Olympians can teach us to redefine what it means to be successful.

I've been trying to use AI to support a narrative review. Has worked well in many aspects of the work. But it's screwed up royally in three ways: 1. Failed to suspect a study with 100% response rate and 100% agreement by >6000 participants to have a blood test. Saw this as a "quality feature".

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Fact for today: Canada has climbed from 4th to 2nd in the latest international reputation rankings. The US has dropped dramatically, from 30th to 48th among the 60 top economies. Switzerland ranks first, Russia last. The rankings are often a factor in country investment decisions.

Knit one, purl two on the way to mental health healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topi... by Jane Caulfield "Handcrafts have been found to be beneficial for various populations, such as cancer survivors, incarcerated individuals, older adults, refugees & dementia patients." #Knitting 🧶

🌟 Big news! QRSE 2026 is now accepting abstract submissions! Don’t miss your chance to share your research—submissions are open until November 15th 2025. Learn more and submit here: www.qrsesoc.com/call-for-pap...

New open access paper by me and @ginnybraun.bsky.social - Exploring U.K. University Students’ Social Perceptions of Dating and Physical Disability Using Story Completion. There are extensive Supplementary Materials which we hope are useful for teaching reflexive TA: awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Calling all researchers and educators📣 This new RMR by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social on how to conduct effective case studies, offers guidance for using them for learning & decision-making. Essential reading for robust research! https://bit.ly/47PL01l

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award! Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.

Does linguistic diversity when talking about emotions track wellbeing? In a new pre-print with @eriknook.bsky.social, we link emotion vocabularies to mental health in a large real-world psychotherapy dataset. Highlight: therapist emo vocab may help clients get better over time! shorturl.at/TKPN1

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

Each of these points bears repeating. #cdnpoli #canada

No security clearance? Then no voting clearance from me. Surrounding yourself with our flags doesn't change that. "Among opposition party leaders, Poilievre is alone in refusing to apply for a security clearance." #CanadaStrong #canpoli #cdnpoli thewalrus.ca/poilievres-r...

Body mapping as a "new technique" to explain illnesses and conditions. (Not that new, but glad to see this is getting some attention as a way for patients to explain their illnesses!)

Last minute add to my course intro slides "We conclude that handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵

Two modes: 1) 40 hours of writing in 8 hours 2) 40 minutes of writing in 8 hours

Feeling down? Taking a walk could help. The more steps we take, the less likely we are to feel depressed, new research shows. www.npr.org/sections/sho... via @npr.org #exercise🚶 #MentalHealth

So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another. I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵

Looking forward to this line of work from @sarahawalker.bsky.social to clarify the language and conceptualization around interpersonal emotion regulation! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Love... "Engagement with performance-based art such as plays, musicals & ballet, and particularly participation in music, is linked to reductions in depression and in pain and improved quality of life." Consuming arts & culture is good for health, study www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Reading this fabulous paper on reporting qual research results by Braun and Clarke @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social and recommend you do too (it's also open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🍾New article out in @natrevpsych.bsky.social🍾: We review how social expectations form and change in individuals with depression and how they shape the onset, course, and severity of depression. Particular emphasis is on why social expectations persist despite pos info. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Wow! "In my opinion, this manuscript is flawless. It is well written and the methodology is sound. The authors had a rather large sample and they explained their results appropriately. This can and should be published, as is." Reviewer 2, are you ok? 😊 What a lovely comment to receive this morning!

Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New book! Excited to receive my copy of the Handbook of Emotion Regulation edited by James Gross and Brett Ford - includes so many amazing authors, I can't wait to dig in! 🤩 Honoured to have contributed a chapter on emotion regulation in sport with Jeemin Kim guilford.com/books/Handbo...

Great start to the new year! Looking forward to continuing research and projects on mental health among elite youth athletes (and their parents). Shout out to Courtney Walton for leading this paper that reviews key issues and gaps in the literature journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This looks like a great book with a fantastic lineup of contributors! I was delighted to be asked to contribute a chapter on stress, coping, and emotion regulation (with a social/interpersonal lens) with Faye Didymus - great to collaborate on this topic! canada.humankinetics.com/products/soc...

Another fantastic SCAPPS conference! Some excellent poster presentations by Megan Ifergan and Rylan Curtis, Courtney Walton, Jordan Sutcliffe, and @devinbonk.com (regretting that I didn't get a photo with Chad Danyluck!).