I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.

I was not reviewer 2. But I am so annoyed by Americans pretending the whole open science movement is funded by John Arnold. His investments are absolutely dwarfed by what the European Union and European science funders have invested in Open science. Only incredibly biased people would ignore this.

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd

When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...

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i tend to agree with @syeducation.bsky.social: the cause for a lack of diversity in psychology is that psychology does not value this type of diversity osf.io/preprints/ps...

Great post from Eiko on conferences, I agree with all of it. And this progression over time on the motivation for attending conferences seems to be universally shared: Phase 1: go for content Phase 2: go for presenting Phase 3: go for the people (maybe then Phase 4: don't go at all)

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · last mo.

New website is live, including a new blog post :). I respond to the call by @psychscience.bsky.social asking how we can improve APS conferences. eiko-fried.com/blog/in-pers...

New website is live, including a new blog post :). I respond to the call by @psychscience.bsky.social asking how we can improve APS conferences. eiko-fried.com/blog/in-pers...

In-person conferences in 2026: yay or nay? | Eiko Fried

Some ideas on improving conferences so they are worth the financial, time, and ecological investments.

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I have managed to abstract the template for replies to critiques.

Some thoughts on how to collaborate on reproducible paper writing with AI agents, without them introducing hallucinated references or other issues into your paper. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/06/help...

New post! "Making Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)," in which I suggest a journal club reading list of new papers on replication, and push back on claims that the replication crisis is fake. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/making-sen...

Making Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)

It’s hard to overstate just how much the culture around replication in science has changed over the past 15 years.

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Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

Friends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressions

Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...

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PSA to authors who assume that their reviewers are demanding citations to themselves: I just got the reviews of something where I was a reviewer, I was NOT the reviewer who told them to cite me, and this is not all that rare an occurrence

did… did a journal write this?

And importantly: there is no external “system” waiting to reform itself. Senior researchers are the system. We are editors, reviewers, grant panelists, trainers, hirers, promoters, producers, and consumers of research. We already possess many of the levers needed to change incentives and norms. 8/8

Excited to share this one: Open Science Now: A Response to Commentaries on Van Til et al. (with @kaelavantil.bsky.social, @nphillips36.bsky.social, Tinawei (Vera) Du, Leigha Rose, @jdmiller.bsky) osf.io/preprints/ps... See below for the TLDR version 1/8

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards Ceremony

YouTube video by National Academy of Sciences

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First copies of Absent Minds are here 💙 Launch on 7th May! www.waterstones.com/book/absent-...

Why on earth is Demography publishing a paper using these ridiculous categories

Evan Roberts@evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Evidence that @whstancil.bsky.social is right about the economy “Millennials had a real median household income that was 20% higher than that of the previous generation, a slowdown from the growth rate of the Silent Generation (36%) and Baby Boomers (26%), but similar to that of Generation X (16%)”

Having FINALLY spent some quality time with @syeducation.bsky.social talking methods and meta-science, I most enthusiastically recommend applying for this!

moin syed@syeducation.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...

"Preprinting Does Not Meet Science’s Duty of Care Responsibility to Society" raises questions such as "why do they talk of science as a monolithic thing but only discuss a narrow corner of it?" and "what the hell?" journal.trialanderror.org/pub/preprint...

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures

In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

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🚨 Researchers, take note! Animal Biology now publishes Registered Reports! 🐒 💡 Peer review happens before results are collected. Studies are judged on quality & rigour, not “significant” outcomes.

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📢 CFP: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Special Section: Open Science in Multicultural Psychology Empirical & conceptual work welcome across quant, qual, mixed & CBPR approaches, including supportive & critical perspectives 📅 LOI due May 15, 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/CDEMP-OpenSc...

CDEMP Special Section CFP - Open Science

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (CDEMP) Call for Papers Special Section on Transparency, Credibility, and Accountability in Context: Open Science as Psychological Inquiry in Ethnic M...

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I finally gave "Is open science neoliberal?" by @uyguntunc.bsky.social @mntunc.bsky.social and Eper a close read. It made sense of critiques that did not resonate w/ how I understand the reform movement. Are there rejoinders defending the neoliberal attribution or challenging this description?

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I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

I searched my zotero library for 'personal communication', because these tend to be interesting and can illustrate how science really works. I was not disappointed, the most recent one in my library was this from @syeducation.bsky.social. More of this! doi.org/10.36850/mr11

This is a bit too on the nose #SPSP2026