Traveling? Be aware that US Customs might demand to see what’s on your phone upon entry. Here’s some advice on how to handle the problem. GIFT ARTICLE

The WARN-D* project is finished, now you can access part of the data to forecast depression onset using solely information before the onset measurement point. Competition details on #Codabench: www.codabench.org/competitions... Deadline: 27.02.2026 * Read here: cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cp...

Back to work: "For those aged 20-45, death rates were rising even before the pandemic." "Life expectancy in England and Wales at the worst moment of the pandemic was still better than its best-ever level in #Scotland." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #PublicHealth #PublicMentalHealth

Reading “The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing” theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Join us on 14 Jan to explore the various outcome & feedback tools available & how to identify those that fit the needs of the work that you provide👉https://www.corc.uk.net/training-events/programme-of-training-events/choosing-appropriate-outcome-measures-for-an-intervention-or-service-14-january/

They should do the same for all psychology journals that contain causal claims. "This material is only for use by causal inference professionals."

Sounds good. "Anxiety is the point: Stats for psychologists" "Yes, it's hard, come on in: An introduction to stats in psych" "If you're doing it right, you'll never feel comfortable: A professional guide to statistics in psychology."

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Will you take the Januread challenge to read every day in January? Commit to building a reading habit early in 2026 and we'll email you a series of book lists, articles and other goodies to cheer you along the way. Sign up to Januread, today 👉 mailchi.mp/scottishbook...

Co-created mental health services aren't new. But there is little evidence that youth are engaged in co-creating the principles that govern their mental health data. New paper with Sebastian Rodriguez Duque and @skyebarbic.bsky.social #philsci #psycsci journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Towards an Open, Democratic and Socially Relevant Science in Latin America and the Caribbean sfdora.org/2025/12/19/b... 3 strategic pillars 👇 One of 11 principles: Critical #pedagogy: Foster training and collective reflection on #OpenScience and responsible assessment as transformative practices

A propos of some stuff, a brief thread on randomized experiments. 👇 We like randomization as it provides us with a powerful way to solve a big problem: identification. Identification should not - cannot - precede other parts of the research process: theory, conceptualization, operationalization.

Our university press team asked me a few questions in regards to the new chair on Mental Health & Data Science. I sketch a bit of a vision on the importance of transdisciplinary work, and some obstacles to overcome. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Publication proposing a 'Comprehensibility Continuum' method to demonstrate #PatientReported outcome measure comprehensibility systematically and consistently from interview data: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PatientCentered #Psychometrics #ScaleDevelopment #HRQOL

Just gave my last talk of the year! 2025 was quite packed, I gave talks about: - the age-period-cohort problem - making rigorous causal inference more mainstream - mediation analysis - marginaleffects - causal graphs (x10) If you're curious, check out my slides here: juliarohrer.com/resources/

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

On this day of Christmas I bring to you: Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net. This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols. In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-ca...

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

⚙️ New RoRI paper: AI and Reviewer Matching in Research Funding How are funders using AI to match grant applications with reviewers? Three case studies from SNSF, Fundación “la Caixa”, and NWO explore real-world approaches and trade-offs: tinyurl.com/y8a6vfdn

#Dundee & #Angus #Schools! #FREE P7–S2 Author Event! Join the Inclusive Stories Tour with author Beth O'Brien for a event focusing on diversity and reading. Beth's novel, Wolf Siren, is @carnegiemedals.bsky.social 2026 nominee! APPLY NOW: tinyurl.com/4nt9jd8h Please SHARE this! #KidlitUK #UKKidlit

After 5.5 great years at @dundee.ac.uk , I’m excited to be starting a new role as a Lord Kelvin / Adam Smith Senior Research Fellow at @glasgow.ac.uk . Very grateful to colleagues and collaborators at Dundee—looking forward to what’s next in Glasgow.

Two #YOUTHreach studies registered! #PublicMentalHealth impact of an ecological momentary intervention for self-esteem www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN61299413 Walk-in #MentalHealth centers for psychological distress www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN13725260 #PublicHealth #RCT #ISRCTN #YoungPeople

The stepped wedge design came up in the #CCRDownUnder meeting last week so it seemed a good time to revisit the pros and cons of this design 1/6 #MethodologyMonday #128

🔥 Still open until 12noon today! Dundee City Council 2026-27 Budget Consultation www.dundeecity.gov.uk/consultation... #Dundee #DunDe #BroughtyFerry #Consultation

Do open science practices differ in psychology vs public health? I moved from psychology to public health (social determinants, so still very psychology-relevant), and I'm wondering if others have noticed a difference in these fields in terms of documentation, prereg, open access publishing, etc.

