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Matt Makel

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educational researcher focusing on academic talent (identification and development) and open science research practices (implementation and assessment). Now in Canada @UCalgary

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Jan 14

“Why do you think this practice should or shouldn’t be used?” We asked education researchers about #QuestionableResearchPractices (e.g., selectively reporting results) and about #OpenScience practices like preregistration, open data, and replication. #Preprint osf.io/preprints/ed...

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 12d

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14d

If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️

datamgmtinedresearch.com

1. Organizing data (Ch. 3)
2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9)
3. Documenting data (Ch. 8)
4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)

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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 15d

Hi all! I'm on sabbatical this year and have bandwidth to zoom into lab meetings to talk about open science in cog psych and speech research and/or how to implement practices that reduce research errors! (www.carleton.edu/perception-l...).

Email me if that sounds fun to you too!

Error Tight - Carleton College

No one is immune from making mistakes. However, it is possible to set up our labs and research systems in ways that reduce the likelihood that we will make mistakes…

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 16d

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project

The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 21d

If my experience in academia has taught me anything it's that logging in to my same account on my same computer requires 2FA *every time* lest someone hack in and see my course schedule, but the forgery-proof method for approving things is to paste in a JPG of one's signature into a Word document.

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Sep 11

Congratulations Lauren!!

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Andrew F. Hayes 🇨🇦 @afhayes.bsky.social · Aug 21

You have been thinking about Canada. So just do it. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1661564...

Assistant Professor, Industrial & Organizational Psychology in Calgary, AB, ...

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Aug 20

@elisabethbik.bsky.social if you need any recruits, she looks like she's got some serious skills www.instagram.com/reel/DHtAcJ-...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Aug 13

Children vary! We see this variation everywhere - within households, classrooms, and schools, but also in cross-cultural comparisons. We even see substantial variation within individual children from day to day. How can we measure and understand this variability? That's the goal of LEVANTE.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing".

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(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

What is LEVANTE? 🧵

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Aug 13

Agreed. I welcome desk rejections, they help me make sure I am not aiming too conservatively. But I want to fail fast. ...of course, I have another paper that was just sent back to reviewers for the 3rd time (which feels like a waste of Their time)

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Aug 13

I recently had an education journal take almost 10 weeks to desk reject.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Aug 13

Promising way to crowdsource data on academic journal decision timelines. I'm uploading my data. You can too!

Michael Maffie @maffie.bsky.social · Aug 13

Stories like this are why my lab started the Coauthor Project. If this was a manuscript central submission, can you upload it to the dashboard?

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Coauthor

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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · Aug 1

The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November:
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is incredible.
No. Wait.
It is amazing.

Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · Jul 24

I learned the most amazing thing from Anne Greene's new book "Writing Science in Plain English": the human retina can process only ~7 letters at a time.

That means you have to focus on longer words twice to process them. It's another good reason to use shorter words!

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · Jul 23

oof

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hey @drrobmoore.bsky.social dreams come true!

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Jul 23

🏆 achievement unlocked 🏆
initial submission: minor revision
resubmission: major revision

I don't believe I have ever accomplished this feat before.

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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · Jul 22

As many work to finish up #AERA26 submissions, @agustingarcia.bsky.social just told me that #AERA27 is going to be in Toronto, Canada! 🇨🇦

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · Jul 19

Yep, a good point. I either know what "Author (Year)" refers to, breaking blindness, or I don't, in which case I can't evaluate that part of the manuscript.

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · Jul 17

I wrote a popular press article about Replication Research! First time writing like this, but it was pretty fun. theconversation.com/research-rep...

Research replication can determine how well science is working – but how do scientists replicate studies?

Replication research can take the temperature on how accurate science in a given field is, but research replication is easier said than done.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · Jul 14

I really appreciate being given the opportunity to contribute to this Nature article on best practices for versioning shared data! 🫱📂🫲

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Need to update your data? Follow these five tips

Researchers engaged in long-term projects often need to update their data sets over time. Here’s how to do it while maintaining reproducibility.

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Jul 14

I actually really like getting the emails to see how others reviewed the manuscript. But not as much as I like getting decisions on my own manuscripts.

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Jul 14

Getting a "Decision on manuscript" email, only to discover it is about something I reviewed and not my manuscript.

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congrats!!!

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