this is Arina Bones levels of prescience! maybe we all really knew the future all along!? ... but kudos for clearly stating the limitations - it seems that predicting actual behavior in the field is much more tricky!

Ashwini Ashokkumar@ashwinia.bsky.social · 5d ago

An important limitation: LLM predictions were about 2x too large, on avg. Accuracy also was lower for small effects, treatments on stable attitudes, field outcomes, and non-text treatments. LLM predictions can help inform research but should not replace human evidence.

we started to work on this eons ago (like 2023?) and a lots happened in the meantime, but I believe the main principles we identified are still relevant even today...

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · last wk.

Congratulations to the project “Core principles of responsible generative AI usage in research,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! This is an expert-consensus framework that helps assess, document, and report whether the use of GenAI aligns with enduring principles of responsible GenAI use.

🔔🔔 Russian polls have shown ~75% support for the war in Ukraine since February 2022, essentially flat. New working paper with Kirill Chmel and @nikitasavin.bsky.social shows that number is stable partly because it stopped measuring what people actually think. 🧵 ssrn.com/abstract=711...

The need for this also a major finding of our qualitative work on reproducibility journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

What helps and hinders reproducible research? Researchers’ perspectives from a cross-disciplinary interview study

Debates and policy initiatives addressing research reproducibility have expanded considerably in recent years. Yet, many of these measures remain generic and risk overlooking the lived realities of re...

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Sally Dalton@sallydalton.bsky.social · 2w ago

The @ukrepro.bsky.social STAR report calls for open research approaches that recognise disciplinary diversity. This aligns strongly with work at Leeds, where we've developed 10 methodology-specific Open Research Checklists. We hope to share them soon! www.ukrn.org/2026/07/01/u...

sounds like a dream job!

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

our new survey exp methods preprint comparing video/text+images/long text/short text vignettes on emotion elicitation, policy support, manipulation check success and survey enjoyment brings some clear answers (ppl like videos and short text elicits weaker emotions), as well as some new puzzles!

If the editors regroup elsewhere to form a new journal, they hope to publish with a society, Ryder told us, citing journals like Journal of the Royal Statistical Society and Annals of Statistics, “none of which force authors to pay APCs.”

‘The exploitation still remains’: Stats journal associate editors resign over $3,000 publishing charge

Eighteen associate editors of the journal Statistics and Computing have announced they will resign after Springer Nature announced the journal would require a fee to publish.  In a July 8 stat…

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AIMOS@aimosinc.bsky.social · 4w ago

retractionwatch.com/2026/07/09/t... Well done editors!

Nice replication with Norwegian twin data of @pamherd.bsky.social et al.'s polygenic-score-based result that heritability of education increased for women over time with increasing gender equality. www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @olerogeberg.bsky.social @kph3k.bsky.social @torkildl.bsky.social

WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

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Looking for a #SAS user who is interested in computational reproducibility to join a many-analysts-style paper. Run some #stats in SAS, get authorship, contribute to the world of reproducibility. If this is you or you know someone DM or email me (protzko@gmail) #phdsky

almost silly how after all those years of talking about DPTs, we only now finally test for mechanisms of how S2 actually spots & corrects errors of S1... before that, it was simply:

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Daniel Spinoza-Martín@d-spinozamartin.bsky.social · last mo.

In a new paper out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social, @gordpennycook.bsky.social and I argue the classic view that System 2 spontaneously corrects System 1 is flawed. We provide evidence that S2 is instead triggered by conflict between competing S1 intuitions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢NEW RESOURCE: A new web resource and accompanying report to explore the vulnerabilities to political interference of 33 key UK scientific public bodies & 11 scientific advisory committees! unchecked.uk/public_body_... 1/7

⚡ Metaventory: building better science ⚡ Had many discussions about the need for mapping out all that's meta-science: people, tools, events, jobs, simulations, etc. in one place. Metaventory aims to help connect those interested in meta-science & improving science. metaventory.vercel.app

Integrative experiments - where effects are tested across auxiliary assumptions - are a more useful tool than multiverse analysis and many analyst studies. If you like to ponder the philosophical basis of statistical procedures, you might enjoy this paper! osf.io/preprints/ps...

this is how it should be, constructive and collegial criticism & its reception, happy to see this! I have a meta-question for the autors - is it possible the data were not cleaned cause it wasn't preregistered? I've encountered similar issue before and I'm interested in takes on how to handle it...

