A small first step and much more work is needed across different dementia groups.
But the key takeaway: we shouldn't assume digital ESM is impossible in dementia.
Huge thanks to my co-authors for taking this leap with me!
🔗 Full open access paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
🤔 Can people with dementia participate in intensive experience sampling studies via smartphone?
🧐Yes, they can! Even with high-frequency sampling schemes (8 times / day)!
Work from @lauradewitte.bsky.social in npj Dementia: doi.org/10.1038/s444...
1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.
This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
📣 preprint 📣
Is high-intensity smartphone ESM possible in participants with dementia? @muireannirish.bsky.social, @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social, Jessie Dezutter, Rebekah Ahmed, Mathieu Vandenbulcke and I show its potential in targeted subgroups of people living with dementia
osf.io/preprints/os...
Yesterday, the journal Nature published a study on the shingles vaccine and dementia.
2 years ago I wrote a review of the authors pre-print, and why I’m not convinced it’s true.
Here’s that review. Stay tuned for an updated review of the Nature publication.
open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
time and again
Our publicly available #openscience #zotero bibliography is growing. We have 45 members and over 1,500 publications. Feel free to join. It is public science - for you. www.zotero.org/groups/26082...
PhD position in history & philosophy of science at UniMelb with Fiona Fidler and me and the rest of the MetaMelb crowd! Pass it on to any prospective PhD students you know who might be interested (and stay tuned for another similar position in psych at UniMelb soon!)
In response to Florida's social media ban for young people & Haidt's new book, @margaritap.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post summarizing the scientific evidence of social media bans. We also discuss initiatives that would actually tackle youth mental health issues.
Recorded a lecture summarizing the promises & pitfalls of psychedelic treatments for mental health problems.
I start with the basics and avoid jargon — hope this will be useful for journalists, funders, policy makers, clinicians, clients, students & researchers.
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪
🚨 Vacancy for Lecturer in Cognitive Science and AI at
Radboud University.
Deadline for application: 28 April
(Please RT 🔃 for wider reach 🙏)
1/n
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
We'll likely have a 2-year postdoc position in our lab (MetaMelb) in psych at Melbourne Uni, starting later this year.
If you have a PhD, do relevant stuff, & want to spend 2 years in Melbourne studying psychology research methods & practices, please get in touch!
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