Reviewing a paper, and it is so nice that the Metacheck R package we made allows me to download all OSF Files by just typing: metacheck::osf_file_download("2w123") (not the actual repo). All files are downloaded, maintaining the folder structure, without any hassle.

Are you interested in the weapon focus effect? How about using virtual reality to study eyewitness memory? Here's a piece about some work from our group on the topic. Also, nice to see NeuroFog lab members Mikayla, Soheil and Chloe featured in the thumbnail!

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

A new version (5.0-1) of the metafor package has been released on CRAN. It includes some smaller updates, including more ways to visualize prediction intervals / distributions. Further details here: www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/new... #Rstats #MetaAnalysis

This is so cool! 👀✨

Congrats to former NeuroFog lab member @noahpevie.bsky.social - I know he's been working on this one for a long time! Good to finally see it out :)

Giving a short presentation later today to my institute's external advisory board. This slide summarizes the last 3 years of my department's efforts

Very excited to announce that the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al publishes in June! routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian

Our meta-analysis of the prevalence of infant abuse made the cover of eClinicalMedicine! Core finding: It'a more common than you think. Congrats to NeuroFog members Ada Vaziri and Chelsea Lahey, lead author Cora Keeney and co-senior author Nichole Fairbrother (and everyone, else too, of course!)

I wish more people knew this. Power analysis should be based on the smallest effect size of interest. Not on a guess, or a hope. You also need to specify that effect to make your claim falsifiable, and to know when the effect is statistically significant, but practically irrelevant.

The editor published corrections and does plan to retract. retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

This truly is a classic.

We recently submitted a commentary on a very influential meta-analysis. We found that: 1) 40% of relevant literature had not been identified because of lazy search, 2) a few large N included studies did not meet stated inclusion criteria, and 3) that almost all sig. moderator findings were wrong.

Congratulations to Ashlee Coles and colleagues on their recent publication highlighting important findings related to the prevalence of comorbid cannabis use disorder in veterans with PTSD and the adult general population with anxiety and related disorders. Read more: shorturl.at/6e128

Final keynote and talk of the #PSE8 conference, by František Bartoš, University of Amsterdam, talking about the idea of robustness reports.

Check out this recent paper from NeuroFog and AWE lab members exploring the prevalence of obsessions relating to harming oneself or others in OCD! It's more prevalent than many people realize.

Congrats to Quinn Morris, Chelsea Lahey, Olivia Bishop, Concordia co-authors & Drs. Josh Rash, Jacqueline Carter, Jonathan Fawcett & Emily Fawcett on a new meta-analysis! They found that ~70% of people with OCD report aggressive obsessions in their lifetime. shorturl.at/tJS4n

New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology: 'Effects of valence and list composition on memory predictions, performance, and beliefs' - MacMillan, M. B., Churchill, L. A., & Hourihan, K. L. buff.ly/0BGSGkb

Congrats to former NeuroFog member @noahpevie.bsky.social on his new measurement-y pre-print!

The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" (2nd ed) is up! solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/ 1/3 #rstats

If you're a Clinician looking for a faculty position, or knows someone who is, have I got some great news for you! Memorial University is hiring 2 Open Rank positions! We're practically the North American gateway to Europe!

Getting my new slides in shape. I have it on good authority that the typeface I have chosen is "woke" (aka sans serif)

The 1.3.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of Kruschke's "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! solomon.quarto.pub/dbda2 #rstats 1/8

Including the old black cat adoptions survival analysis example as a case study in the forthcoming Bayesian Workflow book. This is presented as a whole incremental workflow with simulation, validation, and model comparison. Just now went through code and extra-commented and cleaned. Getting close!

This. I often justify sample size based on resources (participants are rare here). Every review demands a priori power analysis. Then, most papers I read include incorrectly conducted and interpreted power analyses. Editors often don't care they are incorrect if told. Statistical rituals at work.

New research from Drs. Jonathan Fawcett and Kathleen Hourihan, alumni Hannah Willoughby and Jenny Tiller, and team found that reading aloud triggers larger pupil dilation than reading silently, suggesting that speaking aloud enhances attention and encoding. See full article: shorturl.at/MRQRA

A meta-analytic review of 16 studies found that body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) symptoms were significantly more strongly correlated with symptoms of social media addiction than with the number of hours spent on social media per day. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/1521...

Did you know your pupils get bigger when you're thinking harder? Are you interested in understanding why reading something aloud helps you remember it better? Check out this recent paper by multiple current and former NeuroFoggies using pupil dilation to study the production effect!

My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...

Congratulations to former NeuroFoggies Brooke and @noahpevie.bsky.social on their recent paper (it is Brooke's inaugural first author paper)!

If you're interested in OCD, particularly aggressive obsessions, here is a new meta-analysis from NeuroFog and AWE lab members exploring the prevalence of such obsessions in youth! Proud of the hard work everyone put into this one.

Congratulations to Drs. Lindsey Cahill and Sohrab Zendehboudi on becoming members of the prestigious @src-rsc.bsky.social’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists! 🎉 We could not be prouder! Read more about their backgrounds and research here: gazette.mun.ca/research/int...

Maliha Dew, a recent undergraduate honours recipient in @munpsych.bsky.social took home the Donald O. Hebb Student Award from the recent CSBBCS/ @exppsychsoc.bsky.social‬ conference in Dundee, Scotland! Congratulations Maliha, and all the best in pursuing your Masters in Clinical Psychology! 🧠

I welcome the death of google scholar so that h-index can also die - a weird proxy metric ("the largest h such that h articles have at least h citations each") that become ubiquitous seemingly because some google engineer added it to a side project

It's like an episode of black mirror in which, instead of fixing the poisonous two-sided market that favors oligopoly publishers, funding orgs decide to try out *price controls*.

Our new meta-science collaboration on @lhb-apls.bsky.social, Statistical Reporting Practices within Forensic Psychology, under the lead of Dr. Joseph Eastwood, Dr. Kirk Luther @kirkluther.bsky.social, and Dr. Brent Snook. We examined the stats evolution of field over 20 years doi.org/10.1037/lhb0...

“The extremity of this implicit rule needs to be recognized: academia, the industry whose main purpose is truth discovery, is surprisingly uncomfortable with people pointing out things that are not true.”

“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! bookdown.org/content/3686/ 1/3 #rstats

"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Support local and come see The Ames Window (a psychedelic instrumental rock band made up of people from the Psychology Department) perform at the Black Sheep to kick off #CPA2025! All attendees will get 50% off cover, and if you're a student at MUN or CPA2025, it's free!

If you've not encountered it, this is a very insightful paper on ~this topic By @psmaldino.bsky.social and McElreath.

Brains, heart, and a whole lot of hard work! Congratulations to the Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience Class of 2025. Wishing you all the best in every chapter ahead.

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital [email protected] sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience