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Utek, PhD

@utekleong.bsky.social
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Psychologist; Also, a filthy legacy storm enjoyer utekleong.github.io

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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
PhD finally conferred! It's over!!!! Spent the better part of my twenties studying while juggling part-time research work. Nice to finally be able to relax. Excited to move on to my next phase of life 😀 But first, Eternal Weekend @ Yokohama next week!
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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Defended my dissertation yesterday so I guess I’m (unofficially) Dr Leong now 😭
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Xiaojin Ma @xiaojinma.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I recorded a step-by-step tutorial of programming experiments in PsychoPy for undergrad thesis students in my lab. Sharing it here for anyone new to programming in psychology, or those transitioning to PsychoPy from other software. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMJX...
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using PsychoPy to build a cognitive psychology experiment from scratch
YouTube video by Xiaojin Ma
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 15/08/2025
PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
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Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator
As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Working on getting my storm deck fully signed 😌
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Lost a trophy match because I got too excited do THE THING (brainstorming back my gaea’s will to go for a beseech -> will line) and forgot there was a leyline on board 😭😭😭 Today we learn that it is not a good idea to play The Epic Storm at 2am after a beer or two 😭😭😭😭
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Life has been great lately with this doofus.
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
😫 maybe next time you are back! Enjoy the food!
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Was looking forward to meeting you at Sacha’s lab meeting but I’ll be flying off on that day. Unfortunate!
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 04/05/2025
I like this paper: not only does it review of all the reasons standardized coefficients are bad, actually, It also then goes on to show how test statistics can be used as measures of unique contribution/ effect size! - something that just sounds so so wrong! #stats doi.org/10.1080/0003...
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Nathanael Larigaldie @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Critics: "We think your research is flawed because of those reasons that were reviewed by other scientists who shared our concerns" Authors: "Thank your for your incompetent criticism. Our full rebuttal is: no" Journals: "Science was achieved today through scholarly debate. Please move along"
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a man with a mustache is holding a piece of paper with the word science written on it .
ALT: a man with a mustache is holding a piece of paper with the word science written on it .
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Had lots of fun making some of the visuals for this :-) www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fu...
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Our review of JITAIs and how they can advance public health is now formally published in the Annual Review of Public Health! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Bridging Innovation and Equity: Advancing Public Health Through Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions | Annual Reviews
This review explores the transformative potential of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) as a scalable solution for addressing health disparities in underserved populations. JITAIs, delivered...
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Uhhh have journals ever requested for a copy of your IRB protocol and informed consent form??? I’m curious if this is the norm.
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
tfw you echo of eons 4 times against a DnT player game 1 only to fizzle 4 times. Something variance something something… truly a casino storm deck
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This wasn’t like 30 self-citations by the way. It was 12. 2 were R packages, 5 were studies that my paper built on. The rest were methodological papers that my co-author was part of.
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What rubbish is this? Truly an exercise in futility.
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
How to not self-cite our work if our current study is rests on my co-authors’ theoretical and methodological work? Should I not give them credit for their work? Rather than let me cite relevant work, asks me to cite the preprint and dataset. Which adds to the self-cite count
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Journals add value to our scientific work MY ASS. So many wasted hours dealing with this rubbish. So afraid of signalling QRPs to their readers yet too blockheaded to understand that we are not citing willy-nilly.
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Our latest preprint is up! Two down, one more to go. Couldn't have done this without the help and guidance from @sachaepskamp.bsky.social, Dr Hani, and my advisor Prof Ryan :-)
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
new dog, new home, nice coast
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
First RL card! Legacy is fun
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
📝New paper out: We conducted a meta-analysis about the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy on rumination, worry and repetitive negative thinking. The paper is published open access in psychological medicine. doi.org/10.1017/S003...
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Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating repetitive negative thinking, rumination, and worry – a transdiagnostic meta-analysis | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating repetitive negative thinking, rumination, and worry – a transdiagnostic meta-analysis - Volume 55
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 02/02/2025
Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Does any one know of a paper that describes the citation count distribution of papers in social psychology? Preferably a recent paper. Can't seem to find one specific to social psychology :-( @giladfeldman.bsky.social
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Bayesian Analysis of Cross-Sectional Networks: A Tutorial in R and JASP - Karoline B. S. Huth, Jill de Ron, Anneke E. Goudriaan, Judy Luigjes, Reza Mohammadi, Ruth J. van Holst, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, ...
Network psychometrics is a new direction in psychological research that conceptualizes psychological constructs as systems of interacting variables. In network ...
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Karoline Huth @karolinehuth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Are psychometric networks sufficiently supported by data such that one can be confident when interpreting its results? We analysed 294 psychometric networks from 126 papers with the Bayesian approach to address this question @jmbh.bsky.social Sara Ruth van Holst @maartenmarsman.bsky.social 🧵
