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Matti Vuorre

Matti Vuorre

@matti.vuorre.com

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I am an assistant professor at the department of Social Psychology at Tilburg University's School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 18d

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.

We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.

tiu.nu/22989

An aerial photograph of the Tilburg University campus.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 16h

covid-19 is the most commonly used tag on psyarxiv: vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das... I'm surprised to see 'consciousness' in the top-20!

Graph of most common tags on psyarxiv
Tag ▾Uses
covid-19 1,529
mental health 1,118
depression 1,099
anxiety 839
emotion 820
meta-analysis 722
personality 699
individual differences 680
attention 659
memory 619
artificial intelligence 589

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 18h

It's not suitable for a direct comparison: I host an updating SQLite mirror of the OSF API preprints endpoint. The content is then cached in user's browser as well.

Apart from that major difference, the idea is to get all info with as few API hits as possible, and to have a minimalist UI.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 18h

Hehe, yeah that's the point--text is all we need and often UI magic gets in the way.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 19h

Yeah. Here's a proof of concept of how things could (🙏) be: psyarxiv.vuorre.com

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 19h

Nope: support.zenodo.org/help/en-gb/2...

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

💯 %, GitHub is just a collaboration convenience we should be ready to abandon at a moment's notice. Connecting to zenodo keeps that and makes archiving automatic.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

Great write up! (And sorry that you had to go through this) Personally I'm linking more projects directly from GitHub to zenodo for archival but that's for code & data

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

These are both great. The actual impact is very hard to measure as ideas become "common knowledge" etc

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

Held, R., & Hein, A. (1963). Movement-produced stimulation in the development of visually guided behavior. Journal of comparative and physiological psychology.

scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

I think about this paper more often than is necessary.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

re getting from here to there: This is especially difficult because so much of publishing is by ECRs and it would be irresponsible to put their work/careers on the line while older folks cruise in comfort. re putting this on academics: OTOH we/academia do fairly well (arguably) with the research

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

Scott Aaronson argued that we need this anger to move forward: www.scottaaronson.com/writings/jou...

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

Good on you for trying this anyway 👍

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 5d

A major thing holding us back from making these important moves is that we (the Royal I) lack the required courage. Yeah it seems hard in the short term to submit to a 💎OA and the rewards are in the long term and collective, not short term and just for me.

There's a great pinhead quote about this.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 5d

Science fictions!

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 5d

I might be off the mark but I find myself sometimes writing code that basically just simulates data from e.g. a linear regression with fixed params, so this seems more concise as can basically use the lm() syntax to simulate. Will look into this

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 5d

Is this useful for data simulation? Looks neat

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 5d

PS observablehq.com/framework/ is very nice.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 5d

Wrote a little interactive webapp for creating psyarxiv coauthorship networks, try it out: vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das...

Feedback welcome: github.com/mvuorre/psya...

psyarxiv coauthorship network from https://vuorre.com/psyarxiv-dashboard/coauthorship showing Matti Vuorre's coauthors

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Matti Vuorre

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 6d

The print edition of Works in Progress is now available in:

• Canada 🇨🇦
• Australia 🇦🇺
• the European Union 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇩🇪

Subscribe today for 6 beautiful issues a year. The first edition ships in 2 weeks! 🥳
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Print - Works in Progress Magazine

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Reposted by Matti Vuorre

Leon Wendt @l-p-wendt.bsky.social · 6d

Construct validity is a cornerstone of psychological science.

But too often, construct validation practices fall short, leaving uncertainty about what our measures really capture.

Why is that?

We (@stmllr.bsky.social) tackle this question in our 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁:

🧵…

Reposted by Matti Vuorre

sjdm-tweets @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social · 7d

Today's HotFresh recommended paper is:

Maier, M., Harris, A. J. L., Kellen, D., & Singmann, H. (2025). Decision making under extinction risk. Cognitive Psychology, 159. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 7d

What's the take home message?

If you're submitting AI slop you're a loser. You're just making these great free services harder to run, and making it more difficult to separate signal (science) from noise (your crappy AI shit.)

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 7d

PsyArXiv also recently switched to a pre-moderation workflow due to AI slop (the attached graph shows the 2025 increase caused by a large review backlog due to the moderation switch): blog.psyarxiv.com/2025/08/20/c...

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 7d

arXiv now requires that submitted computer science "review" articles must be accepted at a journal/conference due to increased AI slop: blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 10d

That's probably better than poison (where does one buy poison in this day and age anyway)

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 10d

You should do this with poison & juice and demonstrate effective adjustment by drinking whatever comes out the other end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ZF...

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 10d

This is a better way of serving the community than giving your time/money to Elsevier

PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 10d

Want to support PCI Psychology? You can register for an account to make it easier for recommenders to find you and invite you as a reviewer! Register here psych.peercommunityin.org/default/user... and carefully fill out the "Areas of Expertise" box. #PsychSciSky #SciPub

Peer Community in Psychology

psych.peercommunityin.org

Reposted by Ian Hussey, Matti Vuorre

PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 10d

Want to support PCI Psychology? You can register for an account to make it easier for recommenders to find you and invite you as a reviewer! Register here psych.peercommunityin.org/default/user... and carefully fill out the "Areas of Expertise" box. #PsychSciSky #SciPub

Peer Community in Psychology

psych.peercommunityin.org

Reposted by Richard McElreath, Magnus Johansson, Barrett , and 1 more Richard McElreath, Magnus Johansson, Barrett, Matti Vuorre

Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 12d

I'm now also looking for a postdoc with strong Bayesian background and interest in developing Bayesian cross-validation theory, methods and software. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact information at users.aalto.fi/~ave/).

Others, please share

Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Oct 6

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 13d

Who'd have thought that Kristoffer is behind skynet after all