Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Is classification measurement? Feels like it is, but classification doesn't require quantitative structure or numbers. Which would mean measurement doesn't require quantification or numbers. Which all feels okay, unsure if that leads to contradictions or bigger problems. #stats #measurement

Fuck! Swearing may make you a little bit stronger. In 2 preregistered studies, swearing every 2s increases static strength vs. saying a neutral word. From Richard Stephens & colleagues psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #psych #exercise

🚀 Announcing the Besample Dissertation Grant (N=3,000) If you’re a Ph.D. student in psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, or any related field, this is your chance to get full funding for testing your theory across cultures. Apply: study.besample.app/jfe/form/SV_...

Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

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...

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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

The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:

Who wouldn't want this?

Workshop I gave for the Chinese University of Hong Kong now online: "Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework" Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...

Sometimes people, like programs, get caught in a loop. These loops can last minutes, these loops can last years. But the solution is the same. Just turn it off and on again.

Realizing that the people who decide the defaults in stats programs have an unrecognized influence on all statistical analyses. #stats

Corrections to misinformation work & may increase perceptions of truth & feelings towards the target of the misinfo! For 1-2 weeks at best. From @jhchae.bsky.social, Groeling, & @hyunjinsong.bsky.social academic.oup.com/joc/advance-... #psych We need to see how long our interventions last!

Fasting for 8-48 hours shows no major effect on cognitive abilities. Longer fasting shows even less cognitive effects, but there may be some small 8-hour effects. Therefore, lunch to lunch is probably best for a 24hour fast. From Bamberg & @davidmoreau.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles...

Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.

Wheeled toys were all the rage in the ancient world. Here are four lovely examples: a Greek horse, a Mesopotamian ram, an Iranian hedgehog & a Mesoamerican jaguar. The jaguar one is particularly cool because it shows that Mesoamericans knew about wheels; they just didn't use them for transport.

Upcoming Zoom talk: "Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework" (Chinese University of Hong Kong library) Tues, Nov 25 2025, 2-330pm HK time (GMT+8) All are welcome. Registration: cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view...

I can talk for hours about BTS and especially about my dream of clinical BTS. If this sounds interesting, feel free to invite me to your department. No funding required, just cookies and (virtual) warm hugs. #BigTeamScience This work received support from the @fwf-at.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at

It is either a really good or a really bad time for my call for countries to come together and allow free collaboration and tool use between countries outside the realm of international relations problems... osf.io/preprints/ps...

the internet has decided that em-dashes are a hallmark of llm writing, which is *extremely* annoying to me, as someone who uses em-dashes all the time. dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good

Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ok, fine, I'm gonna make a DAG. #stats and #episky people, what is dagitty and how do I make it DAG?

If I ever write an r package for DAGs, I call dibs on dagnabbit

Wanna do #openscience and get credit for it in your career? Try a #replication at @i4replication.bsky.social i4replication.org. You will contribute to better science, build your skills and get a CV item.

Power analyses are all fine and dandy until your power analysis comes back with you needing N = 34 people to have 90% power, you run the study with N = 34, get the effect, and no one believes your study because your sample size is so small.

Good to see that some people are still reading the full paper and not only the abstract. I think Science would thank you if it can. :)

Can reading one article change your belief in free will? New studies say maybe—but the effect doesn’t last. Our beliefs might be more resilient than they seem New work by @olivergenschow.bsky.social @protzko.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social 💡

Rob Chavez gives the helpful/correct answer below, but here's another thought: Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.

International research collaborations run into international problems: Embargoes, authorship conflicts, ethical use agreements. This should not be the way. We propose a framework, a memorandum of understanding between countries, to allow free collaboration between researchers osf.io/preprints/ps...

The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time. scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/

arXiv CS clarifies its policy on narrative reviews: "The goal of the moderators of each category is to make sure the work being submitted is actually science, and that it is of potential interest to the scientific community." blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

Sending 3yolds (N = 588) to Montessori preschools causes increases in theory of mind, letter-word identification ability. Lottery study with followup through Kindergarten! Excited to see the longer-term results of this study! From Angeline Lillard www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #psych

How can we start to get closer to true generalizability in the human sciences? A talk I gave at the wonderful BTSCon suggests the first steps! Excited to start this journey with the @psysciacc.bsky.social Preprint with more details coming soon #meta #psych #phdsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mk4...

Who’s gonna pay @rpsychologist.com to make a mega tool converting all g*power analysis types to an interpretable web tool like this?

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Problem I'm mulling over right now, curious if anyone has thoughts or citations relevant (for and against): "Effect size is NOT the size of the causal effect." #phdsky #stats #meta

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Psychological Assessment is seeking its new editor, to start receiving manuscripts in early 2027 to prepare for issues published in 2028: www.apa.org/pubs/journal... Deadline for accepting nominations is Monday, January 12, 2026, at editorsearch.apa.org @apajournals.bsky.social

Something that does not get talked about enough is moving your lab to a new University. Those who have moved their research lab to a new part of the country or new country: what did you wish you knew or someone told you to do? #phdsky #psych

🌟 We’re hiring! 🌟 Are you interested in memory, cognitive training, & healthy ageing? We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ814/r... 👉 0.5 FTE (2.5 days/week), 4 months (likely from 01/26) 👉 Annual salary £32,080 to £33,002 (pro-rata) 👉 Based in Sheffield, UK

Do messages claiming free will doesn’t exist actually shift people's beliefs? Our @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social paper finds believe reductions over a week—but only when the context of reporting beliefs is the same as when reading text. w/ @protzko.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yb3y4ahs

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Kids These days…are LESS shy than they were 20 years ago. According to parent-reported shyness, it is going down among 4-5 year olds. From Louis A. Schmidt link.springer.com/article/10.1... #psych

Trump wants to turn his assault on cities into visual propaganda for suburbanites. The inflatable animal suits ruin the imagery. But so would everyone carrying American flags. The left should reclaim patriotic imagery so the only videos ICE can make are of beating up banner-waving patriots.

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

In between-Ss experiments: without a reference point, people say playing a prank is bad but give the same ‘bad’ rating to committing a war crime. Not in within-Ss experiments or when giving reference points for judgments. From @vladchituc.bsky.social www.crockettlab.org/s/1-s20-S001... #psych