Olivia Kirtley
@oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
Assistant Research Professor & Co-Director, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven. Adolescent #mentalhealth, experience sampling, #SelfHarm & #suicide researcher, #OpenScience. All views my own.
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🆕Please Share!
Save the Date: 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 #EMCRF2026
Check back for details in due course: www.suicideresearch.info
Save the Date: 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 #EMCRF2026
Check back for details in due course: www.suicideresearch.info
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Save the Date: 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 #EMCRF2026
Check back for details in due course: www.suicideresearch.info
Save the Date: 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 #EMCRF2026
Check back for details in due course: www.suicideresearch.info
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Dear PsyArXiv users,
The moderation functions on the OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, have been repaired. 🔧
We are working to moderate any submissions that have been delayed, and expect a return to normal moderation wait times (24-72hs) soon.
Thank you for your patience!
The moderation functions on the OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, have been repaired. 🔧
We are working to moderate any submissions that have been delayed, and expect a return to normal moderation wait times (24-72hs) soon.
Thank you for your patience!
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Dear PsyArXiv users,
The moderation functions on the OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, have been repaired. 🔧
We are working to moderate any submissions that have been delayed, and expect a return to normal moderation wait times (24-72hs) soon.
Thank you for your patience!
The moderation functions on the OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, have been repaired. 🔧
We are working to moderate any submissions that have been delayed, and expect a return to normal moderation wait times (24-72hs) soon.
Thank you for your patience!
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Dear PsyArXiv users!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧
Thank you for your patience!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧
Thank you for your patience!
October 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Dear PsyArXiv users!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧
Thank you for your patience!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧
Thank you for your patience!
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My blog has moved! It’s now at sometimesimwrongblog.wordpress.com If you have links to posts in your syllabus, let me know if you have any trouble finding the corresponding post!
October 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My blog has moved! It’s now at sometimesimwrongblog.wordpress.com If you have links to posts in your syllabus, let me know if you have any trouble finding the corresponding post!
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Are you an ESM item measuring the quality of social experiences looking for validation? 👀
Because if you are, I've got some bad news for you. Our new preprint is out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
@gudruneisele.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social @lisapeeters.bsky.social @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
Because if you are, I've got some bad news for you. Our new preprint is out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
@gudruneisele.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social @lisapeeters.bsky.social @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
OSF
osf.io
September 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Are you an ESM item measuring the quality of social experiences looking for validation? 👀
Because if you are, I've got some bad news for you. Our new preprint is out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
@gudruneisele.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social @lisapeeters.bsky.social @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
Because if you are, I've got some bad news for you. Our new preprint is out: osf.io/preprints/ps...
@gudruneisele.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social @lisapeeters.bsky.social @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
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Don't let minor submission errors delay the publication of your research! 📝 🔬
Remember to check the full guidelines when submitting the manuscript to PsyArXiv (buff.ly/M3cRBW2).
Below, we also have a few friendly reminders!
Remember to check the full guidelines when submitting the manuscript to PsyArXiv (buff.ly/M3cRBW2).
Below, we also have a few friendly reminders!
September 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Don't let minor submission errors delay the publication of your research! 📝 🔬
Remember to check the full guidelines when submitting the manuscript to PsyArXiv (buff.ly/M3cRBW2).
Below, we also have a few friendly reminders!
Remember to check the full guidelines when submitting the manuscript to PsyArXiv (buff.ly/M3cRBW2).
Below, we also have a few friendly reminders!
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Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
September 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
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The first preprint of my PhD is out! Our review maps choices that researchers make throughout an ESM study from start to finish, including reporting and open science practices. We compare our findings to previous literature where possible, but also provide novel insights! osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
September 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The first preprint of my PhD is out! Our review maps choices that researchers make throughout an ESM study from start to finish, including reporting and open science practices. We compare our findings to previous literature where possible, but also provide novel insights! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳
Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission.
Learn more from our blog post👇
buff.ly/OtpsKhm
Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission.
Learn more from our blog post👇
buff.ly/OtpsKhm
September 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳
Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission.
Learn more from our blog post👇
buff.ly/OtpsKhm
Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission.
Learn more from our blog post👇
buff.ly/OtpsKhm
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Is your preprint still pending moderation? See our recent post about how to make sure getting it approved is a smooth process:
bsky.app/profile/impr...
(pro tip: you can make edits even while it's in the moderation queue!)
bsky.app/profile/impr...
(pro tip: you can make edits even while it's in the moderation queue!)
(1) Only submit to PsyArXiv if your contribution is within scope. Is it scholarly, and is it psychology?
