✨ LUCKY COINCIDENCES ✨ Have you ever come across a surprising, accidental discovery that felt meaningful and motivated you to further engage with it? In our new paper now out in JASP (doi.org/10.1111/jasp...), we explore such serendipitous experiences in museums and beyond. 1/5 🧵

New publication! Matthew Horsey, Kana Imuta and I integrate insights from social, cognitive, political, and developmental psychology and propose a lifespan model of conspiracy belief formation, from infancy, through childhood and adolescence, into adulthood. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

"Across databases, delve (+1,500%), underscore (+1,000%), and intricate (+700%) had the largest increases between 2022 and 2024. Growth in LLM-term usage was much higher in STEM fields than in social sciences and arts and humanities" arxiv.org/abs/2509.09596

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 🧵

Generative AI is nearly 5 times less accurate than humans. "In a direct comparison of LLM-generated and human-authored science summaries, LLM summaries were nearly five times more likely to contain broad generalizations (OR = 4.85, 95% CI [3.06, 7.70])." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Happy to share that our #bibliometric analysis of #translational psychological treatment is now published OA in the latest issue of @apajournals.bsky.social's Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice! doi.org/10.1037/cps0... Terminological inconsistency may threaten the progress of the field!

I'm looking forward to giving a keynote at the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025, where I will talk about my meta-scientific work on preregistration and and my experiences of being part of the open science movement as an early career researcher!✨ #OpenScience @zpid.bsky.social

How complete are preregistrations? Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications Medium answer: 🧵 Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2515...

I’m excited to share my first first-authored paper with @abitter.bsky.social in the Journal of Happiness Studies: “The Emotional Climate of Academia: Exploring Social Media Data as an Indicator of Well‑Being.” 📖 Read it here (OA): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp... 1/8 🧵

Simplifying ethics applications and their evaluation 👍 Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) provides a free webtool for ethics proposals in collaboration with #Chemnitz #University of #Technology 👉 ethiktool.org/en Thank you @volkswagenstiftung.de #ethic #psychology #humanities

A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct #LLMs for Automated Coding During #ContentAnalysis |@mikefarjam.bsky.social, ‪@hendrikmeyer.bsky.social‬, Meike Lohkamp journals.sagepub.com...#LLMs#ContentAnalysis#GenerativeAI

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

Been an absolute pleasure presenting our study @icssi.bsky.social today! Looking forward to the upcoming two days!

Today, my dear colleague @annameret.bsky.social presented our work on data sharing in psychology at @icssi.bsky.social ✨We show that open data is findable, but less reusable. Preprint coming soon, preregistration available on PsychArchives: doi.org/10.23668/psy... #Metascience #SciSci #ICSSI2025

Is Bluesky a bubble? We collected all 1B+ posts since Dec'24. 13% of content is political. We found high polarization, but also strong imbalance: on most topics, the opposing stance made up just 1–2% of users. Strongest split: Gaza, Ukraine, Musk & Trump Link: arxiv.org/abs/2506.03443 🔽

🥳New paper on belief in #misinformation about electric vehicles led by Chris Bretter w Sam Pearson, Matthew Hornsey, Belinda Wade & Kevin Winter out in @natenergy.nature.com. Conspiracy beliefs are the strongest predictor and #ChatGPT helps to reduce belief in misinformation doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇

An analysis of ~100,000 academics finds that a small subset of academics generate majority of social media posts. That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Paper! @prashantgarg.bsky.social @fdenker.bsky.social @abovet.bsky.social study the migration of academics from X to Bluesky 🦋 Please reach out with any comments, ideas, or questions! A thread by my prolific coauthor👇

I was recently interviewed by the Swiss research magazine "Horizonte" on personally motivated research and alleged researcher bias. The full article is now online, including some impressive examples of „me-search“… the whole issue seems super interesting! www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/06/05/t...

Whom do we want to see in power? People high in both benevolence and integrity - that's what a new paper by Annika Scholl, H Rapp, Gerben van Kleef and myself shows. 4 Studies (N=1151) provide consistent evidence for this interaction effect. Delighted to see this work out doi.org/10.1037/xap0...

New preprint! We meta-analyzed data from 1,114 studies to identify the strongest correlates of migrants' adaptation to living abroad. Co-authored by Kiki Vu, George Tong, Mike Cheung, Nora Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, and @kunstjonas.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

“Anonymous GitHub” — I just discovered this today. What a great idea!! (Apparently I am the 46,631ˢᵗ to find it.) Provides an anonymized portal to your GitHub respiratory suitable for submission to double-blind review for research conference papers or journal articles. anonymous.4open.science

Thank you so much for the invitation!😍 I'm looking forward a lot to #SIPS2025 in Budapest and the panel discussion! ✨ @zpid.bsky.social #OpenScience

⚖️❤️ Please share widely 🧠🤖 If you are attending #CCN25 and are interested in #emotion and #morality, @pkragel.bsky.social and I are organizing a collaborative, hands-on satellite event @cogcompneuro.bsky.social. More info, including sign-up link below: github.com/Moral-Comput...

