Matti Vuorre
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Matti Vuorre
@matti.vuorre.com

I am an assistant professor at Tilburg University's Department of Social Psychology.

I have a website at https://vuorre.com.

All posts are posts.

Psychology 44%
Neuroscience 13%

Cool stuff dude, 🎉 congrats!

It's official now I guess?
European Commission's formal analysis of TikTok has concluded today & finds it to represent 'addictive design'

--great that someone is doing this work but would really appreciate some transparency in the process so that experts (like myself) could understand

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu

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European Commission's formal analysis of TikTok has concluded today & finds it to represent 'addictive design'

--great that someone is doing this work but would really appreciate some transparency in the process so that experts (like myself) could understand

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu

Yeah this is very concerning. Ultimately it's not "AI" but assholes misusing tools, though splitting hairs like this may not be useful in practice. (But publishing such negative reviews & decisions about people submitting crap might be.)

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Is AI killing publishing reform? Important post by Ulrike Hahn about #scholarlyPublishing. (write.as/ulrikehahn/i...)

I've had the same thought, that the flood of LLM-written junk and fraudulent manuscripts being submitted to journals means that
Is AI killing scientific reform?
Recently I tried to post a pre-print on arXiv about what might be going wrong in debate about reasoning in LLMs. arXiv seemed a relevant ...
write.as

This is my experience too. Which is why I find absolutist positions like osf.io/dkrgj_v1 so surprising ("Ultimately, contemporary AI is research misconduct."). Sure yeah don't let an LLM come up with your theory but there's many good useful applications too.

Love that my gmail automatically classifies Google's gemini ads as spam

What a great paper! Thanks for pointing it out.

Did you complete the form here blog.psyarxiv.com/about-psyarx... ?

LMK and I can try to see what has happened

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Can anyone suggest a good guides for using lab notebooks? (Like the traditional pen and paper bench scientist ones, not computational). Like I want to know what you're expected to write down, how you capture and transform the really important stuff, how you refer back to them etc etc

Are you kidding me!? lol

I have gotten a positive response to 1 (one) data request out of maybe half a dozen I've sent in the past ~5 years.
I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing.

metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...
Promised Data Unavailable? – I’m Sorry, Ma’am, There’s Nothing We Can Do — Meta-Research Center
This blogpost has been written by Michèle Nuijten. Michèle is an assistant professor of our research group who investigates reproducibility and replicability in psychology. Also, she is the developer ...
metaresearch.nl

Shocking. The argument is so simple but surprising at the same time. I would never have thought about this in practice. Another reason why we should be very careful when operating under "previously established protocols".

Meta Psychology
PCI psychology

I'll be there & look forward to meeting folks & interesting talks on scientific publishing
All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing.

Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!

bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule

Interesting thread on data privacy and (mis)use.
Fast forward 10 years and this example is no longer hypothetical: www.nytimes.com/2026....

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All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing.

Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!

bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule

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Fast forward 10 years and this example is no longer hypothetical: www.nytimes.com/2026....

5/10
Zotero 8 is out (www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/). If you're not already using, highly recommended!
Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Zotero 8
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
www.zotero.org

Cool! But who the hell are they to decide what you put in the abstract of your paper? If the paper is 'accepted' and I want my abstract to be nothing but the poop emoji then my abstract should be the poop emoji.

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The annals of Elsevier villainy are extensive, but perhaps their funniest gambit was when they started six "Australasian" fake journals that were really just sponsored publications for pharmaceutical companies, set up to launder their marketing as ostensibly peer-reviewed research.

See that's what I'm talking about. No one is going to lose a whole satellite!

I like zulip, it's free for academics and I think also can be self hosted
zulip.com/plans/

This is the dumbest thing.

Okay fuck it everyone stop using the MMSE this is so dumb.
I hate this: "The Editors have retracted this article... the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) instrument was used without proper permissions" link.springer.com/article/10.1... The MMSE is a series of 11 simple questions. A perfectly good paper is retracted because you can copyright 11 questions
Retraction Note: Cognitive function assessed by Mini-mental state examination and risk of all-cause mortality: a community-based prospective cohort study - BMC Geriatrics
BMC Geriatrics -
link.springer.com

Isn't the joke more "never anova unless you're very far from the edges"? 😉