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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 8h

Nothing like sending yourself an empty email to remind you of ... something ... ?

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 18h

pouring one out for mturk today

“Amazon Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026.”

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 30/09/2026

Our "A Few Goodmen" paper now has some serious competition, coming from the many Katherines of the world. arxiv.org/pdf/2404.00732

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"[AI company CEO] defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the government. Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants."

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey friends, trying to find a reviewer who could provide a review on an empirical EMA paper focused on emotion regulation. I've had 31 declines so getting a little desperate and feel really bad for the authors. Let me know here or per email (firstnamesecondname@gmail.com)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"It is time to stop applauding endurance as a solution. True institutional strength comes not from the capacity of individuals to survive, but from systems that are designed to support, rather than exploit, their communities."

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It’s time to stop celebrating resilience

When universities ask their staff to do more with less, is it really a test of individual fortitude? Rachelle McKay explains why we should stop praising endurance

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Very interesting work, & nice to see how stable effects are from week 6 to week 14 (if I understood '2 months follow-up' correctly). Wonder what implications this has for what we think neuroticism is and how we measure it. Also wondering about temporal measurement invariance / response shift bias.

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Adela Isvoranu @adelaisvoranu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been noticing that “cross-sectional” has become shorthand for “methodologically weak” in (network) research, and often data being cross-sectional is treated as a methodological objection in itself. I took some time to put my thoughts down in writing. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵⬇️

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OSF

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

article header for, "Qualitative Researchers Can and Do Generalize: Generalizability Claims in Qualitative Psychological Research". Metascience!

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026

Sol passed all attention checks with ease, and produced more than 40 trials of believable discrimination and confidence behavior.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.

Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.

Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.

Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper from me, out soon in Behavior Research Methods: I'm a lil bit obsessed with good online recruitment and the result is this side-quest paper that made use of data we had collected that recruited people online in three ways (met them on Zoom, validated their email, and Prolific). 🧵>>

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it

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Jan Vanhove @janhove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0...

Table of contents:

Refresher: What is cluster analysis?
What are the clusters for?
What clusters, exactly?
Does the pipeline work?
What does the solution look like?
When running follow-up analyses, how is the uncertainty in the cluster assignments taken into account?
Was it worth it?
Conclusion
References

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just saw that this beautiful blog post is offline, domain no longer exists. Here is an internet archive version for future Eiko wanting to link to this again: web.archive.org/web/20240414...

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Alien in a can

An intergalactic journey to discover the gap between psychological theory and data.I celebrated my eighth birthday while visiting my aunt and uncle in Minneapolis one summer, and received the most int...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

‘OpenAI has disclosed six more examples of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour by its technology, as it warned the pace of development could not continue at “maximum speed for much longer”.’ So like .. stop?

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm back working after ~3 months off to care for my son. And it looks like its going to be an interesting time for social media regulation in the EU! I wrote something about my thoughts on the leaked proposal regulations for social media in the EU. www.linkedin.com/posts/dougap...

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A social media ban in the EU? Reflections on the leaked proposals | Douglas A. Parry

A social media ban in the EU? Stronger protections are needed, but banning young people is not the answer. Ahead of the expected announcement, some reflections on the leaked proposals, the promise o...

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My newest Presidential Column for @psychscience.bsky.social addresses the issue of psychologists' dominant use of convenience samples for their research. Can our science stop being WEIRD if we don't consider how we sample? www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Is It Too Convenient to Stay WEIRD?

APS President Pamela Davis-Kean outlines her plenary topics for the 2027 APS Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026

When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What a photo. (Police officers arrest a protester during a 'No Kings' rally, 03/26 LA; Étienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images)

You see police officers arresting a woman dressed as Statue of Liberty

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was this years old when I learned it gerrymandering should have a hard, not soft j. Reminds me of

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oooooookay ... acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1542...

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🔔 Call for Papers 🔔 I’m guest editing a Special Issue of Cognitive & Behavioral Practice Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches in Context www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue…

As sociopolitical crises of the past
decade have made increasingly salient,
cognitive-behavioral frameworks that
are well-suited to treating pathology
located within the individual are not
always well-suited to support work
with clients whose distress is
proportionate to the real
environmental challenges they
experience. This Special Issue of
Cognitive & Behavioral Practice focuses
on the concept of "environmental
pathology," which we use here to refer
to social, cultural, political, and/or
environmental circumstances within
which significant distress or
impairment are normative and
proportionate responses. Examples
include chronic exposure to
discrimination such as racism,
misogyny, or transphobia; realistic
medical health risks such as
pandemics; insufficient access to
healthcare, food, or housing; military
violence; or realistic threat or

