"Positive direct and indirect intergroup contact is more prevalent than negative contact" Liang Wu presents the results of a meta-analysis across 33 countries, with BSky author @aaronltbh.bsky.social at the @polpsyispp.bsky.social conference in Newcastle, UK. #SocialPsyc #ISPP2026

Multiverse analysis, abdication of responsibility and manufacturing of doubt: I have written on some downsides I see with multiverse analysis (which I like in principle): arxiv.org/abs/2607.14623 I was inspired/provoked to write it by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci (thanks!)

This is an interesting and good take on multiverse analyses…

Excellent conceptualization of open science in @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social's latest paper: "Science does not progress unless researchers look for new ways of knowing, which implies an acknowledgement that current knowledge, methods and instrument are not infallible and can be improved..."

Useful table of theory-related terms by @philippmusfeld.bsky.social et al. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#PhDSky 👇

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PrejudiceResearch Important new meta-analysis by Friehs et al on longitudinal intergroup contact relations www.nature.com/articles/s44... Traditional CLPM find longitudinal effects. Methods that parse between- from within-person effects find mostly between-person

Analysis of 669 social and personality psychology articles finds 28% included at least one statement about how the findings could have implications for real-world contexts. New work by @bethclarke.bsky.social et al. Open Access: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #MetaSci #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky

"Contemporary narratives often frame Open Science and metascience as novel frontiers of transparency and rigor, obscuring their deep roots in feminist methodologies and critical social science traditions." New work by @maddipow.bsky.social

"This suggests a subtle but profound shift for metascience. Evaluation should become less concerned with demonstrating what one particular pathway can achieve, and more concerned with comparing alternative pathways."

Excellent paper on the ethical complexities of Open Science reform. Highly recommend. Builds upon our previous work on epistemic alignment in replication decision making. @suyoghc.bsky.social @balazsaczel.bsky.social @ayeletfishbach.bsky.social

Do you view the scientific literature as a "Book of Truths" or a "Book of Conversations"? "This attitudinal divide, we argue, underlies many tensions in contemporary OS [open science] practice." By Rena Alcalay and @joachim.cidlab.com

Does preregistration protect against hindsight bias? doi.org/10.1037/mac0...

"I hope that this reflection encourages the open science community to develop values and practices that support epistemological and methodological pluralism." New editorial by @heidilevitt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/qup0...

"We understand that the decision to introduce APCs was not your own but was imposed by corporate management, and we are sorry that our resignation will put you in a difficult position. Nonetheless, the APCs that Springer Nature will introduce [...] are irreconcilable with our vision of science."

Keep hoping that metascience will pivot toward properly contextualizing studies within their design, assumptions, domain, literature... instead of treating every standardized, decontextualized data point as meaningful evidence wrt the state of science but we're getting farther away from that w AI.

Paris, today

"To what extent are concepts like 'evidence', 'theory' or others instantiated or used differently in different fields and what does this imply?" #PhilSci #MetaSci

Just closed the main part of the #ICRN2026 Summit with awards for some wonderful ECR presentations. Thanks to Aaron Lauterbach (@aaronltbh.bsky.social), Matilde Tassinari (@matildetassinari.bsky.social), Zaya Da Silva, Marta Sih Wei Macaluso and Marmuro Sakura for sharing their exciting research!

Session 3 at #ICRN2026: how does contact unfold over time? One take-away: within-person effects remain hard to find. Might we need to clarify theory further first? That was also the topic of a fascinating unconference session. (1/3)

Day 2 of the 2026 International Contact Research Network Summit (#ICRN2026) in Karlsruhe @contactresearch.bsky.social Group Photo... 🧵

@socog-guilford.bsky.social is now on BlueSky #SocialPsyc bsky.app/profile/soco...

