Psychology researchers: Got questions about what kinds of submissions we’re looking for at Psych Science (the journal)? (Short answer: empirical research in any area of psychology!) If you’re at #APS26BCN, stop by the APS booth in the exhibit hall between 4-5pm today to chat with me!

At #wcri2026, @brandonstell.bsky.social makes the point that the “happy face” version of PubPeer didn’t really take off, but that makes sense bc authors of journal articles already hype their work to the max, so there’s often only one direction post publication comments can go, realistically (down).

[Taking a tiny break from Iran-war-induced social media avoidance.] Seeing smart people with a platform express clear & well-articulated indignation is surprisingly reassuring. Thank you to those in the US who keep fighting for humanity. [If it’s ok I’ll go back to hiding now.]

Has transparency improved in clinical psychology? New cross sectional study from us (Bianca Kotoulas, Justine Blackwell & me). Adoption of transparent research practices has increased between 2012, 2018, & 2024, but aside from coi and funding disclosures, they remain uncommon osf.io/preprints/ps...

We're thrilled to open registration for the Utrecht Replication Games. The event will be at the at the University of Utrecht on June 4th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Excited and nervous for this event tomorrow. Come in person in Berlin, or join online! www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

I’m impressed. A nice example of how to handle this with transparency and honesty. Carroll makes a strong case for accountability. This thread makes clear that it’s reasonable to expect some explanation and soul-searching from those who were connected with Epstein.

Need a bit of happy news in your timeline? I haven’t read the full report yet, but this thread makes me happy. @tomhardwicke.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social @i4replication.bsky.social

Academics: If you’re trying to make sense of how people you know knew Epstein, it’s book agent John Brockman. He’s savvy enough to lay low, but we should be talking about him. Friends don’t let friends sign with Brockman. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete... And newrepublic.com/article/1548...

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Don Lemon’s Arrest Is a Five-Alarm Fire Moment slate.com/news-and-pol...

“many communities in war zones in other countries have outlasted their oppressors. Americans are learning and doing what civilians in war zones worldwide have done for decades” theconversation.com/anti-ice-pro... Excellent piece by @oliverkaplan.bsky.social

so ALL of these children just magically *have* orange slices after EVERY soccer game??? ok George Soros

📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Yep. This angle shows that what Bovino said — and what Trump, Miller, and DHS wrote —are lies. They’ve again murdered someone trying to help neighbors, and are again slandering that person. Not to cover anything up, but to project their power and impunity. To suppress dissent, and to set an example.

I don’t think it’s a complete coincidence that, yesterday, so many of us around the world were in awe of what Minneapolis was doing, and, today, the government brutally murdered one of those courageous people, just to show us they could. They think they’ll scare us into submission. They’re wrong.

Thrilled to share our new paper introducing “validity potential” versus “realised validity” as a key distinction for psychological measurement, with @davidmkaplanx.bsky.social, Alexander Gillett, @suttonprofessor.bsky.social, and @robert-m-ross.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

That’s “below-zero temperatures” in Fahrenheit. -22 in degrees Celsius. Minneapolis, you’re amazing.

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

Following the news from Iran and Minnesota. It shouldn’t require so much courage just to live. I’m in awe of the people fighting to protect each other and their communities.

The rarest of sights - a big glossy journal publishing negative replications! Yes, we had to bundle 4 replications into one article AND we had to wait 2 (!!) years in peer review, but here we are: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Some trees around the Sydney area. I love them.

New post! There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost. Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...

What should psychology journals do about this? What’s a reasonable policy/standard to apply to research using online data collection methods?

Sydney, and Australia, are still grieving the attack on our Jewish community. Since moving to Australia, one of my favorite things about it is that I feel so safe here. It’s devastating to know that that feeling has been taken away for our Jewish friends and neighbors. I’m so sorry.

We all need something uplifting right now, especially in Sydney. Here is “an absolute bloody legend” (according to his owner, but I agree):

Congratulations to @bethclarke.bsky.social on her PhD graduation!! It’s been amazing watching you become the incredible scholar that you are, thanks for letting me come along for the ride! You’re the best! 🎉🥂🌟

Preparing this talk gave me an opportunity to reflect on what lessons I've learned from psychology's replication crisis and credibility revolution, and what advice I would have for other fields. We've come a long way! Video: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM?... Slides : osf.io/cuj62/files/...

Fadeout of cognitive training remains one of the more replicable findings in psychology in this preregistered study of 300 preschool children. Well-done study with a 4 year follow up. The language gains either faded or the control group caught up. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The first article recommended by @psych.peercommunityin.org is now published in PCJ!!

Starting in about two hours, I’ll be giving a zoom talk about what lessons other disciplines can take from Psychology’s replication crisis. Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking forward to this next week! During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas. And the Middle East. And parts of Asia. Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ. Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

“The articles in AMPPS offer, month in and month out, the invitation to practice aligning your values, intentions, and actions to do less scientific harm and reach for the methodological ceiling” Grateful to @dsbarra.bsky.social for continuing what @profsimons.bsky.social & co started at AMPPS!

Job posting alert! Open Science Specialist at the University of Calgary (in Canada!) #job #OpenScience careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1704502...

Dear fans of Hugo the dog, Hugo passed away peacefully on Monday, after a wonderful last few days doing his favorite things: road-tripping, going to the beach, and getting lots and lots of pats. He was full of love and goofiness until the end.

If you’re an author, reviewer, or editor and want to learn about Registered Reports from one of the best editors around, go to this webinar! Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)

📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v

OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.

My blog has moved! It’s now at sometimesimwrongblog.wordpress.com If you have links to posts in your syllabus, let me know if you have any trouble finding the corresponding post!

Very lucky to have @jamiecummins.bsky.social as a STAR editor at Psych Science, helping us navigate these kinds of issues. This is such important work.

Another chapter in the book of “Sometimes There’s Nothing There & Using Fancy Stats to Find Something Can Be a Bad Idea” Do you wish we could understand causality by finding lagged effects in longitudinal data? Bad news - lagged effects are probably rare, & even the RI-CLPM is an ill-suited test.

Excited to finally have my first paper officially published! "How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique?" is now online with AMPPS. Huge thanks to my supervisors @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and @simine.com and co-authors @bethclarke.bsky.social, N Moodie, S Schiavone, and R Thibault ☺️

We speak to @simine.com, @wchiggins.bsky.social and Laura Conlon about MetaMelb. This lab studies what is essentially ‘the psychology of psychology research’ – examining practices and norms across psychology. Read it here: go.unimelb.edu.au/753p

FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges Friday, September 19 2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual) Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...

If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10

At the Peer Review Congress #PRC10, @maclomaclee.bsky.social talks about flaws in meta-research. Often only points out problems, doesn’t test solutions, & often uses suboptimal methods (observational design, convenience samples). Great points, but imo, pointing out problems can be big contribution.

How do the discussion sections of paper mill articles in cancer research differ from similar literature? Drop by my poster to hear me over explain this graph in person today and tomorrow ✨ @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social #PRC10

A meta-perspective by Malcolm Macleod on the presentations at #PRC10. Are we going for low hanging fruit too much in research on peer review / publication?

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky