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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · 9d

Brilliant design! Makes me want to have a new website as well!

Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · 23d

Psychological Methods is looking for Editorial Fellows. We are looking forward to applications of early-career psychologists who will bring experiential diversity to their work. If you are interested, reach out to me or directly apply here to work with a wonderful team: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

www.apa.org

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Sep 8

Anke Schneider and I put together a short brochure on sample size planning, aimed at Bachelor psychology students. Our goal: help students justify their sample size plan (other than just relying on defaults) and help avoid common pitfalls. 🚀
For now, it’s only available in German.
osf.io/n46vg/

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Sep 5

Also see the press release, which may have contributed to this by their opener "A university degree is linked to a heightened risk of developing a brain tumour":

medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06...

High levels of education linked to heightened brain tumor risk

A university degree is linked to a heightened risk of developing a brain tumour, suggests a large observational study, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

medicalxpress.com

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Sep 5

Not exactly 'low quality,' but a brilliant example of how correlational findings can start to take on a life of their own. The paper title is "Socioeconomic position and the risk of brain tumour" but see the Mirror's headline. Original paper: jech.bmj.com/content/70/1...

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Sep 3

What is their recommendation to use instead?

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Jul 29

A new preregistration template for simulation studies is now live on OSF. Thanks to the creators and the preregistration template working group for proposing and shepherding this to make it available to users.

See the post if you would like to propose a new template.

www.cos.io/blog/introdu...

Introducing the Simulation Studies Preregistration Template: Q&A with Björn S. Siepe, František Bartoš, and Samuel Pawel

Initially submitted through COS’s open call for community-designed preregistration templates, the Simulation Studies Template is now part of the expanding collection of preregistration resources avail...

www.cos.io

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 29

New preprint: Stop thinking of Cohen's d as an effect size.

Cohen's d confounds magnitude of effect and reliability. Yet, we pretend our measurements are flawless when interpreting it. What if we thought of Cohen’s d as a measure of detectability instead?

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 28

New study out in Nature Medicine: Education does not protect against age-related decline of memory. Read more here: Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries - Nature Medicine

In a large cross-national study, education was linked to better memory and larger brain volumes but not to slower cognitive or brain decline with age, suggesting that the association reflects early-li...

www.nature.com

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 25

The package supports R/quarto files with small hiccups. The next package release will hopefully fully support quarto.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Jul 24

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail).

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why AI chatbots lie to us

A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

www.science.org

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 24

More info on the basics here: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
And use cases in our vignettes, e.g.:
brandmaier.github.io/reproducible... -- click "Articles" to see more.

Automated Reproducibility Testing in R Markdown

Computational results are considered reproducible if the same computation on the same data yields the same results if performed on a different computer or on the same computer later in time. Reproduci...

online.ucpress.edu

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 24

Want automated reproducibility checks for your R Markdown docs on GitHub?

reproducibleRchunks v1.2.0 is now on CRAN!
✅ Generates GitHub Actions for cloud-based reproducibility checks (with cool badges)
📦 Supports renv for dependency management
👉 cran.r-project.org/package=repr...

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Mackey Shines @bobservo.bsky.social · Jul 23

love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 18

Finally: Ecologically valid MRI studies.

Seen at Max Planck Campus of Cognition #noai

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jul 16

Interested in the latest metascience? Come to Eindhoven October 17th to listen to Dr. Duygu Uygun-Tunç (University of Chicago) and Dr. Lisa Spitzer (Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie) as keynote speakers, and Dr. Aaron Peikert for a workshop collaboration through Git! All free!

Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 Registration is now open for the PMGS Meta-Research Symposium 2025!
📝 Abstract submissions are still welcome—deadline: July 31.

Plus: join our mini-workshop on coordination using GitHub on the afternoon of October 16.

Find all the details & sign up here:
paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-07-16-s...

Registration Now Open: Meta-Research Symposium 2025 & Pre-Symposium Mini-Workshop | Paul Meehl Graduate School

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the second round of the Paul Meehl Graduate School’s...

paulmeehlschool.github.io

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 11

The German Research Foundation @dfg.de publishes the English edition of their Funding Atlas!

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Jul 11

Out now: the English edition of our Funding Atlas! Key Figures Relating to Publicly Funded Research in Germany - with comprehensive and subject-specific analyses of how successful German universities / research institutions have been in acquiring third-party funding.
Visit foerderatlas.dfg.de/en/

German Research Funding Atlas | Third-party funded research in Germany

Where in Germany does the most publicly funded research take place? The report shows figures and rankings of federal states, regions, universities and research institutions - and how they work togethe...

foerderatlas.dfg.de

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 11

gasps of awe!

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Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature

Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...

doi.org

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 2

CRAN release of reproducibleRchunks v1.1.0 - now with full support of all standard knitr code chunk options.
There are also some example vignettes to get you started: brandmaier.github.io/reproducible...
or just read our Open Access article in Collabra: Psychology: doi.org/10.1525/coll... #rstats

Automated Reproducibility Testing in R Markdown

Computational results are considered reproducible if the same computation on the same data yields the same results if performed on a different computer or on the same computer later in time. Reproduci...

doi.org

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 1

@anoukbouma.bsky.social makes wonderful remarks on how scientific software often misses users' need. Where is the: "Design, test, and iterate" cycle in scientific software?

Anouk Bouma @anoukbouma.bsky.social · Jun 16

I wrote a blogpost on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: how metascientists could (and should) think more about their users when designing tools and reforms.

Would love to hear any thoughts on this topic!

#metascience #usercentered

When Good Tools Fail: The Missing Step in Scientific Reform — Meta-Research Center

This blogpost was written by Anouk Bouma. Anouk her PhD project focuses on studying and enhancing various interventions for improving scientific robustness at journal level, supervised by Marcel van A...

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yes, yes, yes. And particularly thank you for quoting the essential “Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 25

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

AI, peer review and the human activity of science

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

www.nature.com

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jun 13

@markuswb.bsky.social @myriamsander.bsky.social @yeeleeshing.bsky.social

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · Jun 11

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳

After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org
#PsychSciSky #scipub

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