Join us for our next PYMS Journal Club! 📖🚀

Time is running out to register for our pre-symposium workshop and Meta Research Symposium event at Paul Meehl Graduate School Check the information and registration links below: paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/

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Wow, so they‘ve really gamified this 'preregistration' thing, huh? 🎮🔬 (also love that it says that the topic is metascience)

2 new job opportunities at the @cais-research.bsky.social: - PhD student, team "Research Data & Methods" stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=f50b76 - Researcher, DFG project "SocEnRep - Automation of Reproducibility in Economics and Social Sciences" stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=f50b76

✨ In 'CRediTs for Students', we developed empirically informed materials – such as a supervision agreement and authorship guidelines – for students and supervisors to foster the transparent and systematic recognition of students' contributions to science. osf.io/tygsp/

🎉 Excited to see our project 'CRediTs for Students? – Promoting Student Authorships in Psychology' recognized alongside so many other inspiring initiatives! If you're interested in implementing something similar, reach out! Or check out our OSF page: osf.io/tygsp/.

New blog post: Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/07/easi... Downloading all files in an OSF project can be a hassle. Not anymore, with Papercheck! Just run: osf_file_download("6nt4v")

🚨 Registration is now open for the PMGS Meta-Research Symposium 2025! 📝 Abstract submissions are still welcome—deadline: July 31. Plus: join our mini-workshop on coordination using GitHub on the afternoon of October 16. Find all the details & sign up here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-07-16-s...

Teaching needs more space for moments like these. For curiosity. For honest questions. For the stuff that doesn’t 'need to be on the test'.

So, I just had a real-life “Oh Captain, my Captain” moment during my statistics tutorial. 🧵

Join our online journal club meeting next Monday July 21st (12 - 14 CEST), and discuss a paper with fellow ECRs! This time, we will discuss the following paper: Romero, F. (2019). Philosophy of science and replicability crisis Sign up using this link: forms.gle/gRWf6SEyf2ki... See you there!

A lot of discussions about open science in psychology happened on blogs. I have been archiving them and will make their content available. I remember 37 blogs (with 2827 posts!) but which blogs did I forget, and are not on my list? Please share and reply with any that are missing!

First time presenting at a big conference: check! So happy to see how the community of PYMS is growing over the last couple of days, and how people are constantly finding each other to hang out at #metascience2025. This is what PYMS is all about!

At Metascience 2025? Then come to our panel where wonderful @anoukbouma.bsky.social will talk about our work and vision at PYMS! 🚀

Turns out, students actually CAN do scientific work. like conference talks. on student authorship. #SIPS2025 @improvingpsych.org @raphaelmerz.bsky.social

This is especially interesting for anyone planning on manually coding a literature. Papercheck will make this much faster just by using the excellent search_text function and exporting results to an excel file for coding. But is even possible that some coding can be completely automated.

I‘m using Papercheck in my master’s thesis, so feel free to approach me at either SIPS or Metascience if you‘re interested! 🙌🏼

If you'd like to chat about Papercheck with some of our team members, @debruine.bsky.social will be at the Metascience conference, @crist14n.bsky.social will be at the open research summer school by @samwestwood.bsky.social , and @raphaelmerz.bsky.social will be at SIPS!

I wrote a blogpost on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: how metascientists could (and should) think more about their users when designing tools and reforms. Would love to hear any thoughts on this topic! #metascience #usercentered

somehow i feel like starting a scientific crisis

I don’t know what it is but somehow this place makes me wanna fabricate data and publish them in high-impact journals… must be something in the water 🤷🏻‍♂️

If your frequentist analysis gives the same result as a Bayesian analysis, that means nothing for either paradigm. No frequentist is bothered that Bayes "works" - they use Bayesian calculations all the time. No Bayesian is bothered that a freq estimator agrees - it's interpretation that is doubted.

Harvard university’s top governing board, the Harvard Corporation, decided this month to revoke Francesca Gino’s tenure and end her employment at Harvard Business School www.wgbh.org/news/educati...

🔵Bochum Tuesday, 3 June, 2–3 pm CEST Topic: Hollenbeck, J. R., & Wright, P. M. (2017). Harking, Sharking, and Tharking: Making the Case for Post Hoc Analysis of Scientific Data. Journal of Management, 43(1), 5-18. doi.org/10.1177/0149...

