Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries
trdevries.bsky.social
Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries
@trdevries.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen Health Complexity Center | Interested in contextual determinants of mental health (childhood adversity and stressful life events in particular), complexity science, measurement, and open science
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Day 2 of #ecdp2025 has kicked off with the keynote of Prof. Livio Provenzi on behalf of the DPB lab!

#EADP #devpsy
August 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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January 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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New blog post! Three reasons why (some) idiographic studies in psych leave me unimpressed: (1) failure to establish that there's meaningful variation, (2) imprecise estimates at the individual level, (3) the usual estimand confusion (is it causal? yes/no/maybe a bit?).

www.the100.ci/2024/10/28/i...
Idiographic Approaches in Psychology: Hold your horses
There have been persistent calls spurring psychologists to do more “idiographic” research, starting even before Peter Molenaar’s “Manifesto on Psychology as Idiographic Science”, which is already 20 y...
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October 28, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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I have a joke about experimental social psychology, but it doesn’t work if you repeat it.
I have a joke about scientific publishing, but I need to run it past my peers first.
I have a joke about affordable housing, but most of you wouldn't get it.
October 24, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Gonna be provocative again:

Almost all factor models are made up of formative indicators

#stats
The main reasoning seems to go like so:
1. A lack of fit of a 1d measurement model indicates that the items do not have exactly 1 common cause.
2. If there is more than 1 common cause, then, e.g., Cronbach's alpha does not measure the correlation between the outcome and the target of measurement.
October 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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I advocate for critical thinking about what “SES” is supposed to represent. Social theory & quantitative sociology provide good ways of doing this before selecting variables. Is it social status, ie. prestige you want to measure? Or social class? Deprivation? Each have different measures
Hey #EpiSky, ever wanted to learn more about measuring Socioeconomic Status (SES)? #SER has a playlist for that! To learn more:
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October 19, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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New update to {bayestestR} expands support for a tidy workflow -
working better with tidy inputs, `rvar`s, and post-modeling estimates, and generating tidy outputs!

@easystats.bsky.social #rstats

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Understand and Describe Bayesian Models and Posterior Distributions
Provides utilities to describe posterior distributions and Bayesian models. It includes point-estimates such as Maximum A Posteriori (MAP), measures of dispersion (Highest Density Interval - HDI; Krus...
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October 19, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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Differential effects of childhood maltreatment types and timing on psychopathology in formerly out-of-home placed young adults: http://osf.io/2vrjt/
October 17, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Open letter from a group of sleuths re problems with editors/papers at Scientific Reports
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
They've published 23K papers in 2024 with APC of £2090, raising £48 million from this journal alone, so should be able to put resource into cleaning this up.
An open letter regarding Scientific Reports
16th October 2024  to: Mr Chris Graf Research Integrity Director, Springer Nature and Chair Elect of the World Conference...
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October 16, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Hard to publish null results, academic prizes (e.g. Nobel) only for the spectacular results, late breaking sessions on science congresses for surprising findings with impact, … and we keep being surprised when hear news about scientists exaggerating results and fake their data
October 15, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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For those moving from Twitter to Bluesky the #SkyFollowerBridge extension for Chrome and Firefox is a very easy way to find people who you followed on Twitter.

Download and run the extension with your Twitter 'following' page open, and it finds suggested matches to follow (with a click) on Bluesky!
October 14, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Today is World Mental Health Day, and the theme this year is Mental Health At Work.

So it's a good time to share this study (N = 46,336), which suggests that individual-level MH interventions at work are not effective at improving wellbeing

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 10, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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New preprint! There are lots of interesting estimators that can be used to target causal effects, some of which aren't well-known in psychology. Arthur Chatton and I provide a (gentle) introduction to approaches commonly used in epidemiology: psyarxiv.com/k2gzp
September 15, 2023 at 8:28 AM