Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

Mental health care is scarce everywhere — but in poor countries, it barely exists. Depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems are common everywhere. They are not confined to any particular income level.

I am often bored by typical psychotherapy research, but this was quite an interesting read and imo generally a good way of conducting psychotherapy research (investigating the specific active components). See also: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The impact of growing up together in the same household on adult personality similarity is smaller than the impact of shared genes", something like that -- which I think would at least still be controversial among the general public.

parents are far less able to shape their children than they think

UKgov publishes new screen time guidance for under 5s 👨‍🍼 <2s: Avoid screens except shared activities 👶 2-5s: Try for less than 1hr a day 📱 Choose safe, slow-paced content 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Lead by example 🛌 Have screen-free areas/times Glad to have contributed. Parent guidance and research report linked below.

Am I reading this right, did they fill like a whole plane with people who suffer from phobic fear of flying ✈️

Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... "1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min." Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.

There is a massively polarised debate in relation to over/under-diagnosis in psychiatry. Over/under-diagnosis are both harmful. Also, both could occur simultaneously: loads of people might get diagnoses they should not, whilst simultaneously loads of other people might not get diagnoses who should.

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Glad to see this study is being conducted by @orbenamy.bsky.social to try and get more evidence for policy in this area www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Only thing worse in my experience is a reviewer recommending rejection for a paper they clearly did read very closely

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he lived 1629-c 1679, worked in Delft and Amsterdam. National Gallery London

Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>

In 1966, abortion was suddenly restricted for most women in Romania. In the decades that followed, maternal mortality increased, and by the 1980s, more than 80% of maternal deaths happened as a result of abortion complications.

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

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This is odd. Chapter 3 of the World Happiness Report, which appears to be weakly sourced and full of questionable claims says social media is bad for kids. But Chapter 4... is a deep dive look at 3 separate meta studies finding that the research pretty clearly finds no evidence to support that.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Nice to wake up to the news that our paper on the ESDist R package for calculating effect size distributions has been accepted for publication 🎉 Since our initial 2023 (!?) preprint we’ve made lots of improvements to the package based on feedback

Black Mirror episode where a woman discovers her boyfriend has been betting against their relationship lasting on the prediction markets and becomes determined to spoil his bet.

🚨 New Blog Post 🚨 I wrote my very first blog post 😊 This post is for quantitative researchers working with negatively worded Likert-scale items and haven't heard that these items can cause problems. I outline key issues, describe alternatives, and recommend lit. yannicmeier.de/2026/03/03/w...

Conventional systematic reviews can become outdated before they're even published. In our new @nathumbehav.nature.com piece, we discuss how living systematic reviews can help keep evidence current by continuously integrating new evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new paper from the HiTOP Revisions Workgroup (and yours truly) on the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of the framework. Recommended reading for anyone interested in questions of classification and psychopathology! Here’s the journal article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Coming up with a post-hoc theory section when your results are weird:

Could this be a solution?

🚨 New paper out in Current Directions in Psychological Science, with @matnoc.bsky.social! We review recent advances in digital & computational methods for understanding, predicting, and preventing suicide.

Generative AI will never be able to do research like a PhD student. It will never have that level of self doubt or the urge to take up unrelated hobbies.

A really fun dataset for this week's #TidyTuesday, looking at how people interpret different probabilistic statements 📊 There's so many aspects of this to visualise, but I decided make some barcode plots comparing how people from the UK and US responded! #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

I can't stop thinking about this. Imagine: - 2200 studies, as they say >2000 - 2 studies per article given piloting/multi-study articles - No p-hacking (lol); 1 test per study (lol), 5% False Positive Rate That's 55 significant studies that are false positives Actual publications: 64

Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪 I am here this week giving lectures and learning about an educational system in a country with a social safety net. For starters, undergraduate education is free and doctoral students are treated as employees, including paid medical and parental leave.

Oh hey, it's a Very Fucked Paper. See the pubpeer thread, it's a fun one: pubpeer.com/publications...

Now published in Collabra! online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Using test data from TwinLife (N=9,980, Culture Fair Test CFT 20-R), we show that Regularised Prediction and Poststratification yields IQ scores that differ by up to 19 IQ points (mean 4.19 pts) from those reported in the CFT 20-R manual

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

Anyone who has lived in Sweden knows how incredibly important seasonal baked goods are.

🎉 I just published my second paper! Woo! In psychotherapy trials we often see that symptoms reduce between screening and start of treatment. A plausible idea about that is that patients self-refer when their fluctuating symptoms are extra bad. We checked! (we tried to check) //

Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with “More research is needed” and start concluding with “No more research on this topic is needed.”

WOTD: "escalation situation" – a cycle in which some effort fails to have the intended effect, which leads to increased efforts, which also fail to have the intended effect, which leads to even more efforts, etc. (From A Course in Behavioral Economics, p. 36) www.bloomsbury.com/us/course-in...

Illustration from Tove Jansson's book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' (1945) #Womensart

Call for Volunteers: ISRII 14th Scientific Meeting ISRII is preparing for its 14th Scientific Meeting this October in Newcastle, Australia and we’d love your help shaping the program. 👉 Interested in reviewing abstracts and/or moderating sessions? Apply by March 15, 2026. isrii.org/call-for-vol...

New newspaper headline for your Intro to Causal Inference lecture just dropped

This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/