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Tomas Formo Langkaas

@tflangkaas.bsky.social

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Clinical psychologist by trade. Interested in mental health, science, visual communication, emotions, music theory. Self-diagnosed introvert. Lives in Norway. Enjoys the outdoors. Occasional researcher: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-sSXrIgAAA

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Tomas Formo Langkaas @tflangkaas.bsky.social · Nov 3

Good to know I'm way ahead on this. Haven't published anything in years.

Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · Nov 3

I completely agree that people should be publishing less—to increase the quality of the work, to reduce content redundancy, to reduce burden on the editorial system. But I want to emphasize every chance I get: You do NOT need pubs to get into grad school. Please, let's stop this myth now.

Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · Nov 3

The change is palpable. I've worked for people (not much older than me) who only had a couple first authors when they got their TT job. Every post-doc I know has way more than that. Now it seems like people have to have a couple first authors to even get into some grad programs.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 19h

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Every authoritarian regime fears one thing above all, being laughed at.

It’s why fascists are obsessed with aesthetics, uniforms, posture, power.

Froggie desecrates all of it.... with pelvic thrusts and giggles.

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Tomas Formo Langkaas @tflangkaas.bsky.social · 21h

Great read on nosology, psychometrics, Meehl, and the category-dimension debate.

“Subjectively, the surface of human behavior is phenomenology; objectively it is meaning. Commitment to phenomenology and meaning, despite their scientific impenetrability, is the indelible mark of a human science.”

Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 22h

Something happened to the link in my post. Here is the link to, "The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology." ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/the-hard-q...

The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology

Reprinted by the author from: Turkheimer, E. (2017). The hard question in psychiatric nosology. Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry IV: Psychiatric Nosology, 27-44.

ericturkheimer.substack.com

Tomas Formo Langkaas @tflangkaas.bsky.social · 1d

Aktuell debatt: Hvordan sikre at psykologer er kompetente i psykoterapi?

For min del er det fortsatt en gåte at denne kompetansen ikke er bedre sikret i psykologers mangeårige grunnutdanning.

Skjermbilde fra to debattinnlegg i Dagens Medisin med titlene «Frykter at vi mister psykologenes behandlingskompetanse» og «Hvis arbeidsgivere skal betale for utdanning i psykoterapi, må de ha nytte av det»

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

John Stuart Mill failed to consider that creepy loser men would not react well to other people's liberty.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 2d

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience

Principles for proper peer review

jocnf.pubpub.org

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Donald Szlosek @dszlosek.bsky.social · 2d

I always wondered if there was a shorthand for summation similar to factorials #math #mathsky #statssky #statistics

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 2d

So, to no surprise, 'brand new ABA' is still barely considering whether its goals are relevant to autistic people.
Sigh.

Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 6d

In the recent (2020-24) ABA literature, 176 articles reported on functional analyses, of which a total of 20 (11.36%) included any assessment of their social validity?--& "no articles... assessed client preferences for functional analyses"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autism-relevant

A concise review of social validity assessments during functional analyses of challenging behavior

This concise review summarizes the trends and outcomes of social validity assessments specifically related to functional analyses published between 2020 and 2024. Results indicate that very little da...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

MBTI but for shoe sizes.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 3d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Olav @olavskonto.bsky.social · 3d

Har NRK skrevet noe i det hele tatt om at Greta Thunberg er kidnappet og torturert av Israel?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 8d

PCI Psychology! psych.peercommunityin.org

PCI Psychology

Peer Community in Psychology

psych.peercommunityin.org

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 4d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3d

I've said it before but the main reason why democracy is the superior system is that, while the average person is a moron, the average elite is even more moronic

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 4d

Amen. I tell my students that I'm not willing to outsource the activities that I can do with my organic portable. 🧠

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 5d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Tomas Formo Langkaas @tflangkaas.bsky.social · 4d

Time to repost this evidence pyramid from @statsepi.bsky.social again.

(statsepi.substack.com/p/the-cluele...)

An evidence pyramid, where thoughtful, well-conducted studies of any design, is on the top. From Darren Dahly.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 5d

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 5d

"ChatGPT-3 cost $50 million,
"ChatGPT-4 cost $500 million,
"ChatGPT-5, cost $5 billion... And wasn’t noticeably better than the last version"

<- Investors are gambling huge money on general AI. The hangover will be huge when they realise that these bullshit machines are about as good as it gets.

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Tomas Formo Langkaas @tflangkaas.bsky.social · 6d

Weather worsening.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 6d

Official VA emails advising veterans and federal employees to blame the "Radical Left" for the shutdown instead of Trump are facing criticism for using government channels for partisan propaganda, which violates the Hatch Act.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 6d

CW: depression, ideation (& the brain)

Case study: stimulation of the sustantia nigra produces acute, intense depression that dissipates as soon as stimulation stops. Wow.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17561432/

(FYI: In follow-up, the individual had no mood issues 5 yrs out; whew!).

Within a couple of seconds, the patient’s face showed an expression of utmost sorrow and he started to sob and cry violently. He repeated over and over again the words ‘‘everything is so dark’’, ‘‘please doctor I don’t want to live.’’ Upon direct questioning, the patient said that he felt very depressed. The stimulation was stopped, and within 10 s, the patient stopped crying and returned to his previous mental status.

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 8d

Where does one submit a methodological comment? Like, not a new method, just a "hey, have we thought about this?" kind of thing?

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