New paper! We describe how grassroots networks can help implement and harmonize open research efforts via our experience establishing the Norwegian Reproducibility Network [email protected]. doi.org/10.7557/11.8...

Research questions generated by AI. Questionnaires filled out by AI. Paper written by AI. Paper reviewed by AI. Just make it stop.

Our new paper describing the the Active Monitoring of Oxytocin Research Evidence (AMORE) platform (amore-project.org) is now online in Psychoneuroendocrinology 🎉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ps... AMORE is a hub for living systematic reviews for oxytocin research developed via consensus among 24 experts

Systematic reviews can very quickly become outdated. Living systematic reviews (LSRs)—which continuously integrate new evidence—offer a solution, but their adoption has been limited to date. In our new preprint, we suggest two approaches that can help facilitate LSR uptake osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint 🎉 Living systematic reviews ensure evidence stays current osf.io/preprints/ps... In this brief comment (all four pages are here ⬇️), @iaiversen.bsky.social and I cover the benefits and challenges of living systematic reviews, along with two ways to increase their uptake 🧵 1/8

If a lecturer wheels in an overhead projector with transparent sheets and markers, you’re about to witness either the best or worst lecture of your life. Nothing in between.

I feel the same. I also scroll right past any social media post that has an obviously generated-AI image, LinkedIn is especially bad 🤮 It might take an extra minute or two, but it’s not *that* hard to find nice (and openly licensed) images online

My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

From my experience, journals generally don't publish stage 1 of a Registered Report after in principle acceptance. But here, it seems Wiley does this? authorservices.wiley.com/author-resou... Can anyone point to examples for journals publishing stage 1 and then updating at stage 2, Wiley or other?

Don't think I've seen a major revision recommendation split up like this before? I think I like it as it can signal something like, "I think there's a lot of work involved, but it's realistic that the authors can do this" vs. "There's lots to do and I'm doubtful the authors can address these issues"

New preprint! 🎉 Using a sample of over 73k births across Norway, we found that induction of labor (with either oxytocin, prostaglandin, or amniotomy) and epidural analgesia are associated with lower likelihood of initiating breastfeeding doi.org/10.22541/au....

Turns out @uio.no has access to Perma.cc, so I’ve gone with this option for creating a permanent snapshot of websites for my papers. Thanks for the heads up, @steve-kambouris.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/stev...

How are people going about including links to websites in papers that are persistent? Some kind of archiving service? A link along with a PDF version of the site in the supplement/OSF?

There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts. Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...

🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach. Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers. [1/3]

📣 We are looking for new members for the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee! 📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET). 👉 Full Announcement: docs.google.com/document/d/1... ✍️ Application Form: forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...

Our new systematic review on music therapy and heart rate variability (HRV) is now online 🎉 While we found potential positive effects of music therapy on HRV, the quality of HRV measurement methods in these studies was generally low—but quality was improving over time 📈 doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... 🔓

Today a student told me they found an "old" article from the 2000s 💀

Choice, reproducibility, and reporting of stats is critical & an editorial focus at the journal. It's also pretty hard & starts long before a paper is submitted. We hope this piece will aid researchers in the task @dsquintana.bsky.social @annalschubert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In Norway, you’ll be lucky if undergrads call you *anything*. Most messages or emails simply begin with, “Hei…”. I’m fine with this personally as it’s the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give “the talk” to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway

If you’ve ever attempted a meta-analysis, you’ll know that authors generally do a poor job reporting statistics. If you do this well, you’ll improve your chances of your work being included in a future meta-analysis.

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

“Google's strategic transformation into an AI-first company fundamentally conflicts with maintaining niche academic services like Scholar”

Important points 👇 We strongly encourage ORCIDs & mandate them for corresponding authors. It adds admin 🫠, but it benefits especially people who a) have frequent names, b) use a moniker that is a transcription of their names in Roman letters, c) do not have English institutional websites.

Here’s an interesting breakdown of ORCID use per field ⬇️

I wish ORCIDs were more widely used. You can add a secondary email address to your ORCID account, so even if you lose your institutional email, which is the norm rather than then exception, you can still use the same ORCID.

Me, hearing ‘Ok Computer’ for the first time when I was like 15

Anyone have a copy of 'Replication in Behavioral Research' (1990) by Rosenthal?

Right place, right time.

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?

Are you a Norway-based early career researcher who has demonstrated a clear commitment to open science practices? Apply for the 2025 NORRN open science award! ⬇️

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

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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’