We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

academics trying to save the humanities

not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator

The journal peer-review system is struggling to keep up because the number of submissions has exploded. I guess this has something to do with GenAI.

AI finally lets us see Raphael's The School of Athens the way Raphael obviously intended it, illustrating the delicate dance and subtle conflicts between Plato and Artistotle.

Blijkbaar geschreven door een middelmatige denker, maar toch een leestip: philosophersmag.com/living-with-...

Milieubeleid à la CD&V: we geraken niet over de lat dus gaan we de lat maar wat verlagen. www.standaard.be/politiek/bro...

1. Abbey Road 2. The White Album 3. Rubber Soul 4. Revolver 5. Sgt. Pepper's

stop worrying about disinformation. People are not as gullible as you think they are.

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

The biophilia hypothesis holds that we have an innate predisposition to be drawn to #nature. Y. Joye & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social review the evidence in its favor, find it wanting, and suggest that #culturalevolution offers a better alternative www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #evosky #philsci

Very excited to have received a Vici grant for the project "Doing Science Differently? A Philosophy of Transgressive Science". The project will address methodological & institutional challenges of transgressing "business as usual" in academia. www.wur.nl/en/news/davi...

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Longitudinal (35 years) study finds no statistical difference in political beliefs between high-IQ (130+) individuals and average-IQ people, with one exception—gifted men were less conservative (valuing tradition and social stability less): buff.ly/tLAczdm via @psypost.bsky.social

Qualitative researchers can choose to not engage with AI, but it'd be a shame. nber.org/papers/w34834

In NRC: Linkse dominantie op de universiteit ondergraaft vertrouwen in wetenschap

herkenbaar, juist en goed geschreven. Wat wil een mens nog meer van een column?

A variation: Scientists who claim they’re “not interested in causality” because they assume the term only applies to deterministic, law-like relationships that are unrealistic in their field. Instead, they’re interested in how “X drives Y”, the effects of X, the “extent to which X matters for Y”>

My colleague Krist Vaessen wrote a new book: “Neomania: How our obsession with innovation is failing science, and how to restore trust”. It's a great analysis how the drive for novelty hinders reliable scientific progress. Open Access, so read it here: books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...

On both the right and left, reactions to technology end up having way too much to do with tribalism or broader ideological positions than the actual realities of those technologies. GMO and pharma are other great examples where people conflate failures of capitalism with issues with the tech itself

Call for papers for conference on "The Cultural Evolution of Migration and Diversity”. This is the 12th Annual WZB Conference on Migration and Diversity, to be held at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, from September 25-26, 2026.

After 20 years as psychology's golden child, ego depletion collapsed. Now it's back...with a catch. The secret? Make people work for 30-40 minutes instead of 5. In other words, we finally discovered fatigue. New post on the redemption tour.

I like how doing philosophy w/ friends turns into a braided stream of views: confluence and collaboration on some; on others, the fun of productive disagreement 😉The special issue brings together a full range of positions on the concept & its future— all great contributions to the debate. #philsky

Preregistration is one of the great innovations in psychology in the last decade. But not surprisingly, they are currently often low quality, and this requires checking. Making this step easier is a game-changer. I know how hard Jamie has worked on this tool - and I suspect it will have huge impact.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Our new book on health and disease is now available for free for two weeks. Get it before it is gone and please share this post! #philsci

In his forthcoming 📃 in @jrnlofphil.bsky.social, Grant Ramsey shows that a long-standing thesis held by philosophers of biology & evolutionary biologists—that fitness depends on population size, n—is based on conceptual & mathematical errors 👇 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27701/ #philsky #HPBio #evosky

My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…   5. Monocles 4. Bicycles 3. Popsicles 2. Obstacles 1. Testicles

Heel veel goede ('excellente') aanvragen worden niet gehonoreerd. Gelukkig zijn er andere financiers. Zo lanceerde de Koning Boudewijn Stichting onlangs een oproep rond mentale gezondheid. 4 voorstellen kunnen worden goedgekeurd. Het aantal aanvragen zal rond de 80 liggen.

En ook veel goede moed gewenst aan alle onderzoekers die geen positief #FWO nieuws kregen. (Ik diende een project voor de 3e keer in, stuurde bij op basis van feedback. Ondanks lovende commentaren van de reviewers, is het ook nu niet goedgekeurd. Ik word er stilaan moedeloos van, eerlijk gezegd.)

ik wil dit boek voor Kerst, maar dan zal ik mijn gezinsleden wel moeten leren de titel correct te lezen.

New study finds that public health messages that acknowledge uncertainty and explain the scientific process lead to greater perceived trustworthiness and understanding compared to basic fact-based messages. journals.lww.com/jphmp/abstra...

UK Metascience Funding "The UK government has announced a major increase in funding for metascience over the next four years, including a more than trebling of investment in the UK Metascience Unit."

Mocht ik vandaag examens afleggen voor onze bachelorvakken, dan ik zou waarschijnlijk op hooguit een of twee van die examens slagen. Dat zegt ongetwijfeld veel over mij, maar misschien ook veel over onze opleiding en het vakgebied.

In his latest paper, Jamie Shaw discusses the pursuitworthiness of different types of Big Science—normal, revolutionary & socially oriented—with attention to funding allocation mechanisms, risks, benefits, pluralism & social responsibility 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPS #metasci #philsky

🚨🚨 We're #hiring! 🚨🚨 Assistant Professor of Political and Social Philosophy @maastrichtu.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social @hdijkstra.bsky.social @ccmmody.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...

Stop making excuses for unclear writing open.substack.com/pub/bigifftr...

#winactie: ik geef dit weekend 3 boeken weg van ‘Oproer en omwenteling’ van Bram de Ridder en Joost Van Meerbeeck. Boeiend om de Opstand door de ogen van een tijdgenoot te zien. Dank @ertsberg.bsky.social! Kans maken? Doe het volgende: 1. Volg @ertsberg.bsky.social 2. Volg mij 3. RT dit bericht

While we've been quite good at predicting life-expectancy gains, we've systematically been too optimistic about future fertility trends. That means there's a significant risk we're underestimating population ageing today too. We better prepare pension systems for a low-fertility future. 2/4

De linkse dominantie aan de universiteit is nefast voor de academische vrijheid. Op 4 december verdedig ik die stelling, terwijl Eric Fassin (Paris 8 St-Denis) mijn ongelijk zal proberen (!) aan te tonen. Iedereen is welkom, maar (gratis) registratie is verplicht.

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Are you a Dutch-speaking psychologist looking for an accessible introduction to #philosophy — one that also addresses topics such as the mind-body problem, #evolution & #psychopathology? Then look no further: Pieter Adriaens’s book is for you! 👇 www.pelckmansuitgevers.be/denken-over-... #HPS #cogsci

" 60 per cent of UK university libraries are considering dropping their big deals with the five major academic publisher" Many call for diamond open access. A new organisation with many partners, @ojcollective.bsky.social , is launching in January. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"

Pretty much no one can make their ideas clear to others on the 1st attempt. The two main reactions are "let's painstakingly clarify this with some back and forth", and "doesn't matter as long as the various interpretations are themselves interesting", leading to the 2 main branches of philosophy.

In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky

Is the psychology replication crisis (at last) catching up with animal cognition? "Our results indicate low statistical power and inflated effect sizes in both primary studies and meta-analyses." Preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...