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Universität in D ist, wenn alle in 1 künstlichen Hyperwettbewerb immense Zeit/Energie/Ressourcen verballern, um ‚exzellent’ zu werden, während man die, die am Limit ihrer Kräfte in Lehre/Forschung/Admin universitären Regelbetrieb so gerade am Laufen halten, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste zusammenkürzt.

Please join us in person or online @lshtm-dash.bsky.social on 26th February to hear about @georgiatomova.bsky.social's recent work on 'How can different modes of survey data collection introduce bias?' www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

The Future of DSM: A Strategic Vision for Incorporating Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Environmental Determinants and Intersectionality | American Journal of Psychiatry psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Early Arthropods xkcd.com/3199/

Maybe obvious, but please don't use so-called AI tools for research if you don't know what AI or tool are. Nothing good will come of this.

Also when I and Iris wrote this it was 3 months ago, a long time in the nonsense hype world 🫨, and still it's not openly discussed this is undoing all the 2010s open science movement bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Great work. I would love to see a replication of this for European countries. Anglo-Saxon academia is famously classist.

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills

#nocutsinhessen & #nocuts nirgendwo, sondern strukturelle Lösungen für strukturelle Probleme! Kommt zum #hochschulaktionstag morgen und seid laut für bessere Arbeits-, Forschungs- und Studienbedingungen!

New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉 We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4 Main conclusion: "GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”

Recording now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8vQ...

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

Young carers' mental health: variation by gender, ethnicity, income and peer, school or social support: https://osf.io/zu2qk

I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data. 1/19 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So much for telehealth expanding access to care to rural and poor communities …

Heute haben über 400 Menschen für die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung in Frankfurt am Main demonstriert. Gemeinsam haben wir deutlich gemacht, dass die Politik endlich, wie im Koalitionsvertrag beschlossen, gesetzliche Regelungen zur Finanzierung der Weiterbildung schaffen muss.

@heikogiebler.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke, @macartan.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social & @heikekluever.bsky.social: Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you want to hear me give a hands-on introduction to multiple imputation and the R-package mice, then join this workshop! You support a good cause in addition!🇺🇦

The HiTOP Society will have its first free-standing conference this year on June 4-6. The Call for Abstracts is now open, and we hope you'll consider submitting your HiTOP-related work! www.hitop-system.org/hitop-2026-c...

I’m happy to share that the print version of Longitudinal Data Analysis Using R is now available on Amazon — designed for teaching, applied research, and self-study. 👉 www.amazon.com/Longitudinal... #rstats #HigherEd #Statistics #LongitudinalData #SocialScience #Statistics

How do we know if one thing causes another? A (very) brief history of cause and effect, from stories about witchcraft to the science of clinical trials and observation studies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlZ...

The German Research Foundation, possibly the most important funding body for academic research in Germany, is now not only allowing the use of AI to write applications, they‘ll also allow it to evaluate said applications. Only prerequisite is that one makes this transparent. It‘s a farce.

Also nochmal zum mitschreiben: Ich kann jetzt bei einem der wichtigsten Geldgeber in der deutschen Wissenschaft mit Hilfe von KI geschriebene Anträge einreichen die dann mit ebenfalls mit KI begutachtet werden. Einzige Voraussetzung ist dass es transparent gemacht wird. Was für eine Farce.

Pain and Suffering Have Distinct Effects on Distress and Wellbeing: Evidence From a Longitudinal Multi-Country Analysis: https://osf.io/7m2kg

A good one: jonathanshedler.substack.com/p/a-psychiat...

The role of science for democratic societies has never been more important. Register for our upcoming scientific meeting on 16-17 March 2026 and explore the theoretical and practical consequences of treating science as a global public good: https://bit.ly/3Y42i4F

How valuable is research if the findings are not significant? And what effect will those papers have on the reputations of the scientists who author them? #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

🚨My trainee Victoria Murphy, data architect Gabriel Mongefranco, and I are pleased to share 🌟EMA-CleanR: R code to pre-process, clean, and visualize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data! Documentation: teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/210... Code: github.com/DepressionCe...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

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The final title of this piece is: “Confronting Crisis and Reclaiming Purpose in Psychological Science” with @lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social Now in press at Nature Mental Health

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>

🚨New publication 🚨 Intersecting identities, different struggles: The effects of demographics on experiences of discrimination and mental health outcomes among college students in Texas doi.org/10.1371/jour...

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

Researchers had people do a memory task, take a 10-min break (rest, Twitter, YouTube, or TikTok), then resume. Result? Only TikTok wrecked their ability to remember planned intentions. After scrolling, accuracy dropped from ~80% to basically coin-flip levels. Twitter & YouTube? No effect.

A satisfying read! I must concede that I am fairly ignorant of the broader causal literature, and am a priori particularly suggestible to the claims herein. arxiv.org/abs/2512.23408 'Probabilistic Modelling is Sufficient for Causal Inference' - Bruno Mlodozeniec, David Krueger, Richard E. Turner

Affective inertia, the association between affect at two timepoints, was stronger overnight than it was within a given day. So if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed, you likely fell asleep on it too. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New episode alert! 🚨 @renemottus.bsky.social spoke with Elliot Berkman, @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social and @andero.bsky.social about self-regulation and affect regulation, and how each of the guests' research connects to personality psychology. Check it out!

🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me: 📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧪

"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.” www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

Mark Blokpoel & I have maintain a living open interactive textbook “Theoretical Modeling for Cognitive Science and Psychology.” Recently, Mark updated Ch 9 & 10 so they have embedded, running and editable, code again. Check it out! ✨ computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

This is a great resource!

"Results indicated that LLMs often proposed inferior treatments when patient race was explicitly or implicitly indicated, though diagnostic decisions demonstrated minimal bias."

Rounding out 2025 with a new publication in Psychological Science! @psychscience.bsky.social What psychological factor predicts having better physical health, greater happiness, being stereotyped positively, and voting conservatively?

All I want for Christmas is... published nonsignificant findings and more Registered Reports? www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Unlock the potential of school-based mental health support! ReSET Webinar Discover insights and practical tips from a new preventative school-based mental health programme 🎟️ Get your FREE ticket NOW! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unlock-the...

Wake up babe, Applied Causal Graphs workshop just got announced. I attended the previous versions of this event which were absolutely *fantastic.* It's the place to be for all causal graph connoisseurs!