New: TOP 2025 is published in RIPR. This paper updates the original 2015 framework for journals, funders, institutions, and others for promoting open research. Congrats and thanks to the TOP Advisory Board and leadership from @seangrant.bsky.social and @katiecorker.bsky.social

TOP 2025: An update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines - Research Integrity and Peer Review

Background Transparency and openness are core scientific values that enable independent verification of reported research results. The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, first publi...

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Without peeking how many articles do you think were published in 2014 by the Journal of Business Ethics?

For the revision for our "Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part I: Classical Approaches" tutorial, I recorder a series of YouTube videos walking through the examples in JASP www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbou... First time doing this. Do you find walkthroughs like this useful? Let me know any suggestions!

Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part I: Classical Approaches (Example 1)

YouTube video by JASP Statistics

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Yesterday's temperature topped 105° in Fresno. "Carlos" and team were working in the watermelons. "Our team is paid piece rate. The more boxes we fill the more we make. The person closest to the truck has the hardest job so we switch off. This is exhausting work." #WeFeedYou

Yesterday, the dew point in Ames, Iowa was 86F (30C), and today is not much better. It is hard to overstate just how awful and dangerous this is. I'm a relatively fit guy but after even 5 minutes outside I was feeling dizzy and nauseous. #Climatechange+cornsweat

Please stop referring to yourself as a "quantitative psychologist" if you don't understand what odds ratios are.

"Maya" is harvesting squash in Tucson AZ where temps as she labored hit 95°. "We start work at 5:30am, but even so, the heat gets the best of us. By 11am it's very hot. Drinking water doesn't relieve my dizziness and nausea caused by the heat." That day hit 107°. #WeFeedYou

Once again convinced that 50% of psychology "researchers" decide on the story that they want to tell first and then shoehorn their analysis and literature review to fit this narrative. Another 40% decide on the story after they've run all analyses that their data allows them to.

I p-hacked my early work on prejudice. It never felt like cheating. I now wonder if that's because I believed the cause was good. New essay on why scholar-activism is a dangerous turn for social psychology. If justice comes first, truth is what gets sacrificed. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

My P-Hacking Felt Like Truth

I became a social psychologist because I wanted to make the world a better place.

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Does the (live) shingles vaccine protect against dementia? Fergus Hamilton and colleagues provide important evidence in a new preprint using hospital data from the whole of England in a regression discontinuity design from which we *don't* show evidence of a meaningful protective effect /cont

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

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

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We need to change norms around sexual harassment Yesterday Tessa West spoke up about a sexual harassment complaint she filed against John Jost. Not only is he a senior colleague in the dept of psychology, but he is one of the most prominant figures in the field of social and political psychology.

Visualized.

Denali@denali.bsky.social · 3w ago

Husband just came in to tell me that since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln every American president has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

This paper was retracted in 2014 but has been cited almost 1000 times since then.

Aaargh!!!! Another journal decides that it is entirely uninteresting that we are able to show that almost all of the conclusions in a recent, award-winning, and high profile article are incorrect because of staggeringly sloppy work.

Overheard at the art supply store today. Person 1: "Oh look, they have 18 x 24 canvases." Person 2: "Yeah, but I'm looking for a 24 x 18 canvas". Person 1: "Oh right. Sorry." Person 1 replaces the canvas they had picked up and they both wander off looking disappointed.

Not Sam Neill.😢

"Would you leave your child alone with a youth pastor?" is probably the best single-item measure of naïveté I can think of. www.cnn.com/2026/07/12/u...

20 years after his wife fell to her death in Utah, a youth pastor’s story unravels | CNN

Richard Gudenkauf walked his daughter down the aisle in September 1996 with a frown on his face.

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When I started my job at my current uni my department had 50% more faculty than we do now, even though the number of psychology majors that we teach only declined very slightly in that time. Our salaries have declined in real terms. Not sure where all the $$$ are going but it is not to faculty.

Marcus, you should never complain about your job again.

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 4w ago

Fig season has started in CAs San Joaquin Valley. "Manuel" earns minimum wage harvesting the fruit. "I use these latex gloves to protect my hands. The liquid that comes out of the fruit can cause burns, so this is my way to protect my hands." #WeFeedYou

"Raul" is harvesting oranges in Delano CA. We go up and down ladders with a 70lb bags and filling a 900 lb bin. We get paid $24/bin. If I go really fast, in a 5 hr work day, I managed to fill 5 bins It is very hard to move up and down the ladder with a heavy bag." #WeFeedYou

Please just post your shitty mediation paper directly on LinkedIn - you don't have to torture journal reviewers with that nonsense first.

Is there any professional association that does not eventually get captured by just the worst people?

Alan Shearer: "When the referee goes back to VAR for Egypts goal & cancels it due to an interference at the start of play, but doesn't go back to VAR for Agentina's winning goal despite 2 interferences at the start of play... then we're watching a "theatre" not a football match.

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My university has many flaws but the student innovation center is one of the cooler things on campus and definitely beats whatever this "collaboration room" disaster is. sictr.iastate.edu

Os Keyes@okeyes.bsky.social · last mo.

Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.