I used the 'guess the correlation' game for teaching, but a while ago it started to collect data (Google ID, IP, guesses) It's amazing you can now make a Shiny app in 10 minutes using ChatGPT. If you want to play, a GDPR friendly version is online here: shiny.ieis.tue.nl/guesscorrela...

Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

You can still apply to this position until May 25. If this is a topic that sounds interesting, and you want to work in an intellectually stimulating environment, on a research question that matters, at a department with very nice colleagues, with the freedom and resources to do what we want, apply!

My editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Wybo Houkes and I are hiring a PhD student to work on an exciting project in Philosophy of Science 😊 The application deadline is May 18. Please spread the word and consider applying 👇 #AcademicSky www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

🚨 1 week left to sign up for the PYMS Summer Symposium (June 5 in Tilburg, the Netherlands)! Join fellow early-career meta-scientists for talks, a hackathon, and free lunch(!!) Travel reimbursements available! Sign up here 👉 forms.gle/2F8p1Q1AeRhR... #metascience #ECR

Registration is open for our new workshop: Scientific Criticism and Peer Review on June 6 in Eindhoven. Led by René Bekkers, info: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-04-22-c... Also check out @youngmetascience.bsky.social symposium on June 5 in Tilburg: youngmetascientists.github.io/symposium2025

The regustration deadline for the Paul Meehl Graduate School's workshop about "Causal Inference and Variable Control" on May 9 is running out. Check the details and registration form here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/ca...

🎉Come join us for the PYMS Summer Symposium 2025 - a fun day full of meta-science, collaboration, and great people. Don’t miss it and sign up now! 👇

The new workshop of Paul Meehl Graduate School, Causal Inference and Variable Control by @isager.bsky.social, is open for registration. Check out the announcement below: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-04-02-c...

An interesting new paper in Royal Society Open Science charts the prevalence of studies in psychology interpreting the absence of a statistically significant effect as evidence for the absence of an effect. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚀Very excited to finally see our paper on nonsignificance misinterpretations published! 📈 Together, @smurphee.bsky.social, Aurelio Fernández, Linda Reimann and I investigated the prevalence of "p > .05 = absence of an effect" interpretations. (1/4) doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

Join us in discussing Hoekstra & Vazire (2021)! ✨📚

3 new free workshops of the Paul Meehl Graduate School that you can sign up for! April 11 – Dr. Sarahanne Field on qualitative studies May 9 – Dr. Peder Isager on causal models June 6 – Dr. René Bekkers on scientific criticism and peer review See you there!

Very excited to take on this new role! Definitely big shoes to fill! 🚀

Save the date! Our next in-person PYMS symposium will be held at Tilburg University on June 5th. Our event is made possible by an @opensciencenl.bsky.social meeting grant. Follow our page to be kept up to date, or join our mailing list: eepurl.com/i8xz7g

I was invited to give a talk on open and reproducible science. Sometimes, it is challenging to discuss this topic, so I created The Transparent and Open Science Game. I am sharing here all materials: osf.io/t9ngd

Remember best practice in a power analysis is to plan not for the effect you expect, but for the smallest effect size of interest. The type 2 error is a conditional inference: If there is an effect I care about, I would have X probability to detect it. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Join us for the 6th edition of the Perspectives on Scientific Error conference to discuss statistical, philosophical, and meta-scientific issues of scientific error! eurandom.tue.nl/event/perspe... Now with an added third hackathon day in collaboration with folks of the MetaMelb lab! !

CREPCON2024 will be on July 16, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Central Time! This is a FREE virtual conference for students to present CREP work. Register & submit here: forms.gle/BXPD7rvudmFt... We'll have poster sessions, talks, workshops, & more! See you there!

Yes! Please watch Veritasium's new video on Science Communication! youtu.be/czjisEGe5Cw?... #scicomm #AcademicSky

JOB ALERT! I am looking for a postdoc (100%) or PhD student (75%) for a new research project on work and #loneliness. The deadline for applications is Oct 31. More details: www.stellenwerk.de/bochum/jobbo... #PsychSciSky #SocialPsych #PerPsych