Eiko Fried

eiko-fried.comEiko FriedEiko is a psychologist, methodologist, and nearly photographer. On this website, you'll find his CV and information about his work, blog posts, papers, talks, videos, and other resources.

15 July

Started blogging again, with 2 recent blogs on my thoughts on the recent Nomorbidity preprint by @ashleylwatts.bsky.social, & some thoughts on whether it's still worth going to in-person conferences in 2026. Comment and subscribe ;).

arxiv.orgA cross-cultural dataset on the structure of social networks: The ENDOW projectWe present multilayer social network data from 50 communities, located in 29 countries around the world, gathered as part of the "ENDOW" project. The communities show exceptional diversity, from fishe...

Very interesting paper on differences in social network structures across incredibly diverse communities. arxiv.org/abs/2610.28793

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

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Friends in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, I'm taking a sabbatical from Sept. 2027 — June 2028, and my hope is to spend 2-6 weeks each in a good number of your cities. I would love your help with this.

sciencedirect.comsciencedirect.com

"4 papers by the author were cited in the original version of the article. This increased to approximately 94 papers in the revised version of the article." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dorothy Bishop@deevybee.bsky.social

an interesting retraction notice, (one of many) and a cautionary tale for those who think you can evaluate scientists by counting citations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Brent Toderian

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

theprogressplaybook.comCopenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for CitiesClose to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.

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Doug Parry

@dougaparry.bsky.social

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Are digital media eroding our attention? Our new review of 108 experiments finds a mismatch between claims about declining "attention spans" and what the evidence can actually tell us. Much of it concerns temporary distraction, not lasting changes. doi.org/10.1037/cep0...

doi.orgAPA PsycNet

bbc.comSerbia's veteran ruler Vučić concedes election to student-led protest movementThe populist right-wing leader of 12 years says it is "clear" his party has lost the vote billed as a referendum on the country's future.

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Refreshingly, a mainstream media outlet that isn’t mincing words. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD

@alelazic.bsky.social

What news to wake up to, feels unreal. :) www.bbc.com/news/article...

osf.ioThe Quantitative Psychologist Is Dead, Long Live the Quantitative PsychologistMuch of what quantitative psychologists publish consists of developing statistical methods, implementing them in software, and evaluating them in simulation studies. I argue that artificial intelligen...

"I describe 3 directions: collecting trustworthy data from real people, formalizing psychological theory now that computational modeling is within reach of any researcher, and rethinking methodological education so that students learn to judge the analyses that AI will run for them."

Sacha Epskamp@sachaepskamp.bsky.social

I wrote a short opinion paper on the uncomfortable truth Quantitative Psychology likely has to face soon. osf.io/preprints/ps...

bmj.comINSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trialsThe integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials, where there are serious concerns about the trustworthiness of the data or findings. Such concerns could b...

Closing down psych-networks.com. Was really fun making the site in 2016, wrote around 50 blogs, many of them tutorials. Will move some of the most read tutorials to eiko-fried.com in the next few days, but most of it will be deleted (because it's published as paper anyway).

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Gautam Kamath

@gautamkamath.com

How do you tell if authors fabricated their research results? Sometimes: they just tell you. Read, e.g., this caption carefully. Another banger of a post by my friend Nihar B. Shah on his blog, where he found at least 20+ such #ICLR2027 submissions: researchonresearch.blog/2026/10/20/s...

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Jack Wilkinson

@jdwilko.bsky.social

The integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials. These may be fraudulent, or subject to critical errors. INSPECT-SR is a tool to assess trustworthiness of RCTs - out today: www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Dear grant reviewer: we recognize and greatly value your expertise. Your service is absolutely invaluable to guide the decision on whether to fund this work. This is why we ask you to work for us, an incredibly rich funder, for free, and do so urgently, dropping your actual work. Kkthxbai <3

@domimaciejewski.bsky.social

Best academic auto response ever, from a colleague in Manchester <3

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Dominique Maciejewski 🟥

Adolescence is an emotional rollercoaster 🎢, but when is heightened emotion variability a sign of healthy decelopment and when of vulnerability? I'm over the moon that I got an #NWO #VIDI to set up a 5-year project to study exactly that www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/news...

tilburguniversity.eduVidi grant awarded to five Tilburg researchers | Tilburg UniversityDutch Research Council NWO has awarded five researchers from Tilburg University a Vidi grant of up to € 850,000.

Hey friends, I'm in Copenhagen next week and would have some time Monday 26.10 and Wednesday 26.10 for a talk, coffee, or lunch :). Is anyone around? Feel free to send an email. Sorry this is rather last minute.

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Daniel Lakens

@lakens.bsky.social

Metacheck is now hosted by Surf! This offers us the possibility to offer an all in one online solution. Before we advertise this more, we would love to trial the new tool with data managers and editors of Diamond open access journals who want to try out automated checks. Especially of data and code.

topcitedscientists.comTop 2% Scientists 2026 · Top-Cited ScientistsSearch the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list (science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, Ioannidis et al.), by name, ...

I saw the new Ioannidis / Elsevier ranking and (probably because I haven't been online too much in the last weeks) haven't really seen discussion about it. What are main concerns folks have about the c-score and the resulting ranking? topcitedscientists.com

One thing I found a little weird is the decision to divide a person's impact for every paper by the number of co-authors linearlyl. Means that generous PIs who acknowledge the important work of RAs and students by including them as co-authors are being disadvantaged over greedy PIs.

