Tomas Formo Langkaas
@tflangkaas.bsky.social
Clinical psychologist by trade. Interested in mental health, science, visual communication, emotions, music theory. Self-diagnosed introvert. Lives in Norway. Enjoys the outdoors.
Occasional researcher: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-sSXrIgAAA
Occasional researcher: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-sSXrIgAAA
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I completely agree that people should be publishing less—to increase the quality of the work, to reduce content redundancy, to reduce burden on the editorial system. But I want to emphasize every chance I get: You do NOT need pubs to get into grad school. Please, let's stop this myth now.
The change is palpable. I've worked for people (not much older than me) who only had a couple first authors when they got their TT job. Every post-doc I know has way more than that. Now it seems like people have to have a couple first authors to even get into some grad programs.
Good to know I'm way ahead on this. Haven't published anything in years.
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"preliminary evidence" that "ABA therapy may be associated with increased odds of mental health hospitalizations and more frequent hospital stays among autistic youth" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "future inquiry into the safety of ABA and who may or may not be harmed by it is essential..."
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November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"preliminary evidence" that "ABA therapy may be associated with increased odds of mental health hospitalizations and more frequent hospital stays among autistic youth" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "future inquiry into the safety of ABA and who may or may not be harmed by it is essential..."
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g-computation? g-estimation? g-formula? g-arbage names!
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
g-computation? g-estimation? g-formula? g-arbage names!
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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Pre-post effect sizes neatly rise with baseline severity in this evaluation of inpatient/day treatment outcomes…
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November 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Pre-post effect sizes neatly rise with baseline severity in this evaluation of inpatient/day treatment outcomes…
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Trump simultaneously fantasizing about a Nobel War Prize.
NEW: As Trump escalates against Venezuela, US troops may face unlawful orders.
Guardrails offer little hope of preventing war or crimes (including domestically) because "there was already a precedent the president could blow up anybody who he said was a terrorist"
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Guardrails offer little hope of preventing war or crimes (including domestically) because "there was already a precedent the president could blow up anybody who he said was a terrorist"
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
This Is The ‘Scariest Part’ Of Trump’s Attacks In The Caribbean
The Trump administration is barreling towards a war in Venezuela with minimal checks or clarity around top officials' policy-making goals.
www.huffpost.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Trump simultaneously fantasizing about a Nobel War Prize.
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Eye-opening work on heterogeneity among depression scales. Also, I’m a pluralist and everything, but … do we need 27 youth depression scales? Why have researchers not updated and further developed them? What does this say about the state of our field?
Great to see our content analysis of 27 Chinese youth depression scales finally out!
Following @eikofried.bsky.social excellent work on depression scales, we included 27 scales and quantified the heterogeneity by analyzing data from 12,000 youth who completed 4 of them.
Comments are welcome!
Following @eikofried.bsky.social excellent work on depression scales, we included 27 scales and quantified the heterogeneity by analyzing data from 12,000 youth who completed 4 of them.
Comments are welcome!
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Eye-opening work on heterogeneity among depression scales. Also, I’m a pluralist and everything, but … do we need 27 youth depression scales? Why have researchers not updated and further developed them? What does this say about the state of our field?
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One thing that I find very confusing about modern AI research is the lack of a clear conceptual separation between contingent empirical findings and necessary consequences of the model architecture or analytic framework.
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
One thing that I find very confusing about modern AI research is the lack of a clear conceptual separation between contingent empirical findings and necessary consequences of the model architecture or analytic framework.
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If only this were a cardigan, he could be “Therapist Batman”
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If only this were a cardigan, he could be “Therapist Batman”
“The reality is a lot of parts of a research project are determined in the *design,* not in the analysis.”
Yes.
Yes.
The reality is a lot of parts of a research project are determined in the *design,* not in the analysis.
That's why serious projects have lit reviews and unserious projects have "our stakeholders liked these words"
That's why serious projects have lit reviews and unserious projects have "our stakeholders liked these words"
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“The reality is a lot of parts of a research project are determined in the *design,* not in the analysis.”
Yes.
Yes.
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Have you heard about PCI Psychology (or another PCI, like PCI Registered Reports) but are not really sure how it works? This video is a good introduction www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PZh... but we'd love to hear your questions! Please reply to this thread and repost for reach!
Peer Community In. What is it?
The project "Peer Community in (PCI)" (https://peercommunityin.org/) has been launched in January 2017 and now counts 11 communities: PCI Evolutionary Biology (https://evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/),…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Have you heard about PCI Psychology (or another PCI, like PCI Registered Reports) but are not really sure how it works? This video is a good introduction www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PZh... but we'd love to hear your questions! Please reply to this thread and repost for reach!
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Honestly, if you value content you've created always make sure it has a home outside of a single company. Always.
Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
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‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech | CNN Business
Google is offloading a key career resource program for supporting women in tech, another sign the search giant is unwinding its diversity programs following political pressure over diversity, equity a...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Honestly, if you value content you've created always make sure it has a home outside of a single company. Always.
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But, like, what if that's just everything? What if government and journalism and medicine and law all work that way? I don't know, I just assumed they did not; but now I think about it do I know that? I don't think I do. What if there is never any reasonable system in place?
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
But, like, what if that's just everything? What if government and journalism and medicine and law all work that way? I don't know, I just assumed they did not; but now I think about it do I know that? I don't think I do. What if there is never any reasonable system in place?
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Det er nye saker som dette HVER DAG nå. Vi er langt forbi at dette bare er pinlig for de involverte. Dette er ikke en bug ved KI-hypen, men en feature.
Det er helt vilt at hverken medier eller politikere er på ballen her på et mer overordnet, strukturelt nivå.
Det er helt vilt at hverken medier eller politikere er på ballen her på et mer overordnet, strukturelt nivå.
