Yep, walkability matters! #Move! Forget supplements, seed oil, & MAHA BS. Thoughtful built environments, pls. Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41... "...robust evidence supporting the importance of the built environment in directly improving health-enhancing physical activity..." 🚶🏾‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏿‍♀️

Interesting big study looking at the geography of public R&D funding in 200 regions across 22 European countries. It supports the @tomforth.co.uk @richardaljones.bsky.social argument that R&D policy can often act as a form of anti-regional policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The (Non)Academic Community Forming around Replications" by Sheena Bartscherer and @martinreinhart.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Few quotes follow...

The real problems with America's health www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com It ain't seed oil or access to unproven supplements. What drives U.S. low life expectancy? - Car crashes - Substance abuse - Suicide & homicides (i.e. gun violence) - Poor healthcare system - Socioeconomics!

🌱 Does performing pro-environmental behaviors improve wellbeing? It’s an attractive idea and one that increasingly comes up in environmental psychological research. If acting sustainably also makes us feel better, that would be a powerful narrative to motivate change. But what is the evidence?🧵

New post based on my Metascience 2025 presentation: “What is Critical Metascience and Why is it Important?”

Metascience 2025 recordings are now available! #Metascience25 gathered researchers, funders, policymakers & more to explore how the research process can improve. The program included preconference symposia & plenary sessions on topics from policy change to AI in research. 🎥 cassyni.com/s/metasc...

Fun fairytale depiction of open science in new paper by @susanne-adler.bsky.social,‬ @dsiegfried1.bsky.social , @olivergenschow.bsky.social and colleagues Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s414... #OpenSci #MetaSci

You may have heard of the back-door criterion and the front-door criterion for causal identification. Introducing: The door-in-the-face criterion (start with outrageous causal claim and hedge) and the foot-in-the-door criterion (start with trivial causal claim and escalate).

🚨 New study alert! We're excited to share our "Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology" in #AMPPS. We tackle the credibility crisis in research by defining, collecting, and categorizing QRPs using a community consensus method. 🧵#OpenScience #QRPs @psychscience.bsky.social

After two really enjoyable days at #Metascience2025, I wrote about how one 🌶️ moment encapsulated the controversy over metascience's issues 📑, inclusivity 🤗and future public value 🔮 #STS #AcademicSky All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀 warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-i...

NEW: LLMs in medicine require new forms of risk management, according to @oii.ox.ac.uk researchers Dr Daria Onitiu, @swachter.bsky.social and @bmittelstadt.bsky.social. Read the blog post: 1/3 bit.ly/4lpzZrp

"If we could jointly analyze extended Korean families, we would likely find that the influence of the shared environment – which side of the border you ended up on – is not only real, even for something like height, but possibly trumps genetics."

New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

This is a nice visualisation of the conference. I was unable to get a ticket so have been following posts on BlueSky. Ideally somebody could do a detailed thematic analysis of the 23 vs 25 programs & participant characteristics to gauge direction & compare this with funded/published metascience.

remarkable to me how much of (my) #sips2025 was about publishing reform, but how totally absent that has been from #metascience2025 (indeed, the very opposite with an elsevier VP joining a keynote panel) go submit to @psych.peercommunityin.org folks!

@tweissgerber.bsky.social’s reply to the question about trust of for-profit publishers was EVERYTHING! We need to be thinking much harder about the COIs of for profit organisations when considering their partnership in open science and metascience efforts 👏 #metascience2025

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.

Some really interesting presentations coming up at the Metascience 2025 conference in late June early July. Here's four that take a step back to consider the discipline of metascience, question some of its assumptions, and reimagine its approach...

Soon, we'll need to adapt the CRediT taxonomy to AI agents. This Acknowledgement section takes my breath away. #metascience

"A Primer for Evaluating Large Language Models in Social-Science Research" in AMPPS, will be super helpful as a reviewer www.psychologicalscience.org/article?ru=h...

ICYMI: The OII's @karenlauram.bsky.social argues that age limits on AI interactions aren't a complete solution, and advocates for product- or technology-specific solutions instead of focusing solely on age restrictions. Read the latest in @mashable.com: mashable.com/article/ai-c...

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two professorships in Political Communication & Digital Media (W3 or W2-W3 tenure-track) at the newly founded University of Technology Nuremberg in Bavaria! 📣🏛️🤖 May be interesting for folks over @fgkommpol.bsky.social, @icacat.bsky.social and related fields. jobs.utn.de/jobposting/6...

