Priya Silverstein
@priyasilverstein.com
https://www.priyasilverstein.com/ Assistant Researcher, EXCELScIOR project https://excelscior.uc.pt/, University of Coimbra, Portugal | Psychology, Metascience | Transparency, Replicability, Generalisability, and Diversity | they/she
Ever since this happened, I have never given journals sole ownerhip of my supplemental materials .. eiko-fried.com/blog/supplem...
Supplementary materials fail | Eiko Fried
A few months ago, we published a new paper Fried, E. I., van Borkulo, C. D., Cramer, A. O. J., Boschloo, L., Schoevers, R. A., & Borsboom, D. (2017). Mental disorders as networks...
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Arts, humanities & social science researchers, are you aware of any journals in your field that make good use of plain language summaries to make publications more accessible to non-academic or practitioner audiences? If so, we'd love to hear from you - do reply in-thread!
@shreyadimri.bsky.social et al. “Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles” We assessed meta-analyses in ecology, evolution & environmental sciences for methodological & reporting quality, data/code sharing, and data FAIRness. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles
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Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw
Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)
YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA
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SIPS [@improvingpsych.org] elections are here! Don't forget to cast your ballot. If you don't already know the candidates, I would like to put a special shout out to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social who is running in the graduate student and postdoc category ✨
🚀 We are happy to be part of the new #HorizonEurope project CATALYST! #EXCELScIOR will contribute to activities on monitoring and evaluating reproducibility practices and culture change alongside partners from across Europe and beyond. 🌍👏 Looking forward to the collaboration! @ucoimbra.bsky.social
CATALYST Project@catalyst-eu.bsky.social · 2w agoTIER2 social media becomes ➡️ @catalyst-eu.bsky.social ! 🚀 CATALYST is a new Horizon Europe project which begins today and aims to show how reproducibility can be embedded in different research settings and disciplines. 📑 Stay tuned for more updates! 👀
If you want a last cheeky day to submit, it's today!
LGBTQ+ STEM@lgbtqstem.bsky.social · 2w agoHi everyone! The Poster Abstract Deadline is Monday! We would love to see what you have been accomplishing in the last few years since our last event! Register for the event and submit abstracts on our local website here: sites.google.com/view/lgbtqst...
📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝 "Radical reproducibility, real constraints: An autoethnography of open and transparent research from the inside" Nicki Lisa Cole & Serge P. J. M. Horbach → doi.org/10.1080/0898... #Reproducibility #OpenScience #MetaScience
Radical reproducibility, real constraints: An autoethnography of open and transparent research from the inside
This paper presents a three-year longitudinal autoethnographic study of the TIER2 project, an international, interdisciplinary consortium committed to “radical reproducibility” through open researc...
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More of this please!
David A. Sbarra@dsbarra.bsky.social · 2w agoCheck out this commentary recently published in AMPPS (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...), a discussion of the findings in Grassi et al related to musical training short-term memory. The interesting part: It's written BY THE AUTHORS, with differing views on the same set of results. Luv this one.
Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Some days I think about how we’ve been carefully developing and validating metacheck for two years now, with limited and always-optional local LLM use, and worry it’s just going to be lumped in with quickly vibe-coded AI agents.
The Metascience Observatory@metascienceobs.bsky.social · 3w agoThe fraud problem in science, summarized. This is part of our motivation for building the Forensic Metascience Agent, a AI agent orchestration system designed to enable a thorough audit of a scientific paper, including images, tables/data, statistics, and supplementary files. (🔗 w/ more info below)
I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...
PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)
Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...
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1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research is just around the corner! How can we improve research on research methods? 💻 Registration for online attendance is still open! 📅 31 August - 1 September 2026 🔗 crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/ #MSMR2026 #MetaScience #MetaResearch
1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research – MSMR 2026
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Wherever you go to store data instead of #OSFprojects, please choose a non-commercial provider. Commercial interests are not aligned with scientific interests: They aim at turning your data into money by selling it, training AI models with it and locking us into an ecosystem: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats
Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed
This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.
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Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology@cnc-uc.bsky.social · 4mo ago📚 Applications are open for the 2nd edition of the course Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R. 🗓️ Oct 19–23, 2026 📍 University of Coimbra 📝 Apply until Sept 18 🔗 www.cnc.uc.pt/pt/systemati... @ucoimbra.bsky.social
Yesterday I was dreading having back-to-back meetings, but then two of those meetings were essentially just two neurodivergent people galaxy-braining all things open science and queerness and anti-capitalism and now my heart is full 🤍
New preprint by EXCELScIOR team member @priyasilverstein.com and colleagues on the use of the term "preregistration". Check it out! 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social
Priya Silverstein@priyasilverstein.com · 4w agoShould we still use the term "preregistration"? Our take here: osf.io/preprints/ps... tl;dr: we think yes! With @lspitzer.bsky.social, @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, and @josefinaw.bsky.social
Should we still use the term "preregistration"? Our take here: osf.io/preprints/ps... tl;dr: we think yes! With @lspitzer.bsky.social, @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, and @josefinaw.bsky.social
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A really interesting thread. I usually find myself leaning closer towards an "abolish journals" stance, but I found this perspective very interesting...
Tom Hostler@tomhostler.bsky.social · last mo.My unpopular science reform opinion is that journal name/reputation SHOULD be a good heuristic for trust/quality, and that’s what we should be trying to achieve.
🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd
SIPS 2026 Awards Announced!
We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the fi…
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"Here we show, in a large post-publication peer review database, that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research. " arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783
Judges matter more than papers in post-publication research assessment
Research assessment relies on expert evaluations, yet human judgement is noisy, and it is unclear whether differences in assessment arise primarily from differences in genuine research quality or from...
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Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app
RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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🔍 Considering a la Caixa Junior Leader Fellowship 2026 application? The #Meta-Research Group at the University of Coimbra 🇵🇹 welcomes researchers interested in developing a fellowship proposal with our team as host. 📩Contact: tracey.weissgerber@uc.pt @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social
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 >
New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026
Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...
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When people use AI-produced slides it makes me completely distrust everything the speaker is saying... It is impossible to tell whether you wrote really good notes about your topic and AI just ruined it vs. your prompt was just "write me a presentation on this topic". It's really sad!
WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited 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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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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Check out our new preprint on how to write a reusable step-by-step protocol... especially if you like crème brûlée! 🍮✨
Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 2mo agoTired of "methods sections" lacking detail? Check out our new preprint: "Ten simple rules for writing a reusable step-by-step protocol" 📢 This is not only for lab work. Detailed protocols are essential for reproducibility across ALL research fields 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R 📚 Applications OPEN 🗓️ Oct 19–23, 2026 📍 University of Coimbra 📝 Apply until Sept 18 Registration from only €150-€250 for this 27-hour intensive course! I'll be teaching the session on preregistration 😄
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats