Brendan Schuetze

Brendan Schuetze

@schu.etze.co

Cognition, Learning Science, Quant Methods Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology at a “large university in the mountain west” Views may not be my own, but definitely not my employer's schu.etze.co

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Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

My work with Paul von Hippel on treatment effect heterogeneity was recently featured in this great article by Scott Sleek in the @psychscience.bsky.social Observer Magazine Pretty cool article if I do say so myself! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

psychologicalscience.orgWhen One Size Doesn’t Fit AllMany psychological scientists are now calling for a “heterogeneity revolution,” focused on uncovering individual and contextual differences in experimental outcomes.
Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

Come to Salt Lake, amazing quality of life in a top tier research university (and despite what google will tell you the metro area is not just 200k people)!

Cory Inman@brainscout.bsky.social

The Psychology Department at the University of Utah is currently seeking applicants for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Human Neuroscience. Please share the advertisement below with anyone in your professional network who is on the market! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/206...

Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

Excuse the assumption, but I'm just gonna to gather that Canvas simply doesn't have an "unplanned maintenance" splash screen for situations like this

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Lisa DeBruine
@debruine.bsky.social

I’m at the @improvingpsych.org online conference at a session about #PsyArXiv moderation, which switched from a post-moderation system (DOI assigned before moderation) to a pre-moderation system in 2025 for reasons that should be apparent on this plot.

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Dan Garisto
@dangaristo.bsky.social

Replying to @dangaristo.bsky.social

But not all directorates are getting grants out the door. SBE is still stuck at 2 (two) new grants and STEM Education isn't much further along.

Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

This should be national news. The mere fact that a single data center anticipated to use 2x the total amount of electricity currently consumed by entire state of Utah can be built based on the yea/nay vote of three county commissioners is absolutely wild

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com

Here's a look at the crowd of more than 600 Utahns on hand for the Box Elder County Commission's vote on a massive campus of data centers. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Read our live updates: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/04/utah-data-center-backed-by-shark/ 

Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

So cool to see this out in print after helping to collect the data 5 years ago!

Center for Open Science@cos.io

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

nature.comReliable research in the social and behavioural and sciencesSweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.
Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

Me: "R's not magic, you just need to read the documentation" Meanwhile, R...

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social

Ambulance callsigns in a real dataset imported with read.csv (left column, correct) vs read_csv (right column). This one got me.

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Elise Wang
@elisewang.bsky.social

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

I am a tyrant at conferences. I want papers to be polished and well-timed.

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Ryan Briggs
@ryancbriggs.net

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

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Thomas Lumley
@tslumley.bsky.social

Replying to @tslumley.bsky.social

There's more than one way to do it: Perl, R, Stan There's exactly one way to do it: Python, BUGS There's at most one way to do it: SPSS, SAS

Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

Am I understanding this right that IES restricted use data is currently unavailable for any new projects? Please tell me I'm missing something 😰

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Eiko Fried
@eikofried.bsky.social

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

eiko-fried.comWARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko FriedIf you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
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Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

Highlights of this paper for me include (1) a vignette that describes my own voting behavior, and (2) a series of figures that leave everyone a little bit unhappy but not unhappy enough to reject the paper All-in-all another great team effort from some of my favorite people to write with 😀

Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

In this article "Multiple text comprehension in contemporary contexts: Integrating broader understandings of affect, culture, and technology" we put discuss the complexities of multiple text comprehension in the contemporary digital world and how MTC research might be expanded to accommodate them!

doi.orgMultiple text comprehension in contemporary contexts: Integrating broader understandings of affect, culture, and technologyAs notions of reading have expanded in terms of what is read (e.g., screens, varied modalities, multiple texts), considerations of what influences reading processes (e.g., digital platforms, cultur...
Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

They. Said. It. Was. Fake.

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com

An experienced hiker was rescued Sunday morning after becoming trapped in quicksand for hours in a backcountry section of Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park.

sltrib.comHiker rescued after becoming trapped in quicksand in Arches backcountryAn experienced hiker was rescued Sunday morning after becoming trapped in quicksand for hours in a backcountry section of Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park.
Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

Happy to be hosting incoming One-U Responsible AI Postdoctoral Fellow Mingjia Hu along with @anamarasovic.bsky.social (U of U School of Computing) and Chenglu Li (Ed Psy)!

Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute@sci.utah.edu

💫 On the heels of announcing 12 new faculty fellows last week, SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative is excited to add three new postdoctoral fellows to its team next year: rai.utah.edu/postdocs-dec...

rai.utah.eduNew Postdocs Will Advance Tutor Chatbots, Bionic Hands, and Understanding of Pollution’s Impact on Reproductive Health - One-U Responsible AI InitiativeDecember 10, 2025 Mingjia Hu Mentors: One-U RAI faculty fellow Chenglu Li, assistant professor, Department of Educational Psychology; One-U RAI faculty fellow Ana Marasović, assistant...

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Roland Hatzenpichler
@environmicrobio.bsky.social

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

science.orgU.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborationsResearchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

Most weeks, I read through my Canvas course discussion board on Sundays for class on Monday evening. But of course this week, I decided to wait until Monday, and now Canvas has crashed beyond all imagination 😐

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BMC
@bmc.springernature.com

A Systematic Review in BMC Psychiatry finds that indoor rock climbing, particularly bouldering (combined with mindfulness exercises), can be an effective, and safe, adjunctive intervention for adults with moderate depression. Further studies are warranted. #MedSky #PsychSciSky

bit.lyEffectiveness of indoor rock climbing and bouldering as treatment for depression – a systematic review - BMC PsychiatryIntroduction Depression is one of the most prevalent disorders worldwide. In addition to psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and antidepressants, exercise therapy is frequently recommended, with emerging evidence highlighting the unique characteristics of rock climbing, including its potential to promote mindfulness, making it a promising therapy. This review aimed to assess whether rock climbing reduces symptoms of depression, the magnitude of effect, and whether effects are sustained long-term. Methods Systematic review conducted according to PICO framework and reported according to PRISMA-statement. Eligible studies were controlled trials assessing indoor rock climbing versus any comparator, including adults with moderate depression, with symptoms reduction on validated depression scales as outcome. Systematic searches were conducted in PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science (inception to January 2025), with no language or publication date restrictions. Screening (via Rayyan), data extraction, and methodological quality assessment (using PEDro scale) were performed independently and in duplicate. Clinical relevance was assessed using minimal clinically important difference (MCID). Due to heterogeneity of interventions and comparators, findings were narratively synthesized. Certainty of evidence was rated using GRADE. Results Out of 1,832 identified records, seven studies (reported in 10 articles) including 471 participants, met PICO-criteria. Included studies were conducted between 2015 and 2023, in Germany/Austria. Methodological quality was generally good (median PEDro score 6/10). Indoor bouldering (combined with mindfulness exercises) significantly reduced symptoms of depression from moderate to mild (e.g. -8.3 points on MADRS, exceeding MCID of 5 points), indicating a clinically meaningful improvement compared to no intervention (high certainty evidence). Longer duration interventions (8–10 weeks) were needed for effects to persist at 6–12 months (high certainty evidence). Four weeks of top-rope climbing also reduced symptoms of depression from moderate to mild, were sustained long-term, but did not exceed MCID (low certainty evidence). No adverse events were reported. Conclusions Indoor rock climbing, particularly bouldering (combined with mindfulness exercises), appears to be an effective, clinically meaningful, safe, and sustainable adjunctive intervention for adults with moderate depression. However, further high-quality trials are needed to isolate the effects of rock climbing from co-interventions and to compare it with established treatments such as antidepressants and aerobic exercise. Trial registration PROSPERO: CRD42024468119, date of registration: 24-01-2024.

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)
@improvingpsych.org

PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky

is.gdAbout PsyArXiv – PsyArXiv BlogWhat is PsyArXiv? PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is an open preprint archive designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the…
Brendan Schuetze
@schu.etze.co

I missed the last three words of this tweet when I first read it, and I thought JB Pritzker was turning into General Lee for a second

The New York Times@nytimes.com

President Trump, speaking at a news conference, said he was planning to send the National Guard to Chicago. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said the state was ready to fight the Trump administration’s plan in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...