Only two days left to submit an application to join the IDEA Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! The IDEA Committee promotes inclusion, diversity, equity, and access within psychological science and the broader academic community. Learn more 👇

Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”! 📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom 👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ... 📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky

Good news! And for those who weren't aware, the team's post from 20.08. is a useful read: improvingpsych.org/2025/08/20/c...

Public appreciation post for @juliabottesini.com! The community doesn't know the great lengths Julia has gone to restabilize operations at PsyArXiv. We're all incredibly lucky to have her. Many, many hours and a great deal of thought/care have gone into the task. Thank you, Julia!

⚠️ Don't forget to vote! The virtual election booth closes tomorrow!⏰ 🗳️If you are a SIPS member, you should have received your ballot to vote for the 3 new Executive Committee members. If you are a member and haven't received it yet, check your spam folder! 📅 Voting ends on September 21, 2025

🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳 Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission. Learn more from our blog post👇 buff.ly/OtpsKhm

🗳️ Your vote matters! 🗳️ A friendly reminder for SIPS members to check your inbox for an email containing a ballot to vote for the 3 new Executive Committee members! If you haven't received it yet, check your spam folder! 📅 Voting ends on September 21, 2025

SIPS@SPSP Preconference is open for submissions (posters and data blitzes). Any and all submissions welcome! We want to emphasize replication research in the area of social-personality psychology. If you or someone you know has done replication research in this area, we highly recommend you submit!

🗳️ SIPS Executive Committee Elections are now open!🗳️ If you are a SIPS member, you should now have received your ballot to vote for the 3 new Executive Committee members. If you are a member and haven't received it yet, check your spam folder! 📅 Voting ends on September 21, 2025

Give these folks a round of applause. This was a heavy lift! And let’s give this post at least as much engagement as the original announcement of the moderation changes.

Phenomenal effort here by the moderating team to fix this issue so quickly (over 12000 preprints checked in the last few weeks). So many people stepped up. Community spirit like this is one of many reasons why SIPS is such a great organisation advancing rigorous psychological science. Bravo!

This was a true mess with a ton of AI-generated word salad slop being submitted as preprints. The field owes these moderators a huge thanks for all the work and energy! 🙏👏

PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky

🗳️ SIPS Executive Committee Elections are now open!🗳️ If you are a SIPS member, you should now have received your ballot to vote for the 3 new Executive Committee members. If you are a member and haven't received it yet, check your spam folder! 📅 Voting ends on September 21, 2025

GREAT candidates for SIPS executive council. I wanted to rank them all #1. Check your email to vote. @improvingpsych.org

Do you know SIPS has a Slack Community?🤝 If you haven't joined already, don't wait any longer! 👇

As part of the Pilot Reporting Task Force, founded at @improvingpsych.org conference 2023, I would like to share a preprint with you: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We are looking for feedback on our perspective piece, promoting more transparency in the reporting of piloting in psychological science. 1/4

Important updates to the PsyArXiv policies! If you're a #PsyArXiv user, these are worth taking the time to read. #PsychSciSky

⚠️ PsyArXiv is updating its policies in light of a higher volume of low quality submissions and our recent switch to a pre-moderation workflow. Read more about this change here 👉 (buff.ly/8jhqRJu ) and see our updated policies here 👉 (is.gd/paxpolicy ).

📣 Call for Applications: Members-at-Large for the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Committee at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) Interested individuals should submit an application via the Google Form linked below before September 30th. buff.ly/ghIVbxt

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

📣 Elections for the SIPS Executive Committee are coming up! 🗳️ 📅 Voting begins on September 8 and will close on September 21. To be eligible to vote, please join or renew your SIPS membership by September 3!

Thanks to our amazing moderators working on this 24/7, we are now 50% done with the PsyArXiv backlog! 🎉 For all our PsyArXiv users, thank you for your patience. If you would like to help us, here are some tips to help your next preprint sail through moderation: #PsychSciSky

We're blown away by our community's enthusiasm and willingness to serve as a PsyArXiv moderator, reaching nearly 400 sign-ups! We are currently at capacity for what the system can handle, so we have closed this form.

Join us online for our Festival Follow-Up for reflection, practical skills, and community conversation. Two sessions. One goal: Better research culture. Date & Time Oct 13, 2025 10:00 AM (CET) or 08:00 (UTC). Participation is free, registration is required univienna.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Just passed 25% of the backlog cleared 🎉🎉🎉 The dedication of our volunteers is impressive! Mods: Please feel free to come to office hours on Monday if you want to work in community. Mods-to-be: Hope to see you at Training #3 at 8 pm ET!