Session 1B at #ICRN2026: what can contact change beyond prejudice? One take-away: in work on engaging men to prevent violence against women, quality of contact matters more than quantity for getting them involved. (1/3)

Session 2B at #ICRN2026: what do contact valence and quality add to the story? One take-away: neutral contact may buffer the harmful effects of negative contact. (1/3)

Some highlights of the 2026 International Contact Research Network Summit (#ICRN2026) in Karlsruhe, happening today and tomorrow @contactresearch.bsky.social

"Social epistemology isn’t social. It’s not even epistemology. It’s an irresistible opening; at least, I failed to resist it." Excellent work by @neillevy.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/0020... 🧵

Intellectual Humility in Politics - @lknochelmann.bsky.social introduces the symposium now at #EASP2026: how does our awareness of our own intellectual limitations relate to how we perceive ourselves and others in politicized contexts?

@alex-hunt-psych.bsky.social presents his work on discursive and rhetorical reconstructions of social systems at #EASP2026. Are the political systems researchers measure the same systems that participants actually think about?

Petite-France, Strasbourg, last night #EASP2026

Just published: “What is critical metascience and why is it important” doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Belle Derks presents work at #EASP2026 showing that the "queen bee narrative" (women in high power positions drag other women in the organization down) may be a legitimizing myth intended to support the sexist status quo.

Siyu Zhang presents her work with @chuma73.bsky.social on stereotype threat in classrooms at #EASP2026

Jie Huang presents her work on host-migrant contact in segregated communities of a Chinese mega-city to an excited audience at #EASP2026 See Alt text for Abstract

"No clear me without a secure we" Jakke Coeyne at #EASP2026 on rejection, identity confusion, and eating disorder symptoms in young people.

Kuba Krys explains that, the wealthier and more modern a society, the less sense of meaning people report having. #EASP2026

Excellent presentation by @francavanagh.bsky.social today at #EASP2026 on developing a new scale of right-wing populist attitudes in the UK.

#EASP2026 symposia on the intergroup contact habit-rupture model.

Great symposium this morning at the #EASP2026 conference: “Who critiques the critique? Toward a reflexive metascience,” with presenters @ameliazein.bsky.social, @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social, @fgabarrot.bsky.social, and me!

Posts with #EASP and #EASP2026 should now appear in the #socialpsyc feed here 👇 @easp2026.bsky.social

“Our simulations are barely worth the papers we print them on.” @kordinglab.bsky.social on the tiny worm with just 300 neurons that scientists still can't simulate — even with every connection mapped. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU

“I started to notice how research that seemed ill-conceived to me ... could be called out as exemplary simply by touting the right set of open science practices, a.k.a., ‘rigor-signaling’.” New post by @jessicahullman.bsky.social jessicahullman.substack.com/p/ai-review-...

Using AI to support peer review seems unavoidable, but what quality checks should AI implement? We can take some lessons from metascience on the hard reward design problem that is AI review. I wrote a paper synthesizing a few points the emerging lit seems at risk of confusing. 1/

Redundancy Review Committee finds university may have deliberately targeted the vice-president of the union. University ignores Committee and proceeds with redundancy. #UKHE #AcademicSky

Guess what? I’m at risk of redundancy. My job - and those of my colleagues in my department and across our wider faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - is one of those currently targeted for cuts. I received a personal letter today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Establishing-an-effect, theory-of-the-effect, and theoretical framework Three strategies for claiming research progress by Dal et al. (2026): doi.org/10.1002/jcpy...

#statstab #557 The widespread misinterpretation of p-values as error probabilities Thoughts: Well written & clear on the issue of p's and alpha's. I like "discrepancy" as a description of p-value. #pvalue #nhst #fisher #alpha #hypothesis #testing #error www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Open science is increasingly losing its liberating and democratizing potential, as it becomes entangled with the interconnected and mutually reinforcing logics of commercialization, political instrumentalization, and media-driven visibility of science."

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Imre Lakatos by Alan Musgrave and Charles Pigden has been updated. #PhilSci plato.stanford.edu/entries/laka...

"Were there one uniform scientific community, realising an ideal of openness might be achievable by simple remedies. But there is no such entity. Scientific communities can be demarcated via discipline or via nationality/region." Helen Longino on open science.

More staff cuts at Dundee “to recover from the dreadful mistakes of the past” 🔹 Up to 190 more staff to go, after previous cuts of 675 🔹 Proposal to suspend degrees in #Mathematics, #Languages and #Philosophy #UKHE #AcademicSky