Eiko Fried
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Eiko Fried
@eikofried.bsky.social
Associate Prof Leiden Uni. Studying mental health problems as systems. http://eiko-fried.com. Building an early warning system for depression at http://WARN-D.com.
Eicca found it hilarious my name is spelled with k rather than double cc ...
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I’d been to several concerts but didn’t recognize them. They chatted me up and I told them I’m flying to Berlin for music (small gig) and they were like “we are too” hahaha
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Hard to determine anything in statistics without making some assumptions. In this case, the much bigger assumption for me is that there are cleary, discernible, data generating mechanisms that generalize across people for which the Fourier transformation makes sense in the first place ;)
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
2/2

Results are complex & depend on the purpose you want to use EMA for.

Shoutout to the fantastic, highly interdisciplinary author team, with a special thanks to the amazing @aaron.bsky.team for making his awesome EMA dataset public which we used for this paper in addition to our WARN-D data.
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I went an hour ago and it was still too warm for running haha .. did you join AIMOS? I'm here for a little research visit
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I think I need to adapt my background image ..
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Reposted by Eiko Fried
Empirically, more extensive project descriptions do not affect the eventual decision anyway:

"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics
Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...
link.springer.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I mean it's >90% CV and <10% research idea o_O
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
☝️
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Missed it (although it's v clear in my own screenshot d'oh), thanks
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Aaaaaaah my bad! That clears it up, thanks
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I think the BMJ annually publishes a troll paper (maybe around xmas, if I recall correctly). They get lots of publicity / responses outside of traditional academic circles ;)

Here is another one: www.bmj.com/content/363/...
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial
Objective To determine if using a parachute prevents death or major traumatic injury when jumping from an aircraft. Design Randomized controlled trial. Setting Private or commercial aircraft between...
www.bmj.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
2/2
... has been disappointing. We now have more, not fewer, competing classifications than we had a generation ago, and in those areas where a consensus has emerged multivariate analysis has not played a crucial role."

Kellen, 1976. We're in the same spot pretty much exactly half a century later.
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Maaattt hi! We've found a home but I think @depressionlab.bsky.social may have stuff that would fit with yours perhaps!
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
"Teaspoon displacement & loss leads to the use of forks, knives, & staplers to measure out coffee & sugar, inevitably causing a reduction in employee satisfaction; in addition, large amounts of time may be wasted searching for teaspoons, both factors leading to decreased employee efficiency."
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM