Excited to share a Fulbright postdoctoral opportunity to join our lab at the University of Haifa. As a former Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow myself, I’m especially happy to now host future fellows. Open to U.S. citizens - deadline: September 15, 2026. Please share!

The deadline to apply has been extended to August 28. So, if you’re affiliated with a German or Israeli institution and are thinking about joining this great opportunity to exchange knowledge and develop new ideas, there’s still time to apply!

Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD@zivbenzion.bsky.social · 2w ago

Are you an early-career researcher in Israel or Germany with a Master’s degree or higher? Interested in mental health, stress, trauma, risk, resilience, or recovery? Join our GIF Young Scientists’ Meeting in Hamburg, Nov 10-12, 2026. Apply (by Aug 21): rc.medicalschool-hamburg.de/surveys/?s=E...

Are you an early-career researcher in Israel or Germany with a Master’s degree or higher? Interested in mental health, stress, trauma, risk, resilience, or recovery? Join our GIF Young Scientists’ Meeting in Hamburg, Nov 10-12, 2026. Apply (by Aug 21): rc.medicalschool-hamburg.de/surveys/?s=E...

Open label study w effect size comparable to open label studies on italian diets, except with "evidence of possible risk of increased suicidality". Althea co-sponsored study & author salaries. 4/8 authors are Althea founders/employees, lead author sits on board, CU Anschutz holds Althea equity.

Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · 2w ago

Real data from real people treated with psilocybin in Oregon and Colorado hot takes: lack of a dose effect AND comparable benefits for depression and anxiety improvement in people taking SSRIs @zenbrainest.bsky.social 5HT2A occupancy matters less than context? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Great time to plug this resource from the Schol Comm Lab! sfdora.org/resource/wha...

What is the h-index and what are its limitations? Or: Stop using the h-index | DORA

These short educational videos in animated and talking head formats provide an introduction to the h-index, a commonly used scholarly metric for assessing authors’ publication output and citation impa...

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Grand Labo@grandlabo.com · 2w ago

REPLAY - Faut-il en finir avec le h-index ? Il y a 20 ans, Jorge Hirsch proposait un indicateur pour mesurer l'impact des publications scientifiques d'un chercheur. 20 ans après, l'indice, critiqué, reste très utilisé. Avec le sociologue des sciences Yves Gingras. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0sJ...

Diversity, Intersectionality and Representativeness in Brain Health Research: https://osf.io/yuz85

In a new preregistered RCT with US and UK samples (N > 5k) led by Otto Simonsson, three brief meditation practices modestly beat a control group on negative affect. A multi-arm causal forest then identified who benefits from which practice (d=0.16, up to d=0.43). doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2026.105141

Multimodal large language models encode implicit gender bias: https://osf.io/gbnfq

Still time to apply for the GIF Young Scientists Interdisciplinary Meeting on Mental Health Risk & Resilience under Continued Stress & Trauma in Hamburg, 10–12 Nov 2026. ✈️ Travel & accommodation covered 📅 Apply by 21 Aug Affiliation must be with a German or Israeli institution. redcap.link/enpnf2y4

Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

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“Theory and Model Building in Psychology” New book edited by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and Alexander Wendt, with chapters by @ufeest.bsky.social, @devezer.bsky.social, @mieronen.bsky.social, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

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🤩 bingkaiwang.github.io/RCT_Bench-ma...

Send them this editorial! Short and sweet! jech.bmj.com/content/80/4...

Descriptive estimands, causal estimands, and avoiding the jungle of adjusted associations ‘in between’

The first recommendation for quantitative studies in JECH ’s recently published methodological recommendations1 for prospective authors reads: > Be upfront about the research study’s intention (this ...

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Are you subscribed to CAUSALab's YouTube channel? Our YouTube channel is a hub for on-demand #causalinference programming. Explore past Kolokotrones Symposia, the Methods Series @ki.se, and more. Subscribe for post notifications: youtube.com/@CAUSALab

What’s driving the overlap between psychopathology dimensions? Not comorbidity – nomorbidity. Most of our samples contain people with little psychopathology, and shared absence of psychopathology dimensions can look like shared presence if you assume a linear association in the population.

SIPS meetings happen once a year, but improving psychological science is a year-round endeavor! Because of this, SIPS is launching a Pop-Up Event series, where SIPS members can propose monthly unconferences, hackathons & workshops, open to everyone!💪 buff.ly/OFgUncY #OpenScience

SIPS Pop-Up Events

[See all Upcoming Events] Although SIPS meetings happen once a year, improving psychological science is a year-round endeavor. To help our community stay active outside the annual meetings, SIPS is…

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Now up at @oecs-bot.bsky.social ! Looking to wrap your head around concepts & terms (and debates) in emotion & mood research (“affective science”)? Here’s a go to. oecs.mit.edu/pub/bhn7j5s7...

When Waiting Becomes Part of Illness | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/psyc...

When Waiting Becomes Part of Illness

When healthcare answers are delayed, the psychological impact can be profound. Why prolonged waiting can feel threatening, and how compassionate communication can help patients.

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Today in schmeasurement: Critical methods review of literature on 'double empathy' in autism concludes that, of 20 studies, > the experimental measures in these studies are largely not making measurements that would detect cognitive or affective empathy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cognitive Empathy, Affective Empathy and Empirical Research on the Double Empathy Problem: A Critical Methodology Review - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Purpose The double empathy problem posits that autistic people and non-autistic people both lack empathy with the other side rather than the lack of empathy solely residing in one side. There have bee...

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#AcademicSky #EduSky #ResearchAssessment #ResearchMetrics How Research Metrics Began to Measure Everything Except Thought

The Arithmetic of Prestige: How Research Metrics Began to Measure Everything Except Thought

The emperor is naked, holding a dashboard

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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

Daniel Heck@danielheck.bsky.social · last mo.

Our 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...

www.psychotherapieverbund.de/todesstoss

Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nat. Mental Health (2026) rdcu.be/fsqkm

Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nature Mental Health - In this meta-analysis of 49 studies, the authors find that self-reports of childhood maltreatment are generally stable, challenging assumptions of inherent unreliability and...

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This is such a good watch! @olivia.science discusses why the current AI hype cycle isn't sth new, how women have been (and continue to be) objectified and displaced by inanimate objects, and why it's harmful for eg image generators to displace artists. And you'll get to learn about knocker-uppers

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2mo ago

☀️ 📚 Day 1 of the Summer School, we had the inspiring and thought-provoking keynote by @olivia.science, titled: “What is AI, and why is it harmful?” You can watch it here 🎬 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85... 2/🧵

A new paper by @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social, @mattansb.msbstats.info, me and colleagues just out! We show how to choose informative priors in Bayesian regression models using a systematic simulation study and a practical step-by-step tutorial in #Rstats and #Stan! doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... >

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

What we're getting wrong about teens and tech

For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

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"In many prestige-bottleneck fields, there is at least a language for luck.....Academia, by contrast, has a strong tendency to frame rejection as a judgement....the proposal is not compelling enough, the candidate is not sufficiently excellent blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Rejection in academia is structural not personal - LSE Impact

Unlike other high-profile professions, academia treats rejection as personal judgement, can it create ways of talking about rejection that are more realistic?

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Going to use this for a summer school I'm teaching at

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Published version now available in Current Directions in Psychological Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Join us for an online talk & discussion on extractivist dynamics in #OpenScience with Batool Almarzouq, @rosalbaicaza.bsky.social, and Ana Parrón Cabañero, chaired by yours truly. Friday 19 June 2026, 15:00-16:15 CEST. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Rethinking Open Science through dependency theory

Dependency theory explains how resources systematically flow from the “periphery

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