New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd

When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...

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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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El #Volumen41, Número 1 está disponible. 8 artículos exploran: 🌈 Identidad y bienestar 🦠 Relaciones bajo estrés ♀️ Liderazgo femenino 🤝 Cultura de honor 🎶 Voz y estereotipos 🏣 Neoliberalismo y optimismo 🦅 Migración y pertenencia 😡 Odio e inhibición Esto es lo que encontrarás dentro👇 #IJSP

That's all for our special issue: Exploring double standards in ethnicity, migration, and intercultural relations. What have we learned about double standards in migration? 🔎👇

#OutNow in #iCS Deepika Kashyap reviews ‘Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media’. This book offers a vital corrective to our understanding of digital power. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Indigenous digital life: the practice and politics of being Indigenous on social media

Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Sycophantic AI makes human interaction feel more effortful & less satisfying! Over three weeks users became nearly as likely to seek personal advice from sycophantic AI as friends & family, and reported lower satisfaction with their real-world social interactions. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.079...

La exclusión de l@s apátridas del proceso de regularización ha servido para poner en evidencia las dificultades y obstáculos que afrontan las personas saharauis para acceder a la residencia a través del estatuto de apátrida. ✏️ Sarah Babiker / @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/fronteras/re...

Regularización extraordinaria o limbo apátrida: una perspectiva saharaui

La exclusión de las personas apátridas del proceso de regularización extraordinaria ha servido para poner en evidencia las dificultades y obstáculos que afrontan las personas saharauis para acceder a ...

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"From Vastness to Unity: Awe Strengthens Identity Fusion" ➡️ Read the open access article published in Emotion, an APA Journal doi.org/10.1037/emo0... #PsychSckiSky

Sage publications put this behind a paywall (which they have done for other articles of mine that were previously open access), but it is free to view on Jstor: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...

Read the actual science by @boglarkanyul.bsky.social, Inna Ksenofontov, Alexandra Fleischmann, and Rotem Kahalon! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Brilliance as gender deviance: Gender-role incongruity as another barrier to women's success in academic fields

“Brilliance,” a state of extreme intellectual ability, is stereotypically associated with men but not women. Research finds that portrayals of brillia…

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As part of the special issue Explanation and Causality in Sociology, @rubac.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social and I discussed what it takes to do causal inference with text as data - whether we try to explain texts, treat them as causes, or use them as controls 💬🔍👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Text as Data and Causal Inference in Sociology - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

This article discusses and showcases approaches to causal inference with text as data, focusing on the challenges and opportunities that arise when sociological constructs are embedded in language. We...

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Empieza el 8° encuentro sobre fundamentalismos en @hefa-ehu.bsky.social Estaré haciendo un hilo con reflexiones destacadas de la jornada 🧵👇🏽 #topaketak8

Buscamos a personas queer/LGTBIQ+ para un estudio cualitativo sobre referentes y experiencias dentro de la comunidad. 🏳️‍🌈 Si te interesa escríbeme a irene.cisma@ehu.eus

INSTALACIÓN | "Carne y Arena": Iñárritu nos arrastra al límite 📌Visítala en la sede de EITB de Bilbao hasta el 20 de junio orain.eus/es/cultura/c...

Iñárritu nos arrastra al límite

En la instalación inmersiva “Carne y arena”, dispuesta en la sede de EITB hasta el 20 de junio, el cineasta mexicano Alejandro González Iñárritu empuja a el o la visitante a meterse en los zapatos del...

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NEW Open Visualization Academy COURSE: 'Visualization with R’s ggplot2 Package and AI Tools' openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/visu... And in the newsletter: 'Designing for the Middle Reader': openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/designing-... #dataViz #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

1.1 Introduction - Visualization with R’s ggplot2 Package and AI Tools - Open Visualization Academy

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Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences

Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

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10/ Bottom line: Reproducibility in social science is higher than often claimed, but robustness remains a key challenge. More open data, more robustness, and more scrutiny can only help. Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...

Check out this @nature.com paper on how the brain’s functional hierarchy evolves from birth to 100. Infants' gradient architecture is anchored by sensory systems, differentiates along association and control axes during childhood/adolescence & dedifferentiates in aging www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan - Nature

fMRI data from individuals of a wide range of ages (from a few days to 100 years old) are used to map the key organizational axes of functional connectivity in the human cortex throughout the lifespan...

