"finally, we have created Fahrenheit 451 from the cautionary tale,"

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Multiverse analysis, abdication of responsibility and manufacturing of doubt: I have written on some downsides I see with multiverse analysis (which I like in principle): arxiv.org/abs/2607.14623 I was inspired/provoked to write it by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci (thanks!)

6/ Very proud of Brunel Psychology 💙 A department is built through research, teaching, inclusion, technical skill, public engagement, and a lot of work that usually happens quietly behind the scenes. Lovely to see so much of that recognised #BrunelPsychology #CHMLS

5/ Big shout-out too to Psychology @brunelcce.bsky.social runners-up @abbeyepage.bsky.social, Andrei Barbanta, @loraadair.bsky.social and @aiyanakoka.bsky.social 👏 Great recognition across research, teaching, technical support, external partnerships and public engagement

4/ @byroncreese.bsky.social won Mid-Career Researcher for internationally recognised work in dementia and neurodegenerative disease, major funding and collaborations, and public engagement that gets the research beyond the university walls 🧠

3/ @willgervais.com won Mid-Career Educator for leading a major redesign of nine core Psychology modules, building a clearer, skills-based curriculum and making challenging material properly engaging 🤓 Nine modules. NINE!!

2/ @nelliferenczi.bsky.social won the Inclusive Education Award for her work on inclusive and decolonised education, equity, anti-racism, accessibility and the awarding gap 🏳️‍🌈 Basically: doing the hard institutional work, not just putting “inclusive” on a slide and hoping for the best.

1/ Big week for Brunel Psychology at the CHMLS Awards 🎉 Huge congratulations to our Psychology winners: Nelli Ferenczi, Will Gervais and Byron Creese - recognised across inclusive education, teaching excellence and research leadership 💪🤩

✅

I genuinely love that in both football and hockey you have offside rules that are: - identical in intent - an intent that's broadly agreed with - implemented in entirely different ways - the most disputed in-match calls - causing the most delays - the sport's most universally despised rule ⚽🏒

Since he left Chelsea, I'd forgotten what a perpetual and petulant whiner Thomas Tuchel is

OMG I think we just caught the beginning of a seal birth 😲😍

Pretty lucky timing on the drive past Stonehenge last night

You are only a real New Yorker if you grew up in the sewers under the city with your Italian-named brothers and were raised by a mutant Japanese rat and trained in the martial arts.

What's inhibiting science reform? "Cognitive conservatism, self-reinforcing feedback loops, epistemic dominance, and the selection bias of reform agents." Preprint: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29963/ #MetaSci #PhilSci #STS

The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it

Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort.

Research on Research Association@roration.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

Replication As Assessment (aka Was God Watching?) Episode 4 of the ol' blog series, this time about using replications as assessment tools in my methods class! It was fun and you should read about it! willgervais.com/blog/2026/5/... #psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

Replicaiton as Assessment: Was God Watching — Will Gervais

In which my student assessment was a replication study of a 1900 cite Psych Science classic!

willgervais.com

Will Gervais@willgervais.com · 5mo ago

THAMES Time, MFers!! Episode 3 of the blog series, all about the SIX SECRET LETTERS FOR CRITICAL THINKING THAT THE SCIENTISTS DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW willgervais.com/blog/2026/3/... #psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

New post is live! 40 years of race science arguments about brain size & the racial IQ gap, nobody bothered to write down the math or do anything beyond gawk at correlations. I did, walking through the data & formalizing it with the Lande equation. It fares worse than you could even imagine.

Race on The Brain: why brain-size differences can’t explain the IQ gap

Tackling a popular hereditarian argument

open.substack.com

Great new work by @evangiangrande.bsky.social tracking how race scientists exploit preprint servers to legitimize and spread their work

The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms - Behavior Genetics

Preprint servers and open science platforms have revolutionized the scientific process. A fundamental feature of these platforms is a lack of peer review—virtually anyone with an internet connection c...

link.springer.com

oh yeah ps this goes alongside our shiny new clinical psych MSc programme! www.brunel.ac.uk/study/course...

Will Gervais@willgervais.com · 3mo ago

Brunel's hiring! We're building up in clinical, with 2 separate full research/teaching lines. One's aimed at early career (Lecturer rank), one's mid-seniorish (Senior Lecturer/Reader). Apply & spread the word! Feel free to reach out with questions SL/Reader here, Lecturer ad in next post

Brunel's hiring! We're building up in clinical, with 2 separate full research/teaching lines. One's aimed at early career (Lecturer rank), one's mid-seniorish (Senior Lecturer/Reader). Apply & spread the word! Feel free to reach out with questions SL/Reader here, Lecturer ad in next post

Thrilled this is out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵 Do we have 2 kinds of beliefs? Some beliefs seem insensitive to evidence and rarely guide behavior, etc. To explain this, several theories divide belief into 2 types. I argue the explanation isn't in the *mind* but in the *world*

In the Mind or in the World? Types of Beliefs and the Locality of Evidence

People’s beliefs appear to be divisible into two distinct types. Some beliefs refer directly to the observable world, readily guide behavior, and are easily revised when challenged. Others, includi...

tandfonline.com

Meet Citation Compare: ortutt.github.io/citation-com... Enter an article's link or DOI and get not only its citation number but also see how it compares to all other articles published in the same year and journal. Information based on CrossRef API. Vibe coded by Claude. Hope people find it useful!

Happy Beltane! 🌸🌷There are at least 1000 pagans here for a 7am ritual.

Does thinking more analytically make you less religious? 🧠⛪️ Our new paper published in Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (APA) addresses this long-standing controversy. 👇 1/6

HEY EVERYONE, DROP WHAT YOU'RE DOING! The amazing @gilliansocial.bsky.social 's book is out in the UK today! Go get it: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/once... 📚💙

This "big-N quant research in Nature/Science journals" pattern is a direct manifestation of The Matthew Effect in scientific publishing (beyond misinformation lit). Groups with massive resources dominate glamor pubs burying complexity and nuance under size and impact. Metascience is a great example.

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A lot of the qualitative and mixed method researchers were explaining things in more nuanced / complex ways, but it was hard to translate that to the kind of big-N research that speaks the language of the top journals.