We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!! uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

We've been asked what the most important thing we can do to improve research culture. My answer, the only answer, is to withdraw immediately from university rankings. bsky.app/profile/stat...

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 3y ago

Restating a prediction I made on twitter that university rankings will be a thing of the past 10 years from now, and we'll look back on the university heads that first led us away from them with a great respect and appreciation....1/

Writing some paragraphs about odds ratio and, more generally, different scales in nonlinear models. Any favorite articles on odds ratio?>

Our cluster Machine Learning for Science is up for 7 years more funding!

ML for Science@ml4science.bsky.social · last yr.

We're super happy: Our Cluster of Excellence will continue to receive funding from the German Research Foundation @dfg.de ! Here’s to 7 more years of exciting research at the intersection of #machinelearning and science! Find out more: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #ExcellenceStrategy

I need your input! Are there any good AI tools which can work on the reference section of a manuscript? i.e., you have a manuscript with an incomplete reference section and the tool can proactively find missing papers and information (e.g., page numbers). Like what journal production teams do.

New preprint w/ @christophvoelter.bsky.social et al. Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability 48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅 ✅ Stable individual traits ❌ No g-factor 🤝 Social ≠ non-social 🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This highlights the point that comparisons between humans and machines are continually muddied by a lack of distinction between evolution and development, both of which contribute to learning in the broad sense.

Since traveling to #cogsci2025 may be particularly difficult this year, we’re hosting a local workshop in Tübingen! 📅 July 24 | Talks & posters + catering supported by @ml4science.bsky.social Open to *everyone*, even without an accepted paper/abstr. 👉 Register by July 1: forms.gle/v6VtEE6UqYw5...

Tübingen pre-CogSci workshop 2025

July 24th from 10:00 - 15:00, Ground floor seminar room, Maria-von-Linden Str. 6 For the cognitive science community here in Tübingen, the annual Cogsci conference (https://cognitivesciencesociety.or...

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You don't want to miss this preprint (soon to be posted) about the many sins and crimes of p-curve procedures. See a quick tl;dr below. They were prematurely introduced into the science reform literature without doing the foundational theoretical work needed for all statistical methods.

Richard D. Morey@richarddmorey.bsky.social · last yr.

@clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper (for which we are about to submit a revision ) that 1) the p curve procedures are inappropriately sensitive, 2) inadmissible (i.e. have lower power than some other procedure for all alternatives), 2/

#OCD is a understudied disorder, meaning that we know way too little about the underlying (brain) processes. We have thus built the Brain Explorer app www.brainexplorer.net where everyone can easily contribute to understanding OCD. #MentalHealthAwareness @tueneurocampus.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Brain Explorer - Test your brain power

The brain explorer app for Apple and Android tests your brain functions and helps researchers to understand the brain. Explore your brain power and how brain functions are important for mental health.

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Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last yr.

Does anybody have a good visualization to explain how interactions can be confounded, and why interactions require interaction controls? @urisohn.bsky.social maybe? (Asking because I have an idea, but want to check out what exists already before investing the effort)

Behavioral scientists: If you want to impress us, show us how to increase our end-of-semester Course Evaluation Survey responses. #psych #nudge #behsci

Please join us next week Friday for our final seminar of the 2025 season! We are thrilled to be joined by Dr. Richard Riley (@richarddriley.bsky.social), a leading expert in individual participant data meta-analysis, to discuss the rationale, concepts, and pitfalls in conducting IPD syntheses.

Join #WesternU as our next Canada Excellence Research Chair ( #CERC). The awards provide for international researchers to lead prestigious research programs at Western and contribute to Canada's excellence in research & innovation. Application review begins June 4, 2025. www.uwo.ca/research/cer...

“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social. My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.

Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?

Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.

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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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I created this reading list on theory in psychology a while back, so it probably needs an update! Would love any recommendations for papers to include – maybe I can turn this into a syllabus of sorts. PDF of this reading list here: williamngiam.github.io/reading_list...

ReproducibiliTea@reproducibilitea.org · last yr.

Check out our Reading List on Theory in Psychology! 👉 rpt-rl.netlify.app Curated by: William Ngiam @willngiam.bsky.social

🙌 Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science: How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

Our new preprint by Claudia Neuendorf!! Is social network information useful for prediction? Using a social network dataset of 46,000 students in 2,000 classrooms, we predicted various class-level outcomes from 313 social network metrics with machine learning methods. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Super excited for #AERA2025 to kick off tomorrow! As a former Coloradan and frequent visitor who currently lives at sea level, while we're in the Mile High City I highly recommend keeping well hydrated and looking for signs of altitude sickness. It's a thing! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitud...

An instrument is not reliable or valid. Viewing validity as an argument, based on multiple types of validity and reliability evidence, addresses concerns about alpha, in particular. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Why We Might Still be Concerned About Low Cronbach’s Alphas in Domain-specific Knowledge Tests - Educational Psychology Review

Edelsbrunner et al. Educational Psychology Review, 37, 1–43, 2025 recently published a systematic review and meta-analysis of Cronbach's alphas in domain-specific knowledge tests. While appreciating…

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Okay appendices are getting out of control.

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science » Eiko Fried

Two days ago, four Dutch universities announced discontinuing their English-speaking psychology bachelor programs (1, 2). I will briefly explain (1) how this decision came to be, (2) why this is such ...

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This rigorous and critical meta-analysis of the existing experimental research on the effects of ChatGPT on learning and higher-order thinking may be more valuable for the critiques of the literature it raises than its findings. Kudos! doi.org/10.1016/j.co... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Really nice new paper by Jingyu Zhang, Oliver Lüdtke, and Alexander Robitzsch on the performance of doubly robust estimators of the ATE. A great example of clear writing and reporting, useful visualization through tables, and a review of modern literature. osf.io/5uj2f_v2

Proudly presenting the (for now) final version of "Why experiments work." To share the materials in a slightly more professional manner, I added a "Resources" page to my website: juliarohrer.com/resources/. That was long overdue anyway; now there's also a curated list of my papers and blog posts.

We @asapbio.bsky.social are planning some work on evaluating the community friendliness of preprint servers. Which factors matter to you, the community? For me = strong governance, transparent policies, good metadata, non-profit stewards, open licensing.

Thùy Vy T Nguyễn@thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social · last yr.

Recently we submitted a ms to a Springer journal; they recommended their preprint platform Research Square. It looks quite nice, and you can also see where your paper is in the review process. Not sure how new this is so curious what people think about this? www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Developmental psychologists: Look! Children have amazing capacity!! Educational psychologists: How terrible! Children do not perform well!

Gave a talk to our PhD students today, and feeling appreciative of all the recent methods work on improving common practices. Thanks to all the authors who work to make their work accessible, especially on social media. A few articles we discussed: