Summer is a perfect time to tick off from your reading list some interesting articles. Our suggestion: a useful tutorial to handle data with fully-crossed structure in cases such as response times or accuracies with linear mixed-effects models. doi.org/10.1037/met0...

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Assistant Professor in Metascience

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Have you ever wondered what to do when your data does not respect the assumptions of the t-test? In this work with @giuliacalignano.bsky.social et al. we try to guide you through skewed data and assumptions checks ;) link.springer.com/article/10.3...

How do my distributions differ? significance testing for the overlapping index using permutation tests - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Psychological research frequently relies on statistical tests targeting single distributional parameters, typically means, despite empirical data often differing in variance, skewness, or overall shap...

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FAIR data, Open Science e Data Management Plan: ieri a FAIR in practice abbiamo parlato di ricerca più trasparente, organizzata e riutilizzabile 📊 Grazie agli speaker e a chi ha partecipato e animato la discussione! 🔗Slide: zenodo.org/records/2034...

📢 FAIR in practice: hands on the Data Management Plan 🗓 21 maggio | 14:00–19:30 📍 Psico 2, Università di Padova Un pomeriggio pratico su gestione FAIR dei dati e Open Science con aperitivo finale 🥂 Iscrizione gratuita: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #OpenScience #FAIR #DataManagement #Unipd

A very useful effect size (with associated test statistic) which captures the shared area between density distributions of groups/conditions. Thank you @giuliacalignano.bsky.social for sharing our work so gracefully and professionally! 🙏

Giulia Calignano@giuliacalignano.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#theory & real #data beyond the mean: distributional overlapping from #effectsize to #permutation 4th Conference #Statistics & #DataScience @SIStatistica Big 🙏to Nicola Torelli for the invitation ⚡️super coauthors @ambra-prg.bsky.social & Massimiliano Pastore 🔗https://zenodo.org/records/19415829

Interested in replicability, reproducibility & robust science? Join the 4th edition of the 3Rs methodological school (Padova, May 18–20, 2026)
 Free & open to PhD, master’s students, postdocs 📆 Deadline: April 20 
Apply here: forms.gle/f1hvuQBvaVQp...
 Info: psicostat.github.io/3R-2026/

It will take place in Eindhoven, a great chance to meet a lot of awesome people and have some fun playing with integrated code and text! 📚🔓

Sajedeh Rasti@sajedehra.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Last chance to register! 🚨 In just a few days, registration for our Quarto workshop closes. Learn how to write reproducible manuscripts more efficiently and professionally by @ambra-prg.bsky.social

Manca poco alla deadline per i Minitalk Early Careers del decennale Psicostat! 📅 Evento: 23/01/2026 | 🧠 5' talk + 10' discussione 👥 Per studentə, dottorandə ed early careers 🗓️ Deadline: 16/11/2025 🔗 Iscriviti (anche come uditore): forms.gle/UQApqPYWusSz...

🗺️ A small, bold first step toward the city. Students and citizens came together to explore different perspectives on open science. 💡 But what is open science, really? 🎥 Watch the video: lnkd.in/dUXwCj2d Thanks to the experts and everyone who joined the conversation!

Join the next PMGS workshop where @ambra-prg.bsky.social will explain how to use Quarto for your reproducible research! 🔓🧑‍🔬

Sajedeh Rasti@sajedehra.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Registration is now open for our Quarto workshop at Paul Meehl Graduate School! Join us on December 12 in Eindhoven to learn how to use Quarto for reproducible research and communication. More details and registration here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-11-03-q...

🔬La scienza incontra la città!✨ 📅 Venerdì 14 novembre 2025, h17 📍Via Venezia 16, Aula A Galleria (psico3), Padova 👩‍🔬 Ricercatori ed esperti dialogano su ricerca e comunità 🎩 A seguire, momento conviviale aperto a tutti con il Mago Alessandro! Vi aspettiamo!

