Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

📚 The Status Quo of FAIR Data Sharing in Psychology doi.org/10.23668/psy... “While data sharing has increased, FAIRness remained limited: datasets were generally findable and interoperable but less accessible and reusable.”

This could not be better timing for my R workshop today (incl. how good practice can contribute to FAIR principles) with @entsresearchgroup.bsky.social ! I shall share with the lab group. ⏰ 1-2pm, today 📍 Teams and UoB 10E 3.2

In a new preprint led by @abitter.bsky.social we tested whether open data is useful for reproducibility and usage based on automated and human assessment of data FAIRness. The short answer is: in the majority of cases not really. For more information 👇

Great work by @abitter.bsky.social @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social @t-1m.bsky.social et al. on FAIR data sharing in Psychology. They also suggest 6 simple checks that can be implemented in the editorial process to improve data FAIRness.

How FAIR is shared data in psychology? We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable! What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice. 👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy... @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci

If you're interested in #preregistration but don't know where to start, come and join my preregistration workshop at @unicologne.bsky.social in Cologne on Wednesday! We still have open spots. You can register via the link below. ✨ #OpenScience @frederikaust.com

Important observation by Aaron Tay: Articles published by Elsevier and Springer Nature may be increasingly difficult to find. For many of these articles abstracts are not made openly available, limiting article discoverability, in particular using AI tools. @barcelonadori.bsky.social @oa2020.org

✨ 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