40 year anniversary of my workplace, the Modum Bad Research Institute. Several prominent guests are present, and we are starting with a lecture by Professor Jaime Delgadillo. So important with his focus on and inclusion of sociodemographic and economic factors in personalised psychotherapy research:

Greta Thunberg and Irish comedian and activist Tadhg Hickey sum it up in 28 seconds

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN SAUDI ARABIA EXCEPTIONAL Minimum 34.5C at Medinah just 0.3C from the mid-September WORLD RECORD hottest night Scorching heat on the Red Sea coast:47C+ at Yenbo. Next 2 days might rewrite history and break historic WORLD records !

A hate-driven agenda stoked by politicians & pundits has fuelled violence, intimidation & division. But we know the truth: ❌ Free speech is NOT a cover for hate speech ❌ Inciting hatred is NOT defending freedom ❌ Migration is NOT to blame for political and economic turmoil. It’s a scapegoat.

In June 2024, 80,000 of us marched peacefully to #RestoreNatureNow with hardly a mention in the media. Were we supposed to have thrown stones and fought the police to be noticed? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

🧵 Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets. This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Rather than place sanctions on those slaughtering babies on an industrial scale, those calling out are sanctioned. We are witnessing the utterly unthinkable, and the consequences will endure far into the future. share.google/EuCluGNbBiLa...

Great thread by @ipanalysis.bsky.social on AI and qualitative analysis (and other things). I remain completely baffled about the enthusiasm for using AI to do qualitative analysis and (reflexive) TA specifically... not least because it is profoundly unethical, exploitative, eco disaster technology

#climatecrisis tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds - Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say theguardian.com/environment/...

Poland-Norway by train, part 1. First leg is Sopot-Poznañ. I have already recieved a notice that my schedule Sopot-Berlin is no longer possible. That was a bit stressful, but also freed me to take any train today. So I took the 8 train to Poznañ, instead of the 10 train, just in case. Gdañsk:

Papers & drinks, day 1:

Another very interesting panel. #SPRKrakow2025

Really looking forward to this plenary: #SPRKrakow2025

Kristoffer Whittaker PhD presents his progress on the implementation of routine outcome measuring (ROM) in the community level family counselling offices in Norway. Important work! #SPRKrakow2025

The richest Americans are causing 65% of global warming, but it’s Black neighborhoods that are losing homes, livelihoods, and lives. capitalbnews.org/richest-10-p...

Leaving this here: www.openculture.com/2024/03/the-...

“A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling ‘spiral of silence’ because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just finished this amazing book and I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for the time before postmodernism took it’s hold. Maybe we should revive getting «back to the things themselves» with Husserl or thinking more about socioeconomic conditions, with Beauvoir & Sartre.

@ginnybraun.bsky.social & I were interviewed by @nature.com for a feature on the Most-cited papers of all time. Our paper Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology is number 3! And the 9th most cited paper OF ALL TIME! Wow! Go qualitative research!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump tariffs are an opportunity for Global South countries to shift production away from exports to the imperial core and toward meeting human needs and national development objectives.

Printemps Bruyant - Les pesticides tuent  : biodiversité et santé en danger Près de 2000 personnes ont marché pour demander l’interdiction des pesticides, le samedi 5 avril à Paris. #printempsbruyant

1272 protests listed for tomorrow. THAT is BIG. 686 were counted in the US for the January 21, 2017, women's march, in which 1% of the country marched. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for advancing the degrowth agenda 😬

Another snapshot from my glamorous academic life. (I have a cold, but who has time for that?)

Our for-profit health care system is not only broken & cruel, it's extremely wasteful. While we spend billions on stock buybacks, CEO compensation & denying needed care, Medicare for All would save $650 billion & 68,000 lives a year per CBO & Yale University. Let's get it done.

BUT also holy shit do people want books about sociology and social justice, current events, history, science. they want books about Palestine, Ukraine, queerness, feminism, Black liberation, empathy, resilience, context, context, context

Had a lovely time presenting to @femquant.bsky.social about how reflexivity in quantitative researcher may improve transparency and rigour. We talked about how open science frames "bias" as a problem to be stamped out, but feminist epistemological approaches offer a different (more nuanced) take

Amazing book! I strongly recommend. Such a warm, wise and well-researched read.

🎉 IT'S HERE! 🎉 The First Episode of our Podcast, “Money Minus Shame,” is officially LIVE! In this debut episode, we dive into a powerful conversation about financial trauma and shame—and how you can start taking steps toward healing and reclaiming your financial story.

I really love this book, it is so adamant at seeing families in context, with all of their resources, connections and adaptations to their environment. The authors advice health care professionals to see people as capable, skillfully shed power and take a backseat.

before skiing trip / after skiing trip

Watching friends and loved ones evacuate their homes due to fires in #California while here in #Texas, we’re bracing for unprecedented ice and snow. If this doesn’t convince you of the climate crisis impacting our world, I don’t know what will.

At least I have something to do in between revising my manuscript. Like digging for my front steps …

Spent my day learning to write peer reviews. Came home to this arctic adventure:

This is going to be a fun Christmas read! The start was very promising, with good worldbuilding.

1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵

Vague Psychology Concepts "The vagueness of psychological concepts is often considered a bug that needs to be fixed. In contrast, we argue that it is not a bug, it is a feature." Hutmacher & Franz (2024): doi.org/10.1037/amp0... #Psychology #MetaSci #PhilSci 🧪

Her er en UiO psykologisk institutt starter pack go.bsky.app/LAhyfTh

Introduce youself with four games. Bad ass strategy and a children’s math game. Formative, indeed.

Reading up on theory for an university course. Who knew searching for a conceptual framework for a qualitative study would lead me to Bourdieu?

16m Britons (24% of the population) live in poverty. 10m live in families in full-time work. 5.2m children live in poverty (36%). Austerity, low wages, benefits, pension take toll. Destroy lives. Rebuilt society by redistributing income/wealth. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies. Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In our new #OpenAccess paper, we provide an overview of frequently used and modern network analytic techniques for psychological science & the mental health field Out today at IJMPR with this stellar team of co-authors #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Methodology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Making mistakes is a big part of being a therapist. If you allow yourself to make mistakes and apologize for them, you might learn a thing or two. Read about one of mine in Klassekampen (Norwegian): klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

Going by train and bus from Berlin to Oslo was no problem at all. A bit tired, but the interrail experience was rejuvenating. Took me about 19-20 hours, including the night train.

On my way to Berlin for a summer school in intensive longitudinal methods and dyadic analyses. Travelling from Oslo, Norway (via Sweden and Poland) by train and ferry.