The methods section is the most important section of a paper. Without knowing the methods, the results are literally meaningless. So it's not OK to relegate the methods to the end. Because this suggests they are an optional afterthought rather than the essential core of the entire paper.

In sum, skip the Atlantic on this one and read Monstrous Regiment, a great standalone Pratchett and a perfect book for right now, because it takes on propaganda, war, gender, and how religious zealots starve nations and ruin everything. Quote me on that, why don’t you.

"If I hated to be the bearer of bad news, I wouldn’t have specialized in research methods."

Austin et al. (2026) advocated for AI in hypothesis-driven scale validation research. In this preprint, led by @wchiggins.bsky.social, we (@malte.the100.ci @bethclarke.bsky.social) sketch out several weaknesses in this paper, and offer recommendations for avoiding them. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/🧵

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

There's an interesting conversation unfolding on PubPeer. Inconsistencies were flagged in a paper by a "global keynote speaker on AI&neuroscience" and then the author casually mentions on LinkedIn that she also has pre-post-fMRI for 300 people 👀> pubpeer.com/publications...

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...

This...the fetishizing of unreplicable neuroscience in order to legitimize our work is self-defeating. We don't need to know that depression is in the brain (as opposed to what???) to know it is problematic. How much money have we wasted proving something like depression is "real"?

@taymalsalti.bsky.social has done trojan work trying to reproduce the results of three meta-analyses, finding the usual host of issues of effect sizes that are apparently incorrect or non-reproducible Our article is out now: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

Ian Hussey (@ianhussey.mmmdata.io) contacted me about the recurring problem of unusually large SMD values appearing in published meta-analyses. Very large SMDs can result from using SEs in place of SDs in their calculation, which is a mistake I have also seen in practice. 1/4

Eagle-eyed @grinschglsandra.bsky.social spotted this mess of a plot, with bars that don't match percentages. We, with @malte.the100.ci, quantify a host of other issues we spotted here. pubpeer.com/publications...

If you are interested in EMDR, you probably heard the story about Francine Shapiro "discovering" the method during a walk in the park. This story is largely wrong.

You ever try the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes test' and wonder, how is that any of them?!

📣 PsychLing-101 — Deadline May 1 Join us in building a large-scale, trial-level psycholinguistic database for cumulative science and LLM evaluation. So far: 36 submissions and 40M+ observations All contributors become coauthors 🤝 🔗 Visit github.com/Data-X01/Psy...

All the more reason to use systematic software designed to tackle this very problem, like RegCheck (regcheck.app)

I... I started a side project just recently...

I’m hiring a PhD student! The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Good blog post that perfectly voices the frustration early career researchers can have when they hear senior researchers discuss preregistration. The continuing lack of understanding among senior researchers who keep voicing the same misunderstandings *is* frustrating and embarrassing.

I gave a TED talk today!

I wrote about how I teach statistics. As I redesign for the AI era, I won't forget the benefits of multimodal, tangible representations. The Five Gs: Greek, Graphs, Grammar, Gadgets, and Games. In the new journal, Teaching Educational Research Methods: doi.org/10.5149/term...

New post on The 100% CI: Science needs downvotes. www.the100.ci/2026/04/13/s... In which I make the case that grant funders should add funding lines that include a module for bug bounties.

For a short (German) summary of SCORE, check out @briannosek.bsky.social and my interview for @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy www.deutschlandfunk.de/glaubwuerdig...

Very pleasantly surprised to see my recent preprint being discussed in this NYT article on silicon sampling and its implications for opinion polling. More forthcoming work on this coming soon! (H/T @rohanalexander.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

Depluralize a movie: The king‘s soliloquy

Fun facts - The original study reported 23 IQ point gains - Jordan Peterson tweeted about it (sort of) - @jamiecummins.bsky.social new preregistered RCT shows null effects

So you're telling me Claude functions by screaming at itself "WRITE GOOD CODE NO BUGS SECURE VERY STABLE", mashes compile button, reads back the error and yells ONLY GOOD CODE NO BUGS at itself again while crying and copying random things from Stack Overflow until it compiles? it just like me fr fr

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

Majestic, well done @rickcarlsson.bsky.social

I have a new favourite bar chart

Am I reading this right, did they fill like a whole plane with people who suffer from phobic fear of flying ✈️

Happy "large enough n" day

If you are a professor and someone asks you for advice about how to get a job/into grad school and you do anything else but send them the survivorship bias meme, you are spreading misinformation

Three scales were constructed for the theorists. Seven were given to the clinicians in their halls of stone. Nine scales for the social psychologists, doomed to publish. But they were all deceived, for another scale was made.

I didn't think I'd watch someone with 30 tabs open in the same window trying to look for a tab, failing to find it, and then opening the same page in a new tab, but I did and it was very uncomfortable to watch.

The unidimensionality epidemic, also caused by the cellphone.

u r not going to believe this

OK, can somebody ask Jonathan Haidt why the first citation in the second endnote in his "World Happiness Report" chapter about the evils of social media is an irrelevant article, and why the second is a Substack post that doesn't link to a study? files.worldhappiness.report/WHR26_Ch03.pdf

Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>

It's turning into some sort of meme in the meta-science discourse that somebody suggests "practice X is a reasonable default" to which then somebody else responds "oh so you are arguing there should be no exceptions" 😭

"Where have the respondents gone? Perhaps we ate them all" Absolutely incredible title, 10/10, no questions asked.

I have a p-hacking joke but I can't repeat it

What an issue! RegCheck is among some excellent company here 👏 www.sci-integrity.com/reach-januar...

Working hypothesis: If you're doing research and don't occasionally have a small existential crisis, either you've been blessed to work in an exceptional field (do tell which one it is!), or maybe you're being a bit naive.

Meta Science:

We can't measure attitudes directly...instead we use self-reports surveys. However, we use multiple items so we can cover the breadth and depth of these attitudes and we use statistical techniques to tell us how much of the variance in responses is due to the 'underlying construct'

If you currently do not have a reproducible workflow where you can share data and code where possible, I expect you will soon not be able to publish in good journals. Beyond being best practice, journals will use this to identify papers written by AI. Plan a new project accordingly.

Now published in Collabra! online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Using test data from TwinLife (N=9,980, Culture Fair Test CFT 20-R), we show that Regularised Prediction and Poststratification yields IQ scores that differ by up to 19 IQ points (mean 4.19 pts) from those reported in the CFT 20-R manual

New post from me on The 100% CI. Think inside the box, part 1: The guy Euclidean distance told you not to worry about www.the100.ci/2026/03/09/t...