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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1/ 🚨 New preprint 🚨 How can governments implement effective—but often unpopular—policies without triggering public backlash? We investigated whether involving citizens in policymaking can reduce resistance to system-level policies. 🧵 Preprint: lnkd.in/dQGy47u4

New working paper with @robertboehm.bsky.social: it is an early version likely needing significant revision, so feedback is very much appreciated. We review multi-level games: a family of economic games that capture tensions within and between groups simultaneously. (1/5) doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Bad idea for many reasons, not least that LLM-based workflows for this type can produce wildly different results depending on even just a few analytic decisions with many plausible choices: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples": synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents. However, producing these samples requires many analyti...

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G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 3mo ago

February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers news.gallup.com/opinion/meth...

🚨 New in @science.org: CDC communication undermines trust in vaccines Link to the publication: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I’m excited to share this paper, which I wrote together with @schneali.bsky.social, @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & @laulilleholt.bsky.social (1/5)

We've released the first version of our tabpfn #rstats package to CRAN. This is an interface to the Python #TabPFN package. tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03... The model is a pre-trained deep learning model that has performed exceedingly well on every data set I've tested it on.

tabpfn 0.1.0

A new R package for tabular deep learning models.

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I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

🚀 My first PhD paper is out! I'm glad to share my first PhD publication: "Country-level differences in socio-economic development and cultural dimensions are associated with workers' economic expectations of AI", published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports (OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...).

Oliver Sacks admitted his case studies in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat were fraudulent “fairy tales”. What Psych101 core texts are left? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Emphasizing herd immunity might be a helpful strategy to improve vaccine uptake 💉 In this meta-analysis, authors found small positive, but heterogenous effects. Interestingly, effects are twice as large for experiential methods, such as VR or simulations! Read the full paper here: doi.org/qc4j

[130] Researchbox: Even easier to use than before. More transparently permanent. datacolada.org/130

[130] ResearchBox: Even Easier to Use and More Transparently Permanent than Before - Data Colada

Over the past 10 years or so, posting data, code, and materials for published papers has gone from eccentric to mundane. There are a few platforms that enable sharing research files, including Researc...

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Tomorrow marks the start of 🌍 World AMR Awareness Week 2025! We’ll be sharing insights from our AMR research as psychologists at @univie.ac.at @ipb.bsky.social @unierfurt.bsky.social and BNITM. Like/share this post for updates throughout the week! #AMR #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek #WAAW2025

Stop being a lame-o and replace dplyr with the more slappin genzplyr.

Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz · 9mo ago

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Ouch

Nathanael Larigaldie@nathlarigaldie.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so... Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...

My PhD student @qinyuxiao.bsky.social has written a wonderful tribute to Gary Bornstein’s influential paper on team games (doi.org/10.1207/S153...) — a paper that remains as relevant today as it was over 20 years ago. You can read Qinyu’s short piece here: doi.org/10.1038/s441...

The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions - Nature Reviews Psychology

Nature Reviews Psychology - The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions

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📢 New SysRev + Meta-Analysis out in Health Psychology Review! Together with the amazing Martin Voracek, @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & @robertboehm.bsky.social Do messages about herd immunity increase or decrease vaccination motivation? 🤔 Read more to find out! 🧵 OA: doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Emphasising herd immunity in vaccine advocacy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Emphasising herd immunity in vaccine communication may affect vaccine uptake by eliciting prosocial or selfish motivations. While experimental evidence has accumulated, quantitative syntheses are l...

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🚨 Beyond excited that our new paper is out today in @natureportfolio.nature.com We find that people are more likely to cheat when they delegate to AI than when acting themselves. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature

People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by ...

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Z-curve plot is a new visual model fit diagnostic for #metaanalysis with an emphasis on #publicationbias. In contrast to funnel plots, z-curve plots - visualize the distribution of z-statistics (where bias usually occurs) - compare the fit of multiple models simultaneously

A shout out for @nrennie.bsky.social fab book on data viz! nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/

"Understanding different types of review articles: A primer for early career researchers." By Ghosh & Choudhury (2025) Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.4103/indi... #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Methodology

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨ This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

New blog post: Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/07/easi... Downloading all files in an OSF project can be a hassle. Not anymore, with Papercheck! Just run: osf_file_download("6nt4v")

Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck

Researchers increasingly use the Open Science Framework (OSF) to share files, such as data and code underlying scientific publications, or ...

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Awesome reading list!

A bunch of readings and a new book on Bayesian meta-analysis statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/15/a...

{ralger} #rstats package looks like an absolute game changer in the task of web scraping for people with very occasional need in this rather nerdy task 🤩 Instead of drilling manually through cached HTML, one can use intuitively named functions that just do it ✨ 🔗 feddelegrand7.github.io/ralger/

An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior. It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.

Just a reminder that #ESMARConf2025 is starting tomorrow! This is a free online conference about evidence synthesis and meta-analysis using #Rstats. Further details can be found here: esmarconf.org/2025/

2025 - ESMARConf

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🚨New paper!🚨 Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵 Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal