The editor published corrections and does plan to retract. retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

The observed smallest worthwhile difference in this study "means that the current 15% antidepressant benefit over no treatment was sufficient for 1 in 3 people to accept antidepressants given the burdens, but 2 in 3 expected greater treatment benefits."

Nifty tool on comparing energy consumption.

Anyone willing to confidentially share their successful 2025 VICI application docs with me? Thanks gang.

In the UK for a few days. It’s noon and so overcast that the car thinks it’s night and just turned the display into dark mode ..

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research. #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

So, is membership in Sigma Xi worth paying dues for? I've been nominated and am curious what folks think. #academicsky

I’ve decided that the whisper network functions much more efficiently as a shouting network. Whispering protects the system and those in power. Shouting increases personal vulnerability but is the only viable path to actual change.

“the Epstein files highlight issues that women in academe have mostly discussed in whisper networks: Who is unsafe to be alone with? Which advisers are to be avoided? Whose connections may come with a price?” www.chronicle.com/article/unma...

"the paper’s main outcome variable cannot possibly be constructed as described in the paper." Retraction of 2023 paper that did not use the reported variables. The replication report is astonishing www.nature.com/articles/s41... Pre-publication peer review remains undefeated in laundering bullshit

Excellent summary of validity threats (in this case to internal validity) in a clinical trials, where some common decisions researchers make basically break the benefits of random group allocation.

From UK campaign to ban social media <16: “The idea that this can be fixed with better parenting is a convenient fiction. You can’t out-parent a business model.” But you can regulate companies, eg no ads on social media for kids. There is nothing on social media that isn’t elsewhere on the internet

In contrast, time spent on one's phone was not significantly related to mental health. Therefore, transition patterns across different technology activities may have clinical relevance beyond time spent or specific activities engaged with.

Relevant thread below, can some folks help out? I use CC by 4 as a default for my things on OSF but lack the experience with github to chime in.

We extended the deadline of our machine learning competition by a few weeks until mid March! Still time to participate. We currently have 233 participants with 111 total submissions (some of them will be test submissions etc).

Call for Submissions for the Theory Methods Conference 2026, September 30-October 2! theorymethodssociety.org/conference.h... We invite you to: 1) Submit your proposal: edu.nl/mj9x6 2) Invite your colleagues/lab/(PhD) students, and encourage them to submit 3) Share this post

This made me happier than it had any right to.

New paper from our team: Can ML identify which adolescents benefit most from school-based mindfulness? In 8,376 students (MYRIAD trial), models detected statistically significant but clinically negligible differential effects (d ≈ .07–.08). Precision prevention is hard...

"Many fall for AI-generated junk online" — youth demand social media ban for people above 40. Excellent headline by a German satire magazine.

When you feel bad for someone because they're trying a little too hard ..

Tropical diseases spreading in Europe due to global warming. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I go back to this regularly, and it's always a fun and entertaining read: XKCD's color survey where he prompted ~230k users to write down color names for randomly shown colors. Data available online. blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/c...

New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.

Neil Nelson will give the first keynote of the day, about finding lies in the work of scientists. He argues we need to be able to detect what is not true when we interact with the scientific literature. #PSE8

Happy #WomenInScience day - I've had the privilege of working with many brilliant women during my career, and am always acutely aware that they often have to work harder, be smarter, and do better to be taken equally seriously. Hopefully, we can keep doing better moving forward.

LLMs good performance on medical exams does not translate to accurate performance in real-world settings (preregistered n~1,300 study). This can't be explained by current standard benchmarks for medical knowledge & simulated patient interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations @pankhuri.bsky.social, Zahra Fazli Khalaf, Shu Jiang, Janelle Kohler! With help from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, four #psychology professors will receive funds for new projects in 2026.

New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Anyway how's your day going

Does anyone know why some fancy journals redraw your figures for you (no matter how much you object) — must be some copyright ($) thingie? Below from the proofs I just got. Looks like they placed all numbers by hand (and definitely not in the node center, see e.g. "4") 🫣

If you truly believe that social media platforms are harmful places, the idea that the government now makes a list of vulnerable people and bans them from these platforms, e.g. based on age, is not a sensible or good faith solution. Regulate the platforms instead, for everybody.

Hi folks! For a methods validation paper, we're looking for a large, cross-sectional, psychometric dataset that will show considerable heterogeneity in item responses, preferably, based on different classes/clusters/groups of people. Open access optimal, but if you have one you'd share w me ...

Breaking news: New Dutch cabinet reversing €1.5 billion in cuts to education and science www.scienceguide.nl/2026/01/kabi...

One month left for our ML competition to predict depression onset, in a massive dataset we collected over 5 years, including EMA and passive sensing data. We have nearly 200 signups already, very excited to share our data and see who can fit the best models! www.codabench.org/competitions...

Editorial by @astridchevance.bsky.social on censorship in academia. Worth your time. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Czech Republic has a quantum computer. www.it4i.cz/en/infrastru...

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

Our newly published protocol for the development of a core outcome set for adults with depression. With @pimcuijpers.bsky.social @toshi-frkw.bsky.social @astridchevance.bsky.social and many others. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

I am very proud to have published my second file-drawer report at my favourite journal Meta-Psychology together with Lisa Incerti, @tobiasrebholz.bsky.social, Christian Seida, and Frank Papenmeier. It includes four failed attempts to confirm a new hypothesis on #anchoringeffects.

“Our findings suggest industry influence in social media research is extensive, impactful, and often opaque.” @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com et al. arxiv.org/abs/2601.115...

Carney in Davos:

We had a really lovely meetup yesterday to celebrate the new shared position between the (1) Methodology & Statistics and (2) Clinical Psychology departments—thanks to everybody who joined! And because Leiden is notooooriously slow with administration, I decided to fix my own door sign :)

We have reached a situation where (1) the time/resources spent by people applying for grant X often outweighs (2) the time/resources awarded. For these grants, society loses net time/resources. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Abstract submission to SAA Vienna has been extended by a bit until January 30. I hope to see many of you there — I really enjoyed the SAA conferences (Amsterdam, Ann Arbor, Leuven) in the last 3 years. univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/

Our machine learning competition on forecasting depression is online! We'd love for as many people as possible to participate. Please share in your respective networks — thank you :). www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

Great work here by @sholtodavid.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/3113...

The actor who played Pippin is 57 years old

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

They should do the same for all psychology journals that contain causal claims. "This material is only for use by causal inference professionals."