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Utek, PhD

@utekleong

Psychologist; Also, a filthy legacy storm enjoyer utekleong.github.io

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PhD finally conferred! It's over!!!!

Spent the better part of my twenties studying while juggling part-time research work. Nice to finally be able to relax.

Excited to move on to my next phase of life πŸ˜€ But first, Eternal Weekend @ Yokohama next week!

05.12.2025 06:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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
πŸ“ doi.org/10.31234/osf...

22.10.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 278 πŸ” 144 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 14

Defended my dissertation yesterday so I guess I’m (unofficially) Dr Leong now 😭

18.10.2025 03:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
using PsychoPy to build a cognitive psychology experiment from scratch
using PsychoPy to build a cognitive psychology experiment from scratch YouTube video by Xiaojin Ma

I recorded a step-by-step tutorial of programming experiments in PsychoPy for undergrad thesis students in my lab. Sharing it here for anyone new to programming in psychology, or those transitioning to PsychoPy from other software. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMJX...

20.06.2025 22:31 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

15.08.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 14
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Working on getting my storm deck fully signed 😌

15.08.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lost a trophy match because I got too excited do THE THING (brainstorming back my gaea’s will to go for a beseech -> will line) and forgot there was a leyline on board 😭😭😭

Today we learn that it is not a good idea to play The Epic Storm at 2am after a beer or two 😭😭😭😭

05.07.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Life has been great lately with this doofus.

07.05.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

😫 maybe next time you are back! Enjoy the food!

07.05.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Was looking forward to meeting you at Sacha’s lab meeting but I’ll be flying off on that day. Unfortunate!

06.05.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I like this paper: not only does it review of all the reasons standardized coefficients are bad, actually,

It also then goes on to show how test statistics can be used as measures of unique contribution/ effect size! - something that just sounds so so wrong!

#stats

doi.org/10.1080/0003...

04.05.2025 10:07 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2
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a man with a mustache is holding a piece of paper with the word science written on it . ALT: a man with a mustache is holding a piece of paper with the word science written on it .

Critics: "We think your research is flawed because of those reasons that were reviewed by other scientists who shared our concerns"
Authors: "Thank your for your incompetent criticism. Our full rebuttal is: no"
Journals: "Science was achieved today through scholarly debate. Please move along"

02.05.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Had lots of fun making some of the visuals for this :-)

www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fu...

09.04.2025 04:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bridging Innovation and Equity: Advancing Public Health Through Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions | Annual Reviews This review explores the transformative potential of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) as a scalable solution for addressing health disparities in underserved populations. JITAIs, delivered...

Our review of JITAIs and how they can advance public health is now formally published in the Annual Review of Public Health!

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

09.04.2025 04:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Uhhh have journals ever requested for a copy of your IRB protocol and informed consent form??? I’m curious if this is the norm.

26.03.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

tfw you echo of eons 4 times against a DnT player game 1 only to fizzle 4 times. Something variance something something…

truly a casino storm deck

23.03.2025 09:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This wasn’t like 30 self-citations by the way.

It was 12. 2 were R packages, 5 were studies that my paper built on. The rest were methodological papers that my co-author was part of.

21.03.2025 11:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What rubbish is this? Truly an exercise in futility.

21.03.2025 05:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How to not self-cite our work if our current study is rests on my co-authors’ theoretical and methodological work? Should I not give them credit for their work?

Rather than let me cite relevant work, asks me to cite the preprint and dataset. Which adds to the self-cite count

21.03.2025 05:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Journals add value to our scientific work MY ASS. So many wasted hours dealing with this rubbish.

So afraid of signalling QRPs to their readers yet too blockheaded to understand that we are not citing willy-nilly.

21.03.2025 05:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our latest preprint is up! Two down, one more to go.

Couldn't have done this without the help and guidance from @sachaepskamp.bsky.social, Dr Hani, and my advisor Prof Ryan :-)

07.03.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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new dog, new home, nice coast

27.02.2025 04:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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First RL card! Legacy is fun

20.02.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating repetitive negative thinking, rumination, and worry – a transdiagnostic meta-analysis | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating repetitive negative thinking, rumination, and worry – a transdiagnostic meta-analysis - Volume 55

πŸ“New paper out: We conducted a meta-analysis about the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy on rumination, worry and repetitive negative thinking. The paper is published open access in psychological medicine. doi.org/10.1017/S003...

08.02.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks:

"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

02.02.2025 03:39 πŸ‘ 22665 πŸ” 6231 πŸ’¬ 686 πŸ“Œ 445

Does any one know of a paper that describes the citation count distribution of papers in social psychology? Preferably a recent paper.

Can't seem to find one specific to social psychology :-(

@giladfeldman.bsky.social

28.01.2025 04:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bayesian Analysis of Cross-Sectional Networks: A Tutorial in R and JASP - Karoline B. S. Huth, Jill de Ron, Anneke E. Goudriaan, Judy Luigjes, Reza Mohammadi, Ruth J. van Holst, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, ... Network psychometrics is a new direction in psychological research that conceptualizes psychological constructs as systems of interacting variables. In network ...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

27.01.2025 04:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are psychometric networks sufficiently supported by data such that one can be confident when interpreting its results? We analysed 294 psychometric networks from 126 papers with the Bayesian approach to address this question @jmbh.bsky.social Sara Ruth van Holst @maartenmarsman.bsky.social 🧡

24.01.2025 11:02 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Just a reminder that you can change your handle to your github.io repo!

07.12.2024 16:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Legacy is so much more fun than modern holy hell!!!!

Goodbye living end hello oops all spells

16.01.2025 05:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0