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Seungju Kim (he/him) @follhim.net · 07/12/2024
Just a reminder that you can change your handle to your github.io repo!
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Legacy is so much more fun than modern holy hell!!!! Goodbye living end hello oops all spells
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I struggle with this condition too. The physical aspects of it suck but the mental torture is worse. Incurable hereditary conditions suck!!!! www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ra...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in @natrevpsych.bsky.social We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Here is a free link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Very interesting and accessible take on probability worth a read! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Excellent post on the lack of empirical support for stereotype threat, from someone deeply involved in the research. Also, importantly, "stereotype threat isn't real" != "stereotypes are not threatening." These are very different claims, but the former is often taken to mean the latter.
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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access. Causal inference is hard: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Causal inference on human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Review, Drew Bailey et al. present an accessible, non-technical overview of key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour as well as methodological solutions to these chall...
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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
And another post on causal inference and social media and its effect on mental health. DAGs make a prominent appearance. As always, feedback welcome (especially if you think I am wrong). sjwild.github.io/blog/2024/11...
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Causal inference, social media, and mental health, part 3
Stephen Wild’s personal blog about statistics, data science, and the like.
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Our review is now out (early) in the Annual Review of Public Health 🎉 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Bridging Innovation and Equity: Advancing Public Health Through Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions | Annual Reviews
This review explores the transformative potential of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) as a scalable solution for addressing health disparities in underserved populations. JITAIs, delivered...
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Michael Inzlicht @handle.invalid · 13/12/2024
This is a terrific essay by @jimmycoan.bsky.social about James Coyne, who passed away last month. We're not supposed to talk ill of the dead, but Coyne's story is a cautionary tale, and one that has some lessons for some folks here. open.substack.com/pub/jimcoan/...
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The Troubling Legacy of James Coyne
Psychology's infamous bully
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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thanks for saying this. I find the dunking on reviewers thing tired and defensive. It's a fairly narcissistic position to assume that reviewers could not possibly improve the quality of your work.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Just had an idea
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Observable @observablehq.com · 05/12/2024
Animation can be a gimmicky distraction in data visualization. But when used with care, animation can improve user experiences and help viewers track patterns across charts and metrics. We share five ways you can use animation for more effective data viz: buff.ly/3ZDT3tp
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yeh well I guess this feels possibly true
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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🍾New article out in @natrevpsych.bsky.social🍾: We review how social expectations form and change in individuals with depression and how they shape the onset, course, and severity of depression. Particular emphasis is on why social expectations persist despite pos info. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Social expectations in depression - Nature Reviews Psychology
Expectations of negative social interactions or low interpersonal self-efficacy are common among people with depression. In this Review, Kirchner et al. integrate the cognitive, social and clinical as...
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Did not share it here but I published the first paper of my dissertation in Cognitive Therapy and Research a couple of months ago hehe doi.org/10.1007/s106...
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Associations Between a Transdiagnostic Core Vulnerability and Internalizing Symptoms: A Network Analysis - Cognitive Therapy and Research
Purpose Recent research has sought to study how the overlapping features of extant cognitive vulnerabilities might serve as a general risk factor for internalizing psychopathology. However, it is not ...
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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Interesting preprint by Paul Griffith, Kate Lynch (who don't seem to be around) and others. Using LLMs to detect genetic essentialism in papers about obesity. Link is to a download of a Word manuscript.
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Joesferatu @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years
LimeWire Wrapped

1. sistem_of_a_dowm_Zelda_song.flac
2. Nirvana - Glycerine.flv
3. track_8_(1)_(1)c.mp3
4. weird_al_Bert_and_Big_Bird_smoking_weed_FUNNY(parody).wav
5. jay-z_the-blueprint_FULL ALBUM_REAL.mp3.exe
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"Examining rumination, devaluation of positivity and depressive symptoms via community‐based network analysis" by Collins, Lass, Jordan, and Winer #PsychSciSky #Psychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Utek, PhD @utekleong.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Question from an ECR: do you folks maintain your peer review records on your Web of Science profile? Has it been useful for you?
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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Leslie McClure @statgirllam.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This week, I gave a talk in the department where I earned my #PhD and learned that the students are “passing down” my blog post to students who fail their qualifying exam. I was so touched! I was also reminded that it’s been too long since I wrote… statgirlblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/30/p...
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PhD Qualifying Exams, or Purgatory for Graduate Students
For many PhD students, summer is the time of year when classes slow down and research picks up. When campuses are quieter and happy hour is earlier. Summer is an idyllic time for most PhD students.…
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