Don't let minor submission errors delay the publication of your research! 📝 🔬 Remember to check the full guidelines when submitting the manuscript to PsyArXiv (buff.ly/M3cRBW2). Below, we also have a few friendly reminders!

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis? Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit. 📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET 💻 Online (contact us for the link) #OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky [1/3]

💖This paper has been ~11 years in the making - and probably my favorite project of all time. Thrilled to see it in @pnas.org! I'm so lucky that Zach decided to do a second PhD and join my lab @psychillinois.bsky.social back in 2014 - a fabulous scientist & human being! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

✨ LUCKY COINCIDENCES ✨ Have you ever come across a surprising, accidental discovery that felt meaningful and motivated you to further engage with it? In our new paper now out in JASP (doi.org/10.1111/jasp...), we explore such serendipitous experiences in museums and beyond. 1/5 🧵

Shannon's slides are always so unbelievably clear and helpful!!! github.com/shannonpileg... I'm having "Ohhhhh that's what that means" moments every 10 seconds here. #positconf2025

I'm afraid we've been at it again

Feeling like academia is in pretty bad shape? You're not alone. @clarekelly.bsky.social and I previously wrote about the need to collectively rethink and reshape scientific practice: the academic doughnut. Read more at elifesciences.org/articles/84991 But, have these ideas changed anything? 👇

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...

Happy birthday to the #19thC geoscientist & pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce "Science . . . [is] a living historic entity. . . .As such, it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in 'organized knowledge,' as it does in diligent inquiry into truth" CP 1.44 #philsci #philsky ⚒️

Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

{truffle} is an R package for teaching users to process data. Semi-realistic psychological datasets with predetermined effects (via `truffles_` functions) are then hidden in common data processing headaches (via `dirt_` functions) for students to clean and analyze. mmmdata.io/posts/2025/0...

In a newly published registered report by @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social, Moritz Heene, and me, we found that people perceive the relationship between science and religion differently, as described by Ian G. Barbour in his typology. We made a tool to scrutinize Barbour's typology...

I remember the early days of my bachelor, Gergen's "Social Psychology as History" was the first scientific article I read. Was shoved down my throat in a socpsych intro class. I barely understood English back then, let alone psych theory. 18 yrs later, I find it super useful for my upcoming project.

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

For decades, psychologists believed reminding people of death would make them fry themselves in tanning booths, recommend harsher punishments for prostitutes, support martyrdom, and spend more on luxury goods. Rigorous testing revealed: nope. But dead theories have a way of refusing to stay buried.

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp... 1/8 🧵

Today, I received a thank-you email from someone in Australia. They said our tutorial paper was exceptionally helpful and asked if I was available for a brief chat. Academia can be sometimes… brutal, but something like this is enough to keep me going🤗

🚨 New study alert! We're excited to share our "Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology" in #AMPPS. We tackle the credibility crisis in research by defining, collecting, and categorizing QRPs using a community consensus method. 🧵#OpenScience #QRPs @psychscience.bsky.social

Over the past few weeks, I was invited to talk about a bit of my research interest at Universitas Airlangga and Universitas Indonesia. I discussed what past evidence says about how people use scientific and religious explanations. Slides are accessible here rameliaz.github.io/talk/2025-ivs/

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

"Science is trustworthy because it doesn’t trust itself" cen.acs.org/research-int...

We are deeply honored to have Marlene (@marlephie.bsky.social) here in Surabaya! The Airlangga folks truly enjoyed our conversation with Marlene! We will fondly remember the knowledge, experience, and cross-cultural exchange involved in this visit😊

📣New Preprint Alert! Esther Maassen meticulously simulated the effect of p-hacking and publication bias on effect size & heterogeneity estimates. 💡bad: selective outcome reporting & optional dropping 💡bad: publication bias 💡not so bad: optional stopping/outlier removal osf.io/preprints/ps...

GiveWell sought an independent check on the evidence supporting >$1 billion it has granted to its top charities. This fall, Alex Cohen asked whether we could obtain the datasets needed to reproduce the underlying RCTs. We said yes; charging only a modest fee to cover our time. 🧵 + 🐀 + blog post!

🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of beautiful still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones. These individual artworks are free to download “by individual fans to further enjoy Studio Ghibli films”. [kottke.org]

Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies? Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵 w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

Ever wondered why presenting more facts can sometimes *worsen* disagreements, even among rational people? 🤔 It turns out, Bayesian reasoning has some surprising answers - no cognitive biases needed! Let's explore this fascinating paradox quickly ☺️

Public trust in science is more important than ever. But what happens when scientists openly share their political opinions on social media? Our updated paper with @eleala.bsky.social & @walraslaw.bsky.social shows how academics’ political expression affects their credibility

Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. differ in what terms they feel describe research scientists. Read more in our new report about US trust in scientists! pewrsr.ch/3USzH0S

Super excited to share a new tutorial paper I've co-authored with one of 🇮🇩's brightest minds, Hanif Akhtar. If you're interested in IRT and deal with polytomous data daily, but have no idea where to start, maybe this is for you? doi.org/10.1002/ijop...

What if you combine a comic with real data? 2024 is on track to be the first year with a temperature above 1.5 °C. The visualisation speaks for itself 🔥🔥🔥 Analysis and graph in #RStats and finished the design in #Figma. More on GitHub.com/Willem-Jelle. Original comic by Semi-Rad ❤️

Wow. It has been just 3 weeks since I made the #RStats Starter Pack. At the time, Elon had announced blocking rules on X were being changed. I was surprised there wasn't an rstats starter pack here yet, so voila! I added more to it this week, so check it again and follow more. go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

Trying to ignore the doom and gloom of the world.

As a climate scientist, here’s 3 things I wish everyone knew: 1. How much of our current warming is human-caused? All of it + then some. 2. What happens from year to year? That’s weather. For climate, see decadal trends. 3. What’s the most important thing you can do? Not recycling; this ⬇️

Oxford University launched a Palestine Crisis Scholarship which "provides access to higher education to students displaced by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank through the provision of full graduate scholarships to study at Oxford." More info here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

Interested in how Islamophobia has been conceptualized and measured? Want to read 93 pages on the topic? Then check out our new review paper led by the incomparably thorough Ummul Kathawalla: doi.org/10.1111/asap...

I've long wanted to write a blog post about how you can create a really solid stack that achieves most Open Science goals in a way that exceeds what you'd get from depositing somewhere like OSF. The recent *events* have driven home how much room there is for improvement in how we store things.

Testing out the fancy new video support with my log Galton board.

How should you deal with journal rejections? Some suggestions below.

All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - #Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ - #Regression and Other Stories at avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ - Active Statistics at avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatis...

✨What happens psychologically when ppl relate science & religion?✨ Ppl perceive it as a conflict, unless they are „motivated“ to reconcile and willing to be „cognitively flexible“. A new paper is out w/ @marlephie.bsky.social & @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social🎉 🔴: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

@carlbergstrom.com If you see Runi the Great, pls call the number