Computer trying to connect to printer down the hall from my office: Sorry, no can do mate, try again, three or four attempts should do it Computer trying to connect to wifi at any university in the world: I connected to the network before you even opened up your laptop. I am one with eduroam

Prepping for a workshop tomorrow, in which I'm covering sample size calculation and power analysis, among other topics

Anyone have recommendations for books and/or papers on the methods behind translating questionnaires to other languages?

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Who’s gonna pay @rpsychologist.com to make a mega tool converting all g*power analysis types to an interpretable web tool like this?

🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉 powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com - Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models - Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters - Fast! (Instant results)

So it appears that there are a few orthopedic journals that don’t accept preprinted papers, I wonder why this is? Why *this* particular sub field? But on the plus side, this seems to be the only field in which there’s even a possibility that you might have issues publishing preprinted work.

Anyone know if PsyArXiv accepts papers that describe and report datasets? It seems that they do not accept 'data dictionaries', which I interpret to simply be a description of a dataset, but maybe this also extends to papers that describe collection methods etc? blog.psyarxiv.com/about-psyarx...

LLMs can be useful for some things, but simulating human research participant responses isn’t one of them

On the way to the University of Zurich to deliver a talk tomorrow at their seminar series in evolutionary medicine 🇨🇭 My talk will be on the evolution of the oxytocin system and Implications for health + wellbeing. This will also be streamed on Zoom (registration required) www.uzh.ch/en/events/ag...

I use LLMs from time to time when trying to solve issues in R. In this case, LLMs can be useful if you have a good idea about what to do and rough idea of what to expect. But today I came across my first instance of a *function* hallucination—it simply made up a function from an R package!

Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to. Learning Statistics with R learningstatisticswithr.com Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...

PODCASTS Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million. Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research. Let's go 1/7

Really enjoyed this chat with Ben about science communication and podcasts

Nice to get away to the mountains for a short break. Can you spot the cabin in this photo?

Job: Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology in Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Yeah, I really wish the “point-counterpoint” article format was more common in psychology. The only psych journal that that comes to mind that sort of does this is Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today. A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

Just learned about this diamond journal, which has apparently been running since 2015! Looks like a very nice place for any meta-sciency work & probably deserves some visibility. septentrio.uit.no/index.php/no...

About halfway through this article on spotting pseudoscience there’s an ad about your ‘dopamine addiction type’

Melbourne (MEL-bin)

I give this AI generated image I found on LinkedIn a 3 out of 10 because at least the brain is facing the right way

This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/

Heading home after a great few days in Erice for the ‘Neuromodulators of Connection’ meeting 🇮🇹 This is one of my favorite meetings as it focuses on oxytocin and vasopressin research AND the location in an old medieval village is super cool

Why do biomedical animal research papers have such better* figures, in general, than human biomedical research papers? Is there some historical reason? Maybe the more widespread use of Prism software? Or is this just selection bias? *clearer and more visually appealing

The answer, right now, is three hours!

New preprint! 🎉 The active monitoring of oxytocin research evidence (AMORE) platform osf.io/preprints/ps... In which we introduce a ‘living’ meta-analysis platform for biobehavioral oxytocin studies that was shaped by 24 co-authors via consensus.

Anyone know approximately how long it’s currently taking for PsyArXiv moderation?

Almost ready to submit a 25 author multi-lab paper. It's been a great experience but geez it's a lot of work to coordinate. How do these people leading multi-lab papers with 100+ people do it??

My university email has gotten better at detecting junk, but as a consequence I also missed a legit revise and resubmit email that was classified as junk, which I only discovered by chance

Me: check out this radiohead music video, it’s a classic Wife: let me guess, someone dies at the end Me: no! *thinks* oh wait, actually yes

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Me: I guess I should read out loud this application I've read 100 times even though I don't think it will help find any errors because I've read it so many times. *reads out loud and finds error in first sentence*

I knew someone who was a CEO’s executive assistant. Dude just had a dumb phone and never used a computer. The CEO got their EA to print out important emails and they would either write their response in pen or record a response via dictaphone

Glossaries on the first page of grant applications, yes or no?

Are students motivated by being asked to make scientific memes as part of class and what do they think when instructors publicly share their creations? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

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Big shout out to all the volunteers who have been working through the moderation backlog at PsyArXiv

We’d love any feedback on our new preprint ⬇️

More info about changes to moderation at PsyArXiv - improvingpsych.org/2025/08/20/c...

I think it's time to retire the idea that oxytocin is exclusively a 'social' hormone. In our latest preprint, led by @kjerstimw.bsky.social, we argue that oxytocin should be reframed as a behavioral flexibility hormone osf.io/preprints/os...

I'm trying to visualise the living meta-analysis process to explain the concept at a glance for someone that's never heard of one before. How can I improve this visualisation? Too much info here? Too little info?

Me: Forgets something I said in a meeting last week Also me: Remembers the full lyrics to a song I last listened to twenty years ago

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

“My bold prediction? Scholar gets the axe within 5 years” ⬇️

Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion. In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners

Tried putting a Cohen's d of 143 (!) into the Cohen's d visualiser, but it breaks when Cohen's d is larger than 2. Personally, I think it should break at the "chocolates vs. poop" preference threshold of d = 4.52.

Meta-analysis is a good solution for evaluating outcomes in rare populations. Individual studies (orange squares) have low power, but once you begin aggregating studies, you can really boost statistical power. This plot is for an effect size of g = 0.5 and assumes moderate heterogeneity