Eiko Fried
@eikofried.bsky.social
Professor of Mental Health & Data Science at Leiden University. Studying mental health problems as systems (http://eiko-fried.com). Building an early warning system for depression (http://WARN-D.com).
Had the privilege to give a #SAA2026 keynote today. Showed early results from WARN-D ML competition, & EMA'd the audience on how different parts of the data—Baseline, EMA, Wearables, & Followup—contributed to predicting depression onset, with live leaderboard & two prizes. Got 220 live responses:
I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.
Wonderful #SAA2026 mentor meeting with Maya Matlack, Haya Al Sharaa, Afra Taygar (who collectively really doubled down on a single vowel!) and Chris Hughes.
The AC in my hotel in Vienna is ready for some of our US friends arriving at @saa2026.bsky.social #SAA2026 .. .. with a temperate range that mimics the truly arctic conditions at US universities (this one goes down 5°C / 41°F)
As a scientific society, we're committed to inclusivity and making sure everyone has a spot at the table. Registration is $500, we secured a discounted hotel rate of $250/night, & flights are $700+. Lunches are an extra $30/day. Travel awards for $200 available. See you there!
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 · last wk.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...
The first official data on the effectiveness of Australia's social media ban is out. Nothing unexpected, but it's worth reading. www.esafety.gov.au/research/soc...
If you read one paper on the conceptualization of mental health problems this year, make it this one. Much of it aligns closely with my views—bummer it's not published elsewhere. Curious what you think and which clinical, research, or logical weak spots you see. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
Frontiers | Problem-sustaining patterns: redesigning the concept of mental disorder
We propose the concept of a problem-sustaining pattern as a revision of the established concept of mental disorder. The proposed concept preserves valuable f...
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If was this years old when I realized you can hover over references in @zotero.org to open a preview ... wonderful. What other Zotero hacks are out there I probably don't know that will make my life easier? Actually while we're at it, I find dragging pdfs into zotero finnicky. Where to drag?
Prominent researchers in my field spent over 2 decades telling big stories about the relation between brain & mental health with very little robust data. This has led to really crazy stuff like this, impossible if we had not normalized this bizarre storytelling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
A scientist says he can scan prisoners’ brains for signs of evil. Did his disputed science put a man on death row?
Kent Kiehl convinced the US legal system he can find violence in prisoners’ brains. His theories have been since used by defense lawyers – with grave consequences for prisoners
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Of note, this study is about articles from PLOS journals who allow authors to decide whehter review reviews will be openly published alongside the article (very first sentence of paper). With this information, your DAG looks very different than with the information from the post / headline below.
Dalmeet Singh Chawla@dalmeet.bsky.social · last wk.Papers with publicly available peer-review reports are less likely to be retracted than are those without public reports, a new study has found. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @jeroenson.bsky.social, @jessicapolka.bsky.social
Anyone who has written a successful VICI proposal — would you share it with me per email, confidentially? Thanks a lot for considering.
Our platform runs for roughly €25/day — and anyone can publish on it for free. The APC for a single paper could instead keep ResearchEquals online for months: Nature: €10,000 → ~400 days Scientific Data: €2,390 → ~96 days PLOS Biology: $5,500 → ~190 days DM us if your OA funds need more purpose 😉
Anyway this really urgent grant writing I’ve been doing last week is going “very well” …
As a German, it always gives me immense joy to discover that there is a specific word for a very small thing. Just look at this sentence! "The Catalan Opening is a chess opening where White plays d4 and c4 and *fianchettoes* the white bishop on g2."
Can't express how excited I am about the possibiltiy of a new, amazing RTS, with at least a decade of wonderful tournaments and e-sports to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFhI...
ZeroSpace: Xol Gameplay Reveal - 2v2 Scarlett and CatZ
YouTube video by PlayZeroSpace
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Daggerheart's new "D of D" rule book title is a little on the nose ... where the first D stands for Dungeons and the second for Dragons I mean Drakkens. o_O
I just DAGsplained something to a friend! Is that how it feels @dingdingpeng.the100.ci ?!
Oldie but goodie: great tips on how to (not) design things. uxdesign.cc/the-worst-vo...
The worst volume control UI in the world
A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume…
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Good clarification by Sanjay about this paper: it's not further evidence that peer review is broken, as I wrote below, because "H1 Connect" is a post-pub recommendation service. bsky.app/profile/sanj...
Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 2w agoDamn why does psychology not drop currency symbols behind author names? I want to be Eiko Fried£££ Also, more evidence that peer-review is broken (lots of good evidence here: www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-a...). bsky.app/profile/aemo...
H1 is a recommendation platform. All the papers in this dataset have already gone through 2 layers of quality selection (publication, then nomination for H1 Connect). Low paper variance is what you'd expect if peer review works *well* - the opposite of what you'd expect in a pre-pub review dataset
Damn why does psychology not drop currency symbols behind author names? I want to be Eiko Fried£££ Also, more evidence that peer-review is broken (lots of good evidence here: www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-a...). bsky.app/profile/aemo...
Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · 2w ago"Here we show, in a large post-publication peer review database, that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research. " arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783
“In our most detailed model, judge-level effects explained 61% of the total variance, whereas combined paper and journal-level effects accounted for only 7%.”
Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · 2w ago"Here we show, in a large post-publication peer review database, that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research. " arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783
The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one. I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...
![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)
To celebrate the openESM paper release, I wrote a brief blog post summarizing recent developments: openesmdata.org/blog/2026-07... We: 💠added more data 💠provided descriptive visualizations for each item 💠created a semantic similarity mapping for items, making it easier to find related items
Updates: Paper published, new dataset & features
Our tutorial paper on openESM has been published, and we have added new datasets and features to the platform.
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Daniel Heck@danielheck.bsky.social · 3w agoOur article introducing the #openESM database for experience samling data, led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, has now been published 🎉 Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3... openESM interactive website: openesmdata.org GitHub repository: github.com/openesm-proj...
