Summer is a perfect time to tick off from your reading list some interesting articles. Our suggestion: a useful tutorial to handle data with fully-crossed structure in cases such as response times or accuracies with linear mixed-effects models. doi.org/10.1037/met0...

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...

Assistant Professor in Metascience

Personal type: Scientific staff

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Have you ever wondered what to do when your data does not respect the assumptions of the t-test? In this work with @giuliacalignano.bsky.social et al. we try to guide you through skewed data and assumptions checks ;) link.springer.com/article/10.3...

How do my distributions differ? significance testing for the overlapping index using permutation tests - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Psychological research frequently relies on statistical tests targeting single distributional parameters, typically means, despite empirical data often differing in variance, skewness, or overall shap...

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Save the dates for our June Zoom Meetings
 📅 June 5 — Sofia Morelli on G-estimation for latent mediation
 📅 June 19 — Paolo Canal on N400 effects in figurative language Join us at 12:00 CEST for a talk + open discussion!

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

FAIR data, Open Science e Data Management Plan: ieri a FAIR in practice abbiamo parlato di ricerca più trasparente, organizzata e riutilizzabile 📊 Grazie agli speaker e a chi ha partecipato e animato la discussione! 🔗Slide: zenodo.org/records/2034...

Are you interested in Shaping an Open Science Culture? Apply for this 2 year post-doc position at UMC Amsterdam. Joeri Tijdink is the PI, but you will work in a large interdisciplinary team (including me). werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

Vacatures - Postdoc position: Shaping Open Science Culture - Amsterdam UMC

Do you want to help make science more open, transparent, and trustworthy? In this postdoc position, you will study how research culture shapes open science practices and develop interventions that…

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📢 FAIR in practice: hands on the Data Management Plan 🗓 21 maggio | 14:00–19:30 📍 Psico 2, Università di Padova Un pomeriggio pratico su gestione FAIR dei dati e Open Science con aperitivo finale 🥂 Iscrizione gratuita: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #OpenScience #FAIR #DataManagement #Unipd

Cerchiamo studenti universitari per il nostro studio sullo stress 📊 💵 24€ ⌚ wearable 📝 brevi questionari 📆 7 giorni Iscriviti qui ⬇️ qualtricsxm7t2rf4fy2.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#theory & real #data beyond the mean: distributional overlapping from #effectsize to #permutation 4th Conference #Statistics & #DataScience @SIStatistica Big 🙏to Nicola Torelli for the invitation ⚡️super coauthors @ambra-prg.bsky.social & Massimiliano Pastore 🔗https://zenodo.org/records/19415829

Interested in replicability, reproducibility & robust science? Join the 4th edition of the 3Rs methodological school (Padova, May 18–20, 2026)
 Free & open to PhD, master’s students, postdocs 📆 Deadline: April 20 
Apply here: forms.gle/f1hvuQBvaVQp...
 Info: psicostat.github.io/3R-2026/

At #INRiM - National Institute of Metrological Research in #Torino - for the “Open Science a Colazione” event presenting @italianrepro.bsky.social initiatives supporting #reproducibility ⚡️ #Interdisciplinary alignment remains 🔑 for #effective & #scalable Open Science workflows ℹ️🔗 check comments 👇

Last chance to register! 🚨 In just a few days, registration for our Quarto workshop closes. Learn how to write reproducible manuscripts more efficiently and professionally by @ambra-prg.bsky.social

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Registration is now open for our Quarto workshop at Paul Meehl Graduate School! Join us on December 12 in Eindhoven to learn how to use Quarto for reproducible research and communication. More details and registration here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-11-03-q...

🗺️ A small, bold first step toward the city. Students and citizens came together to explore different perspectives on open science. 💡 But what is open science, really? 🎥 Watch the video: lnkd.in/dUXwCj2d Thanks to the experts and everyone who joined the conversation!

