Some great opportunities to collaborate on projects and nice events have been shared in the last weeks, check it out! Not a part of our Discord yet? You can always send a DM to receive a link to join

Join us in person together with the Paul Meehl Graduate School in October You can apply for a small travel reimbursement to join, so don't miss out!

Submit your abstract for a presentation or the hackathon at the Meta-Research Symposium at #PaulMeehlGraduateSchool on October 8–9. The submission deadline is the July 15. 🧳 Some travel reimbursement is available through PYMS. More info: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2026-06-01-c...

My PhD Sajedeh Rasti has published a World View piece in Nature today: "Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future" www.nature.com/articles/d41... She discusses how she successfully brought together a team of meta-scientists to collaboratively apply for funding.

Interested in being actively involved in maintaining and building a community of young meta-science enthusiasts? Join the PYMS Board! (It's great. And I would know because I am also in it) Doubts or questions? Send me or the PYMS page a DM :)

The 3rd edition of Meta Research Symposium is open for accepting abstracts. We have two categories: 3-h hackathons, organised by @youngmetascience.bsky.social and 20-minute talks. Learn more and submit your abstracts here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/sy...

📣 Volunteer position alert 📣 At PYMS, we are looking for a new Board Member! Are you an ECR with a passion for meta-science? Do you want to help organize events for fellow meta-scientists and help grow PYMS over the coming years? Check out the open position of Board Member!

I will be posting on @realscientists.de this week about open science and meta-science. There is also a German blog post / interview here: realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2026/05/fors...

@aufdroeseler.bsky.social postet diese Woche auf @realscientists.de!! 🥹🥳

Still a few days to apply!

Are you interested in how technology and AI are reshaping peer review and grant evaluation? We are organising a conference at TU/e on June 5, 2026 on Transparency, Technology & AI in Peer Review to explore the opportunities, challenges, and risks for research quality and integrity.

Our first two online presentation sessions were a great success already, with interesting presentations and questions and comments from the crowd. We have six more presentations planned this week, by ECRs that would love your feedback and support! Join one or multiple sessions Daily at 12:00 CEST

New day, new presentations! Today, @crist14n.bsky.social will present his work on reproducible study selection for meta-analyses and @leungyianna.bsky.social will present her Shiny app to explore terminology variations in psychology and metascience! Join us at 12:00 (CEST): tinyurl.com/22v38up2

Amazing lunch meeting earlier today! Consider signing up for the other sessions this week! 🥪📖

The first session of our Online Presentations week will be today at 12:00 (CEST) Today, @karolinehuth.bsky.social will present on the need for reporting standards in methodological research, and Noam Tal-Perry will present on team compositions of research teams Join forms.office.com/e/MkjYWqTvAw

I’m hiring a PhD student! The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Don't forget to sign up to attend one or multiple online ECR presentations next week! Ten ECR's will present their work in five lunch sessions Monday to Friday They would love your support and feedback! Full program: tinyurl.com/22v38up2 Sign up: forms.office.com/e/MkjYWqTvAw

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Registration is now open for our online presentation series! Every day from April 20–24 (12:00 CEST), two ECRs will present their work. Finished projects, raw ideas, and everything in between Sign up now! Full program (abstracts): tinyurl.com/22v38up2 Register here: forms.office.com/e/MkjYWqTvAw

Shape the future of social science as a PhD student of machine learning-informed theory construction, based on patterns in high-frequency longitudinal data! You will be part of vibrant communities like the INSIGHT Lab, Theory Methods Society, and Tilburg Experience Sampling Center tiu.nu/23721

Last day to sign up to present!

We already have some great presentations lined up for the first edition of our Online Lunch Presentation series. Still some spots to present left, sign up before Tuesday!

PYMS is organizing online lunch talks from 20th–24th April! 🥪📖 If you‘re an ECR and want to discuss your meta-scientific research (or ideas for it), sign up now! 🚀

PYMS is organizing online lunch talks from 20th–24th April! 🥪📖 If you‘re an ECR and want to discuss your meta-scientific research (or ideas for it), sign up now! 🚀

We are pleased to announce that the Paul Meehl Graduate School is launching the PMGS Dissertation Award, recognizing outstanding PhD dissertations that advance meta-research. See the eligibility criteria and apply before June 1st, 2026 at: paulmeehlschool.github.io/award/

Found this gem the other day, and honestly, this is how most Y-axes should be labeled…

Found this gem the other day, and honestly, this is how most Y-axes should be labeled…

Are you passionate about teaching #statistics? Would like to have a permant #job in #academia? Are you fluent in #English and #German? Do you want to become a senior lecturer @uni-graz.at? Apply!: jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/3cb1...

Oh that's new!? First page of the pdf view of a paper on the journal's website is an ad to publish in the journal?? What comes next? 50% off your APC if you agree to have ads in the paper? Sure hope my university got a discount for this Netflix-style service+ads subscription...

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

🎉 PYMS just passed 100 members on Discord! Huge thanks to everyone who joined our growing community of young meta‑scientists 🧡 Want to be part of the server too? Send us a DM!

This gif took way to long to create - I hope you like it!

"The rewards to 'discovering' a spectacular scientific finding [in psychology] are large; the rewards to debunking frauds or deflating exaggerated claims are small if not non-existent. If these are the rules of the game, we should not be surprised at the way the game is played."

Very excited to share results of the first finished project this year (shared first-authorship)! ☃️

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

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

Now this is a new one: My university's license of SAGE journals allows me to view but not to download the research articles. According to ChatGPT read-access costs 100K€ p.a. If you want to make 100% sure that interested readers can access your article, publish it in a #diamondopenaccess journal.

Getting journal rejections like

Looking for ways to contribute to open and reproducible research? Want to collaborate on projects (or start your own), develop skills, and connect with fellow enthusiasts from different countries and disciplines? Then join our Steering Committee and become part of a global community!🚀

New blog post! ”Which variables to control for, and why”: pedermisager.org/blog/which-v... In this post I give a beginner-friendly introduction to causal inference and statistical control, explaining why adjusting for the right variables clarifies relationships >

Very useful table of insufficient examples vs. best-practices for statistical reporting! Will definitely point some of my colleagues to it! 📈

Join the next PMGS workshop where @ambra-prg.bsky.social will explain how to use Quarto for your reproducible research! 🔓🧑‍🔬

📣 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

Highly recommend this opportunity! I was on the steering committee about 5-6 years ago and it was incredibly rewarding! (P.S. where did the years go?? 😵‍💫)

I‘m starting a new 'migration log' here: I work in the Netherlands, of course I commute by bike 🚴🏻

Please help us, #MetaScience community! It's time to decide on a forever name for papercheck (scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/). We don't want it to be confused with papercheck.ai, and we plan to check other research artifacts like repo contents, data, code, and prereg. Any suggestions?

Hallo zusammen, mein Name ist Raphael und ich habe kürzlich meinen Master in Psychologie abgeschlossen und im Oktober den PhD im Bereich MetaScience in den Niederlanden angefangen. Bevor ich euch mehr über meinen PhD erzähle, wollte ich aber ein bisschen was zu MetaScience allgemein erzählen:

This week, I'm posting on the German @realscientists.de account! Consider following if you're interested (and speak German)! :)

Better late than never: I graduated last month and started my PhD last week! 🥳 I’ll spend the next four years exploring how to make theory-based predictions of plausible effect sizes! 📚📈 Goodbye, Bochum – I will miss you! And hello, Eindhoven! 🚀

Today is the last day to sign up for the upcoming workshops (on the 16th) and the symposium (on the 17th) of Paul Meehl Graduate School. Don't miss it.