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Royally late, but I’ve caused a bit of a stir around noted science parasites Elsevier. I kept getting irrelevant “newsletters” (aka spam) from Elsevier’s journals, and did a subject access request under my GDPR rights to find out what they know about me. It went smoothly, but the result wasn’t pretty. Then I tweeted about … Read More “A stir about Elsevier…” »
WARNING: Long rant. Shield your eyes and read with a fluffy animal, narcotics, and a bucket for vomit/stool within reach. Great! A meta-analysis on smartphone apps for depression. UPDATE: After I wrote this blog, Joe Firth got in touch with me on Twitter. He explained that (paraphrasing here) the reason for rating studies as “low” … Read More “About Firth’s “Apps for Depression” meta-analysis…” »
UPDATE AUGUST 2022: Back in 2015 or 2016 when I made this, there weren’t too many alternatives to RevMan for RoB assessment graphs. You can still use the Excel thing below, but I strongly advise you to use other, newer (and vastly better) methods like the {robvis} package in R. For more information and hands-on guidelines for … Read More “High-resolution Risk of Bias assessment graph… in Excel!” »
Nothing like an interview on eMental Health to make you feel important I’m still reeling from the festivities surrounding my H-index increase from 3 (“aggressively mediocre“) to 4 (“impressively flaccid but with mounting tumescence“)*. Best gift I got: a sad, weary stare from my colleagues. Yay! But back to eMental Health (booooo hisssss). Some while … Read More “eMental Health interview with VGCt [Dutch]” »
Data integrity is integral to reproducibility. I recently read something on an Internet web site called Facebook, it’s supposed to be quite the thing at the moment. Friend and skeptical academic James Coyne, whose fearless stabs at the methodologically pathetic and conceptually weak I much admire, instafacetweetbooked a post over at Mind the Brain, pointing to … Read More “Save the Data! Data integrity in Academia” »
What’s up with the speed of eHealth implementation? Fresh off the virtual press at the bulletin of the European Health Psychology Society: Jeroen Ruwaard and I investigate into the rapid pace of eHealth implementation. Many bemoan the slow implementation and uptake of eHealth, but aren’t we in fact going too quickly? We examine four arguments … Read More “New paper in the bulletin of the EHPS” »
Update 2023: Mendeley has gone to way of Endnote and has evolved into an unusable piece of garbage, now fully owned by the greedy science parasites of Elsevier. Please don’t use it – use Zotero instead. Endnooooooooo!te. 100 out of 100 academics agree that working with Endnote is about as enjoyable as putting your genitals … Read More “Corrected JMIR citation style for Mendeley desktop” »
You know an academic field has come to full maturity when the null results come rolling in. But you really know an academic discipline has come to maturity when the first shady academic journals pop up. Enter “E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks” from Scientific Research Publishing (love their description “An Academic Publisher“!). An invitation mail mass-spam just popped … Read More “Academic journal recognition, not of a very savoury kind” »