Ze Freeman
@zefreeman.bsky.social
(he/they) psychology metascience postdoc @unibe.ch looking at measurement, mental health, credibility of research zefreeman.com
99 Pubpeer comments are ready, with another 2,3K well on their way. By @josefinaw.bsky.social, Prasad Chandrashekar, @zefreeman.bsky.social, and @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, @forrt.bsky.social
Dalmeet Singh Chawla@dalmeet.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: @pubpeer.com to host thousands of replication studies in a bid to make them more visible. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @aufdroeseler.bsky.social, @forrt.bsky.social, @josefinaw.bsky.social
Research on cognitive offloading × AI is booming and getting lots of public attention. Unfortunately, some (or even many) of it raises serious credibility concerns. Like this paper, which others and I recently commented on via @pubpeer.com: pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking (2025)
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📢 SPILLING THE REPRODUCIBILITEA: A DECADE ON & DECADES AHEAD 🗓️ Sept. 25, 2026 💻 Online via Zoom | Free Register here 👇 forms.gle/KgemQ3gM2fEe... #OpenScience #ReproducibiliTea #ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility
The good news is that someone else now gets to join this amazing team! If you're keen to help develop RegCheck, I'd strongly encourage you to apply. Working with @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @malte.the100.ci is reason enough to apply! jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern
Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science
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Any one of these actions could be helpful: If you live in the UK, write to your MP, asking them to reject the EHRC code of practice: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode. Write to your line manager and ask what action they will be taking to protect women and trans staff...
Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
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Ruth Pearce@notrightruth.bsky.social · 2mo agoStruggling to know what to read or do following the announcement of the UK's anti-trans segregation regime? I've created a basic set of information, resources, and actions - in the form of an auto-reply sent to every single person who emails me at work.
📚 New Reading Lists ◾ Post-Publication Reviewing and Post-Publication Culture osf.io/3ed8x/files/... ◾ Error and Error Correction osf.io/3ed8x/files/... Also available via app: rpt-rl.netlify.app #ReproducibiliTea #OpenResearch #OpenScience #peerreview #metasci #academicsky
Does anyone know of a tidy dataset with a large number of common multi-item self-report psychology scales? Ideally clinical. The data does not have to be within-subject, just a variety of common scales with decent N. I have: - Bainbridge et al - AIID dataset - Ideologies 2.0 dataset
"1. Those who resist epistemological norms are often accused of being unscientific or unrigorous. 2. Resisting epistemological norms can be done in an unrigorous way. 3. Resistance does not exist outside of social influence. In resisting some norms, we can recreate other norms."
Pippa Sterk@pippasterk.bsky.social · 3mo agoProud to share my article for the inaugural issue of re:wave! In it, I discuss how tempting it is to present 'marginalised' knowledge as a solution to the flaws of the academic status quo, but how we nevertheless should resist this temptation towards simplicity 📚 rewave.press/eating-epist...
This is why we (@jamiecummins.bsky.social @bethclarke.bsky.social and I) have developed RegCheck, a tool that automatically checks for potential deviations. regcheck.app
RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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Level B/C (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) continuing position, open area, available at our School of Psychology at the University of Sydney 🐨 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology
1 full-time continuing position available, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to contribute to research and teaching in a world leading Psychology department Base...
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This is short and meaningful and worth your time
xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen)@xuanalogue.bsky.social · 4mo agoFor me, this comes with a responsibility to raise awareness about the challenges of being trans in Singapore. So I wrote a short post about my own journey transitioning since 13 years ago, which you can find here: ztangent.github.io/blog/2026/td...
"honesty, insofar as I have a public voice, about the ways in which the profession I practice is being asked to absorb and individually manage forms of suffering that are, in part, collective in origin and that deserve collective responses"
Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · 5mo agoA post in which I highlight the need for a clinical language that does justice to trait-demand mismatches and sees them as firmly and unapologetically deserving of clinical care. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-do-we...
Has transparency improved in clinical psychology? New cross sectional study from us (Bianca Kotoulas, Justine Blackwell & me). Adoption of transparent research practices has increased between 2012, 2018, & 2024, but aside from coi and funding disclosures, they remain uncommon osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Pooling data across many trials could also help answer questions about studies’ operational characteristics: How does remote monitoring compare with on-site testing? Which trial sites reliably deliver high-quality data? Which eligibility criteria slow down recruitment?"
Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 6mo agoNew short blogpost! There are probably many benefits of sharing clinical trial data, including: Verifying results, better meta-analysis, understanding inconsistent results, further exploration, better clinical decision-making, learning how to run trials better, and reducing redundancy.
behold, we found great variation in how people think! Many activities that we thought would be “gaming” weren't & vice versa, eg half of the participants interpreted ‘gambling’ to be ‘gaming’. Ergo: surveying ‘gaming’ without defining it creates data mess
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data. 1/19 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Seven Symptoms Over Nearly 4,000 Days: Item-Level Variability in the Psychometric Properties of Daily Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms in Young Adult Drinkers - Kevin M. King, Dahyeon Kang, Megan E. Schu...
People experience symptoms of alcohol use disorders (AUD) in their daily lives, including more impairment-based symptoms (e.g., hazardous use, interpersonal pro...
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Systematic reviews often guide policy and theory, but they can become quickly outdated. Almost 10% of systematic reviews are out of date even *before they are published*. Living systematic reviews (LSRs) continuously integrate new evidence, therefore they offer a solution to this problem. 2/8
Free online Intro to INSPECT-SR workshop in January - this one was designed to be convenient for Australian colleagues but may work for others too: www.trybooking.com/uk/FPDL
Introduction to INSPECT-SR Training Workshop Jan (Australia)
An introductory 2-hour online workshop will introduce participants to the INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled...
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Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
Gonna need the general public + journos to properly reckon with how much of the social/legal policing of space is done purely on vibes. Invoking a 'common sense' approach to who deserves to be in a space, only serves to reinforce who is thought of as the 'common' body and who is seen as aberrant.
Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 9mo agoShe then claims cis people who get “wrongly” challenged “will knkw how to deal with that” and i think the obvious immediate question back to this should be “well how would you prove you are not a trans woman?”
since April a trans bathroom ban has been government guidance in the UK -- the attempts to make it law are as aggressive as anticipated
Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 9mo agoEHRC guidance leaked and it's so bad even The Times can't put a positive spin on it www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
reviewing preprints by writing down discussions we were already having! open review is nice, open review together is nicer (imo)
ReproducibiliTea@reproducibilitea.org · 9mo agoNew blog post by Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social 🔵 Post-publication reviewing - insights from King’s College London ReproducibiliTea reproducibilitea.org/jc/2025/11/1...
I think this is an overly pessimistic take from the @bmj.com. Sharing data does not inherently increase trust, rather it enables verification which allows for trust calibration. This example is a win. Serious issues were rapidly detected that would not have been without mandatory data sharing.
The BMJ@bmj.com · 9mo ago"The goal is to act in the best interests of the public, to devise more robust processes and new solutions that indeed allow evidence and data to rebuild confidence." @kamranabbasi.bsky.social reflects on the potential and limits of scrutiny in medical research www.bmj.com/content/391/...
at the point of thesis writing where ideas are really starting to flow. for instance, I have decided that today I am going to get to the bottom of positivism
