When the link in your data availability statement is just to the publisher's guidance on writing data availability statements...

www.aimos2026.org AIMOS 2026 will be in Wellington this year on 30 Nov to 2 Dec. Abstracts due 15 Aug. This is a very fun and very interactive metascience conference. Come along and hang out!

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Join the AIMOS 2026 Conference n Wellington, New Zealand, for three days of interdisciplinary meta-research, keynote speakers, workshops, and networking to improve research practices.

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www.massivemagazine.org.nz/articles/cal... This isn't the point of this article, but it's really good to see our colleagues in the College of Sciences pushing to do the right thing, even when it's the hard thing.

We need to change norms around sexual harassment Yesterday Tessa West spoke up about a sexual harassment complaint she filed against John Jost. Not only is he a senior colleague in the dept of psychology, but he is one of the most prominant figures in the field of social and political psychology.

This. Even the "pretend" option may not pan out for much longer... How long will governments be willing to pay universities for handing out degrees to students who haven't learned anything?

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · 4w ago

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Join Professor Gina Grimshaw on 2 July, 6:00–7:30 PM, for a public lecture discussing how emotions shape attention, memory, decision-making, and human connection. Register now on: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Sue Smith@suesmith.lol · 2mo ago

"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially." Aye, if only any of us had been saying this from day one 🤡 www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...

AI is a tool that *can* create value when used correctly for the right problem, it is NOT a value in and of itself.

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Fantastic detective work here. Francine Shapiro's widely-believed story about her discovery of EMDR is false, and perhaps just a branding exercise to conceal an origin in NLP

A “Decisive Moment” Confirms the Origins of EMDR and Draws Attention to Other Claims - Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy

The widely accepted story that the founder of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Francine Shapiro, developed an interest in eye movements through a chance discovery in 1987 is false...

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Me peer reviewing yet another cross-sectional mediation paper

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'

Never has an article better summed up my personality

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 2mo ago

“That’s way too big to have that kind of effect,” Williams recalled thinking as his first impression of the study. “Because I love to procrastinate instead of continuing marking, I then looked up the paper and started reading it."

Masterful dissection of a problematic paper by Smut Clyde (@smutclyde.bsky.social) pubpeer.com/publications... Scientific Reports (@springernature.com), do better.

events.humanitix.com/questioning-... Really looking forward to this talk! @markrubin.bsky.social is critical of some of our assumptions, but always kind and constructive. Should be a fascinating discussion.

Questioning Some Metascience Assumptions, with Mark Rubin

Do the assumptions of metascience hold up to close scrutiny?

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The submission portal for #AIMOS2026 is now open. Submit your lightning talks, discussion groups hackathons, and workshops now. www.aimos2026.org/submit

Many people think they know what drowning looks like. But if you have not learned from some authoritative source (like this article) what drowning looks like -- then you do not know what drowning looks like

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

Friends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressions

Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...

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100% worth your 63 seconds if you have my reading speed. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

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"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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Do people have favourite tools for detecting hallucinated citations (that aren't themselves reliant on LLMs)?

"Universities now use their credibility to wash the stains off weak claims, filtering pseudoscience through degree programs and endowed chairs." How integrative medicine gets laundered inside universities. skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ep...

Epistemic Laundering: How Universities Sell Pseudoscience | Skeptical Inquirer

Walking through the lobby of the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta, I passed sealed doors concealing linear accelerators and PET/CT scanners. Thes ...

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Doesn't feel too out there to say that every hour of work "saved" by AI just becomes someone else's hour of work.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

Does engaging with the arts help to slow the aging process? According to this new paper from Fancourt et al the answer is yes! Alas, the paper is actually unsuitable for such claims. Let’s examine by discussing how you'd establish whether arts engagement actually caused future health! 1/18 🧵

Does leisure activity matter for epigenetic ageing? Analyses of arts engagement and physical activity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

AbstractBackground and Objectives. Over the past decade, ageing clocks have become widely adopted as important tools for understanding biological ageing an

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I came for the mutant raccoons, but stayed for the awesome experience at PCI RR. This was a registered report via the scheduled review track, with open peer reviews that were wonderfully constructive and genuinely improved the thing. rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere...

mat marques, ph.d.@mdmarques.com · 3mo ago

more words, but fewer cute photos, can be found here in our registered report royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Causal inference peeps, how do we feel about the "loneliness is as bad for your health as 15 cigarettes a day" meme? The original meta-analysis that seemed to spur the idea is here journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

In a meta-analysis, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues find that individuals' social relationships have as much influence on mortality risk as other well-established risk factors for mortality, such...

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if you're really curious about the true state of reality, click below for the latest from @matthewmatix.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social, Martin, and me reported in the @aunz.theconversation.com

Conspiracy theories: do 300,000 Kiwis really believe Canada is building an army of mutant super-raccoons?

Surveys may overestimate belief in conspiracy theories because of trolls and jokers – but genuine believers can still cause real-world harm.

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Reminder: when authors observe Cohen's d = 4, no they didn't. Article now retracted: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Critique: osf.io/preprints/ps... Blog on plausibility of effect sizes: trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/if-res...

RETRACTED ARTICLE: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communication...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - RETRACTED ARTICLE: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a...

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Survey research is often interpreted as showing that belief in conspiracy theories can be surprisingly widespread, including belief in conspiracy theories that would be astonishing if true. For example, in The Atlantic we learn that “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country”

Many folk are surprised to discover thay Risk of Bias assessment tools tend not to interrogate the question “Did this study actually happen? And are its results trustworthy enough to believe?” Jack’s Cochrane endorsed INSPECT-SR checks have done a lot to mainstream such Trustworthiness Assessment.

Jack Wilkinson@jdwilko.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very nice INSPECT-SR website containing the guidance and editable template, made by @ianhussey.mmmdata.io inspect.sr

One of my favorites paper got published 🤓 It covers a lot of ground and it’s the best summary of my views on misinformation and what to do about it. Give it a read :) 🔓 osf.io/preprints/ps... 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1461...