New blog post: There are 13 ways to analyse a replication study, but only one of them is coherent. Where I explain (based on our own recent preprint) why the SCORE project was right to focus on "p < .05 + similar effect size" when reporting the results. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/ther...

The Cultural Evolution Society is delighted to announce that Feryl Badiani (She/Her), LEVYNA, Masaryk University, is the recipient of the 2026 CES Richerson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research. Please join us in congratulating Feryl on this well-deserved recognition!

this is just sad... unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-triump... - for reference, here is a list of commonly used tasks from the 2010 meta-analysis and idk, but lot of them seems to be similar to those used in the RRR (and the next one that was supposed to be "right") supp.apa.org/psycarticles...

The @erc.europa.eu responded to our criticism regarding the new grant funding rules.

Nice episode of Science Fictions summarizing SCORE papers from @tomchivers.bsky.social and @stuartjritchie.bsky.social. Minor point about the conclusion. The LHC actually has replication built in with two teams (ATLAS & CMS) operating independently. sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-10...

Around 2000s, heavy weights Kahneman and Seligman entered wellbeing / happiness research and messed it up. Now it is time to return to Diener (1984) and SWB. There is no single happiness. SWB acknowledges this and let's people decide what happiness is for them. replicationindex.com/introduction...

The 11th NPT Review Conference starts this week, and the outlook is… not great. We’re facing a "perfect storm" that could undermine the world's most important nuclear regime. 1/ 🧵

so it was probably her skepticism re school shut-downs and vaccine mandates, I had no idea... thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social for the transcript and summary! ... really scary to see supposedly serious ppl use "fake news" cries as if that is a legitimate part of discourse now...

I am super excited about this! (also one of the co-labs ,) which reminds me I should fill out some tables/forms or something .))

All the more reason to use systematic software designed to tackle this very problem, like RegCheck (regcheck.app)

When we started to promote replication studies (e.g. Koole & Lakens, 2012) we had a scientific culture where publishing a direct replication with a null result was practically impossible, and most didn't even consider trying. That culture has changed - although still not enough.

blinded psychoactive substance study is an oxymoron (unless the dose is really micro), but since placebo effects are likely not real carcinisation.com/2024/11/13/a... this might be possible to overcome by using better measures and longer follow-up periods..?

Vřele doporučuju začít chodit na akce Voxpotu. Je to tak něco na půli cesty mezi geopolitickou nalejvárnou a skupinovou terapií. A rozhodně si dejte aspoň takhle ze záznamu velice pozitivní a nedepresivní debatu o zániku světového řádu s Pavlem Baršou... youtu.be/wMPNSL_yPUw

such a blast from the past www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/co... - made me realize I miss @strohminger.bsky.social's content around here...

Psychologists unhappy with the American Psychological Association split off and created to Association for Psychological Science in 1988 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associa... This was very healthy for our discipline. Seems to me a similar split would be healthy for Sociology as well. @philipncohen.com

signed-up!

🎉 Our 1st @erc.europa.eu #MICROCODE article is out! Using a cross-national survey experiment, @smetanamichal.bsky.social, @mvranka.bsky.social & @ondrejrosendorf.bsky.social find that formal alliances boost public support for military intervention globally, but the effect is smaller outside NATO.

Direction of effect and success of publcation: a randomized study has really been done already! Thanks to @floriannaudet.bsky.social for pointing it out jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Friends, you've been submitting great proposals for this project and we're now coming up to capacity. We're closing proposals on April 15th; please send yours in!

I had no idea the MFT x dyadic morality debate is actually so toxic; just from reading the papers it seemed like a healthy scientific exchange... also I never felt MFT is so universally accepted as "the" paradigm...

