Fantastic! $650k awarded via the Research Software Maintenance Fund for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R”—mentoring new contributors, modernizing R’s dev infrastructure, and strengthening the R Foundation. r-consortium.org/posts/650K-f... #rstats

See @jamiecummins.bsky.social 's work

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Very happy to have received a replication grant from NWO! We will be reproducing power analyses of large scale replication projects, to learn how to improve power analyses, and increase quality control in large team Science projects! www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...

Oh, I thought it was a quantifounder (a quantifier for confounders). iirc there are two of them 'exposome': exposure at least one confounder 'exposall': exposed to all the confounders

Post-publication peer review is at it best when it's thoughtful, scrupulous, steeped in detail – and challenges key claims of the paper. @janhove.bsky.social's discussion of a recent paper on multilingualism exemplifies this.

I’ll leave it to onlookers to decide for themselves what this implies about the floor of credibility of articles published in an outlet with such a prestigious name @nataging.nature.com

That any association disappears when GDP is taken into account might not be surprising, but I’m glad Jan actually put in the necessary work to reanalyse 🫡 true community service.

You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…

This one made me laugh tho

The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement. www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

I'm very happy to continue my work at the Human-Technology Interaction group as a Full Professor of Metascience. Working at this department has been a great source of joy over the last 15 years.

I asked my students to discuss with friends and family whether and why the mental health of young people has changed over time and they all came up with very nuanced takes considering multiple alternatives -- it really shouldn't be impossible to have some of that nuance in the scientific discourse.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

Unfortunately not exactly my domain, but the graphs are very tempting and I have to commend the recruiting strategy.

We're thrilled to open registration for our 1st 2026 Replication Games. The event will be at the University of Zurich on January 19th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

I used to think that people use the “weasel word causal inference strategy” (“our analyses show that X is an important predictor of…” followed by conclusions that are clearly causal) for the sake of plausible deniability. But I’m revising that now, because often deniability *isn’t* plausible.>

once I started to see what certain people submit (mostly as an associate editor), I definitely adjusted my model of how much they actually care about science and lost quite a bit of respect

One of the members of SwissRN (@swissrn.bsky.social) is CERN (@cern.bsky.social) because of course. So jealous

ZPID Trier: Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent) (f/m/d) leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 #Stellenangebot

If you’re into beautiful graphs and rigorous science, check out Ruben’s new position at Uni Witten/Herdecke. I’ve worked with him for over a decade, and it’s been an inspiring, supportive collaboration throughout.

I moved all my student Slack workspaces to Discord earlier this year bc of stricter limits on free plans, and most other random Slacks I'm in have also made the switch All that to say that I just learned you can put servers in folders by dragging them on top of each other in the sidebar à la iOS

Metacheck can now automatically 1) download a preprint from PsyArXiv, 2) create a report of the checks (stats, reporting guidelines, references, code, etc), 3) retrieve the authors email, and 4) send them the report. Would you as an author appreciate this? When yes, when no?

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...

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....

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

In the running for greatest human accomplishment.

I think you just discovered a meme

Significantly more devastating when I ask it. Ouch.

Perfect time to join the PYMS Discord if you haven’t already! We have a Meme Channel now!

We just preprinted a huge meta-meta-analysis examining the effects of exercise on cognition, memory, and executive function In short - 2239 effect sizes - extreme between-study heterogeneity - extensive publication bias - some subgroup/exercise-specific effects More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)

I think that the field needs to clean up the published literature a bit. Additional small studies are not going to move the needle at this point; maybe a couple of large-scale, pre-registered studies might provide more insight?

I had a lot of fun making this choropleth map of property sales prices in Germany. Predictably, big cities have the highest property prices. This pattern is typical now.

IMO one of the absolute coolest projects in psych at the moment — solving the toothbrush problem in measurement with really clever use of LLMs. Incredibly useful!

I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply. 1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step? 2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.

IMO one of the absolute coolest projects in psych at the moment — solving the toothbrush problem in measurement with really clever use of LLMs. Incredibly useful!

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

The scandal of medical research still failing to adopt the Registered Report format for trial publications. Great example of failure to weed out Questionable Research Practices by clinical trial register (preregistration)+ journal review + multiple systematic reviews + guideline development process

Imagine you lived in the 18th century. Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine? In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!

“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!

Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/

Registration is now open for our Quarto workshop at Paul Meehl Graduate School! Join us on December 12 in Eindhoven to learn how to use Quarto for reproducible research and communication. More details and registration here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-11-03-q...

~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...

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