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Ekaterina Pronizius
@epronizius.bsky.social
Postdoc @univie.ac.at / scanunit.bsky.social, collab 🇦🇹 & 🇧🇪
Lecturer @IESabroad
Ass. Dir. Data & Methods @psysciacc.bsky.social
Programm committee @improvingpsych.bsky.social
NO 2 WAR!
https://www.pronizius.com
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Yesterday, I gave a talk on Open and Reproducible Big Team Science as part of the lecture series hosted by the Psychology Graduate Students’ Association at the University of Alabama, US. I am grateful to Nell and @slewis5920.bsky.social for the invitation and the opportunity.
You don’t speak German? I hear you! Here is the English open-access version: osf.io/preprints/ps...
"The Neural Basis of Empathy in Borderline Personality Disorder - a Review."
On a sidenote: Was I, as a moderator of OSF, allowed to accept my own preprint? Nope 🙂 No shady business here!
December 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I was told that I have decisioned over 1,700 preprints this year! 😱Moderators, including myself, are driven by our commitment to making science better. This means staying vigilant against AI-generated spam & allowing researchers around the world to share their work openly.
Pls support PsyArXiv!
Metadata matters!
If you submit a preprint to PsyArXiv, to ensure smooth acceptance, don't forget to fill out the metadata correctly.

Below you will find a few tips, but detailed guidelines are at 👉 buff.ly/M3cRBW2
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
You rock, Emma!!! What a great initiative.
It was a pleasure to introduce the Better Together campaign at the University of Vienna as the local coordinator for Vienna yesterday 🧡. I am so excited to bring the EFPSA Social Impact Initiative anti-discrimination campaign to Austria! 🤩
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Join us for #SIPS2026!

We will meet online (May 6-7, 2026) and in person in Washington, D.C., USA (June 8-10, 2026).

We are looking forward to your proposals, so don't miss the submission deadlines:
📅 January 23, for in-person SIPS 2026
📅 February 27, for online SIPS 2026
SIPS 2026 – June 8-10, 2026
The submission portal for the conference is now open! We invite researchers to submit their contributions for both online and in-person SIPS 2026. We look forward to your participation!
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December 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Proud of our Social Cognition ECR working Group, established at last year's @selfknowingothers.bsky.social workshop, and well done @epronizius.bsky.social and Ilenia Gori for presenting our progress at this year's edition! 🎉
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Join our Social Cognition Workshop “From Self-Knowledge to Knowing Others” online that is about to start. No registration is needed! The first talk is at 10am by Chris Conway: “Socio-cognitive abilities in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology “
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Join conversation
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December 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Excited to see what @annakulesza.bsky.social prepared for us :P
The #SAA2026 LOC is growing - welcome on board, Anna! Anna is a psychology student at @univie.ac.at and will support planning and communications. Anna and @lauramkoenig.bsky.social are currently working on a little surprise for you. Stay tuned and learn more at the end of the week...
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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🌟 Love Methods Week 2026 🌟
📅 19–23 January 2026 | 💻 Online

Join us for a full week of workshops & talks designed to boost the robustness, transparency, and reproducibility of your research methods!

#LoveMethods26

🔗 Learn more / Register 👇
Love Methods Week 2026 – Excelsior
excelscior.uc.pt
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Yesterday, I gave a talk on Open and Reproducible Big Team Science as part of the lecture series hosted by the Psychology Graduate Students’ Association at the University of Alabama, US. I am grateful to Nell and @slewis5920.bsky.social for the invitation and the opportunity.
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The Neural Foundations of Empathy in Borderline Personality Disorder" published in Persönlichkeitsstörungen (GER) elibrary.klett-cotta.de/article/10.2...
In diesem Artikel fassen wir zentrale Komponenten der Empathie und deren Veränderungen bei der Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung (BPS) zusammen.
Die neuronalen Grundlagen der Empathie bei Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung
Die Erforschung der Empathie, die Fähigkeit, sich in die Gefühle anderer hineinzuversetzen, eröffnet Einblicke sowohl in normatives als auch in ver...
elibrary.klett-cotta.de
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Last weekend’s lab hike came with maximum fog and minimum views of Vienna 😶‍🌫️. The company more than made up for it though 🫶
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Results from study of mental health in 92 countries (n>53,000): People are not doing well.

- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person

Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I’m so excited to be here! Let the career day begin! This is such an important & much-needed initiative. Judging by the number of sessions I’ve signed up for, you can probably tell how uncertain I am about my next career steps. Will it be industry, research, or ...? Maybe I’ll find out today!
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It’s so nice to see that our “COVID EMA Dream Team” continues to publish great results long after the two lockdowns we went through. I miss those times a bit :P
New paper on fatigue, hair cortisol and stress during COVID-19 lockdowns. 💡📜

We found signs of hypocortisolism during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the general population.

Risk factors for fatigue were young age, chronic stress, low income, and loneliness.

Full paper: doi.org/10.1097/psy....
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Pro tip: many medical workshops in Austria are free for students from related fields!! Even got to insert a pacemaker into a pig heart 😁
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.

scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
scienceverse.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Danke dafür!
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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How can we start to get closer to true generalizability in the human sciences?

A talk I gave at the wonderful BTSCon suggests the first steps!

Excited to start this journey with the @psysciacc.bsky.social

Preprint with more details coming soon

#meta #psych #phdsky

m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mk4...
2025 BTSCON: How to Randomly Sample the Globe-a first Step
YouTube video by Big Team Science Conference
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October 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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@bmj.com Please look at PubPeer comments on an article you published last week. pubpeer.com/publications...
I think your research integrity dept shld act swiftly on this one, given clinical significance.
I'm aware of even more evidence of problems so let me know if this is not sufficient.
PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...
pubpeer.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Und was macht Forscher:in am freien Tag? Erstmal ca. 4h unterwegs sein, um nach Bochum, meiner Kindheits-Heimat zu kommen. Denn da lebt noch meine Mutter, die leider schwer an einer weit verbreiteten neurodegenerativen Erkrankung leidet - #Parkinson.

Ein #Rant.
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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A reminder to those of us with international collaborations that it's Temporal Chaos Week!
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you see a small hedgehog in autumn (like the one in my hands), please take it to a rescue center. Our autumns are too warm, & hedgehog moms now have a 2nd litter. These tiny babies can’t survive winter! This one weighs only 130g (needs 500g). Please keep an eye out! #hedgehog #wildlife
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
New global study lead by @psysciacc.bsky.social with @scanunit.bsky.social across 18 languages challenges a classic idea in psycholinguistics: when we read, we don’t always imagine objects in the same orientation as described. doi.org/10.1007/s121...
Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages - Current Psychology
Mental simulation theories of language comprehension propose that people automatically create mental representations of objects mentioned in sentences. Mental representation is often measured with the...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM