🚨 Call for papers at Clinical Psychological Science! I'm so excited to co-edit this special issue with Jennifer Tackett Alex Shackman on multidisciplinary clinical psych science. Empirical, simulation, & conceptual papers all welcome! Abstracts due April 1, 2024. Please share & RT!

Howdy folks, new paper just came out with Sy-Miin Chow, Sacha Epskamp | @sachaepskamp.bsky.social, and Peter Molenaar for fitting N = 1 graphical VAR models and using cluster-based methods to identify groups of people who share similar dynamic patterns. tandfonline.com/eprint/NTXCCIS…

Come work with me! I am looking for a postdoc to start as soon as possible. Some teaching, loads of flexibility! Plot twist: It's in Germany (close to Berlin). Here is the ad: uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/proj…

The language used to describe the behaviour of complex dynamical systems is very powerful and has been used for many years to theorize about psychopathology. Here are some excerpts from Sabelli et al. (1990) describing a model of bipolar disorder doi.org/10.1080/003327… 1/n

New Paper Alert: advances.in/psychology/10.… Comparing maximum likelihood and maximum pseudolikelihood estimators for the Ising model. By Sara Keetelaar, Nikola Sekulovski (Nikola Sekulovski), Denny Borsboom Denny Borsboom) & Maarten Marsman (Maarten Marsman).

Another important #psychometric #network paper from the Hudson Golino group. scholar.google.com/scholar_url?ur…

Very excited to host the first workshops on Network Psyhchometrics in Singapore this summer. Registration is still open! psychosystems.org/workshops-on-n…

How can we integrate empirical findings at the interindividual and intraindividual levels? In our new paper, we address this question by discussing the relationship between phenomena and theories at both levels.

Just in time for #aps24sf, the psychonetrics #Rstats package for (dynamic) SEM and network psychometrics has been updated to version 0.12 on CRAN! This is a massive update that should resolve many issues with the package (e.g., convergence issues and poor start values).

🚀 Registration for PSYNETS 2024 is OPEN! 🚀 Join the Psychosystems Lab in beautiful Amsterdam from July 1-4 to learn all about Network Psychometrics.🌟 More info: psychosystems.org/psynets-worksh…. Register here: forms.gle/caJHXW41ePZDNg…

ChatGPT often adds stuff to its answers that I didn’t ask for. After many fruitless attempts, I finally found a solution to this. I order ChatGPT to repeat 50 times: “I, ChatGPT, will not add things to my answers that nobody asked for”. Truth is stranger than fiction.

We have a phd position open at the UvA Psychological Methods department vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po… The project is on measurement in the psychological network framework, and is led by Lourens Waldorp and me. Deadline to apply: August 25

New study by The Centre for Urban Mental Health: ➡️urban living is linked to lower levels of social and economic satisfaction and well-being ➡️urban residents exhibit greater psychological inequality ➡️‘Goldilocks zone’ between cities and rural areas go.uva.nl/46dCMxc

I am very proud of this paper, which proposes a systematic method for testing whether theories putatively explain empirical phenomena. Congrats to the whole team, thanks to Noah van Dongen for pulling it over the finish line. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

It's out in Psychological Review! In this paper, we propose a method for testing whether theories explain empirical phenomena. Thanks Riet van Bork, Adam Finnemann, @JonasHaslbeck, Han, Jill, Jan Sprenger, and @DennyBorsboom for making this possible! tinyurl.com/52h6e42f

This is rich - one of the primary reasons scientists don't have a lot of time to think is that @nature and its ilk have promoted a culture where the primary goal of science is to produce bloated Nature papers that require lots of time and money, but little thought, to produce.

GPT-4o showing how close AI is to achieving AGI.

Proud to announce the exposition of my painting club at kunstRUIM: kunstruim.amsterdam/events-intern/…, open until 8 September. Anyone is welcome to take a look Wednesday-Sunday 12:00-18:00.

New paper on EWS beyond saddle-node bifurcations! Amazing work by Kyra Evers (with Denny Borsboom, Eiko Fried, Lourens Waldorp) Conclusions: - divergent predictability - scepticism abt. general statements - pessimism w regard to chaotic bifurcations doi.org/10.1007/s11071…