Our conference this week has been my most stressful week in academia ever (13 years). There were constant intrusions into the event space by a serial harrasser who was banned from the building. I had to watch the doors and drag him out of the space all the time.

Cool study tracking mood across the day - confirms that mood is best in the morning and worst in the evening; and also better in summer and autumn than in winter and spring. Would have loved to see analysis of subgroups (age, chronotype) and of dispersion mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

AI literally has made us unable to communicate/search for stuff, e.g. "Greek present perfect continuous": 1) Greek does not have this tense, and yet it's the top result on Google. 2) να is not a verb, "Έχω διαβάζοντας το βιβλίο για μία εβδομάδα." is nonsense.

Check out my R package for computing permutation-based split-half reliability here :)

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Note to self: read later

Inoculation against critics and competitors seems a central part of health grifters' MO. Nothing comparable occurs in the professional health sphere. Maybe that should change if the field wants to preserve the wellbeing of its clients...

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

My colleague Dr. Julia Reichenberger is looking for doctoral students for her new project on emotion-focused therapy for binge-eating disorder at the LMU in Munich. 🤩 Prerequisite is a completed or advanced psychotherapy training. Application deadline is 31.05.2025. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/0...

Have you been using a calorie counter app to track for at least 7 days? Please help 3 Master students at @univie.ac.at with their project by completing 2 short surveys one week apart. 🇬🇧 sosci.univie.ac.at/DataDonationE/ 🇩🇪 sosci.univie.ac.at/datadonation/

Increasing Sample Sizes in Psychology over Time: https://osf.io/vwub3

I think the time is coming to back up your osf.io repositories on Zenodo and on your hard drive. Just in case OSF is put on the chopping block

"Same-sex love triangles in female monkeys" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40107393/ This paper is like a monkey gossip column. "Her initial sexual partner persists in sexually soliciting the pivot female and tries to chase the female competitor away." 🐒❤️🐒❤️🐒

Thinking of making it a practice to have any paper I write about a clinical population be read by one or two members of that clinical population... would do a lot to prevent accidentally harming the most vulnerable in the community

Are 'night owls' more at risk of suicidal thoughts & behaviours? New review on social & circadian rhythm dysregulation www.nationalelfservice.net?p=214327 Nick Donnelly on a recent systematic review, which finds a small assoc btwn identifying as a night owl & experiences of suicide. 🧵 THREAD

Jungwissenschaftler:innen aufgepasst! Vom 15.09-16.09.25 findet unsere Summer School "Karrierecoaching (auch) außerhalb der Wissenschaft" im Rahmen der Fachgruppentagung Gesundheitspsychologie in Salzburg statt. Coach ist Dr. Cécile Schain.

Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements. delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...

Wir möchten noch einmal ganz herzlich zu unserem diesjährigen Fachgruppenkongress einladen (Deadline Einreichungen 23.03). Es wartet ein abwechslungsreiches Programm mit spannenden Themen auf euch: Karrierewege, Science2Policy, Sichtbarkeit der Gesundheitspsychologie uvm.

These authors have done the Lord's work in synthesising multidisciplinary meta-analyses of individual & structural determinants of behaviour. What a fantastic overview. Hats off! Focus on removing social & structural barriers rather than targeting knowledge & beliefs! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Don't miss the health psychology conference @ Salzburg on 16-19 September 2025! gesundheitspsychologie2025.de

Mealtime Physiological Responses in Individuals with Eating Disorders and Healthy Controls: http://osf.io/vba5n_v1/

...we provide an introduction to LCVAR models, introduce the new R package ClusterVAR (cran.r-project.org/.../pack.../...)

“You can’t discover what you don’t study.” @jennifergarrison.bsky.social highlights the need for more focus on women’s health at the Merkin Symposium at Caltech. Hard for anti-diversity folks to argue against addressing health issues that impact half the population…

Very interesting idea to use the basic idea of a Stroop task to stress people out. Significant stress was also an (unwanted) side effect of a set-shifting task in one of my recent studies... could be worth leaning into?!: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Save the date: Die Gesundheitspsychologie Konferenz 2025 findet von 15.09.-19.09.2025 an der PLUS in Salzburg statt.

Omega-3 supplements for the prevention of psychosis: another trial shows no benefit, so is it time to move on? https://buff.ly/4fwRB0B David Mongan reports on a recent RCT and reflects on what’s next for the field. #Psychosis #Schizophrenia #Omega3 #Prevention #UltraHighRisk #UHRpsychosis #RCT

Perceptions of sexual assault perpetrators, victims, and event depend on system justification beliefs and perpetrator atonement.: http://osf.io/vsrdy/

Time to start posting here. I'm mostly going to post about... * Own research, current and future; mostly related to approach-avoidance behavior, cognitive bias modification, RT psychometrics, & ideographic networks * Interesting research I come across, not necessarily related to my subject areas