The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

Metadata matters! If you submit a preprint to PsyArXiv, to ensure smooth acceptance, don't forget to fill out the metadata correctly. Below you will find a few tips, but detailed guidelines are at 👉 buff.ly/M3cRBW2

{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately. Save the plot once 👌 e.g.: ggplot(...) + ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300) per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats

Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap

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Metadata!!!

I’m not sure how Scientific Reports can ever mend its reputation now.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen Tori Amos (first gig 1993) Melt Banana / The Sun Ra Arkestra Pussy Riot Boygenius Young Fathers (5 times, but the 2015 Art School gig was stunning) (I saw the pixies in Paris for my 40th birthday, but I don’t want to repeat the quoted poster ;)

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

“&runctitional features” 😩

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We have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing. osf.io/preprints/os...

Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend

A few years old, but this is a fascinating article about how a well-debunked method to teach reading may be at the root of American’s poor reading comprehension www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time. scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/

This November, like every November, I am teaching basic research proposal writing to the new phd cohort at my institute. Here is the 2 page template we start with and adapt. Link to LaTeX github.com/rmcelreath/P...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

I was re-listening to the episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social on The Anxious Generation, and the bit around 1:15 where they’re incredulous about “solutions” to age verification online has aged hilariously, given the recent UK online safety act changes. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

The Festival of Data Science and AI is next week #DataAIFest I'll be speaking in a panel on Using AI Ethically in Research on Monday www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... And leading a workshop on Papercheck on Tuesday www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

I'm finally writing a proper paper about faux, and have so many naming & default choices I regret (it was my first solo R package). Which is a better strategy: 1. Add new functions that work the way I wish the old ones did, but keep the old ones 2. Create a faux2 package and retire faux eventually

Please help us, #MetaScience community! It's time to decide on a forever name for papercheck (scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/). We don't want it to be confused with papercheck.ai, and we plan to check other research artifacts like repo contents, data, code, and prereg. Any suggestions?

I love the OSF, but I'm going to have to stop using it for student projects if it continues to take 30 seconds every time I load a new page.

Adding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...

I'm having an #rdev problem using data in an r package inside a function when calling the function without loading the package. I made a reprex to demonstrate the problem (code in the next post) but I think it has something to do with lazyloading data. mydata is a data table myfunc() returns mydata

I need #rstats meme help. I've just updated my MSc book and all of the chapters start with a (probably outdated) meme except chapter 10 (next steps). Any ideas? psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5

Excited for today’s seminar by @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social about the experiences of disabled and neurodivergent students.

Time is running out to register for our pre-symposium workshop and Meta Research Symposium event at Paul Meehl Graduate School Check the information and registration links below: paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/

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/

Our contribution to an upcoming book on teaching open science was "how to teach reproducible research". There are plenty of lesson plans or individual courses out there but less on how you can build skills across a whole degree. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I have discovered the most delicious oatmeal topping ever. Stir in a spoon of biscoff spread and top with flaky sea salt (measure with your heart, it really depends how you're feeling abut sweet vs salty on a given day).

Happy to share the first article of my PhD journey at @uofglasgow.bsky.social and @socialai.bsky.social @debruine.bsky.social, Prof Stumpf and I reviewed ~150 articles from 10 disciplines about trust in AI and synthesised how it forms in affective human-AI relationships: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

What was I supposed to do this morning? Make comments on a draft of the Papercheck paper. What did I actually do? Write an R function to add DOIs from OpenAlex to a .bib file (the bibtex citations you get from google scholar bizarrely don't have DOIs)

I've started 6 chapters in the past 3 days. It's very draft content, but I'd love feedback on whether this is the sort of thing people might use and what you'd want out of it. What metadata about each version would you want to be able to decide if a version is good for a lesson you're planning?

I'm putting together some datasets relevant to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (for teaching purposes) and wondered if anyone has suggestions for interesting datasets on these themes. You can see what I'm aiming at in the first chapter. psyteachr.github.io/sdg-data/

Am I being dumb, or is the only way to retrieve info about an entity like osf.io/4i578 using the OSF API to iteratively check if it is a node, file, preprint, registration, user, etc. until I find one that doesn't return a 404? If this is the actual case, please someone at @cos.io help 🙏

Does anyone from @cos.io know how to access info on the API about nodes you don't own with an active view-only link? My test link is: osf.io/ybm3c/?view_... But following the API docs at developer.osf.io#operation/no... I can't access info using api.osf.io/v2/nodes/ybm... unless logged in

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 just got an email from APA encouraging you to come to this session, YOU SHOULD! Because the "Open Science and Methodology panel member" is ME! Come say hi! Learn about registered reports, and other awesome open science things at APA!

This is going to be a very real challenge for all open content providers to handle. I'd love to hear from others in the preprint space about how we're addressing these challenges.

​​​​​​The APA is looking for people to join the Open Science and Methodology (OSM) expert panel. Nomination deadline: September 1st 2025. nomination.apa.org?utm_campaign...

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...

I'd really like reporters to get some Heterodox Academy types on the record about their role in gutting American academia Could start with the social psych people and reviewers and editors who published this

Want automated reproducibility checks for your R Markdown docs on GitHub? reproducibleRchunks v1.2.0 is now on CRAN! ✅ Generates GitHub Actions for cloud-based reproducibility checks (with cool badges) 📦 Supports renv for dependency management 👉 cran.r-project.org/package=repr...

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...

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

New blog post: Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/07/easi... Downloading all files in an OSF project can be a hassle. Not anymore, with Papercheck! Just run: osf_file_download("6nt4v")

I love this podcast, but you know how things get when someone talks about your area of expertise? Imperfect (but not terrible) coverage of the replication crisis, but saved by entirely correct takes about my least favourite face research grifter (IYKYK)

Happy Glasgow Pride! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🩵🤍🤎🖤 (The #NoPrideInGenocide event at Kinning Park is fab)

I'm off to York St John to run an R workshop. We will cover reproducible documents using Quarto, data visualisation, and data wrangling. The materials are here if you're interested: bartlettje.github.io/Intro_R_Rese... I love running workshops, and I'm available for birthdays and bar mitzvahs!

And news write up of our project on Distributed Peer Review, presented yesterday at #metascience2025, in Science today https://www.science.org/content/article/should-grant-applicants-judge-competitors-proposals-unorthodox-approach-gets-two-real