Daniel P. Moriarity

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Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking:

Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods?

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Application Form Senior Editor Clinical/Associate Editor Social Section Collabra: Psychology Starting from 1 July 2026, Collabra: Psychology is on the look-out for a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interest...

Hi everyone! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026.
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Not just spontaneous remission: Time-dependent and independent effects in pre-intervention symptom reduction Psychological symptoms tend to change over time, even in the absence of clinical intervention. For example, self-ratings are often higher at screening…

🎉 I just published my second paper! Woo!
In psychotherapy trials we often see that symptoms reduce between screening and start of treatment. A plausible idea about that is that patients self-refer when their fluctuating symptoms are extra bad. We checked! (we tried to check) //

Attending @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026 and interested in interoception, emotion, and development? I'll give 2 presentations on March 12th on these topics!⬇️

To my health researcher colleagues: when you're looking at routinely collected data (over many years) and you're interested in the relationship b/w two kinds of events (say, diagnosis for diseases A and B), how do you best deal with time gaps (eg people moving)? Obviously these introduce time bias >

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so

Pooh meme: bored, I don't know anything about this... smug: this is beyond the scope of the paper

editing some writing atm...

Embarrassing, but also validating that embracing these practices will improve the value of the work my lab does while I am lucky enough to have one.

Very appreciative of Carmine for supporting this work, and Sara and Andrea for an amazing job during an intensive review process. @pnirs.bsky.social

A paper I led was also under review at BBI- one that had a coding error. I had forgotten to concatenate when calculating means, but since there was no error message I missed it. Thankfully this was caught in our open code/preprint by an interested reader + we added this anecdote to the review 5/6

To be clear, this review wasn't designed to point fingers at anyone- rather to see the level of engagement in a leading PNI journal + discuss opportunities and rationale for increased use of transparency practices.

Funny enough, the universe had some observational humor rolling my way 4/6

Almost half of papers were published open access (up from 2.9% in 2014), but the other transparency practices we reviewed were fairly uncommon.

3/6

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Inspired by some of @tomhardwicke.bsky.social descriptive analyses on various open science practices, we evaluated the rate of open access publication, open code, open data, shared statistical output, and pre-registered hypotheses in empirical pubs from 2024 2/6

First PPDI Lab paper of the year, led by our amazing lab manager Sara Schwind (🚨she's on the PhD market next year🚨)! we reviewed the transparency practicesat BBI. #OpenScience 1/6

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A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

This story is nuts

The journal ‘Pediatrics and Child health’ has been published an article type, for case reports, that are made up and fictional without having any clear notice 😱

retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

Have it saved to review on Friday. As much as I'm sure people will have lots of opinions I have been waiting to find a paper that comes with set expectations and guidelines to make these things a bit more concrete

Students 2 weeks ago: "so when can we use cause vs predict vs associate"

Me: "are one of you trying to get me in trouble?"

There she is

Expecting some passionate discourse around these recommendations for use/avoidance of causal terminology...

1/ Assuming reporting bears this out, I understand why people find it terrifying—but it’s also a complex worldview. I was raised in a dispensational, pre-tribulation, premillennial evangelical household. This is the same theological belief set most of the current administration subscribes to.

C.D.C.’s New Acting Director Draws Unexpected Praise From Agency Staff

Good morning.

Let’s fix this headline...

Grifter scientist who spent years undermining mainstream COVID policy now discovers MMR is 97% effective, urges public to do what CDC has recommended since 1971.

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We are getting excited for #SRS2026! Come check us out!

There is a parallel to be drawn here with my experience dating in grad school (if my wife sees this obviously you are the outlier ❤️)

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

NEW: ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.

I know I’m a good reviewer because authors always thank me for my helpful comments.

Would there be interest in a "scientific programming with agents" writeup? I'd build the same R package with different LLM agents, and see how far each gets. I'd evaluate and what a good prompting strategy is, and how we could train our future students who'll never code themselves.

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I've mostly been a PC gamer since college but I've liked doing some of the less intense, family friendly titles for my non gamer wife and easy party games for visitors!

I don't have it, but there is also a subscription to get a ton of old school games (pokemon, fire emblem, banjo kazooie)

My ten month old has a strict monopoly on the avocados in this house. Can't upset the balance