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Sebastian Trautmann
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Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist Professor @Medical School Hamburg
Interested in traumatic experiences, emotion regulation, psychotherapy research and research methods
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drandreahoward.bsky.social
🚨SOLUTIONS🚨

Desk reject more stuff with actionable feedback.

Don’t request second reviews

Build larger editorial boards of volunteers

Wait to submit your work until it’s ready; a.k.a don’t send in your half-baked trash hoping for feedback

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February 6, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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amreibahr.bsky.social
Universität in D ist, wenn alle in 1 künstlichen Hyperwettbewerb immense Zeit/Energie/Ressourcen verballern, um ‚exzellent’ zu werden, während man die, die am Limit ihrer Kräfte in Lehre/Forschung/Admin universitären Regelbetrieb so gerade am Laufen halten, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste zusammenkürzt.
February 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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jonathan-bartlett.bsky.social
Please join us in person or online @lshtm-dash.bsky.social on 26th February to hear about @georgiatomova.bsky.social's recent work on 'How can different modes of survey data collection introduce bias?'

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
How can different modes of survey data collection introduce bias? | LSHTM
Survey data are self-reported data collected directly from respondents by a questionnaire or an interview, and are commonly used in health research. Such data are traditionally collected via a single
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January 29, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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mkarhulahti.bsky.social
First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Confusion in gaming disorder measurement
Abstract. Measurement is important for the scientific programmes of addictive behaviours. In the present study, we investigated the measurement of gaming d
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January 28, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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ajshackman.bsky.social
The Future of DSM: A Strategic Vision for Incorporating Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Environmental Determinants and Intersectionality | American Journal of Psychiatry psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
The Future of DSM: A Strategic Vision for Incorporating Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Environmental Determinants and Intersectionality | American Journal of Psychiatry
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
psychiatryonline.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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xkcd.com
Early Arthropods

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3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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olivia.science
Maybe obvious, but please don't use so-called AI tools for research if you don't know what AI or tool are. Nothing good will come of this.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Oct 4
We end on an appeal to our fellow psychologists:

"To sit idly by while deskilling and displacing of [our]selves is normalised [...] serves [solely] the technology sector, which avoids criticism and self-reflection and prefers pseudoscience and misinformation."

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8 Do not Embrace AI In this paper, we unpacked why we think psychologists need to be on high alert — not just to avoid another replication crisis, but to avoid the total collapse of our science. What we signpost in Table 1 may have been novel to readers until this point, but the deeper problems are absolutely known. Also, as Crystal Steltenpohl et al. (2023, pp. 9–10) state: “Intentions alone are not enough to move science forward. Creating responsible, considered processes for rigorously transparent open science requires involving interested parties from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, research areas, and training paradigms.” Indeed, because many such warnings go unheeded — such as the need for a cultivation of shared values and especially the principles of impartiality of researchers and academic freedom from corporate influence — we find ourselves in polycrises that affect our universities, political systems, planet, and ultimately all humanity. “When historians of science look back on the 2010s in social and personality psychology, the decade will likely stand out as a period of exceptional doubt and self-scrutiny in the field.” (Schiavone & Vazire, 2023, p. 710) Why did we ever stop? Should we ever stop? Importantly, Hazel Rose Markus (2005, p. 180, emphasis added) explains that: “Social psychology is often defined as the study of how people respond to and are influenced by other people” Algorithms, chatbots, LLMs, machines, models, inanimate objects are not people — they are the products of people (Guest, 2024, 2025). And to paraphrase Rae Carlson (1984): What’s social about chatbots? Where’s the person in an LLM? We must sure up our subfields from the slow but certain corrosive power wielded by the harmful nonsense that is modern displacement AI. To sit idly by while deskilling and displacing of our students, participants, and selves is normalised — or worse still to profit from it — serves not science but the technology sector, which avoids criticism and self-reflection and prefers pseudoscience and misinformation.
January 28, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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olivia.science
Also when I and Iris wrote this it was 3 months ago, a long time in the nonsense hype world 🫨, and still it's not openly discussed this is undoing all the 2010s open science movement

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olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Oct 4
Without Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) in psychology (doi.org/10.31234/osf...) we risk the following:

1️⃣ misunderstanding statistical models, thinking correlation is causation;

2️⃣ confusing statistical models and cognitive models, undermining theory;

3️⃣ going against stated open science norms.

