Kevin M. King
@kevinmking.bsky.social
He/him. Something something Self control and quant methods. Professor of Psychology at University of Washington. All opinions are my own and correct. Co-host of https://thatimplementationsciencepodcast.podbean.com/
https://faculty.washington.edu/kingkm
https://faculty.washington.edu/kingkm
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Check out the intro video for the Insitute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being - we are so excited for all there is to come!
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Northwestern's Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being Anthem Video
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November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Check out the intro video for the Insitute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being - we are so excited for all there is to come!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyy...
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If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit.
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit.
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
This is a damn good paper by @anthonystevend.bsky.social on reporting and thinking and testing effect sizes in a thoughtful and principled way.
Here's a nice discussion of effect sizes in cognitive neuroscience, with real examples and an discussion of using null intervals. Lots of good advice here; if you've been interested in inference by interval, this is a great resource.
#Neuroskyence #stats
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#Neuroskyence #stats
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November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is a damn good paper by @anthonystevend.bsky.social on reporting and thinking and testing effect sizes in a thoughtful and principled way.
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Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
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One thing I feel strongly about:
The NIH peer review system is the beating heart of the agency and the whole US biomedical research agency. It is the worst system for assigning grants but no other system has been developed that is better. It draws democratically from the scientific community.
The NIH peer review system is the beating heart of the agency and the whole US biomedical research agency. It is the worst system for assigning grants but no other system has been developed that is better. It draws democratically from the scientific community.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
One thing I feel strongly about:
The NIH peer review system is the beating heart of the agency and the whole US biomedical research agency. It is the worst system for assigning grants but no other system has been developed that is better. It draws democratically from the scientific community.
The NIH peer review system is the beating heart of the agency and the whole US biomedical research agency. It is the worst system for assigning grants but no other system has been developed that is better. It draws democratically from the scientific community.
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NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
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This “study” has caused tremendous harm. It is used by conspiracy theorists to confirm their biases. Of course, the conspiracy theorists have their own massive conflicts of interest. Meanwhile, Wakefield fortunately had his license pulled, and he is held out as a martyr to “big science.”
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This “study” has caused tremendous harm. It is used by conspiracy theorists to confirm their biases. Of course, the conspiracy theorists have their own massive conflicts of interest. Meanwhile, Wakefield fortunately had his license pulled, and he is held out as a martyr to “big science.”
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okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
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We invite you to participate in an online study, which examines the relationships between personality traits and stress among Black LGBTQIA+ individuals.
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We invite you to participate in an online study, which examines the relationships between personality traits and stress among Black LGBTQIA+ individuals.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge
September 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge
Not only fraudulent. Wakefield had undisclosed COIs. The study was retracted. It was also a study of TWELVE KIDS.
There's nothing credible about Wakefield or his work at ALL.
There's nothing credible about Wakefield or his work at ALL.
Wakefield’s research was fraudulent. It wasn’t a matter of debate or interpretation, he made shit up and lost his license as a result. Fuck RFK Jr. for trying to validate him. And where are Congressional Dems on this? Where’s the bill to impeach RFK Jr.?
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation.
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Not only fraudulent. Wakefield had undisclosed COIs. The study was retracted. It was also a study of TWELVE KIDS.
There's nothing credible about Wakefield or his work at ALL.
There's nothing credible about Wakefield or his work at ALL.
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Wakefield’s research was fraudulent. It wasn’t a matter of debate or interpretation, he made shit up and lost his license as a result. Fuck RFK Jr. for trying to validate him. And where are Congressional Dems on this? Where’s the bill to impeach RFK Jr.?
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation.
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Wakefield’s research was fraudulent. It wasn’t a matter of debate or interpretation, he made shit up and lost his license as a result. Fuck RFK Jr. for trying to validate him. And where are Congressional Dems on this? Where’s the bill to impeach RFK Jr.?
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All of this takes me back (as so many things do) to Chris Rock’s “Black people vs. N-words” bit and that long-standing urge to separate the “good” Black folks from the ones said to be messing it up for everyone or not performing in ways that fit white middle-class norms. In this case, + masculinity.
