I just gifted two separate people "Work in Progress" (thanks @dingdingpeng.the100.ci) and now I know my new thing is reading pre-2022/2023 articles about topics everyone is panicking and saying not much new today worksinprogress.co/issue/the-sp... worksinprogress.co/issue/real-p...

My aerobic fitness instructor literally said to me "there are some things you do really well" (some jumps everyone else had abandoned) and it brought back the glowing pride of when the teacher read my essay in front of class in 1999/2000. (She probably meant it like "even you do something well" 😂)

Aaron Beck said this. About cognitive therapy. 55 years ago 😬

One of my concerns with AI-assisted research in biology is that we're already looking only in the lamplight and AI incentivizes us to narrow the beam. Seems like it's happening... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New PubPeer comments: @ioanaacristea.bsky.social on the post-hoc study registry = violation of the Helsinki declaration) @ianhussey.mmmdata.io with a full table of effect sizes (many impossibly large, d > 7) me just about the large SMD of the main result and what this means (shit vs. chocolate)

How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social

Which year is this? How old am I? Live Updates: U.S. Captures Venezuelan Leader, Trump Says www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Don’t tell that to the humble brags who simultaneously communicated they are 1. Speakers of multiple languages; 2. Protected from dementia (haha); 3. Epidemiologically and methodologically illiterate

Colleagues describing my ERC project

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

Our paper on ‘super-retractors’ featured in the @retractionwatch.com digest.

I posted a video discussing some of my (critical) ideas regarding data detectives, sleuths, forensic this and that. I hope they contribute to a more nuanced conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LmW...

I always love this BMJ Xmas paper more than the parachute paper.

Very interesting question. Sadly, in psychology and mental health research we cannot entertain such thought experiments much, because we rarely meet the ‘used good data bar’.

I moved from posting to Bluesky to LinkedIn a while ago even if I hate the latter with all my heart, because, despite the hype about Bluesky, it seemed most conversation in the fields that interested me was there. But now it seems Bluesky is cool again.

I use CRediT even when the journal doesn’t specifically ask for it and even when the journal has their own check-box questionnaire in the submission system because I am *that* cool (no, it’s because it’s important)

There is so little to choose from (sorry nostalgics, I had a small baby) but it would have to be the limited number of cars on the street.

🚨 Our team has just published a Registered Report in BMC Medicine, one of the very few medical journals that offers this format (if we want better science, we should not follow journal impact factors, we should support journals with the best policies).

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

There simply is no need about AI-based diagnosis of any mental disorder. Criticism of these nonsense papers should not obviate a more fundamental discussions. We do not need engineers and AI to profile mental disorders, no matter how they do it and write it up.

Perfect

New preprint retracted randomized trials attributed to super-retractors and top-cited scientists with multiple retractions: secondary analysis of the VITALITY retrospective cohort www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by PhD students, C Lyu & M Matbouriahi, w/ @floriannaudet.bsky.social, J Ioannidis

Your Sunday morning (in my case Saturday afternoon) heart-break www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Thanks to BMJ's Open peer-review fascinating to read that there was a considerable effort of peer-review invested into this trial before publication

@bmj.com Please look at PubPeer comments on an article you published last week. pubpeer.com/publications... I think your research integrity dept shld act swiftly on this one, given clinical significance. I'm aware of even more evidence of problems so let me know if this is not sufficient.

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

Trying to find out what happened to an article. In theory, it's retracted. In practice, neither the article, nor the retraction notice are anywhere to be found. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28991839/ Doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000001772 (leads nowhere). There is a copy of the accepted manuscript online.

I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back. DHS did not respond to a request for comment. Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... Photos: Carol Guzy

New writing, a short piece this time emilytammam.substack.com/p/this-daugh...

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Must, must-read. Just drop everything, take an hour and read this, as I have. I wish these two parents would know that strangers like me who read their writings about their Martha will think long and hard about what happened, not forget and not be the same.

The ‘pro’ reasons to share the paper with the authors of the p-curve before sharing are an uphill journey in cringe. Really terrible. Had Amy Cuddy written these back in the day, white knight saving science twitter would have crucified her.

Some researchers don't discuss their future research plans for fear of being scooped. Not me. I drop bad ideas for unscrupulous people to 'steal'. - What are the neural correlates of Open Science practices? - What is the role of habits in learning a new skill through repetitive practice?

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police. This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this. “Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

Cool, cool, so acetaminophen is no longer ok in pregnancy, well we'll just use the *other* drugs on the safe list for pain (haha), fever...ah wait. Now that we fixed this, can we focus on how paternal age and widening age gaps contribute to risk of ASD? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26055426/

Our piece in @psyche.co, based on our perspective @thelancet.com Psychiatry www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New post for ResToRes. Real-world datasets are shaping clinical claims, but data patterns and transparency issues raise serious concerns. Our JAMA Psych letter with @ioanaacristea.bsky.social highlights several red flags in a study using the TriNetX database. restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/a...

A meta-perspective by Malcolm Macleod on the presentations at #PRC10. Are we going for low hanging fruit too much in research on peer review / publication?

Ioannidis: Do we enough evidence for your proposed actions to improve peer review? Macleod: The evidence is thin, partly because many journals are hesitant to accommodate meta-research, like RCTs. #PRC10

John Ioannidis: "We need more RCTs" I agree, so here is an urgent call to the representatives of journals at #PRC10: Let's empirically test suggested improvements to peer review like open reports, open identities, structured review, results-free review, collaborative review, etc. Get in touch!

Extreme, outlier citation concentration patterns can distort citation-based metrics, especially the #Hindex. While not implying misconduct they can serve as orange/red flags for further analysis. @iakevdaimon.bsky.social @polytechniqueparis.bsky.social @uni.lu Preprint at arxiv.org/pdf/2406.1...

We didn't randomize, and there was no allocation concealment or blinding, and we can't really be sure what intervention they got or how the outcomes were measured, but we emulated a trial by drawing a DAG.

As a reminder, our comment published here (sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) showed that (i) randomization never occurred; (ii) irregularities in baseline scores, which for the same students vary systematically in ways that are unique to either the treatment or control group; ...

‘Why, to avoid naming Boccaccio, did Chaucer invent a fictional Latin poet as his source for 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘴? It seems that Boccaccio already had a reputation problem.’ Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s dirty book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Effects of ketamine and esketamine on death, suicidal behaviour, and suicidal ideation in psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.25333796v1