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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · 1d

🎉👶 Welcome to the last new born in the Open Science effort!
Replication Research is a diamond open access journal dedicated to robust, transparent and reproducible science.

#OpenScience #ScientificPublication #Replication #OpenAccess

Replication Research

Replication Research is a diamond open-access and researcher-led journal that publishes reproductions, replications, and conceptual articles on repetitive research

www.uni-muenster.de

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 4

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.

Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.

Sigh.

Domain-General Cognitive Ability
In subject area: Psychology
Domain-general cognitive abilities refer to cognitive skills that are not unique to humans but are present across various primate species and potentially other mammals and birds, indicating a general factor underlying cognitive performance that correlates with brain size and is associated with selective attention and working memory capacity.
AI generated definition based on: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2012

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Aug 12

Oups. 😄 It seems my close colleague forgot to cut my joke at the end of the sentence... And then not the editor, nor the people in charge of editing considered necessary to change it before publication! #SciencePublication #FunButSad #SadButTrue #FrenchAcademic

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Aug 10

240,245 participants in a single study, not too bad. The effect size is modest, but ecological validity is high due to real-world implementation! #BehavioralScience #SocialPsychology #Megastudy #ClimateChange #ImplementationScience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Jul 8

The 4th Big Team Science Conference (aka #BTSCON) will be held online October 6-8. A unique opportunity to discuss, join and anticipate the future of BTS. Registration is free/'what you can' but beware submission deadline is short! (31st July). bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/
#psysci

submissions

>>> Submit your abstract here! Submissions for all session types are now open! * *Panels, hackathons, and symposia:* maximum 500 words * *Talks, lightning talks, and unconferences:* maximum 250 words ...

bigteamscienceconference.github.io

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Jul 7

Awarded projects will receive:
✔️ Research funding from SIPS (up to $2,000 USD)
✔️ A recommendation decision from PCI-RR.

Deadline: August 1st.

🔗 More details: buff.ly/AigqCod

June 2025

The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) and Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCI-RR), together invite researchers to submit empirical research projects for consideration…

improvingpsych.org

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Jun 17

Shame on Wiley!

Peer Community in Registered Reports @pci-regreports.bsky.social · Jun 17

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social

Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

In 2024, Infant and Child Development (ICD) withdrew as a PCI RR-friendly journal and reneged on three Stage 1 recommendations issued by PCI RR. In addition, Wiley – the publisher of ICD – notified PCI RR and the PCI core team of its decision to withdraw all Wiley journals from PCI and PCI RR, including an additional 9 PCI-friendly journals. Finally, Wiley appears to have banned all of its ~1600 journals from considering submissions that have been previously reviewed by PCI or PCI RR. This statement explains the history of ICD joining PCI RR and developments that led to the current outcome. The PCI RR Managing Board believes that this shift in policy to become “PCI-hostile” renders Wiley journals incompatible not only with community-based preprint review but with preprint archiving in general.

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adrips-comm.bsky.social @adrips-comm.bsky.social · Jun 4

Ce fut une rencontre fort plaisante. Encore merci à tou•tes les communicant•es, au comité d'organisation et à toutes les personnes ayant assistées au CJC2025.

A bientôt pour une prochaine rencontre de l'ADRIPS !

#ADRIPS #CJC2025 #Besançon

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Jun 3

Et entre les deux... on arrête de se poser la question par peur de trouver une réponse !

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Jun 3

In France, only 3% of public spending goes to research — just €27B budgeted for 2025. Shockingly low for a country that prides itself on innovation.

🧪 Underfunded labs
🧠 Brain drain
🏫 Poor faculty conditions

Investing in the future isn’t optional.
#Research #Science #France #WhereGoesTaxes

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · May 22

Great having @protzko.bsky.social at the (big) Lab these past two weeks! Inspiring discussions and exciting ideas in #metascience.
Thanks for the engaging talk at the #AtelierMMS (Methodology, MetaScience & Stats Lab Meeting). #UniversitéDeToulouse #UT2J

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Apr 16

Our EIM model paper with Ben Aubert-Teillaud and Alex Bran "Expectation violation and cognitive dissonance theory" was among the top 10% most viewed in EJSP in 2023... Good for an 'august' paper ! 😏
📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#CognitiveDissonance #FormalizedModel #SocialPsychology

Expectation violation and cognitive dissonance theory: Proposal for an epistemic inconsistency management model

A crucial dilemma for any individual facing contradictory information is whether to maintain or disengage from an expectation. Cognitive dissonance theory offers an influential model of these situati...

