Our paper on detecting suicide risk from Facebook posts with deep neural networks was published today in Scientific Reports and can be downloaded here. A news report on our study was published on October 20 here

Unfortunately, I will not be able to give my keynote presentation on Conceptual change and social interaction at the 12th International European Association for Research on Learning & Instruction (EARLI) Conference on Conceptual Change (SIG3). The entire conference which was planned for 24-26/6/2020 in Zwolle, Netherlands, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemia travel and meeting restrictions. 

Data collection from online platforms, such as Mechanical Turk (MTurk), has become popular in clinical research. However, there are also concerns about the representativeness and the quality of this data for clinical studies. In a recent study (in press for Clinical Psychological Science), we explored these issues in the specific case of major depression. Read more about Artificially inflated depression rates in MTurk

Miriam Babichenko and Christa Asterhan presented a paper at the multi-disciplinary and vibrant “Better learning through Argumentation” meeting organized by Roman Svaricek and Klara Sedova at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. The title of the talk: Productive dialogue in the classroom staff room: Moving from the study of student argumentation to peer-led, teacher dialogue in PLCs. Paper available upon request.