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Amélie Godefroidt

@ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral researcher @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social, working at the intersection of Peace Processes, Public Opinion, and Political Communication. www.ameliegodefroidt.com

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · May 7

I'm a bit late to the party, but excited to finally join BlueSky!

Political scientist here—studying violence, peace, and public opinion. Always happy to connect, discuss, and learn. Come say hi! 👋

A quick 🧵 on what I study.

#Academia #PoliticalScience #PeaceResearch #PublicOpinion #NewHere

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Sep 1

As kids head back to school across Belgium today, I’m also stepping into a new classroom — but this time as Assistant Professor in Conflict Management at @ieseg.fr
Grateful and excited for the journey ahead.

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · Jul 16

💡 Meet @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social, Postdoc & Lecturer at KU Leuven. She studies public response to war & conflict, often working with sensitive, complex data. In our Q&A, she discusses her open science summer course & how transparency can strengthen trust & collaboration:
www.cos.io/blog/amél...

Q&A with Amélie Godefroidt: Building Trust and Transparency in Complex, Sensitive Research

Amélie Godefroidt applies open science practices in her research on public opinion regarding wars, conflicts, and terrorism. Explore her work, insights, and free course materials on OSF.

https://www.cos.io/blog/amélie-godefroidt-building-trust-transparency-complex-sensitive-research

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎉 Long overdue announcement: I’m thrilled to join @ieseg.fr as Assistant Professor in Conflict Management!

Sad to be leaving @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social but excited to explore new intersections between conflict studies, international negotiation & organizational dynamics 🤝

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 16

Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics.

Academic mothers are much more likely to...

◾temporarily leave the labor force

◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.

scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 16

My dear friend and colleague @chrisdworschak.bsky.social is kicking off #NEPS2025, presenting fascinating work with @kmross.bsky.social on conflict forecasting using… music data! 🎶📈

“Rhythms to riot” is already setting the tone for a brilliant few days of peace science!
#conflictforecasting

Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 16

Excited to be at the annual conference of the European Peace Scientists in sunny Barcelona! Looking forward to three days of inspiring research, new ideas, and great conversations on peace and conflict.

#PeaceScience #NEPS2025

Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thanks, Elise! Happy to hear you learned a lot!

Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 10

No, I've missed it! Looks great. Thanks for sharing. I'll have a closer look at it later this week.

Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 10

Please do so! The FORTT materials were truly inspiring for creating this course, so always happy to support others as well.

I’ve uploaded everything to @cos.io, and you can also reach me at [email protected] if needed!

osf.io/s8mxd/files/...

OSF

osf.io

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 10

As promised: I’ve just uploaded all course materials of the Open Science in Social Sciences summer school on @cos.io:
osf.io/s8mxd/?

🚀 Feel free to explore, reuse, and share (under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license).

#OpenScience @forrt.bsky.social

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 6

Btw: after a well-deserved long weekend, I’ll be sharing all course materials from the Open Science in the Social Sciences summer school @cos.io !

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 6

🎉 That’s a wrap!
Four days of deep dives into #OpenScience, #preregistration, #replication, #reproducibility, #multiverse, & more—applied to the social sciences.

Huge thanks to all participants for the energy, insights & thoughtful questions!
@ugentopenscience.bsky.social @gasparugent.bsky.social

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 6

🗣️ Fourth and final stop: Open Peer Review

We debated:
✍️ Signed reviews
🧾 Public reports
💬 Community commenting
✅ Platforms like @pubpeer.com @F1000Research & @publons

#OpenPeerReview

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 6

🔐 Third stop: how open can your data be under GDPR?

Enter:
✅ FAIR principles
✅ Personal data, special categories of data
✅ Anonymization vs. Pseudonymization
✅ Consent, licensing, & DPO support

More info: www.kuleuven.be/rdm/en/guida...