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The three aforementioned related themes sketched out in this section, will play out in the AI-social psychology relationships we will examine — namely: a. misunderstanding of the statistical modelswhich constitute contemporary AI, leading to inter alia thinking that correlation implies causation (Guest, 2025; Guest & Martin, 2023, 2025a, 2025b; Guest, Scharfenberg, & van Rooij, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025); b. confusion between statistical versus cognitive models when it comes to their completely non-overlapping roles when mediating between theory and observations (Guest & Martin, 2021; Morgan & Morrison, 1999; Morrison & Morgan, 1999; van Rooij & Baggio, 2021); c. anti-open science practices, such as closed source code, stolen and opaque collection and use of data, obfuscated conflicts of interest, lack of accountability for models’ architectures, i.e. statistical methods and input-output mappings are not well documented (Barlas et al., 2021; Birhane & McGann, 2024; Birhane et al., 2023; Crane, 2021; Gerdes, 2022; Guest & Martin, 2025b; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; Liesenfeld & Dingemanse, 2024; Liesenfeld et al., 2023; Mirowski, 2023; Ochigame, 2019; Thorne, 2009). Being able to detect and counteract all these three together comprises the bedrock of skills in research methods in a time when AI is used uncritically (see Table 1). The inverse: not noticing these are at play, or even promoting them, could be seen as engaging in questionable research practises (QRPs; Brooker & Allum, 2024; Neoh et al., 2023; Rubin, 2023). Therefore, in the context of critical AI literacy for social psychology, and indeed cognitive, neuro-, and psychological sciences in general, the three points above serve as totemic touchstones, as litmus tests for checking somebody’s literacy in AI (Guest, 2024; Guest & Martin, 2021, 2025a, 2025b; Guest, Scharfenberg, & van Rooij, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; Suarez et al., 2025; van Rooij & Baggio, 2021; van Rooij & Guest, 2025; van Rooij et al., 2024b). To wit, if somebody is able to minimally articulate these three related issues, how they manifest, and why they matter to our science, we can rest easy they know the basics of how to critically evaluate AI products in science.
January 28, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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p-hunermund.com
Great work. I would love to see a replication of this for European countries. Anglo-Saxon academia is famously classist.
annastansbury.bsky.social Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 10d
📢now forthcoming in ECMA!

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
January 28, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills
How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero
After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
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January 28, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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nocutsinhessen.bsky.social
#nocutsinhessen & #nocuts nirgendwo, sondern strukturelle Lösungen für strukturelle Probleme!

Kommt zum #hochschulaktionstag morgen und seid laut für bessere Arbeits-, Forschungs- und Studienbedingungen!
ngawiss.bsky.social Netzwerk für Gute Arbeit in der Wissenschaft @ngawiss.bsky.social · 11d
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82 % der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigten unterhalb der Professur arbeiten befristet.
Das ist kein vorübergehendes Nachwuchsproblem, sondern Ausdruck struktureller Fehlanreize im deutschen Hochschulsystem.

Unser neues Positionspapier ist hier angehängt; unten findet ihr eine Kurzfassung 👇👇
January 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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danielheck.bsky.social
New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉

We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4

Main conclusion:
"GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”
January 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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georgiatomova.bsky.social
Recording now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8vQ...
January 26, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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jamiecummins.bsky.social
Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding.

RegCheck was built to help make this process easier.

Today, we launch RegCheck V2.

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regcheck.app
RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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January 22, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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psyarxivbot.bsky.social
Young carers' mental health: variation by gender, ethnicity, income and peer, school or social support: https://osf.io/zu2qk
January 21, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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kevinmking.bsky.social
I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data.

