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Ethical AI Use in Academia

open science
ethics
research
teaching
AI
This blog post describes some considerations around ethical use of artificial intelligence, or in most cases more accurately, stochastic parrots, in academia. I will start…
Sep 21, 2024
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

Open Science Conference Contributions: Pro Tips

open science
At conferences, people often present slides and/or posters. Ideally, these help interested researchers to find you and your work, so in the old days it was common to bring…
Aug 30, 2024
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

Code book elements

methodology
qualitative methods
A codebook specifies the codes used to organize data.
Jun 11, 2024
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

How to create a Tabulated Open Questionnaire (TOQ) specification

methodology
measurement
In this brief blog post, I describe a number of steps you could take to create a Tabulated Open Questionnaire specification.
Apr 11, 2024
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

A GIF of Kermit the frog typing.

Towards interoperability for psychological data

mastodon
methodology
measurement
This is a Mastodon thread. The original thread is available here:
Mar 21, 2024
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

A GIF of the 'Cats' character from the eighties video game Zero Wing, saying 'All your base are belong to us'.

You (or your university) don’t own your data

mastodon
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Feb 4, 2024
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

A GIF of a penguin balancing on a soccer ball, but 'tackled' when another penguin comes sliding along.

Preregistering Systematic Reviews

mastodon
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Oct 6, 2023
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

THe cover of the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation.

A-bit-of-X-odus

mastodon
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Aug 26, 2023
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

Using Git in Shiny Apps

This is a brief blog post to document how you can use Git in a Shiny app.
Aug 24, 2023
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

The title slide; showing 'Health Psychology in 2023: transforming paradigms', with a number of transformers and a QR code linking for a ShortDOI linking to https://doi.org/jxkz

Health Psychology in 2023: Transforming Paradigms

mastodon
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Aug 1, 2023
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

A photograph of the Intervention Mapping Summer Course 2023 participants.

The Intervention Mapping Summer Course 2023

mastodon
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Jul 27, 2023
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

The drug ranking of Nutt (2010), with alcohol (72 points), heroin (55 points), crack cocaine (54 points), methamphetamine (33 points), and cocaine (27 points) in the lead, followed by cannabis (20 points) in the 8th place, and ecstasy (9 points) in the 17th place.

Alcohol of drugs: wat is slechter voor je?

mastodon
Dit is een Mastodon draadje. Het originele draadje is hier beschikbaar:
Jul 22, 2023
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

A GIF from US reality TV show Good Boned showing Karen Laine telling Mina Starsiak Hawk, 'this is why we save what we can!'.

Intervention Mapping in a thread

mastodon
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Jul 10, 2023
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

A screenshow of a part of the thread preview generated by quartodon, showing the fourth toot in this thread with a character count of 350 characters.

Converting a Quarto blog post to a Mastodon thread and posting it

mastodon
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Jan 11, 2023
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

A screenshot of the front page of the article's PDF showing the title and the abstract (see doi.org/jrfb for the text)

Using the Reproducible Open Coding Kit & Epistemic Network Analysis to model qualitative data

mastodon
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Jan 3, 2023
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

An Acyclic Behavior Change Diagram

Acyclic Behavior Change Diagrams: A Tool to Report and Analyze Interventions

mastodon
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Dec 14, 2022
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

Knowing what we’re talking about: a Mastodon thread

mastodon
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Dec 2, 2022
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

Collaborating on reproducible manuscripts for dummies: an introduction using git, R Markdown and Zotero

Open Science
Workflow
Sci-Ops
This document is an introduction to a workflow that facilitates collaborating with other researchers if your aim is to apply Open Science principles.
Nov 13, 2019
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

Is er sprake van ‘normalisering’ van drugsgebruik?

Het Trimbos Instituut publiceerde onlangs een blog post waarin ze afsluit met:
Oct 14, 2019
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

A poor person’s guide to Open Sciencing GDPR compliant data management

Open Science
Workflow
Sci-Ops
In this brief post I’ll outline a simple data management strategy that is consistent with both GDPR and Open Science principles. For readers unfamiliar with these: the EU’s…
Sep 14, 2019
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

A reproducible research workflow: GitLab, R Markdown, and Open Science Framework

Disclaimer: like style guides, this is necessarily ‘opinionated’, and perhaps less like style guides, it’s very much a work in progress. It reflects a set of best practices…
Apr 3, 2019
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

The hare and the turtle: why agile approaches are often not feasible in applied psychology

Recently, a case study was published where the usefulness of agile methods in developing behavior change interventions was explored (Ploos van Amstel, Heemskerk, Renes &…
Mar 9, 2019
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

Een voorbeeld van de ABCD in de dagelijkse praktijk van interventie-ontwikkeling

De Acyclic Behavior Change Diagram, oftewel ABCD, is een nuttig hulpmiddel bij het planmatig (of eigenlijk ook bij het niet zo planmatig) ontwikkelen van een…
Feb 8, 2019
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

Acute risico’s van XTC-gebruik

Note: This is a draft; it is messy and not ready for the ‘general public’ yet!
Jan 29, 2019
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

Hoe voorkomen we een nieuwe WODC affaire?

Politics and science
Scientific Scrutiny
Onderzoek is een methode om iets te leren. Overheidsbeslissingen en -beleid moeten gebaseerd zijn op feiten, dus overheden en semi-overheden moeten vaak onderzoek doen om…
Nov 18, 2018
GjaltJornPeters

 

Kritische analyse van de reacties van het Trimbos Instituut en Novadic Kentron op de legaliseringsdiscussie

Behavior change
Politics and science
Scientific Scrutiny
Op dinsdag 23 en woensdag 24 oktober 2018 plaatsten het Trimbos Instituut en Novadic-Kentron reacties op de discussie over legalisering van XTC. Deze reacties behandelen…
Oct 24, 2018
GjaltJornPeters

 

Waarom legalisering van XTC gezondheidsschade en slachtoffers voorkomt

Behavior change
Politics and science
Zondag pleitte Arjan Lubach voor legalisering van XTC, in navolging van criminoloog Ton Nabben en hoogleraar medicatieveiligheid Kees Kramers. In deze post voeg ik nog een…
Oct 23, 2018
GjaltJornPeters

 

De wereld gebruikt veel minder XTC pillen dan geschat

Scientific Scrutiny
Op 25 augustus 2018 kwam het boek “Waar een klein land groot in kan zijn” uit van Pieter Tops, Judith van Valkenhoef, Edward van der Torre en Luuk van Spijk. In dit boek…
Sep 11, 2018
GjaltJornPeters

 

How much XTC does the world use every year?

Politics and science
Scientific Scrutiny
On the 25th August 2018, the book “The Netherlands and synthetic drugs” by Pieter Tops, Judith van Valkenhoef, Edward van der Torre and Luuk van Spijk was published. In this…
Sep 11, 2018
GjaltJornPeters

 

Much less ecstasy used (and produced?) in the Netherlands than recent report suggests

Politics and science
Scientific Scrutiny
Recently, a report came out (“Waar een klein land groot in kan zijn”) by Pieter Tops, Judith van Valkenhoef, Edward van der Torre and Luuk van Spijk (all employed by the…
Sep 1, 2018
GjaltJornPeters

 

Nederland gebruikt veel minder XTC pillen dan geschat

Politics and science
Scientific Scrutiny
Recent kwam het rapport “Waar een klein land groot in kan zijn” uit van Pieter Tops, Judith van Valkenhoef, Edward van der Torre en Luuk van Spijk (allemaal werkzaam bij de…
Aug 28, 2018
GjaltJornPeters

 

Constructs, operationalisations, mediators, and why behavior change techniques cannot change behavior

Behavior change
Foundation of Statistics & Methodology
In health psychology, there exists a lack of conceptual clarity regarding a number of terms that are at the core of psychological science. True, this problem exists in…
Jun 8, 2018
GjaltJornPeters

 

Een toetsingskader voor Harm Reduction interventies: beschouwing vanuit de theorie en praktijk van effectieve gedragsverandering

Scientific Scrutiny
[Image by Todd Huffman, https://www.flickr.com/people/99287245@N00]
Oct 19, 2017
GjaltJornPeters

 

Why estimations of determinant relevance should not be based on regression analysis

Scientific Scrutiny
This is a draft as a contribution to a discussion to a response to a discussion in the Facebook Page Psychological Methods Discussion Group.
Oct 2, 2017
GjaltJornPeters

 

Appropriate humility: choosing sides in the alpha wars based on psychology rather than methodology and statistics

Scientific Scrutiny
[ Note: this is a first draft, a preprint of a blog post so to speak :-) ]
Aug 8, 2017
GjaltJornPeters

 

When wishful thinking kills: the tragic consequences of misplaced faith in introspection

Scientific Scrutiny
[Image by Silver Blue, https://flickr.com/photos/cblue98/]
Aug 4, 2017
GjaltJornPeters

 

How to select junior (or other) researchers, and why not to use Impact Factors

Scientific Scrutiny
[ UPDATE: a commentary based on this blog post has now been published in the Journal of Informetrics at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157717302365 ]
Jun 22, 2017
GjaltJornPeters

 

Theories versus logic models

Behavior change
Quick thoughts & discussions
This post responds to a question by Matti Heino, partly phrased in this Facebook post, and partly in this presentation.
May 3, 2017
GjaltJornPeters

 

Why one randomization does not a successful experiment make

Foundation of Statistics & Methodology
Based on a PsyArXiv preprint with the admittedly slightly provocative title “Why most experiments in psychology failed: sample sizes required for randomization to generate…
Apr 6, 2017
GjaltJornPeters

 

On the obsession with being normal

Foundation of Statistics & Methodology
In statistics, one of the first distributions that one learns about is usually the normal distribution. Not only because it’s pretty, also because it’s ubiquitous.
Feb 1, 2017
GjaltJornPeters

 

Fear is a bad counsellor

Behavior change
[ primary audience: behavior change intervention developers ]
Dec 28, 2016
GjaltJornPeters

 

Why one-sided tests in psychology are practically indefensible

Foundation of Statistics & Methodology
This post is a response to a post by Daniel Lakens, “One-sided tests: Efficient and Underused”, whom I greatly respect and, apparently up until now, always vehemently agreed…
Mar 25, 2016
Gjalt-Jorn Peters

 

Gezondheidscommunicatie op tabaksverpakking: angst is een slechte raadgever

Scientific Scrutiny
In deze korte post (korte link om te delen: https://pakjessigaretten.nl) wil ik uitleggen wat je moet doen op pakjes sigaretten. Ik leg kort uit waarom ik fel tegen…
Jan 28, 2016
GjaltJornPeters

Een niet-representatieve steekproef zegt ja tegen MDMA

Scientific Scrutiny
[ This is a Dutch post, as it concerns a “study” by a Dutch TV channel, BNN ]
Sep 22, 2015
GjaltJornPeters

The importance of matching: a case study

Scientific Scrutiny
Earlier (ok, in the only previous, first post on this blog) I discussed the recent study of Zachary Horne et al. (2015), where they concluded that threatening communication…
Aug 26, 2015
GjaltJornPeters

Countering antivaccination attitudes: don’t twiddle the dials before examining the engine

Scientific Scrutiny
Recently, a number of media outlets enthusiastically reported that “Scare tactics may be the surest way to get parents to vaccinate their children”, suggesting to “Scare the…
Aug 6, 2015
Gjalt-Jorn Peters
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