Tomas Formo Langkaas

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.”

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»

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.

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

Principles for proper peer review

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

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

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

MBTI but for shoe sizes.

Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer

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...

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

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

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

PCI Psychology! psych.peercommunityin.org

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

"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.

Norwegian mountains

Weather worsening.

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.

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.

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!).

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

love the study; hate the result 😭

How is it that I've never seen this image before?

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

The word the guardian is looking for is torture. Children are being tortured you don’t have to soft pedal it. There’s a whole series of conventions about what constitutes it

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint.

I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

Filling classrooms with computers didn't have the huge and positive impact on learning that was promised. Filling them with tablets hasn't done it either.

I know this might sound absurd to many (especially politicians) but what if we filled them with highly skilled and properly supported educators?