What I love about Bluesky is what I loved about old Twitter: if I want to find out about something (however recondite) there will be someone here (often with a PhD in it) and the time and patience to share their knowledge. /1
Brent W. Roberts
@bwroberts.bsky.social
Respirating carbon-based life form. Pit of despair dweller. Bread maker. Sometimes personality psychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.
Research | Personality Across Development Lab
Current Research Topics Leadership Emergence and Development Tackett, J. L., Reardon, K. W., Fast, N. J., Johnson, L., Kang, S. K., Lang, J....
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New Jingle assessment: we show that the "Perspective Taking Protocol" has very poor reliability and near-zero convergent validity with other nominal measures of emotional and spatial perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind. w/ @malte.the100.ci
PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 5d agoThe RFT Perspective Taking Protocol has very poor reliability and convergent validity with other measures of perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind: A jingle assessment: https://osf.io/jb6c4
📢 We’re hiring! Postdoc in Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment at the University of Greifswald. ✨ Lots of freedom for your own research ✨ Start Oct 2026 or later ✨ Long-term perspective toward a permanent position Deadline: 15 Aug Please share — and feel free to get in touch!
Research Associate (Postdoc) - Institute of Psychology 26/Sa23
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Psychologie
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Can one minute daily audio recordings replace long symptom surveys? Very excited about our new paper addressing this question! @aidangcw.bsky.social @vizecolin.bsky.social et al. Short 🧵 below...
Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries - Volume 56
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Very much enjoying this talk -- it provides a very nice counter-narrative. Doomerism about the younger generations is so depressing and not really justified given many tangible positive developments.
Candice Odgers@candiceodgers.bsky.social · last mo.Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers
A simple but (I think) compelling re-analysis of a paper that Director Bhattacharya frequently cites in his talks to claim that NIH-funded researchers no longer pick up the newest ideas. Dr. Bishop concludes the opposite using the same data. The original conclusion was contrary to my experience.
Dorothy Bishop@deevybee.bsky.social · 2w agoFurther analysis of Packalen & Bhattacharya article, where they claimed #NIH-funded research was slow to pick up on new ideas. I argue that their approach is flawed, and I present an analysis that shows the exact opposite. pubpeer.com/publications...
People prefer to use “sycophantic” AI systems that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs. In a new paper (n=7,227), we found that people enjoyed interacting with sycophantic AI chatbots more than interacting with neutral chatbots or “disagreeable” chatbots that challenged their beliefs.
This gets to something profound: both positive and negative (null) information are valuable for scientific progress, but our story-telling minds value positive information more, and this carries over to the kind of heroic narratives we tell about scientists.
Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2w agoCalibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/
![Comic. [Person 1 with short hair on stage behind podium reading off paper while addressing audience. People are shown sitting in chairs while Person 2 with ponytail and Person 3 waving are walking toward stage.] PERSON 1: This year’s Nobel Prize in “calibrating your equipment carefully and not embarrassing yourself by publishing spurious results” goes to Dr. Adams and Dr. Smith, who did *not* announce the discovery of microbes on Titan. PERSON 3: Thank you, thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihztdrvxjeyzmz6dmz3xb4vi6wiwwtge6fwdoxjcum5aptndv3kfm)
New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr
Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions
Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...
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Sarah A. Walker@sarahawalker.bsky.social · 2w agoCHUFFED to see this out! We built the Big Five Aspect Adjectives, an adjective measure that captures personality aspects below the Big Five as both traits & states, ideal for ESM. 4 studies, 3 countries. First evidence that states are valid at the lower levels. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
CHUFFED to see this out! We built the Big Five Aspect Adjectives, an adjective measure that captures personality aspects below the Big Five as both traits & states, ideal for ESM. 4 studies, 3 countries. First evidence that states are valid at the lower levels. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >
New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026
Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...
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1/2 New #openaccess Psych Methods paper: "Identifying Careless Responding in Ecological Momentary Assessment: Inconsistent Signals From Different Detection Methods in the WARN-D Data" led by @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Blog post on new preprint by @ashleylwatts.bsky.social et al. They argue that correlations among internalizing & externalizing may not derive from comorbidity, but nomorbidity. I use an accessible simulatiom study tosupport this, & relate the preprint to prior work. eiko-fried.com/blog/psychop...
Psychopathology structure changes with severity | Eiko Fried
A simulation study showing that psychopathology structure changes with clinical severity
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I am delighted that the opening segment of the latest episode of Very Bad Wizard features the workhorse of insightful social sciences in the 21st century: Latent Profile Analysis. Applied to boobs vs. ass, and also egalitarian values and materialism. verybadwizards.com/episode/epis...
Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app
RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
Assistant Professor in Metascience
Personal type: Scientific staff
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Our lab guide now includes an explicit AI usage policy: www.poldracklab.org/labguide/res...
ai_policy – The Poldrack Lab \@Stanford
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I thought about this for a few days and wrote up my thoughts here (how to make the conference 'work for me'). Tried to integrate these ideas with the wonderful solutions you already suggested (ISS, controversies, reports). Hope this helps! eiko-fried.com/blog/in-pers...
In-person conferences in 2026: yay or nay? | Eiko Fried
Some ideas on improving conferences so they are worth the financial, time, and ecological investments.
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New paper out now! We (w/ @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social) start from the observation that among adolescents in Leipzig, the gender gap in life satisfaction has doubled over time and ask: why?> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Great essay by @philipcball.bsky.social looking at the messy, complex *deeply physical* nature of the genome and the processes of gene regulation... 1/n
Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf the genome is not a blueprint, what is it? My attempt to unravel this particularly knotty question, in @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-huma...
"This is why accepting that half of research is not true is unreasonable, because almost no avenue of inquiry will ever be abandoned."
Red Team of Science@redteamofsci.bsky.social · 5mo agoA poll finds that priming research might be bad enough to save science. #metasci www.redteamofscience.com/p/the-missin...
After noticing another (significant!) drop in data quality this morning, I saw that Prolific is now recommending that participants be paid $48/hr
Sami Yousif@samiyousif.bsky.social · 4mo agoRecently, (recommended) prices at @joinprolific.bsky.social have doubled. Simultaneously, data quality and collection speed seem to have gone down noticeably (especially speed). Are others having this experience? These changes make the platform significantly less viable for our lab.
"a ‚significant' p-value between 0.01 and 0.05 should be interpreted with the expectation that the effect is exaggerated by more than 50% (median 1.56) and that an exact replication has about a one-in-three chance of also being significant." evidenceinthewild.com/p-value-look...
The P-Value Got a Lecture. It Needed a Lookup Table.
Ten years after the ASA told us to stop misusing p-values, we're still arguing about thresholds. Erik van Zwet and colleagues did something different: they asked 23,000 clinical trials what a p-value ...
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INITIATIVE: katinamagazine.org/content/arti... key feature of model is FAIR² Data Article, a peer-reviewed publication format describing a single dataset. The intention is to give datasets a level of scholarly recognition comparable to conventional research articles
A New Publishing Infrastructure Treats Datasets as Formal Research Outputs. Can It Work Across Disciplines?
FAIR² Data Management has big ambitions and shows real promise. But with early adoption limited, some crucial questions remain open.
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