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
All of this takes me back (as so many things do) to Chris Rock’s “Black people vs. N-words” bit and that long-standing urge to separate the “good” Black folks from the ones said to be messing it up for everyone or not performing in ways that fit white middle-class norms. In this case, + masculinity.
This format never gets old
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This format never gets old
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Check out this cool new experimental study by Jonas Dora, et al on the effects of negative mood ☹️ and alcohol intoxication 🍺🍸on reinforcement learning!!
Our experimental study on the effects of negative mood and alcohol intoxication on reinforcement learning in the Iowa Gambling Task is now published OA in Judgment and Decision Making: doi.org/10.1017/jdm.... as always, anonymized data, materials, and code can be found on the OSF: osf.io/ky3aj/
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Check out this cool new experimental study by Jonas Dora, et al on the effects of negative mood ☹️ and alcohol intoxication 🍺🍸on reinforcement learning!!
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Our experimental study on the effects of negative mood and alcohol intoxication on reinforcement learning in the Iowa Gambling Task is now published OA in Judgment and Decision Making: doi.org/10.1017/jdm.... as always, anonymized data, materials, and code can be found on the OSF: osf.io/ky3aj/
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our experimental study on the effects of negative mood and alcohol intoxication on reinforcement learning in the Iowa Gambling Task is now published OA in Judgment and Decision Making: doi.org/10.1017/jdm.... as always, anonymized data, materials, and code can be found on the OSF: osf.io/ky3aj/
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every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
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Apropos of nothing in particular
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular
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How is it that this problem, with its 21 data points, is so much easier to handle with 1 predictor than with 16 predictors?
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How is it that this problem, with its 21 data points, is so much easier to handle with 1 predictor than with 16 predictors? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
How is it that this problem, with its 21 data points, is so much easier to handle with 1 predictor than with 16 predictors?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/h...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/h...
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I should probably explain this, with context.
Over several years we have caught MANY researchers playing silly buggers with artificial cutoffs designed to engineer group differences.
(No one more so than the Vitamin D weirdos. One of the least reliable and most annoying areas of health research.)
Over several years we have caught MANY researchers playing silly buggers with artificial cutoffs designed to engineer group differences.
(No one more so than the Vitamin D weirdos. One of the least reliable and most annoying areas of health research.)
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I should probably explain this, with context.
Over several years we have caught MANY researchers playing silly buggers with artificial cutoffs designed to engineer group differences.
(No one more so than the Vitamin D weirdos. One of the least reliable and most annoying areas of health research.)
Over several years we have caught MANY researchers playing silly buggers with artificial cutoffs designed to engineer group differences.
(No one more so than the Vitamin D weirdos. One of the least reliable and most annoying areas of health research.)
I also got an email about rescheduling but nothing about what will be discussed. FWIW.
Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I also got an email about rescheduling but nothing about what will be discussed. FWIW.
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How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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If you’re an author, reviewer, or editor and want to learn about Registered Reports from one of the best editors around, go to this webinar!
Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)
Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)
Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social
📢 Join our upcoming Registered Reports webinar!
Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your research! We will cover the following topics:
- Two-stage review explained
- Tips for Stage 1 protocols
- Common author challenges
Register now: https://ow.ly/R6yH50Xptt0 #RegisteredReports #Webinar
Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your research! We will cover the following topics:
- Two-stage review explained
- Tips for Stage 1 protocols
- Common author challenges
Register now: https://ow.ly/R6yH50Xptt0 #RegisteredReports #Webinar
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you’re an author, reviewer, or editor and want to learn about Registered Reports from one of the best editors around, go to this webinar!
Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)
Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)
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Folks who are going to APS next summer: @olinotom.bsky.social and I are thinking of proposing a symposium on rethinking/reconceptualizing comorbidity (still finalizing a specific topic) and are looking for a couple of other folks to present. Anyone potentially interested? Feel free to DM!
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Folks who are going to APS next summer: @olinotom.bsky.social and I are thinking of proposing a symposium on rethinking/reconceptualizing comorbidity (still finalizing a specific topic) and are looking for a couple of other folks to present. Anyone potentially interested? Feel free to DM!