🌟 Out in Clinical Psychology Review after years in the making: Pleased to share the 1st meta-analytic network analysis (MAGNA) investigating core maintaining features of anxiety symptoms pooling 156 networks (N = 303,151). w/Belli, Tichelaar, @sachaepskamp.bsky.social & @cycology.bsky.social 🧵:

Wassily Kandinsky (1926)

College Professor  Pretty Sure   Student Using    AI To Refuse Advances https://theonion.com/college-professor-pretty-sure-student-using-ai-to-refuse-advances/

wait do people not have this post committed to memory like I do? bsky.app/profile/kyle...

"The megatrials were guided by biological plausibility and mechanistic intuition. The RCT was clearly an important part of improving practice, but it was part of a complex curation of expertise, rather than a cut-and-dried gold standard." There is no magic bullet. Each discovery is a process.

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

DON'T MISS this seminar next week. It will *not* be recorded! 👇

Cohen’s d is one of the most widely used ways to communicate mean differences across studies. But what, exactly, is it telling us? A perspective on detectability of effects -- just out in PARE: openpublishing.library.umass.edu/pare/article... #openaccess

Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme

German fairy tales be like

The world cup has really opened my eyes to how crazy of a car culture the US actually have. Can't imagine not biking/walking places!

"this isn't me being gay, it's science" is, unfortunately, an all-timer

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There's an interesting conversation unfolding on PubPeer. Inconsistencies were flagged in a paper by a "global keynote speaker on AI&neuroscience" and then the author casually mentions on LinkedIn that she also has pre-post-fMRI for 300 people 👀> pubpeer.com/publications...

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io

My piece in @theconversation.com - on the study of arts engagement & aging - was heavily delayed to give the authors a 'right to reply'! Their rebuttal (see pic) appears directly below my piece. I didn't know this would happen & was not given a chance to respond, so I will respond here! 1/10 🧵

Anon reviewer told us to cite more of my work:

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

1/ Another @sadcatlab.bsky.social paper 👀 Cognitive change methods and cognitive change in CBTs: are they important? What do we know? What is anything? Here we draw a link between the literature on cognitive reappraisal and cognitive restructuring in CBTs. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

You may have seen this graph in the FT, which claims to show birth rates plunging since the introduction to smartphone. Except it doesn't. Read my short piece with @debscohen.bsky.social on some of the problems with this graph of juicy cherries! unherd.com/newsroom/are...

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

Hi, me again. This sample was restricted to *only teens who had nighttime background phone data* which means everyone whose phones went unused between 10 and 6 were excluded. Also no serious discussion of teen sleep problems ignores early school start times as the core problem.

I have read this FT story by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and I believe it is "some bullshit." A lot of effort and data work, and an extremely exaggerated causal story, bolstered by Melissa Kearney saying it is "plausible" and Lyman Stone doing whatever he does. www.ft.com/content/fba3... /1

it looks like you're trying to GET AN OVERVIEW OF A MINOR EASTERN EUROPEAN CITY FROM WIKIPEDIA. would you like TO SEE THIRTEEN THOUSAND PICTURES OF THE TRAMS THERE

Many of the problems in academia emerging in my lifetime have a single root cause: the identification of research with publication which is then taken as virtually the sole measure of individual performance and contribution.

These stepped care trials using the @who.int interventions are very cool 😎 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Some evidence of decreasing depression rates among adolescents from the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 60% of teens with depression reported receiving mental health treatment (31% taking meds) www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/d...

Come on, @nytimes.com. You can print 2k words (w/o a single hyperlink to a scientific study) saying psych meds are overprescribed, hitting all the beats you'd expect in a B- student paper (Szasz, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) without one mention of psychotherapy? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...

I did not expect to have to deal with so much british politics when geting bsky

no mercy for scientific sloppers, i LOVE it

This recent - and deeply flawed - study on the effect of 'arts engagement' on 'aging' may seem like harmless 'fun'. But it's not. There are serious consequences. 1/6 🧵

The memes are true btw. Our toddler eats like 50% of the dinners we serve at home. At daycare they have to stop him after eating his fourth portion.

Doing a course on academic writing and today we workshoped how to both write reviews and replies to reviewers. Feels like this thing that we are just supposed to know but are never explicitly thought. Was very helpful to practise and receive feedback on!

New paper showing insufficient evidence for neuroimaging features to define reproducible, biologically valid, & clinically meaningful schizophrenia subtypes. The subtypes identified to date likely reflect continuous variation within the disorder rather than discrete, biologically distinct entities.

Damn AI for forcing me to question everything I now see. Because if this is real, it is extraordinary, and how is this alien being not better known?

Step 1: Run regression of [scary Y] on [trendy X] using observational data Step 2: Magically "adjust" for the 20 bajillion imperfectly-measured confounders Step 3: Wait for a credulous journalist to write it up as causal www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

From now on, I'm going to write papers where I take an arbitrary performance metric, restrict the sample to top performers on that metric, and then hunt for negative correlations with everything else in the truncated sample. I'm at a business school, so this should be extremely lucrative.

Very good description of psychiatric diagnoses from @awaisaftab.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...

Am I wrong though?

oh well oh well...

Most psychological research tells you if a treatment (or any other cause) works on average. But averages hide a lot. Some people benefit, some see no effect and some may actually be harmed. Our new primer in Psychological Methods tackles this head-on. 🧵

Results of this survey will be scientifically uninterpretable: it contains leading questions and is advertised using leading imagery. Disappointing to see such a nice opportunity wasted to study this interesting and important topic.

This genuinly made me sad...