(2) Include a title page with a descriptive title, all authors' names, and a contact email.
(2) Include a title page with a descriptive title, all authors' names, and a contact email.
August 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Is your preprint still pending moderation? See our recent post about how to make sure getting it approved is a smooth process:
bsky.app/profile/impr...
(pro tip: you can make edits even while it's in the moderation queue!)
bsky.app/profile/impr...
(pro tip: you can make edits even while it's in the moderation queue!)
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PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work!
Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)
#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)
#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
August 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work!
Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)
#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)
#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
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Just passed 25% of the backlog cleared 🎉🎉🎉
The dedication of our volunteers is impressive!
Mods: Please feel free to come to office hours on Monday if you want to work in community.
Mods-to-be: Hope to see you at Training #3 at 8 pm ET!
The dedication of our volunteers is impressive!
Mods: Please feel free to come to office hours on Monday if you want to work in community.
Mods-to-be: Hope to see you at Training #3 at 8 pm ET!
We are in awe of our community's response -- over 300 people have volunteered to moderate PsyArXiv! We’ve already cleared 13% of the backlog and expect to make even faster progress next week. Thank you for your patience as we work through this, and special thanks to our volunteers! 🎉 #PsychSciSky
August 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Just passed 25% of the backlog cleared 🎉🎉🎉
The dedication of our volunteers is impressive!
Mods: Please feel free to come to office hours on Monday if you want to work in community.
Mods-to-be: Hope to see you at Training #3 at 8 pm ET!
The dedication of our volunteers is impressive!
Mods: Please feel free to come to office hours on Monday if you want to work in community.
Mods-to-be: Hope to see you at Training #3 at 8 pm ET!
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New and improved 😆 Those who were at the first training will know we needed to 🤦♀️
See you tomorrow, we're so thrilled to see all of the interest in supporting @psyarxivbot.bsky.social
See you tomorrow, we're so thrilled to see all of the interest in supporting @psyarxivbot.bsky.social
Want to help moderate preprints on PsyArXiv? We're hosting a training tomorrow morning. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8114764450... More trainings are coming as well! Already registered using the other form? Check your spam folder -- some of our email invitations are going to spam. #PsychSciSky
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: PsyArXiv Moderator Training #2. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: PsyArXiv Moderator Training #2. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
us06web.zoom.us
August 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
New and improved 😆 Those who were at the first training will know we needed to 🤦♀️
See you tomorrow, we're so thrilled to see all of the interest in supporting @psyarxivbot.bsky.social
See you tomorrow, we're so thrilled to see all of the interest in supporting @psyarxivbot.bsky.social
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🧠🧠🧠 PsyArXiv needs you! Please sign up to join our moderator team. First cohort is getting trained on next Monday, with more trainings to come. Easy way to give back to this crucial community resource. Students, postdocs, faculty, all welcome - come one and all!
PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator
As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...
forms.gle
August 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🧠🧠🧠 PsyArXiv needs you! Please sign up to join our moderator team. First cohort is getting trained on next Monday, with more trainings to come. Easy way to give back to this crucial community resource. Students, postdocs, faculty, all welcome - come one and all!
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My conclusion from this is that preprint servers (and journals!) are entering a new phase of cat and mouse trying to contain AI slop (n.b., not mundane AI use, but nonsense generation). Peer review as a filter scarcely does better to ID this stuff. We need new & better tools to ID trustworthy works.
Preprint servers are strugging with an influx of AI content. "How do you do quality assurance while keeping things relatively light touch so the system doesn’t collapse on itself?"
by Traci Watson | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
by Traci Watson | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back
Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My conclusion from this is that preprint servers (and journals!) are entering a new phase of cat and mouse trying to contain AI slop (n.b., not mundane AI use, but nonsense generation). Peer review as a filter scarcely does better to ID this stuff. We need new & better tools to ID trustworthy works.
Thoughtful piece about the influx of suspicious #preprints (some involving AI) to PsyArXiv & other preprint servers. Wee mention of me and some of the preprint monitoring I've been doing in collaboration with PsyArXiv. Servers are not going to take this lying down. #OpenScience
Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools
go.nature.com/47sqZxw
go.nature.com/47sqZxw
AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back
Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.
