Thomas Meyer
@thmeyer.bsky.social
Postdoc & CBT therapist. Stress, trauma, fatigue, comparative thinking in self-evaluation. Akademischer Wildwuchs @uni-muenster.de @morinalab, formerly @uclpals.bsky.social, @CogPT_lab, & @maastricht_fpn
I p-hacked my early work on prejudice. It never felt like cheating. I now wonder if that's because I believed the cause was good. New essay on why scholar-activism is a dangerous turn for social psychology. If justice comes first, truth is what gets sacrificed. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
My P-Hacking Felt Like Truth
I became a social psychologist because I wanted to make the world a better place.
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy for post COVID-19 condition: A pilot randomized controlled trial authors.elsevier.com/c/1nQIj55zZe...
Sie machen einfach immer weiter. Auf Kosten der Schwächsten der Schwachen.
Alleinerziehende Eltern: Anspruch auf Unterhaltsvorschuss soll laut Prien mit 15 Jahren enden
Wenn unterhaltspflichtige Väter nicht zahlen, springt der Staat ein. Wegen hoher Kosten will Familienministerin Karin Prien den Anspruch darauf zeitlich beschränken.
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www.psychotherapieverbund.de/todesstoss
Jetzt mitzeichnen: Der Todesstoß – CDU/CSU und SPD entziehen Psychotherapiepraxen die Existenzgrundlage
Ein Änderungsantrag soll mit der Streichung der Angemessenheitsprüfung die wirtschaftliche Grundlage psychotherapeutischer Praxen vernichten. Am 10. Juli fällt die Entscheidung.
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Did a 90 minute webinar workshop for APA on depression measurement. They were kind enough to allow me to share this on youtube. youtu.be/5OwYjWao1hs
What Scale is Best? Understanding Sources of Validity Evidence for Depression Measurement
YouTube video by Eiko Fried
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Fellow Europeans, did you know about this alternative to COS/OSF? They have upload templates for the usual academic formats, but also data and even Bachelor's /Master's theses. www.psycharchives.org/en
Home | PsychArchives
PsychArchives is a disciplinary repository for psychological science and neighboring disciplines.
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Here we gooo 🤡🤡 Zahlenakrobatik vom Feinsten: Wenn man die Wartezeit erst ab Sprechstunde zählt, nur erfolgreiche Verläufe nimmt, und Probatorik als Therapie verkauft, dann werden aus 6 Monaten 14 Tage. Magie! 🪄📉 #Psychotherapie #Wartezeiten #vdek @tkaiser.science www.aerzteblatt.de/news/kassen-...
Kassen sehen Handlungsbedarf bei Wartezeiten für Psychotherapeuten – Deutsches Ärzteblatt
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Tim Kaiser@tkaiser.science · 2mo agoBist du auch so gespannt auf die Studie, die belegt: man wartet im Mittel vier Wochen auf einen Therapieplatz? 🤡
My 4yo looked me in the eyes, next to his mother, and said: “Mama, I love you most.” Social comparison only hurts with prediction error. I am a well-calibrated dad.
🚨🚨 Our article is now finally out in SCAN! 🚨🚨 doi.org/10.1093/scan...
Spatial encoding of a traumatic virtual reality scene reduces intrusive memories
Abstract. We tested whether enhanced allocentric spatial memory of a distressing scene can attenuate intrusive memories. Using virtual reality (VR), we dev
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Thomas Meyer@thmeyer.bsky.social · last yr.🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky
Yes yes you've had a tough year, but please spare a thought for the PHQ-9 ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🎉🥳📢: New article published in @commspsychol.nature.com! We show that causal attributions regarding success vs. failure modulate the formation and update of self-beliefs and these effects are moderated by self-esteem, pointing to the clinical relevance of the findings. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Been saying this for years: Don't submit to Frontiers. Don't peer-review for Frontiers. It's long been considered a predatory publisher by many in the field, including many who have worked as editor there.
Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
Guter Artikel über die Anreizstrukturen, die zu ineffizienter, teurer und nicht besonders guter stationärer psychiatrischer Versorgung führen. Was es bräuchte: mehr ambulante Versorgung, mehr stationsäquivalente Behandlung und flexiblere Abrechnungsmöglichkeiten stationär www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
Psychiatrische Kliniken: Drei Wochen auf Station, dann alleine nach Hause
Die deutsche Psychiatrie ist teuer, aber nur mittelgut. Die Regierung will nichts ändern. Das zeigt ein Papier, das der ZEIT vorliegt. Experten wüssten, was zu tun wäre.