We are especially interested in
manuscripts that describe the
principled extension of evidence-based
cognitive-behavioral principles to work
with clients whose clinically significant
distress or impairment could be
reasonably described as healthy,
normal, or appropriate to their meso-
or macro-systemic context. We also
welcome articles focused on
community-level interventions
designed to prevent or reduce
contextual barriers to mental health
and wellbeing. C&BP is a practitioner-
oriented journal that publishes
narrative and systematic reviews,
research reports that include rich
clinical descriptions, case series and
studies, clinical commentaries, and
treatment development reports. As
such, articles should emphasize
material likely to be informative to
clinical practice and supervision, such
as detailed case descriptions, excerpts
from psychotherapy transcripts, and

Example topics include:
1. Ethical obligations, dilemmas, and responsibilities to consider when navigating
environmental pathology in clinical practice
2. Theoretical frameworks or suggested best practices for leveraging evidence-based
principles in the context of environmental pathology, particularly for concerns or
contexts that are not adequately addressed within the existing empirical
literature.
3. Global perspectives, such as considerations when translating evidence-based
practices between cultures and/or working with displaced clients or refugees.
4. Empirical studies, meta-analyses, or intensive case series designs investigating
the efficacy of novel or established interventions for clients presenting with
distress or impairment associated with one or more forms of environmental
pathology
5. Primers, introductory papers, or case studies offering cognitive-behavioral
translations of practices from diverse theoretical orientations, cultures, or
epistemologies, supported by an appropriately critical review of relevant
literatures
6. Case studies, theoretical frameworks, or literature reviews evaluating diverse
practices for navigating discussions of politically-charged or taboo topics in
assessment, therapy, or clinical research
7. Strengths-based approaches, including empirical studies or literature reviews on
topics such as resilience, critical consciousness, neurodiversity, or post-traumatic

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don’t know why but I can’t stop laughing. (Eduardo Muñoz, Reuters)

Lots of people trying to fetch a tennis ball in the audience

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Quick note about this valuable effort (thanks Mark) that at least the 2026 numbers on the "psych job wiki" are nearly 100% US jobs. So this may say a lot about the US (or not, depending if the jobs had equal selection bias in prior years), but not necessarily about psych jobs elsewhere, eg in Europe

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wonderful to see such integrative work. I wish we'd have a better overview of the socioecological environments people w mental health probs live in. Automatically equating doing poorly in very poor situations with mental illness is really problematic. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A truly ... innovative ... paper in the journal 'Innovation' (Elsevier, impact factor ~40). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Best thing about this is that AI drew the location in a different place than where he wanted it, so he drew an arrow over the AI arrow. You can still the other arrowhead and also that a line was drawn over it.

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John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's fake. Original is 👇

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've seen this argument a ton, but there's a bit of reverse causality here, too: this place isn't exactly attractive for foreign nationals to move to.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Or deprived of its opportunities. People who are more likely to vote AfD are also on average less well off, less educated, and so on. The movie "Behind The Curve" makes this point very well: nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to believe in something completely insane.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

But, the law is very new (and it seems everyone was on a holiday, no one wrote about it) and there is no explicit statement from Zenodo (or data managers) anywhere. I am happy to try to interpret the law, but, it is better if experts do it. So, I think I did my best summarizing the situation >

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whatsapp on both phone and laptop screen has these Ts now with the tiny bit that stands out and I swear this wasn't the case before and it needs to stop

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

EU friends: pls be aware that you cannot share certain types of data on Zenodo because Zenodo does actually not comply with GDPR. @lakens.bsky.social 's blog has a great summary. It's a pretty serious reason to avoid Zenodo for researchers who work with data, if I understand the issue correctly.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

March, first time above 18°C: I'm so warm, time to take the sweater off! September, first time under 24°C: I'm so cold, time to put the sweater on!

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We had 450 applicants for a PhD position here. I sent an email apologizing for the delay & explaining we have a ton of applications and the process will take longer because we want to do this well. I got >200 emails back saying 'that's ok', 'ok', 'good luck', 'thanks for letting me know', etc.

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Girl Exhausted on Swing

ALT: Girl Exhausted on Swing

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d8xg2...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was initially excited when my newphew (now 2 years 9 months) started talking. He recently discovered questions. Today, he asked me if I was cheerful today; if I have a garage; and why I don't have any hair. When I said I do have hair—on my face—he insisted that is a beard, not hair.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Elections in Sachsen Anhalt: rightwing extremist party AfD terrifyingly close to absolute majority, because parties <5% don't make it into parliament in Germany. If BSW were to drop to 4.9%, AfD has ~49.77% at the moment, I believe.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

US federal debt has passed $40 trillion, with more than $1 trillion expected interest payments in 2026, more than on defense. Debt doubled from $20 to $40 trillion in the last 2.5 administrations (Trump, Biden, 1/2 Trump).

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