Something I learnt recently: Amazon stores all the highlights you make in Kindle here read.amazon.com/notebook which you can copy into an LLM to turn into structured notes. That way I can spend more time doing something I like (reading) and less time on something I don’t (making notes)

#Preregistration supports #OpenScience, but is uncommon in animal research. This Meta-Research study by @hannowuerbel.bsky.social reveals that despite known benefits, perceived bureaucracy, time costs and inflexibility hinder adoption. 🧪#AcademicSky @unibe.ch @swissrn.bsky.social plos.io/4pL0tXq

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd

When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...

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New episode of HARD DRUGS! GLP1 drugs have transformed obesity & diabetes, help treat heart disease, kidney disease and sleep apnea. They're far from the only drug with multiple uses. But sometimes, it takes several decades - and public funding - to learn about new uses.

Are miracle drugs hiding in plain sight?

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New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr

Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions

Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...

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New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr

Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions

Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...

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Strep A kills hundreds of thousands of people per year, but there's no vaccine for it – yet. Some of my wonderful colleagues at Coefficient Giving and lots of great scientists are trying to change that. Please share this with researchers who might be interested in working on it!

Katharine Collins@kat-a-collins.bsky.social · 3w ago

📣Exciting announcement 📣 The First Global Strep A Vaccine Conference Call for abstracts will open soon! 🌏Venue update: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, first week of February 2027 📝Abstract submissions open 30 July 2026. #GSAVConference2027 Read the full announcement here ⬇️ lnkd.in/eiu95fXm

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

@mcxfrank.bsky.social named PsyArXiv, per my email records. Anita Eerland made the logo. And, of course, Ben Brown handled the logistics of getting us off the ground. Cannot believe it has been 10 years!

Would be super interesting to know how common this behaviour has been over time and across disciplines. It sounds eerily similar to modern scooping anxiety and opposition to data sharing, but those seem to make more sense in light of modern academic incentives (?).

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 3w ago

I'm curious about the phenomenon of scientists hiding or burning their notes and correspondences. See e.g. Émile Roux, Wilhelm Röntgen, Sigmund Freud all had their notes and correspondences burned, though maybe for different reasons. Louis Pasteur had his hidden for almost seventy years.

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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Thanks a lot for your critique/peer review!😄 And we surely will revise and make our analysis and interpretation more accurate, avoid overstatement!

Looks like a cool analysis, but note that it excludes preprints that were never published. So this last sentence in the abstract amounts to ‘conditioning on preprints accepted by the scientific community, preprints are good enough to be accepted by the scientific community’.

Hao Yin@haoyin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nature News covered our preprint on LLM analysis of Preprint-to-Publication transition 😆👇 Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind www.nature.com/articles/d41... Kudos to @rrust.bsky.social for leading this project👍 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Julia Stern is hiring! Strongly recommend this opportunity. I know her from grad student days and am confident she's a good one!

Julia Stern@juliastern.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm hiring! I am currently establishing my new Research Group for Personality Psychology at Ulm University and am looking for a motivated researcher to join the team starting October 1, 2026 (or by arrangement). 🧵👇 (1/4) 🔗 Full description and details: stellenangebote.uni-ulm.de/jobposting/a...

The good news is that someone else now gets to join this amazing team! If you're keen to help develop RegCheck, I'd strongly encourage you to apply. Working with @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @malte.the100.ci is reason enough to apply! jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

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Preprint success story - a preprinted paper attracts an invitation to submit - 4 months later, it's found a home in a journal. ❤️

Jan R. Wessel@janw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here. osf.io/preprints/ps...

The final version of this is now out at Cortex: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks much to @russpoldrack.org and two other reviewers for highly constructive feedback on the earlier version, and especially to @annemscheel.bsky.social, who suggested Cortex and edited the paper.

Jan R. Wessel@janw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very excited to announce that I’ll be joining @zpid.bsky.social in Trier, Germany as a tenure-track Jun.-Prof. in Psychological Metascience in November! 🤸🏻‍♀️✨

Beth continues to kick ass. So glad this kind of permanent academic position exists in metascience, and so glad @bethclarke.bsky.social is paving the way. Hopefully there will be lots more departments adding metasciencey people like her in the years to come! A pretty smart move if you ask me.

Beth Clarke@bethclarke.bsky.social · last mo.

Very excited to announce that I’ll be joining @zpid.bsky.social in Trier, Germany as a tenure-track Jun.-Prof. in Psychological Metascience in November! 🤸🏻‍♀️✨

People seem to struggle finding fault with this quote. But by the same logic, the more covariates we have, the higher the risk that we’re accidentally conditioning on a collider. The point isn’t that rich observational data are useless, but that RCTs solve problems that observational studies can’t.

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · last mo.

Oh no! Oh no!!

Had to read this one to figure out whether it's as click-bait-y as the title. As somebody who has written a lot about causal inference with observational data, I'm quite conflicted about it.> asteriskmag.substack.com/p/the-case-a...

The case against randomized controlled trials

Everyone knows RCTs are the gold standard of evidence...right?

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Big news at the META/e conference: metacheck, a promising tool for automatically extracting information from scientific manuscripts is beta-launched today. Has the potential to massively increase the efficiency of meta-science projects. www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/

Check Research Outputs for Best Practices

A modular, extendable system for checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.

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Lisa DeBruine@debruine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@crist14n.bsky.social presented some of the capabilities of metacheck, which has its first beta release today! See an example report that demonstrates all of the current modules. www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/re...

A game of whack-a-mole with methodological confounds. We saw the same thing in the Botox-for-depression lit Improvements in attractiveness only matter in Study 1. Expectancies only matter in Study 2. Inability for women to express nonverbal disapproval only matters in Study 3, etc. 🙈

New estimate for residual bias after study registration just dropped

Richard Wiseman@richardwiseman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We have just published a new paper on preregistration in parapsychology. Free to read here peerj.com/articles/213... @kpunews.bsky.social thanks to @lakens.bsky.social for comments.

What riles me up about “people tried to shut down PP research” is that Cuddy’s own coauthor-turned-critic Carney guest-edited a whole special issue of Registered Reports on Power Posing (incl a meta-analysis), which shows strong evidence against PP even though most authors clearly weren’t sceptics.

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

Hehehehe

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 3mo ago

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

Friends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressions

Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...

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📣 Volunteer position alert 📣 At PYMS, we are looking for a new Board Member! Are you an ECR with a passion for meta-science? Do you want to help organize events for fellow meta-scientists and help grow PYMS over the coming years? Check out the open position of Board Member!

Sometimes co-authors ask me “did you see what they cited us for???” and of course I didn’t, because if you want to keep faith in humanity, you don’t look up what people cite you for, just like you don’t read comment sections.

Hadas Weiss@hadas.bsky.social · 3mo ago