Edwin Dalmaijer

We had a theory-in-psychology workshop last year, and wrote up the paper "Theorytopia: Psychological Science in 2050". I think it's an inspiring and funny read. If you know of a good journal to send this to, or know an interested editor, would you let me know? <3 osf.io/preprints/ps...

A careful and practical guide to doing inclusive EEG, co-produced by Black and Hijabi students. So delighted to see this officially out in our tutorial section in Behavior Research Methods. Huge thanks to @damiancruse.bsky.social for submitting to us, and to two diligent and thoughtful reviewers.

What I love about academia is the random little jobs. For example, today I had to manually edit the xml of a Word document to save a student's corrupted manuscript, and then I had to effectively break into a building to teach because my classroom was locked and there was nobody on site to help.

Bit of a random blog post, but sometimes my weird little hobbies and work coincide: How to build a watch to celebrate an academic milestone! www.dalmaijer.org/2026/10/maki...

If you're unsure about modern medicine and whether to vaccinate your kids, I recommend visiting a local church's old graveyard. Look at the ages of the deceased. It's utterly devastating just how many children are buried there. We don't have to repeat this.

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Serious science question from one kid: "What happens to time in a black hole?" My highly inexpert answer was followed by the other kid: "What about if I threw a poo at a black hole?" Very relieved to know I only have to save up for one round of university tuition.

Ah, yes, this is the well-known standard set by ISO666 for computer code: compressed images of plain-text files pasted into a proprietary text editor format.

So, ehm, what the fish is happening? This seems like a weird way to self-immolate for one of the world’s foremost* institutions in this space? *Previously, now apparently a fish shop.

Every single humans rights org — including Israeli ones — have been telling the same story. Given that Israel still bars journalists entry to Gaza, which in itself is bonkers, how about we trust any or all human rights orgs. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

🚨New preprint🚨 Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Do adolescents who report feeling addicted to social media share a single behavioural-emotional profile? We analysed data from >7,000 UK adolescents and found, strikingly, that **47%** feel addicted to social media.

In this time of redundancies all across UK higher education, it feels a bit worrying when administrators take an interest in your work...

Learn the basics of #Python in 4 days! Join @dalmaijer.bsky.social for "Introduction to Python for Data Analysis" on June 23-26 to explore how to use Python for data analysis, including handling datasets and writing full analyses.

Average editor: Tick suggested names, send automated review requests. Good editor: Find relevant reviewers, send personalised messages. IEEE Systems Journal: Keep spamming the same potential reviewers even after they reject multiple times. One hundred “no” and one “yes” means “yes”, baby!

On the one hand, it's great to know people are using sunscreen. On the other, I would have preferred to learn this through other means than slipping off the building's greasy (but fresh-smelling!) door handle.

Big "for me, it was Tuesday" energy. Also, not all of us are like this! Some of us have a pathological need to be liked and will randomly wake up, drenched in sweat, stressing about that one slightly negative comment on an evaluation from 2021. Students can (and should) abuse these character flaws.

As part of the #InternationalWomensDay we had the pleasure to collaborate with @psychopy.org (@hirstrj.bsky.social @kimdundas) creating a workshop series to ensure everyone can get started with experimental design 🗣️ All materials are now open access! 🔗 wicseurope.github.io/WiCSeurope/r...

Actual email I just received: "🔥 NEW! Equine Castration Surgical Simulator 🐴" (emoji’s very much included)

Come work at the Bristol Baby Lab! Postdoc recruitment starting soon; read up and get in touch with relevant people now. (I’m not involved in recruitment, but always happy to informally chat about what the Bristol developmental psychology scene is like.)

Reads like an April Fool’s joke, but the last update to this was in October 2025. In brief: the Terms of Use suggest that Copilot is not a serious tool, can fuck up at any given point (no warranty), and users are solely responsible for any consequences (indemnity for Microsoft). Great software!

Amazing PhD project with a wonderful set of supervisors! This is a rare topic of study, so if you’re into it, embrace this opportunity!

Funded PhD position at the @exeter.ac.uk with your time split between Exeter and Queensland (Australia) Digital Haptics and Proprioceptive Learning in Surgery www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... (warning, slightly gory VR surgery video from our industrial partner)

⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪 Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪 PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓 More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Come work with me and @dr-appie.bsky.social in Amsterdam!

Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬 You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL) werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures... Please RT for karma points ♥️

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

Transparency is the default for windows, but we typically make an exception for those in bathrooms. So if you’re reading Psych Science on the toilet, you don’t have to preregister. Fully agree with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci: I don’t see what people find so hard about this.

The last year has been an extraordinary journey for us at @elife.bsky.social as we have been establishing a new model of publishing and taken on some of the commercial forces in publishing. We have tried to capture some of the takeaways in this editorial.

My 2-year-old said "suncream makes us warm", and boy was he unprepared for the inevitable stats lesson.

Looking forward to presenting our research on digital technology use and wellbeing at this session today, free to attend if you're in Cambridge! www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/lonel... @promiseproject.bsky.social

Pupil Labs postet a neat summary of our mobile #eye-tracking study on how people look at #insect #snacks in their blog: Pupil Labs blog: pupil-labs.com/blog/bugs-at... @dalmaijer.bsky.social's summary: www.dalmaijer.org/2025/12/fora... Puplication: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... OSF project: osf.io/t4azu/

I bet this has that marbly thock.

This was a fun and humbling experience. I was smug initially, before close-reading the rules and finding no contemporary data was allowed! MUCH harder to predict depression onsets with only 3+ month old data... I combined p-hacking, naive Bayes, and Kohonen maps; but doubt it’ll be good enough.

The fact that a Koch Brothers-funded front group is attacking @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and me over our book #ScienceUnderSiege (bookshop.org/p/books/scie...) is such an amusing, unintentional affirmation of what we have to say about who is behind the right-wing war on science!

On the one hand: yes, excellent, do this! On the other: how can you boycott a company that already loses money hand-over-fist without a pathway to profit that isn't infinite VC money and/or magical thinking about at some point summoning AI God?

The key to parenting is "show, don't tell". Model warm and open communication between you and others, and your kids will copy. Kids throw a tantrum? Throw a bigger one to demonstrate how annoying it is. They want to watch Frozen on repeat? Play Let It Go in 25 different languages in a row.

So there's a lot of other stuff to worry about for our US-based colleagues, but ehm, it looks like NSF has essentially just stopped giving out grants?

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/