Malte Elson@malte.the100.ci · 2mo ago

We raised these with the authors before going to Pubpeer first. They were receptive and proposed running a replication together with their own funding, an exemplary, outstanding response to critique. That study is now underway, led by Aaron Friedli & @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social

"Cancer misinformation is directly linked to higher rates of death, yet we still treat it as something for individual patients to navigate and individual doctors to address in brief appointments, while platforms nominally flag content as their algorithms continue doing the opposite."

Cancer Myths and Falsehoods Can Be Deadly

Cancer falsehoods spread fast, feel compelling, and cost lives. The fix isn't more facts, it's understanding why people believe them.

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for a second I was worried that the neon look is gone in the updated version - then I found out it's not and there is even a soundtrack!

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I built a website that tracks open source tools that provide automated checks for scientific manuscripts: lakens.github.io/automated_re... It provides a summary through RSS feed that you can subscribe to. It tracks 13 repositories - if you want your repo to be included, let me know!

📢 Call for Papers! We are partnering with the Journal of Economic Surveys on a special issue: Reproducibility and Meta-Science in Economics. Submission deadline: 1 March 2027. Details in thread 🧵

Popper *and* Pokemon?!

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Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After hearing the enthusiastic description of the importance of the work of Popper at the start of this episode, I am almost tempted to buy the 200k trading card....

I am with @statmodeling.bsky.social on this - I also havn't managed to read the whole paper but think it is very cool! doi.org/10.1037/met0... .))

Adjusting for nonrepresentativeness in continuous norming using multilevel regression and poststratification. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/06/11/a...

Retracted studies threaten the conclusions of meta analyses that include them. “Where a retraction undermines confidence in the conclusions, a decision may be required on whether the systematic review itself should be retracted, in line with guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics”

The Cochrane Collaboration@cochrane.org · 2mo ago

As part of our commitment to the highest standards of evidence, Cochrane is strengthening how we identify and manages retracted publications associated with studies included in published or identified in ongoing Cochrane reviews. Read more: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... #ResearchIntegrity

For one of the more recent long-form pieces making the case against the big corporate publishers, see The Stockholm Declaration #scholarlyPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration

Abstract. Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’

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let's say that the new Pokemon Lego aesthetics is not really doing it for me... www.vooks.net/lego-pokemon...

I really enjoyed collecting data for this study (a Prolific experiment that required careful participants coordination in real time). unfortunately, I am unable to write a management paper to save my life😅 therefore I am happy my colleagues managed to see the project through ❤️

Petr Houdek@petrhoudek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/N Can ethical people gain power inside unethical organizations? In our new paper with @bahniks.bsky.social (and originally @mvranka.bsky.social, before he left our team), we study a difficult problem: prosocial will may not be enough when the dominant coalition benefits from harmful practices.

elizabethginexi.substack.com/i/199685587/... no issue with no 13 - all research can be made freely available even without paying exorbitant APCs

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Is power posing a Thing after all? The author of the original research offers new evidence. Daniel @lakens.bsky.social first ignored, but thankfully later took a critical look 👏 —finding little to convince, and much to be sceptical. Salutary reading for fans: buff.ly/Oddp4uN

At Political Psychology (@ispp-pops.bsky.social), we typically publish empirical articles, but we do have other options! One exciting option are Dialogues, that put 2+ books in conversation with one another.

this holds in general across many areas:

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

But this also tells us something fundamental about how we need to approach counter-disinformation efforts. It's not about getting rid of the supply of bad information or fact-checking it out of existence, instead we need to focus on why there's a demand for it in the first place.

and here I was, waiting for them to finally put witcher 3 in a giveaway... 🙃 @gog.com

GOG.COM@gog.com · 2mo ago

Best. Wednesday. Ever. The news we've all been waiting for is finally here! 🤩 A brand new expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt "Songs of the Past" is arriving next year. ⚔️ gog.com/game/the_witcher_3_wild_hunt