Ahhh, so excited to participate at #SIPS2025 Online!😍 Tomorrow, I'll host the hackathon "Community Testing of ZPID’s Preregistration Platform PreReg”, which I'm looking forward to a lot!✨ #OpenScience @zpid.bsky.social

Psychologie verständlich, verlässlich, für alle!🧠✨ Unser Experte Martin Kerwer ist bei #BookaScientist dabei und beantwortet eure Fragen zur #Psychologie und #KLARpsy!💬❓ 📅 Jetzt Zeit-Slot buchen: www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/bookascientist Mehr zu KLARpsy hier: klarpsy.de @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de

Dürfen wir lügen, um jemanden zu schützen? Und wie würde eine #KI entscheiden?🤖⚖ Frederic Hopp ist bei #BookaScientist dabei und beantwortet deine Fragen zur menschlichen und künstlichen #Moral!🧠💬 Jetzt Zeit-Slot buchen: www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/bookascientist #psychology @leibnizGemeinschaft

My team and me are currently discussing whether we should start a lab account on Bluesky. We’re undecided. Any thoughts or experiences in the community? Lab accounts: Yay or nay? #AcademicSky #PsychSky #SciComm

🚨 CAN ARTISTIC ACTIVISM RESOLVE THE ACTIVIST DILEMMA? 🚨 Art is often employed as creative and attention-grabbing form of protest, but can it help alleviate negative effects of disruptiveness? Our findings now out in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (doi.org/10.1037/aca0...). 🧵1/4

🌟Since the end of 2024, we have filled three junior professorships and reorganized our research department: Science Acceptance, Psychological Metascience und Big Data in Psychology. ZPID is now presenting its topics and teams online: leibniz-psychology.org/en/research-... #zpid #openscience

Preprinting helps accelerate dissemination of scientific knowledge. To what extent do researchers adopt preprinting? How does this vary by discipline and region? Together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, I just published article answering these questions. osf.io/preprints/so...

📣 Are you a psychologist with an interest and passion for #ScienceCommunication research and/or practice in Germany? Join our newly founded DGPs interest group #PsyComm! 📣

Are LLMs impartial moral judges? @sarahmlr.bsky.social doing an excellent job sharing our first results at #MoralMedia25, highlighting that LLMs rate moral violations from ingroup members less severely than the same actions committed by outgroup members.

🔵 Zurich Thursday, 3 April, from 16:30 to 17:15 CET Topic: "What is a high quality pre-registration?" osf.io/preprints/os... Lena Hahn, Trier University

We crowdsourced 85 teams to indep. computationally reproduce results from a single study in randomized conditions. Reproducibility: • depends heavily on the transparency of materials • high (~95%) for same sign/sig, but low (btw. 48-77% depending on transparency) when requiring within 0.1 effects

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

For (social) psychologists using NLP (natural language processing), this 👇 will be a great occasion to present and discusss you work with NLP people interested in psychology. 10 more days to submit!

How can we reduce conceptual clutter in the psychological sciences? @ruimata.bsky.social and I propose a solution based on a fine-tuned 🤖 LLM (bit.ly/mpnet-pers) and test it for 🎭 personality psychology. The paper is finally out in @natrevpsych.bsky.social: go.nature.com/4bEaaja

Excited to share the materials for our course on open LLMs for science of science research @zakashussain.bsky.social and I offered at the recent meeting of @euroscisci.bsky.social at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. github.com/zak-Hussain/...

SciSci starter packs! Adding a second starter pack here since we ran out of capacity with the first one: go.bsky.app/NeZvnb5 The first one can be found here: go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD Please nominate or self-nominate with an example work. Please share! #AcademicSky #SciSci #SciPol #metascience

Remember the old #Twitter and when you decided to migrate? How important were your peers for your decision? In our current study, we use data from 250k researchers during the 2022 migration to #Mastodon to examine #socialinfluence within the research community. 👉 doi.org/10.23668/psy... 🧵1/4

For our soon-to-be published study on translational psychological treatment, we developed a paper identification workflow using sentence embeddings and machine learning. This may come in handy for other studies in #bibliometrics! 👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy... #NLP #NLProc #ML #scientometrics

On my way back from a great #SciSci workshop at @mi3lab.bsky.social, where I was happy to present our work on a computational psychology of science. Fruitful exchange with scholars from different fields - many thanks to @justinsulik.bsky.social and @euroscisci.bsky.social for making this happen!

🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon? 👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎 📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io 📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions! 📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025

Wahlkampf der Emotionen: Wir haben knapp 8.000 Sätze von Merz, Scholz, Habeck und Weidel KI-gestützt ausgewertet, nach Thema und Emotion - und sind auf teils überraschende Ergebnisse gekommen. @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/politik/bund...

[Admin] Was fördert und hemmt Vertrauen in Wissenschaft? Begrüßt unsere neue Kuratorin @marlephie.bsky.social! realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2025/02/was-...

🌟 We have launched our preregistration platform PreReg! 🌟 PreReg guides researchers through all the steps of pre-registration and now offers an even clearer structure. #Preregistration #OpenScience #Psychology leibniz-psychology.org/en/news/deta...