional inference trees to examine intragroup nuances in discrimination + psychological distress among U.S. sexual minority adults.

@psychillinois.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Information for prospective graduate students The Translational Lab will be reviewing applications this cycle! Prospective students can apply through Clinical Science or Cognitive and Computational Sciences in the Emory Psychology Department to ...

I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬

Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall!

Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab

Please spread the word!

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.

Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.

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A critical song that I put on repeat in my marathon of a day writing up my entire dissertation.

📣 HIRING!

The Health Equity and Action Lab (@ UIUC) is looking for a Coordinator to support an NIH-funded study on parents.

💼 Start by 9/1
📍 Champaign, IL
✍️ Apply: vjrodrig@illinois.edu (CV + cover letter)

RT to help us find someone great! 💜

#AcademicJobs #PsychologyJobs #HealthEquity

How to read data into R from the OSF without losing your mind. reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_HowOSF...

Title slide for an invited talk at APS in D.C. on 5/24 entitled "Let's be discrete: The utility of episodic and categorical perspectives".

README page from the GitHub page for a new package called 'mitools', which generates sets from categorical data and evaluates those sets for conditional probability and entropy.

Example model depicting different sets and the conditional probability of emotional distress on each set.

Looking forward to an invited talk at APS this month. I'll be discussing estimands, linear models, and set theory, debuting a new R package (w/ @nicolasleenaerts.bsky.social), and sharing some data from an ongoing emotion regulation study that identifies sufficient conditions for emotional distress.

Despite the well-polished workflow of this package, I tried to analyze the “useless data set” that comes with it using {mediation}. Treatment and mediator were (strongly) confounded, so we need to pay close attention to the sensitivity analysis!

To understand the devastation for U.S. science right now. Here is how NIH grants work: somebody comes up with a research idea, like a tree sapling NIH invests in the “direct cost” of that idea, aka buys the sapling Let’s say that sapling is $100

A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.

news.arizona.edu/news/new-pre... Out today - our protocol paper describing an ENORMOUS effort led by Ellen Driessen leveraging all available RCT data from depression trials comparing ADM/CT/BA/IPT/PDT (>60 studies, nearing 10K patients) to develop precision treatment selection decision support tools

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

Violeta Rodriguez Teams up to Examine Effects of Parental Stigma | Department of Psychology | Illinois A recent study published in JAMA Network Open investigates how stigma experienced by parents in sexual and gender minority (SGM) families relates to their children's emotional and behavioral health. T...

In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, the team of @vjrp.bsky.social & @qmmmmliu.bsky.social shows how the stigma parents in sexual and gender families encounter is associated with their children's mental health.

go.illinois.edu/vq

Check out our new (and timely) publication co first with @mingcong.bsky.social!

Congratulations! So well deserved!

New paper alert: Revised Network Loadings, by Alexsander P. Christensen, Hudson Golino, Francisco Abad, and Luis Garrido (2025). Link: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Scientist speaks out after NIH terminates grants including study of LGBTQ+ teens' mental health Dr. Brittany Charlton is speaking out after the NIH terminated all of her grants studying how discriminatory laws impact mental health among LGBTQ+ teens.

good piece on last week's devastating cuts to queer health research: "This termination has broader implications ... It sets a concerning precedent where scientific inquiry is stifled by political rhetoric, potentially erasing entire communities from research agendas" - @britshmit.bsky.social

Hello friends! New week new publication from me led by the hardworking and talented superstar Tiffany Tran. Who knew perceived parental warmth and control in adolescence could have this long lasting of an impact on adult daily life?! Check it out at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Honestly soul crushing. Hundreds of hours of work from so many dedicated people.🙃
Does anyone have any grant that is being reviewed as usual… or is our grant (related to SGM) special… trying to figure out if this is NIH wide or content specific or grant specific… many thanks.