First visit to By Chance! Excited to try out the different flavours 😆 The shop is so pretty!

'Tis a week of major deadlines 🫠 Now would be a good time for a fae entity to kidnap me and keep me as an ambassador for humans.

I read Volpato et al. (2025; doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...) for an assignment, and out of curiosity I looked up the author. Turns out they're from my University, which is a fun coincidence. Then I find my dissertation supervisor (Prof DeBruine) listed as an author too! What a small world 😂

Sighthill Park and Cemetery are so pretty~

Shout-out to the kids at GSC Auldhouse Foundation's Hope Camp for their epic clay artistry! This is what we're doing the community consultation for - for the GSC Community Hub to provide more opportunities like this.

🎵Far over the misty mountains cold 🎶 🎵To dungeons deep and caverns old 🎶 🎵We must away, ere break of day 🎶 🎵To seek our pale enchanted gold 🎶 Ahh the Highlands! The land of mist, midges and mountains

"Science is not, and has never been, a neutral endeavour... the notion that researchers can or should cleanse themselves of bias is untenable, potentially intellectually dishonest, and ethically fraught." New preprint with the (brilliant) Sarahanne Field #Metascience2025 osf.io/preprints/os...

And yes, also strong theories will come with meta-data in the future that researcher can link to. See this paper bsky.app/profile/cjva...

That is a lovely designed badge, but badges have been one of the clearer failures in science reform, so let's please not even joke about making more of them. Instead, let's follow Psychological Science and get rid of them all and replace them with clear meta-data (link to prereg, data, etc).

What derails most researchers: • Choosing problems too broad or too narrow • Starting with personal curiosity alone • Ignoring industry/funding realities • Forgetting the "So, what?" test • Stopping at gap identification Avoid these traps.

3 critical insights: Industry pain + funding interest = sustainable research Validate from the bottom up. Real problems create friction people will pay to solve. Focus on friction. When theory meets reality, innovation happens. Hunt contradictions.

Develop your research questions by finding the micro problem based on: • Friction (what's not working?) • Contradiction (what doesn't make sense?) • Industry conviction (what needs solving?) THIS is where innovation happens.

Finding a gap in literature ≠ Finding a research problem 90% of identified "gaps" are worthless Most gaps exist for good reasons Industry doesn't care about academic gaps Funders want solutions, not gap-filling You need a better approach.

I've written 200+ academic papers in my career. In each one, I considered—and often used—an em dash strategically. Now more people are giving papers sh*t for this ONE ridiculous reason: Em dashes signal AI-generated text. This is nonsense. Here's why: #academicsky #ai #phdsky #acwri

Theory and practice combined. Nothing works and nobody knows why. #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Interesting read. Favourite quote: "Because when we remove unnecessary hurdles, we make space for better research." This is the spirit of metascience. Liked the step-by-step of how to produce tools with a product design approach, emphasising feedback loops & market/consumer research.

Went to the "Working Mindfully with Data: Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Epi & Stats" organised by Dr Sharon Greenwood on Tuesday, 10th June. Wonderful event! Lots of new insight to use for my Community Consultation internship with GSC Auldhouse. Thank you to the speakers for their wisdom :)

🧠 Psychology student? 💭 Wondering if your data skills are career-ready? 💰 Want to earn a £25 voucher? Join our event! tinyurl.com/employpsych 🎤 Employability Talk + Q&A Session! 🔍 Data Skills Challenge! 📍 Location: Boyd Orr Building, Room 517 📅 Date: Monday 16th June ⏰ Time: 12:00-15:00

This is a very minor point, but academic science has handed this criticism to the anti-science people. The "replication crisis" is science working like it is supposed to work. You publish results, peers evaluate them, attempt to replicate, they don't replicate, learn from it and move on. Science.

Put my neck out nodding at this from @katharinehubbard.bsky.social on teaching qualifications, professional recognition and what new lecturers need (practice not theory). Thank you for saying so many things I don't think I knew how to express! #AcademicSky katharinehubbard.blog/2025/05/20/t...

For anyone who knows R/RStudio and wants to learn how to use a Chi-Square, one of my students is running a project on how students learn new data skills. You can take part online (uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...) or if you're at the University of Glasgow, you can do it in person.

I'm hiring a PHD candidate in Machine Learning-Informed Formal Theory Construction. Please encourage talented students to apply, or reach out if you want to collaborate. Looking for machine learning, theory development, and programming skills, and interdisciplinary interests! See tiu.nu/22752

Researchers should not make claims based on exploratory analyses because the probability that these claims are wrong can be unacceptably high. doi.org/10.1080/0264...

We're incredibly excited to launch BRIDGE - a community initiative led by Incubator alumni that connects UK #mentalhealth early career #researchers with the Global South! ⏰ Applications are OPEN until 9 JUNE. For more info & to apply, visit the page below 👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/bridge/

Many "artifacts" result from researchers' violations of the conversational logic of everyday communication. Here's a review of examples: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

You can still apply to this position until May 25. If this is a topic that sounds interesting, and you want to work in an intellectually stimulating environment, on a research question that matters, at a department with very nice colleagues, with the freedom and resources to do what we want, apply!

Very useful set of guidelines for conducting social psychology lab experiments by @eddiehj.bsky.social, @davidamodio.bsky.social, and colleagues. Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Few quotes follow…

For all stats people out there: or neighbours at Psychology are looking for a full prof in Methods and Statistics: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3519... #metascience #stats

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Sex differences are often claimed based on faulty comparison of statistical significance status rather than direct comparison. That's the upshot of an amazing talk I got to hear this week from Donna Maney @ Emory based on this paper & others: elifesciences.org/articles/70817 #stats #neuroskyence

in my first year in grad school, i recall once that my doctoral advisor @dickretired.bsky.social (who somewhat had a reputation of making harsh responses to talks) told an American student in my year that: in the US ppl are all nice, but in the UK we just speak our minds. not having any cultural...

✨ FREE EVENT! ✨ We are running an afternoon seminar exploring equality, diversity, and inclusion issues associated with epidemiology & statistical data. Join us for an interesting afternoon for anyone interested in public health and/or knowledge production. events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

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.... >

New preprint from @bartlettje.bsky.social, Gaby Mahrholz & I written as part of #OSR25CF 🗻 We provide a tutorial of concrete ways to assess students knowledge about open sci and/or using open and reproducible practices such as registered reports, open code/data osf.io/preprints/os... #AcademicSky

I have been accused many times of caring more about entertaining students than educating them - it's so demonstrably false as to be laughable but I could never get past not recognising that everyone's job is easier and learning happens more successfully... 1/2 #AcademicSky

“next time you’re about to send that “quick catch-up?” message, ask yourself: could I say a bit more to help the other person feel safe, prepared, and respected? It only takes one line to make a big difference.” Love this short blog post from @sarune.bsky.social. A small change that benefits all!

Extremely useful and timely meta-analysis on the impact of increasing the speed of lecture recordings - 1.25x and 1.5x no/low cost that is probably balanced by increased engagement but 2x and 2.5x impairs learning. #AcademicSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Finally got around to reading @advancehe.bsky.social's new report on promoting teaching excellence within reward, promotion, and career track structures. Hugely helpful for thinking about how to support education-focused staff. #AcademicSky www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hu...

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Another great workshop, with a inspiring crowd of lovely early career researchers. Creating a free graduate school for metascience with @sajedehra.bsky.social has been some work, but every meeting is soooo worth it!

These sound like pretty cool roles. BSc and MSc/PhD in a degree with formal statistics training like a psychology degree.

They beat you to it! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Really enjoyed this review of educational approaches to teaching / reinforcing reproducibility, with an example of an introduction to data science course: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour.... The thought of managing Github for 120 students fills me with dread though 😅

Another favourite lesson from this episode: Publication bias is when published literature is SYSTEMATICALLY UNREPRESENTATIVE of all performed studies - not just the tendency to publish only significant findings, but also non-significant ones. 1/2

Some listening & reading recommendations: - More or Less: Behind the Stats - Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs, by the BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... - Crisis communication: A behavioural approach by the GCS Behavioural Science Team gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/u... 1/5

This episode was my introduction to base rate fallacy and how it explains the false positive paradox in cases like cancer detection. Had fun Googling it further: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ra... The wikipedia example was funny, and it goes: 1/3

Possible -> Easy -> Normative -> Rewarding -> Required I like this a lot as a general philosophy/approach :D

I often say 'this episode is one of our best ones'. But our discussion on the ways in which psychology mirrors a pseudoscience, and how we can learn from pseudosciences such as parapsychology which tricks psychologists will use now they can not get away with p-hacking is really good.

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