Who cares about supplementary materials? Is there any research activity less stimulating than checking these endless, messy files? Unfortunately, blind spots rarely bode well for science.

Being an associate editor. =_= "It's for science and the CV".

This was not an easy one to write, but here it is! 🎈🤡 Freshly published in Collabra: Psychology: the life and death of one of the coolest findings in my PhD dissertation. 🎈🤡 With the usual – and wonderful – Karen M. Douglas, @paulbertin.bsky.social, and @olivierklein.bsky.social. 1/11

Collabra: Psychology@collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Does Being Confronted With Internal Attributions for an Ingroup’s Sufferings Foster the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories? New in social psychology, from @kenzonera.bsky.social, Karen Douglas, @paulbertin.bsky.social, and @olivierklein.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...

👽👽👽 New paper accepted in the European Journal of Social Psychology! 👽👽👽 “Convictions or Plausibility Judgements? The Ambiguity of Self-Reported Agreement with Conspiracy Theories” It’s my first collaboration with the brilliant and most stylish Robbie Sutton, so it’s a double thrill. 1/9

New working paper about a question that’s been a splinter in my brain for years – and I know I’m not alone: can researchers draw conclusions about “belief in conspiracy theories” while our research samples consist mostly of people who reject such beliefs? 1/10 link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Unsettlingly accurate.

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900

The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

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Dear academic twitter who's into type I error control and sequential analyses (winkwink @lakens.bsky.social), I need your help: I planned a sequential analysis with three peeks (1/3, 2/3, and total n), with adjusted alpha level with pocock boundary.

Of all the articles I've reviewed, this is one of the most impressive and creative regarding its approach to data collection and "construction". Congrats to Dr. Yun Lu!

🎉Starting September 1st, I'll be an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology (BJSP). It is a great honor! 🎉 I won't make jokes about bribery options to get your paper published through me, as I am not sure yet if I'm allowed to* and I don't want to be fired before I start. 1/2

I often see Ioannidis' paper 'Why most published research findings are false' on reading lists. And by all means - I found it educational when I first read it. But you might also want a summary of the criticisms on the paper, and we dive into these in our @nulliusinverba.bsky.social podcast episode.

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · last yr.

New episode of @nulliusinverba.bsky.social ! We (very) critically discuss the classic paper by John Ioannidis 'Why most published research findings are false'. What did he get wrong, and why is it still interesting to read the paper? nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-56...

Lucky me - I again created the soundtrack for a video game! 🥰 It's called Wake Cup, it's a tower defense/clicker about capitalism and how coffee is important in this exploitation system. ☕ It's available for the price of a cup of coffee on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2881430/...

Save 20% on Wake Cup on Steam

Wake Cup is a caffeinated tower defense & clicker mash-up with rogue-lite meta progression. Shoot coffee to exhausted workers on a boring Monday morning to keep them energised. The economy must gr...

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One can never stress enough how studying psychology deeply changes the way you look at the world around you (created with ChatGPT).

🧐👉 This paper is available in #OA: doi.org/10.5334/irsp... #SocialPsyc #OpenScience @paulbertin.bsky.social @kenzonera.bsky.social

A really cool new study on the impact of climate activism has just dropped! Some highlights: 1) "There is strong evidence that climate activism shifts public opinion and media coverage in a pro-climate direction, but this varies by context and the tactics employed."

The impacts of climate activism

We review 50 studies on the impacts of climate activism. We present the existing evidence in a map of what we know about climate activism and its impa…

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I am super happy to back my most appreciated and trustworthy partner in crime in this great piece (in all objectivity of course)! #metascience #transparency #virtuesignaling

Paul Bertin@paulbertin.bsky.social · last yr.

New publication with my dearest friend, @kenzonera.bsky.social! We propose that multi-study articles can hardly achieve conceptual novelty and statistical consistency while remaining transparent. Fulfilling two of these criteria considerably reduces the probability of satisfying the third one.

IMO, ChatGPT (which I use a lot, I must confess) is extremely good at some stuff (e.g., generating textual stimuli for research, explaining concepts), meh at others (e.g., solving problems - because it can easily be tricked), and terrible at some (e.g., providing sources).

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last yr.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

One of the most fascinating reads I had in the past few months. Congrats to the authors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Help me, Bluesky academia: I'm down the rabbit hole of Bayesian interpretation of biased evidence evaluation (i.e., the idea that priors affect evidence likelihood assessment). Does anyone know of articles that factor the structure of hypotheses (e.g., whether they are falsifiable) in the equation?

My rule has been to expect the worst, then double that so it sounds completely unhinged. Then add 50% ketamine premium again. That has allowed be not to be too far off in my expectations during the last 10 years. So he is part of the way there ...

Joel Siegel@joelsiegel.bsky.social · last yr.

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

Hypothesis: the more popular the concept of "virtue signaling" will become, the more the denunciation of virtue signaling will become a form of virtue signaling aimed at showing that we belong to groups that are sincere in upholding their values (contrary to all these phony virtue signalers!!!).

Dear academic BlueSky, can you help me? I'm looking for research examining the psychological processes underlying inference of general rules based on particular example. There's the example of stereotype learning, but I'd love to have something that's not about groups... Thanks!