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Looks like it's Emily Carters and Rachel Sos all the way down... A fake paper is just the tip of the iceberg. Curious to know what the University of Cambridge will say about being affiliated with an author that's actually #AI. #ResearchIntegrity

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Coming out of 3 week migraine (status migrainosus, look it up) & seeing my work — w/ @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @felienne.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social — in Rolling Stone. Guess I shouldn't be as depressed anymore based on facts 😌

🆕Please share 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 Call for Abstracts: Closing date 27th March 2026 suicideresearch.info/10th-suicide...

New preprint from @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student, @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social about effects of incentives in experience sampling research. Check it out! @ambulatory-assessment.org #ProudSupervisor

🆕Please Share! Save the Date: 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 #EMCRF2026 Check back for details in due course: www.suicideresearch.info

Dear PsyArXiv users, The moderation functions on the OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, have been repaired. 🔧 We are working to moderate any submissions that have been delayed, and expect a return to normal moderation wait times (24-72hs) soon. Thank you for your patience!

Dear PsyArXiv users! The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧 Thank you for your patience!

My blog has moved! It’s now at sometimesimwrongblog.wordpress.com If you have links to posts in your syllabus, let me know if you have any trouble finding the corresponding post!

Are you an ESM item measuring the quality of social experiences looking for validation? 👀 Because if you are, I've got some bad news for you. Our new preprint is out: osf.io/preprints/ps... @gudruneisele.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social @lisapeeters.bsky.social @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social

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Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science Dates: 20-22 October Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

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...

🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳 Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission. Learn more from our blog post👇 buff.ly/OtpsKhm

Is your preprint still pending moderation? See our recent post about how to make sure getting it approved is a smooth process: bsky.app/profile/impr... (pro tip: you can make edits even while it's in the moderation queue!)

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

Just passed 25% of the backlog cleared 🎉🎉🎉 The dedication of our volunteers is impressive! Mods: Please feel free to come to office hours on Monday if you want to work in community. Mods-to-be: Hope to see you at Training #3 at 8 pm ET!

New and improved 😆 Those who were at the first training will know we needed to 🤦‍♀️ See you tomorrow, we're so thrilled to see all of the interest in supporting @psyarxivbot.bsky.social

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My conclusion from this is that preprint servers (and journals!) are entering a new phase of cat and mouse trying to contain AI slop (n.b., not mundane AI use, but nonsense generation). Peer review as a filter scarcely does better to ID this stuff. We need new & better tools to ID trustworthy works.

Thoughtful piece about the influx of suspicious #preprints (some involving AI) to PsyArXiv & other preprint servers. Wee mention of me and some of the preprint monitoring I've been doing in collaboration with PsyArXiv. Servers are not going to take this lying down. #OpenScience

Does anyone know of a direct comparison between EU countries in terms of metrics used to evaluate universities and/or academic researchers? I'm especially interested in whether one can contrast countries that use N publications with those that don't. I suspect it's not so simple though

A new study, based on an analysis of thousands of publications and their authors and editors, shows paper mills are just part of a complex, interconnected system that includes publishers, journals, and brokers. scim.ag/3H9kwwQ

Watching to see if my code will stall or keep grinding through downloading preprints with the OSF API is *almost* as tense as last night's penalties... 🙃. #OpenScience

🆕 Following requests from authors, we have increased the word limit for all regular papers in Archives of Suicide Research to 5,000 words (Introduction, Methods, Results & Discussion)

Glad to see @cos.io coming out with a statement about this after an influx of suspicious preprints hit PsyArXiv at the start of July. Many more have appeared since the first one I spotted. I Automated checks can only go so far & documenting all of them is a lot of work. #OpenScience

I've been working on follow-up to When It Is Darkest, after a hiatus. When I published When It Is Darkest, I did so without an agent. But I think that an agent would really help for book #2. If you're an agent or know an agent who might be interested in representing me, please get in touch. 🙏

Nature News has a short piece on the survey we did in conjunction with the FAIRS meeting on responding to serious research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lonni Besançon faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges in response to his research integrity sleuthing during the COVID-19 pandemic go.nature.com/4m5DN0X

New blogpost. The shitshow that results when a publisher fails to check up on their peer reviewers, with authors caught up in a nightmare process. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/trou...

New blog post 📣 by @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social's @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on six things you can do with your ESM items apart from your main, substantive analyses. Check it out here: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#M... #ESM #OpenScience #Measurement

I recently taught a course on minimizing mistakes in science. The most convincing argument to my masters students was that you never check mistakes that support the expected outcome, you only check if the outcome is unexpected. That's a hugely important bias!

As an update to the AI preprints issue with PsyArXiv, support responded and said the problematic preprints had been removed. Thanks to @cos.io & @improvingpsych.org, & @katiecorker.bsky.social, @dermotlynott.bsky.social, & @ianhussey.mmmdata.io for their helpful responses.

Just noticed actually quite a lot of preprints shared via @psyarxivbot.bsky.social in the last 24hrs that seem like they might be AI-generated. They make little to no sense and do not seem like scientific manuscripts. Also lots of repeats. Anyone from PsyArXiv on this? @improvingpsych.org @cos.io

Over recent weeks I have heard about some trials struggling with the phenomenon known as “Lasagne’s Law.” I’ve flagged this issue before, but always good to revisit it and discuss what can be done to minimise it 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #121

Anyone from PsyArXiv on here? I'm curious if the moderation or other checks include checking to see if a preprint is AI-generated. @cos.io @improvingpsych.org #Preprints #OpenScience

Please share! New partnership with RSABI. Fully funded PhD scholarship (UK students only): Towards an enhanced understanding of suicide risk among those from agricultural backgrounds. Supervised by me and @katierobb.bsky.social Closing date: 21st July 2025 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Have you used the @esmrepository.bsky.social in your research, e.g., to find items, contribute items, conduct measurement research, etc? We need your help! Please share. #ExperienceSamplingMethod #OpenScience @ambulatory-assessment.org

📢 New paper alert! Invited review led by Francis Tuerlinckx for BJMSP on the latest developments in #EMA / #ESM research 📱🔍 doi-org.kuleuven.e-bronnen.be/10.1111/bmsp... A (very) short 🧵 below: @saa2025leuven.bsky.social

This looks like a really helpful resource. In our lab reading group this week, we read @abalkina.bsky.social & @deevybee.bsky.social's paper on paper mills (www.proquest.com/openview/055...). Qs came up about what to do if you spot something questionable, so this is a nice follow-up. #OpenScience

Important read for suicide researchers (& everyone doing prediction modeling) on why sample size matters for machine learning-based prediction models. I see lots of articles using ML for suicide/suicide risk prediction with very small sample sizes & few cases. Let's move towards better practices!

And even better, have an ORCID profile that’s open not private, and populated with your institution history, variants of your name you’ve been published under, and some publications to help with this kind of disambiguation.

Super happy of being invited to give a talk at the Leuven Statistics Day at the same time that #SAA2025 was happening. I presented some recent theoretical results on the consequences of measurement error on bias and statistical power in multilevel models osf.io/preprints/os...

I’m also super proud of @lisapeeters.bsky.social for presenting the first results of a massive registered report systematic review mapping the whole process of ESM research from design, preprocessing, and data analysis rr.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

Sad that you missed out on #SAA2025 or unsure if you will be able to travel to Vienna for #SAA2026? We will offer an online participation option that will allow you to present live (in oral sessions) and interact with on-site participants in the sessions.

Abstract submissions for #SAA2026 will open on 1 December. Bookmark our website now to stay up to date on announcements and deadlines: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/ #SAA2025

Save the date: #SAA2026 will take place on 3-5 August 226 in Vienna 🇦🇹. We will be hosted by @lauramkoenig.bsky.social @alearuf.bsky.social @univie.ac.at