My team has systematically tracked every big team science initiative throughout the history of science. This is a truly momentous and historical achievement. Congrats to the many researchers who worked together to pull it off.

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

A new set of papers, sharing the long-awaited result of several reproducibility and replicability projects, including commentaries, is published today. I look forward to reading the studies, and re-using the data generated! www.nature.com/collections/...

Every morning, I wake up and read the obituaries. If my name isn’t in there, I have breakfast. Then, I complete yet another university-mandated training of some sort. This has been my life for 17 years.

What really drives someone to support violent extremism? I am thrilled to share our new article published today in PNAS. Together with an incredible team of collaborators, we conducted a preregistered study across 58 countries with over 18,000 participants. This is what we found.

Honored to receive the APS Rising Star award! 🏆 My nomination focused on “big team science”: collaborations where dozens/hundreds of researchers pursue of a common goal. This dynamic is intensifying in modern AI races. Im here to understand and guide! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

Sometimes it does make sense to give awards for individual contributions to science. Simine is a force for good, and brings everyone along.

I find it equally useful, fascinating, frightening, and hilarious that I now spend time explaining values to agentic AI

Emotional stimuli in psychology just got a high-tech upgrade. 🚀In our new paper in AMPPS, we introduce and validate the Library of AI-Generated Affective Images (LAI-GAI). We combined generative AI with a rigorous validation pipeline to modernize affect induction procedures.👇

Four more days left to apply for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Social Science Collaborartory. For the right candidate, I'm upping the offer: I will double the supply of toy dinosaurs that come with this position 🦕

‼️ Postdoc recruitment Want to help build and understand the future of scientific collaboration? We are seeking a postdoc in computational meta‑science. 📍 UF (Gainesville, FL) 💰 $55–60k (1-3 years) 🧠 High intellectual agency 📅 Deadline March 10 Send us your idea. Details attached!

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

OK, Rare Moth Bluesky, you have my attention now. I did look up "rare moths near me" and enjoy reading about Antaeotricha Floridella: a rare sandy-loooing moth thus far only detected in the Florida panhandle!

"Groups of very smart people often behave like a very stupid system" Trying to fit this sentence in a grant, but struggling to think of the most appropriate citation. Perhaps: "see state of world"?

"An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library." Pubpeer, journals are next! theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

New ethical dilemma: is it better to drown in "meticulous despair" or a sea of bullshit science? IMO, despair is easier to swallow than shit. 😉

🥱 filter |> group_by |> mutate 😏 yeet |> squad_up |> glow_up

Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂 hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna

Why did my brain automatically read that quote in @lakens.bsky.social’s voice 😅

I hate demand characteristics, but many other pre-registered experiments *have* found the effect. We discuss in this meta: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

What do kids choose to do when they think that someone will help them? What about when no one will help? New paper: "Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners" - led by Kat Shannon, with @hyogweon.bsky.social and Willem Frankenhuis. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Sociological research on emotion labor was supposed to be a warning, not a how-to.

How did Black families travel during the Jim Crow era? Learn the history, explore the data and contribute. Start local: search your city on the Community Map, and add your story to this living history. greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)

We've updated a paper on the 3-year, $1000/month U.S. guaranteed income study. New results, in 3 figures: 🧵 1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/

This evergreen post is my go to.

Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions? In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The full program for the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1... If you are interested in causal inference, systematic review, hypothesis testing, and preregistration, join is October 17th in Eindhoven! Attendance is free!

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

I unfortunately think demand characteristics are an underappreciated cause of a lot of effects in the lit

This is in my view the most relevant paper about demand effects, and one of the most important papers to read for anyone doing social science research! I highly recommend it!

New 📰 Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New 📰 Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Neat!! I'll be following this development with great intrigue and enthusiasm!

The first version of the open science blog archive is complete, with 3530 posts from 52 blogs. Browse them in the online Shiny app: shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science... All blog posts are ordered chronologically. Have fun exploring part of the open science history in psychology!

If you're interested in watching me gibber about papercheck for an hour, I'm giving a local seminar tomorrow at 15:00 UK time. DM me before 14:30 and I'll send you the Zoom link. scienceverse.github.io/talks/2025-p...

Still playing around with creating an archive of open science blogs discussing the replication crisis. Here's an overview of when blogs first posted, and last posted. 2016 and 2017 were a peak for psychologists interacting and communicating through in total more than 3000 blog posts.

🚨 Registration is now open for the PMGS Meta-Research Symposium 2025! 📝 Abstract submissions are still welcome—deadline: July 31. Plus: join our mini-workshop on coordination using GitHub on the afternoon of October 16. Find all the details & sign up here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-07-16-s...

Interested in the latest metascience? Come to Eindhoven October 17th to listen to Dr. Duygu Uygun-Tunç (University of Chicago) and Dr. Lisa Spitzer (Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie) as keynote speakers, and Dr. Aaron Peikert for a workshop collaboration through Git! All free!

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

I cannot be convinced there exists a better title than "ItJustAintDopeToDropTheSlope.pdf" (which is how the .pdf on OSF is called).