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Protect the dolls AND have it all? Galván-Hernández et al. study feminist support for Spain's Trans Law. They find that win-win messaging bolsters support among feminist women, while conflict narratives increase zero-sum beliefs. Read the full piece open-access for more: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

What can political angst reveal about efforts to redress past wrongs? Wenzel et al. describe 2 types of angst (collective & empathetic collective) in the Australian Indiginous Voice referendum. Read their findings & what they mean for empowering historically victimized groups doi.org/10.1111/pops...

📄 Article highlight: The Roots of Selective Solidarity in Germany. A new study by fmsmallfield.bsky.social @tijana-et-al.bsky.social et al.confirms that Germans express more solidarity with Ukrainian refugees than with those from Afghanistan, Syria, and Eritrea. But what drives this bias? 🧵👇

We noticed this in our new global social media RCT study: One of the biggest effects we saw in our initial data was that taking a break from social media significantly improved sleep quality. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Insufficient Sleep in Adolescents and the Need for System Changes

Insufficient sleep is one of the most common health risks in adolescents and is associated with worse cognitive performance and academic achievement, as well as depression, other mental health conditi...

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An editor from a great academic press reached out — could I turn the website into a book? Our plan from day 1: a beautiful print copy, with full free version online forever. Today, marginaleffects.com hosts the exact same book that Prof Betancourt reviewed for JASA: doi.org/10.1080/0162... 3/9

Model to Meaning: How to Interpret Statistical Models with R and Python

Published in Journal of the American Statistical Association (Just accepted, 2026)

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Emotional responses to state repression predict collective climate action intentions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emotional responses to state repression predict collective climate action intentions - Nature Climate Change

As climate activists escalate disruptive protest, authorities respond by intensifying restrictions on protest. This study examines how protest repression shapes climate activism and indicates distinct...

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«Los discursos hegemónicos también son visuales. Construyen imaginarios sobre el éxito, el cuerpo, el género, el trabajo… constantemente. La ilustración puede intervenir ahí desplazando códigos", opina Candela Sierra. Por @ana-veiga.bsky.social 

Candela Sierra, ilustradora: "Votar a la ultraderecha es cavar tu propia tumba" | lamarea.com

La ilustradora, autora de la última portada de 'La Marea', reflexiona sobre la ilustración como herramienta de transformación social para "generar contraimágenes o desmontar ciertos relatos".

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🗣Las Guerreras de la Amazonía: “Nos dicen que abandonemos nuestros hogares, pero es que todo está contaminado” Por @splaza.bsky.social 

Las Guerreras de la Amazonía: “Nos dicen que abandonemos nuestros hogares, pero es que todo está contaminado”

Dannya y Lency, de 12 y 15 años, llevan unos días recorriendo Europa para contar su lucha y su victoria jurídica en Ecuador, contra la instalación de grandes mecheros que queman petróleo para obtener gas y desprenden contaminantes en sus entornos. Han ganado en los juzgados pero las instalaciones permanecen.

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Still processing all the nice people met last week at EASP Small Meeting in Granada. See you at @easp2026.bsky.social 💜

📊 Article highlight: Thematic and sentiment analysis on X: A multi-method approach to examine the refugee crisis in Türkiye. Using social media, this study conducted by @meleksima.bsky.social uncovers how refugees are differently represented online.

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Ordinal regression models made easy: A tutorial on parameter interpretation, data simulation and power analysis

Ordinal data such as Likert items, ratings or generic ordered variables are widespread in psychology. These variables are usually analysed using metric models (e.g., standard linear regression) with ...

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El Movimiento Regularización Ya anuncia que el Consejo de Ministros aprobará un decreto que regularizará la situación administrativa de miles de migrantes tras un acuerdo entre PSOE y Podemos.

Acuerdo histórico para la regularización de miles de personas migrantes en España

El Movimiento Regularización Ya anuncia que el Consejo de Ministros del martes 27 de enero aprobará un decreto que beneficiará a cientos de miles de personas que se encuentran en irregularidad administrativa tras un acuerdo entre PSOE y Podemos.

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