The first preprint of my PhD is out! Our review maps choices that researchers make throughout an ESM study from start to finish, including reporting and open science practices. We compare our findings to previous literature where possible, but also provide novel insights! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Some researchers don't discuss their future research plans for fear of being scooped. Not me. I drop bad ideas for unscrupulous people to 'steal'. - What are the neural correlates of Open Science practices? - What is the role of habits in learning a new skill through repetitive practice?

🔥OUT NOW🔥: Erwartungsgemäß hat unser Artikel zu Ritueller Gewalt im PTJ (02/2025) Reaktionen auf Social Media, via Emails, und auch in Form eines Leser:innenbriefs erzeugt: letzterer ist nun in der aktuellen Ausgabe inkl. unserer Replik abgedruckt! 📰👇🏻 www.psychotherapeutenjournal.de/2025/3/Leser...

🚨 Neue Replik auf eine weitere kritische Zuschrift zu unserem PTJ-Artikel zur #DIS 🚨 📰👇🏻: www.psychotherapeutenjournal.de/2025/3/Leser... @tkaiser.science

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-...

Nice thread summarizing a great new paper led by a brilliant scientist! 💫👇🏻

🚨New paper (preprint, accepted at @psychscience.bsky.social journal AMPPS, with @herzog.bsky.social): a tutorial on conformal prediction, a distribution-free method for quantifying the uncertainty of predictions from statistical methods. Short 🧵 below! osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky

🚨HOT OFF THE PRESS 🚨: Ein FAQ zur dissoziativen Persönlichkeitsstörung #DIS.👇🏻 www.spektrum.de/news/die-wic...

The TiCS issue featuring our paper on "A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making" is now available online 😄 Honored to have been a part of this awesome interdisciplinary mega-collab led by Christin Schulze (UNSW Sydney) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

thrilled that our guides for #OpenScience in developing countries is now published in AMPPS of @psychscience.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Please see the thread for details

How complete are preregistrations? Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications Medium answer: 🧵 Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2515...

"Preregistration" lumps three distinct practices into one: - Study registration - Protocol - Analysis plans (SAPs) To advance open science, it's critical that we distinguish them. 🌟 🌟 Now in-press paper from Evan Mayo-Wilson, @seangrant.bsky.social, David Moher, me: osf.io/preprints/me...

Analysing self-promotional language in Abstracts, this study finds that its use is associated with more citations & online attention. Promotional language predicted a larger gender gap with male (1st or last) authors receiving more citations, views, & media attention. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

25. "The body keeps the score" ist im Endeffekt eher schädlich für den Diskurs rund um Traumata

Interesting new paper investigating potential side effects of #ESM protocols👇🏻: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is unfortunate: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

Thanks Clippie!

📢 Bitte teilen! Bei uns @cfmhlab.bsky.social sind ab 15.09.25 zwei Postdoc- oder WiMi-Stellen (50%, E13 TV-L, aufstockbar bis 100%) zu besetzen. 🗓️ Bewerbung bis 07.08./15.08. Alle Infos 👉 tud.link/gs7b7p Fragen gern via Mail oder PM. @tudresden.bsky.social

Can you use off the shelf generative LLMs (eg ChatGPT, Claude) to assess personality from brief bits of unconstrained, open-ended text? If so, how well do they do? Turns out you can, and they do amazingly well. I couldn't believe how well. Here's our pre-print on it and a 🧵

1/2 Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Are you working on issues of replication and reproducibility of methodological research in psychology? Consider submitting a proposal to my call for papers, happy to chat about your ideas or answer any questions! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

New paper out in European Psychologist 📄⏰: "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Translation." In a collaborative project with spokespersons of many subfields of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) we explore ideas for connecting basic psychology and clinical psychology. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

🔥 FRISCH ERSCHIENEN 🔥 : In dem Beitrag stelle ich das psychologische Phänomen der Moralischen Verletzung vor.👇🏻 Vielen lieben Dank für die Möglichkeit, meine Forschung auf den Themenwelten bei Hogrefe zu teilen - ich bin schon gespannt auf das Feedback der Lesenden!👂🏻 www.hogrefe.com/de/thema/mor...

*Laughs in European*

On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This solves that psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Equally cheerful but obviously less hungover, Sir @andrewathan.bsky.social ! 🫡 See you also next year in Osaka, @sprofficial.bsky.social ! 🇯🇵 #SPRKrakow2025

Found a cheerful but slightly hungover @herzog.bsky.social on the plane home from #SPRKrakow2025 See you next year, @sprofficial.bsky.social

I missed @herzog.bsky.social talk but luckily it was recorded - schema therapy and DBT were equally good at reducing costs from illness from severe borderline PD. #SPRKrakow2025

Structured discussion is now happening at SPR: “Side effects of psychotherapy revisited - What we know now and what we still do not know” - excellent lineup of panelists! 🔥 #SPRKrakow2025

Happy to share that our article, led by @xinkaidu.bsky.social, on confirmatory network modeling has been published in Psychological Methods! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

If you or anyone you know wants a PhD working with self-report data from mental health in Norway, come! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

How to deal with “new” memories that arise during psychotherapy…👇🏻

In our article, Rafaele Huntjens, @herzog.bsky.social and I summarized five evidence-based pieces of advice for therapists working with patients who report “new” memories.

Replicated finding: people can be convinced by suggestion that they got lost in a shopping mall as a child. These suggestions appear real and convincing to those affected.

Arrived in Kraków (What a lovely city! 🥰) today: After not being able to attend the SPR conference for 2 years in a row for professional and private reasons, I'm back again this year. I'm very excited and can’t wait to see old friends and meet new colleagues! 🇵🇱 #SPRKrakow2025

📱 Want to know when to schedule your #EMA / #ESM beeps for the highest completion rates? ⏰ Timing matters: some moments during the day and week are more receptive than others. See: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🔥OUT NOW🔥: Erwartungsgemäß hat unser Artikel zur #DIS im PTJ (01/2025) ein paar Reaktionen auf Social Media, via Emails, und auch in Form von Leser:innenbriefen erzeugt: letztere sind nun in der aktuellen Ausgabe inklusive unserer Replik abgedruckt! 📰👇🏻 www.psychotherapeutenjournal.de/2025/2/Leser...

🚨Rituelle Gewalt - Realität oder Fiktion?🚨: @tkaiser.science, Rafaële Huntjens, Renate Volbert und ich haben im neuen PTJ das Thema organisierte Kriminalität & Rituelle Gewalt unter wissenschaftlicher Lupe näher beleuchtet.🔎 Hier ist der Volltext🗞️👇🏻: www.psychotherapeutenjournal.de/2025/2/ptj20...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Authors, editors, reviewers, and other potential users should use CONSORT 2025 when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent. Learn more in this Special Communication. https://ja.ma/3TlnKQe

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

Great overview of benefits/drawbacks of LLMs for writing & coding👏 "Writing is hard because the process of getting something onto the page helps us figure out what we think—about a topic, a problem or an idea. If we turn to AI to do the writing, we’re not going to be doing the thinking either."

****If you only test your associations in clinical samples you preclude any inferences about how a risk factor actually increases risk****

"Wisdom therapy" does not lead to better outcomes compared to group behavioral activation in this RCT:

Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.

The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility. Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some papers are really good because they make just one point, but they make it really clearly — such as “Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly www.notus.org/health-scien...