Are methodological and causal inference errors creating a false impression that the gut microbiome causes autism? In this strong analysis, Mitchell, Dahly, and Bishop question the evidence. They show that triangulation in science requires multiple robust lines of research.

We did a thing. 😬

Do Standard Error Corrections Exacerbate Publication Bias?: https://osf.io/gn8ur

A quick (1000 words) read to enjoy with your morning coffee or afternoon tea: "Psychology wants to stay WEIRD, not go WILD" Why hasn't psychology diversified it samples, methods, theories, etc.? Because it doesn't want to. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Yes, like a Netflix documentary included IN EVERY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY TEXTBOOK

seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email

When David fights Goliath but David is also an annoying little shit www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

In passport line in Prague remembering my best experience in US: Agent: why are you here? I’m a Professor, giving a talk. What’s you subject? Political Philosophy. My favourite!! Really?? No. I say that to all the Professors.

Finnur Dellsén got a nice pic of me on my standard Q&A slide, so now I have a stock reply to any time anyone disagrees with me.

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

Ouch

You are a Post-Padawan now!

I successfully defended my Habilitation today, and was honoured by the committee’s positive feedback. I am very grateful for my colleagues, collaborators and students at the University of Bern who made this a very rewarding journey.

I'm not lazy, I'm just convenience maxxing.

Students: Trick or Treat! Me: Life is completely fair and a perfect meritocracy. Students: AHHH!! Treat instead! Me: Here are some raisins.

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

Hey @cos.io is there a reason you're hiding the login at the bottom of the menu rather than just slapping it somewhere prominently on the front page?

"To our knowledge, we are the first to..."

Simply delicious

waiting to hear back on my submission

🚨 New publication: How to improve conceptual clarity in psychological science? Thrilled to see this article with @ruimata.bsky.social out. We discuss how LLMs can be leveraged to map, clarify, and generate psychological measures and constructs. Open access article: doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Happy to share a new peer-reviewed study on PubMed. Blessing eggs creates bigger and tastier chickens (p < 0.001). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035978/

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

I just found the virus version of Labubu

Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 : 2,052 Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0 October 2025 • Source: Harper's research

New hobby: Remaking article abstracts as movie trailers to expose hype and fearmongering.

#MetaResearch #PostDoc opportunity working with routine health data and clinical trial data (with Prof. Lars Hemkens) www.jobs.apps.be.ch/job-vacancie...

We couldn't not rate this classic early DAG by our beloved collective granddagy, Sewall Wright. 14/10. Ten for the DAG, plus one for each cute guinea-pig node. From Wright (1920) "The Relative Importance of Heredity and Environment in Determining the Piebald Pattern of Guinea-Pigs"

Conditioning on a match indicator S can generate collider bias exactly cancelling a confounding path and identifying the effect of Z on X. Here it is in a very good DAG. 9/10 because of the functional form specificity. From Steiner et al. (2017) "Graphical Models for Quasi-experimental Designs"

Hello Bluesky! We rate DAGs. Some are great. Some are... not so great. But we rate them all. Let's start with a famous powerpoint hairball a.k.a. "the Afghanisdag", presented to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal around 2010. His own rating? 1/10 "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war"

Important meme update!

Psychologists running empirical studies to rediscover engineering design choices is such a strange genre of papers. By all means, run studies on LLM judgments -- but what else than lexical co-occurence and statistical priors would they be based on??

the causal inference crowd should set up a WeRateDags account

Und die Leute beklagen sich über LLM-Halluzination

Results of the replication are in! Chocolate is more desirable than poop: Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78] N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability. w/ @jamiecummins.bsky.social

Book of Au Weia

New blog post! Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis? (I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler) www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

Datacolada posted about you

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

(3/x) Almost all papers were flagged by Mu Yang (@mumumouse2.bsky.social) and me this year. Multiple articles were reported to Wiley, 50+ are currently being investigated by Elsevier's ethics team. Wiley's team looked at the article in (1) and send me this email which left me very confused:

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!

In this house when we say "emerging literature" we mean two papers and one blog post

or cares