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
Lecturer @IESabroad
Ass. Dir. Data & Methods @psysciacc.bsky.social
Programm committee @improvingpsych.bsky.social
NO 2 WAR!
https://www.pronizius.com
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....
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
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
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
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
Pro tip: many medical workshops in Austria are free for students from related fields!! Even got to insert a pacemaker into a pig heart 😁
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
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/
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
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/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Danke dafür!
Vor einem Jahr begannen unser LBG Career Center & @univie.ac.at, Postdocs österreichweit zu fördern, unterstützt vom BMFWF. Jetzt folgt der nächste Schritt: Vienna Postdoc Career Day, 12. November. 👇
Vienna Postdoc Career Day 2025: LBG und Uni Wien setzen neue Impulse für Karriereentwicklung von Nachwuchsforscher:innen
Wien (OTS) - Seit einem Jahr arbeiten das Career Center der Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) und die Universität Wien zusammen, um Postdocs österreichweit Unterstützung auf ihrem Karriereweg zu bie...
www.ots.at
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Danke dafür!
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
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...
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
m.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
@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.
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
@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.
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.
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
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.
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
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.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
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.
Ein #Rant.
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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.
Ein #Rant.
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
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...
▶️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
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...
▶️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...
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
A reminder to those of us with international collaborations that it's Temporal Chaos Week!
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A reminder to those of us with international collaborations that it's Temporal Chaos Week!
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
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...
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
📅 Mark your calendars for SIPS 2026! 📅
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
📅 Mark your calendars for SIPS 2026! 📅
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
@scanunit.bsky.social please RT and support
Today's email to an associate editor, declining to review for a big corporate publisher. This one focuses on Nature Publishing Group's practice of funneling rejected manuscripts to their newer journals with hefty APCs.
![Dear Dr. [redacted],
It was nice to meet you at the [redacted]!
Thanks for thinking of me as a possible reviewer, as I am interested in the topic. However, I decline to review this manuscript - I often do this in the case of journals published by profiteering corporate publishers. For Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group charges an outrageous US$6990 to authors that has little to do with higher-quality service or journal processes and lots to do with a legacy first-mover advantage that it uses to exploit academia. This is rentier capitalism.
NPG funnels papers they reject from their most prestigious outlets to their newer subsidiary journals such as Nature Communications and Nature Communications Psychology, which academics go along with because they don’t (directly) foot the bill, and because, given the pressure academics are under to publish rapidly, they wish to take advantage of the reviews they may have already received from the higher-tier Nature journal. Because we are now live in a world where most studies can eventually be published somewhere, NPG has been able to exploit this by creating their own lower-tier journals and charging high-aspiration authors for the convenience.
This practice conflicts with my interest in universities and funders not wasting their money, which is why I do not wish to support it by contributing to the hundreds of millions of dollars of labor that academics donate to corporate publishers. Instead, I preferentially review, and volunteer as an editor for, diamond open access journals that are free to read and publish in.
For various reasons, including combating this strategy by which corporate publishers are extending the era in which they profiteer from university funds, many academics and funders now advocate for the Publish->Review->Curate model, in which academics publish their work immediately (on preprint servers, which prevents gatekeeping by editors), and then get it peer reviewed, preferably through low-cost…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kynaetyuzsp46xejc6mzpjle/bafkreiaoe55bbl7zqu7nkhem6uy74kmqxc5pkassyn5ofayrfwxy7my3ia@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
@scanunit.bsky.social please RT and support
Best time of the year! <3
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Best time of the year! <3
I am so proud of our amazing @scanunit.bsky.social interns N. Bislimi, @annakulesza.bsky.social, @emmalwood.bsky.social & A. Gaiswinkler, who led the Themen-Café “Trust in Psychological Science in the Age of AI” at the OIS @lbg.ac.at Conference. What a fantastic first step into the academic world!
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I am so proud of our amazing @scanunit.bsky.social interns N. Bislimi, @annakulesza.bsky.social, @emmalwood.bsky.social & A. Gaiswinkler, who led the Themen-Café “Trust in Psychological Science in the Age of AI” at the OIS @lbg.ac.at Conference. What a fantastic first step into the academic world!
Nice to see the Uni thriving. Yet many of the scientists who contributed to this success will have to leave in a few years. For those who don’t know — many researchers are on temporary contracts & can stay at one U. for a max. of 8y. After that, it’s either a permanent position (lol) or goodbye.
