Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

I was thrilled to be invited to contribute to a forthcoming special issue for The Psychologist magazine called "Psychology needs a ... revolution". I wrote about AI and its use in psychology: particularly how we can learn lessons from the past to avoid repeating old mistakes. @psychmag.bsky.social

Today in "did we take this joke too far?": @malte.the100.ci @grinschglsandra.bsky.social and I will jointly teach two lecture series this year: Psychology of Digitalisation: Everything is Computer Digitalisation of Psychology: Computer is Everything (really) Also, new lab logo

I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish. It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates + can validate existing projects

I’m in! Please share. This is a small ask where if enough people come together we can fight those who are trying to disrupt a valuable platform

Check out this cool new package which I will likely also use for my "R u Ready" data wrangling and analyses class. 🐖

🤓In an interview for the @nzz.ch, I presented my perspective on the idea of "AI making us stupid" 🤖: www.nzz.ch/technologie/...

Thanks to the @improvingpsych.org team for the great conference in beautiful (and very hot) Budapest #SIPS2025

- Calling students enrolled at German unis (SHK/SHB) - FORRT project seeks multiple research assistants for 12 months (remote & flexible). Tasks: 🖥️ Code tools for replication alerts 🌍 Coordinate hackathons & projects 🎤 Help with qualitative interviews Get in touch if are interested in any of these!

📢 PostDoc Wanted @unibern.bsky.social! Arbeite gemeinsam mit @malte.the100.ci, @michaelschulte.bsky.social und mir an der digitalen Transformation der Hochschulbildung. 📩 Mehr Infos & Bewerbung: www.psychjob.ch/job/postdoc-...

WE ARE HIRING! Are you interested in LLMs, metascience, and their intersection? We’re hiring a full time postdoc on a three-year contract to help us develop, evaluate, and extend RegCheck (regcheck.app), our app for automatically comparing research papers with their preregistrations.

Very proud of the lab and the extended Cake Club members for winning this prize! @ianhussey.bsky.social @grinschglsandra.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social @tomwillems.bsky.social @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci and others not here

Good start into the new year - our CakeClub was awarded for the best comment on @pubpeer.com in December 🤓

We read this paper in our journal club, and found it interesting and an illustrative contribution to statistical education. There were a few points that we think the authors could address to strengthen it. Full summary of our journal club on @pubpeer.com: pubpeer.com/publications...

The program for the 7th Perspectives on Scientific Error workshop is now online, and we have opened registration. Come join us in Bern to talk about errors, hype, negligence and fraud in science! errorsin.science

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Send your abstract for a poster, talk, workshop, or other (surprise us!) to the 7th Perspectives on Scientific Error workshop, Feb 5-7 2025 in Bern, Switzerland. Submission deadline: September 20. errorsin.science

Today was my last day @universityofgraz.bsky.social before moving on to @unibern.bsky.social. In 4 years, I not only had great collaborations, fun at teaching, but also made good friends, such as @sci-gab.bsky.social! Big thanks to all my colleagues for providing such a great work environment!

Exciting upcoming event: eso.org/sci/meetings... This online conference targets the impact of chatGPT-like technologies on astronomy 💫. One day focuses on the psychological perspective, namely the impact of these technologies on cognition. Looking forward to many registrations! 🤓

It was a pleasure to contribute to this great guide 🤓 Especially thanks to Priya for your great work!

On Wednesday we hosted a super exciting event - "Open Science meets AI". Big thanks to our panelists @gaertneranne.bsky.social, @janalasser.bsky.social, Tony Ross-Hellauer, and (vice-)rectors Joachim Reidl & Horst Bischof. Big shoutout to my co-hosts Ziva Korda, @sci-gab.bsky.social & Hilmar Brohmer

More than excited to co-host this event 🔥

80% des wissenschaftlichen Personals in Österreich arbeitet befristet - Tendenz steigend! Mehr Dauerstellen schaffen - jetzt! #unterbau #BessereUnis #IchBinHanna #Höchstbefristungsquote