Why are children not playing in the street? An FT piece analysing the - very concerning - decline in outdoor play manages to look at every possible cause: screens, spaces, school timetable changes. Apart from one. Cars. It is simply not safe for kids to play outside on streets.

In August, Works in Progress magazine is hosting 'Invisible College', a week-long seminar for 18–22 year olds in Cambridge. Our lecturers will cover the industrial revolution, science reform, housing, urbanism, and … I'll be speaking there as well! :) Share and apply here:

We recently hosted an event for the Data Empowerment Fund featuring a fascinating insight into the human labour involved in the AI supply chain. Watch and discover why it’s so important to put people at the centre of decisions about #data and #AI.

Okay, I'm not done yet but I have been instructed to head to the #EuroCIM2025 student mixer and I guess you get the idea. I've been struggling to explain this in talks just working with the equations; I think the figures should make it a lot easier to follow along.

"Using missingness directed acyclic graphs (m-DAGs) to guide the treatment of multivariable missing data in epidemiological studies" Don't miss the next #CIIG seminar with @margaritamb.bsky.social on 7th April 2025 at *9am* BST! Register at: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #EpiSky #CausalSky

Do you teach in Further Education? Could you help me with some research? If so please get in touch. #FurtherEducation #AmplifyFE #loveFE #ukfechat #FEResearch

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Excellent demonstration of how preventing the well-known questionable research practices (QRPs) is not enough to ensure scientific validity.

We're putting together a starter pack to link all those who work in mental health research and interested/working in youth involvement. Please share and invite people to our starter pack! If you'd like to be added to our starter pack, let us know 😊 go.bsky.app/EFACehf

Whenever I see one of these takes that ai can replace the cognitive portion of scientific labor I just wanna whisper to the author that they’re telling on themselves.

*Please repost* Are you a parent of a child aged between 13-24 years? Are you concerned about young people’s social media usage? We are looking for young people aged 13-24 years to take part in a new project to help understand how we can support their mental health whilst online. Read more ⬇️

Important thread on how science plays a crucial role in informing policy for the benefit of public health. We need to be nurturing high-quality science, not defunding or attacking it. "Science is political" @kityates.bsky.social

It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.

The populist right is damaging US science. Here's what I think we should be doing to ensure that the UK does not suffer the same fate. 🧵 1/37

It’s more important than ever for non-US scientists to engage with policymakers in their own countries to promote evidence-based policies globally. 6/37 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

In the March issue Personal View: From social media to #AI: improving research on digital harms in youth 🔗https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(24)00332-8/fulltext

"Nerve-cell ‘highways’ identified in mice suggest that stress pushes the brain towards rigid habit and away from thoughtful choices." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Know anyone looking for a postdoc position, or to get their PhD, interested in causality (from ling/psych/phil angles) using the tools of experimental and computational pragmatics? Positions in Tübingen (near me!) and Edinburgh Apps due March 14, to start June 2025 ideally

🆕 3-Year PhD in Quantitative Social Sciences on "Adolescent Social Media, Mental Health & Inequalities"! 🎯 Deadline: March 31 Supervisors: @pablogracia.bsky.social [@uab.cat @cedemografia.bsky.social] & @alinacosma.bsky.social [@tcddublin.bsky.social] Apply & Share!👇 webs.uab.cat/touch/jobs/s...

Want to spot misinformation like a pro? I describe how lateral reading and value checking can help you separate fact from fiction online. matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/quick-tips... #MisinfoResearch

THREAD Things that didn't make the news that will likely change our lives for the better The news is not an accurate reflection of the world. Good news doesn't get reported as much. Here are the wonderful things researchers have achieved recently. 1/24

New guest post on The 100% CI by @taymalsalti.bsky.social making a simple but underappreciated point: Controlling for careless responding requires causal justification www.the100.ci/2025/02/18/c...

Print this out and put it on your pinboard! Most compact and at the same time clear and intuitive figure on possible associations between predictors and outcome (or variables). (source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/..., by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @achatton.bsky.social)

Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use? We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time. Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion! 🧵 👇

"What's noticeable is that for many teenagers, they're not all very critical of the information they're getting... but we don't know how much of that information is accurate," @karenlauram.bsky.social said. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (clip begins at 1:43:20)