University of Vienna is among the Top 100 in the World University Ranking by @timeshighered.bsky.social for the first time, at rank 95! 🥳 This strengthens visibility & international connections for outstanding researchers and students worldwide. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...
THE Ranking – University of Vienna among the top 100 for the first time
University of Vienna has improved from rank 110 to 95
www.univie.ac.at
October 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Nice to see the Uni thriving. Yet many of the scientists who contributed to this success will have to leave in a few years. For those who don’t know — many researchers are on temporary contracts & can stay at one U. for a max. of 8y. After that, it’s either a permanent position (lol) or goodbye.
Great project and great leads! I’m honored to have shared an office with @kimdoell.bsky.social — I wish I’d asked for an autograph back then :P
Also grateful for the opportunity to have contributed to these BTS efforts.
Btw, if you didn’t know, the @btscon.bsky.social is happening right now! Join!
Also grateful for the opportunity to have contributed to these BTS efforts.
Btw, if you didn’t know, the @btscon.bsky.social is happening right now! Join!
Congratulations to @madalina.bsky.social, our former member @kimdoell.bsky.social and all of the 256(!) other collaborators for winning SPSP's Robert Cialdini prize for their manylabs project on how behavioral interventions can help address climate change 🎉
I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"!
You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Great project and great leads! I’m honored to have shared an office with @kimdoell.bsky.social — I wish I’d asked for an autograph back then :P
Also grateful for the opportunity to have contributed to these BTS efforts.
Btw, if you didn’t know, the @btscon.bsky.social is happening right now! Join!
Also grateful for the opportunity to have contributed to these BTS efforts.
Btw, if you didn’t know, the @btscon.bsky.social is happening right now! Join!
Spoiler: "data is generally not available upon request, and promissory Data Availability Statements are typically not adhered to"
boo! Aint cool :-/
boo! Aint cool :-/
My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
LnuOpen
| Meta-Psychology
open.lnu.se
October 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Spoiler: "data is generally not available upon request, and promissory Data Availability Statements are typically not adhered to"
boo! Aint cool :-/
boo! Aint cool :-/
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
With @epronizius.bsky.social, @monabielig.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social, @protzko.bsky.social, Olena Vitkovska, and Celina Kacperski, we'll explore the ethical tensions, institutional constraints, and political risks of doing science across borders—especially in times of war or crisis.
October 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
With @epronizius.bsky.social, @monabielig.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social, @protzko.bsky.social, Olena Vitkovska, and Celina Kacperski, we'll explore the ethical tensions, institutional constraints, and political risks of doing science across borders—especially in times of war or crisis.
@clauslamm.bsky.social & I contributed to a global study that analyzed 21 million trials across 30 languages, revealing semantic priming [SP] as a robust cognitive mechanism across cultures and writing systems.
Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Buchanan et al. show evidence confirming the phenomenon of semantic priming across speakers of 19 diverse languages.
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
@clauslamm.bsky.social & I contributed to a global study that analyzed 21 million trials across 30 languages, revealing semantic priming [SP] as a robust cognitive mechanism across cultures and writing systems.
Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
New tutorial alert! Crowdsourcing multiverse analyses to explore the impact of different data-processing & analysis decisions published in Psychological Methods.
Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social
Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
New tutorial alert! Crowdsourcing multiverse analyses to explore the impact of different data-processing & analysis decisions published in Psychological Methods.
Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social
Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
Emily J. Kate and Michael Feichtinger have set a good example and published the material from their workshop "From Data Chaos to Scientific Synergy: PhD Candidates and Mentors Working in Synch" in our Zenodo community. zenodo.org/communities/... All contributors, please follow! #osfestival2025
September 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Emily J. Kate and Michael Feichtinger have set a good example and published the material from their workshop "From Data Chaos to Scientific Synergy: PhD Candidates and Mentors Working in Synch" in our Zenodo community. zenodo.org/communities/... All contributors, please follow! #osfestival2025
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
If you have submitted a preprint to PsyArXiv in the last year or so and it *isn't* currently accessible, there's a good chance it's due to the document listing authors whom you haven't entered in the metadata.
September 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
If you have submitted a preprint to PsyArXiv in the last year or so and it *isn't* currently accessible, there's a good chance it's due to the document listing authors whom you haven't entered in the metadata.