Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This Christmas Day join us for #JoinIn on Bluesky. Just use or look for the #JoinIn hashtag. Lovely people coming together for chat and cheer - especially for those who may be alone or troubled at Christmas, or just looking for a bit of fellowship. See you there! Please share

All the takes about fake LLM citations reminded me of this very good paper, "Academic urban legends" about how "a decimal point error appears to have misled millions into believing that spinach is a good nutritional source of iron." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Methodological and Implementation Research Program at OHRI. We are looking for someone with a strong focus on Veteran health & improving health & care experiences for Canadian Veterans. For more info 👇 🔗 ohri.ca/en/join-us/c... @jpresseau.bsky.social

Join our Replicability Project: Health Behavior! We have 55 replication studies underway, our target is 65-70. We are only recruiting for secondary data replications--i.e., using existing data to test the original question. Here's a list of studies we think could be feasible. If interested...

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Today I'll be arguing that AI tools (specifically LLMs and AI agents) are NOT the future of health and social science but are more likely to be the death of health and social science. Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.

Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets. Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades. But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2 🗃️🧪

Mooie vacature bij de Tweede Kamer, en op een erg belangrijk moment. Kennis coördinator digtitale zaken https://werkenbij.tweedekamer.nl/vacatures/kenniscoordinator-digitale-zaken

WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...

21st century phrenology is still pseudoscientific bullshit.

Hoping to attend next year!

SMDM 48th Annual Meeting at University of Oslo announces Call for Abstracts, Symposia, and Short Courses. Learn more here: smdm.org/meeting/48th... #AnnualMeeting #MedicalDecisionMaking #Oslo #SMDM

Climate march 2025 with some Scouts, happy to reconnect and see not everyone has forgotten about the climate yet...

Fun post, but I strongly disagree with the premise that journals (as opposed to for-profit, closed-access journals) are the problem. This person has clearly not experienced the cancer that is CS arXiv. medium.com/@emilymenonb...

We're living in a tech dystopia. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Join us in Zurich on February 11, 2026, for the "Rethinking Theorizing in Implementation Science" Symposium. Stellar speakers - @tracyfinch.bsky.social, @romankislov.bsky.social, Sarah Birken, and Lisa Pfadenhauer - are ready for exciting exchange and debate! www.ifis.uzh.ch/en/theorizin... #ImpSci

Let’s get real. A cartoon by Dave Coverly

Yes indeed, and we have one for psychology. You can learn more and submit here, psych.peercommunityin.org, and read more about the background and rationale in our editorial. We would love to have you submit your work! osf.io/preprints/ps...

So deeply appalled by this from UC Berkeley. Esp because it’s Berkeley and should do better! Resist. Protect. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

OSF will receive a new interface and the files section on the project overview will come back. I am a bit hyped. #OSF #OpenScience 📦 #preregistration

In A Few Words essay by Alan Finkelstein, PhD: Giving Grace bit.ly/45JzaUX (FREE)

Another excellent EHPS conference, in Groningen, comes to an end. Great science, people & what a fantastic, vibrant community. Thanks to the @EHPSociety Team, organisers & the wonderful EHPS Band “Revise and Resubmit” led by the one & only Ben Schüz. #ehps2025

Concerned about a specific federal dataset being altered or removed? We at the #DataRescueProject have you covered. Submit to our Nominations Tool (bit.ly/DRP-nominati...) or check out our portal (portal.datarescueproject.org)

We hebben het de afgelopen maanden gezongen, nu is het zo ver: Eppo ciao! Wij hopen na de verkiezingen op een minister, en een coalitie, die het onderwijs op één zet, die minder vaak ‘buikpijn’ krijgt van de maatregelen die hij of zij moet uitvoeren en die reageert als wij vriendelijk wat vragen.

📢 We’re excited to announce the 13th International Shared Decision Making Conference ISDM 2026: A Wider Lens! 🌐 Website: sites.dartmouth.edu/isdm2026/ 📅 Abstracts open Sep 1, 2025 🎟 Early bird reg starts Sep 30, 2025 Join us in 2026 — on campus or online! #ISDM2026 #SharedDecisionMaking

Written by Katrina Messiha. In this blog, the author advocates for critical realism as a philosophical approach to better understand the complex nature of health issues and to guide the co-creation of public health interventions.

Proactive planning for contextual fit: the role of the implementation premortem #impsci #ImpSciComms implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

👀👀 #SDM #shareddecisionmaking

There's still time to take part in our brief survey on health psychology researchers' awareness and use of #OpenScience practices! Your feedback will contribute to the development of tailored supports and resources by @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social: psychologygalway.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Just completed Improving Your Statistical Inferences 🎓 Thanks to @lakens.bsky.social for making such a high‑quality, free course on stats, reproducibility & #OpenScience. Strongly recommend to all PhD, Master’s & undergrad students! www.coursera.org/account/acco...

"unreviewed LLM content is not compatible in spirit with Wikipedia.”

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

That’s it I’m firing R because my results weren’t significant

I'm delighted to announce our forthcoming Oxford Textbook of Shared Decision Making in Healthcare (4th Edition). Glyn Elwyn Adrian Edwards Publication date - late August 2025. Pre-order available now. Further updates to follow. 📖 global.oup.com/academic/pro... #shareddecisionmaking

On my to-watch list!

Lees het maar eens, deze afsluitende alinea in @standaard.be over kinderen in Gaza. Lees het dan nog eens.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... NOOO 😭😭😭

Would anyone know more about how to create RSS feeds for free? It might be nice to stay up to date with journals but finding the right tools has been frustrating so far... #academicsky #phdsky

Hey, this is not even a joke #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

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phdlife.warwick.ac.uk/2025/07/21/w... #academicsky #academicchatter #educationsky #academicresearch #research #highereducation

Might have one in the US next year and I'm honestly kind of nervous and diving to go, even though it's my favourite conference

Scientific organizations (or any really): please be aware that if you host international conferences in the US, you will be excluding quite a few people from this point on, for whom the risk is just not worth it.

surely there must be some good examples out there of utopian academic conference organizing. i mean ‘what would a genuinely utopian conference look like?’ not ‘conferences about utopianism’. hmu with your manifestos etc

You: pornbots keep randomly following me on Bluesky Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar

Garbage can docs also work!

That is one banger of a title, 10/10, no questions asked

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.