My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

“The articles in AMPPS offer, month in and month out, the invitation to practice aligning your values, intentions, and actions to do less scientific harm and reach for the methodological ceiling” Grateful to @dsbarra.bsky.social for continuing what @profsimons.bsky.social & co started at AMPPS!

Invitation to a potential replication project. rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...

My editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Call for nominations! I know many great people who would do a wonderful job in this position. I also probably don't know many great people who would do a wonderful job as well-- help spread the word! Happy to answer questions about EiC at AMPPS with @psychscience.bsky.social . tinyurl.com/ykpzvp7e

This looks like a fantastic resource

"Coyne’s blogs were verbose and erratic, often veering into personal attacks. He freely fabricated conspiracies and leveled baseless accusations that obscured whatever legitimate critiques he might have had."

@fovea-vs.bsky.social is on Bluesky now! Follow FoVea to learn more about ways we can advance the visibility, impact, and success of women in vision science!

New post on The 100% CI: I read @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social's book on the alleged teen mental health crisis and social media's role in it. Then, I tried to make up my own mind, with limited success. www.the100.ci/2024/12/10/t...

Really enjoying @profsimons.bsky.social & @cfchabris.bsky.social ‘Nobody’s Fool’. Yet more content for my ‘Thinking Like a Psychologist’ module next year. This stuff seems to me to be vital for the future of the discipline

One thing I wish I saw more from communicators especially on health & medicine: Let's be more vocal about the positives of interventions that work. Yes, it's important to push back on misinformation, poor research practices & clarify side effects. But let's not forget how important this all is.

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

NEW: I wrote about a study that challenged “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt going to war over it, and the chaos that ensued. Here’s how a fight over science and social media got messy, fast. www.chronicle.com/article/jona...

Here's a fun way to encourage students to always look at their data. A few years ago, I wrote a script that converts a black and white png to data and plots it.

Get your spot while you can! …https://openresearchsummerschool.eventbrite.co.uk

Error checking is an important service to science, but it doesn't pay the bills. But what if it did? Introducing ERROR, a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications error.reviews

Anyone teaching 2-sample t tests in Intro Stats? Here's the dataset you've been looking for. www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/... #stats #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪

At the @psychscience.bsky.social journal AMPPS, we publish tutorials and have dedicated tutorial reviewers. TRs are go through all the code and each step of a tutorial, then provide feedback about whether it all works as it should. Grad students and post-docs are welcome to be TRs. Join us?

Happy 2024! If you have resolved this year to get conned less often (or not at all), to not be taken in by misinformation and deceptive marketing, and to evade fraud and scams as much as possible, you should read my book with @profsimons.bsky.social: NOBODY'S FOOL dansimons.com/NobodysFool....

Very excited that @i4replication.bsky.social is going to be doing annual stress tests of papers published in Psych Science. It’s amazing to see what they’ve done in econ & poli sci, and great that they’re expanding to psych!

‘Fraud exploits tendencies that serve us well most of the time…’ Stephen Lea (Emeritus Professor at Exeter Uni) asks @cfchabris.bsky.social and @profsimons.bsky.social about their new book, ‘Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In And What We Can Do About It’ (Basic Books). www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

These are great! I want them!

7. Invisible Gorilla

I've abandoned the site that shall not be named. Signal-to-awfulness ratio is too low (keeping my account there to reserve the username). I'm glad to see this place building the vibe of pre-decline other-site

Learn how to study better using secrets from cognitive science! I'm trying out TikTok and made this video that I hope students (and others) find useful. Please share freely! #psychscisky #neuroskyence #edusky #academicsky #scicomm www.tiktok.com/@psychprofst...

Congrats to @simine.com who will be the new editor-in-chief at Psych Science! Kudos to her and to the APS publication committee for an excellent choice -- an excellent editor who will be great for the journal and the field of psychology! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Open data sharing is a good thing; Protecting participant privacy is a good thing. Sometimes these two good things are in conflict. Our new preprint introduces a decision-making framework and open source tools to help share as openly as possible and as closed as necessary. osf.io/preprints/me...

Important statement from Steve Lindsay: Society journals should ensure comptuational reproducibility of work they publish. It's a low bar: can someone else run the provided scripts on the provided data and get the same results. He proposes a pilot study: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

Sharing this R resources database with y'all! For the past 4 years, I have been accumulating resources (mainly free ones) for new & advanced #Rlearners in their programming journey. Feel free to share! resourcesdatabase.com #RStats #RResources #learningR #DataScience #Python #R

For #rstats users, {renv} now provides similar functionality to {groundhog}. With your script open in RStudio, simply call renv::embed() & a code snippet will be inserted at the top with the script's version-specific dependencies and the code to install them 🧪#stats rstudio.github.io/renv/referen...

We are hiring in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at UIUC Psychology . Posting here too in case you missed it.

It’s great to see the increasing recognition of how important fraud and error detection are to science. #psyscisky #socialpsych www.wsj.com/science/data...

Hey, Bluesky buddies. My podcast, Opinion Science, is back for Ep 80! Happy to finally share my conversation with @profsimons.bsky.social & @cfchabris.bsky.social. They're stellar cognitive scientists with a new book on the psychology of how we fall for scams and cons. link.chtbl.com/wSdxE-9d

Variants of the "call center" scam are common these days, and targeting is easy for the scammers. Remember that no official organization or company will EVER ask you to pay using pre-paid cash cards. It's always a scam. @briandunning.bsky.social

There's new information in the fraudulent and now-retracted sign-first insurance company field study (investigated at https://datacolada.org/98). The insurance company investigated, and their report was posted by NPR. 1/3

Cool news! Our book, Nobody's Fool, is @npr.org's Book of the Day today! @cfchabris.bsky.social https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1189272317/nobodys-fool-explains-the-science-behind-falling-for-scams-and-how-not-to

[Link fixed] It's publication day for our new book (@cfchabris), Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It! Order today from Bookshop to support your local bookstore and get free shipping! Links to our book at Bookshop and other vendors: http://www.dansimons.com/NobodysFool.html

Chris Chabris and I have a book coming out on Tuesday: "Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It." Check out this video trailer Basic Books made for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b45NKKqHZM and if you like what you see, you can order it here: http://bit.ly/3Wm7rCa