Bjørn Sætrevik

Research collaboration planning toolkit (v 0.24) Research collaboration planning toolkit Version 0.24 Instructions Welcome to the research collaboration planning toolkit. The current document is a template for filling out how the collaboration for a...

... potential collaborators can evaluate if the project is right for them.

Please try it out and give feedback!
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I was trained to write the Abstract last when preparing an academic paper: finish up the paper first and then summarize it. Over the years I've reversed this: I now write the Abstract as early as possible. This forces me to focus on a few key points, and gives structure to the rest of the […]

Some students I once supervised had assumed that a cross (†) in a journal article's author list meant that the author had died before publication... 😢 #AcademicChatter #ScientificPublishing

I've always found the typical "conflict of interest" statements somewhat lacking, in that they only mention (a lack of) financial conflicts. There is also a potential for non-direct professional gains, theoretical interests, supporting previous publications, researcher career interests, etc. Are […]

Thanks Mahmoud, I remember spotting that when it came out and wanting to give it a closer read. I love the COIs in that article itself! I've updated my mastodon reply post to include it among the referred literature fediscience.org/@satrevik/11...

"Competing Interests The author has no financial or non-financial competing interests to report. No benefits or expectations impinge on the publication of this article, apart from the expectation of objective scientific dissemination in the author’s professional role and as part of the funded project described below. The interpretation of the results is not biased by the author’s previous professional or scientific work."

Yes, that is the sort of think I'm thinking of acknowledging. I included something like that in a COI in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social some years ago: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Our #RegisteredReport is now published in #PersonalityScience: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27000710251378402 We tested all #big5personality traits against COVID-19 #PerceivedThreat and #InfectionPrevention. (1/3)

New in cognitive psychology, from @drsatrevik.bsky.social, Thea Granerud, Mona Nijhof, and @ams79.bsky.social: Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation
doi.org/10.1525/coll...

In an hour and a half (12:30 UTC / 14:30 CET) I'll give a lightning talk at the online BTS conference about the tool we are putting together for standardizing hypotheses.

Free registration: https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/
Tool: https://tinyurl.com/hypothesizer
Slides […]

In about two hours (12:30 UTC) I'll be hosting a hackathon where we'll work on a checklist for generating research collaboration statements. Register for free and join us in the brainstorming: bigteamscience.github.io

#BigTeamScience #BigTeamScience2025 #bts2025 #OpenScience #authorship […]

Big Team Science Conference The fourth annual Big Team Science Conference will be held virtually via Zoom October 6-8, 2025. The goal of this three-day virtual conference is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researc...

Functioning link: bigteamscienceconference.github.io

Earlier this summer I received a warning from Meta Quest that my 19 year old account was being used by a child.* They wanted me to confirm my age by sending them a photo of a government ID or credit card, which I was reluctant to do. Hence they suspended my Facebook, Instagram and Messenger account, I let the reactivation period lapse. I'm actually glad it happened, this was the push I needed to de-Facebook my life. Luckily I had already downloaded and deleted most of my data from the services. * I still don't know what caused this, it could be that my kids' use of a Quest headset on my account was analyzed in some way.

Thanks for your concern! But I sort of let it happen on purpose, it was the push I needed to get out of those services, and I'm glad I'm out of there now.

Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Ja, Kvam bygdemuseum.

A screen shot of a bullet list containing the following items: Teasley, S., & Wolinsky, S. (2001). Scientific collaborations at a distance. Science, 292(5525), 2254-2255. Bammer, G. (2008). Enhancing research collaborations: Three key management challenges. Research policy, 37(5), 875-887. Vogel, A. L., Hall, K. L., Fiore, S. M., Klein, J. T., Bennett, L. M., Gadlin, H., ... & Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. (2013). The team science toolkit: enhancing research collaboration through online knowledge sharing. American journal of preventive medicine, 45(6), 787-789. Yao, B. (2021). International research collaboration: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 37(2), 107-108. Coles, N. A., Hamlin, J. K., Sullivan, L. L., Parker, T. H., & Altschul, D. (2022). Build up big-team science. Nature, 601(7894), 505-507. Baumgartner, H. A., Alessandroni, N., Byers-Heinlein, K., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Soderstrom, M., ... & Coles, N. A. (2023). How to build up big team science: A practical guide for large-scale collaborations. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), 230235. Forscher, P. S., Wagenmakers, E. J., Coles, N. A., Silan, M. A., Dutra, N., Basnight-Brown, D., & IJzerman, H. (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of bi

I'm putting together a short bibliography of recent papers about #BigTeamScience, with emphasis on challenges and solutions for large social science projects. Am I missing any important papers? I'm in particular looking for any tools or checklists to use when […]

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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️

In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵

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The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

We found support for the most supported associations in the literature, that conscientiousness <-> compliance and neuroticism <-> perceived risk. Other associations occasionally seen in the literature were less strongly indicated, and there were some novel discoveries. (thread 5/5)

Our stage 2 with results and discussion has just been recommended at @pci-regreports.bsky.social (with @sebastianbjorkheim.bsky.social).

rr.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... (thread 4/5)

We measured personality in 2019, and perceived #risk and #compliance to #COVID19 infection control measures in 2020. To restrict hypothesis and analysis freedom, we received expert peer-reviews and adjusted our research plan with a stage 1 #RegisteredReport. (thread 3/n)

But cross-sectional measures are problematic, and there is a high number of possible associations, outcomes, and analysis degrees of freedom. (thread 2/n)

Do #personality traits predict #PublicHealth behaviour and reactions to #pandemics? Various traits have been suggested to associate with various outcomes, with varying strength of evidence. (thread 1/n)

The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

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Buying train tickets for British rail travel makes it all worth it. #AcademicChatter #TrainTravel #togferie

I just got a first round #PeerReview where #Reviewer2 just wrote "I did not find anything to comment on and congratulate the authors on a well written manuscript." That's gotta be a first. Reviewer 1 had a number of comments though, but they seem reasonable and constructive.

#AcademicChatter […]

I think the "streamlined review" option offered by Collabra: Psychology (@collabraoa) is under-appreciated.

Have you received a #PeerReview that you think was unfair, overly critical, based on a misunderstanding, or on scientific criteria you disagree with? Do you think you could have responded […]