Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on ‘bonkers’ dataset #Publication #WCRI2026 #WCRI #AcademicPublishing www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...

Just reviewed an 88-page manuscript, and I think that I am done with reviewing for this year.

Households face annual costs of roughly $400–$900 from climate change—mainly from disasters, higher insurance, and energy costs—with lower-income families and certain regions hit disproportionately, from @kclausing.bsky.social, Knittel, and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34525

🎯 statsepi.substack.com/p/the-review...

“No, we’ve all accepted that the goal is to publish anything and everything and see what sticks. More students. More “collaborations”. So many papers that no human can possibly be paying very much attention to any of it. And we all know where the incentives lie.”

Indeed. It's sometimes (often?) harder to do things the right way in medical/health research because editors/reviewers stop you from doing it. statsepi.substack.com/p/how-bad-st...

I wrote about missing heritability, "missing environmentality," and why I still think twin studies are interesting and valuable: kathrynpaigeharden.substack.com/p/twins-are-...

9am this morning (UK-time). Introducing INSPECT-SR: a tool for assessing trustworthiness of RCTs: www.cochrane.org/events/inspe...

The benefit of having two eyes and two ears is pretty clear, but why do we have two nostrils, and not one breathing hole? Fascinating insights! buff.ly/8JGofJU

New blog post: Dogmatic Bayesianism Disorder daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/12/dogm...

"Uncovering traumatic memories" is a popular trope in psychotherapy, which has been lacking in convincing empirical evidence. This commentary also warns against preparing patients for this speculative side effect. The danger of false memories seems relevant especially in psychedelic treatments.

My first registered replication report, study on the illusory truth effect, and study published in PB&R with @lkfazio.bsky.social ‼️Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Previous research found that the illusory truth effect was smaller for conspiracy statements than for trivia statements...

Excited to share a Registered Report in J. of Personality looking at the “perils of partialing” – led by the Bluesky-less Leigha Rose with @drlynam.bsky.social and me. (1) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper published in BMC Medicine led by the super cool Alexandre Terre Becker. This is part of the ResToRes project. "Concordance between European medicine agency good clinical practice inspections and medical literature: a meta-research survey" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper just out with @constantvinatier.bsky.social and al. in Research Integrity and Peer Review. "Using reporting guidelines to improve the reproducibility of cooking Christmas tree meringues: the “People tasting trees” cluster-randomised controlled trial" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

Working on a solo-authored adversarial collaboration

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

cool confounding and adjustment example by @jofrhwld.bsky.social below. To estimate A –direct–> Y, must adjust for B (and C or D). If you adjust for C, it partly opens collider D, so non-causal path D <– B –> Y is opened. Easy to forget about descendants partly opening parents. Sneaky colliders.

Metadata!!!

Rate your score on Factor Fexcectorn. Well done, Scientific Reports. pubpeer.com/publications...

Let’s start with your first clue: survivors rarely get smallpox again. But you don’t know why. The only technology available is variolation – infect your child with a controlled dose of smallpox, but risk a 1-in-50 chance they die from the procedure.

N'oubliez pas de vous abonner à son excellente newsletter PsychoPapers (psychopapers.kessel.media/posts) !

🗣️ @adrienfillon.bsky.social nous parle conflits d'intérêts, biais de publication, statistiques mal maîtrisées, interprétations et gold (?) standard. ℹ️ À retrouver dans « Communiquer en santé mentale : repères pour de nouvelles stratégies et pratiques » communication-santementale.fr/2026/03/16/c...

🏆 @simine.com, psychologist at @psychunimelb.bsky.social / @unimelb.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) is a leading voice in the reform movement in psychology - and is now being honored with the €150K Individual Award. Huge congratulations! 🎉

C'est aujourd'hui mais j'ai peur que ce soit devenu une fête commerciale

Beyond openness: Inclusiveness and usability of Chinese scholarly data in OpenAlex arxiv.org/abs/2512.16339

full of nice comments, lol

The stuff you find when you actually read the RCTs in a systematic review... This paper is one of the foundational studies on vitamin D to prevent respiratory infections in kids. Cited 1,400 times as per Google Scholar.

Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁

Does blinding--i.e., concealing applicants' identities--reduce gender gaps in academic conference paper acceptances? Nope! Does blinding do anything? It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank. haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...

Answering the most popular question in a PhD methods course datacolada.org/133

I will give another talk about mediation analysis and I have finally figured out what I want to say about "design-based" solutions: - longitudinal data can help rule out certain types of confounding - if you sequentially intervene on X and M, you need assumptions to piece the estimates together >

Research by Caviola et al in the US and Spain finds children are less likely than adults to prioritize humans over animals in moral dilemmas, regardless of cognitive capacity, suggesting species favouritism develops as we grow older: buff.ly/DB4Swhc

Happy to share our latest study published in PNAS. Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New preprint! 🎉 Using a sample of over 73k births across Norway, we found that induction of labor (with either oxytocin, prostaglandin, or amniotomy) and epidural analgesia are associated with lower likelihood of initiating breastfeeding doi.org/10.22541/au....

Nouvelle Newsletter ! Au programme : 1. Prédire le suicide ➡️ Des médecins aidés par un algorithme de machine learning prédisent les tentatives de suicide 3 à 10 fois mieux que les médecins seuls. psychopapers.kessel.media/posts/pst_02...

📣 @i4replication.bsky.social and CERDI are organizing a Replication Game on May 29, 2026 in #ClermontFerrand. 🧠💡 Teams of researchers, PhD, and master's students will reproduce the results of an academic article. Register now: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/F6XWX9F

It's 2025 and you can still claim an effect with results like this at JAMA Psychiatry. cc @urisohn.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social @heinonmatti.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I don't disagree but historically governments have done so only in high stakes areas (e.g. medicine). I'm afraid the social sciences will be left alone because their success is (deemed) irrelevant

Encore une preuve que Batman n’a pas besoin de construire des écoles pour servir la JUSTICE

Very interesting set of studies about how agreement with punished acts undermines the perceived legitimacy of the punisher. Reminds me a bit of the Mullen & Nadler (2008) study that found that people were more likely to steal a borrowed pen from the researcher after being exposed to an unjust law.

Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Help me out quant psych hivemind. I have two competing SEM models fitted to a dataset. They are fairly unconstrained and I established the factor structure in a separate data fold. As a result, both have excellent fit (non-sig chi-sq, CFI/TLI > .99, RMSEA = .02).

This has been many years in the making. We wanted to do it right—not simply get it done. Our goal was to contribute, however modestly, to an academia that genuinely strives for inclusivity. May the AWoP—small as the step may be—help move academia toward greater inclusion. 🤝🫂🌈🍉🏳️‍⚧️✊⚖️♿🦮🌐

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

QUI AURAIT PU PRÉDIRE ?!

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”