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

Have not come across this one yet: Providing a registration number for a trial. But not the registry. And it is not findable via #WHO ICTRP... #RCT #ClinicalTrials

IMMERSE project now on Bluesky! @immerse-project.bsky.social It is an interdisciplinary project with the aim to advance #PersonCentered care in #MentalHealth services. What it is, what it has to do with #ExperienceSampling, and who is involved? Have a look here: immerse-project.eu #FollowFriday

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Webpage live for the 10th UK Patient Reported Outcome Measures Research Conference sheffield.ac.uk/smph/events/... An opportunity to reflect on progress, to explore the future of PROMs, and going back to where it all began in 2016: Sheffield #SCHARR 23rd June 2026 #HRQOL #PatientCentered #ISOQOL

Summarising literature from 25yrs, the paper shows that most studies investigating cost in global #NCD research emphasise tangible costs (direct & indirect expenses), while largely neglecting intangible costs: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Glad to see our recent study included and summarised 👇

We continue work on papers from our multi-arm trials in the "Education for #Wellbeing" programme. #PeerReview as a great opportunity to catch up w @jess-deighton.bsky.social and colleagues over the revisions! If you can't wait: #PrePrints osf.io/kxug7/files #DfE reports www.gov.uk/government/p...

Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology. However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers. The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS. retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...

Focus group participants (n=25) from UK #ClinicalTrials units rated for randomisation (lack of) predictability as more important than balance btw trial arms (can be adjusted for) and different randomisation practices can be explained by unit practice: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #RCT #CTU

The statistical performance indicators data from the World Bank for 2024 has been released today, and I've been working on a little interactive explainer 📊 Check it out here: nrennie.rbind.io/statistical-... #DataViz #ggplot2

We are beyond excited to announce that abstract submissions are now open for #SAA2026, which will be hosted by @univie.ac.at in early August next year. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions. More info: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/subm... @ambulatory-assessment.org

Funding to build #HealthResearch capacity in #Scotland for clinical and non–clinical researchers to continue their research following completion of a PhD: Early #PostDoc Fellowship www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-f... 🔥📆 10th March 2026 ❗️3 years of salary and consumable support #CSO #NCD #LTC

Great day at our Postgraduate Research Symposium! 21 presentations across topics diverse as breastfeeding, Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex, #MentalHealth literacy & stigma, the nursing curriculum, #PPIE in #RCTs, skin to skin care, traumatic birth and... 👏 School of #HealthSciences #DundeeUni #PGR

So, no funding to attend academic conferences, limited heating, no printers, can’t pay tutors, no phd scholarships, not enough front line staff, pushing academics to take VR or drop paid hours, cutting academic staff who bring money in?!But there’s money for this?! www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

📚Librarian of Things: The internet was designed to route around gatekeepers We can create space where students grow in confidence as they develop their own abilities as they gain new ways of understanding. But that space will require gate-keeping. librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/11/25/t...

Are peer reviewers influenced by their work being cited? Version of record at @elife.bsky.social. Thorough and useful peer review - who needs and impact factor?! Links to paper and code/data ⬇️ 📄https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/108748 💻https://github.com/agbarnett/cited_reviewers

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen. Beastie Boys Die Fantastischen Vier Eläkeläiset Michael Brecker & Pat Metheny Special Quartet The Mouse Outfit

New @metoffice.gov.uk app, I was wondering whether I was too dumb to find the toggle for km/h wind speeds, but no: Metric wind speeds have apparently been dropped from app and webpage metricviews.uk/2025/11/27/m... I would not mind Beaufort, but can settle for km/h 😅 #Measurement @ukma.org.uk

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

European Journal of #PsychologicalAssessment publishes TOP updates to 'materials, data, code publicly available' and updated word limits, "the extended word count should primarily go towards the Methods and Results section" 👏 econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10.... #Psychometrics #OpenScience

Reading the "University of Dundee Section 25 Conditions of Funding as at 26 November 2025"* by #SFC I learned a new word: timeous dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e... * available here: www.sfc.ac.uk/assurance-ac... #DundeeUni #HEI #HigherEducation #Funding

Three things I found interesting to delve into the UK #HEI crisis, case example #DundeeUni A bit more detail here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Pointers to the resources 👇 #Funding #HigherEducation #SFC

This article offers a good discussion of covariate adjustment in cluster randomised trials: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #RCT #Trials #StudyDesign

How to engage w collaborators in health state valuation, how to include their voices? link.springer.com/article/10.1... Based on 37 guidance documents and studies, the team develops a 15pt framework for developing guidance to improve practice in the field. #HealthEconomics #PatientCentered #PPIE

Preregistrations without Code do not Prevent P-Hacking: You can increase your chances for a significant finding in the absence of real effects even with correlations and t test despite having preregistered your hypothesis (e.g., simply changing arguments in the functions). doi.org/10.31222/osf...