In many fields, pilot studies are critical for methods & tool development & refinement, yet are often overlooked & rarely reported Any ecologists & evolutionary biologists with a special interest and experience in piloting in ecology & evolution: suggested reading, previous research, etc...?

Just participated in @mbneff.bsky.social and @agataboch.bsky.social's hackathon on reporting strategies for piloting studies. Really cool & important project! Here's their website: pilotreportingtf.github.io #SIPS2026 @improvingpsych.org

Pilot Reporting Task Force

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Critically lacking in the telling-people-about-things-I'm-doing area but @agataboch.bsky.social and I just finished presenting our work on piloting at #SIPS2026 online!

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What Pilot Studies Can (and Cannot) Do for Validity in Psychological Research: https://osf.io/t968e

Check out our preprint: "What Pilot Studies Can (and Cannot) Do for Validity in Psychological Research" Great job @yashvin.bsky.social and @mbneff.bsky.social for leading! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

When I worked at Brown, it was an open secret: many more women applied than men, so to keep a rough gender parity in the student body, men got a big boost in admissions. Trump's attacks on DEI may hurt men in college admissions. hechingerreport.org/an-unexpecte...

Trump’s attacks on DEI may hurt men in college admission

A government order that colleges disclose details about their applicants suggests that advantages by gender may face the same heightened scrutiny as purported racial preferences. That threatens to acc...

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex@smutclyde.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Rate your score on Factor Fexcectorn. Well done, Scientific Reports. pubpeer.com/publications...

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

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Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I think we should be blasting these data from the rooftops. Because of the environment of information, people think huge swaths of the populace are anti-vax and that’s simply not true. Pointing out how much they are in the minority is KEY!

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 11mo ago

Polling showing that a majority of Trump’s voters support vaccines was shared with several Republicans lawmakers’ staffers in a closed-door meeting head of RFK Jr.’s Senate hearing, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

Important updates to the PsyArXiv policies! If you're a #PsyArXiv user, these are worth taking the time to read. #PsychSciSky

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · 11mo ago

⚠️ PsyArXiv is updating its policies in light of a higher volume of low quality submissions and our recent switch to a pre-moderation workflow. Read more about this change here 👉 (buff.ly/8jhqRJu ) and see our updated policies here 👉 (is.gd/paxpolicy ).

As part of the Pilot Reporting Task Force, founded at @improvingpsych.org conference 2023, I would like to share a preprint with you: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We are looking for feedback on our perspective piece, promoting more transparency in the reporting of piloting in psychological science. 1/4

For those interested, here's our full preprint on the call for more transparent pilot study reporting: osf.io/preprints/ps... @ihandleyminer.bsky.social #OpenScience #PilotStudies

Mary Beth Neff ("Mary-Beth")@mbneff.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Don't seat the baby near the door" 👶 Thanks to @infantstudies.bsky.social for the chance to discuss our task force work on making pilot study insights more transparent to improve psyc science! @agataboch.bsky.social #OpenScience #DevPsySky #PilotStudies #PsychScience #Transparency

"Don't seat the baby near the door" 👶 Thanks to @infantstudies.bsky.social for the chance to discuss our task force work on making pilot study insights more transparent to improve psyc science! @agataboch.bsky.social #OpenScience #DevPsySky #PilotStudies #PsychScience #Transparency

International Congress of Infant Studies@infantstudies.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New on the Baby Blog - Making pilots public and improving developmental science by @agataboch.bsky.social and @mbneff.bsky.social #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #infantstudies infantstudies.org/making-pilot...

REMINDER: abstracts for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference are due in one week (July 31)! Any and all work related to large collaborative science is welcome! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/

submissions

>>> Submit your abstract here! Submissions for all session types are now open! * *Panels, hackathons, and symposia:* maximum 500 words * *Talks, lightning talks, and unconferences:* maximum 250 words ...

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PCI Psychology is open for submissions! Did you know that you can easily submit your recommended preprint to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals? See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

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Also, this badly threatens neurodivergent liberation. Doubtless not the intent of these specific authors but this whole line of enquiry amounts to divide & conquer Make autistic activists separate from those with co-occuring learning disability so that they cannot advocate for them.

Ann Memmott@annmemmott.bsky.social · last yr.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... A big, well funded team tries to sort autistic people into four invented categories, based on 7 other invented categories. Based e.g. on past research that doesn't say what they allege it says. No inclusion of autistic people, discussion of ethics, human rights, etc.

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1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review

Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...

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📣 Call for Proposals: SIPS-PCI Registered Report Funding Partnership! The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and Peer Community In Registered Reports @pci-regreports.bsky.social invite researchers from all areas of psychology to submit empirical research projects for consideration.

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Mary Beth Neff ("Mary-Beth")@mbneff.bsky.social · last yr.

Very glad this paper is published, especially in an open science forward journal! This one means a lot as it triggered so.much.beef. Was often told that I didn't know what I was doing/wasn't going to work - turns out I was right 😜 TL;DR: trust your instincts + rethink using literal competitors

Very glad this paper is published, especially in an open science forward journal! This one means a lot as it triggered so.much.beef. Was often told that I didn't know what I was doing/wasn't going to work - turns out I was right 😜 TL;DR: trust your instincts + rethink using literal competitors

Language Development Research@langdevres.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Mary Beth Neff and Ingrid Lossius Falkum on publication of their new paper "Decoupling literalist behavior from children’s early metaphor comprehension abilities" in LDR as part of a special issue on development of metaphor comprehension. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...