#FAIRdata #DataSharing #OpenData

Data sharing

www.kuleuven.be

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 6

💻 Second stop: #rMarkdown

📝 YAML -> Code chunks -> text -> Knit!
🔁 We did various exercises to knit dynamic, reproducible reports (HTML, pdf, word)
🛠️ Bonus: it’s the perfect gateway to @quarto.org

🔗 rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_qu...

#rStats

R Markdown Quick Tour

Turn your analyses into high quality documents, reports, presentations and dashboards with R Markdown. Use a productive notebook interface to weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantl...

rmarkdown.rstudio.com

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 6

🌌 First stop: Multiverse Analysis

We explored how analytic decisions shape results—and why reporting just one is like publishing from a parallel universe.

📚 Steegen et al. (2016): doi.org/10.1177/1745...
📚 Simonsohn et al. (2020): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 specr: masurp.github.io/specr/

Conducting and Visualizing Specification Curve Analyses

Provides utilities for conducting specification curve analyses (Simonsohn, Simmons & Nelson (2020, <doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-0912-z>) or multiverse analyses (Steegen, Tuerlinckx, Gelman & Vanpaemel, 20...

masurp.github.io

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 6

🚀 Day 4 of our #OpenScienceInSocSci summer school @gasparugent.bsky.social @ugentopenscience.bsky.social wrapped up with new tools, big questions & practical skills.

Here’s your (final) recap thread 🧵

#OpenScience #PhDlife #Reproducibility

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Jun 4

We are reviewing the current state of scientific publishing, and we want to hear from researchers on their perceptions of publishing in the current context and how it might develop in future. Complete our short survey now:

The Future of Scientific Publishing - survey

forms.royalsociety.org

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 5

🔥 Big day ahead at the #OpenScience summer school!

On the menu:
💻 Making your research reproducible with @rmarkdown.bsky.social & @quarto.org
🔐 Balancing Open Science with Data Protection
🧐 What’s the deal with Open Peer Review?
🌐 A quick dive into Multiverse Analysis

Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 5

We ended with a #pHackathon 🎯

Students were challenged to “find significance” in a fake dataset using researcher degrees of freedom 😅 shinyapps.org/apps/p-hacker/

Key lesson: flexibility isn't bad—but without transparency, it’s dangerous.

Experience Statistics

shinyapps.org

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 5

2️⃣ Smart data sharing: as open as possible, as closed as necessary!

3️⃣ Reproducible reporting with @rmarkdown.bsky.social n & @quarto.org

4️⃣ Built better replication packages with solid README files, transparent code, and full workflows. social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_REA...

A template README for social science replication packages.

The template README provided on this website is in a form that follows best practices as defined by a number of data editors at social science journals.

social-science-data-editors.github.io

Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 5

1️⃣ Consistency checker:

Want cleaner science? Use these tools:
✔️ GRIM test → check if reported means are possible
✔️ shinyapps.org/apps/p-check... → spot wrong p-values
✔️ michelenuijten.shinyapps.io/statcheck-web/ → scan entire papers for wrong p-values

Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 5

🧰 Beyond (a priori!) power analysis, students got 5 more tools for their repro toolbox:

1️⃣ Consistency checkers (GRIM, p-checker, statcheck)
2️⃣ Smart data sharing (more tomorrow!)
3️⃣ Reproducible reporting (more tomorrow!)
4️⃣ Crafting solid replication packages
5️⃣ #ManyLabs5 on quality > prereg

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 5

We’d tackled HARKing & p-hacking—but what about statistical power? 🧠

We broke down how sample size, effect size & alpha shape our ability to detect real effects.

Median power in poli sci = 10% 😬 (Arel-Bundock et al. 2024). To solve this, we introduced:

🧮 G*Power and 📦 pwr in R (recommended)

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 5

First up: two terms that often get mixed up 👇

🔁 Reproducibility = same data, same code
📦 Replicability = new data, same design

We unpacked these (and more) with help from Brodeur et al. (2024):
📖 www.iza.org/publications...

🔥 Pro tip: join a #Replication Game via @i4replication.bsky.social

Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope

This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political sc...

www.iza.org

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