And released today, a metascience project featuring AIMOS board member @jasonchin.bsky.social, former AIMOS prez Matt Page, Merryn McKinnon, Rachel Searston, Kaye Ballantyne, Stephanie Summersby, Anna Heavey, Carolyne Bird, and Anna-Maria Arabia.

Machine learning can detect patterns—but can it detect deception? A newly published replication of a landmark study on linguistic cues in 911 homicide calls suggests the answer is "no".... at least, not reliably.   🔗 Read the full article: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... #psychlaw #lawpsych

Also the winner of our ECR award - excellent book Sonia!

International #ResearchIntegrity conference 16-18 November 2025 Come to hear @elisabethbik.bsky.social Ivan Oransky @jamesheathers.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com Lisa Bero @liammannix.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com +many others, stay for Sydney in late Spring @sydney.edu.au 🧪

AIMOS is pleased to make the following submission regarding the Australian Research Council's consultation draft for its new research evaluation framework: osf.io/mpvbc

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: PPPL 2026 Editorial Board Deadline: October 1, 2025 Find editorial board position descriptions, required qualifications, & how to apply here: osf.io/fcmvj We're also seeking 2 early career editorial fellows, find more info here: osf.io/9ebrm #psychlaw #lawpsych

Does the Considering Offender Probability in Statements (COPS) Scale allow law enforcement to distinguish between guilty and innocent people placing 911 homicide calls? Research from the FBI BAU and Villanova University suggests it does not. Read a summary from the authors: bit.ly/3DgM3dL

This recent article in the official journal of the Aus. Academy of Forensic Sciences includes hallucinated references. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10...., for example:

🔒Our latest study regards "the effect of APC waivers on the participation of Ukrainian researchers in fully Gold OA journals". The reviewers call it "well-developed", "timely" & "important" while questioning the focus on only 5 publishers. 👇Read the assessment, reviews & author response on MetaROR

The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November: aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

Innovations in #ScholarlyCommunication and #ResponsibleResearchAssessment need to go hand in hand. New guest post by @jasonchin.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, and Kathryn Zeiler, editors at @metaror.bsky.social, share insights on these connections. Read more👇 sfdora.org/2025/07/08/m...

RFK relies on conflicts of interest to discredit research finding vaccines are safe. I guess the decades of metascience and watchdog work on conflicts of interest are to blame for his weaponisation of this concept? www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

AIMOS stands against the recent U.S. Executive Order, 'Restoring Gold Standard Science'. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Complementing other communications about the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" Executive Order, here is a statement from COS. Also, see the links to stories from previous attempts to co-opt open science for policies that undermine science and evidence-based policymaking. www.cos.io/about/news/c...

Signed!

when trump and co say they're seizing control of research because of the reproducibility crisis, it's pretty similar to when they say they're enacting trans bathroom bans and sports bans because of violence and discrimination against women.

Excellent reflections by Brian here and I agree. Transparency and rigour are clearly good things, but the drafters of this order cannot be trusted.

I'm glad to be speaking at this meeting about research integrity, which will flow nicely into the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference later that week, with a broader remit into metascience, openness, and transparency!

link.springer.com/article/10.1... - this tracks my impressions of the field over the past 8 years. (yes this is research on research on research)

Very pleased to see this positive experience with our publish, review, curate platform, @metaror.bsky.social: upstream.force11.org/response-to-...

In this post, I argue against university rankings (@aidybarnett.bsky.social) and assessment regimes that reward quantity over quality. Let's slow down, correct existing errors (@jabyrnesci.bsky.social), and engage in better peer review (eg, @metaror.bsky.social): theconversation.com/reliable-sci...

More dangerous than DEIA (which is a good thing), are lackey hires (inept, often white men, who don't understand how and when to use messaging apps).

Wonderful work here from Lucy Montgomery, @emiliacarabell.bsky.social, and Karl Huang laying out the dark side of academic publishing, as well as the light (including a kind shout out to @metaror.bsky.social)

There's a profound disconnect between the threshold courts use for determining whether someone is an expert (such that they can give expert testimony), which is basically qualifications in a field, and how psychologists think about it, which as we say here, is observable performance.

@metaror.bsky.social cuts out the publishers, providing open peer review, with a brief editorial summing up. Two recent examples are reviews (metaror.org/kotahi/artic...) of @jamesheathers.bsky.social's piece estimating 1/7 papers are fake and

Proud to be on this great panel to talk about the g2i problem - I'll be talking about producing better group/framework evidence through systematic reviews. With @teneille.bsky.social et al at www.gironaevidenceweek.com

#Metascience2025 will be the biggest meeting in the field to date. We also want it to be one of the most inclusive. Travel bursaries now available for those who need support to attend. More details here: metascience.info/funding/ @cos.io @briannosek.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social

We're happy to announce MetaROR has joined Bluesky! We're a community-owned platform for open peer review in metaresearch. Using the innovative Publish-Review-Curate model, we're transforming how metaresearch is published & reviewed, making the process faster and more open. Find us on metaror.org

For those interested in improving the way science is used in law, we have a cool special issue of Forensic Science International: Synergy (www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...) out. It follows from a conference at the ANU called Rethinking scientific communication in courts.

Seminar alert: Janice Graham will discuss “Leaky Vaccines in Public Health Governance” at the Charles Perkins Centre, Uni of Sydney as part of their Something EPIC seminar series. the seminar will also be live streamed. Check out the QR code for all the details!

Call for papers deadline is Feb 7!

Great post from @aimosinc.bsky.social and @rorinstitute.bsky.social colleagues (among others) about the Scopus and Web of Science decision to delist elife. upstream.force11.org/criteria-for...

Good old benefit and feasibility. 0/5 now for me-led projects at the ARC.

We are launching our End of Year Appeal. If you value our service please consider making a donation secure.austlii.edu.au/cgi-egate/co...

Above all: please use it! As authors, reviewers or supporters — an initiative like #MetaROR can only flourish if we as a diverse & growing metascience community (of academics, policymakers, funders, businesses & more) contribute to it!

MetaROR (metaror.org) is now officially launched - rigorous, community-owned, and transparent peer review for metaresearch. @aimosinc.bsky.social and @rorinstitute.bsky.social

“Undergraduates need touch points with metaresearch from day 1”, Joan Leach, director of ANU’s centre for public awareness of science giving today’s plenary for AIMOS2024. We agree!

Criminal Law Starter Pack #auslaw go.bsky.app/2LUhDo5

Excited to be in Canberra for AIMOS 24 agbarnett.github.io/aimos.confer... I gave a talk this morning on ‘where next for metascience?’ — slides online here: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre... Thanks to Adrian Barnett & all at @aimosinc.bsky.social for the opportunity to join you 🙏🏻

Hey folks, it is time to save 19-21 November for the next AIMOS conference in Canberra. Here is a sneak peak at our three amazing plenary speakers. For more details, visit: shorturl.at/awHK8

I made a Starter Pack for people working at the intersection of psychology and law. Let me know if you want to be included! #PsychLaw #Psychology #Law #SocialPsych #CogPsych #ForensicPsych #ClinicalPsych #LegalPsych #AcademicSky #StarterPack #AcademicChatter #CLJLab go.bsky.app/KS4zG4s

I'm putting together an Evidence law academics starter pack for anyone working on Evidence law related topics. Please let me know if you’d like to be added or be removed, and feel free to share this with others who might be interested in following! bsky.app/starter-pack...

We're getting ready to launch MetaROR and make peer review faster, more transparent, and more efficient 💪 Join us for the official launch of MetaROR, a new open platform for reviewing and sharing metaresearch operating with an innovative publish-review-curate model. Launch Events ⬇️

LeBron with the best video message of the season: x.com/KingJames/st...

You can register to attend the AIMOS 2024 Conference in November online for free! We'll be there to launch MetaROR - our new community-owned platform for metaresearch operating on a publish-review-curate model. See the full programme here: agbarnett.github.io/aimos.confer...

Welcome to the account for PPPL! We are a unique journal published by the American Psychological Assn, providing a forum in which to critically evaluate the contributions of psychology & related disciplines to public policy & legal issues (& vice versa). We aim to post journal-related content often.

This is a highly non rigorous study (as James admits) that still deserves a lot of attention, because of how important the consequences are even if it is only approximately correct.

Psychology, Public Policy, & Law seeks 2 editorial fellows for 12-month term beginning 1/1/25. Position includes $1,000 USD stipend per fellow. Positions for early-career psychologists from historically underrepresented groups. Apply by 11/1/2024. #Psychology More info: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

If scientists disagree about conclusions or analyses while doing research and writing a paper, should they hide it to tell a better story to the public? No… www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @nicholascoles.bsky.social @jasonchin.bsky.social @roseodea.bsky.social @jackfriedrich @alexh.bsky.social