Thanks to Adrien Fillon & Nathanael Larigaldie for inviting me on their podcast Répare ta science [In French] 🎙

Excited to share that I’ll be the incoming Editor of AMPPS. My first priority is building a diverse team of Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. If you’re interested, DM me or add your name via this super simple survey. cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share!

ResToRes ta science, nouvel épisode dans lequel on a eu le plaisir d'interviewer @floriannaudet.bsky.social, À retrouver ici :

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On lit souvent dans la vulgarisation en français que l'imagerie fonctionnelle par IRM montre l'activité des neurones. C'est faux (c'est plutôt un afflux de sang qui est mesuré) mais on cherche à dépasser cette limitation. Un papier qui prétendait avoir réussi vient d'être rétracté (et c'est OK).

Thinking about odds ratios... An odds is a ratio of events to non-events. For example, if the event is survival, the odds of survival is the number of survivors per death. If the event is getting a disease, the odds is the number of diseased individuals per healthy individual.

Just found out that I am the 2025 recipient of the Diener Award in Social Psychology from SPSP. I couldn’t have done it without my mentors (official and otherwise), students, and collaborators. I'm proud of this, but mostly just grateful I get to do work I love.

Nearly finished Adam Kucharski (@adamjkucharski.bsky.social)'s book 'Proof', and came to this fascinating quote

L’article n’est pas dépublié (supprimée) mais rétracté (toujours disponible en ligne mais avec explication de son invalidation).

Just came across Paul Bloom's criticism of some developmental psychology work and I wanted to share my thoughts. Tldr: We do need more data to find out, in the future, whether we were trying to fit cylinders (data points) in square holes (bad theories) all along - thomaschazelle.fr/en/data-matt...

Thanks @adrienfillon.bsky.social for the find!

Babylone inflationniste, chercheurs paresseux et algorithmes affamés #63 : 🧬 Santé mentale : le score de risque polygénique fait rêver certains chercheurs en psychiatrie. Mais selon une méta-analyse, ça ne sert… à rien.

Y'a des nouvelles qui donnent envie de danser la gigue dans la rue avec des inconnues.

There might not be 'a scientific method' but there is a very desirable property of scientific methods. If you are right, the procedure you use to make claims should tell you that you are right. And when you are wrong, the procedure you use to make claims should tell you that you are wrong.

C'était replay sur @franceinter.fr avec Fabrice Drouelle cet après-midi Clicosporine, Chloroquine, Even, Raoult: quand les mandarins s'affranchissent des règles ( avec le soutien de politiques nullissimes) pour se faire mousser. Avec votre serviteur www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Our paper on problematic advocacy by a scientific organisation highlighted by Herve Maisonneuve on his blog.

The first non-opioid painkiller

Our new study is just out in Psychological Science! We study cognitive ability at age 18 and mental health 20 years later in 270k Norwegian men. We include different mental disorders, compare education by ability, and run sibling-fixed effects. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/0956...

Published: the paper 'On the uses and abuses of Regression Models: a Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching' by John Carlin and Margarita Moreno-Betancur in the latest issue of Statistics in Medicine onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/8)

We applied a long list of trustworthiness checks to RCTs in 50 Cochrane Reviews with the goal of learning a bit more about the checks. A few take-aways. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings" #ResearchIntegrity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If for no other reason, you should read our new paper on mixed methods in psychology because we managed to get limecat in there. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

lol, first time a co-author added a reference to Lundberg et al. (2021) before I had a chance to do so. Already an all-time classic. The opening of the abstract also remains an absolute banger. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

good work by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/e...

I wrote a review of a recent paper on false discovery and multiple testing correction. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/r...

New post: "The medical evidence project: an initiative to fish out zombie trials in evidence-based medicine". Flawed studies still distort meta-analyses and clinical guidelines. The medical evidence project joins the effort to clean up the evidence base. restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/m...

Another retracted paper by former NIA Neuroscience head Eliezer Masliah, et al. One of 132 suspect papers featured in my 2024 investigation for @science.org based largely on work by forensic image experts. Key findings on this one by @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The second edition of The Effect has been delayed a bit... because there were so many orders they had to switch to a bigger print run! Thank you everyone for your support, and check out the second edition here: www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...

Next week I’m going to talk to our students about life satisfaction and weird ceiling effects you get in countries like Germany (bunching at very high values, but ppl avoid the highest categories). Gonna include this one as well, to provide some calibration.

Max wanted a bit of a provocative talk tomorrow. So I will talk about which open science should become mandatory. For example, science funders now often require open access publication and data sharing. Which open science practices do you think should become mandatory, and under which circumstances?

The magnificent @deevybee.bsky.social gave a #fosci talk pointing out to the major issue in #scientificpublishing that corporations are desperately trying to ignore — the editors who let all the garbage in their prestigious journals 🎇 + brilliant term: Negligent Open Access Publisher = NOPE

Si vous vous demandez pourquoi l'hôpital n'a plus d'argent c'est parce que l'argent qu'il aurait fallu utiliser pour l'hôpital a été utilisé pour pouvoir péter la gueule aux gens qui se plaignent que l'hôpital n'a plus d'argent.

Oh non j'ai partagé, un accident est vite arrivé

Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.

Don't assume, plot datacolada.org/126

"Les chercheurs ont été motivés par les inquiétudes croissantes concernant l'utilisation à long terme des antidépresseurs & le manque d'attention scientifique portée aux conséquences de l'arrêt du traitemnt" (Renwald & Hengartner, 2025).

Shitting Henry. There's a whole documentary length feature on the Baltimore Affair. If you, like me, struggled with the book, I think now's the time for me to get Nebula. nebula.tv/17pages

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Kowall et al. published a multi-analyst epi study on the effect of marital status on cardiovascular disease (link.springer.com/article/10.1...). What can be learned from this effort? Check out our new commentary! link.springer.com/article/10.1... with @mendelrandom.bsky.social & Marcus Munafò

This is in my opinion one of the best papers I have written. It moved preregistration from 'let's do it because it is good' to 'let's do it when we have this philosophy of science'. It still provides the most coherent argument for why to adopt it in the metascientific literature.

In this week's #rstats blog, I talk about small #R workflow changes that compound into massive productivity gains. Link: open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...

McSweeney (2002) is required reading for anyone who studies or references Hofstede's individualism-collectivism--or Markus & Kitayama's independence-interdependence, for that matter. Just shoddy work up and down. doi.org/10.1177/0018...

What’s the most effective way to deliver exposure therapy for anxiety? We tested: 🔹 Behavioural experiments (BE) 🔹 Cognitive restructuring before exposure 🔹 Habituation-based approaches BE had the best outcomes. 🧠 How do you implement exposure? 🔗 bit.ly/3YTlR0n #mentalhealth #ClinPsy

Newsletter #62 : L’héritabilité génétique revisitée : ce n’est pas que génétique, c’est aussi (et surtout) culturel. Que veut-on dire quand on dit que quelque chose est profond ?

What makes exploratory research valuable? We discuss 6 factors: 1) Large and 2) Uncommon sample 3) Rigorous data collection 4) Widely used measures that 5) Reveal a coherent pattern across variables meaningful to others and 6) The potential to generate questions. doi.org/10.1080/0264...

New post: I was curious about the consensus statement on social media effect and wondered how the sausage gets made. rubenarslan.github.io/posts/2025-0...

New lab preprint, from @abbycassario.bsky.social's furiously typing fingers to your eyes