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Flavio Azevedo
@flavioazevedo.bsky.social

Asst Prof in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University https://flavioazevedo.com

Director of FORRT @forrt.bsky.social http://forrt.org

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O2Mp3ygAAAAJ&hl=en .. more

Computer science 22%
Psychology 18%
🚀 Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person 🚀

3 days. 4 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore.

📆 4-6 May 2026 | Münster, Germany 
✈️ Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)

Apply by 16 March ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2

🧵👇 What we will build?
Making Replication Count: Spring Hackathon
Join us for a three-day-hackathon to create a Zotero plug-in and a preprint bot to boost the visibility of replication studies! Background In the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, replicatio...
indico.uni-muenster.de

100%! Join us!

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@forrt.bsky.social and the Münster Center for Open Science are organizing a Love Replications Week this year. Get in touch if you would like to contribute with tutorials, case studies, or discussions surrounding #reproductions and #replications! The full program will be announced soon!

So cuuuuuuute
A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

🧵 Thread—>
“Sometimes you don’t survive whole. You only survive in part. But the *grandeur* of life is that attempt. It’s not about the solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can and behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances.”
Toni Morrison on Trauma, Survival, and Finding Meaning
YouTube video by CTFORUM
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For @liberalcurrents.com fellow @vassar.bsky.social alum @jpygold.bsky.social and I wrote about the Trump administration's gutting of disparate impact liability as another advance in their segregationist agenda.
Promoting a New Segregation
The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.
www.liberalcurrents.com

No economic conservatism, Chris? I replicate(d) these findings, but I always find economic conservatism as a main predictor of authoritarianism.
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.

Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

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Our latest Coffee Lecture on Open Science Education is now available as a video: @flavioazevedo.bsky.social “Building the Future of Open Inclusive, Rigorous, and Open Research with FORRT”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Csp...
📣We are excited to announce that FORRT is one of the few initiatives worldwide to be formally endorsed as a Programme of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD, 2024–2033)! 🎉
"We show that most men express low-to-moderate levels of distinct dimensions of toxic masculinity including sexism, narcissism, and sexual prejudice. Only a small proportion of men displayed traditional forms of toxic masculinity."

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Minority Power

"Marginalized groups develop sophisticated alternative conceptualizations of power as collective resistance, cultural preservation and mutual aid that enable transformation despite structural disadvantages."

#SocialPsyc
Critique argues post-publication peer review "often focuses on minor details" and "risks damaging trust in both the research itself and the peer review process" found to contain:

- Hallucinated references
- Undisclosed COIs (EiC is author)
- 8/9 authors have retractions or related scandals
An expert criticism on post-publication peer review platforms: the case of pubpeer - DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
While traditional peer review offers advantages in academic publishing, it is often hampered by significant weaknesses, leading to frustration among many authors. Scientific discoveries after publicat...
link.springer.com

True story!
New preprint with Thomas Graves and @annayahprosser.bsky.social: "Getting Creeped Out? Open Science, Qualitative Methods, and the Dangers of Positivism Creep".

osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io

Hahajhahahajajah! You can see it in Steve's eyes. The battle is already lost.

You, @helenahartmann.com, are simply amazing, and FORRT wouldn't be what it is without you! We were so lucky to have you! Thank you for blessing us with your presence and academic gifts!!!

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Now we wrote a piece about many things we always wanted to say about replications.

How they are used, tracked and valued by the science community. And how we can evaluate their results, whatever those may be 🤔

Read the preprint 📃 osf.io/preprints/me...

Browse the Hub 🌐 forrt.org/replication-...
It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social...

It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social.

We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️
Don't forget to register for the upcoming Online Talk with @flavioazevedo.bsky.social on 9 December, 4–5 p.m. CET: Building the Future of Open, Inclusive, and Rigorous Research with FORRT - A global initiative that develops structures for open and transparent research education: zbw.to/JVvZz

Need² 🤭

It is like being in heaven but better

Congratulations, friend!

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‘We’re true guardians of the forest’: quilombola community near Belém demand land rights and recognition
‘We’re true guardians of the forest’: quilombola community near Belém demand land rights and recognition
Short boat ride from Cop30 host, Afro-descendant residents of Menino Jesus say their voices are not being heard
www.theguardian.com

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Today is the day y'all :) 🥳 🎉

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We invite you to the upcoming Online Talk with Flavio Azevedo @flavioazevedo.bsky.social 9 December: Building the Future of Open, Inclusive, and Rigorous Research with FORRT- a global initiative that develops structures for open and transparent research education.
Registration: eveeno.com/215884837
Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social

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WANTED! Collaborators for a Big Team Science Systematic Review on Statistical Software in #StatsEd, led by @alyssacounsell.bsky.social (RoSE Statistics Software SIG Lead), @maddipow.bsky.social (@forrt.bsky.social rt.bsky.social Director of Education & Pedagogy), & @richharrisleeds.bsky.social. 1/2
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.