"The reason most work is bad is that most of us are stupid and incompetent." Man, I feel this in my bones whenever I look around... and it's not even just the usual selection of metascience bug bears that are the reason. It's just that so much is pointless unthinking academic/research busywork.

With Deborah Mayo, Kent Staley, and Wendy Parker we are editing a special issue of Synthese on "Severity and Learning from Error": link.springer.com/collections/... Deadline for submissions is the 15th of December, 2026. If this is a topic that you are interested in, consider contributing!

For a variety of reasons over the past couple of years the finalisation of the research methods textbook that Eimear Dolan and I have been editing has been somewhat delayed (mostly my fault 😅), but we are back on track and nearing the finish line! 1/8

The programme for the King's Open Research Summer School 2026 is now here! Free, open to everyone, and available both in-person and online. Register: tinyurl.com/3wbx9tmr

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...

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 :)

Well... this tops any peer reviewed publication or other career accolade acheived so far. We got home from an amazing Disneyland trip with the family for @ejps2013 40th birthday to find both a very excited to see us Kiki, and this in the post.

Names of resistance exercises: Text analysis of survey responses sportrxiv.org/index.php/se...

Well... this tops any peer reviewed publication or other career accolade acheived so far. We got home from an amazing Disneyland trip with the family for @ejps2013 40th birthday to find both a very excited to see us Kiki, and this in the post.

JFC... journals which allow for preprints on the one hand and then on the other try to enforce double blind review are the dumbest.

Honestly, might have to just start using github directly for pre-registration as OSF just seems to continually crash on me lately. Every project is in a github repo nowadays anyway and I only link it to an OSF project to utilise the registration.

Updated version available on ResearchGate (will be up on sportrxiv shortly) addressing typos, adding missing demographics and dropout reasons (my bad for missing them), and also adding reference lines to the figures for the theory predictions as in the figure shared above. tinyurl.com/y39b3355

#philsci #metascience

Trying something out here I'd be interested in peoples thoughts on... Marrying Meehl's distinction of the theoreticians/statisticians problem with Dubin's ontologically agnostic framing of theoretical hypotheses. An idea for explaining the difference between theoretical and statistical hypotheses.

Trying something out here I'd be interested in peoples thoughts on... Marrying Meehl's distinction of the theoreticians/statisticians problem with Dubin's ontologically agnostic framing of theoretical hypotheses. An idea for explaining the difference between theoretical and statistical hypotheses.

📣 New preprint! Our latest Project Discover conducted in collaboration with the fantastic team at Discover Strength with delivery led by David Gschneidner and Luke Carlson and of course with the inimitable James Fisher PhD. 1/6

That feeling when the time investment to try to automate data wrangling and cleaning (even with some assistance from an LLM) isn't worth it relative to just doing the wrangling bit manually because the excel spreadsheet you've been given is so ghastly it hurts your soul 🙃

Anyone have access to this? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3436839/

Anyone have access to this? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3436839/

Anyone have access to this and happy to share? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If anyone is interested, I have preprinted with SportRxiv a short summary of my talk delivered at the conference on Inter-Individual Variation in Resistance Training Responses (www.jyu.fi/en/events/in...). Available here: sportrxiv.org/index.php/se...

jfc... working through a paper that did performed a quantitative synthesis (badly) at the moment attempting to re-extract data from the underlying studies and it's honestly a mess. I have no idea where the authors got some of their values from... methods are utterly unclear.

Anyone have access to this? Multiplicative Treatment Effects in Randomized Pretest-Posttest Experimental Designs psycnet.apa.org/buy/2019-312...

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New blog just dropped! This one is all about estimators—we cover James-Stein, classical test theory, empirical Bayes, penalized regression, and hierarchical models, showing how they all can be used to do a better job than sample stats alone 🤓 haines-lab.com/post/how-to-...

📣Hey all! We're looking for collaborating labs with DEXA access to collaborate with us here at MacroFactor on a funded longitudinal study of body composition measurement methods. If your lab has access and you may be interested in working with us then get in contact: [email protected]

Any good papers on the problems with meta-analysis when the outcome variable's data generating process is (zero-inflated) negative binomial and not well represented by mean/SD? Suggested solutions also appreciated #stats #rstats

English breakfast tea tastes like the texture of caramel.

Every. Damned. Time.

Dammit... Looks like I'm Iearning Stan.

Publishing in a journal means endorsing it. Where you publish reflects your values. Choose wisely. doi.org/10.52057/erj...

That's a wrap... Finished up with 495.1 miles covered according to my Apple Health app and with Snowdon today. The support from all quarters has been amazing and we've raised an incredible total raised (over £3500!).

Day 27... The penultimate day. Weather was pretty grim today but still got most of this done outside before the 400 mile drive to North Wales. Finishing off with Snowdon tomorrow and look at the amazing t shirt my wife made for me to wear! Donate to support here: www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

Day 26 down... Bit of a weird one today with some miles on treadmill and outside AM, treadmill at lunch, then outside evening. Trying to see if I can get to 500 miles Saturday... It's gonna be close. Also kitty spotted. Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

I wonder if there are strong Humeans in the "Causal Inference" world who prefer to call it "Constant Conjunction of Events Inference" behind closed doors 😂

This also contains the causal inference meta-take I’ve converged to: randomization definitely the closest thing to magic in causal inference, but it doesn’t always work out like we want it to, so you still gotta have that whole toolkit available to you.

Day 25 done... So close to the finish line. Stopped this evening for a quick outdoor workout with a view too. Close to the target donations too... Help us get there! www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

Day 24... Donations slowly still trickling in but if you haven't donated yet what are you waiting for 😻 www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

Anyone have full text and supplementary access to this they can share? Thanks! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

That's day 23... might get close to 500 miles by the end of the month after all. While I'm walking Kiki's enjoying her naps. Been slow on donations past few days... C'mon folks, keep the support coming! www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

Day 22 down... We're up to 371.4 miles covered so far heading into final week of February. Feels like this week is the final sprint! Donate here and let's see if we can get to the £2000 target! www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

猫の日おめでとう (Happy Cat Day 22/2) Nyan Nyan Nyan! www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

Day 21 down... Ended up running late with monthly Geek Day so not wanting to spend 3 hours walking home at 11pm in the rain opted for a lift home. Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

Day 20 and we're back baby! 😻 Throat is a little tickly still but otherwise feel great (the contrast from being unwell and going back to normal always makes normal feel so nice 😅). Got some good mileage today walking back into my old university to deliver a guest session for the masters students.

Nice succinct pre-print from a stellar cast: "The state and status of theory in psychological science" osf.io/preprints/ps...

FYI #PSE8 folks... will likely get to this next month after all the walking and fundraising for Cats Protection is finished up and I have a bit of free time!

Day 19... And at least we got a few miles in as compared to yesterday. Feeling alot better and hopefully another good night sleep and will be back near enough to 100% tomorrow 🙏 www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

Ended up taking all of yesterday to rest... Still feeling rough today, albeit maybe a little bit better. Will see how the day goes as to whether I'll walk later on but don't want to make things worse 🥲

Day 17 down and hit the 300 mile mark yesterday! Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...

Day 16... Back to the long ones! Please keep the support for me and @catsprotection.bsky.social coming 🙏 www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...