1/19

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Seven Symptoms Over Nearly 4,000 Days: Item-Level Variability in the Psychometric Properties of Daily Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms in Young Adult Drinkers - Kevin M. King, Dahyeon Kang, Megan E. Schu...
People experience symptoms of alcohol use disorders (AUD) in their daily lives, including more impairment-based symptoms (e.g., hazardous use, interpersonal pro...
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January 19, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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whitneyringwald.bsky.social
So much for telehealth expanding access to care to rural and poor communities …
jamapsychiatry.com JAMA Psychiatry @jamapsychiatry.com · 21d
#Telemental health accounted for 27.8% of US adult outpatient mental health visits in 2021–2022, with higher use among younger adults, high-income, privately insured, urban residents, and those receiving #psychotherapy.

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JAMA Psychiatry presents 'Telemental Health, Hybrid, and In-Person Outpatient Mental Health Care in the US' by Mark Olfson, Chandler McClellan, and Samuel H. Zuvekas. Published online November 26, 2025.
January 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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psyfako.bsky.social
Heute haben über 400 Menschen für die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung in Frankfurt am Main demonstriert. Gemeinsam haben wir deutlich gemacht, dass die Politik endlich, wie im Koalitionsvertrag beschlossen, gesetzliche Regelungen zur Finanzierung der Weiterbildung schaffen muss.
January 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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jeppjournal.bsky.social
@heikogiebler.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke, @macartan.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social & @heikekluever.bsky.social: Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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thomvolker.bsky.social
If you want to hear me give a hands-on introduction to multiple imputation and the R-package mice, then join this workshop! You support a good cause in addition!🇺🇦
dariia.bsky.social Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 22d
❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 22nd , 6 pm CET titled Practical Intro to multiple imputation of missing data with the R-package mice by
@thomvolker.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
January 16, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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hitop-system.bsky.social
The HiTOP Society will have its first free-standing conference this year on June 4-6. The Call for Abstracts is now open, and we hope you'll consider submitting your HiTOP-related work!

www.hitop-system.org/hitop-2026-c...
HiTOP 2026 Conference
Call for Abstracts for the HiTOP 2026 conference
www.hitop-system.org
January 13, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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longdata.bsky.social
I’m happy to share that the print version of Longitudinal Data Analysis Using R is now available on Amazon — designed for teaching, applied research, and self-study.

👉 www.amazon.com/Longitudinal...

#rstats #HigherEd #Statistics #LongitudinalData #SocialScience #Statistics
Longitudinal Data Analysis Using R
Amazon.com: Longitudinal Data Analysis Using R: 9798261825210: Cernat, Alexandru: Books
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January 12, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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adamjkucharski.bsky.social
How do we know if one thing causes another? A (very) brief history of cause and effect, from stories about witchcraft to the science of clinical trials and observation studies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlZ...
How can we tell if one thing is causing another?
YouTube video by Adam Kucharski
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
The German Research Foundation, possibly the most important funding body for academic research in Germany, is now not only allowing the use of AI to write applications, they‘ll also allow it to evaluate said applications. Only prerequisite is that one makes this transparent. It‘s a farce.
January 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
Also nochmal zum mitschreiben:
Ich kann jetzt bei einem der wichtigsten Geldgeber in der deutschen Wissenschaft mit Hilfe von KI geschriebene Anträge einreichen die dann mit ebenfalls mit KI begutachtet werden. Einzige Voraussetzung ist dass es transparent gemacht wird. Was für eine Farce.
dfg.de Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Dec 15
Die DFG will künftig die Nutzung von Künstlicher Intelligenz #KI in der #Begutachtung ermöglichen. Der Einsatz darf allerdings nur unter klar definierten Bedingungen erfolgen. Eine Leitlinie dazu soll im ersten Quartal 2026 veröffentlicht werden. Mehr zu den Prinzipien:
www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung
www.dfg.de
January 11, 2026 at 7:17 PM