UK universities have experienced their worst January for international student recruitment in at least four years, new visa figures indicate www.timeshighereducation.com/news/falling... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Five-minute Times Higher Education UK Redundancy Survey

Women Leaders "Women are expected to promote gender equality and show communal behaviour, yet those who do so...are less likely to be selected for leadership." Derks et al. (2026). Don't rock the boat! Do men prefer women leaders who support the status quo? doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

New survey of psychological safety climate at 36 Australian universities finds 44% of respondents work in very high-risk environments compared to only 11-12% of works in other sectors. “Results indicate a sector-wide public health concern requiring urgent, coordinated action.”

Items in Sheng et al.'s (2026) new Fundamental Follower Needs Inventory www.researchgate.net/publication/... #SocialPsyc

🧠 We’ve widened the entry criteria for our MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Durham: www.durham.ac.uk/study/course... We now welcome students from a broad range of backgrounds—Psychology, Biology, Engineering, Physics and more as Neuroscience thrives on diverse perspectives

Are you in a relationship with someone who menstruates? If so, I want to hear from you to find out more about how #PMDD and other menstrual symptoms affect the relationship. Please follow this link for more info, or to take part: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"Instead of assuming that interventions will have a single, underlying effect size, we should presume that any effects are likely to be context dependent and will therefore be expected to vary." I share this often with engineering leaders too

Psychology needs a… revolution www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... @maddipow.bsky.social @richardwiseman.bsky.social @joakimsundh.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social @margaritap.bsky.social and others…

A Heterogeneity Revolution in Psychology "When studies that may appear similar are repeated, findings often vary more than we would expect due to sampling error. This is not necessarily a problem if we understand why this happens."

AI "impedes [theory because we're] interested in human-understandable theory and theory-based models, not statistical models which provide only a representation of the data. Scientific theories and models are only useful if [we understand them and] they connect transparently to research questions."

Does it make sense to preregister simulation studies? This question has sparked a lot of debate. ▶️We* work through the why, when, and how ▶️We discuss different phases of methodological research to clarify where preregistration might (or might not) add value 📝 Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

System Justification Among the Disadvantaged “For disadvantaged individuals, system-justifying beliefs may serve as psychological safeguards, lowering perceptions of discrimination and fostering a sense of coherence.” revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/re...

"The question is not whether science will be metaphorical, narrative, and ritualistic — it will, because brains are. The question is whether scientists will wield these tools knowingly or be wielded by them unknowingly."

Preach! "We believe epistemic processes have been one of the underlying issues across the three disciplinary crises and need to come to the fore in reform efforts." (1/2)

Humility Revolution "Humility is not a threat to scientific authority; it is a strength. It shows disciplinary maturity, intellectual honesty, and methodological pluralism. A humility revolution must, surely, lead to better science." By @maddipow.bsky.social #PsycSci #MetaSci #Methodology

📣 Call for Papers: (Re-)Theorizing the Psyche New Frontiers in Psychology Research Topic. Using the replication crisis as a lens on theory, ontology, methodology & epistemology in psychology. #ReplicationCrisis #Psychology #Reproducibility #Replication www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

"This scheme is intended to provide early career researchers of outstanding promise with an opportunity to complete a major project. It is open to scholars from any discipline and of any nationality." #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Ali Teymoori and I wrote up a piece for @markrubin.bsky.social's excellent Critical Metascience blog. We summarise our new paper on disciplinary crises in psychology and some of the key take-homes for psychologists.

Is notion of a reproducibility crisis in science "exaggerated"? After ERC's Maria Leptin suggests just that, @fionamcintyre.bsky.social talks to those studying the issue. To judge whether there's a crisis, we would need to know "normal" level of reproducibility, says @martmichaelis.bsky.social

“Methodological and administrative solutions are valuable, but they are not enough. Rather, we need to engage with the epistemic processes and ideals at the heart of psychological knowledge production and engage very closely with critical perspectives...” #PsycSci #Methodology #MetaSci

"The verifiability of mathematical (or statistical) claims makes math a justifiably popular means for communication between researchers."

"It would have been nice to skip the detour through countless replication failures, but sometimes that’s how the meandering path of progress goes."

