Ekaterina Pronizius
@epronizius.bsky.social
Postdoc @univie.ac.at / scanunit.bsky.social, collab 🇦🇹 & 🇧🇪
Lecturer @IESabroad
Ass. Dir. Data & Methods @psysciacc.bsky.social
Programm committee @improvingpsych.bsky.social
NO 2 WAR!
https://www.pronizius.com
Lecturer @IESabroad
Ass. Dir. Data & Methods @psysciacc.bsky.social
Programm committee @improvingpsych.bsky.social
NO 2 WAR!
https://www.pronizius.com
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Yesterday, I gave a talk on Open and Reproducible Big Team Science as part of the lecture series hosted by the Psychology Graduate Students’ Association at the University of Alabama, US. I am grateful to Nell and @slewis5920.bsky.social for the invitation and the opportunity.
Excited to see what @annakulesza.bsky.social prepared for us :P
The #SAA2026 LOC is growing - welcome on board, Anna! Anna is a psychology student at @univie.ac.at and will support planning and communications. Anna and @lauramkoenig.bsky.social are currently working on a little surprise for you. Stay tuned and learn more at the end of the week...
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Excited to see what @annakulesza.bsky.social prepared for us :P
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
🌟 Love Methods Week 2026 🌟
📅 19–23 January 2026 | 💻 Online
Join us for a full week of workshops & talks designed to boost the robustness, transparency, and reproducibility of your research methods!
#LoveMethods26
🔗 Learn more / Register 👇
📅 19–23 January 2026 | 💻 Online
Join us for a full week of workshops & talks designed to boost the robustness, transparency, and reproducibility of your research methods!
#LoveMethods26
🔗 Learn more / Register 👇
Love Methods Week 2026 – Excelsior
excelscior.uc.pt
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🌟 Love Methods Week 2026 🌟
📅 19–23 January 2026 | 💻 Online
Join us for a full week of workshops & talks designed to boost the robustness, transparency, and reproducibility of your research methods!
#LoveMethods26
🔗 Learn more / Register 👇
📅 19–23 January 2026 | 💻 Online
Join us for a full week of workshops & talks designed to boost the robustness, transparency, and reproducibility of your research methods!
#LoveMethods26
🔗 Learn more / Register 👇
Yesterday, I gave a talk on Open and Reproducible Big Team Science as part of the lecture series hosted by the Psychology Graduate Students’ Association at the University of Alabama, US. I am grateful to Nell and @slewis5920.bsky.social for the invitation and the opportunity.
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Yesterday, I gave a talk on Open and Reproducible Big Team Science as part of the lecture series hosted by the Psychology Graduate Students’ Association at the University of Alabama, US. I am grateful to Nell and @slewis5920.bsky.social for the invitation and the opportunity.
The Neural Foundations of Empathy in Borderline Personality Disorder" published in Persönlichkeitsstörungen (GER) elibrary.klett-cotta.de/article/10.2...
In diesem Artikel fassen wir zentrale Komponenten der Empathie und deren Veränderungen bei der Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung (BPS) zusammen.
In diesem Artikel fassen wir zentrale Komponenten der Empathie und deren Veränderungen bei der Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung (BPS) zusammen.
Die neuronalen Grundlagen der Empathie bei Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung
Die Erforschung der Empathie, die Fähigkeit, sich in die Gefühle anderer hineinzuversetzen, eröffnet Einblicke sowohl in normatives als auch in ver...
elibrary.klett-cotta.de
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Neural Foundations of Empathy in Borderline Personality Disorder" published in Persönlichkeitsstörungen (GER) elibrary.klett-cotta.de/article/10.2...
In diesem Artikel fassen wir zentrale Komponenten der Empathie und deren Veränderungen bei der Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung (BPS) zusammen.
In diesem Artikel fassen wir zentrale Komponenten der Empathie und deren Veränderungen bei der Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung (BPS) zusammen.
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
Last weekend’s lab hike came with maximum fog and minimum views of Vienna 😶🌫️. The company more than made up for it though 🫶
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Last weekend’s lab hike came with maximum fog and minimum views of Vienna 😶🌫️. The company more than made up for it though 🫶
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
Results from study of mental health in 92 countries (n>53,000): People are not doing well.
- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person
Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person
Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Results from study of mental health in 92 countries (n>53,000): People are not doing well.
- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person
Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person
Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
I’m so excited to be here! Let the career day begin! This is such an important & much-needed initiative. Judging by the number of sessions I’ve signed up for, you can probably tell how uncertain I am about my next career steps. Will it be industry, research, or ...? Maybe I’ll find out today!
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I’m so excited to be here! Let the career day begin! This is such an important & much-needed initiative. Judging by the number of sessions I’ve signed up for, you can probably tell how uncertain I am about my next career steps. Will it be industry, research, or ...? Maybe I’ll find out today!
It’s so nice to see that our “COVID EMA Dream Team” continues to publish great results long after the two lockdowns we went through. I miss those times a bit :P
New paper on fatigue, hair cortisol and stress during COVID-19 lockdowns. 💡📜
We found signs of hypocortisolism during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the general population.
Risk factors for fatigue were young age, chronic stress, low income, and loneliness.
Full paper: doi.org/10.1097/psy....
We found signs of hypocortisolism during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the general population.
Risk factors for fatigue were young age, chronic stress, low income, and loneliness.
Full paper: doi.org/10.1097/psy....
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
It’s so nice to see that our “COVID EMA Dream Team” continues to publish great results long after the two lockdowns we went through. I miss those times a bit :P
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
Pro tip: many medical workshops in Austria are free for students from related fields!! Even got to insert a pacemaker into a pig heart 😁
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Pro tip: many medical workshops in Austria are free for students from related fields!! Even got to insert a pacemaker into a pig heart 😁
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
scienceverse.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Danke dafür!
Vor einem Jahr begannen unser LBG Career Center & @univie.ac.at, Postdocs österreichweit zu fördern, unterstützt vom BMFWF. Jetzt folgt der nächste Schritt: Vienna Postdoc Career Day, 12. November. 👇
Vienna Postdoc Career Day 2025: LBG und Uni Wien setzen neue Impulse für Karriereentwicklung von Nachwuchsforscher:innen
Wien (OTS) - Seit einem Jahr arbeiten das Career Center der Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) und die Universität Wien zusammen, um Postdocs österreichweit Unterstützung auf ihrem Karriereweg zu bie...
www.ots.at
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Danke dafür!
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
How can we start to get closer to true generalizability in the human sciences?
A talk I gave at the wonderful BTSCon suggests the first steps!
Excited to start this journey with the @psysciacc.bsky.social
Preprint with more details coming soon
#meta #psych #phdsky
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mk4...
A talk I gave at the wonderful BTSCon suggests the first steps!
Excited to start this journey with the @psysciacc.bsky.social
Preprint with more details coming soon
#meta #psych #phdsky
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mk4...
2025 BTSCON: How to Randomly Sample the Globe-a first Step
YouTube video by Big Team Science Conference
m.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
How can we start to get closer to true generalizability in the human sciences?
A talk I gave at the wonderful BTSCon suggests the first steps!
Excited to start this journey with the @psysciacc.bsky.social
Preprint with more details coming soon
#meta #psych #phdsky
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mk4...
A talk I gave at the wonderful BTSCon suggests the first steps!
Excited to start this journey with the @psysciacc.bsky.social
Preprint with more details coming soon
#meta #psych #phdsky
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mk4...
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
@bmj.com Please look at PubPeer comments on an article you published last week. pubpeer.com/publications...
I think your research integrity dept shld act swiftly on this one, given clinical significance.
I'm aware of even more evidence of problems so let me know if this is not sufficient.
I think your research integrity dept shld act swiftly on this one, given clinical significance.
I'm aware of even more evidence of problems so let me know if this is not sufficient.
PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...
pubpeer.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@bmj.com Please look at PubPeer comments on an article you published last week. pubpeer.com/publications...
I think your research integrity dept shld act swiftly on this one, given clinical significance.
I'm aware of even more evidence of problems so let me know if this is not sufficient.
I think your research integrity dept shld act swiftly on this one, given clinical significance.
I'm aware of even more evidence of problems so let me know if this is not sufficient.
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
Und was macht Forscher:in am freien Tag? Erstmal ca. 4h unterwegs sein, um nach Bochum, meiner Kindheits-Heimat zu kommen. Denn da lebt noch meine Mutter, die leider schwer an einer weit verbreiteten neurodegenerativen Erkrankung leidet - #Parkinson.
Ein #Rant.
Ein #Rant.
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Und was macht Forscher:in am freien Tag? Erstmal ca. 4h unterwegs sein, um nach Bochum, meiner Kindheits-Heimat zu kommen. Denn da lebt noch meine Mutter, die leider schwer an einer weit verbreiteten neurodegenerativen Erkrankung leidet - #Parkinson.
Ein #Rant.
Ein #Rant.
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
A reminder to those of us with international collaborations that it's Temporal Chaos Week!
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A reminder to those of us with international collaborations that it's Temporal Chaos Week!
