There are ~4 weeks/year in which I feel like a real scientist. This is one of them. Writing papers that excite me, reading articles to the end, innovating research pipelines, taking time just to think. I wish I could capture this feeling in a scented candle to help mid-year me remember.

In case you missed it (like I did), All #rstats CRAN packages now have a DOI! This is a really useful for easily citing R packages. Also remember to check the citation function to find out if the package authors would like you to cite the package in a different way: citation("mvgam") 🧪🌍

🚨New research from our lab, out now at JEP:G! 🚨 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Our sense of presence is shaped by the subjective intensity of our emotional state (in this case, fear), not by changes in physiological arousal. #VRcademicsky #psychscisky #science #academicsky

There is no golden path to discovery. One of my problems with all the focus on p-hacking, preregistration, harking, etc. is that I fear that it is giving the impression that all will be fine if researchers just avoid “questionable research practices.” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/04/04/g...

Software bibliographies are easy! The 'softbib' package will automatically scan your project directory, detect which R packages you use, and create software bibliographies in Word, Markdown, BibTeX, and PDF formats. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

You may not know when you're confabulating, but fMRI does

Slides: When you Should and Shouldn't use Mixed Models and/or Bayes Factors: http://osf.io/7ngjz/

Second episode on preregistration out now! We discuss preregistering exploratory vs. confirmatory research, flexibility in preregistrations, and deviations from preregistered plans. nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/preregistr...

As a post-doc preparing for a fixed-term University teaching role, I feel like my independent career is finally commencing, and yet, is about to reach an abrupt end. I often imagine how much more I would engage in my research and my teaching if this paralyzing sense of doom weren't hanging over me.

This morning over coffee think about the people in your scientific discipline that you dislike the most. What positive role do they play? It might help to prevent you from believing diversity in science is important, unless it is the type of diversity that you do not like.

Clever open science tip: place little easter eggs in the comments in your code to reward reviewers for reviewing it.

Sharing this R resources database with y'all! For the past 4 years, I have been accumulating resources (mainly free ones) for new & advanced #Rlearners in their programming journey. Feel free to share! resourcesdatabase.com #RStats #RResources #learningR #DataScience #Python #R

Suppose you see an article you think is misinformation. This recent Nature paper says searching online to evaluate it (on average) makes you MORE likely to think it's true. Ouch. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If there's one open-source developer you should consider sponsoring right now it's Yihui Xie. Takes ~60 seconds once logged in on GitHub. Rmarkdown, knitr, *down, etc have been invaluable to me professionally and personally. yihui.org/en/2024/01/b... github.com/sponsors/yihui #rstats

Big 2024 announcement! The “Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals” had a pretty substantial update and is slowly becoming the most comprehensive resource on effect sizes and confidence intervals. Here is a thread of some of the new additions 1/5 t.co/ByeSMQNJdp

‚Science Advances‘ published our paper in which we asked: "Where does all the sugar go in the brain?" doi.org/10.1126/scia... Short answer and 4 main findings in 🧵 below. #funding: ERC_Research #neuroskyence

i try to post here more often, but i never get advertised to, i don't think anyone's scraping my data, and i get the sinking feeling nobody's making much money off me. hard to know what the point is

This is so helpful. Many times I have found at least one detail from my pre-registration that is flawed in a way I hadn't understood when I wrote it. This has felt like a dirty secret and a source of insecurity but I knew I couldnt be the only one experiencing this. Grateful for this guidance.

Wow. Just watched Miyazaki's final film 'The Boy and The Heron' in the cinema and I was completely blown away. Simply put, it is a masterpiece. Visually breathtaking, whimsical yet heartbreaking.

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

Psych programs should offer courses on the infrastructure underpinning psychological science, addressing topics like how academic journals operate (who are the editors, who are the reviewers), how researchers decide which journal to submit to, how researchers stay updated on journal policy changes

New preprint! How often do editors/reviewers actually compare preregistrations to the reporting in the article? Almost never. This figure sums up all of the results. Not good.

🧪 Scientist? 🟦 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a list of 200 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Hey, #rstats: how do you make it clear to Rstudio that, when I tell it to install/update a package, I like... Really do mean it? Is there a nobutactually::install.packages()

NEW CONSENSUS REPORT from the APA on the Psychology of #Misinformation! For the last year, with an amazing team we reviewed the best available evidence on 3 key questions; ▶️Why are people susceptible to misinformation? ▶️How does it spread? ▶️What can we do about it? www.apa.org/pubs/reports...

Today at 2, I will be speaking to the coffee enthusiasts of Wadestown about my research using virtual reality to study the mind. The talk is titled 'how virtual reality could save psychological science from itself' @ Le Maquis cafe

Finally added a book to this little display cabinet alongside my colleagues at the School of Psychology at VUW. "Virtual Reality in Behavioral Neuroscience: New Insights and Methods". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Blue sky has swiftly become my favorite social media platform. Feels good connecting to the people I actually want to hear from, without having to trudge through ads and sponsored profiles. Thanks @matthewmatix.bsky.social for the invite code!