Another one on (my) Monday night, which might be more convenient for people in Asia and Aus/NZ bsky.app/profile/impr...

We are in awe of our community's response -- over 300 people have volunteered to moderate PsyArXiv! We’ve already cleared 13% of the backlog and expect to make even faster progress next week. Thank you for your patience as we work through this, and special thanks to our volunteers! 🎉 #PsychSciSky

Did you register to help moderate PsyArXiv preprints but haven’t heard from us yet? Check your spam folder and add [email protected] to your contacts! We are onboarding moderators in batches to avoid overloading the system, but rest assured we will get to everyone. #PsychSciSky

Are you ready to shape the future of psychological science? 💡 SIPS Executive Committee nominations are still open! 🗳️ We are electing 3 seats for 2026–2029: 🔹 Graduate Student or Post-doc 🔹 Faculty at a non-PhD-granting institution 🔹 Faculty (or equivalent) outside the US/Canada

Want to help moderate preprints on PsyArXiv? We're hosting a training tomorrow morning. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8114764450... More trainings are coming as well! Already registered using the other form? Check your spam folder -- some of our email invitations are going to spam. #PsychSciSky

If you think your library or institution might be willing to become a supporting member of PsyArXiv, we would be very grateful if you can reach out to [email protected] [email protected], the PsyArXiv funding chair, will follow up and do the rest of the work :)

More info about changes to moderation at PsyArXiv - improvingpsych.org/2025/08/20/c...

Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky

Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky

🤝Let's improve the psychological science together! 🎓Are you a SIPS member who works as faculty (or equivalent career stage) at a non-PhD-granting institution? Or you know someone who fits the description? 🗳️Then we encourage you to nominate them (or self-nominate) for the SIPS Executive Committee!

🧠🧠🧠 PsyArXiv needs you! Please sign up to join our moderator team. First cohort is getting trained on next Monday, with more trainings to come. Easy way to give back to this crucial community resource. Students, postdocs, faculty, all welcome - come one and all!

Do you agree PsyArXiv is a valuable service? Then please consider joining the PsyArXiv moderation team to keep it that way (more info in the link below)! There's a 1-hour training session this coming Monday, Aug 18 at 1pm ET, and the minimum commitment is just 1h/month! (reposting also helps :))

SIPS 2026 Conference Update! Following the discussion regarding the location of the next SIPS conference, the Executive Committee has decided to move forward with holding the conference in person in Washington, DC, with an online option for those who can’t or don’t want to travel. buff.ly/AtoLx8I

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

3️⃣ seats in the SIPS Executive Committee are open starting January 2026! Therefore, we are holding elections 🗳️ and looking 🔎 for SIPS members at different career stages (grad student to faculty), who work at various institutions (including non-PhD-granting institutions) and are globally located! 🌍

Excited to share that our manifesto for a more globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science, led by @sakshighai.bsky.social was selected for a Commendation Award from the Society for @improvingpsych.org ! You can read the open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Have you ever seen this call for SIPS EC nominees and thought "it's probably not for me"? Don't be so sure! If you think you might be interested but have questions, feel free to DM or email me, I'll do my best to answer them :) #PsychSciSky

Do you know a good candidate for the SIPS leadership role? Or maybe you are such a person? Then, nominate them (or yourself) to be a member of the SIPS Executive Committee! 📅 The nominations are open until August 24, 2025, at 11:59 PM US Pacific Time, so wait no further!

SIPS really does focus on international diversity, and not just in a nominal way. So if you're in Asia or Africa, please consider this.

🗳️ We are currently soliciting nominations for the Executive Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 🙋 Any member may be nominated, and self-nominations are welcome. ✨ SIPS values diversity; we encourage nominations of members from all backgrounds.

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

📣 Nominations for the SIPS Executive Committee positions are now open! Any SIPS member may be nominated, and self-nominations are welcome. 🗳️ Executive Committee members will be elected by a vote of the Society membership. Nominations close on August 24.

SIPS@SPSP is back! Virtual preconference on Tuesday Feb 24! @improvingpsych.org and @spspnews.bsky.social are finally reunited! Thanks also to my cohost @wldkrenzer.bsky.social. We met at this preconference in 2018, and now have a wonderful 7 years collaboration, and 2 NSF grants. You could be next!

We’re beyond honored to receive the SIPS Mission Award 🏆 & thrilled to have received 5 SIPS Commendations 🏆 for projects across our 4 core pillars: Metascience, Social Justice & DEIA, Community, and Education in OS. We are so grateful to all contributors who made this possible 💜 [All links below]