What do silent disco 💃🕺 and peer review 🧐 have in common? Both were featured at the Open Science Retreat in Schoorl! I wrote a blog about my experiences - and argue that community building through silent disco and washing dishes is how we will save science. #openscience tinyurl.com/osretreat

Summary: 🎉 - Moved to University of Innsbruck, Austria. Open-science meta-research role. 📜 - 5 new publications: Stigma, diversification bias, values and dark triad, forecasting, value of replications. 📜- 1 Registered Report Stage 1 IPA: Windfall gains. 🤝 - 3 new talks 🔍 - 3 "research in focus"

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

this week, replications are all the rage, so we are happy to add one of our own: we successfully replicated doi.org/10.1093/isq/... by Tomz & Weeks in USA, as well as in UK, Russia, China, India & Brazil... preregistered with open materials, data & code at osf.io/j2hfb

If you teach intro to Econ and would be interested in being part of an RCT on AI homework tutor I have a good lead on funding. Participating faculty will get $500 to $1000. DM me or email [email protected] Please repost! Repost and I'll buy you a drink at ASSA 2027 or future conference

🗨️ This article's authors announce expansion of CRediT into 36 languages & describe how translations from English were made. Reviewers commended the method & praised the project for being inclusive. They raise issues on automatic translation and limitations of CRediT. 👇 Read the full evaluation

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

New report from us: Can you prompt inject your way to an “A”? As LLMs increasingly are used as judges, people are inserting AI prompts into letters, CVs & papers. We tested whether it works. It does on older & smaller models, but not on most new frontier AI: gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and...

@#$@@# self-reflection. We've been self-reflecting since 2010 in psychology to no avail. Just directly replicate the damn study.

for some time, I was worried that this project just disappeared... I'm happy that the results are finally out and hope it gives fresh momentum to all the efforts to improve how we do science!

how is it possible that mTurk is still a thing?

even 10 yrs ago, the data+code sharing standards felt much higher in polSci, however journals actually checking reproducibility before publication is still rare. likely to improve thanks to genAI-agents being able to do the check by themselves...

3/ First result: good news 85% of results are computationally reproducible That means independent researchers can run the original code and recover the published findings in most cases.

This whole "Crime as a Service" trend is really under-covered – it's widespread across Europe. Enemy intelligence agencies don't need secret agents or embedded saboteurs any more, they just need to find some idiot 16 year olds on a Discord who'll firebomb an ambulance station for pocket money

9/ The broader - and unfortunately cynical - point is that once the wrongdoer is insulated by power, the usual assumptions about deterrence and moral repair become much less reliable.

"How to React in the Case of Powerful Transgressors?" tl;dr - by doing nothing, because they are powerful and thus do not care about what you do anyway 🫠 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is pleased to announce that the current newsletter is ready for download: sjdm.org/newsletters/ This issue contains SJDM Featured Research Papers, announcements, jobs, and conferences!

Our research group in Bern has been awarded two @snsf.ch project grants! We will hire a number of new postdocs and PhD students. Congratulations to @jamiecummins.bsky.social @malte.the100.ci and @ndevito1.bsky.social whose project deepens the links between @bennettoxford.bsky.social and @unibe.ch

European centrists determined to counter populists, for example by forging unwieldy coalitions to keep them out, have turned the nasties into the only plausible political alternative

Dear @govpritzker.illinois.gov, this man is not the expert you think he is. If you want to talk with scientists who are actually doing the research rather than self-styled "thought leaders," start with people like @orbenamy.bsky.social and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social.

The Vatican makes it clear: Trump is waging an unlawful war in which people of faith should refrain from participating.

“A fraudulent e-mail might look like an MDPI account” let me stop you right there

250 participants, 33 models: we have preliminary winners of our machine-learning competition to forecast depression onset! We're now looking into variable importance & will write up the paper. Preliminray results here (click "Development & Testing" left side). www.codabench.org/competitions...

How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.

…reproducibility problems are widespread. Only one in three authors (35%) share code, and even when code is available, only every second main result (51%) is numerically reproducible.

Our new (open access) paper investigates weapons aversion across systems. We comprehensively compare attitudes about the use of cyber, conventional, cluster, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, showing a clear preference hierarchy and lending insight into the underlying causes of aversion.

Huge price tag to all this. "Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill that the estimated the cost of the war had exceeded $11.3 billion in the first six days, according to three people familiar with the briefing" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.

I can't stop thinking about this. Imagine: - 2200 studies, as they say >2000 - 2 studies per article given piloting/multi-study articles - No p-hacking (lol); 1 test per study (lol), 5% False Positive Rate That's 55 significant studies that are false positives Actual publications: 64

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026