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oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
Assistant Research Professor & Co-Director, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven. Adolescent #mentalhealth, experience sampling, #SelfHarm & #suicide researcher, #OpenScience. All views my own.
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Hey KU Leuven! 📢 Spot our posters around campus, scan the QR code, and share your thoughts on scientific progress. Snap a pic and share it with your research group. 📸 Join us for the survey results at our next club meeting on 26/3! 🚀 #KULeuven #OpenScience #journalclub

Congratulations to our @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on the preprint of her first PhD paper! If you're into #ExperienceSampling & careless responding, with a side of #OpenScience, check it out! @ambulatory-assessment.org

Hi SAA members, did you publish any ambulatory assessment research recently that you would like us to amplify? Just tag us and we'll repost! #AcademicSky

Some news! I’m excited to share that I recently began a term as the new Open Science Editor at Infant and Child Development, working with Sara Hart and an amazing international group of associate editors. What this will look like… 🧵

Join our next journal club! 🗓️ When: 26th March, 16:00 - 17:00 📑 Topic: Is the volume of scientific output outpacing its quality? Let's share our experiences and potential solutions. 🤔 How: Scan the QR code below to register! #KULeuven #Phd #OpenScience

Super cool project! Workshops on applied LaTeX, multilevel SEM, using web APIs, and more - a perfect toolkit for quantitative social science researchers

Good start to the week - The ESM-Q paper has now been accepted at Behavior Research Methods. A big thank you to @gudruneisele.bsky.social & Anu Hiekkaranta for leading this work as part of the @esmrepository.bsky.social team, as well as the 42 panelists! #OpenScience #measurement #ExperienceSampling

Elisabeth Bik has donated her $200k Einstein Foundation Award to create a fund to train and support research integrity investigators

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

What feature(s) do you miss in JASP? What should we add? How may we improve your analyses and user experience?

Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

Why does @weare.rladies.org have less than 1000 followers? We can do better than this #rstats folks. It is a terrific account to follow because every week not only we get to know a new member of the #RLadies community but we also get to read their R favorites, tips, and jokes.

APS invites nominations for Editor(s)-in-Chief of Clinical Psychological Science #ClinicalScience #Psychology Learn more and submit names by March 7 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

We're thrilled to introduce the Reproducibility Leuven Journal Club to the Bluesky! Our mission is to foster discussions on #reproducibility in research. Stay tuned for more info about our upcoming journal clubs. Let's build a vibrant #OpenScience community together!

🆕 Please share 9th Suicide & Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum Call for Abstracts Closing date 31st March. If you are an early or mid-career researcher working in the field of suicide or self-harm, this conference is for you. All welcome. 🔗 suicideresearch.info/2024/10/09/9...

Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist A guest essay by the psychiatrist Susan Mahler on her experience of depression (including treatments with ECT) and how she finds herself in a position where both lived and professional experience are failing her www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/confession...

“A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear.”

📣 New blog post 📣 - Head of the ESM Item Repository's Coding Team, Yoram Kunkels, shares his thoughts on working in an "academic start-up": esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#Y... #OpenScience #ExperienceSamplingMethod #DataScience

Exciting news! 🎉 Registration for the 2025 SAA Conference is now OPENED!✨ Join us in the historic city of Leuven from May 26–28 for inspiring symposia, talks, workshops and networking! Don’t miss out—secure your Early Bird spot now! www.saa2025.com #SAA2025 #KULeuven @saa2025leuven.bsky.social

The Center for Contextual Psychiatry, is now on Blue Sky: @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social ! Follow us for updates about our work on #ExperienceSampling, #YouthMentalHealth, #SuicidePrevention, #SelfHarm, #Psychosis, #DigitalMentalHealth, #Stress, #Measurement, & #OpenScience. #PsychSciSky #MedSky

Really amazingly heartening to see that academic discourse can also be like this

A great debut blog by Amanda, co-written by the brilliant @louiselasala.bsky.social! I was lucky enough to listen to a talk about this study and Luisa’s broader PhD when she visited the University of Bath - this blog and the paper are definitely worth a read!

This is now published! #OpenAccess #OpenScience Reflections on Progress, Lessons Learned, & Suggestions for Continued Improvement journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @drandreahoward.bsky.social @jnfrltackett.bsky.social @heatherurry.bsky.social @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social

Hello and welcome from the Discovering Liveability project team! We’ll be sharing updates here about our research as we explore alternatives to #SuicidePrevention and the term ‘liveability’. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the project and keep up to date 🔎

Just accepted at Clinical Psychological Science. In this study led by @juliejns2.bsky.social, we used data from the SIGMA study to look at the relationship between attachment, & loneliness & #SelfHarm thoughts & behaviours in #adolescents' daily lives. #SuicidePrevention #OpenScience #MentalHealth

The @esmrepository.bsky.social blog is back! In our first post of 2025, I look back at 2024 for the ESM Item Repository and give some sneak peeks about where we're going this year: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#O... #OpenScience #Measurement #ExperienceSamplingMethod

Last chance to sign up for the premiere of our film Data Shadows this Thursday (16/01 at 17:30) - come meet the film directors, artists and colleagues at the Filmpalast in Munich, and enjoy the one hour event and celebratory drink! Registration is free at the link below

'The time to act is now because, tragically, suicide rates are on the increase across the UK.' Thank you to our trustee @roryoc.bsky.social for sharing this piece as part of @thetimes.com Christmas Appeal. 💙 Read the piece and donate at the link: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

A question that comes up a lot in my consulting work is, "What are the most important data management practices a team can get started early, that will lead to better quality data?" In this new blog post I write about some of the core practices to implement. 👇 cghlewis.com/blog/project...