Excellent paper on the ethical complexities of Open Science reform. Highly recommend. Builds upon our previous work on epistemic alignment in replication decision making. @suyoghc.bsky.social @balazsaczel.bsky.social @ayeletfishbach.bsky.social

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Do you view the scientific literature as a "Book of Truths" or a "Book of Conversations"? "This attitudinal divide, we argue, underlies many tensions in contemporary OS [open science] practice." By Rena Alcalay and @joachim.cidlab.com

How does the brain tell correlation from causation across time? Niels Verosky shows one small tweak to a classic associative learning rule lets the same machinery behind temporal difference learning compute causal contingencies, not just co-occurrences.

New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x

Simonsohn has now posted a blog response to our recent paper about the poor statistical properties of the P curve. @clintin.bsky.social and I are finishing up a less-technical paper that will serve as a response. But I wanted to address a meta-issue *around* this that may clarify some things. 1/x

Data Colada@datacolada.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Would p-curve work if you dropped a piano on it? datacolada.org/129

I love this post about science and metascience. A lot of quotables but I’ll lead with this: “Those seeking a scientific method – one that can be written down and followed mechanically […] – betray a kind of childish impatience with a process they clearly don’t understand.”

John Kennedy@micefearboggis.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This is sort of part two to the far more enjoyable (to write and, hopefully, to read) essay "how to science a science with science". You might want to read that first. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/h...

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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

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1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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We proved they could not scale link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior

The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive scien...

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Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Just FYI - - Meta has hit a scaling wall with Llama 4. - xAI has hit a scaling wall with Grok 4. - OpenAI has hit a scaling wall with GPT-5 — technically, they already hit it with GPT-4.5, but I digress. Who’s next?

here was our call for methodological standards in metaresearch four years ago. instead of getting fixated on a particular inference we'd like to make, we need to maintain scientific standards, do the hard work, respect the evidence. we can't keep jumping at self-serving solutions without question.

The case for formal methodology in scientific reform | Royal Society Open Science

Current attempts at methodological reform in sciences come in response to an overall lack of rigor in methodological and scientific practices in experimental sciences. However, most methodological ref...

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some of the discussion around the p-curve paper is depressing. i still see many missing the point clearly stated in the conclusion, and instead of demanding strong standards or questioning whether they're even asking good questions, they've immediately started asking for replacement methods.

New paper with @richarddmorey.bsky.social now out in JASA, where we critically examine p-curve. Below is Richard’s excellent summary of the many poor statistical properties of p-curve (with link to paper). I wanted to add some conceptual issues that we also tackle in the paper.

Richard D. Morey@richarddmorey.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

New paper by my PhD student @semihaktepe.bsky.social now published 🚀 "Revisiting the effect of discrepant perceptual fluency on truth judgments" tinyurl.com/2eepue5y --> Two experiments & a meta-analysis indicate that high visual contrast does not lead to higher truth judgments.

wherein I'm quoted with "Science is essentially effective to the extent that it can remain independent, decentralized, and democratic." (gift link, email required)

Why Trump’s push for ‘gold-standard science’ has researchers alarmed

Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research.

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🚀Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de) 📅Start: 01.10.2025 | ⏳4 years 🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/jhbCen 🔄 Thanks for sharing!

NEW paper! 💭🖥️ “Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?” — Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡 osf.io/preprints/ps...

If you'll be at APS2025 in DC next week, I'll be talking about the terrible statistical properties of the p curve procedure in the "Current Issues in Meta-Science" session Saturday, May 24th at 3pm. This will likely be my last US conference in a very long time. A brief summary follows. 1/

I am looking forward to expanding the scope of my professorship by combining cognitive and statistical modeling with LLMs😊 There will be two job openings for postdoc positions soon - one starting in September 2025 and another one a year later.

Universität Marburg@unimarburg.bsky.social · last yr.

🚀 930.000 Euro für #Psychologie -Forschung: Prof. Daniel Heck nutzt #KI, um psychologische Theorien präziser zu machen. Mithilfe von #LLMs sollen unscharfe Begriffe in messbare Modelle übersetzt werden – ein Schritt zu besseren Experimenten & klareren Erkenntnissen #Forschung uni-marburg.de/gDNQIi

Another reminder that this online event will take place this Friday. I might be alone representing the West Coast (it's at 7am PT) but hope colleagues from other time zones consider stopping by and joining the discussion. My talk will be not-so-subtly titled "Replication Is (Not)".

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · last yr.

OK I had announced this before but forgot to say that Andrew Gelman would be joining Nancy Cartwright and myself as well. Short idea talks, lots of panel discussion and Q&A. Join us on April 25th to discuss RCTs, replications, and scientific inference. sites.google.com/view/cepbi/t...

Special Issue Spotlight: Decision research meets #AI. Read a short summary of the special issue from guest editors Ido Erev, Sudeep Bhatia, and @clintin.bsky.social bit.ly/3FkGX0N

Not being anti-fascist at this moment in history is anti-science. Probably always was. But cannot be clearer than these last few weeks.

A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.

Since everyone is talking about research funding, this perspective by the vice-president of the European Research Council might be of interest. Blue states: Consider joining a multinational research council.

Alternative models of funding curiosity-driven research | PNAS

Funding of curiosity-driven science is the lifeblood of scientific and technological innovation. Various models of funding allocation became instit...

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My latest column just appeared in Science, entitled "Free speech, fact-checking, and the right to accurate information”. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) I use one of President Trump’s first executive orders to unpack the terrain between misinformation and claims to free speech 1/n

Free speech, fact checking, and the right to accurate information

True to his campaign promises, on 20 January 2025, US President Donald Trump signed a broad range of Executive Orders, the scope of which ranged from renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” t...

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🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 How should scientists decide what to replicate & how? Our latest article explores: 🔍 Book of Truths vs. Book of Conversations – What's the purpose of replication? 📊 Balancing epistemic values, public trust & transparency. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @clintin.bsky.social

The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Dialogues about the practice of science "In this Feature: Should scientists reform the way they carry out research; if so, how? Should we reform the institutions that currently serve as scientific gatekeepers? How do recent technological & cultural revolutions affect the practice of science?"

Now out in PNAS, we provide a conceptual framework for assessing replication decisions and replication reform. Do you view the scientific literature as a "book of truths" or a "book of conversations"? www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #philsci #science #SciSci #Metascience

Which scientific results should be replicated? Our new PNAS suggests the decision depends on whether you subscribe to “the book of truth” or “book of conversation” @pnas.org @clintin.bsky.social

Clintin Davis-Stober@clintin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now out in PNAS, we provide a conceptual framework for assessing replication decisions and replication reform. Do you view the scientific literature as a "book of truths" or a "book of conversations"? www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #philsci #science #SciSci #Metascience

Now out in PNAS, we provide a conceptual framework for assessing replication decisions and replication reform. Do you view the scientific literature as a "book of truths" or a "book of conversations"? www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #philsci #science #SciSci #Metascience

How can we make sound replication decisions? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...