Olivia Kirtley
Assistant Research Professor & Co-Director, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven. #Suicide & #SelfHarm researcher, experience sampling, #OpenScience. Chair of Moderation at PsyArXiv. IASP national representative for Belgium. All views my own.
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyAbstract submissions for #SAA2026 close tomorrow - don't miss out! @ambulatory-assessment.org
- Only ONE DAY left to submit abstracts for #SAA2026 at @univie.ac.at ! Submissions close tomorrow, on the 30th of January 23.59 CET Submit now: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/submission univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/post-conference-workshops @ambulatory-assessment.org
- Reposted by Olivia Kirtley📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
- Thanks to our colleagues over at m-Path for featuring the ESM-Q on their blog. We developed the ESM-Q as a quality assessment tool and guideline for ESM items, led by @gudruneisele.bsky.social & @esmrepository.bsky.social, with a team of international delphi panelists. tinyurl.com/343w8dcf
- We’re launching a bi-weekly m-Path blog on #ESM / #EMA measurement, new papers & showcases. 🗓️ Every 2 weeks (Wed). First up: item quality. A paper by @gudruneisele.bsky.social introduces ESM-Q: a consensus checklist for good momentary items. 👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/our-blo...
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- Registrations Are Now Open: REAL Workshop in April! We’re excited to announce that registrations are officially open for the upcoming REAL Workshop, taking place 22–24 April 2026 at KU Leuven! Secure your spot here: 👉 www.kuleuven.be/samenwerking...
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyWe know that this time of year can be challenging. If you’re struggling, please remember that support is available. You can reach free and confidential support anytime via phone, text, or webchat here: findahelpline.com/i/iasp
- Reposted by Olivia Kirtley📢 PsyArXiv 12 Days of Christmas 🎄 🧑🎄 🎁 PsyArXiv moderators will be taking a holiday break from Dec 24 to Jan 4. Please avoid uploading work to the archive during this time to prevent a backlog, and expect some delays in moderation. We aim to clear any holiday backlog by Jan 16. Happy Holidays!
- Looks like it's Emily Carters and Rachel Sos all the way down... A fake paper is just the tip of the iceberg. Curious to know what the University of Cambridge will say about being affiliated with an author that's actually #AI. #ResearchIntegrity
- It‘s a whole lot weirder than you think. I started looking at the journals. The first few were, as I expected, predatory outlets publishing garbage. But then, there‘s one by a Dr. Emily Carter, whose institutional affiliation is supposedly Cambridge: pjbr.com.pk/index.php/jo...
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyClosing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyComing out of 3 week migraine (status migrainosus, look it up) & seeing my work — w/ @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @felienne.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social — in Rolling Stone. Guess I shouldn't be as depressed anymore based on facts 😌
- Reposted by Olivia Kirtley🆕Please share 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 Call for Abstracts: Closing date 27th March 2026 suicideresearch.info/10th-suicide...
- New preprint from @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student, @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social about effects of incentives in experience sampling research. Check it out! @ambulatory-assessment.org #ProudSupervisor
- Reposted by Olivia Kirtley🆕Please Share! Save the Date: 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 #EMCRF2026 Check back for details in due course: www.suicideresearch.info
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyDear PsyArXiv users, The moderation functions on the OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, have been repaired. 🔧 We are working to moderate any submissions that have been delayed, and expect a return to normal moderation wait times (24-72hs) soon. Thank you for your patience!
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyDear PsyArXiv users! The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧 Thank you for your patience!
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyMy blog has moved! It’s now at sometimesimwrongblog.wordpress.com If you have links to posts in your syllabus, let me know if you have any trouble finding the corresponding post!
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyAre you an ESM item measuring the quality of social experiences looking for validation? 👀 Because if you are, I've got some bad news for you. Our new preprint is out: osf.io/preprints/ps... @gudruneisele.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social @lisapeeters.bsky.social @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyDon't let minor submission errors delay the publication of your research! 📝 🔬 Remember to check the full guidelines when submitting the manuscript to PsyArXiv (buff.ly/M3cRBW2). Below, we also have a few friendly reminders!