🎉 Il 23 gennaio festeggiamo 10 anni di Psicostat con talk, momenti di confronto e aperitivo offerto! 📣 Aperta la call Minitalk Early Careers per studentə, dottorandə e giovani ricercatorə 🔗 Partecipazione gratuita (anche come uditori) con iscrizione obbligatoria: lnkd.in/dpBEJYVy

It’s always so much fun to engage with people and gamify your research topics!

Psicostat@psicostat.bsky.social · last yr.

Our team joined #Science4All to share how psychologists ensure their findings are valid and reliable! Through interactive games, kids and adults explored what makes good science tick 🧠🎯 #Psychology #ScienceCommunication

🚀 Kicking off the upcoming month with a fresh round of online talks! First up: Alessio Farcomeni 🎙 Join us next Friday, October 10 at 13pm (CEST), for "A brief introduction to quantile regression". Don’t miss it! 🔍📊

Psicostat took part in the European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting 2025 in Padova 🧠📊 Insightful contributions by Matteo Manente and @ialfarone.bsky.social featured in the Statistical Methods session, while our core team member Ottavia Epifania chaired the Psychometrics session! #EMPG

In this interview for the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP), we retrace Psicostat’s path: from early workshops to Winter & Summer Schools, up to the launch of the Methodological Review Board and beyond! 👉 Here’s the link to the full interview: aipass.org/psicostat-un...

Psicostat: Un laboratorio aperto tra dati, idee e cultura della ricerca - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia

. È passato ormai un decennio dalla nascita di Psicostat, quello che si potrebbe definire uno “spazio collettivo per la cultura della ricerca” composto da statistici, psicologi e metodologi provenient...

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How can I tell if I am cut out to be a scientific research worker? (Peter B. Medawar). How smart does one need to be to be a scientist? Medawar weighs in with advice for young researchers. nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/prologus-1...

Our podcast @nulliusinverba.bsky.social consists of 60+ episodes on what science is, and what it could be. As Smriti and I are both passionate about learning, we also read out classic papers and chapters in our separate 'Prologue' episodes. We have 17 so far. Here's a list of all these episodes:

🚀 Our Replicability School kicked off Friday with a hands-on workshop by @marcald.bsky.social on practical tools for reproducible analyses 🔍📊 We also received warm greetings from two key figures for the week ahead, Giovanni Parmigiani (Harvard University) and Gianmarco Altoè 👋

Ever feel disappointed by a non-significant result? You should ask yourself: Could my study have even detected an effect that matters? A simple way to find out is by computing critical effect size values. doi.org/10.1177/2515... @psicostat.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social

mirai - minimalist async framework for #RStats - released as an 'r-lib' package. Blog post: Advancing Async Computing in R. shikokuchuo.net/posts/26-mir... mirai provides event-driven async for #RShiny and parallel processing for purrr #tidyverse. Really excited to be working on this at Posit!

shikokuchuo{net}: mirai 2.3.0

Advancing Async Computing in R

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🚀 Kicking off the upcoming month with a fresh round of online talks! First up: Simone D'Ambrogio 🎙 Join us next Friday, May 9, for "Discovering Predictive and Interpretable Models of Decision-Making via Hybrid Neural Networks and Symbolic Regression". Don’t miss it! 🔍📊  #psicostat

We’re excited to share our April meeting! 🎉 Join us on April 4th for a talk with Simone Gastaldon on "Reanalyzing Published Science: The Power and Perils of Commentary Articles as an Early Career Researcher". 👥📢 Don’t miss our next meetings and subscribe to the mailing list!

Went bouldering with Noah van Dongen and @cjvanlissa.bsky.social. Noah got a Veni grant this year, Caspar a Vidi, and I received a Vici, so we had to make this picture 😊 We will also work together in our projects on improving theorising in psychology!

Huge shoutout to our very own core team member @ambra-perugini.bsky.social for smashing the Three Minute Thesis competition at the University of Padua! 🎤⏳ With an engaging summary of her PhD thesis, Ambra sparked curiosity about the Overlapping Index and how to uncover the full story in our data 👏

The goal of direct replication studies is first of all to identify Type 1 or Type 2 errors in the literature. This is an important part of having a reliable scientific knowledge base. lakens.github.io/statistical_...