Nico Trajtenberg 🐝
@nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social
"Animals appear to be so similar to humans that at times it is impossible to distinguish them" K'nyo Mobutu (antropophagus) Augusto Monterroso
Excited to share our new programme of Social Research Methods at Leeds @srmleeds.bsky.social, @emrinke.bsky.social & Jade Parker. Speakers include: Peter King, @janselby.bsky.social, @rsolymosi.bsky.social, @rjbeecham.bsky.social, Martina Feilzer, Sam Langton, Ieva Skyte, and Ana Manzano.
Incentives are for loosers Amazing post by Adam Mastroaianni If you work at a UK University, don’t read it unless you’re a psychopath or morally incompetent. Otherwise you will be forced to quit your job today www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives...
Incentives are for losers
OR: you must look at this fish and go insane
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Every time you’re tempted to make your abstract too wordy and flashy, remember Paul Allison’s 1975 paper in Psychometrica 17 words. The entire abstract.
Back to Manchester and, in a rather shocking turn of events, it's raining.
me explaining my coauthors that I have contributed to the paper
Why do people talk about their data in their research question? E.g. "Using a population-based sample with high-resolution estimates of fine-particle exposure, we aimed to..." The RQ is what you want to know and the data come after to help you study it. There's no reason to mix the two.
Future directions of IA in criminology by Campedelli www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Artificial Intelligence and Criminology
Machine learning is gaining momentum in criminology, and the unprecedented transformative power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to affect the discipline even more, perhaps in ways...
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New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
'I was the worst psychometrician among the psychometricians, and the worst philosopher among the philosophers. But I was the best psychometrician among the philosophers, and the best philosopher among the psychometricians' Amazing interview to Denny Borsboom! sciphipodcast.org/podcast/2019...
Episode 62 - Denny Borsboom — SCI PHI Podcast
On Episode 62, Nick chats with Dr. Denny Borsboom, Professor of Psychology and program leader of the Psychological Methods Group at the University of Amsterdam, about how he applies philosophy of scie...
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The worst cancer of UK universities are colleagues who use administrative roles just as promotion vehicles, invent extra tasks with no value for anyone, make everyone else’s life more difficult, and call it “leadership”. Dante should have added an extra circle of hell for these parasites
The term is starting, and I still think this was a good suggetion for the University of Manchester promo, despite the marketing team’s lack of enthusiasm.
New blog post in which we discover the secret to immortality: accounting errors. www.the100.ci/2026/08/08/m...
My Immortal Time Bias
Preamble: This shortie is my attempt to come up with an example that makes the problem underlying immortal time bias as obvious as possible. In Japan, people who reach the age of 100 are handed a co...
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"Never felt more seen in my life" (Image stolen to NoContextBrits)
Stop trying to explain what a p-value is in a single sentence (ICYMI) statsepi.substack.com/p/no-you-can...
No, you can't explain what a p-value is with one sentence (Parts I, II)
But I'm going to try and do it in as few as possible. #fml
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We actually have a new paper out just last month, in the @psychscience.bsky.social journal CPS, exactly on this topic — the crucial importance of transdisciplinary work in mental health science, and how psychology has the potential to become a hub science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The Future of the Biopsychosocial Model: Toward a Transdisciplinary Systems Science of Mental Health - Donald J. Robinaugh, Tessa F. Blanken, Emma K. Bridger, Agostina Casamento-Moran, Jill de Ron, Te...
The biopsychosocial model is perhaps the most widely accepted model of mental health. Yet the model is also surprisingly limited, failing to provide clear guida...
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · 2mo agoI consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Is Interdisciplinary Science Worth It?
"You don't want scholars answering to two or more disciplines. You want them to enrich and integrate their own discipline with ideas drawn from others."
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Any social scientist who is arrogant enough to ignore research or theories solely because they come from another discipline
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 2mo agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
Check this crazy sociologist with no survival instinct asking to have his degree removed Challenging the blank slate view and stating that sociology should be "open" to any combination of causes including biological as long they improve understanding unsafescience.substack.com/p/sociologys...
Sociology's Pervasively Dubious Assumptions
Welcome to Joshua Murray’s inaugural Unsafe Science post.
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What a disgrace: millions spent to reveal we're living on a potato. Even flat was better. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5660#media_g...
I realized that I was invoking the term 'configural psychometrics' on my updated website without defining the term. In fact it's a whole framework! So, I just sank half the day into writing this page that explains the framework from top to bottom. Enjoy! www.dynamicpsychlab.com/configural-p...
Configural Psychometrics — Idiographic Dynamics (ID) Laboratory
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The best moment of the year: The books I'll be reading during my summer holidays in Cádiz. ♥️♥️♥️
📢 Interested in collaborative replication, open science, and research methods in criminology? Join us at the inaugural meeting of #CRIMLabs, a new international Many Labs initiative, at @opencriminology.bsky.social pre-conference meeting (9 Sept 2026). Details in the leaflet 👇
The importance of real friendship: when you really need them, they're always there ❤️
