Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 6d ago

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

🏆 @simine.com, psychologist at @psychunimelb.bsky.social / @unimelb.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) is a leading voice in the reform movement in psychology - and is now being honored with the €150K Individual Award. Huge congratulations! 🎉

New paper in Psychometrika from Yon Soo Suh, myself, & Li Cai. We introduce SISQUOC: a Sequential Importance Sampling algorithm to Quickly and Uniformly Obtain Contingency tables. This algorithm opens the door to fitting propensity analysis of categorical data models. Preproof here: bit.ly/3SYilhO

The conservative conception of masculinity affirms men as breadwinners and promotes toughness. It’s a mentality that fuels the misogynistic online network known as the “manosphere,” a body that may be powerful enough to sway Canada’s political conversation. thewalrus.ca/the-kids-are-lea...

Look, those elitist penguins have been ripping us off for decades.

Alex Says Stuff@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

New research by Wendy Higgins, @vsavalei.bsky.social, Vince Polito, and me shows that the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test scores have poor structural properties. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test Scores Demonstrate Poor Structural Properties in Nine Large Non-Clinical Samples - Wendy C. Higgins, Victoria Savalei, Vince Polito, Robert M. Ross, 2025

The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) is widely used in clinical and non-clinical research. However, the structural properties of RMET scores have yet to...

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NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Changes to MSc, PhD and postdoc funding programs from 🇨🇦 tri councils. Harmonization across councils, more awards, and new eligibility for international PhD and postdoc applicants!

🇨🇦New Tri-Agency open access policy: "Agency grantees & chairholders must deposit their article in a Canadian institutional repository at the time of publication [...] preprints deposited under an open license will be accepted as compliant with this policy." science.gc.ca/site/science...

The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

"Recoup the costs"

The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine

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New paper in Psych Methods with @muhuahuang.bsky.social, in which we show that EFA structures that CFA models will fit well to many underlying EFA-like structures, i.e., models with many cross-loadings. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-..., osf.io/q2jw8

For newcomers, I and @vincentmourik.bsky.social wrote the 2012 Science article that literally started the Microsoft technical effort to build topological qubits. The paper is okay, and it includes a lot of negative evidence in the supplement (i made sure of it), 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices

Theoretically predicted particles that double as their own antiparticles emerge in a superconductor-coupled indium antimonide nanowire.

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Yes. PAY even for retracted articles.

Geoff Hutchison@geoffhutchison.net · 2y ago

AKA "we want you to pay our article fees"

This year I have the honour of serving the Psychometric Society as its President, and we have been working hard on the program for the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) psychometricsociety.org/imps-2025 You can submit an abstract here: imps2025.exordo.com

IMPS 2025 - Psychometric Society

July 15-18, 2025 (Short Courses July 14)

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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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Are psychometric networks sufficiently supported by data such that one can be confident when interpreting its results? We analysed 294 psychometric networks from 126 papers with the Bayesian approach to address this question @jmbh.bsky.social Sara Ruth van Holst @maartenmarsman.bsky.social 🧵

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

Statistical Evidence in Psychological Networks: A Bayesian Analysis of 294 Networks from 126 Studies: http://osf.io/62ydg/

New paper with @mijke.bsky.social clarifying the distinction between factor scores and factor score estimates, open access! doi.org/10.1080/0027...

Estimated Factor Scores Are Not True Factor Scores

In this tutorial, we clarify the distinction between estimated factor scores, which are weighted composites of observed variables, and true factor scores, which are unobservable values of the under...

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What not to write in reference letters: "Among several undergraduates I've worked with over the years, he is definitely in the top 20."

"We think that it’s too easy for journals and publishers to claim that they have followed COPE guidance, when — in our view — they have only paid lip service to publication integrity while sidestepping the harder work of assessing, flagging and resolving concerns". doi.org/10.1038/d415...

How to improve assessments of publication integrity

Too often, journal assessments of potentially unreliable research are superficial, opaque and prolonged. Changes to the guidance given by the Committee on Publication Ethics could tighten up the proce...

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Introducing PowerLMM.js! A new tool for power analysis of longitudinal linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) – with support for missing data, plus non-inferiority and equivalence tests. powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com Would really appreciate your feedback as I refine this app! Details below 🧵👇

Come be my colleague! The quant. methods program in the Educational Psychology department at UW Madison is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the area of measurement and machine-learning/AI. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods - RISE AI - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Job Summary: The University of Wisconsin - Madison Quantitative Methods Program in the Department of Educational Psychology seeks a tenure-track faculty member whose research focuses on advancing me...

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2/2 The second is my solution for the replication crisis. It was recently accepted at Assessment. "How to Produce, Identify, and Motivate Robust Psychological Science: A Roadmap and a Response to Vize et al." doi.org/10.31234/osf...

1/2 Hi All! I’d like to share two papers that mean a lot to me. The first is my diagnosis of the replication crisis. "Campbell’s Law Explains the Replication Crisis: Pre-Registration Badges Are History Repeating" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....)

Campbell’s Law Explains the Replication Crisis: Pre-Registration Badges Are History Repeating - E. David Klonsky, 2024

Campbell’s Law explains the replication crisis. In brief, useful tools such as hypotheses, p-values, and multi-study designs came to be viewed as indicators of ...

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New research by Wendy Higgins, @vsavalei.bsky.social, Vince Polito, and me: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test scores demonstrate poor structural properties in nine large non-clinical samples. osf.io/preprints/ps...

This holiday season, please consider donating to lavaan! It runs our lives. I mean, our models. I couldn't do without it. lavaan.ugent.be/about/donate...

Nice to finally be let in! Please re-? the ad below! Thank you. :) UBC Psychology invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in quantitative methods, to begin on July 1, 2024. The deadline for applications is OCT 13, 2023! psyc.air.arts.ubc.ca/assistant-pr...