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyOpen Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science Dates: 20-22 October Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyThe first preprint of my PhD is out! Our review maps choices that researchers make throughout an ESM study from start to finish, including reporting and open science practices. We compare our findings to previous literature where possible, but also provide novel insights! osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Olivia Kirtley🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳 Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission. Learn more from our blog post👇 buff.ly/OtpsKhm
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyIs your preprint still pending moderation? See our recent post about how to make sure getting it approved is a smooth process: bsky.app/profile/impr... (pro tip: you can make edits even while it's in the moderation queue!)
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyPsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyJust passed 25% of the backlog cleared 🎉🎉🎉 The dedication of our volunteers is impressive! Mods: Please feel free to come to office hours on Monday if you want to work in community. Mods-to-be: Hope to see you at Training #3 at 8 pm ET!
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyNew and improved 😆 Those who were at the first training will know we needed to 🤦♀️ See you tomorrow, we're so thrilled to see all of the interest in supporting @psyarxivbot.bsky.social
- Want to help moderate preprints on PsyArXiv? We're hosting a training tomorrow morning. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8114764450... More trainings are coming as well! Already registered using the other form? Check your spam folder -- some of our email invitations are going to spam. #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Olivia Kirtley🧠🧠🧠 PsyArXiv needs you! Please sign up to join our moderator team. First cohort is getting trained on next Monday, with more trainings to come. Easy way to give back to this crucial community resource. Students, postdocs, faculty, all welcome - come one and all!
- PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyMy conclusion from this is that preprint servers (and journals!) are entering a new phase of cat and mouse trying to contain AI slop (n.b., not mundane AI use, but nonsense generation). Peer review as a filter scarcely does better to ID this stuff. We need new & better tools to ID trustworthy works.
- Preprint servers are strugging with an influx of AI content. "How do you do quality assurance while keeping things relatively light touch so the system doesn’t collapse on itself?" by Traci Watson | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Thoughtful piece about the influx of suspicious #preprints (some involving AI) to PsyArXiv & other preprint servers. Wee mention of me and some of the preprint monitoring I've been doing in collaboration with PsyArXiv. Servers are not going to take this lying down. #OpenScience
- Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools go.nature.com/47sqZxw
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyDoes anyone know of a direct comparison between EU countries in terms of metrics used to evaluate universities and/or academic researchers? I'm especially interested in whether one can contrast countries that use N publications with those that don't. I suspect it's not so simple though
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyA new study, based on an analysis of thousands of publications and their authors and editors, shows paper mills are just part of a complex, interconnected system that includes publishers, journals, and brokers. scim.ag/3H9kwwQ
- Watching to see if my code will stall or keep grinding through downloading preprints with the OSF API is *almost* as tense as last night's penalties... 🙃. #OpenScience
- Reposted by Olivia Kirtley🆕 Following requests from authors, we have increased the word limit for all regular papers in Archives of Suicide Research to 5,000 words (Introduction, Methods, Results & Discussion)
- Glad to see @cos.io coming out with a statement about this after an influx of suspicious preprints hit PsyArXiv at the start of July. Many more have appeared since the first one I spotted. I Automated checks can only go so far & documenting all of them is a lot of work. #OpenScience
- Open infrastructures align transparency and rigor. By increasing the ease of sharing, researchers are more accountable to rigor, and readers are better able to evaluate it. AI can upset that alignment creating a big challenge for open infrastructure. www.cos.io/blog/evaluat...
- Since the 1st of these that I spotted, I've been working to download and document them all to try & identify patterns, repeat users, particular metadata, features of the preprint, etc. I've been reporting them to @cos.io support & working with the PsyArXiv moderation team. #OpenScience
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyI've been working on follow-up to When It Is Darkest, after a hiatus. When I published When It Is Darkest, I did so without an agent. But I think that an agent would really help for book #2. If you're an agent or know an agent who might be interested in representing me, please get in touch. 🙏
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyNature News has a short piece on the survey we did in conjunction with the FAIRS meeting on responding to serious research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyLonni Besançon faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges in response to his research integrity sleuthing during the COVID-19 pandemic go.nature.com/4m5DN0X
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyNew blogpost. The shitshow that results when a publisher fails to check up on their peer reviewers, with authors caught up in a nightmare process. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/trou...
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyNew blog post 📣 by @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social's @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on six things you can do with your ESM items apart from your main, substantive analyses. Check it out here: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#M... #ESM #OpenScience #Measurement
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyI recently taught a course on minimizing mistakes in science. The most convincing argument to my masters students was that you never check mistakes that support the expected outcome, you only check if the outcome is unexpected. That's a hugely important bias!
- As an update to the AI preprints issue with PsyArXiv, support responded and said the problematic preprints had been removed. Thanks to @cos.io & @improvingpsych.org, & @katiecorker.bsky.social, @dermotlynott.bsky.social, & @ianhussey.mmmdata.io for their helpful responses.
- Just noticed actually quite a lot of preprints shared via @psyarxivbot.bsky.social in the last 24hrs that seem like they might be AI-generated. They make little to no sense and do not seem like scientific manuscripts. Also lots of repeats. Anyone from PsyArXiv on this? @improvingpsych.org @cos.io
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyOver recent weeks I have heard about some trials struggling with the phenomenon known as “Lasagne’s Law.” I’ve flagged this issue before, but always good to revisit it and discuss what can be done to minimise it 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #121
- Anyone from PsyArXiv on here? I'm curious if the moderation or other checks include checking to see if a preprint is AI-generated. @cos.io @improvingpsych.org #Preprints #OpenScience
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyPlease share! New partnership with RSABI. Fully funded PhD scholarship (UK students only): Towards an enhanced understanding of suicide risk among those from agricultural backgrounds. Supervised by me and @katierobb.bsky.social Closing date: 21st July 2025 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Have you used the @esmrepository.bsky.social in your research, e.g., to find items, contribute items, conduct measurement research, etc? We need your help! Please share. #ExperienceSamplingMethod #OpenScience @ambulatory-assessment.org
- The ESM Item Repository needs your help! We're applying for funding 💰and we need people to tell us how they have used the Repository in their work. If you are willing to be contacted ✉️ by the Repository team to tell us more about this, please reply to this post and please share! #OpenScience
- Reposted by Olivia Kirtley📢 New paper alert! Invited review led by Francis Tuerlinckx for BJMSP on the latest developments in #EMA / #ESM research 📱🔍 doi-org.kuleuven.e-bronnen.be/10.1111/bmsp... A (very) short 🧵 below: @saa2025leuven.bsky.social
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- This looks like a really helpful resource. In our lab reading group this week, we read @abalkina.bsky.social & @deevybee.bsky.social's paper on paper mills (www.proquest.com/openview/055...). Qs came up about what to do if you spot something questionable, so this is a nice follow-up. #OpenScience
- Anyone can do post-publication peer review. Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature. Anyone can do forensic metascience. Anyone can sleuth. That's why we are launching COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides, an open source resource for all of the above. cosig.net
- Important read for suicide researchers (& everyone doing prediction modeling) on why sample size matters for machine learning-based prediction models. I see lots of articles using ML for suicide/suicide risk prediction with very small sample sizes & few cases. Let's move towards better practices!
- **New Lancet DH paper** "Importance of sample size on the quality & utility of AI-based prediction models for healthcare" - for broad audience - explains why inadequate SS harms #AI model training, evaluation & performance - pushback to claims SS irrelevant to AI research 👇 tinyurl.com/yrje52fn
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And even better, have an ORCID profile that’s open not private, and populated with your institution history, variants of your name you’ve been published under, and some publications to help with this kind of disambiguation. - Reposted by Olivia KirtleySuper happy of being invited to give a talk at the Leuven Statistics Day at the same time that #SAA2025 was happening. I presented some recent theoretical results on the consequences of measurement error on bias and statistical power in multilevel models osf.io/preprints/os...
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyI’m also super proud of @lisapeeters.bsky.social for presenting the first results of a massive registered report systematic review mapping the whole process of ESM research from design, preprocessing, and data analysis rr.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleySad that you missed out on #SAA2025 or unsure if you will be able to travel to Vienna for #SAA2026? We will offer an online participation option that will allow you to present live (in oral sessions) and interact with on-site participants in the sessions.
- #HPGVienna is so excited to host @ambulatory-assessment.org #SAA2026 conference in Vienna @univie.ac.at next year! 📆 Save the date: 3 to 6 August 2026
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyAbstract submissions for #SAA2026 will open on 1 December. Bookmark our website now to stay up to date on announcements and deadlines: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/ #SAA2025
- Save the date: #SAA2026 will take place on 3-5 August 226 in Vienna 🇦🇹. We will be hosted by @lauramkoenig.bsky.social @alearuf.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleySave the date: #SAA2026 will take place on 3-5 August 226 in Vienna 🇦🇹. We will be hosted by @lauramkoenig.bsky.social @alearuf.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyWhile I was unfortunately unable to travel to Belgium for the conference, I have uploaded the recording+slides+code for my #SAA2025 talk on multilevel multiple imputation for EMA research here: osf.io/xjg24/files/...
- Ain't no party like an @saa2025leuven.bsky.social party! #SAA2025
- At @saa2025leuven.bsky.social & interested in suicide research? Come & hear about participants' experiences of taking part in ESM studies on suicidal thoughts & behaviours in our symposium. Happening now at ZI 02.21! #SAA2025
- @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student, @benjaminkunc.bsky.social talks about his work assessing the structure & measurement invariance of ESM items to assess social experiences. Measurement matters! Preprint coming soon... #SAA2025 #ProudSupervisor
- Happening now at #SAA2025! @gudruneisele.bsky.social leading a symposium on ESM data quality & quantity. Kicking us off @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student, @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on careless responding. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #ProudSupervisor
- The things you see when you're at @saa2025leuven.bsky.social! If you're looking for ZI 02.21 and you find yourself in a mini museum, you're heading in the right direction! #SAA2025
- It's a beautiful morning to talk about all things Experience Sampling Method! Welcome to (now) sunny Leuven for @saa2025leuven.bsky.social! We hope you've had a good journey here & are ready to hear about some great ESM/EMA/AA research! #SAA2025
- So, normally it does look like this, but looking at the weather forecast, if you're travelling to @saa2025leuven.bsky.social, you might want to bring ☂️! 😬🌧 The welcome in Leuven is guaranteed to be warm though! #SAA2025
- It's almost time for @saa2025leuven.bsky.social! We are very excited to host 500 ESM/EMA/AA 📱researchers from across the world 🗺 in Leuven for the annual @ambulatory-assessment.org conference, starting on Monday. See you soon! #PsychSciSky
- 3 days to go! Badges are all set and ready to go 🌟 See you Monday at the conference! #SAA2025
- Coming to @saa2025leuven.bsky.social & want to contribute to advancing measurement in the ESM/EMA/AA field, & increasing transparency? Meet the @esmrepository.bsky.social team at the contributors' cafe, where we can assist you with preparing your submission & answering any questions! #OpenScience
- Do you like coffee ☕, ambulatory assessment 📱and #OpenScience 🔑? We are hosting a contributors’ café during lunch breaks & poster sessions @saa2025leuven.bsky.social. Come find the café to have a cup of coffee and contribute your items to the repository! #SAA2025 🧵 ⬇️ 1/4
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- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyThere is an urgent (!) need for more awareness, more skills and more solid advice on how to practice #OpenScience *responsibly* before we see more cases like this 👇🏻
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyMy editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Olivia KirtleyJust a reminder that the Open Science for ESM workshop by Prof. Olivia J. Kirtley and Prof. Ginette Lafit is also taking place on Friday, May 30th! @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social More info and registration here: gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/rese...
- This looks very exciting!