"A multiverse employed for persuasive purposes may be thought of as a ramped-up robustness check." #stats #Methodology

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Advances in Statistical Analysis has a call for papers on the role of multiverse analysis in statistical modelling and applications: link.springer.com/journal/1018... Deadline is May 1st, so still plenty of time to put something together!>

"Reformers commonly present automation and standardisation (through strict protocols) as viable solutions to reduce...(inherently human) biases and uncertainties (Flis, 2019; Penders, 2022), increase (scientific) efficiency (Peterson & Panofsky, 2021), and help produce a ‘better science’ overall."

Statistical Tests as Thought Experiments “The only populations that can be referred to in a test of significance have no objective reality, being exclusively the product of the statistician’s imagination through the hypotheses which he has decided to test” (Fisher, 1956, p. 77).

University of Nottingham's £85 Million Deficit “This is an accounting impairment, meaning a paper adjustment rather than money physically leaving the organization,” said the university. #UKHE

Non-Factive Knowledge "The proposal to abandon the truth condition as a necessary condition of knowledge is at least worth considering." Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s121...

🧪 It's been 10 years since Dorothy Bishop and I published a commentary in Nature about the risks of transparency. doi.org/10.1038/529459a 1/10

Very useful thread outlining a valuable critique of mainstream psychology’s “is there *anything* to be said for another set of rigid guidelines?” approach to its methodological problems.

Psych Jobs Postdoctoral Position in Social Psychology at the University of Bonn (3 years) Research in moral psychology and related area

“Our findings suggest that although respondents believe that questionable research practices should not be used, they conceded there are systemic reasons some use them.” Open Acc: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... BSky authors: @sarahcaroleo.bsky.social, @jesse-fleming.bsky.social, @bryancook.bsky.social

Recurring Crises in Psychology "The current responses to the replication crisis, although valuable, are not ultimate solutions because they deflect fundamental questions and postpone the reconsideration of the ideals of psychology as a science." Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/1089...

Psychology Job 🔸 Assistant Professor at Maastricht University 🔸 Focus on group dynamics, in particular teams #SocialPsyc #PsychJobs #AcademicSky

P Values and Replicability “The actual probability of reaching the same result in a repeated experiment is conditional on truth… which we do not know.” From Cayetano & Mantero (2021): “Conditional Uncertainty: Misinterpretations of ‘Significant’ p Values”: doi.org/10.1111/jocs...

Biased ≠ Wrong! "We cannot dismiss the claims of biased people and institutions just because of their bias. Instead, we have to carefully and thoroughly evaluate claims on a case-by-case basis."

'In a video released in 2024, Professor Julie Hall, the university’s vice-chancellor, said: “The story of London Met’s financial sustainability, I think is a lesson for the whole sector.”' Oh yes it is a lesson.

More than 100 staff are set to lose their jobs at London Metropolitan University. "The whole mentoring service is being scrapped, the sociology department is being decimated." #UKHE #HigherEd #AcademicSky

"Nothing represents unless it has the capacity to license some surrogative inferences ... however minimal, inappropriate, misleading, or incorrect these inferences might be’ (Mauricio Suárez, 2024, p. 157)

Thank you, @markrubin.bsky.social, for sharing our paper! Others, please have a look at our paper where we discuss a bias in research of (dis)trust in science!

"In March 2025, The New York Times published a list of nearly two hundred words that the US Federal Government was (and still is) attempting to suppress from scientific discourse."

I need a postdoc for my project “Panel Studies of Optimism Bias and Positive Mood”. I need someone with an interest in affective science, very strong English and writing skills, and experience of using SEM with longitudinal data. Thread continues ...

Do we have a good grasp of the ethics of questionable research practices? "[If we don't], this may generate unnecessary fears among researchers, as well as the abandonment of (good) practices that in some cases are misclassified as questionable." By @ezequielfk.bsky.social

Today in Psychology (29th Jan 1954), Gordon Allport's classic book 'The Nature of Prejudice' was published. It remains one of the most influential and critically acclaimed publications on intergroup relations ever written. www.all-about-psychology.com/social-psych... #SocialPsychology

Anyone know of any good papers on the role of postdiction/retrodiction in theory appraisal? #philsci

Paywall: doi.org/10.1038/s441... Read-only Access: rdcu.be/e0eCb

Interesting thread that touches on issues I have tried to address in my articles about replication and well as my book (especially chapters 7 and 8). #psychology #philsky

"The QAA report described the university's code of assessment as 'convoluted' and said there was a risk of inconsistent interpretation and decision-making at exam boards throughout the institution." #UKHE #AcademicSky