Found this gem of a paper in the AMPPS archives on using containers in psychological science. What's a container, you ask? Read on...

Just when you were getting used to the term preregistration... New paper at AMPPS calling for improved terminology in the field and better alignment with TOP 2025 . journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Call for Commentary articles at AMPPS! We recently accepted a "Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal Level Theory" (osf.io/preprints/ps...) and are soliciting Commentary articles on this paper.

The Arizona Daily Star ran a great story on @uarizona.bsky.social's decision not to sign the compact for academic excellence. I especially loved this quote

If you do online data collection, this paper is worth checking out! I especially like the access to the codebook, which helps operationalize best practices: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3

APCS (www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/)-- the Academy-- is a major training organization in clinical psychological science. We worked with the Academy's leadership team to craft this letter and to encourage programmatic self-study in open science training. Let's get to work!

We're searching for a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology here at the University of Arizona! Come to Tucson-- great place to live and work! 🌄🌵🏀 @uarizona.bsky.social arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Apropos of recent open science conversations - this paper is an awesome primer for grad students and faculty who want to learn more: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

I've obtained the Trump compact document, let me summarize it for you.

Rigorous science is transparent science.

A Faustian bargain- it’ll never end well. These schools must together to oppose this “compact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

US-based 2025 NSF GRFP Competition is severely reduced, with dramatic exclusions added in the dark. Here's a petition you can sign. Please consider signing and circulating. Also see: jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Great news-- @felixthoemmes.bsky.social to be the next EiC at AMPPS! See below for information about joining his team.

We have a great new paper taking stock of transparency reporting in the MRI/fMRI literature... "Results call for recentering transparency in reporting practices in MRI and fMRI studies, with direct implications for study generalizability." doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Do you want to get serious about specifying your random-effect structures? This paper might be for you.. plus lots of good stuff about multilevel and dyadic modeling: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Obvious preregistered hypothesis: soon most all psych science will involve AI in some form. You'll get ahead of the curve with this paper is about "Transformer Architecture" (also a good band name) and how embeddings operate within a NLP workflow. Really nice! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Outstanding new paper on machine learning at AMPPS-- hit the virtual stands this summer. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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! 🙏👏

On the anniversary of 9/11, I’m struck by how little discussion links yesterday’s tragic act of political violence with the attacks 24 years ago. To me, the throughline is clear: bin Laden sought to divide America, draw us into costly wars, and erode social cohesion. We are living in that long game.

Excellent paper alert!!!

Please share far and wide! The Psychology Department at the University of Arizona is recruiting a new Director for our Behavioral Health Clinic. The Clinic Director is a core member of our clinical faculty who helps lead clinical training in our program.

I am pleased to announce that our APA accredited Counseling Psychology program at Colorado State University has officially transitioned to an APA accredited Clinical Psychology program, adopting the clinical science training model. psychology.colostate.edu/clinicalscie...

How do we improve the implementation of open science? Let's start with the terms. Excellent new paper out in #AMPPS-- see this thread by @katiecorker.bsky.social! @psychscience.bsky.social

AMPPS Call for Papers: Replicability and Reproducibility in Methodological Research. Proposals due September 15. @jkflake.bsky.social 

@pci-regreports.bsky.social -- look at us go!

If you've heard the term bestiary but never knew what it meant, now is your chance to learn more about open science-- new at AMPPS: doi.org/10.1177/2515... . A compendium of beasts! A most perfect title...

Very bad, awful, no good...writing is on the wall here.

The Academy of Psychological Clinical Science is offering dissertation awards to students in our member programs. Please see: www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/07-07-25-apc... for all the details, deadline 9/1/25. We also need reviewers, details at same link!

Great new review on mixed-methods research in AMPPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Congrats to @syeducation.bsky.social and @dulcewestberg.bsky.social . We need more of this work across the different areas of psych science!

Check out this awesome new paper about #OpenScience in developing countries! Paper is forthcoming at AMPPS- very proud that we can promote this work. Congrats to the large and international authorship team, and esp @hcp4715.bsky.social for leading the charge. @psychscience.bsky.social

What he said! 👇 Help spread the word. We're looking for the next Director of our Behavioral Health Clinic, a core member of our clinical faculty who will help lead/organize clinical training at the Univ of Arizona.

Wiley goes "PCI-hostile" with a backward looking move on preprints. Read more on it here: osf.io/tn8mh. Meanwhile, AMPPS just accepted our first PCI RR friendly direct to publication paper!

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

We have a new group of Editorial Fellows at @psychscience.bsky.social journals-- check out their bios here: www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-ma...

Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

@psych.peercommunityin.org is getting ready to launch! This is going to be a major advance for open and transparent psychological science via preprint peer review. Looking for more RECOMMENDERS-- similar role to an AE at traditional journals. Please consider it and share news about the psych PCI!

I've been asked about silver linings, and I can't see any. It is a terrible waste of talent, and a betrayal of social contracts. By the time this loss is felt by the public it will be hard to recover. It makes me so sad.

@therealspr.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @sfn.org @dsbarra.bsky.social @esfinn.bsky.social @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @dylanggee.bsky.social @ajaysatpute.bsky.social @neurosynth.bsky.social @jamielarsh.bsky.social

Some nice new papers hitting the AMPPS website-- check 'em out! @psychscience.bsky.social

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

This is really spot on: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Me when I submit a new paper to a journal 🙏🏼

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

Science nerds: What are the best platforms that are available to do post-publication peer review? Of published work, not necessarily preprints, but I guess the distinction is blurred with platforms like PCI or eLife, etc? All thoughts appreciated.

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

Seems like a good time to bump this excellent piece written by (at the time) trainees. Highlights many longstanding issues with the internship model as well as insights gleaned from new challenges encountered during the pandemic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Replace me! Serving as EiC at #AMPPS has been wonderful-- great people, great ideas, great work! You should go for it.