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Ioana A. Cristea

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Associate Professor @Unipd | Affiliate @METRICStanford | Scholar @FulbrightPrgrm | #Metaresearch #Openscience #Psychotherapy #Trials | @ERC_Research DECOMPOSE https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101042701

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · Mar 3

Our paper is out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social
~18 months of work.
Systematic search done 3X.
16k records screened. >500 full-texts consulted. 129 studies rated, analyses and data extracted.
Analyses redone at least 5X.
Paper substantially rewritten 3X.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A meta-analysis of the association of death anxiety with psychological distress and psychopathology - Nature Human Behaviour

This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to estimate the relationship between death anxiety and distress or symptoms of mental disorders. The findings suggest consistently positive associations ...

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 1d

I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Photos: Carol Guzy

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 2d

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Art in Focus | The Real Ophelia | Tate

YouTube video by Tate

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Emily Tammam @emilytammam.bsky.social · 3d

New writing, a short piece this time

emilytammam.substack.com/p/this-daugh...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 9d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

ICE Officer ‘Relieved of His Duties’ After Pushing Woman to Floor

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 11d

Must, must-read. Just drop everything, take an hour and read this, as I have. I wish these two parents would know that strangers like me who read their writings about their Martha will think long and hard about what happened, not forget and not be the same.

Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social · 21d

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 12d

The ‘pro’ reasons to share the paper with the authors of the p-curve before sharing are an uphill journey in cringe. Really terrible. Had Amy Cuddy written these back in the day, white knight saving science twitter would have crucified her.

Dan Chapman @chapmanresearch.bsky.social · 13d

Embarrassing stuff fellas

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 14d

Some researchers don't discuss their future research plans for fear of being scooped.

Not me. I drop bad ideas for unscrupulous people to 'steal'.

- What are the neural correlates of Open Science practices?
- What is the role of habits in learning a new skill through repetitive practice?

a man in a leather jacket is looking up and saying `` big brain '' while standing in front of a building .

ALT: a man in a leather jacket is looking up and saying `` big brain '' while standing in front of a building .

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15d

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police.

This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this.

“Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 15d

Of course I agree and know this, the point was that if we are chasing confounded associations, why only go for the ones that impact women?

Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 15d

Cool, cool, so acetaminophen is no longer ok in pregnancy, well we'll just use the *other* drugs on the safe list for pain (haha), fever...ah wait.
Now that we fixed this, can we focus on how paternal age and widening age gaps contribute to risk of ASD?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26055426/

Autism risk associated with parental age and with increasing difference in age between the parents - PubMed

Advancing paternal and maternal age have both been associated with risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, the shape of the association remains unclear, and results on the joint association...

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 16d

Our piece in @psyche.co, based on our perspective @thelancet.com Psychiatry
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 17d

New post for ResToRes. Real-world datasets are shaping clinical claims, but data patterns and transparency issues raise serious concerns. Our JAMA Psych letter with @ioanaacristea.bsky.social highlights several red flags in a study using the TriNetX database.

restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/a...

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Olmo van den Akker @denolmo.bsky.social · Sep 4

A meta-perspective by Malcolm Macleod on the presentations at #PRC10.

Are we going for low hanging fruit too much in research on peer review / publication?

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Olmo van den Akker @denolmo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ioannidis: Do we enough evidence for your proposed actions to improve peer review?

Macleod: The evidence is thin, partly because many journals are hesitant to accommodate meta-research, like RCTs.

#PRC10

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Olmo van den Akker @denolmo.bsky.social · Sep 3

John Ioannidis: "We need more RCTs"

I agree, so here is an urgent call to the representatives of journals at #PRC10: Let's empirically test suggested improvements to peer review like open reports, open identities, structured review, results-free review, collaborative review, etc.

Get in touch!

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Peer Review Congress #PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · Sep 3

Extreme, outlier citation concentration patterns can distort citation-based metrics, especially the #Hindex. While not implying misconduct they can serve as orange/red flags for further analysis.
@iakevdaimon.bsky.social @polytechniqueparis.bsky.social @uni.lu
Preprint at arxiv.org/pdf/2406.1...

The h-index, while popular, does not account for how citations are distributed across articles or authors. This is critical when citations are strategically concentrated to boost perceived influence.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Aug 31

We didn't randomize, and there was no allocation concealment or blinding, and we can't really be sure what intervention they got or how the outcomes were measured, but we emulated a trial by drawing a DAG.

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Aug 27

As a reminder, our comment published here (sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) showed that (i) randomization never occurred; (ii) irregularities in baseline scores, which for the same students vary systematically in ways that are unique to either the treatment or control group; ...

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · Aug 24

@floriannaudet.bsky.social?

Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · Aug 24

It’s not BMJ Open but BMJ Open Research. I see some Frontiers and MDPI, you mean in these cases they actually *do* some review?

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · Aug 24

@floriannaudet.bsky.social we did BMC Medicine but it was an IPD.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 22

‘Why, to avoid naming Boccaccio, did Chaucer invent a fictional Latin poet as his source for 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘴? It seems that Boccaccio already had a reputation problem.’

Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s dirty book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Barbara Newman · Dirty Books: Boccaccio’s Reputation

From the late Middle Ages all the way to Pasolini’s 1971 film, Boccaccio has been best remembered – understandably...

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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Aug 21

Effects of ketamine and esketamine on death, suicidal behaviour, and suicidal ideation in psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.25333796v1

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · Aug 18

Not an EU country, but someone sent me this on Linkedin, it is in Chile, but there is an analysis on % public funding via grants went into MDPI papers and also time trends in % of MDPI articles for Chilean universities.
revchilhistnat.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The MDPIzation of chilean science: a wake-up call about how we are conducting research and using public resources - Revista Chilena de Historia Natural

MDPI, a rapidly growing mega-publisher, has significantly impacted scientific publishing with a large number of open-access journals covering all areas of knowledge. Fast publication times, numerous s...

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