AI conference organizers hid LLM prompts in conference text, instructing LLMs to use specific words as watermarks when generating conference abstracts. This led to the disqualification of 497 submitted papers. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Dear Author, Please be aware that WE are the a predatory publishing group and we will NOT STAND for scammers and phishers preying on you by imitating us! MDPI

Our dedicated reviewers (thank you!) have completed the review of all submissions for the #SAA2026 Conference. In case you did not yet receive an email, please check your spam folders. Thank you to everyone who submitted, reading your work was a real pleasure. We hope to see you in August!

German's president Steinmeier: "Our foreign policy does not become more convincing by failing to call a violation of international law a violation of international law.” Calling the US/Israel war on Iran violation of international law is an extremely significant statement by a German politician.

Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

@eeskevanroekel.bsky.social @charlottev.bsky.social & myself are recruiting a PhD student on momentary emotion beliefs and well-being in adolescents (includes ESM & qualitative methods). Position requires Dutch (for data collection). Happy to answer questions! 👉 Apply: tiu.nu/23638 (27 april 2026)

250 participants, 33 models: we have preliminary winners of our machine-learning competition to forecast depression onset! We're now looking into variable importance & will write up the paper. Preliminray results here (click "Development & Testing" left side). www.codabench.org/competitions...

Congrats @cassie-boness.bsky.social @emoriebeck.bsky.social @dpmoriarity.bsky.social Brian S (are you on BS?) and everybody else!

Found a really nice Dutch grant for turning our WARN-D pipeline that forecasts depression onset for young adults into an actionable system for people at risk. Grant requires a Dutch tech partner, preferably with an existing app that can be adapted to ours needs. Any interest? Please get in touch.

One of these abstracts worth printing out and hanging on your wall. Beautiful, thorough work, @srijansen.bsky.social! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

3 new studies on using psychedelics as treatments for mental disorders just came out; 2 in JAMA Psychiatry, 1 in Lancet Psychiatry. I reviewed one of these submissions. Here are the core results. 🧵

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

mlVAR #Rstats 📦 version 0.6.1 is now on CRAN! Major updates include the mlGGM function for multi-level GGM estimation on nested cross-sectional data (e.g., students nested in classrooms) and the inclusion of residuals + predicted values from the mlVAR results. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

The "Theory Paper Format" is a template for writing psychological theory papers, developed by the Taskforce Theoretical Psychology (Lorentz Workshop, 2025). Use it to structure your theoretical paper, or (for editors) consider creating journal space for theory papers doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

If you're working on health topics and are into mobile sensing -- the non-profit data4life supports early-career researchers with access to their GDPR-compliant data collection platform, mentorship, open-access coverage and travel support! www.data4life.care/en/about-us/...

We’ve created an overview of the current state of theory development in psychological science (doi.org/10.31234/osf...). We're now conducting a survey on the topic to collect your views on the current state of theory development: --> forms.gle/Ct4qq4a4raun...

Sadly, I think the CRediT taxonomy is being misused. Anyone can just make stuff up about paper contributions. Here we have an article where 5 authors were credited with "visualisation" in a paper with no figures. pubpeer.com/publications...

…reproducibility problems are widespread. Only one in three authors (35%) share code, and even when code is available, only every second main result (51%) is numerically reproducible.

Just totally normal things.

This was a fun and humbling experience. I was smug initially, before close-reading the rules and finding no contemporary data was allowed! MUCH harder to predict depression onsets with only 3+ month old data... I combined p-hacking, naive Bayes, and Kohonen maps; but doubt it’ll be good enough.

I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)

Has transparency improved in clinical psychology? New cross sectional study from us (Bianca Kotoulas, Justine Blackwell & me). Adoption of transparent research practices has increased between 2012, 2018, & 2024, but aside from coi and funding disclosures, they remain uncommon osf.io/preprints/ps...

Curious about how psychological theories are built, tested, and refined in practice? This summer, the Theory Methods Society is launching the very first edition of the summer school Theory Building in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (July 6–10, 2026). theorymethodssociety.org

International Women’s Day is a good moment to recognize the many women whose work, mentorship, and leadership shape science and academia, despite many structural barriers. I'm grateful for the colleagues, collaborators, and students I get to learn from every day.

Kurze Klarstellung: ich werde in der ZEIT leider falsch zitiert. Ich schrieb, dass Depressionen sich dadurch auszeichnen, "dass Beeinträchtigungen vorliegen". ZEIT: "dass man nicht mehr funktioniert". Wichtiger Unterschied. War keine Absicht und wird korrigiert. www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...

The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

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.