📢 During #PeerPeviewWeek2025, we are tackling a common myth: “Preprints aren’t peer-reviewed, so they must be poor quality.”❌ 🎬 Watch the video to learn about the evidence why that’s not true 👇 buff.ly/MKjUzAo

Wow - it's a Far Side "Trouble Brewing" cartoon in real-life!

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Fantastic piece in Nature Reviews Neuro by @nicolecrust.bsky.social on the importance of science communication. My take? Everything matters - just do something. It will make a difference for how science is valued and trusted, how community understands. Let's get out there and communicate! 👏

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

UPDATE: ACADEMIC REFUSES TO LEARN FROM ERROR OF THEIR WAYS

This is amazing.

Pro tip: Always use _FINAL, _FINAL_FINAL, _FINAL_FINAL_REALLYFINAL etc. Dots can still cause issues 😉 #RDM #ResearchDataManagement

The misplaced optimism of the academic who appends .FINAL to their latest document

Public appreciation post for @juliabottesini.com! The community doesn't know the great lengths Julia has gone to restabilize operations at PsyArXiv. We're all incredibly lucky to have her. Many, many hours and a great deal of thought/care have gone into the task. Thank you, Julia!

if these companies would just put out a statement saying “we told him to go fuck himself” they would instantly have the type of loyal and dedicated customer base corporations dream of and spend decades trying to cultivate

🗳️ Your vote matters! 🗳️ A friendly reminder for SIPS members to check your inbox for an email containing a ballot to vote for the 3 new Executive Committee members! If you haven't received it yet, check your spam folder! 📅 Voting ends on September 21, 2025

🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳 Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission. Learn more from our blog post👇 buff.ly/OtpsKhm

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

Republicans in 25 years time: hold up, let’s giv’em a chance. I wanna hear what policies this Triple Hitler guy has

It is written in the ancient texts, perhaps the Annals of the Four Masters, or hewn into the rocks at Newgrange...THE UNIVERSITY HEATING SYSTEM SHALL NOT BE SWITCHED ON UNTIL OCTOBER

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Tá siad anseo. Ils sont arrivés. Get your limited edition #VinB badges here. Produced with kind permission from actual real #VinB and all profits go to the ISPCA There's only 25 sets and when they're gone that's them gone www.anniewest.com/books-cards/...

We are pleased to announce that nominations for the Research Ireland St. Patrick’s Day Medal 2026 are now open. The Medal is awarded annually to a distinguished researcher living and working in the USA with strong Irish connections. Learn more: www.researchireland.ie/funding/stpatricksday-medal/

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It is written in the ancient texts, perhaps the Annals of the Four Masters, or hewn into the rocks at Newgrange...THE UNIVERSITY HEATING SYSTEM SHALL NOT BE SWITCHED ON UNTIL OCTOBER

It’s that time of the year again

Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.

🔔 #BrainAwarenessWeek 2026 Grant Applications are open! #FENS and the @danafoundation.bsky.social, are offering financial support of up to EUR 1,000 for Brain Awareness Week event organisers across Europe. 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 October 2025 👉 https://loom.ly/kwUsyd8#BrainAwarenessWeek

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

im kind of a 90s kid so my key robert redford movie is "sneakers"

Time for our annual update of "Open Research across disciplines". pdf: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/ K Reproducibility Network (UKRN) webpages: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/ Resources to add, please use (by 30/09/25): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @camillakgilmore.bsky.social @priyasilverstein.com

This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/

haven't been asked to review a paper in a while so if you're an editor looking for a psycholinguist who works on discourse...👀

Give these folks a round of applause. This was a heavy lift! And let’s give this post at least as much engagement as the original announcement of the moderation changes.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

First day of the Open Science Summer School 2025 complete ✅ Participants learned a lot today but there’s still a lot more in store, you can join in for the public lectures by registering here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS... #OpenScience #OSSS25 #LMUOSC

Any such recommendations for Ireland please? #speirgorm

No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe

If your existing preprint is still pending moderation, please check the policies to see what it’s missing, make the necessary updates to it, then email the link to [email protected] to request approval.

PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Watch #BACN25 today and tomorrow for the latest in UK cognitive neuroscience! Follow @bacn.co.uk for even more after the conference.

Join MUSSI’s Autumn #ResearchForPolicy seminar series (Sept–Nov 2025) exploring collaboration between researchers & policymakers. Key themes: education, sustainability & public voice in health. Hybrid events. more info : bit.ly/3I4CHDY

Well done to everyone in Microsoft for creating notifications in Teams that you simply cannot remove

When graduate students ask me about careers in academia

Are you a cultural theorist who is looking for postdoctoral research project? Research Ireland have a funding scheme opening. If you are interested in the politics of popular culture and intersectional theory, drop me an email at [email protected]

Just checking my itinerary for tomorrow.

When graduate students ask me about careers in academia

*endless screaming*

What's going on with politically-motivated terminations of federal grants? How should social psychologists react and respond? Where do we go from here? No good answers but join me and other affected researchers for a virtual discussion next Friday.

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

It's wild that the conspiracy theorists who constantly claim that there's a megalomaniacal billionaire who meddles in international democracies are sort of correct, they just think it's George Soros and not this prick.

This year we'll give up 4% of all our revenue. 1% goes to staff on top of salary and bonus. 3% to good causes. It's viable and everyone does well. It's not marketing. It's an attempt to show what is currently accepted as necessary for globocorps to survive is nonsense. If you need coffee imbibe.ie

I guess we need CC-BY-NO-AI, which has a pleasing rhyme and rhythm to it.