The ERROR project recruits independent experts to recheck social sciences papers’ data, statistics, methodology, code; now the project plans to publish the reviews in a new peer-reviewed journal. science.org/content/arti... @dalmeet.bsky.social @science.org #reproducibility

Offering scientists cash to spot errors in published papers doesn’t work

The ERROR project tried enticing reviewers with payments. Now, it’s launching a journal—and promising papers as rewards

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I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

I've been thinking a lot about the foundations of cultural evolutionary theory. While there's been a lot of work on transmission mechanisms, there has been far less work on cultural *selection*. Here's a new working paper presenting a taxonomy of cultural selection processes. osf.io/preprints/so...

how I feel when open science initiatives choose to publish in Nature

To lead in open science efforts, we must engage in open science practices. These papers reporting on the reproducibility et al of science projects aren't even accessible. At least one of the commentaries was also closed access. This is a huge lost opportunity and sets a bad example to all.

Center for Open Science@cos.io · 4mo ago

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

Spoiler alert 🔥

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture B01 Multilevel Models is online. This is the first lecture of the "experienced" section, in which we start with multilevel models and venture into vast covariance spaces. Full lecture list still here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Excellent chapter-by-chapter discussion of Skinner’s oft-dismissed, but seldom read, Verbal Behavior podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Chapter 1: A Functional Analysis of Verbal Behavior

Podcast Episode · Dialogues on Verbal Behavior · 18/09/2024 · 1h 49m

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post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

🔥 New viewpoint paper accepted at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! I propose a behavioral conceptualization of personality functioning (PF) that reframes the construct in terms of learned self-related repertoires rather than inferred inner structures.

Right on time for the upcoming holidays, and an upcoming paper, this arrived 🙂

The takeaway: Turn-taking isn't a single, monolithic trait that reflects social competence. It’s a multicomponential skill that emerges from the interplay of individual differences, moment-to-moment predictions, and interpersonal adjustments—all shaped by social context. 8/

Conversational turn-taking feels effortless, but it's a complex dance. We find social context—who you're talking to and what you're talking about—fundamentally changes conversational dynamics in both autistic & TD children. 1/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... w @chrismmcox.bsky.social

Social Context Matters for Turn‐Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Developing Children

Engaging in fluent conversation is a surprisingly complex task that requires interlocutors to promptly respond to each other in a way that is appropriate to the social context. In this study, we dise...

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Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

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New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

For a coffee person on a budget (me!), there is no better combo….

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Unlock hidden patterns in longitudinal data! 🚀 Our new vignette shows how to use brms & easystats to perform Growth Mixture Models, identify unique developmental trajectories, and visualize & interpret your findings with ease. #rstats #brms #easystats easystats.github.io/modelbased/a...

It's bonkers that in academic science we spend hours obsessing over the wording of a paper, but often only one person has seen the code that produced the results! 2/N

B.F Skinner from the paper, “How to discover what you have to say” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · last yr.

It struck a chord because it's true. As I write in More Than Words, the chief benefit of LLMs to writing (and teaching writing) is it forces us to examine what we value in writing. We should be building statues of the students who remain proud to be themselves & encourage others to join them.

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

writing another review where I point to the Table 2 Fallacy (doi.org/10.1093/aje/... and doi.org/10.1017/psrm...) and say stop interpreting every single coefficient

The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients

Abstract. It is common to present multiple adjusted effect estimates from a single model in a single table. For example, a table might show odds ratios for

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I was recommending my students @jonathantemplin.com 's awesome course recordings (jonathantemplin.com/teaching/) to get more in-depth discussion of stan tips and psychometrics models and I discovered there's a new 2024 version. house chores will be more fun for a while.

Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up tinyurl.com/4ffday8y Thread below /1

Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...

Time series in R and Stan using the mvgam package: hierarchical GAMs

YouTube video by Nicholas Clark

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Behaviour goes where reinforcement flows. Choice of task driven by relative success rate. Three preregistered experiments with young kids. Open version here jlnrd.github.io/Publications...

New report! Hehman et al. (2018) "Disproportionate Use of Lethal Force in Policing Is Associated With Regional Racial Biases". Based on the review by @conjugateprior.org, we find a Major Error that affects a core conclusion. We recommend the authors seek a correction. error.reviews/reviews/hehm...

Hehman et al. (2018)

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

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UK universities might misattribute changes in their rankings to their institutional strategies when random fluctuations in the ranking system are a more likely explanation. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... BSky author: @tvpollet.bsky.social #UKHE #AcademicSky

I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)

Operationism in Psychology

Analyzes psychological research to offer insights into how methodological and ontological questions are intertwined.   Psychology has seen an intense debate about the lack of replicability of results ...

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12 years. RIP my darling boy.