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

What can *genetic insensitivity to opioids* teach us about endogenous opioid function in humans? Fully funded position in Oslo (PhD student or postdoc) Interested in pain, mu/kappa opioids, behavioural genetics, RCTs, or related? Apply here: 2411.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui... Please RT for reach

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...

5 ECT PhD course in Open and Credible Science. Many hands on sessions on transparent and reproducible science. @dsquintana.bsky.social and I are two of the lecturers. Come and join us in person or online! www.hiof.no/english/stud...

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

What's the difference between 'Declined' and 'Auto-Declined'?

Meanwhile, on LinkedIn...

Just came across this message on an open access version of article I found. This is a great idea! I think for those of us that have wide access to articles, it's very easy to forget that many people (both scientists and laypeople) don't have this luxury

a ‘gentle’ introduction to a stats topic, you say? forget that, gimme something brutal, full of formulas and examples using only base R

I have an 'eat the frog' tag for some of my to-do list items that I should tackle first thing, which is stuff I don't really *want* to do but still *have* to do (e.g., tricky emails). When I avoid these tasks they're still bouncing around my brain, which is a drag on my other work [1/3]

I don't think ever, in my history of manuscript submissions, have I proofed the final submission PDF and *not* found an error. My inbox is full of 'your PDF requires approval' emails.

This is one of the key benefits of R vs. SPSS—it forces you to better understand what you’re actually doing

How many years after undergrad stats did you discover that common statistical tests are linear models? lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-lin...

My new quarter-to-mid life crisis hobby

193: The pop-up journal everythinghertz.com/193 We chat about a a new 'pop-up journal' concept for addressing specific research questions. We also answer a listener question from a journal grammar editor and discuss a recent PNAS paper on paper mills

I don’t know who needs this right now, but I really enjoy browsing “Paper Skygest”, a feed of posts on academic papers *from people you follow*. I think it’s what a lot of us are actually here for

this is the optimum way to distribute egg weight across the cartoon, not checking my replies on this

Study quality evaluations in meta-analyses are now more important than ever. I’m also quite skeptical about AI-assisted paper screening for meta-analysis given how hard this is for humans (but I’m open to be proven wrong!)

Long live RSS! www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

I might have to pay for a doodle subscription so I don't have to see ads like this

So am I pal, so am I

Our new paper is out today! 🎉 In it, we use administrative register data to document how psychiatric disorders are strongly linked to parental income, from childhood far into adulthood. Furthermore, we attempt to separate causation and selection using kinship-based models. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...