NTB trakk sak med falske sitater og falsk kilde: – En veldig alvorlig feil
Fem av fem Telenor-sitater, og navnet på direktør, var oppdiktet. Feil bruk av KI, forklarer redaktør.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Det er nye saker som dette HVER DAG nå. Vi er langt forbi at dette bare er pinlig for de involverte. Dette er ikke en bug ved KI-hypen, men en feature.
Det er helt vilt at hverken medier eller politikere er på ballen her på et mer overordnet, strukturelt nivå.
Det er helt vilt at hverken medier eller politikere er på ballen her på et mer overordnet, strukturelt nivå.
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"What are the policy implications"
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"What are the policy implications"
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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Hvis noen lurer på hvordan man skal få sykepleiere (og andre deltidsansatte) over i fulle stillinger så er dette svaret.
Denne EU-dommen vil bety mye for mange i små stillinger!
Nå vil deltidsansatte kunne få rett til overtidsbetaling allerede når de jobber mer enn sin egen stillingsprosent, ikke først når de har nådd full stilling.
Nå vil deltidsansatte kunne få rett til overtidsbetaling allerede når de jobber mer enn sin egen stillingsprosent, ikke først når de har nådd full stilling.
Reglene om overtid kan bli endret
Nye EU-dommer kan føre til store endringer for deltidsansatte. Nå kan det bli slutt på at ansatte i deltidsstillinger må jobbe like mye som heltidsansatte før de får overtidsbetalt.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Hvis noen lurer på hvordan man skal få sykepleiere (og andre deltidsansatte) over i fulle stillinger så er dette svaret.
An effect size is not the size of an effect?
Keep going like this, someone suddenly will claim the placebo response is not the response to placebo either.
Keep going like this, someone suddenly will claim the placebo response is not the response to placebo either.
October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
An effect size is not the size of an effect?
Keep going like this, someone suddenly will claim the placebo response is not the response to placebo either.
Keep going like this, someone suddenly will claim the placebo response is not the response to placebo either.
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Nearly all instances of "multiverse analysis" should have been a well-defined sensitivity analysis that interrogates a specific assumption or set of assumptions we have reason to believe may not be reliable.
When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.
October 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Nearly all instances of "multiverse analysis" should have been a well-defined sensitivity analysis that interrogates a specific assumption or set of assumptions we have reason to believe may not be reliable.
Hadn’t read this before. @emilymbender.bsky.social reminds us that scholarship is conversation and presents convincing reasons for doing science slowly.
An additional thought is that making science into any kind of competition is the opposite of doing science slowly.
An additional thought is that making science into any kind of competition is the opposite of doing science slowly.
October 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hadn’t read this before. @emilymbender.bsky.social reminds us that scholarship is conversation and presents convincing reasons for doing science slowly.
An additional thought is that making science into any kind of competition is the opposite of doing science slowly.
An additional thought is that making science into any kind of competition is the opposite of doing science slowly.
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cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but:
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.”
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but:
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
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The brutality. The corruption. The lies.
Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson.
Watch.
Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson.
Watch.
October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The brutality. The corruption. The lies.
Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson.
Watch.
Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson.
Watch.
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This is how many conspiracy theories work, by exploiting real anger from legitimate grievances (often downstream from complex,
unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.
unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.
Been thinking about how MAHA in its current articulation is a movement that allows them to harness people's real and justified anger at things like the betrayals of healthcare and insurance and turn it on scientists as scapegoats, by using conspiracy theories
October 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is how many conspiracy theories work, by exploiting real anger from legitimate grievances (often downstream from complex,
unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.
unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.
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HEI NORGE, øynene opp! Det er vårt alles ansvar å sikre levekår og verdighet for alle, fordi det er det riktige å gjøre. Men det er også lurt fordi det demmer opp for høyreekstremisme. Alle som vil seg selv vel bør passe på at ingen får kake før alle har fått brød. Norge svikter også på dette.
Cuts to social protection for people living in poverty have created “fertile ground” for far-right movements around the world, according to a United Nations report. https://cnn.it/3JlsNyN
October 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
HEI NORGE, øynene opp! Det er vårt alles ansvar å sikre levekår og verdighet for alle, fordi det er det riktige å gjøre. Men det er også lurt fordi det demmer opp for høyreekstremisme. Alle som vil seg selv vel bør passe på at ingen får kake før alle har fått brød. Norge svikter også på dette.
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"Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects. The country was until this month one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica."
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects
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October 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects. The country was until this month one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica."
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Sometimes I feel the discussion on AI use devolves into:
A: I'm allowed to use copy-paste! You use it all the time, right?
B: I don't use it to plagiarise, reproduce sexism, or pollute the environment.
A: OK, but it's useful & fast for me!
And um, that's really degraded thinking on A's part.
A: I'm allowed to use copy-paste! You use it all the time, right?
B: I don't use it to plagiarise, reproduce sexism, or pollute the environment.
A: OK, but it's useful & fast for me!
And um, that's really degraded thinking on A's part.
turning researchers into glassy eyed automatons who prompt a machine to churn out 150 papers a year for their glassy eyed peers to feed through the same machine for "peer review" so they can be published behind a massive paywall ... it's like Robert Maxwell's wet dream
October 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Sometimes I feel the discussion on AI use devolves into:
A: I'm allowed to use copy-paste! You use it all the time, right?
B: I don't use it to plagiarise, reproduce sexism, or pollute the environment.
A: OK, but it's useful & fast for me!
And um, that's really degraded thinking on A's part.
A: I'm allowed to use copy-paste! You use it all the time, right?
B: I don't use it to plagiarise, reproduce sexism, or pollute the environment.
A: OK, but it's useful & fast for me!
And um, that's really degraded thinking on A's part.