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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter

@michaelle.bsky.social

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Clinical Psych PhD Student, University of Michigan | EMA • Personality Pathology • Suicide | NSF GRFP Fellow, Columbia University Alum

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · Nov 14

#HiSciSky! Reintroducing myself as we move to 🦋

I’m Michaelle (she/they), a 1st year clinical psych PhD student at U of Michigan studying interpersonal dynamics/personality pathology/suicide in daily life

Proudly queer 🌈 biracial ✊🏽 & first-gen ✨! Excited for more collabs & less hate speech on 🦋

Michaelle standing beside University of Michigan’s Rackham School of Graduate Studies plaque

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 6d

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️

📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 6d

New lab pic - welcome to the lab Matt!

@aidangcw.bsky.social
@grantaking.bsky.social
@siennarose.bsky.social
@jananmost.bsky.social

PPOL lab on steps outside in front of doors with “Department of Psychology” written on the glass.
Top row from left to right: Chris, Grant, Aidan
Bottom row from left to right: Janan, Michaelle, Matt, Sienna

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 8d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 12d

Had my first client as a clinical psych PhD student! It was a wonderful experience and such an honor.

Honestly this milestone is super underrated.

two women in a hot tub with the words totally underrated behind them

ALT: two women in a hot tub with the words totally underrated behind them

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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 14d

Hi bluesky friends! I plan to submit a symposium with @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social for APS 2026 on contextual psychopathology research from ECRs (students welcome!) Content area and methods are wide open. If you are interested or know someone who may be, message me and we'll chat further. 1/2

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 15d

Honored to present my finished master’s thesis in a symposium at #SRP2025 this weekend with Jessica Hamilton, Jasmine Mote, Renata Botello, and Dan Fulford!

@sydadams.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social
@jmote.bsky.social

Me presenting at a lectern in the Crystal room at the Biltmore hotel

Presenters at the interpersonal SRP symposium

Me and Aidan in the Crystal conference room at the Biltmore in front of a projector

Me and my friends at the Biltmore hotel in front of glass doors

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 21d

Don't miss the EmoTe Lab/Prechter Program presentations at #SRP2025 this year!

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · 19d

Hey #SRP2025! Curious about how context shapes impulsive action and inaction in daily life? Come chat with me about our findings!

🗓️ Tonight (Thurs), 7-9pm
📍 Poster T72, The Topography of Momentary Impulsivity: Context Matters

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · 18d

Had a great time presenting my poster exploring people's thoughts & feelings about death w/ #BERTopic this evening at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat– it was wonderful learning more about others' work and nerding out! 💀🪦
#SRP2025

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 19d

At #SRP2025?

I'm presenting some findings on antagonism from meta-analyses, large scale text mining, and large language modeling tomorrow at 2:30!

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 17d

🚨NSF GRFP solicitation is out - second year graduate students and clinical psych students are no longer eligible🚨

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 19d

Headed to present at Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) if anyone wants to connect during the conference!

a man wearing a yellow duck hat says connect with eachother

Alt: a man wearing a yellow duck hat says connect with eachother

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 28d

Rutgers Discovering Psychology Day!

Provides webinars and panels aimed at preparing prospective students for psych PhD applications.

Apply by October 3rd!

sites.rutgers.edu/rdpd

Discovering Psychology Day

sites.rutgers.edu

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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 25

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?

Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities

Abstract
Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models).

Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve.

A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals).

Illustrated are
1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals
2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and
3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · Sep 10

NSF GRFP deadline published! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

End of October! Solicitation seemingly on the way

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just defended my master’s thesis!

Me smiling and standing beside a projector screen displaying the title slide of my thesis: “Dynamic Associations Between Interpersonal Complementarity and Suicidal Ideation in Adults with Borderline Personality Disorder”

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Sep 5

UPDATE: due to unforeseen circumstances I will NOT be reviewing students this cycle.

Apologies to anyone who was interested.

This is NOT a program issue, other Michigan clin psych faculty still on!

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Aug 12

I will be reviewing applications for the University of Michigan Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. If you are interested in applying, here’s some info I prepared for applicants: sites.lsa.umich.edu/aidangcw-lab...

2026 Applicants – Personality Processes and Outcomes Laboratory

sites.lsa.umich.edu

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · Sep 3

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).

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Katie Hoemann @katiehoemann.bsky.social · Aug 31

Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

Join – EMIC

www.emotionsincontextlab.com

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · Aug 29

Orange cat behavior

Orange cat climbing a screen door from the inside, reaching the top and looking at the camera

Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · Aug 28

New school year, new lab pic!

@aidangcw.bsky.social
@siennarose.bsky.social
@jananmost.bsky.social
@grantaking.bsky.social

Members of the PPOLab standing and smiling for a photo in front of a grand staircase in the psychology building. From left to right: Grant, Chris, Janan, Sienna, Michaelle, Aidan

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Aug 21

How I wish I wrote abstracts vs how I write abstracts…

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · Aug 26

Alarmingly, Black student enrollment is decreasing in the University of Michigan's psychology doctoral program. In my year (last year), there were 5 of us. This year, there is 1 student, representing 2% of the entire cohort.

Op Ed from Dr. Kevin Cokley.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/blac...

Making Psychology White Again: The Impact of Dismantling DEI

The dismantling of DEI will likely lead to a decrease in Black psychologists. For psychology to be a tool for equity and justice, we cannot make psychology (only) White again.

www.psychologytoday.com

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