If you're looking for a terrifying way to overcome procrastination, I recommend "The Most Dangerous Writing App." If you stop writing for more than 5 seconds, it'll delete everything you wrote that session. I don't think I can, but maybe you're desperate enough?

www.squibler.io/dangerous-wr...

Supremely talented doctoral student Halle Fowler is hoping to put together an ABCT panel related to Deaf and Hard of Hearing suicide prevention or mental health. We have multiple qualitative and quantitative studies on DHH interpretation in mental health settings. We need help finding panelists!

🌟📝 Just out in World Psychiatry:

Our new piece demonstrates the added value of dynamic symptom networks for predicting treatment outcomes beyond baseline severity & common covariates, with an added explained variance of 9-22% at post-treatment & follow-up.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The next conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will take place at Edinburgh on 22-25 June.

Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15.

Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

A randomized controlled trial testing the effects of sequential psychotherapy in depression: Changing therapist, or both therapist and method? This study examined the effectiveness of sequential psychotherapy strategies for adults with major depressive disorder who did not respond to an initi…

Does changing the therapist and/or method after non-response lead to better outcomes? Not according to this RCT.

Best not to rely on ChatGPT

Error rates of human reviewers during abstract screening in systematic reviews Background Automated approaches to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews are greatly needed. When testing any of these approaches, the criterion standard of comparison (gold standard) is usuall...

Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion.

In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners

Using artificial intelligence in psychological research: generating and critiquing a completely AI-written research paper: https://osf.io/pu5az

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳

After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org
#PsychSciSky #scipub

I had a similar idea for my courses last year:
jakobh.shinyapps.io/guessR/

I like the tracker in your app. Might add that in mine, if you don't mind.

Shifting research focus comes with the risk of reduced impact An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents shows that the further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be.

The further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be

https://go.nature.com/44VjEW9

Why do we like to learn new things? Learning can be intrinsically rewarding - but more importantly, we anticipate that learning new skills will increase our competence that will allow us to do new things in the future. This prediction is key to intrinsic motivation. Yang Xiang #APS2025 #SSM2025

I'm so impressed by this-- what a fun way to teach SQL! I had a good time playing through it just now:

Co-producing and piloting metabolic interventions to improve mental and physical health in severe mental illness 3-year PhD studentship to co-design and pilot metabolic interventions for people with severe mental illness, assessing feasibility, acceptability, and mental health outcomes.

📢 Another opportunity to join our research #community👇

🎓 Fully funded #PhD at @kingsioppn.bsky.social!

Join Workstream 4 of the Hub to co-produce and pilot metabolic interventions for people with severe mental illness.

📅 Apply by 10 June 2025

🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/2jobhub

#MHAW2025

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LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920) | University of Bergen Job title: LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 11, 2025

I just learned that there is an open postdoc position for AI in Psychology with us. The deadline is in two days, but if you are interested and willing to write a quick proposal, let me know. Potential topics: comp. modeling of VWM/perception, brain decoding.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Clinician Suicide Risk Assessment for Prediction of Suicide Attempt in a Large Health Care System This electronic health record–based, prognostic study compares routine clinical suicide risk assessment for prospectively predicting suicide attempt using stratified prevalence vs machine learning mod...

"[S]tatistical models that use all clinician-documented information during [suicide risk assessments] are consistently superior to clinical judgment alone."

UK HE shrinking a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

The number of UK universities actively making redundancies has now risen to 93. This will rise to 100 this summer and then get worse.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post) King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

One App to Rule Them All: A One-Stop Calculator and Guide for 95 Effect-Size Variants for Two-Group Comparisons of Central Tendency, Variability, Overlap, Dominance, and Distributional Tails - Marton ... The prevalence of effect-size (ES) reporting has risen significantly, yet studies comparing two groups tend to rely exclusively on the Cohen’s d family of ESs. ...

Cool paper in AMPPS of @psychscience.bsky.social "One App to Rule Them All: A One-Stop Calculator and Guide for 95 Effect-Size Variants for Two-Group Comparisons of Central Tendency, Variability, Overlap, Dominance, and Distributional Tails”
doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Uncovering the Temporal Dynamics of Negative Thought in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - Cognitive Therapy and Research Purpose Cognitive theory posits that negative posttraumatic thoughts play a critical role in the development, maintenance, and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Though negative though...

New research from our group investigating the temporal dynamics of negative posttraumatic thought in daily life and its associations with PTSD severity! @bwisco.bsky.social @shaenester.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

❗ New paper ❗ in Cognitive Therapy and Research with @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social, Eshkol Rafaeli, @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social, @schwartz-psyres.bsky.social & Jessica Uhl

🔍 Wearable heart rate may provide insights into psychotherapeutic change processes when stationary measurement isn't feasible

Investigating the Capability of Large Language Models to Identify Causal Relations in Psychiatric Case Studies: A Methodological Proof of Concept for the Analysis of Psychological Case Formulations: https://osf.io/wfmv8

Effectiveness of General Practitioner Referral Versus Self-Referral Pathways to Guided Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression, Panic Disorder, and Social Anxiety Disorder: Natu... Background: Therapist guided internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (guided ICBT) appears to be efficacious for depression, panic disorder (PD) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) in routine ca...

Self-referral to iCBT was more effective than referral by the GP and could solve some bottlenecks.

Twin study uncovers heritable roots of moral thinking A new study suggests our moral leanings—whether utilitarian or Kantian—may be influenced more by genetics than by upbringing.

Twin study uncovers heritable roots of moral thinking

⚠️WANTED⚠️ Dirty datasets that can be used in training courses! Have you got any great examples of datasets (preferably CC0 or CC-BY) that you think demonstrate some of the key issues with dirty data? I'm interested in teaching how to improve data collection, & about cleaning data once you have it. 📊

An Inception-Cohort Study Quantifying How Many Registered Studies Are Publicly Shared - Eline N. F. Ensinck, Daniël Lakens, 2025 We quantified how many studies registered on the OSF up to November 2017 are performed but not shared after at least 4 years. Examining a sample of 169 register...

If we follow how many studies that have been registered on the OSF are eventually publicly shared, only 58% of studies are. This suggests a substantial filedrawer. Researchers indicate time management and null results as causes. We should reflect on how efficient this is. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research

Many funding schemes harm rather than support research:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Considering typical salary and overhead costs for research positions, (...) these grant schemes draw more resources from the scientific community than they add "