If you see a small hedgehog in autumn (like the one in my hands), please take it to a rescue center. Our autumns are too warm, & hedgehog moms now have a 2nd litter. These tiny babies can’t survive winter! This one weighs only 130g (needs 500g). Please keep an eye out! #hedgehog #wildlife
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
New global study lead by @psysciacc.bsky.social with @scanunit.bsky.social across 18 languages challenges a classic idea in psycholinguistics: when we read, we don’t always imagine objects in the same orientation as described. doi.org/10.1007/s121...
Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages - Current Psychology
Mental simulation theories of language comprehension propose that people automatically create mental representations of objects mentioned in sentences. Mental representation is often measured with the...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
New global study lead by @psysciacc.bsky.social with @scanunit.bsky.social across 18 languages challenges a classic idea in psycholinguistics: when we read, we don’t always imagine objects in the same orientation as described. doi.org/10.1007/s121...
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
📅 Mark your calendars for SIPS 2026! 📅
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
📅 Mark your calendars for SIPS 2026! 📅
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
Reposted by Ekaterina Pronizius
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
@scanunit.bsky.social please RT and support
Today's email to an associate editor, declining to review for a big corporate publisher. This one focuses on Nature Publishing Group's practice of funneling rejected manuscripts to their newer journals with hefty APCs.
![Dear Dr. [redacted],
It was nice to meet you at the [redacted]!
Thanks for thinking of me as a possible reviewer, as I am interested in the topic. However, I decline to review this manuscript - I often do this in the case of journals published by profiteering corporate publishers. For Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group charges an outrageous US$6990 to authors that has little to do with higher-quality service or journal processes and lots to do with a legacy first-mover advantage that it uses to exploit academia. This is rentier capitalism.
NPG funnels papers they reject from their most prestigious outlets to their newer subsidiary journals such as Nature Communications and Nature Communications Psychology, which academics go along with because they don’t (directly) foot the bill, and because, given the pressure academics are under to publish rapidly, they wish to take advantage of the reviews they may have already received from the higher-tier Nature journal. Because we are now live in a world where most studies can eventually be published somewhere, NPG has been able to exploit this by creating their own lower-tier journals and charging high-aspiration authors for the convenience.
This practice conflicts with my interest in universities and funders not wasting their money, which is why I do not wish to support it by contributing to the hundreds of millions of dollars of labor that academics donate to corporate publishers. Instead, I preferentially review, and volunteer as an editor for, diamond open access journals that are free to read and publish in.
For various reasons, including combating this strategy by which corporate publishers are extending the era in which they profiteer from university funds, many academics and funders now advocate for the Publish->Review->Curate model, in which academics publish their work immediately (on preprint servers, which prevents gatekeeping by editors), and then get it peer reviewed, preferably through low-cost…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kynaetyuzsp46xejc6mzpjle/bafkreiaoe55bbl7zqu7nkhem6uy74kmqxc5pkassyn5ofayrfwxy7my3ia@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
@scanunit.bsky.social please RT and support
Best time of the year! <3
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Best time of the year! <3
I am so proud of our amazing @scanunit.bsky.social interns N. Bislimi, @annakulesza.bsky.social, @emmalwood.bsky.social & A. Gaiswinkler, who led the Themen-Café “Trust in Psychological Science in the Age of AI” at the OIS @lbg.ac.at Conference. What a fantastic first step into the academic world!
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I am so proud of our amazing @scanunit.bsky.social interns N. Bislimi, @annakulesza.bsky.social, @emmalwood.bsky.social & A. Gaiswinkler, who led the Themen-Café “Trust in Psychological Science in the Age of AI” at the OIS @lbg.ac.at Conference. What a fantastic first step into the academic world!
Nice to see the Uni thriving. Yet many of the scientists who contributed to this success will have to leave in a few years. For those who don’t know — many researchers are on temporary contracts & can stay at one U. for a max. of 8y. After that, it’s either a permanent position (lol) or goodbye.
University of Vienna is among the Top 100 in the World University Ranking by @timeshighered.bsky.social for the first time, at rank 95! 🥳 This strengthens visibility & international connections for outstanding researchers and students worldwide. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...
THE Ranking – University of Vienna among the top 100 for the first time
University of Vienna has improved from rank 110 to 95
www.univie.ac.at
October 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Nice to see the Uni thriving. Yet many of the scientists who contributed to this success will have to leave in a few years. For those who don’t know — many researchers are on temporary contracts & can stay at one U. for a max. of 8y. After that, it’s either a permanent position (lol) or goodbye.