Tamara Kalandadze

@tkalan.bsky.social

Assoc. professor in neurodevelopmental differences. AE for Infant and Child Development #DevLangDis autism I DLD I open, reproducible research I meta-research I language and communication difficulties and mental health I implementation science

New interview on the value of exploratory research. "My brief explanation of this crisis is that researchers didn't say ‘I found something interesting’, but ‘I found exactly what my fantastic theory had predicted, heureka’. And then they gave a TED talk." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧪

The crucial value of exploratory research » Eiko Fried

Exploratory research is vital for discovery, but often undervalued. Here I argue it is key to scientific progress & needs defending.

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NEW PAPER: How do we advance mixed methods in mental health research? doi.org/10.1136/bmjm... Mixed methods are widely recognised as valuable in mental health research, but aren’t as embedded as we’d hope and there are a lot of challenges that individual researchers and teams must navigate… 1/

Advancing mixed methods in mental health research

In the mental health research field, there is a need for effective and robust methodological approaches that are able to address complexity. In this article, we reassert the importance of mixed method...

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Very proud to have been involved with articles with a wonderful group of colleagues. I think the article lays out the different model of open-access publishing well and provides clear guidelines for engaging them.

Research in Special Education (RiSE)@rise-open-journal.bsky.social · last yr.

New publication alert! Open-Access Publishing in Special Education and Related Fields: Making Scholarship Freely Available to All riseopenjournal.org/article/id/2... @estherlindstrom.bsky.social, Jesse Fleming, Danika Pfeiffer, @tkalan.bsky.social, and @bryancook.bsky.social

Fully preregistered qualitative study examining open ended answers by scientists about what they think of QRP's & open science practices. I love that two independent teams analyzed the same data. Not surprisingly, themes replicate perfectly across teams. osf.io/n2gby

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Creating Accessible Research for the #DevLangDis Community A lot of research goes to waste 🗑️ This is partly because researchers rarely share results with the non-scientific community. Even when findings are shared, people with communication disorders find it hard to understand the research. 1/3

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Are there any mental chronometry experts out here? Im so frustrated by how little I know about what a meaningful reaction time difference is? Please tag relevant folks, I would love to connect with some experts