New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps

Current research opportunities

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🎧New #SPPS research explores how shared music preferences can have implications for compatibility and satisfaction in romantic relationships. Couples exhibited grater similarity in their music preferences than in their personality traits. 📚 Read more: https://ow.ly/CByi50ZzVsA

The Metacheck Shiny app to download all private OSF Repositories is done. The manual is updated, and everything is in the dev branch on GitHub. As a bonus, we explain how you can run repo_check, data_check, code_check, and codebook_check on your repository with 1 line of code. Launch next week.

New paper on virtue trade-offs in everyday life, led by my PhD student, Qilin Zhang! A growing literature emphasizes trade-offs between competing moral principles (e.g., kindness vs. honesty), but are such trade-offs ubiquitous in everyday life? 1/5

The Metacheck team is busy building an improved version of the osf_download function (www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo... ). You will soon be able to use metacheck to download all files, wikis, and meta-data. You will also be able to upload everything to Zenodo.

36  Checking Local Files with repo_check and code_check – The Metacheck Manual

A guide to Metacheck, an R package providing a module based tool for checking scientific manuscripts and data repositories for best practices using text search, R code, and optional LLM queries.

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Liz West, UK artist known for large-scale light installations which combine light and colour to heighten the viewers experience. #WomensArt

Important context for why we are making these changes is available in this summary: www.cos.io/blog/osf-cha...

OSF Changes: A Note to Users

The Center for Open Science announced a significant change to the Open Science Framework (OSF). This post shares what led to the change, implications, and what's next.

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Brian Nosek@briannosek.bsky.social · 6d ago

Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

This is also a good reminder that scientific infrastructure is not free. Very easy to forget when the service *itself* is free.

Big changes ahead: the OSF will stop support sharing (new) data, materials and code. Feels like the end of an era!

Brian Nosek@briannosek.bsky.social · 6d ago

Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

This is how you know we need a wealth tax

“The central drama of the modern world is innovation against suffering, and we have made incredible progress so far. But we are doing far worse than we could. Millions still suffer from untreatable diseases, because of bottlenecks that we could fix.”

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 6d ago

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.

Researchers with greater scientific impact are less happy. The reason is that they suffer from worse work-life balance. All work and no play, makes academics miserable. But...scholars who have prosocial goals and creative engagement are happy. The key is tenure. academic.oup.com/rev/article/...

It's bad for colleges to be a subsidized minor league

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴@wamsleylab.bsky.social · last wk.

Colleges should not have athletics. period. DI and DII athletics programs are a financial drain on universities. Competitive sports bears no relation to our academic mission. Take that $ and give it to expanding need-based financial aid. #edusky #academicsky

I've read a lot of AI pieces, and this is by far the best I've seen yet.

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · last wk.

I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Listening is a dyadic process associated with better job performance, leadership, quality of relationships, trust, job knowledge, job attitudes, and well-being. Listening yields clarity, novel plans, and strengthens attachment to the conversation partner. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

“3/4ths of disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.” — @nondriver.bsky.social in collaboration with @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth Worth repeating. #UrbanTruth

"Many folks see trees primarily as aesthetic features or amenities, but they should be recognized as part of our public health infrastructure."

As urban tree shade shrinks, mortality rises

As trees disappear from urban neighborhoods, lives may be lost with them. In a new study, Northwestern University scientists tracked death rates and fluctuations in tree canopy cover across an 11-year...

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📢 ***Call for papers at Psychological Science (APS)*** Dr Roni Porat and I are editing a special issue, "From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World.” Please see the detailed call here (www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...) and send us your best work!

This is so fucked up. Researchers rushed a gene-editing trial for a 6yo girl with a non-fatal condition, pressured the parents to illegally fund it, didn't tell them the treatment might kill her, promised not to publish their results in Nature, and did it anyway. Fucking criminals.

Pat Savage@patrickesavage.bsky.social · 2w ago

I cried reading this heartbreaking and outrageous report. The paper should be retracted and the researchers and hospital should receive a hell of a lot stronger sanction than a $4,000 fine.

“We can’t comment on personnel matters” is often institution-speak for “we’d rather protect our reputation than show you how we handled this.” Adjudicated harassment cases should be given sunlight, not hidden or silenced.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 4w ago

You are right: when we hide these outcomes it is concealment, not punishment. My philosophy is that the sexual harassment reports should be made public so the community can read them and draw their own conclusions. This would both exonerate innocent people and hold guilty parties accountable.

"A study done in Phoenix done by Arizona State University found data centres can increase air temperatures by up to 4 degrees Fahrenheit in downwind neighbourhoods. The waste heat given off by one data centre as it cooled itself exceeded the amount produced by 40,000 households."

CNN@cnn.com · 3w ago

New research suggests data centers have an alarming and overlooked environmental impact: heat pollution. CNN's Laura Paddison reports.

McGill social psych is looking to hire an assistant prof! I *too* am happy to chat about the job for anyone interested. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

Assistant Professor - Department of Psychology - Social Psychology

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

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Eric Hehman@erichehman.bsky.social · 3w ago

McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

"Students anted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings+complex ideas. They didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to gen AI. They wanted to do the work.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

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Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

Study Reveals How Avocados Reverse Sexes Throughout the Day

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. How avocados do this has been unclear — until now, thanks to a UC Davis study.

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I wrote last year about the US Administration's plans to eviscerate Optional Practical Training, America's largest single source of global STEM talent: www.piie.com/blogs/realti... That came to pass. The White House is sharpening its tools to shatter OPT, and thus kneecap many US universities.

Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation

The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.

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This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.com

Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Can one minute daily audio recordings replace long symptom surveys? Very excited about our new paper addressing this question! @aidangcw.bsky.social @vizecolin.bsky.social et al. Short 🧵 below...

Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries - Volume 56

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Here's another way to see that rent is probably the most important long-term affordability constraint: In a world where rent (shelter) prices increased only as fast as the rest of the economy, purchasing power today would be about 13% higher (measured by wages)

Joe Fish@sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 3w ago

Anyway, the chart you should be posting is how rent prices look like compared to wages. Note: This has been going on for a long time! The housing crisis is a long standing issue.

Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the balletic poise, calm elegance and graceful athleticism of the panda.