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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 1d

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!

Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17h

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

sonjadrimmer.com

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 4d

📣 “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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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 8d

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 ...

ukrio.org

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 10d

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?

Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.

📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)

#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 11d

Our fragmentation paper is now finally out! I put some of the dumb quips that didn't make the cut in the alt texts.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A fragmented field. If we conceive of the constructs and concepts studied in behavioral science as a map, we would find that it is highly fragmented and directions are hard to come by. Scientists can hardly stand on each others' shoulders if they cannot manage to meet on common ground.

Fragmentation has worsened, not decreased, as the field has grown. Partly, this happens because we have too many reverse Columbuses, who, in search of prestige, set out to find a new continent, but just end up renaming India. But partly, we face a real, solvable search problem when trying to connect our fuzzy constructs and flexible measures.

Most measures are used only once. To be clear, we do not want to prevent or reduce refinements of existing constructs and measures. Revisions, translations, and other refinements can contribute to a more coherent, organized literature and improve measurement. We are most concerned with the measures conceived with limited planning and released into the literature without much commitment or much of a life expectancy. In ontologies, these are sometimes referred to as “orphan nodes.”

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Cristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · Jul 4

People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”

It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:

Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 24d

This is a link to a hybrid book launch for the megavolume Methods in Philosophy of Science edited by the amazing @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social Chapter 5 is mine with @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social The book will become open access in July 2026: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224...

Details | Events | University of Exeter

www.exeter.ac.uk

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 14d

This only happens to you once

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · 17d

I like this: “mandates are not just rules, they are opportunities for equity in open access”, in the @oaspa.bsky.social poster presentation of Vrushali Dandawate from @doaj.bsky.social #OASPA2025

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 17d

I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy

Toward a Metaphilosophy of Science - PhilSci-Archive

philsci-archive.pitt.edu

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 28d

A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September

opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

opensciencestudies.eu

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 22d

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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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 4

Made these for fun — hope you get a chuckle at least & consider signing

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...

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Image that says: Have you considered NOT using AI? Funky font and flowers and a qr code that links to the open letter

Image that says: AI is evil. Funky font and flowers and a qr code that links to the open letter

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Sep 4

I realize the world is burning, but here is the abstract of a talk I will give multiple times in different formats this month. With the feedback, I hope to write up something substantial on the theme in the remainder of the year.

Statistical algorithms have advanced rapidly in the last
decades, but most researchers are still only taught how to do t-tests
and worry about normality of residuals. At the heart of the
reproducibility crisis lies scientific workflow, the often
unprincipled and undocumented ways that scientific theories are
related to statistical procedures and their results. I want to center
scientific workflow in debates about open science and outline a
research program for taking scientific workflow seriously.

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Sophia Crüwell @cruwelli.bsky.social · Sep 2

Aww man I thought this was my time to shine as I’m in Vienna tomorrow but I see it’s a popular snapshot 😅

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Miguel Ohnesorge @miguelohn.bsky.social · Aug 31

Now out as preprint in Philosophy of Science. l argue that two central desiderata for measures often conflict: quantitativeness and responsiveness to stakeholder values, forcing a choice between them. The conflict poses a challenge for recent work on "legitimate" measurement. doi.org/10.1017/psa....

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · Aug 28

Are you a potential, current, or past ReproducibiliTea organizer? ✨

Join our upcoming networking event!

📅 October 2, 2025 (16:00 CEST) on Zoom
👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/iH6sHt3dB4Wf...

Everyone is welcome!

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Aug 23

I did it the other way

Again, if you plan to consult Al platforms or find their use too alluring to resist, please drop this course from your schedule now. It is the wrong class for you. I am looking forward to meeting with many of you very soon -- first class on Thursday of next week!

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · Aug 14

Grateful to Cristian Larroulet Philippi — our inaugural Seddon Fellow in the HPS program at UniMelb — for a rich and most insightful deep dive…

🎧 Don't miss this one!
🔗 linktr.ee/thehpspodcast

@cristianlarph.bsky.social
#philsci #hps #measurement

Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · Aug 14

This week, Cristian Larroulet Philipi joins us to talk about measurement in the human sciences: why it can be more philosophically complex than in the physical sciences, and how it raises pressing questions about the role of numbers in psychology, social science, and policy

#philsci #measurement

S5 E5 - Cristian Larroulet Philippi on Measurement in the Human Sciences

The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 12

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social · Aug 12

What a great metaphor!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 11

one of the biggest arguments against AI dependence is that the strongest proponents of its use have become visibly *dumber* in the last few years.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 8

It really does feel like a lot of formerly reasonable people have been infected by some sort of terrifying brain parasite when it comes to unthinking and total acceptance of using AI tools

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Aug 7

Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.

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