go.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thoughtful piece about the influx of suspicious #preprints (some involving AI) to PsyArXiv & other preprint servers. Wee mention of me and some of the preprint monitoring I've been doing in collaboration with PsyArXiv. Servers are not going to take this lying down. #OpenScience
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Does anyone know of a direct comparison between EU countries in terms of metrics used to evaluate universities and/or academic researchers? I'm especially interested in whether one can contrast countries that use N publications with those that don't. I suspect it's not so simple though
August 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Does anyone know of a direct comparison between EU countries in terms of metrics used to evaluate universities and/or academic researchers? I'm especially interested in whether one can contrast countries that use N publications with those that don't. I suspect it's not so simple though
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A new study, based on an analysis of thousands of publications and their authors and editors, shows paper mills are just part of a complex, interconnected system that includes publishers, journals, and brokers. scim.ag/3H9kwwQ
Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds
Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers
scim.ag
August 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A new study, based on an analysis of thousands of publications and their authors and editors, shows paper mills are just part of a complex, interconnected system that includes publishers, journals, and brokers. scim.ag/3H9kwwQ
Watching to see if my code will stall or keep grinding through downloading preprints with the OSF API is *almost* as tense as last night's penalties... 🙃. #OpenScience
July 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Watching to see if my code will stall or keep grinding through downloading preprints with the OSF API is *almost* as tense as last night's penalties... 🙃. #OpenScience
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🆕 Following requests from authors, we have increased the word limit for all regular papers in Archives of Suicide Research to 5,000 words (Introduction, Methods, Results & Discussion)
July 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🆕 Following requests from authors, we have increased the word limit for all regular papers in Archives of Suicide Research to 5,000 words (Introduction, Methods, Results & Discussion)
Glad to see @cos.io coming out with a statement about this after an influx of suspicious preprints hit PsyArXiv at the start of July. Many more have appeared since the first one I spotted. I Automated checks can only go so far & documenting all of them is a lot of work. #OpenScience
Open infrastructures align transparency and rigor. By increasing the ease of sharing, researchers are more accountable to rigor, and readers are better able to evaluate it.
AI can upset that alignment creating a big challenge for open infrastructure.
www.cos.io/blog/evaluat...
AI can upset that alignment creating a big challenge for open infrastructure.
www.cos.io/blog/evaluat...
A Shared Challenge: Evaluating AI’s Impact on Open Research Infrastructure
OSF was designed to make open scholarship possible and easy to adopt, while upholding the values of transparency, credibility, and accountability. As we navigate the evolving role of AI in research, C...
www.cos.io
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Glad to see @cos.io coming out with a statement about this after an influx of suspicious preprints hit PsyArXiv at the start of July. Many more have appeared since the first one I spotted. I Automated checks can only go so far & documenting all of them is a lot of work. #OpenScience
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I've been working on follow-up to When It Is Darkest, after a hiatus.
When I published When It Is Darkest, I did so without an agent.
But I think that an agent would really help for book #2.
If you're an agent or know an agent who might be interested in representing me, please get in touch.
🙏
When I published When It Is Darkest, I did so without an agent.
But I think that an agent would really help for book #2.
If you're an agent or know an agent who might be interested in representing me, please get in touch.
🙏
July 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I've been working on follow-up to When It Is Darkest, after a hiatus.
When I published When It Is Darkest, I did so without an agent.
But I think that an agent would really help for book #2.
If you're an agent or know an agent who might be interested in representing me, please get in touch.
🙏
When I published When It Is Darkest, I did so without an agent.
But I think that an agent would really help for book #2.
If you're an agent or know an agent who might be interested in representing me, please get in touch.
🙏
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Nature News has a short piece on the survey we did in conjunction with the FAIRS meeting on responding to serious research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to tackle research misconduct: survey finds stark disagreement
Data sleuths and research-integrity officers have different views on how to handle allegations of wrongdoing in science.
www.nature.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Nature News has a short piece on the survey we did in conjunction with the FAIRS meeting on responding to serious research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Lonni Besançon faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges in response to his research integrity sleuthing during the COVID-19 pandemic
go.nature.com/4m5DN0X
go.nature.com/4m5DN0X
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed this scientist into a research-integrity sleuth
Lonni Besançon has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society.
go.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Lonni Besançon faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges in response to his research integrity sleuthing during the COVID-19 pandemic
go.nature.com/4m5DN0X
go.nature.com/4m5DN0X
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New blogpost. The shitshow that results when a publisher fails to check up on their peer reviewers, with authors caught up in a nightmare process. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/trou...
Trouble at t' (review) mill: How MDPI lets down authors
I guess many readers will have had peer reviews where the reviewer doesn't appear to have understood, or even properly read, the paper they...
deevybee.blogspot.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
New blogpost. The shitshow that results when a publisher fails to check up on their peer reviewers, with authors caught up in a nightmare process. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/trou...