My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

Taking Stock of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science at the End of the Beginning - David A. Sbarra, 2025

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“The articles in AMPPS offer, month in and month out, the invitation to practice aligning your values, intentions, and actions to do less scientific harm and reach for the methodological ceiling” Grateful to @dsbarra.bsky.social for continuing what @profsimons.bsky.social & co started at AMPPS!

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My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

Invitation to a potential replication project. rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...

My editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Call for nominations! I know many great people who would do a wonderful job in this position. I also probably don't know many great people who would do a wonderful job as well-- help spread the word! Happy to answer questions about EiC at AMPPS with @psychscience.bsky.social . tinyurl.com/ykpzvp7e

<em>Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science</em> Call for Editor-in-Chief Nominations

Deadline: March 14, 2025Nominations are now being invited for Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS), APS’s open access journal that serves as the ...

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This looks like a fantastic resource

"Coyne’s blogs were verbose and erratic, often veering into personal attacks. He freely fabricated conspiracies and leveled baseless accusations that obscured whatever legitimate critiques he might have had."

The Troubling Legacy of James Coyne

Psychology's infamous bully

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@fovea-vs.bsky.social is on Bluesky now! Follow FoVea to learn more about ways we can advance the visibility, impact, and success of women in vision science!

New post on The 100% CI: I read @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social's book on the alleged teen mental health crisis and social media's role in it. Then, I tried to make up my own mind, with limited success. www.the100.ci/2024/12/10/t...

The Hare-Brained Generation: Teen mental health crisis or lacklustre record keeping?

In The Anxious Generation, Jon Haidt argues that social media is driving a mental health crisis among teens. It's a compelling thesis, widely discussed in the media, mostly accepted by my students and...

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Really enjoying @profsimons.bsky.social & @cfchabris.bsky.social ‘Nobody’s Fool’. Yet more content for my ‘Thinking Like a Psychologist’ module next year. This stuff seems to me to be vital for the future of the discipline

One thing I wish I saw more from communicators especially on health & medicine: Let's be more vocal about the positives of interventions that work. Yes, it's important to push back on misinformation, poor research practices & clarify side effects. But let's not forget how important this all is.

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

NEW: I wrote about a study that challenged “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt going to war over it, and the chaos that ensued. Here’s how a fight over science and social media got messy, fast. www.chronicle.com/article/jona...

Jonathan Haidt Started a Social-Media War. Did He Win?

When a study challenged his bestselling book’s thesis — that social media harms kids — the New York University psychologist fired back. That was just the beginning.

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Here's a fun way to encourage students to always look at their data. A few years ago, I wrote a script that converts a black and white png to data and plots it.

Get your spot while you can! …https://openresearchsummerschool.eventbrite.co.uk

Error checking is an important service to science, but it doesn't pay the bills. But what if it did? Introducing ERROR, a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications error.reviews

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ERROR is a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications

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Anyone teaching 2-sample t tests in Intro Stats? Here's the dataset you've been looking for. www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/... #stats #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪

Travis Kelce stats with and without Taylor Swift: How much better is Chiefs star with his girlfriend...

Kelce has been much more productive when Swift has been in the stands, and that bodes well for the Chiefs in Super Bowl 58.

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At the @psychscience.bsky.social journal AMPPS, we publish tutorials and have dedicated tutorial reviewers. TRs are go through all the code and each step of a tutorial, then provide feedback about whether it all works as it should. Grad students and post-docs are welcome to be TRs. Join us?

AMPPS Tutorial Reviewer Form

This form is designed to collect some brief information from potential "tutorial reviewers" for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS). AMPPS is committed to having our tut...

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Happy 2024! If you have resolved this year to get conned less often (or not at all), to not be taken in by misinformation and deceptive marketing, and to evade fraud and scams as much as possible, you should read my book with @profsimons.bsky.social: NOBODY'S FOOL dansimons.com/NobodysFool....

Very excited that @i4replication.bsky.social is going to be doing annual stress tests of papers published in Psych Science. It’s amazing to see what they’ve done in econ & poli sci, and great that they’re expanding to psych!

Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 3y ago

We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with Psychological Science. Papers published in PS following January 1st, 2024 will be candidates for I4R to computationally reproduce, stress-test and replicate.

‘Fraud exploits tendencies that serve us well most of the time…’ Stephen Lea (Emeritus Professor at Exeter Uni) asks @cfchabris.bsky.social and @profsimons.bsky.social about their new book, ‘Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In And What We Can Do About It’ (Basic Books). www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

‘Fraud exploits tendencies that serve us well most of the time’ | BPS

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These are great! I want them!

Tomer Ullman@tomerullman.bsky.social · 3y ago

famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread. 1. Pavlov's dogs.

7. Invisible Gorilla

I've abandoned the site that shall not be named. Signal-to-awfulness ratio is too low (keeping my account there to reserve the username). I'm glad to see this place building the vibe of pre-decline other-site

Learn how to study better using secrets from cognitive science! I'm trying out TikTok and made this video that I hope students (and others) find useful. Please share freely! #psychscisky #neuroskyence #edusky #academicsky #scicomm www.tiktok.com/@psychprofst...

Congrats to @simine.com who will be the new editor-in-chief at Psych Science! Kudos to her and to the APS publication committee for an excellent choice -- an excellent editor who will be great for the journal and the field of psychology! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Open data sharing is a good thing; Protecting participant privacy is a good thing. Sometimes these two good things are in conflict. Our new preprint introduces a decision-making framework and open source tools to help share as openly as possible and as closed as necessary. osf.io/preprints/me...

Important statement from Steve Lindsay: Society journals should ensure comptuational reproducibility of work they publish. It's a low bar: can someone else run the provided scripts on the provided data and get the same results. He proposes a pilot study: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

Sharing this R resources database with y'all! For the past 4 years, I have been accumulating resources (mainly free ones) for new & advanced #Rlearners in their programming journey. Feel free to share! resourcesdatabase.com #RStats #RResources #learningR #DataScience #Python #R

resouRces - resouRces: Database of Resources to Learn & Teach R

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For #rstats users, {renv} now provides similar functionality to {groundhog}. With your script open in RStudio, simply call renv::embed() & a code snippet will be inserted at the top with the script's version-specific dependencies and the code to install them 🧪#stats rstudio.github.io/renv/referen...