I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

It's official now I guess?

Is AI killing publishing reform? Important post by Ulrike Hahn about #scholarlyPublishing. (write.as/ulrikehahn/i...) I've had the same thought, that the flood of LLM-written junk and fraudulent manuscripts being submitted to journals means that

Love that my gmail automatically classifies Google's gemini ads as spam

Can anyone suggest a good guides for using lab notebooks? (Like the traditional pen and paper bench scientist ones, not computational). Like I want to know what you're expected to write down, how you capture and transform the really important stuff, how you refer back to them etc etc

I have gotten a positive response to 1 (one) data request out of maybe half a dozen I've sent in the past ~5 years.

Shocking. The argument is so simple but surprising at the same time. I would never have thought about this in practice. Another reason why we should be very careful when operating under "previously established protocols".

I'll be there & look forward to meeting folks & interesting talks on scientific publishing

Interesting thread on data privacy and (mis)use.

Zotero 8 is out (www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/). If you're not already using, highly recommended!

The annals of Elsevier villainy are extensive, but perhaps their funniest gambit was when they started six "Australasian" fake journals that were really just sponsored publications for pharmaceutical companies, set up to launder their marketing as ostensibly peer-reviewed research.

Okay fuck it everyone stop using the MMSE this is so dumb.

Look forward to seeing this beauty in a journal (maybe the same one that did the well-endowed mouse paper)

Just that name alone...

I remember being confused by always having to aggregate data (to means, counts, etc) in grad school. I think we've gotten much better at that with multilevel models etc, and here's another paper making this point well about analysing binary judgment data.

Some untested and possibly poor ideas for reducing academia's reliance on for-profit publication industry. One, end every abstract with "Read more at <preprint DOI>." Then even paywalled readers can easily access your paper (abstracts usually shown even if paywalled).

We just posted some helpful tips on searching for preprints on psyarxiv: blog.psyarxiv.com/2026/01/27/h... Truncation and fuzzy matching should be especially helpful for lit reviews. Keep posting your preprints to psyarxiv ❤️

You have been warned.

We looked at 100 IGT studies and found abysmal reporting standards, and 244 different scoring techniques. Applied to a new dataset, the average correlation between these 244 techniques was 0. 5/15 IGT meta-analyses we looked at did not account for this hetereogenity.

Science comms drowning in PISS?

Its a tough one. Maybe an opportunity to exercise editorial judgment (ignore). But because its so hard to prove can't really take much concrete action imo, unless its a 100% clear case.

My dear about this as well

Something like this would be cool but the results are somewhat more discouraging imho than suggested. Interesting paper nonetheless.

Today, we presented the main results of the mental health days study 2025 (N = 8.177). Results > In May 2025, Austria implemented a nationwide smartphone-ban at schools > Compared to 2024, smartphone use went down by 30 mins > Life satisfaction went up (5.36 to 5.52) > Depression sank (15% to 12%)

Academic discussion in the year of our lord 2026: "To avoid bias, I asked ChatGPT to evaluate this critic of z-curve. I think the review is fair and accurate." statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/10/c...

Great dataviz

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke. uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...

Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs! ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/

Projects like this & applying integrative analysis methods are very exciting. I bet there's more to do with all the data we collect & curation and good use of metadata is currently underappreciated

This is the right move.

I also enjoyed this @tomchivers.bsky.social book. Other than not talking about how Lord of The Rings is actually about Bayesian statistics it's a good read!

4 of 17 member institutions are in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

I just encountered this for the first time last week: I could view but not download a paper. wtf

A colleague is looking for an open-source/online (pref. peer-reviewed) reference for properties of probability distributions. Any ideas? (NIST gives *very* basic properties e.g. www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handb... but I think they're looking for something more complete ...)

🚨 New draft 🚨 We built an LLM-enabled system to measure greenwashing scores in 1 million worldwide Facebook ads. We found vast networks of Facebook pages sharing pro-fossil fuel messages & show that ads are targeted at left-leaning areas with fossil fuel investments. Link: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Incredible dataviz.

It's easy to produce spurious findings: A meaningless score based on irrelevant evaluations (“My relationship has very good Saturn”) was moderately related to common relationship measures (satisfaction, commitment) & predicted those measures 3 weeks later journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This post highlights how far behind the OSF is in usability and speed. The ResearchBox UI does seem clean, but why not use Zenodo directly (RB archives to Zenodo anyway.)

This episode reminded me of 2 things: 1. We know how & why the bootstrap works, but the fact that it does is just very cool. 2. Bayes. All that strapping (& which bias adjustment to choose) just goes away as unnecessary.

The most comprehensive dataset of video game play and psychological functioning available with CC0 license at zenodo.org/records/1760...

~40% of psyarxiv preprints contain links to open data in 2025 vs (e.g.) ~10% in 2019 (although in the latter case people mostly did not report this metadata): vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das...

vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das... now shows tag co-occurrence networks for psyarxiv preprints. Useful for e.g. looking at what kinds of things people study in relation to social media (left) and technology (right).

Everyone involved in scientific publishing should take a look at these papers. >"The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science; we need [...] to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market."

📬 Pub alert Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*? Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋 @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social Out now in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...

covid-19 is the most commonly used tag on psyarxiv: vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das... I'm surprised to see 'consciousness' in the top-20!