Interesting new paper from Elias Bareinboim's lab: systematically leveraging monotonicity constraints for identification in graphical models. causalai.net/r116.pdf

Morgen früh aufstehen und mitskeeten! 📣 Ab 8h muss sich Ministerin Stark-Watzinger im Ausschuss für Bildung und Forschung erneut für mangelnde Transparenz in der #Fördergeldaffäre verantworten. Lassen wir sie mit ihrem Angriff auf die #Wissenschaftsfreiheit nicht davonkommen! 👀

Confused about how to select control variables in regression analysis? Read "Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification" by Anna Wysocki, Katherine M. Lawson and Mijke Rhemtulla journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…. Solid introduction!

Tonight is day 1 of a 3-day workshop that Peter Hull is doing on causal inference. You might call this "Peter's worldview on causal inference".

According to WHO, over 700,000 lives were lost to suicide in 2019, equating to 1,925 per day, or one every 45 seconds.

Der #DGPs2024 Kongress in Wien beginnt bald & wir freuen uns auf ein spannendes, abwechslungsreiches Programm! Auch wir haben einige Veranstaltungen, zu denen wir einladen möchten ⬇️

Is someone in psych studying the "AI girlfriend/boyfriend" apps that are increasingly sold now? Looks like interesting careers are to be made here…

Ein gewisses, Organ der deutschsprachiges Traumatherapie-Szene hat eine Sektion names „aus der Praxis“. Da darf man noch den himmelschreiendsten Unfug schreiben, es scheint immer durchzukommen. Was man da lesen kann, ist teilweise wirklich ganz knapp vor QAnon.

Data science "educators" are like "Here is how to evaluate the normality of your data, assumptions are SO important" and in the next course "Today I will show you how to use deep Q networks with experience relay to estimate the hierarchical Dirichlet process hidden Markov model"

Interesting special issue psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

This is our step-by-step protocol on how we try to implement #SCED|s in combination with #ESM/#EMA into a German outpatient research and training clinic👇🏻: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

What am I learning? Process evaluation = key at every stage of intervention development/adaptation —->implementation. So start with a logic model - what is the problem? what is causing this? how can we solve this? Then iterate & evaluate. Consider unintended consequences/harms.

New meta-analysis finds small effects for systemic therapy on a number of different outcomes. Couple therapy most effective for family system functioning, individual therapy for symptoms. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Delighted to share our latest: the effects of an *open-label* placebo injection on clinical outcomes & brain function in chronic back pain we gave participants a placebo (saline) subcutaneous injection -- and we told them it was a placebo jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… 1/n

Every time there is a new GPT model, people get all hyped about it only to find out three months later that it doesn't know how many Rs are in "strawberry" or something

Current meta-analysis shows large effects of CBT and exposure therapy for OCD. No evidence for significant effects of cognitive therapy and third-wave approaches, close to no research on other approaches. Intensive, short treatment seems more effective. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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