Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀 1/

Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it. This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...

I built a DAG diagram with garden hoses for teaching. Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).

In Madrid we face extraordinary cuts and losses in budget, my uni may be unable to pay workers in mid-term. This is caused by govt pushing privatization. Despite all of that we still fight for public, high-quality and autonomous education, making good research: www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

"Progress in theorising means treating our theories as works in progress in need of continuous improvement, and this sometimes also means having to kill one’s darlings." Martijn van Zomeren and @ayseuskul.bsky.social introduce the ERSP special issue on theorizing in social psychology. #SocialPsyc

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

2 years ago today

Colleague added an open-access full-text + paper database in the same file, easy access to the full information: Link here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

We got published! We synthesized 21 systematic reviews of RCTs testing of interventions can impact character strengths and well-being. Almost 62k abstracts screened and immense work! doi.org/10.1111/aphw...

A wide-ranging Nature News article on developments in peer review. Like we mentioned in our billion-dollar donation article (link.springer.com/article/10.1...), I think peer review should be opened up via more post-publication (preprinting) review and smaller checks, www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tech fascism, like the tech libertarianism that birthed it, specializes in hijacking left-wing ideals, repackaging them as right-wing ideology, and selling the resulting sludge as “moderate/centrist/common sense.” The roots of this go very deep. Keep an eye out!

🌲🧯Forest fires are increasing. Does climate change play a role? The short answer? Yes, it does. The hotter, drier conditions create the vicious "climate-fire feedback loop," leading to more devastating and frequent fires. Get the long answer👉 go.wri.org/climate-fire-loop-bs

DON'T PANIIKK 😱

A veces desde la psicología no podemos evitar mirar con cierta ternura a los economistas tradicionales, los del Homo economicus, la racionalidad y la maximización del beneficio. Nosotros sabemos que el ser humano a veces toma decisiones irracionales, o es solidario, o cortoplacista...

Nice to see some commentary on the recent @theguardian.com piece by @iansample.bsky.social on #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ACADEMICsky www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Hanson believes the problem is not open access & APCs per se, but for-profit publishers that seek to publish as many papers as possible... the strain on academic publishing could be substantially alleviated if funding agencies stipulated... work they support must be published in non-profit journals.

Nos publican! Un artículo divulgativo sobre la crisis de replicación y la revolución de credibilidad, buen material para iniciarse! doi.org/10.5944/ap.2... Taking on dissemination of the #credibilityrevolution we created this educational paper for Spanish-speaking audiences

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

Israel bombed an Evin, an Iranian prison that housed dissidents and political prisoners. They ended up destroying the trans wing and murdering over 100 trans people incarcerated there, many for simply being queer in Iran. This is unspeakable evil. archive.ph/PA2n5

Nice, ultimately hopeful, article on the flawed field of behavioural science, with some pretty big clues about why the field has such problems: “A whole strata of academics became akin to rock stars thanks to their ability to explain why humans behaved the way they did”

Glad to announce I hung out with @dtcooper.bsky.social to talk about our little BDSM study (59:49)! Thanks for having me podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

My my, another paper! 😍🤓📜 What happens to body and mind when you breathe in suffering and breathe out compassion? We throw some EEG evidence on Tonglen meditation for healthcare workers. Full text: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper straight out of the oven! We created a scale to measure a pretty interesting contruct: Exaggerating value of social media for communication. That way the field could advance in explaining instead of describing problematic behaviors. doi.org/10.1186/s403...

The quality of evidence in psychology publications has improved substantially over the last two decades, across all subareas. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Academia (the social platform) is so opposite of my like

Weaponizing the “reproducibility crisis” to dismantle academic research is way too easy. This will be used as a blueprint for future wanna-be dictators.

Glad to see our work outside journal-verse 😊😊

Some time ago experts told me theories of consciousness were there but lacked contrast between them. Now we have it. This is simply amazing, what a time to contemplate scientific models of consciousness 💫

(y menos contando con algo tan genial como Stremio) bsky.app/profile/redf...

Titanic& super important work from @drmichaellevin Lab "What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life I’m on the dynamic and relational process side close to self-sustaining dynamic patterns 😎👇🏼 arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849 osf.io/preprints/ps...

In my talks about replication crisis (not reproducibility) I always used as attention-catcher that we cannot afford this roughly 50% replicability in human sciences since someone like Trump could use this to discredit everything and push their agenda. I hate that this prediction came true.

El nuevo video de @tamayostuff.bsky.social ha causado bastante impacto. Ni que decir que los predatory journals son un cáncer. Surge un dilema: hay evidencia de que la población no distingue la credibilidad de artículos revisados o no journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Good way to get to know questionable journals

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

This Thursday I will give a talk on (causal) mediation analysis -- happy to have finally worked out what I want to tell people. And happy to pilot a new mode of slide sharing: just putting them on my website (juliarohrer.com/resources/)

Paper time! 📜🤓 In 2020 we measured optimism and illness perceptions of COVID-19. Pop culture advocates for optmistic individuals as naive or careless. We found that this does not seem true in the data (N=7254), while also some differences across 10 countries: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

This is known as a “Holy Ghost”

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

¿Cuánto tardarán en importar este discurso? En Madrid en cuanto a estrangulación presupuestaria ya están en ello.

La mayoría de ex políticos vinculados a la sanidad privada están vinculados al PP y proceden de la sanidad autonómica y del gobierno central; también hay algunos exdiputados y casos de ida y vuelta al sector