Are victimhood claims in political party manifestos and election programs on the rise? Yes, they are! Check out a brand new paper authored by @marlenevoit.bsky.social , @lucaskohler.bsky.social et al. -- published yesterday in @polpsyispp.bsky.social. Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops....

How FAIR is shared data in psychology? We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable! What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice. 👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy... @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci

We know — from first principles — that LLMs can only create AI slop. Why do people keep needing empirical tests?

We used to speak of ‘sloppy science’ when there were QRPs. Now we have slop science 😔

Ecologist Jeremy Fox considers transparency and trust, and their observed *negative* correlation. Are we motivating better science? H/t @MarkRubin.Bskyk.social dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/e... #metascience

Unser Direktor @kaisassenberg.bsky.social hat zusammen mit @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social einen spannenden Aufsatz mit dem Titel "Komplexer als gedacht" zum Thema Replizierbarkeit von Forschungsbefunden veröffentlicht. #forschung ▶️Forschung und Lehre www.forschung-und-lehre.de/heftarchiv/a...

New preregistered report @jepsjournal.bsky.social "Thin" populism treatments manipulate perceptions of people-centrism + anti-elitism But: some treatments (e.g., "American people") affect perceptions of host ideology, complicating causal analyses of impact of populist rhetoric cup.org/4n3DvZm

New: Köhler et al. (incl. @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social) developed the "Moral Perspectives & Foundations Scale" & found that perspective-specific moral foundations do a better job at predicting political outcomes than perspectives or MFTs alone. Open Access: doi.org/10.1027/1864...

How complete are preregistrations? Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications Medium answer: 🧵 Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition osf.io/preprints/ps...

New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...

🚨 PhD position (75%, TV-L E13) at LMU Munich! Join our DFG funded META REP project on heterogeneity & replicability in psychology. Work on meta analysis, simulations, modeling in R/Python. 📅 Apply by July 15 🔗 shorturl.at/939tP 🔗 shorturl.at/2bRLD 👇🧵

In next week's Jour Fixe, @devezer.bsky.social (University of Idaho) presents her work on "Claims about scientific rigour require rigour" www.rmz.hu-berlin.de.... Join us on Wednesday, 25.06.25, 11am online or in person in Berlin. @ibi-hu.bsky.social

📣New Preprint Alert! Esther Maassen meticulously simulated the effect of p-hacking and publication bias on effect size & heterogeneity estimates. 💡bad: selective outcome reporting & optional dropping 💡bad: publication bias 💡not so bad: optional stopping/outlier removal osf.io/preprints/ps...

**NEW COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTER IN MUNICH** In October 2025, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and @tum.de will start a new joint CRC on Simulation-Based Learning in Higher Education (www.trr419-sharp.de). 29 PIs, 21 individual projects, 11 Mio Euros funding for the first 4 years.

🔔‼️ New papers alert In these papers, @lakens.bsky.social takes a deep dive into the two major crises in psychology. Concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology are discussed. A must-read for every psychology researcher! Available in #OA 👇👇

🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

Job Alert: We are searching for a postdoc (1 fte, 22 months) for a DFG-funded project on bias reduction via cognitive conflicts. Feel free to contact me via e-mail (address provided in the post) or DM. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ux0vb9i0

🎺JOB ALERT👀: We (@LMU Munich) are hiring a postdoc (full-term) for the coordination of META-REP, a metascientific research consortium (www.lmu.de/psy/de/forsc...). Application deadline May 15, 2025. See full job ad here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3.... Contact me if you need more info!

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

Looking for a PhD candidate to join a project at the intersection of health comms & computer science! We’ll use LLMs to create synthetic patient populations to test vaccine uptake interventions & build a training tool for better vax communication. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Project-... Please repost!

Remember the old #Twitter and when you decided to migrate? How important were your peers for your decision? In our current study, we use data from 250k researchers during the 2022 migration to #Mastodon to examine #socialinfluence within the research community. 👉 doi.org/10.23668/psy... 🧵1/4

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

A Guide to Multiverse Analyses "The large array of defensible options available for researchers to select along the workflow creates what is known as the ‘garden of forking paths’." Preprint: doi.org/10.31222/osf...

Alone but not Lonely! New study finds "people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone." Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

I am sooo proud and grateful. But ... what do they mean by "provisionally"...???

Überlegt bitte taktisch zu wählen! 🗳️ "[kleine progressive Partein zu wählen wie Volt, die Tierschutzpartei usw.] schwächt SPD, Grüne und Linke. Schlimmer noch: CDU und AfD würden davon bei der Sitzverteilung im Parlament überdurchschnittlich profitieren" www.campact.de/bundestagswa...

"I have a dream..." New work by @drmorganalw.bsky.social, @lindaskitka.bsky.social and colleagues considers how people's imagined utopias and dystopias affect their willingness to engage in social change. Open access: doi.org/10.1111/bjso... Few quotes...

Oh lord. This is dystopian. Or Orwellian. Or something really not good. I teach students that science can speak truth to power, and that if authoritarian rulers want to dominate knowledge where science is valued, science poses an extra barrier that must be attacked. And so it is. On multiple fronts.

This is a preview of just one field-wide consequence if we elevate preregistration from a useful tool into a mandate or norm. I call it “File-drawer 2.0”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

While the standard submissions are still welcome, he specifically lays out the types of submissions & special issues that will be prioritized at the journal, as well as his policies surrounding transparency.

New OA #metascience paper by @xenia_ks, @drfollowmario, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung, @TimoRoettger, and me: "Let’s talk about language — and its role for replicability" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04381-2

“There is no theory crisis in psychological science” Few quotes…🧵

OnlineFirst publication: Schwade, Sophie Altenmüller, & @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social explore how the use of informal communication impacts the degree of trustworthiness and closeness in professional and private relationship dynamics. doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcasemicSky #SocialPsychology

Since we’re talking about trust in science right now (shout out to the TISP project!), here’s the updated „Trust in Science Scholars“ starter pack once more! Please share and reach out if you identify as a trust in science researcher and want to be added! #trustinscience #scicomm

👉PAPER ALERT👈: To all the folks who are interested in justice/forgiveness/revenge: Tyler Okimoto and I just published a chapter in Annual Review in Psychology on "the (social) psychology of justice repair": doi.org/10.1146/annu.... It's open access!😊

#Psychology publication "transparency increased moderately from 2017 to 2022 [but] continues to be widely neglected in psychology" (N = 400 peer-reviewed articles). #OpenAccess paper below. How will you incentivize transparency in #science? #PhilSci #MetaScience #OpenScience #Publishing #Academia

🗣Job alert:🧑‍🎓 Postdoc-Stelle in einem rechtspsychologischen Projekt zum Thema "Vertrauen in Ko-Kreation mit generativer KI im Rechtssystem" an der LMU München: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/8.... (geleitet von Friederike Funk). Bewerbungsschluss 20.01.25

Behavioral responses depend on need threat: 📉Lower threat ➡️ prosocial/approach behaviors like helping others, talking to others, or actively using social media 📈Higher threat ➡️ withdrawal/antisocial intentions Figure 1:

This conference has been incredible for #metascience and #openscience the past two times. I highly recommend it @cos.io metascience.info/call-for-pro... 🧪

(3) Policy-free metascience by @jbakcoleman.bsky.social

This paper is part of a special issue on “What makes a good theory?” bsky.app/profile/deve...

✨ So proud of this special issue and deeply grateful for my wonderful co-editors, all contributions at the workshop by participants, and the amazing resulting papers in the special issue. Check it out! You will not be disappointed, I promise 😊

New paper: https://buff.ly/3ZcAz30 During the Covid-19 pandemic, many researchers felt the urge to contribute to the societal goal of curbing infection rates and alleviating the stress people experienced. Many thus (hastily) did "Covid Research".

Although it is frequently discussed, AfD support appears only weakly correlated with objective economic conditions. The unemployment rate or the disposable income per capita of a municipality correlate only weakly with the AfD's vote share and its gains compared to 2019.

So excited to be organising the EASP 2025 Summer School at Kent and leading a workstream on “Moral Psychology and Artificial Intelligence” with Kathryn Francis 🤖🧠 www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

Metascience didn't really have a journal, or even a publication platform that provides peer review. So, we made one! We launch next week.

The European Journal of Social Psychology is looking for junior consulting editors www.easp.eu/news/itm/ejs...