The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one. I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...

New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr

Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions

Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...

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It has an API. If you're not happy with OSF ui ux, you can consider creating your own ui ux on top of theirs. This is my basic attempt: betterosf.vercel.app But I'm also not a ui ux expert and not a developer. 🤷🏻‍♂️

SUPER excited to share the first-ever preprint out of my PhD! AND it comes with a CAT story. I know there are quite some people here who love seeing cat pictures!! 🐈1/🧵

Happy 🎂Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel b #OTD 1784. An astronomer, known for Bessel's correction n – 1 for correcting bias in sample variance and Bessel's function. However, Bessel’s correction was probably developed by Gauss in 1823 & Bessel functions by Daniel Bernoulli (Stigler’s Law of Eponymy)

3/ Ronald Fisher at first welcomed Neyman as an ally against Bayesian statistics. However, relations soon deteriorated, to say the least. Neyman later said that Fisher’s ‘torrents of derogatory remarks, insults, & polemics’ were ‘probably unparalleled in the history of science’.

#OTD 1891 Sir Harold Jeffreys b (d 18 Mar 1989) Guy Gold Medal 1962. A geophysicist known for his ideas on Bayesian theories of probability and Jeffrey’s prior. Bayesian statistics were overwhelmed by the dominance of the Fisher-Neyman-Pearson school (which he opposed) 1/5🧵

Happy 🎂David Blackwell b #OTD 1919 (d 8 Jul 2010). ASA Fellow 1962, ASA Vice President 1978, National Medal of Science (posthumous) 2014. First African American to be elected to ASA & National Academy of Sciences. Best known for Rao–Blackwell theorem & pioneering text on Bayesian statistics. 1/2

In June 1949 Maurice Kendall (ASA Fellow, 1950 RSS President 1960) uses the term “frequentist” for the first time, referring to differences in the statistical approach of Venn, Neyman, and von Mises and the non-frequentist Bayesians represented by Harold Jeffreys

Happy 🎂William Sealy Gosset b #OTD 1876 (d 16 Oct 1937). The first modern industrial statistician he is best known for Student’s t-statistic & distribution developed while working for Guinness Brewery. Fisher said he was “one of the most original minds in contemporary science.” 1/2

2/ Fun fact: Ronald Fisher who could never bear criticism quit the Cambridge Philosophical Society altogether when Bartlett published a paper in the Proceedings correcting some of Fisher’s ANCOVA errors.

In July 1923 Ronald Fisher & Winifred Mackenzie first describe the underlying math of analysis of variance. Fisher had introduced the phrase 5 years earlier, but it appears only in the table of contents of a long paper on theoretical genetics. in May 1949 John Tukey coins the acronym ANOVA

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

Here's a question for academic psychologists - have you ever applied something you read in a psychology journal in your everyday life?

We still have a few spots left for our 2026 version of the hybrid JASP Workshop week end of August featuring a day on Discovering Statistics, a day on State-of-the-art Meta Analyses, a day on Machine learning, and two days on Bayesian hypothesis testing😊 (also single days) jasp-stats.org/workshops/

Workshops - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software

The JASP team is excited to support four workshops this year (2026). Each of these workshops can be attended either in person (at the University of Amsterdam) or online: On Monday August 24th, we orga...

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EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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Our last major upgrade to tenzing.club was adding support for Acknowledgments; also see our paper improving Acknowledgments sections doi.org/10.1080/0898... Part of our mission is to innovate on best practices in scholarly publication and facilitate their adoption by building them into tenzing.

Improving acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors

Formal recognition of research contributions is critical for career advancement and the allocation of research funding. However, some contributions are mentioned only in the acknowledgments section...

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@mcxfrank.bsky.social named PsyArXiv, per my email records. Anita Eerland made the logo. And, of course, Ben Brown handled the logistics of getting us off the ground. Cannot believe it has been 10 years!

This is fun - sharing "my first preprint" - I looked through my email to find mine, and realized that I forgot that I (somehow) was the first to post to PsyArXiv. There are 22 PsyArXiv papers that were posted that day: August 15, 2016.

Ryan Gutenkunst@ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 3w ago

July 8, 2015 for me: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... . Although I go back to arXiv from Jan 24, 2007: arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/07... .

arXiv📈🤖 Multiverse analysis, abdication of responsibility and manufacturing of doubt By Modr\'ak

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Assistant Professor in Metascience

Personal type: Scientific staff

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arXiv📈🤖 Extracting Bayesian Evidence from Frequentist p-Values By Aust, Pawel, Wagenmakers

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

RegCheck

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

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This is excellent from Sam Neill - good lessons for academics here as well

Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w ago

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

All I can really do at this point while grading

Security Guard Confrontation

Alt: Security guard barely checking people

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Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Erdős didn't abuse amphetamines! He turned them into theorems!

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Introducing {rdoom} - Play Doom in #RStats (in time for #UseR2026 !) github.com/coolbutusele... This is a demonstration that {tigerfb} + {nara} can do realtime interactivity in R! Includes: keyboard & mouse control, audio, cheat modes!

This looks really cool! Last time I checked, this wasn't possible (e.g. github pages). Will give it a try! anonymous.4open.science

Springer Nature recently announced that for all future articles, authors would have to pay Article Processing Charges of $2990.