Manca poco alla deadline per i Minitalk Early Careers del decennale Psicostat! 📅 Evento: 23/01/2026 | 🧠 5' talk + 10' discussione 👥 Per studentə, dottorandə ed early careers 🗓️ Deadline: 16/11/2025 🔗 Iscriviti (anche come uditore): forms.gle/UQApqPYWusSz...

🔬La scienza incontra la città!✨ 📅 Venerdì 14 novembre 2025, h17 📍Via Venezia 16, Aula A Galleria (psico3), Padova 👩‍🔬 Ricercatori ed esperti dialogano su ricerca e comunità 🎩 A seguire, momento conviviale aperto a tutti con il Mago Alessandro! Vi aspettiamo!

My paper with @lakens.bsky.social and @annaveer.bsky.social - “Replication value as a function of citation impact and sample size” - has just been published in Meta psychology! open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

🚀 Kicking off the upcoming meetings with a fresh round of online talks! First up: Gabriela Xavier-Quintais ♻️ Join us next Friday, November 7th at 12pm (CEST), for "Metascience in Ecology: the role of statistical tests". Don’t miss it! 🔍📊

🎉 Il 23 gennaio festeggiamo 10 anni di Psicostat con talk, momenti di confronto e aperitivo offerto! 📣 Aperta la call Minitalk Early Careers per studentə, dottorandə e giovani ricercatorə 🔗 Partecipazione gratuita (anche come uditori) con iscrizione obbligatoria: lnkd.in/dpBEJYVy

It was quite interesting – did wonder though what ecologists would have to say about it. My favorite presentation of the day though was by @ambra-prg.bsky.social on meta-analyses ... still thinking about her question of how big the problem should be for it to be a problem ...

Our core team members Massimiliano Pastore and Filippo Gambarota were thrilled to take part in the Behavioral Neuroscience Conference 2025 held in Agropoli, where they led a hands-on workshop on Bayesian stats with R and Open Science essentials 📖📊

Our team joined #Science4All to share how psychologists ensure their findings are valid and reliable! Through interactive games, kids and adults explored what makes good science tick 🧠🎯 #Psychology #ScienceCommunication

🚀 Kicking off the upcoming month with a fresh round of online talks! First up: Alessio Farcomeni 🎙 Join us next Friday, October 10 at 13pm (CEST), for "A brief introduction to quantile regression". Don’t miss it! 🔍📊

Proud to represent our group at AIP Sperimentale 2025! Great discussions, inspiring talks, and an amazing opportunity to share our work. #AIP #Research

Psicostat took part in the European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting 2025 in Padova 🧠📊 Insightful contributions by Matteo Manente and @ialfarone.bsky.social featured in the Statistical Methods session, while our core team member Ottavia Epifania chaired the Psychometrics session! #EMPG

In this interview for the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP), we retrace Psicostat’s path: from early workshops to Winter & Summer Schools, up to the launch of the Methodological Review Board and beyond! 👉 Here’s the link to the full interview: aipass.org/psicostat-un...

Psicostat: Un laboratorio aperto tra dati, idee e cultura della ricerca - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia

. È passato ormai un decennio dalla nascita di Psicostat, quello che si potrebbe definire uno “spazio collettivo per la cultura della ricerca” composto da statistici, psicologi e metodologi provenient...

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I'm excited to share that the first paper of my PhD project is now published. In this paper, my coauthors, @lakens and Krist Vaesen, and I discuss a systematic approach from different stakeholders to improve coordination. You can read the paper at: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A systemic approach to better coordination in science - Nature Human Behaviour

Although individualism and isolated work remain common in academia, coordination offers substantial benefits. This Comment calls on researchers, funders, policymakers, journals and universities to cre...

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Il gruppo di ricerca Psicostat esprime il proprio cordoglio per la scomparsa del Professore Carlo Arrigo Umiltà, Honorary Member del gruppo e figura centrale nella nostra comunità scientifica. Alla sua famiglia e a chi gli ha voluto bene va il nostro affetto e la nostra vicinanza