It's #LoveReplicationsWeek! I'll be posting impressions from the talks all week here. >> You can still sign up for talks since we are sending out invites on the morning for new registrations. forrt.org/LoveReplicat... >> Slides will be shared in our Zenodo Community: zenodo.org/communities/...

1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social. The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I got very lucky that twitter’s Golden Age and my postdoc period happened to align. I hope to see bluesky reach the same level of utility one day 🤞

Apparently, there is still funding left in academia even though Springer Nature made $489 million profits off of it in 2024. And now they are telling researchers what great news that is. Let me fix this for you... (inspired by arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820) #springernature #closedscience

Ok researchers rise and shine, it's groundhog day - what better way to get you up to date with what has been going on at the FORRT Replication Hub? forrt.org/replication-...

The annals of Elsevier villainy are extensive, but perhaps their funniest gambit was when they started six "Australasian" fake journals that were really just sponsored publications for pharmaceutical companies, set up to launder their marketing as ostensibly peer-reviewed research.

PISS journals 😂 arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

Who did this> 🤣

I am very proud to have published my second file-drawer report at my favourite journal Meta-Psychology together with Lisa Incerti, @tobiasrebholz.bsky.social, Christian Seida, and Frank Papenmeier. It includes four failed attempts to confirm a new hypothesis on #anchoringeffects.

The social constructivist movement in science has provided the fuel for the rise of anti-vaxxers and climate change denial. What is the best paper that provides a historical analysis of these negative consequences of social constructivism?

Very pleased to share this meta-analysis on the relationship between interpretation biases and anxiety. This was a huge team effort, and it’s great to see it finally out. Happy reading! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How Effortful Is Boredom? Studying Self-Control Demands Through Pupillometry, from Vanessa Radtke, @wanjawolff.bsky.social, and @corimartarelli.bsky.social #RegisteredReport doi.org/10.1525/coll...

For many social dilemma's in Science (e.g. the slow uptake of diamond open access journals) stronger top down management is necessary. It won't just happen. If scientists will not create this management themselves, someone is going to create it for us.

Just feeding "slow uptake of diamond OA journals" with numbers from Germany: According to OA Monitor (open-access-monitor.de/open-access), which uses WoS, Scopus, and OpenAlex, we are talking about less than 5% (!) of articles being published as Diamond OA.

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 paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT

Very cool to see this one out now in Physiology & Behavior 🤩 - We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here a paper version rant on this in Nature Reviews Psychology. www.nature.com/articles/s44... (PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social: 🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠 Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty. Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

Next article of our special issue published in BRAT, examining the role of childhood maltreatment (CM): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Adults with CM history showed impaired belief updating when interacting with strangers and such deficits moderated the association of CM and PTSD symptoms.

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social: 🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠 Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty. Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Nature Psychology Review is a journal created by a commercial publisher because it is easy profit. Review articles are easy to write, get cited a lot. Slap Nature on it and you get a high IF. It should flip to a diamond open access journal. Submit your review articles elsewhere.

Great to see the next article of our special issue on belief updating out in BRAT. In this large clinical trial, the authors investigated the relative importance of expectancy violation vs fear reduction as two rationales of exposure therapy. For details, see 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Excited to share my first Stage 2 recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social: 💡Probe-based attentional retraining does not reduce worry. Pond et al. found that a classic ABM protocol did not shift threat bias or anxiety in high-worriers. ✅Read more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

Wir müssen reden ... über Überlastung! 7 von 9 planetaren Belastungsgrenzen sind überschritten. Das zeigt der neue "Planetary Health Check" (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org). Vorher waren es 6. Die Ozeanversauerung ist jetzt neu dazu gekommen. 🧵1/3

In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine PhD Stelle (3 Jahre, 75%) ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden! www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

New article on biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms. In 2 studies using real social interactions, dep symptoms were related to a reduced update of self-beliefs after positive social feedback and increased learning from neg fb relative to pos fb. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here are two easy things YOU can do: #1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same. #2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above […]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

New prologue episode of Nullius In Verba! We read Boring's paper on The Psychology of Controversy nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/prologus-6... Written in 1929, but relevant as if he based in on scientists arguing on social media for the last decade. A must read - or, you can just listen to it!

German bookstore selling a curated selection of works that were banned in US public schools and libraries. (h/t @inabeintner.bsky.social)

A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...

3 new jobs in a great project 👇

It's like an association, but more causal. This reasoning is very prevalent in psych as well (in particular when it comes to "lagged effects", aka lagged associations, and "within-person associations") which is why we wrote a paper about it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

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

New letter by @minzlicht.bsky.social and I forthcoming in TiCS on whether neurometabolic costs are necessary to explain cognitive fatigue. While the origins of fatigue may turn out to be metabolic, we argue there isn’t yet sufficient evidence for such theories. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Does cognitive fatigue require metabolic explanations? @jakeembrey.bsky.social and I argue the evidence is pretty thin. Computational & motivational theories may be sufficient without invoking depleting brain glucose or accumulating neurotoxins like glutamate. New commentary, in press at TiCS

Two more weeks to apply 🚀

Fundamentally: the fact that LLMs' output is linguistic has a MASSIVE attention capture over social scientists in particular. We need to keep our wits about us when we use these models and avoid anthropomorphizing them purely because of formal similarities in language. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it! Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's - Constitution - TOP guidelines - article types - and reviewer guidelines until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New paper: Blaming the Thermometer for the Fever: Separating Misapplication from Method in Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, with @laabho.bsky.social and @jnwulff.bsky.social. We – strongly – push back on criticisms against NHST and argue for proper application. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... >

Can you use off the shelf generative LLMs (eg ChatGPT, Claude) to assess personality from brief bits of unconstrained, open-ended text? If so, how well do they do? Turns out you can, and they do amazingly well. I couldn't believe how well. Here's our pre-print on it and a 🧵

Okay, this is not mine. I saw it while scrolling on Instagram. But I basically peed my pants laughing. PhD students are just lil bebes. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

New lab paper on leisure, effort, and meaning by @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social, @gregdepow.bsky.social, and Srishti Agarwal from @amuselabs.bsky.social. Check it out!

'As AI becomes more embedded in our social fabric, we need nuanced frameworks that recognise the unique nature of human-AI relationships.' The @uehiro.ox.ac.uk's Dr Brian D Earp co-writes this article ⬇️ theconversation.com/friend-tutor...

🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky

🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky