The first official data on the effectiveness of Australia's social media ban is out. Nothing unexpected, but it's worth reading. www.esafety.gov.au/research/soc...

Are you interested in smartphone interventions?📱 We are too. Specifically we were interested in increasing retention in a digital friction intervention. Let me tell you about our new preprint (1/n) with @dgruning.bsky.social @frederik.riedel.wtf @malte.the100.ci using one sec

This fall semester, there's a cool lecture series at UZH titled "Fake Science". Presenters include @yesuncomm.bsky.social, @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and @heldleonhard.bsky.social. Takes place every second Tuesday at 6.15 pm, open to the public. More information: www.uzh.ch/de/events/rv...

New Jingle assessment: we show that the "Perspective Taking Protocol" has very poor reliability and near-zero convergent validity with other nominal measures of emotional and spatial perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind. w/ @malte.the100.ci

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 5d ago

The RFT Perspective Taking Protocol has very poor reliability and convergent validity with other measures of perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind: A jingle assessment: https://osf.io/jb6c4

New paper (led by Xiangji Ying) showing LLMs can achieve high accuracy in detecting changes in outcomes across registrations versions. Thrilled to have been a small part of this great work. Check it out below!

Colby Vorland@colbyvorland.bsky.social · 7d ago

We show that LLMs are good at detecting outcome definition changes between registration versions: An automated approach to improve clinical trial registration and to identify outcome changes on ClinicalTrials.gov rdcu.be/fwHWo @ndevito1.bsky.social @mjpages.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social

Have you ever #preregistered a #psychometric evaluation of a measure? We’re looking for examples! Shameless self-promotion encouraged! Or if you found one you really liked as an example, send it my way! #OpenScience #measurement

RegCheck ( regcheck.app) has received a Commendation from the Society for Improving Psychological Science! You can check the other awardees below too:

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

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · 2w ago

🏆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

Sobering: initial trials with huge effect, large follow-up trial showing no evidence for an effect. But practice is already locked in and criticism is defused by pointing to random effects meta-analyses which are necessarily dominated by the initial trials. polypharmacy.substack.com/p/we-should-...

We should stop running clinical trials that cannot change practice

The case of prazosin for PTSD nightmares and the PACT trial

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There are still a few days to apply to work with me and @malte.the100.ci as a PhD or postdoc on the development and evaluation of RegCheck. Help us research whether RegCheck works in practice in helping to reduce preregistration-paper discrepancies. Apply below!

Jamie Cummins@jamiecummins.bsky.social · 4w ago

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...

The philosophical opinions of neuroscientists: "While 64% of participants endorse reductive physicalism - the view that mental activity is fully reducible to brain function - only 17.5% reject free will." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42455665/ n=2,657

Today in schmeasurement: Critical methods review of literature on 'double empathy' in autism concludes that, of 20 studies, > the experimental measures in these studies are largely not making measurements that would detect cognitive or affective empathy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cognitive Empathy, Affective Empathy and Empirical Research on the Double Empathy Problem: A Critical Methodology Review - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Purpose The double empathy problem posits that autistic people and non-autistic people both lack empathy with the other side rather than the lack of empathy solely residing in one side. There have bee...

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If you had to guess, what proportion of social/personality psych articles include a claim that the findings can be applied in the real world?

Join our Many-Analysts Simulation Study—yes, you read that correctly—accepted as Stage 1 Registered Report in (AMPPS) @psychscience.bsky.social. We're trying to find out how researchers' simulation design choices shape methodological conclusions. Further info: osf.io/8vcxh/files/...

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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Research on cognitive offloading × AI is booming and getting lots of public attention. Unfortunately, some (or even many) of it raises serious credibility concerns. Like this paper, which others and I recently commented on via @pubpeer.com: pubpeer.com/publications...

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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Congratulations, Professor Clarke! What an outstanding achievement. Seeing you leave is a loss for our group, but seeing you get a tenure track position is a huge win for meta-science, and, I dare say, psychology. Congratulations again to you, and @zpid.bsky.social!

Beth Clarke@bethclarke.bsky.social · last mo.

Very excited to announce that I’ll be joining @zpid.bsky.social in Trier, Germany as a tenure-track Jun.-Prof. in Psychological Metascience in November! 🤸🏻‍♀️✨

Very excited to announce that I’ll be joining @zpid.bsky.social in Trier, Germany as a tenure-track Jun.-Prof. in Psychological Metascience in November! 🤸🏻‍♀️✨

What is the charge? Training a chatbot? A succulent Chinese chatbot?

Simon@simonxix.com · last mo.

So what is the crime? Is the output of Claude copyrighted? Is Alibaba using Anthropic's product too much? If Alibaba's excessive use of Anthropic is damaging Anthropic's ability to offer their service, then how is that different from AI bots and scrapers effectively DDoSing open repositories?

I have managed to abstract the template for replies to critiques.

I was very fortunate to work as a visiting scholar at the Bennett Institute at University of Oxford for 6 months. Below I reflect on that experience, what we achieved, and what's yet to come! It's a privilege to get to continue to work with these great folk. www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/06...

Six months at the Bennett Institute: reflections on AI-assisted tools, research integrity, and future collaboration | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Dr. Jamie Cummins reflects on a six-month research stay at the Bennett Institute, where he developed and evaluated AI-assisted tools to improve research transparency, reproducibility, and trustworthin...

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Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science@bennettoxford.bsky.social · last mo.

🚀 During his six-month research visit at the Bennett Institute, @jamiecummins.bsky.social has worked on developing and evaluating AI-assisted tools to improve research transparency, reproducibility, and trustworthiness. Read his reflection (link in comments 👇)

Next INSPECT-SR training workshop: July 23rd www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Introduction to INSPECT-SR Training Workshop July

An introductory 2-hour online workshop will introduce participants to the INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled...

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Springer Nature will start issuing expressions of concern notices for books after investigating hundreds of its books for integrity-related problems in recent years.

Springer Nature to start issuing expressions of concern for books

Hermann/Pixabay Springer Nature will start issuing expressions of concern notices for books after investigating hundreds of its books for integrity-related problems in recent years. The publishing …

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Trials that fail INSPECT-SR trustworthiness assessments (inspect.sr) have much larger and implausible effect sizes. Checks are as simple as "is the mean within the scale range". Review included 857 Chinese RCTs, just published in the Lancet Psychiatry: doi.org/10.1016/S221...

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons GIF:

Superintendent Chalmers Yells SKINNER!

Alt: Superintendent Chalmers Yells SKINNER!

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Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons GIF:

Our lab loved this paper when it came out as it combined two of our interests, technology effects and schmeasurement. Plus: Registered report, open data. We read it for our journal club and found issues in the Slovak sample that we now posted to PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications...

Veli-Matti Karhulahti@mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 6mo ago

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Negative controls are very useful for spotting errors and data quality issues. If 1/3 of participants disagree that playing poker in person for real money is gambling, broader questions are raised about the other findings. pubpeer.com/publications...

🧵 New PubPeer comment. @cskay.bsky.social & Vlasceanu (2026) propose ECLAIR, an item battery to catch AI-driven bots. We read the preprint in our journal club & found it very interesting, but our read raised several concerns that we posted to PubPeer. pubpeer.com/publications...

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A scale for detecting LLM-generated responses in online survey research: https://osf.io/4p7ns

Roughly 1-in-5 citations of retracted articles on Wikipedia were added after the retraction occurred. Clear need for routine screening of Wikipedia for retracted articles. retractionwatch.com/2026/06/18/s...

Some Wikipedia citations to retracted papers persist for years, study finds

Retracted scientific papers cited on Wikipedia tend to linger on the popular website for years, according to a study examining nearly 1,200 citations.  The study’s authors, led by Ph.D. candid…

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