Who is Chris Frith

Want to contribute to scientific rigor and open science in clinical psychology? Apply to be the senior clinical editor at Collabra!

Worried it's too much work or you are too junior? Please ask me about it. You might, in fact, be the ideal person!

Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology
An analysis of +65 million papers, patents & software products finds that small teams tend to disrupt science & technology with new ideas, whereas larger teams have tended to develop existing ones
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Yup, and told me why it selected things, how the topics align with future directions in my work, potential untapped synergies, different audiences I could be connecting with and why...

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Latest Claude Cowork love - three of my recent papers and full conference program uploaded and voila! Personalized conference schedule in seconds.

Secondarily, when did conference programs get so long and overcomplicated and why do these apps just make them worse?

awww it's so nice to see your face! 💟

In “Six Memos for the Next Millenium”, Italo Calvino distilled six literary virtues he felt should endure regardless of how the world changed.

As we enter an age of automated evaluation & production of science, what are the parallel epstemic virtues we should try to preserve? We want your input! 🧵

Northwestern Prison Education Program honors second graduating cohort at ceremony Less than three years after the Northwestern Prison Education Program’s inaugural class graduated in November 2023, a second cohort of incarcerated...

Northwestern Prison Education Program celebrated its second cohort of graduates Monday morning at Sheridan Correctional Center.
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Excited to see our Nature Mental Health paper featured in Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly. Genetic risk for addiction isn’t substance-specific-it reflects broader brain processes. Using data from 2.2M+ individuals, we identified shared & specific pathways. Read more: go.rutgers.edu/up31fhi7

Andrea there fighting the good fight

Yeah, when people tell me “we need to teach them how to use chatbots” I ask them what precisely is the skill involved that isn’t critical thinking? The chat interface is *specifically* designed for fluency. Imagine if we had invented courses to teach using touchscreens when they came out.

Interested in perspectives here: does anyone get *any* traction on this website when sharing their work? I assume there are only 1-2 people on bsky who care about any given research article. Conversely on LinkedIn it's pretty normal to get hundreds of people interested. What gives?

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New paper: Jamil Zaki and I integrate theories of empathy + emotion regulation to describe how therapists have to regulate a "therapeutic emotional circuit" in each session. Lots of applications and avenues for new research. Just published in CPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

BlueSky seems sleepy until suddenly it isn’t. Scientists not here to play.

Why it’s good to make your data openly available reason #42:

Authors emailed saying they need some stats not reported in our manuscript (shame on us) for their meta-analysis.

Wrote back essentially right away saying here’s the OSF link.

Done!

Very cool study!

Thanks!

The best ROI!

Do you remember where? I mean I’m sure the way the economists estimated ROI may be different than how psychologists might. But also would worry about bias from APA.

College grads in ‘AI-proof’ careers like psychology and education are seeing negative returns on their degrees | Fortune As AI reshapes white-collar work, new research shows that some of the most popular graduate degrees are actually leaving holders worse off financially.

"The worst returns are for psychology graduate degrees, with a -8% cost-adjusted return, or the estimated change in lifetime income after accounting for the cost of attendance."

fortune.com/2026/04/04/g...

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

A stable sense of purpose helps teens navigate life’s challenges | Cornell Chronicle Like their emotions and self-esteem, teenagers’ sense of purpose fluctuates day to day, and those who experience it steadily – not just intensely – may benefit most.

A new article from the Cornell Chronicle highlights recent research from NSCA member Anthony Burrow on how often a sense of purpose fluctuates during #adolescence, and why it is important to provide young people with opportunities to engage in purposeful pursuits: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.

Professional Teaching Fellow - School of Psychology / Te Kura Mātai Hinengaro Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the largest and most highly ranked sci...

two teaching roles in Psychology at Auckland Uni, one of which will be focused on research methods. NZ$100K+ salary

these roles are unusual in that they are permanent teaching-focused faculty roles

Nice one!!!

I'm also not sure how accountability should work here. I agree with the "authors take full responsibility" concept, but if someone (eg) finds a hallucinated reference in a paper with that statement, what happens? Retraction? Ethics review? Nothing?

This is what I've been seeing but it's vague enough that I'm not sure it's helpful (yet). Until we understand what the difference is between "assist" and "something more than assist". But any disclosure is good modeling, too.

Oh no, to be clear, I think it is all Wild West right now. Most people using it aren’t disclosing anything and even those using it responsibly don’t have actionable guidelines on things like norms or disclosure.

I do think most of the disclosures so far are so nondescript as to be mostly uninformative. At the same time, I respect those normalizing even some transparency around what is now quite common as best I can tell.