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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 7h

These results are also worth reiterating the title of @ianhussey.mmmdata.io's recent blog post: if researchers find Cohen's d = 8, no they didn't

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 1d

OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.

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ReproducibiliTea UM @reproducibiliteaum.bsky.social · 2d

Hola de nuevo! Nuestro ya querido ReproducibiliTea está de vuelta un curso más 🤗. Para retomar el ritmo, este mes abordaremos un artículo en forma de comentario sobre la cuestión de si merece la pena coordinarnos mejor en ciencia 🤝. Os esperamos el próximo 27 de octubre a las 16h.

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Alejandro Sandoval-Lentisco @asandovall.bsky.social · 5d

La llegada ha sido muy buena, y el tiempo es como en Murcia, eso también ayuda jajaj

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Alejandro Sandoval-Lentisco @asandovall.bsky.social · 6d

Incredibly happy to have started my postdoc at METRICS at Stanford!

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LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · 7d

Curious about creating a reproducible workflow for your research? 🔍 We provide several self-paced tutorials about tools that make your work more efficient, reproducible, and collaborative.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...

Welcome – Introduction to R

lmu-osc.github.io

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 7d

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 8d

📣 “Peer Review and its Diversification” Webinars
15-16 October 2025

👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 9d

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience

Principles for proper peer review

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 12d

UKRIO @ukrio.bsky.social is introducing an Authorship Integrity Toolkit:
a set of practical, adaptable resources designed to support both individual researcher contributors in their day-to-day practice and organisations in developing policies and managing projects.
ukrio.org/resources/th...

The Authorship Integrity Toolkit - UK Research Integrity Office

The Authorship Integrity Toolkit Practical resources to support responsible authorship in research UKRIO is pleased to present the Authorship Integrity Toolkit – a new collection of resources to help ...

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 13d

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?

Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.

9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

northwestern.zoom.us

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13d

See two really key papers

Butler et al.: publishers are profiteering immensely off scientific journals, and it has to stop. direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Hanson et al.: the strain scientists feel is real, & it's because too many papers coming from #PublishOrPerish pressures
#ResearchIntegrity

The oligopoly’s shift to open access: How the big five academic publishers profit from article processing charges

Abstract. We aim to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Spri...

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 23d

New tutorial alert! Crowdsourcing multiverse analyses to explore the impact of different data-processing & analysis decisions published in Psychological Methods.
Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social

APA PsycNet

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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 24d

New post for ResToRes. Real-world datasets are shaping clinical claims, but data patterns and transparency issues raise serious concerns. Our JAMA Psych letter with @ioanaacristea.bsky.social highlights several red flags in a study using the TriNetX database.

restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/a...

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 27d

Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”!

📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom

👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to finally have my first paper officially published! "How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique?" is now online with AMPPS. Huge thanks to my supervisors @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and @simine.com and co-authors @bethclarke.bsky.social, N Moodie, S Schiavone, and R Thibault ☺️

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 28d

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB!

🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds

Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

www.theguardian.com

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · Sep 15

🎁 A gift for you for #PeerReviewWeek! 🎁

I downloaded >200K peer review reports and author responses for >30K articles in four BMC journals (Cancer, Gastroenterology, Medical Genomics and Medicine). These archives are now publicly available on Zenodo. Go nuts!

reeserichardson.blog/2025/09/15/t...

The world’s laziest peer reviewer

A dataset-shaped gift for you to celebrate Peer Review Week

reeserichardson.blog

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · Sep 13

Obvious preregistered hypothesis: soon most all psych science will involve AI in some form. You'll get ahead of the curve with this paper is about "Transformer Architecture" (also a good band name) and how embeddings operate within a NLP workflow. Really nice! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From Embeddings to Explainability: A Tutorial on Large-Language-Model-Based Text Analysis for Behavioral Scientists - Rudolf Debelak, Timo K. Koch, Matthias Aßenmacher, Clemens Stachl, 2025

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming research in psychology and the behavioral sciences by enabling advanced text analysis at scale. Their applications...

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LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · Sep 11

🧬 Learn about the results and implications of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology!
Attend the “Assessing research replicability" lecture by Dr. Tim Errington on Thurs 18 Sept, 15:30-16:15.
👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

Promotional poster for the LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2025 Public Lecture. The poster features a photo of speaker Dr. Tim Errington. The text states the lecture focuses on replicability of preclinical research; time and date of lecture being 15:35-16:15 CEST on Thursday September 18 2025; and instructions to register online. Logos of LMU Open Science Center, LMU, and Universitätsbibliothek München are displayed at the bottom.

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Luis Cásedas @lcasedas.bsky.social · Sep 10

Would you like to know what contemplative studies are? Check out this new #INMINDS interview with Julieta Galante in @cienciacog.bsky.social *where contemplation meets science*! www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2579 (1/2)

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Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · Sep 10

Time is running out to register for our pre-symposium workshop and Meta Research Symposium event at Paul Meehl Graduate School
Check the information and registration links below:

paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · Sep 9

Do you work on the psychology of disinformation?
The CIMCYC (UGR), a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence, is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher.
📍 Granada, Spain
📅 Apply: Sept 15–26, 2025
🧑‍🔬 Postdoc (1 yr, renewable)
#SocialPsychology #PsychScience

👉 cimcyc.ugr.es/informacion/...

Oferta de Empleo: Investigador/a Postdoctoral en Desinformación

Como parte del plan estratégico asociado al Sello de Excelencia María de Maeztu, el CIMCYC va a contratar a un/a investigador/a postdoctoral con experiencia en el ámbito de la psicología de la desinfo...

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · Sep 5

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

INSPECT-SR: A tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials.

INSPECT-SR: a tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials

The integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials (RCTs). These are RCTs where there are serious concerns about the trustworthiness of the data or findings....

www.medrxiv.org

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