Flavio Azevedo
@flavioazevedo.bsky.social
Asst Prof in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University https://flavioazevedo.com Director of FORRT @forrt.bsky.social http://forrt.org Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O2Mp3ygAAAAJ&hl=en
"321 postgraduate programmes within the field of social sciences were closed for the 2026-27 cycle." #UKHE #AcademicSky
Specialist master’s ‘main victims’ of course-cutting spree
More than 300 social sciences programmes lost in past year, figures show, as critics bemoan decisions made on enrolment numbers alone
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Call for submissions — FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference, 28–30 September 2026, online. Deadline 31 July 2026.
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Each ICE operation generates roughly $196,000 in monthly losses for nearby businesses and communities. (That's 11x the government's administrative cost of a deportation.) Why? ICE activity decreases foot traffic in those public areas.
This is a diabolically evil report. That is the only way to put it. Its objective is to reignite the culture wars using the imprimatur of both the university and prominent scholars so as to sow deep epistemic doubt about the humanities and hasten the project of killing us off entirely.
Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 2mo agoI got through a bit of this already notorious report, written by very prominent philosophers about the “decline of the humanities.” Everyone on this report is smarter than I am, yet none of them seems to understand what it’s been like to navigate the academy since the late 1990s.
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoMisogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.
Honoured to share our new paper in @nature.com today. Across 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa and Southeast Asia, 1 in 6 internet-using children had experienced technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. A thread 🧵
Nature@nature.com · 2mo agoNature research paper: Technology mediation in child sexual exploitation and abuse in Africa and Asia go.nature.com/4fbTNyk
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhite House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
Don't believe FIRE. It always skews its supposed research to favor the white Christian nationalist views. Its purported annual survey of campus speech *omits* conservative religious affiliated institutions. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new... 🧵
Can a Group Allied With the Right Defend the 1st Amendment for All? - Assigned Media
FIRE, a product of the “academic freedom” campaign, wants to protect free speech for everyone. Yet its stances show deference to religious views and a persistent anti-queer strain.
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John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2mo ago73% of faculty are not in this sample.
FIRE is a right-wing dark money outfit. Let’s be absolutely clear about this. It presents as libertarian, but its real agenda is imposing right-wing ideology on schools.
Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 2mo agoDon't believe FIRE. It always skews its supposed research to favor the white Christian nationalist views. Its purported annual survey of campus speech *omits* conservative religious affiliated institutions. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new... 🧵
Join the Replication Hub Showcase on July 1st 3-5pm CEST: t1p.de/replicationhub Learn about ongoing projects at the @forrt.bsky.social Replication Hub, which is a collection of over 20 projects, tools, and events that all have the mission to support replications.
I can't stress how much I value the viewpoints of this excellent paper. A very strong recommendation. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Browsing slides from >4 years ago. The FReD Explorer has come a long way - all thanks to the work of @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social, @sarahaj95.bsky.social, @helenahartmann.com, and 200 other committed researchers: forrt.org/explorer/
We just launched #GuesstheReplication (GutheR). It is a challenging game where you predict replicability based on the abstract and title of an original study. Play it now and beat my high score at lukasroeseler.github.io/GuessTheRepl... or use our free slides for teaching zenodo.org/records/1985...
Great new work by @evangiangrande.bsky.social tracking how race scientists exploit preprint servers to legitimize and spread their work
The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms - Behavior Genetics
Preprint servers and open science platforms have revolutionized the scientific process. A fundamental feature of these platforms is a lack of peer review—virtually anyone with an internet connection c...
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🔖 Now up on MetaROR: a full evaluation of the Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies, which enables researchers to conduct high-quality reproductions & replications across social science disciplines. Reviewers praised it as timely & useful while providing recommendations. Read it now 👇
Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies - MetaROR
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New paper🎈: Lessons Learned from Big Team Science Projects in Cognitive Science in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... We share practical, experience-based strategies for running large-scale collaborations - from project structure to ethics, funding, & AI use.
The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned From Cognitive Science
The credibility revolution in psychology and related sciences contributed to the adoption of large-scale research initiatives known as Big Team Science (BTS). BTS has made significant advances in addr...
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📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
A more honest term would be “validated,” and it’s no professor’s job to validate your opinions
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 4mo agoGetting back to this passage I cited above, I’m wondering two things: 1) what does it mean for conservative student “perspectives” to be “welcomed and respected“ in class? Doesn’t it depend on the nature of the “perspective,” which in many cases is likely irrelevant to the nature of the course?
![But [conservative students] also said there were classes and communities at Yale where they felt their perspectives were not welcomed and respected.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6xbkw7bucg6ws3vqwnxqewp/bafkreifhyvftvha4bu7yeui2whxw6kp7umxgpb4vjln4eb7jngofoxt56m)
This passage citing the work of Jonathan Haidt in the Yale Report is instructive. For a group pushing "intellectual pluralism," it is notable that it doesn't mention the widespread criticism of the book, such as the reviewer in Nature who bluntly said his argument "is not supported by science."
This looks to be a really fascinating special issue 👇
Giovanni Capoccia@gcapoccia.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10 journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...
New work and events... 🔸 Workshop on the politics and finances of open science reform 🔸 Symposium: “Who critiques the critique? Toward a reflexive metascience” 🔸 Preprint encourages establishing phenomena before testing theories 🔸 Systematic review of questionable research practices
Critical Metascience Roundup
Update #3
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== Effect Size and Confidence Intervals (ESCI) check == Lots improved. Has a revamped website and R package on CRAN. Works like statcheck, also checks effect sizes and calculates confidence intervals. Tricky countless edge cases, but after testing it on 1000s of articles, seems pretty decent.
In case you missed it 👀 ❗ FORRT has launched the Open Research Games Portal — a collection of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible science ! Explore it here: forrt.org/games/ and feel free to browse and use ✨
>5h recordings and slides for most #LoveReplicationsWeek talks are now available on our updated website. Thank you so much everybody who contributed to this wonderful week, participated in the talks, and partnered-up with us. I think there should be a replication of this. forrt.org/LoveReplicat...
After 4+ years of work the Academic Wheel of Privilege is out! One of the most complex projects I’ve led! Deeply grateful to coauthors Justin, Bethan, Mahmoud, Flavio and 30+ expert reviewers for their care, time and dedication in developing this framework. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me... #AcademicSky 🧪
Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training@forrt.bsky.social · 5mo agoOut now! The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡 We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions. @saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...
It's been a long journey to this point but very rewarding. Check out the app I built to support it---it was fun working out how to make this static image into something dynamic/interactive (though still room for improvement, especially accessibility). academic-privilege-2177e04480f1.herokuapp.com
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training@forrt.bsky.social · 5mo agoOut now! The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡 We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions. @saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...
This has been many years in the making. We wanted to do it right—not simply get it done. Our goal was to contribute, however modestly, to an academia that genuinely strives for inclusivity. May the AWoP—small as the step may be—help move academia toward greater inclusion. 🤝🫂🌈🍉🏳️⚧️✊⚖️♿🦮🌐
Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training@forrt.bsky.social · 5mo agoOut now! The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡 We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions. @saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...
Out now! The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡 We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions. @saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...
⏳ 2 weeks left to apply to the Making Replications Count Hackathon (Münster, 4–6 May 2026). Join us to build open tools that make replications impossible to ignore. Apply by 16 March: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2
Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training@forrt.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚀 Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person 🚀 3 days. 4 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore. 📆 4-6 May 2026 | Münster, Germany ✈️ Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded) Apply by 16 March ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2 🧵👇 What we will build?