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Apr 5

Comment aider les chercheurs disposant de moins de ressources ou des réseaux moins développés à faire de la recherche ? L'étude bit.ly/GrEenwIch cartographie cela et s'adresse à des C, EC et post-doc. 20GBP à la clé pour les participants (voucher ou don). #FrenchAcademic #recherche à diffuser

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Apr 1

Toulouse University, France, offers refuge to US researchers in fields under threat by the Trump administration.
www.univ-toulouse.fr/actualites/c...
#UniversitédeToulouse #Academicsky #ScienceNotSilence

La communauté universitaire toulousaine tend la main aux chercheurs américains en difficulté | Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse

Face aux menaces et aux coupes budgétaires drastiques et ciblées qui frappent la recherche aux États-Unis, le site universitaire toulousain propose d’accueillir des chercheuses et chercheurs dont les ...

www.univ-toulouse.fr

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Mar 18

⏲️L'étude prend une dizaine de minutes tout au plus. Toutes les disciplines sont concernées et nous avons besoin d'un nombre important de participants en France pour garantir des résultats représentatifs.

David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Mar 18

💡Portée par un large consortium en science ouverte (FORTT – forrt.org), cette recherche s'adresse aux personnes employées dans un établissement d'enseignement supérieur (ou équivalent) avec des responsabilités de recherche (chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs, post-doctorants).

FORRT - Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training

Integrating open and reproducible science into higher education

forrt.org

David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Mar 18

🔬 Cette étude s'intéresse à l'activité de recherche en milieu académique, avec pour objectif ultime de soutenir les "pays du Sud", les minorités et d'autres groupes sous-représentés.

David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Mar 18

⚠️ Nous recherchons des chercheur-euse-s (C, EC, post-doc) pour participer à une étude collaborative internationale menée par l'Université de Greenwich. #FrenchAcademic #FrenchUniversities

📌 Lien vers l’étude : bit.ly/GrEenwIch

Attention : les doctorants ne font pas partie de la population cible.

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Hong Chen @hongch.bsky.social · Mar 11

How accurately do citations reflect the original research? Do authors truly engage with what they cite?

In a new study, we analyze millions of citation sentence pairs to measure citation fidelity and how it varies depending on authors’ engagement with prior literature.

arxiv.org/abs/2502.20581

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Mar 11

I went through the paper - I promise I won't cite it without deeper reading ;) - but I did not find any analysis based on the number of cited papers. I remember the old papers with often less than 10 citations, while the current ones have dozens. The commitment cannot be the same. Some insights?

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Mar 6

Another time, other practices, other threats. Yet in this dark period, Merton's take on the norms of science remains strikingly contemporary, relevant and necessary! #ElonMusk #Science #Openscience #Metascience #academicsky

law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset...

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Feb 28

medium.com/neo-cybernet...
C'est plus long qu'un slogan épistémologique, mais plus nourrissant. Bonne digestion.

The tautology problem of epistemology

Epistemology is faced with a fundamental dilemma that is reminiscent of Baron Munchausen’s famous attempt to pull oneself out of the swamp…

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Feb 28

A meta-epistemological problem... In short, this resolves the replication crisis with an upper class problem, as understanding knowledge itself IS the problem! Happy Friday.

The tautology problem of epistemology

Epistemology is faced with a fundamental dilemma that is reminiscent of Baron Munchausen’s famous attempt to pull oneself out of the swamp…

medium.com

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Feb 16

US is firing researchers? Bad news 😤 (stupid choice) but lucky opportunity for you! Liberty🗽 🇫🇷 France's application session is opening very soon! Transparent process, tenured positions and now a much easier portal in English. odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/accueil?lang... #sciencesky

Odyssée

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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · Feb 11

Got the same from France, with translation. Due to its allegiance and the power we grant it, Google threatens democracy by rewriting history. What a shame! #Google #democracy #MakeAmericaAdultAgainNotDangerousBullyingAsshole

Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · Feb 11

holy capitulation to clowns. Google's even doing this to us here in Australia