E. David Klonsky, PhD
Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Suicide, emotion, and personality research. Advocate for robust science. Also jiu-jitsu and combat sports 🤟🏼
- Had the opportunity to watch and coach some amazing competitors yesterday. Awesome performances by some awesome humans! And a really fun day. #bjj #jiujitsu
- Reposted by E. David Klonsky, PhDMood in minneapolis right now
- I’m back on Threads again. Want to give it another try? I’ve found Bluesky on the quiet side, I won’t support Twitter/X, and supposedly last month Threads had more activity than Twitter/X. Academic Threads seems pretty quiet still, but … if you join maybe we can change that?
- Harsh but… Qual researchers: qualitative research isn’t meant to be generalizable, and concepts like reliability and replication are positivist (or something) Me confidently: you want me to put stock in unreliable measurement of non-generalizable information that will never be replicated?
- This user blocks the quoter.Qualitative researchers' experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback w/ @ginnybraun.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social & @joannasemlyen.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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- A lot not going well in the world, but should the Iranian people take back control of their country from religious extremists, that would be a good thing.
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- 1000 times yes.
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- Reposted by E. David Klonsky, PhDExpect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
- Hello friends! I am partnering with the Zur Institute to offer a 3-hour training on January 16 (CE credits available) titled: "Understanding Suicide to Prevent Suicide: A Deeper Dive". Please consider joining or spreading the word. Would love to see you there! www.zurinstitute.com/webinars/und...
- Reposted by E. David Klonsky, PhDDean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
- Hard agree. In both academics and politics it often feels like folks disagree with their projection of what you’re saying. Often the disagreement with their projection is vehement.
- So much of complicated statistics (latent class/profile stuff, SEM, network analysis) seems optimized for publishing in ‘top’ journals without meaningfully improving knowledge.
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- Oh Philip Rivers. He’s awesome, and I’m rooting for him, but that looked like an old man who fell and needed a moment or two to get back up.
- Reposted by E. David Klonsky, PhD“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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- Two key trends in this small & exciting study: 1) Replicability may be improving, 2) Replicability of a study was unrelated to use of transparency indicators. This pattern echoes Klonsky (2025), which suggests the most critical reform is knowing “if we publish fragile findings, we will be found out”
- "Replication rates are higher than experts predicted and p-hacking is much less common than we expected!" replications.clearerthinking.org/three-surpri...
- I named my fists Social and Psychology because they’ll give you a beating that won’t ever be replicated. (Too soon?)
- Congratulations Dr. Mikayla Pachkowski!! 🎉 🎈
- Reposted by E. David Klonsky, PhDA gunman tried to silence my wife in an extreme act of political violence. Now, Trump has called for my execution because he didn’t like what I had to say. Gabby and I know, when others try to silence you, you must keep speaking out — and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.
- Reposted by E. David Klonsky, PhDI've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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- Not sure where this is from, but assuming it’s right, there are clear implications for countering the replication crisis and “false positive” psychology: Insufficient sample sizes are a primary culprit, and should be a primary target of reforms.
- I really didn’t like the decision to sacrifice bunt Guerrero to 3rd. And it’s still bothering me. When you’re 3 outs from losing the Series, I don’t think you can give an out away.
- 1/2 Really appreciate this issue being centered. I prefer a reframe. NOT: Initial studies need replication. RATHER: Confidence in a conclusion increases to the extent it is supported by converging findings from multiple studies by multiple investigators across multiple samples and measures/methods.
- Apropos of nothing, here's a brief paper of mine about how to make Psychological Science a robust and cumulative science. How to: 1) Produce findings likely to be robust, 2) Distinguish robust vs fragile findings, and 3) Motivate the field to use this knowledge. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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- Very cool issue on intensive longitudinal data, including a piece by @aidangcw.bsky.social and others on minimum sample size for estimating various parameters. Sometimes when we move beyond traditional self-report we neglect psychometrics and publish lots of noise. This work can help prevent that.
- Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment. Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
