📣 We have an active Call for Associate Editors, who help ensure the articles that publish in the journal are rigorously peer reviewed. This is a great opportunity for researchers who want to shape the field through service. More info: journals.humankinetics.com/fileasset/JM... 📅 Deadline: 9/18/26

Important news from our host, COS. Starting in November SocArXiv users will no longer be able to create new OSF Projects. You will need to host research materials in another repository, such as Zenodo, and link out to them. Existing public projects will be preserved. Preprints service will continue.

Center for Open Science@cos.io · last mo.

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

It’s the end of an era: we are sunsetting rpubs.com, quartopub.com, and shinyapps.io in favour of connect.posit.cloud. These services are important, but we need to focus our efforts on a single platform (and it’s overall less confusing to have one place to publish everything you do in R or Python).

I'm excited to announce that the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are now published in Peer Community Journal peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Joel Pick@joelpick.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

If you currently do not have a reproducible workflow where you can share data and code where possible, I expect you will soon not be able to publish in good journals. Beyond being best practice, journals will use this to identify papers written by AI. Plan a new project accordingly.

PLOS@plos.org · 6mo ago

@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing. Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v

It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x

New blog article in Statistical Thinking: www.fharrell.com/post/aci/ #Statistics #StatsSky #RStats

Measures of Central Tendency for an Asymmetric Distribution, and Confidence Intervals – Statistical Thinking

There are three widely applicable measures of central tendency for general continuous distributions: the mean, median, and pseudomedian. Each measure has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the ...

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Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Can you make it easier than "the probability of getting results at least as extreme as the ones you observed, given that the null hypothesis is correct"?

Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values

P-values have taken quite a beating lately. These widely used and commonly misapplied statistics have been blamed for giving a veneer of legitimacy to dodgy stu…

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Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Julia works quite well through Nix, but I need to do some further testing and make sure that the top, say, 100 packages build correctly for the list of dates I choose to support (rix::available_dates()). This will become my next milestone for rix.

Bruno Rodrigues@brodriguesco.bsky.social · last yr.

looks it's coming sooner than expected

Researchers should not make claims based on exploratory analyses because the probability that these claims are wrong can be unacceptably high. doi.org/10.1080/0264...

We are delighted to now be part of the Free Journal Network, a community of free-to-read and free-to-publish journals like ours! freejournals.org/current-memb...

New pre-print out! 🔬In this article, we explain why our clinical trial to improve the automatic tendency to approach PA failed and offer recommendations to help future studies maximise patient acceptability. doi.org/10.1101/2025... @labosens.bsky.social @bcheval.bsky.social

In all my years using #RStats, I’ve seen this kind of posts often. I think that R has evolved past the "traditional" way of using it which was installing it system-wide, and then installing packages system-wide. That worked, because there were less packages, but also because the kind of projects 1/3

Tanya Shapiro@tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 2y ago

*gets package errors because R version is too old* *installs latest version of R* *gets shinyapps errors because R version is too new* 🙃🙃🙃

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Air, an extremely fast R formatter

We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.

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Now published in PeerJ (@PeerJLife is a PCI friendly journal) without further peer-review and with a few minor adjustments (abstract, figure 5 correction, typos). peerj.com/articles/18885 #Cardiology #Rehabilitation #SportsMedicine

Pierre-Yves de Müllenheim@pydemullenheim.com · 2y ago

Very happy of this one ! Nice first experience with the PCI process!

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

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The 'PRISMA2020' R package can used to make both static and interactive 'PRISMA' Flow Diagrams. Thanks to @heeminkang.bsky.social for the tip! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

PRISMA2020: Make Interactive 'PRISMA' Flow Diagrams

Systematic reviews should be described in a high degree of methodological detail. The 'PRISMA' Statement calls for a high level of reporting detail in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. An integral...

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Our new #preprint led by @bcheval.bsky.social is out: Neural correlates of approach-avoidance tendencies toward physical activity & sedentary stimuli: an MRI study. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Here are some 2024 highlights of PCI and Peer Community Journal.📊 Grateful to everyone who contributed to this success🦸. We're excited and prepared for an amazing 2025🤩!

New Sci Rep paper with odd-looking figures that don't look like any image conversion issue I've seen before. Has some AI vibes (fonts, line spacing of legend), but there are likely better explanations. Any thoughts? @nature.com pls investigate (who copy-edited this) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to move more and reduce sedentary behavior in daily life? 💡 Since September, during my teleworking days, I’ve covered 720 km (the equivalent of over 17 marathons), taken 1.2 million steps, and burned 50,000 Kcal — all during my working hours!

A list of 1,360 predatory publishers 😮 predatoryjournals.org/publisher-li...

Brave decision by JHE Editorial Board. Hopefully there are transparent, open and even free initiatives out there for human evolution scientific publications.

Mark Grabowski@markgrabowski.bsky.social · 2y ago

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

#rstat note to myself: If you want to convert a factor variable that contains numbers between quotes (eg, "1", "3", etc) to a numeric variable while keeping the original numbers: DO: as.numeric(as.character(my_var)) NOT DO: as.numeric(my_var) The 2nd option returns variable level numbers!

It was about time…🕰️

Tanja Pyhäjärvi@pyhatanja.bsky.social · 2y ago

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...