Was talking to my daughter about the old Kurt Vonnegut book titled "Player Piano" tonight (great book IMO, and very relevant given the AI bubble of today). Came across this quote: “Everything you think you think because somebody promoted the ideas. Education—nothing but promotion.”

New replication paper is out in Meta-Psychology "Reality Television Shows Focusing on Sexual Relationships and College Students’ Engagement in One-Night Stands: A Replication Report". Shout out to lead author and senior grad student Somer Schaffer. Open access: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

SO EXCITED to share this work (with the lovely @queersian.bsky.social, @cq-n.bsky.social, and @johnsakaluk.bsky.social) on trans-for-trans (T4T) attraction! In short, T4T is a label used by trans people to denote romantic/sexual attraction to other trans people. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 (1)

This meta analysis reminded me of a research co-authored by my colleague Erin Heerey on "The Role of Experimenter Belief in Social Priming" (see abstract below). Cool study (and meta analysis).

I secretly judge people that secretly judge people.

From an old slide deck on replication research. Rewatching this episode of the Big Bang Theory hit differently after my own experiences with conducting replication research ;)

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Vonnegut, in his 1952 book “Player Piano”, wrote about a dystopian world and the people struggling to sort it all out. When too many people are made redundant with technology, then what happens? Worth another read IMO.

If anyone is interested in a journal leadership position, there is a call for editor-in-chief for the Journal of Open Psychology Data: openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/announcements. I'm on the board, so I'm happy to chat to anyone or put your in touch with others!

Join us for the LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK from March 2 - 6 with talks on reproductions, replications, how to find them, how to conduct them, how to have them conducted on your study, where to publish them, and much more!

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

Streets of Minneapolis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

A study finds only 5% of transportation research papers share code and 4% share data, underscoring the need for open science. Using Large Language Models, researchers created a pipeline to track data availability, boosting transparency in transportation research. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14429

Learned last week that the new version of the OSF removed the “comments” function. I really liked it, but I guess not used enough overall. So far not impressed with the user facing side of the OSF—feels like a house mid construction; it stands and has a roof and windows, but no finishing touches.

I certainly was not able to predict specifically what would happen, but the evidence was clear enough in September 2024 that the US was going to a dark place if/when Big T won the election. And that darkness casts a long shadow, with threats to former friends and brutality within. Hate and greed.

For the middle powers of this world: “when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what’s offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination”

Carney: "We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. Our commitment to NATO's Article 5 is unwavering ... Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland"

CARNEY: “.. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” 🔥

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Oddly prescient youtu.be/D6ouyeycWk8?...

Trump introduces a tariff for goods from The Netherlands. Great. Bring it on. I am happy to suffer any damage to our economy, and subsequent reduction to my wealth, for doing the right thing (being willing to protect Greenland).

Congratulations to Dr. David Kenny on having one of the top 10 most cited Personal Relationship articles in the past decade. The article Reflections on the actor—partner interdependence model reviews the history of the development of the APIM, focusing on the original...

“How do you expect them to dance if they can’t even fit inside the building?! Is this a ballroom for ants!”

Binnington, Kuemper, Logan Thompson

Doughty, Harley, Makar, Morrissey, Parayko, Sanheim, Theodore, Toews

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Crazy to think we may have lived through the golden age of online data collection. I’ve been so spoiled by the ability to run a 60 subject pilot or 300 subject experiment in an afternoon and for a few hundred dollars. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened :’)

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So close to lounging by the fire in this winter wonderland (quick trip this past weekend), but first an exam, grading 100 papers, and other stuff.

Friend in fisheries research sent me this: "...there are always differences in lab to lab results. That is even with a perfectly matched protocol. Which rarely exist. And I don't remember the last time I saw a publication with enough info on a protocol that you could ever actually replicate it. lol"

In 2014 I introduced a replication project in my grad research methods class. I taught this version of the class 4 times (no longer teach it). Some tallies: 9 published replication papers; 30 grad student authors; 19 *open* data sets; materials, syntax, etc also open (all on OSF). Check them out 👇

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As a grad student at Texas A&M from 96-01 I went to a few football games. In one home game A&M was up early on the Longhorns. But then Ricky Williams put on a show and won the game for the Longhorns. What a performance. Today's game at Kyle Field will likely not be forgotten by everyone there. Wow.

Just watched a person in her 60s (at least) get kicked out of an arena by the refs for yelling at young kids in the penalty box (hockey, yes I am in Canada). The walk of shame—won’t start game until she leaves. Totally normal stuff ;)

Almost 9 years ago! Time flies. Had a great few weeks in Wellington, NZ.

When asked "here is what I did with my research and how I approached it and some tweaks along the way, how should I communicate this in a paper?" my typical response is: "Say what you just said to me in your paper and/or letter to editor".

Political discussions right now are giving me the "Psychology Facebook discussion group" vibes from way back (ISCON, "methods" ones). Would be equally funny if not for all of the destructive consequences of current political decisions. Focusing more on my aggressive southern neighbour in this post.

Revision posted! An evolutionary model of identity signaling with nested/overlapping/intersectional identities, complex multidimensional signaling capabilities, and a primer on ancient Mesopotamia. What more could you ask for? osf.io/preprints/so...

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Submitted an manuscript today and one window asked for X (or Twitter) handles to promote the work when appropriate. It was not required which was nice. Not all that long ago I would have filled that in, now...

As called on TUDN radio:

Holy shit. Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs. The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds. What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.