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(1/20) Aus dem #Sittengemälde zum #WissZeitVG (t1p.de/05lxm): Befristungen [...] führten dazu, dass Studierende unter Dozent A eine Abschlussarbeit begonnen, unter Dozent B verfasst haben und von Dozent C bewertet worden sind – sehr frustrierend sowohl für Dozierende wie auch Studierende...
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(14b/20) Aus dem #Sittengemälde zum #WissZeitVG (t1p.de/05lxm): ... die Person lieber entlassen und die Stelle gestrichen wurde, obwohl ihre Arbeit von allen sehr wertgeschätzt wurde und für einen reibungslosen Ablauf enorm wichtig war.
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🚨🚨 Our article is now finally out in SCAN! 🚨🚨 doi.org/10.1093/scan...
Spatial encoding of a traumatic virtual reality scene reduces intrusive memories
Abstract. We tested whether enhanced allocentric spatial memory of a distressing scene can attenuate intrusive memories. Using virtual reality (VR), we dev
doi.org
Thomas Meyer@thmeyer.bsky.social · last yr.🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky
If you are interested in EMDR, you probably heard the story about Francine Shapiro "discovering" the method during a walk in the park. This story is largely wrong.
A Photograph Exposes EMDR’s True Origins | Skeptical Inquirer
Sometimes if you keep searching, digging, and sifting, you’ll find a nugget that is bigger than anything you expected. That happened to us when we looked fo ...
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Alles, was "man" zum Wal wissen muss, hat @perspectivedirk.bsky.social für @perspective-daily.bsky.social zusammengefasst (inkl. Zitaten von mir;)) perspective-daily.de/article/4449...
Deutschland und der Problemwal
Walversteherinnen, Schamanen, bedrohte Meeresforschende und Politiker. Haben wir den Verstand verloren? 3 Lektionen aus dem Waldrama.
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We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
Postdoc In Meta-science
Personal type: Scientific staff
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Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (100%, E 13 TV-L)
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Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Hope to see you at the Conference on Transparency, Technology and AI in Peer Review on June 5, 2026, which is organized in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. Register at: meta-eindhoven.github.io/events/
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Events ## META/e Conference on Transparency, Technology and AI in Peer Review **Eindhoven University of Technology, 5 June 2026** Maximum attendees: 100 **Organizers**: [Vlasta Sikimić](https://vlastasikimic.com/),...
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Warum fiebern wir gerade mit einem (!) Wal …?! Während unsere Spezies noch immer hunderte seiner Artgenossen jährlich umbringt und den Lebensraum aller Übriggebliebenen aktiv zerstört? 🧵1/4 www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...
It's #LoveReplicationsWeek! I'll be posting impressions from the talks all week here. >> You can still sign up for talks since we are sending out invites on the morning for new registrations. forrt.org/LoveReplicat... >> Slides will be shared in our Zenodo Community: zenodo.org/communities/...
Love Replications Week
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1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social. The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Against frictionless AI - Communications Psychology
AI’s greatest strength—removing friction from work and relationships—is also a liability. Prioritizing outcome over process, it eliminates desirable difficulties that drive growth. By subtracting effo...
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I got very lucky that twitter’s Golden Age and my postdoc period happened to align. I hope to see bluesky reach the same level of utility one day 🤞
UiO - Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet@unioslo-svfak.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Academic Breakfast Club is a seminar series to give researchers at the faculty the essentials of a successful academic career. Today, @dsquintana.bsky.social, held the talk "The essentials of social media for researchers" – I would't be where I am in my career if it wasn't for social media.
Apparently, there is still funding left in academia even though Springer Nature made $489 million profits off of it in 2024. And now they are telling researchers what great news that is. Let me fix this for you... (inspired by arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820) #springernature #closedscience
Ok researchers rise and shine, it's groundhog day - what better way to get you up to date with what has been going on at the FORRT Replication Hub? forrt.org/replication-...
The annals of Elsevier villainy are extensive, but perhaps their funniest gambit was when they started six "Australasian" fake journals that were really just sponsored publications for pharmaceutical companies, set up to launder their marketing as ostensibly peer-reviewed research.
