I like this research design from the 1950s. Everything is so boring these days.

Also, I haven't checked Bluesky for four days. 😱 What did I miss?

Spent the last four days in Puglia, Italy 🇮🇹 "Vacation tired" really hits differently than "conference tired". 😄 Here's me fighting the wind in Lecce, plus an orange cat prowling the rooftops of Sassi di Matera.

We've just updated the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data and code review following great feedback at @peercommunityin.bsky.social. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... We now have an app: github.com/SORTEE/DCQC and a website: eivimeycook.github.io/DCQC/

Cool paper in #QOpen about strategies to improve the own resilience in #Academia. I really Like the recommendation to go for a run. 😄

All materials, including the slides we used for the 20 minute seminar lecture, are available on OSF osf.io/4sjuk/overview ⬇️

Very cool idea to view research studies as opportunities for science communication! A more thoughtful approach to debriefing and other aspects of research might help the public better understand how science works and why it is valuable. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/xge0...

Happy Love Data Week! 💘 Issue 32 of RDM Weekly is out! ➡️ Creating a Data Sharing Community @harvarddataverse.bsky.social ➡️ Affording Reusable Data @nature.com ➡️ README Checklist @christophscheuch.bsky.social ➡️ Project Management Tools and more! #rdmweekly rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Last week we released dplyr 1.2.0, but we left off something VERY important 🙂 `dplyr::if_else()` and `dplyr::case_when()` are now up to 30x faster and use 10x less memory! We dive into how we achieved these numbers in this new #rstats post! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

One of my random posts just hit 100+ likes again 😅 Maybe I should plug my poor, 10-likes research posts in that thread…

Let me just scooch in here

Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one. So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵

dplyr 1.2.0 was released last week and since I use {dplyr} a lot in my work, I wanted to take some time to try some of the new functions. This post provides some supplemental examples of the new functions, beyond what is provided in the new Posit materials. #rstats cghlewis.com/blog/dplyr_u...

"Open-science psychologist with a playful, sarcastic vibe". I've been called worse. 😃

Nice writeup of our now-finished JITSUVAX project: cordis.europa.eu/art... The main output of the project is the empathetic refutational interview... 1/7

In my endless hopefulness, I thought my PhD diploma (which I paid 200 EUR to be printed) would be issued within two months. Turns out the waiting time is closer to… three years. I did, however, receive a confirmation today I can use in the meantime. Wonderful.

Psychology has had a lot of "crises": replication crisis, theory crisis… Not calling out anyone, but I'm noticing a pattern... is "revolution" the new it-word? 😃

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

In preparation for the imminent publication of the new edition of my R textbook, the updated interactive tutorials are now available on CRAN. I did a massive re-write last summer, road tested them in my teaching last term, and I’m pretty happy with them. For now. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Got an email about a meta-analysis I led back in 2021. Was a bit apprehensive to revisit it, but it's actually solid: well written, detailed, informative. The rude desk rejections from developmental & econ journals really shook my confidence back then.

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Week 2 of our local dm-drogerie markt being out of dmBio instant coffee. This is getting serious. I am operating well below optimal capacity.

Ferbruary #oldknees

Does anyone know of any universities who have signed up to the Responsible Research(er) Recruitment Checklist (below)? Thanks!

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

Very unrepresentative image here, the economist has actually put his hand up rather than just starting to speak

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

Anyone know a good paper looking at how folks interpret the terms "often" vs "most of the time"?

🎉Congrats to the winners of the 2025 RDAP Work of the Year Award, The Data Rescue Project! (@datarescueproject.org)🛟🏆 This award acknowledges the work’s impact on the wider research and scholarly communication ecosystem in support of RDAP’s mission and values. rdapassociation.org/news/13593532

I keep mistyping Rdm instead of Rmd today (the extension for R Markdown). Probably because Research Data Management (RDM) is living rent-free in my head. The curse of too many acronyms...

Issue 31 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 ➡️ OS resources in Comm Sciences @csdisseminate.bsky.social ➡️ RDA 25th Plenary Meeting Programme @researchdataall.bsky.social ➡️ Ask for R Help by Creating a Small Reproducible Example @libdrstats.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

No one asked, but may I suggest Sisyphus by Andrew Bird (2019, indie rock-ish?) as a contender for some of the finest lyrics ever. youtu.be/zug1B8DSkWw?...

Free PDF: scispace.com/pdf/robust-r...

Asking for a friend: If I wanted to explore an idea for an edited book (target audience: students and [entry-level] researchers, interdisciplinary health and social sciences, methods focus), which publisher would you recommend? 🤓 #HealthPsych #BehSci #AcademicSky #Research

Another reminder of why the Methods section matters and should be written in as much detail as possible, and why meta-analyses need to account for variations in procedures.

📢 New publication: How should we communicate about scientific uncertainty - especially around environmental & health risks like microplastics? 🗣️💬 We ran an online experiment with 1,126 participants in Austria and found:

🚨PSA🚨 #Zenodo doesn't support versioning with non-Zenodo DOIs. Explained with my own mistake over on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/alelaz... #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenScience

striking results!

The FORRT Replication Database has received a massive overhaul (FReD 2.0): We double-coded and validated all data from scratch and extended it in the course of a one-year-partnership with the @cos.io. We just switched to a faster interface thanks to @lukaswallrich.bsky.social’s wizardry.

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I was a postdoc at Harvard (in human evolutionary biology) from 2010 to 2012 and it’s grim how many men I interacted with during that time are popping up in the Epstein files trying to prove disgusting evo-psych theories about women *shudder*.

Dan Ariely, psychologist. 4/ bsky.app/profile/bake... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ari...

Almost 4000 people have done this quiz so far, although younger groups still under-represented in case you know anyone who'd like to give it a go and see how they compare to others! probability.kucharski.io

Made stuffed cabbage leaves (aka sarma) with my mom today. Haven't felt this connected to my culture in a while. Now we wait to see if any of them unwrap themselves in the oven like dramatic little traitors.

WHAT?! This looks amazing. No more p1, p2, p3… I'm almost scared to check how long this has been possible.

Do you sometimes think "oh boy, I would really like to hear Julia ramble some more about the topics about which she doesn't stop talking to begin with?" The wait is finally over! @guruspod.bsky.social and had a chat about open science, causal inference, and apparently birth order effects.

The whole world: exists. Me: will be heading to Italy for the 6th(ish) time and Germany for the 4th time again this year. Not complaining, just impressed by my own geographical consistency. 😄

Really glad to see this grant program going strong 💪 I was a recipient back in 2020, when it first launched (starting to see a pattern here...). The program supports scientific research on social issues in the Majority World, helping amplify topics & researchers that are too often underfunded.

Just learned about this study looking at methodological trends in psych and econ over time: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art.... Matches my perception well: Nobody in psych bothers to (explicitly) try causal inference unless they conducted an experiment, not a lot of theoretical work either.

That warm feeling when someone calls you "Dr. Aleksandra Lazic" and it's an actual human, not a predatory journal email.