What I really like is that you can rather easily look at someone's impact compared to the "cohort" (people who started publishing in the same year), based on the full dataset you can download.

"We bring psychologists up to date on this issue [and] urge psychologists to abandon this mistaken view of human brains." Just beautiful.

Russ Poldrack@russpoldrack.org

I just came across this paper by Cesario et al. that has one of the greatest titles ever: " journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

German friend of mine was just dropped by their psychiatrist because they aren't lucrative enough. Psychiatrist appears to have a contingent of X patients, and coming once a month to pick up ADHD prescription isn't "worth the spot". Any German healthcare experts here: is this legal?

Arrive early at the airport they said. And so I did—3 hours before the flight. It's a beautiful morning, and nothing will go wrong. Terminal 3, gate M. Sure. Speedy boarding, no checked luggage, this should be trivial. It's 7.30am

On a plane in a seat? No one knows.

I’m surrounded by people who, when they got up this morning, did not plan to be on this plane. And I mean both this 5pm plane, but also a plane to the UK generally. But that’s what it is now. We’re coming, direct or not, and we’re committed to arrive at our final destinations!1!!

I sit and wonder what the future has in store. In the meantime, I'll fill out some feedback surveys. It is 2.30pm.

Update: I’m in a plane. On a seat. Still Flight #3. I’m full of hope It’s 5pm.

I insist the flight is at the earliest in 5 hours, given the delay. Some back and forth ensues. In the meantime, 'good news' from the flightdeck: Flight #2 is canceled :).

Thx to the kind & competent airline person who helped me out (& my partner, furiously booking in the background & providing mental health support), I get booked on Flight #3. It is 2.15pm. Wait, what is this? Flight #3 is delayed by 1 hour. As long as I can leave the airport today, I'm happy.

... the time it takes me to run through the airport. I missed it by around 3 minutes, the friendly later at the counter tells me. The Schiphol app sends me a notification to mock me. We book a new flight for 4pm. At least it's only a 5 hours wait. It is 11am.

Pretty quickly, the 4pm flight is more and more delayed. 5pm. 6pm. 7pm. 730pm. It is now 2pm. I call the airline. Sorry, no, we cannot rebook this flight (I call it flight #2 in my head) to flight 3#, because the flight is in less than 2 hours.

The security people stop securering. We stand and watch in awe as everybody leaves, the 15 or so machines and scanners and belts come to a halt. This goes on for 30 minutes. At this point, the hope for a 5-6 minutes queue is a relic of the long forgotten past. It is 10am.

At some point, we resume the security checks. The passport control machines all died, so they stopped security because there were too many people at the passport checks behind the security, I learn around 10.30am. I make it past all of this, to see that my flight is delayed by around ...

Where a friendly person tells me that their "system is down" so for technical reasons, the security slots cannot be honored today. I have to queue. It looks like Ellis Island here. The friendly security sign says: "Security line, 5-6 minutes". I give the security person a look. He shrugs.

The queue is actually quite fast. Still, 3 million people are 3 million people. 5-6 minutes are over prett fast. It's now 9.30am, 20 minutes until my flight boards. I'm about halfway through the security line. I look at other flights. People around me are a tiny little bit stressed.

Terminal 3, gate M. Wow, no line at all. This is a good sign. I scan my boarding pass, and it does not work. I ask for help. "See, your gate was changed to H. Terminal 2." Dearest reader, I am not making this up. It is 9am. I've been here for over 2 hours. My flight board in 45min.

Right, back to Departures 2, secret special place where you can skip the line a little. I've also know a hack where you can book a security slot (Schiphol app) to avoid the entire security line which looks massive. It's 9am. It takes a while, but eventually, I get back up to security.

Ok that walk is longer than anticipated, and there is another long security queue. Luckily I know my way around the airport, there is a lesser-known entrance and the back and ... my boarding pass does not work. I ask for help.

"Yeah, gate M ... that's Terminal 3". - "Oh, I know. I just came from there." And so it goes, until I am making my way back to Terminal 3. At least I know the way. It's 8.45am.

Wow the airport is full. I've been flying from here for a decade and even during COVID times, it was never that bad. Luckily I'm early. I queue for 30 minutes at the security checkpoint in Departures 3, nothing is moving. It's 8am.

Big announcement: go to Terminal 2 instead, security lines are moving must faster there. They even put up big signs now to walk there for security, and luckily, gate M is listed on there. This will surely work out.

@julianburger.bsky.social

Dear friends at Schiphol, please fix your shit. Sincerely <3

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Julian Burger

I will be reviewing grad school applications for the clinical psych program at Stony Brook this year. Students interested in personalization, case conceptualization, ecological momentary assessment, LGBTQ+ mental health, LLMs, and related topics, should consider applying. www.prplab-science.com

prplab-science.comPRP Lab | Stony Brook University

When you bought 2 concert tickets and ask a friend he wants to join you but you've been academia-ing too much that day ..

osf.ioTheorytopia: Psychological Science in 2050The year is 2050, and psychology has transformed into a theory-driven science—a Theorytopia. Drawing on initiatives and frameworks developed over the past decades since the Theory Crisis, three main a...

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...

eiko-fried.comMy inaugural lecture | Eiko FriedFull professor shenanigans, fancy hats, and a systems view of mental health.

Just received the recording of my inaugural lecture "Systems All the Way Down: Rethinking Mental Health Science as a Systems Science" and put it on Youtube. I talk about my vision for the DSM-6, and hope to turn this into a paper soon. www.eiko-fried.com/blog/my-inau...