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Richard Tunney @richardtunney.bsky.social · Sep 2

This just published. Great work by Michelle Oxtoby. Full article: Lower caution, not inhibitory control, predicts gambling severity – a Registered Report www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lower caution, not inhibitory control, predicts gambling severity – a Registered Report

Models of gambling disorder, along with other addiction-related conditions, identify impulsive traits as a key component to developing challenging behaviors. This is supported by empirical findings...

www.tandfonline.com

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · Sep 3

Naturally, this is an open educational resource: It is free and will forever stay free. We are also considering making it a living book: There are a few areas that we think deserve more attention. If you are an expert on something that you think is missing from this work, please get in touch!

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · Sep 3

At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...

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Addiction Research & Theory @addictrestheory.bsky.social · Aug 14

“Lower Caution, not Inhibitory Control, predicts Gambling Severity - A Registered Report” by Michelle C. Oxtoby, @drcpennington.bsky.social‬, Richard J. Tunney, & Craig Hedge #accepted

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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · Jul 3

#OpenScience principles help students gain lots of useful skills that are an advantage on the job market in and beyond academia. Read our latest book chapter where we provide tips for educators to bolster employability through open science: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Open science contributes to more rigorous and impactful science. However, little attention is often paid to the benefits that it provides to its users, such as project management and programming skills. Although not its primary objective, these skills may be considered additional benefits supporting the transition to open science practices. Drawing from international perspectives, this chapter will discuss skills that students develop explicitly or implicitly by engaging in open science and their benefits to careers within and outside of academia. It will also showcase examples of how engagement in open science is considered in (academic) hiring decisions, including ongoing debates and areas for (structural) improvement. Ultimately, this chapter will inform educators about the most important open science skills and provide insights into how to strategically build a resume to present open science-related skills convincingly to improve employability, including practical tips and resources.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Jun 21

Love this!! Have a great time 😃

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Michelle Oxtoby @moxtoby.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thoroughly enjoyed presenting a 3-minute Rapid Talk at #CAGR2025, about our cognitive psychology study. We found that Lower Caution, not Inhibitory Control, predicts Higher Gambling Severity.

Thank you to the best supervisors:
Dr Craig Hedge
@richardtunney.bsky.social @drcpennington.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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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · May 6

Reviewing chapters for our "Teaching Open Science" book with @drcpennington.bsky.social! 12 fab chapters including..
👥Maximising student research
📝Open qualitative research
🔬Promoting responsible research practices
📖Developing Open Educational Resources
🔐Preregistering with students (& a LOT more)

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Apr 11

The Struggle to Make Transparency Mainstream - Initial Evidence for a Slow Uptake of Open Science Practices in PhD Theses: https://osf.io/kq9zd

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Evelyn Murray @evelynmurray.bsky.social · Apr 11

I’ve just submitted my first PhD study for publication — and it's officially up as a preprint!
"Exploring Public perceptions of Social media: A preregistered Mixed-Methods Study” --> osf.io/preprints/ps... 📱🥳💜(1/5)

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Apr 10

Join us for Midlands Innovation Open Research Week, 6th–9th May

The theme for this year’s event is “Just fOR the love of it”, where we aim to spotlight open research beyond compliance— focusing on the principles, values, & innovations that drive researchers to embrace openness as a way of working

Schedule of talks for the Midland's Open Research Week.

Tuesday 6th May
11:00am - Improving student research training through a consortium model (Dr Charlotte Pennington, Aston University)

1:00pm - Open Peer Review: perspectives from editor, author and reviewer (Dr Lara Skelly, Loughborough University)

Wednesday 7th May
11:00am - What if I really can’t share my data but want to be open? Synthetic data (Dr Krzysztof Cipora, Loughborough University)

1:00pm - The intersection of neurodiversity and open scholarship (Dr Mahmoud Elsherif, University of Leicester)

Thursday 8th May
11:00am - Computer Vision for Old Books: Open Research in the Digital Humanities (Dr Hazel Wilkinson, University of Birmingham)

1:00pm - Get Feedback, Work Smarter: The Hidden Perks of Preregistration (Dr Roni Tibon, University of Nottingham)

3:00pm - Building a Thriving Research Culture: The Importance of 'Openness' in its broadest sense! (Dr Marie Sams, Vicky Strudwick, & Dr Jake Spicer, University of Warwick NCRC)

Friday 9th May
11:00am - Measuring Ourselves: A Self-Assessment Tool for Open Research Practices (Dr Masi Noor, Keele University)

1:00pm - What can open research learn from the open source movement in computing? (Professor Stephen Eglen, University of Cambridge)

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Loughborough Open Research Team @lboroor.bsky.social · Apr 9

Midlands Innovation #OpenResearch Week 2025! Here's the lineup for Tuesday. Signups are open: midlandsinnovation.org.uk/latest/event...

@lborouniversity.bsky.social @krzysztofcipora.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @drcpennington.bsky.social

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Academy of Medical Sciences @acmedsci.bsky.social · Apr 8

Congratulations to #Springboard25 awardee @drcpennington.bsky.social 🎉

Her research explores how brain development affects teen drinking, aiming to reduce alcohol harms among young people 🧠

👉 bit.ly/44irB7l

#TeenHealth #PublicHealth #Psychology

@wellcometrust.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢 🧠 📚 POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

I am hiring a PDRA to work on a project investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning adolescent alcohol consumption, funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Apply by 11/04/25: lnkd.in/eVwEeAZX
Contract: 24 months
Location: Birmingham, UK

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Apr 4

I highlight RRs with a green plus sign, nothing fancier. @giladfeldman.bsky.social separates articles & RRs, I think so pinging Gilad.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢 🧠 📚 POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

I am hiring a PDRA to work on a project investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning adolescent alcohol consumption, funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Apply by 11/04/25: lnkd.in/eVwEeAZX
Contract: 24 months
Location: Birmingham, UK

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Mar 27

I was already convinced by the PDF argument but you've convinced me about excel, too! Seeing/knowing the structure is important.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Mar 27

Yes, I had the same thought! Makes it harder/more work for someone to run reproducible analyses. But the same could then be said for a read-only excel file...

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Mar 27

Some really good advice here from the Open Science Framework (@cos.io) on organizing files. I particularly like the recommendation to make raw data 'readme' so it can't be accidentally altered or mixed.

help.osf.io/article/147-...

Organizing files (OSF Projects)

This article is licensed under CC0 for maximum reuse. Organizing your files using names and locations that are informative help to document what your files a

help.osf.io

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Mar 19

Celebrating Magda Skubera's first, first-author paper 👏 🥳 and a super collaboration with
@forrt.bsky.social

Published in Royal Society Open Science, our systematic review of international Open Research initiatives in Psychology!

doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

#OpenResearch #OpenScience

Front page of our systematic review, "International initiatives to enhance awareness and uptake of open research in psychology: a systematic mapping review" showing the title page and abstract. Authors are Magda Skubera, Max Korbmacher, Thomas Rhys Evans, Flavio Azevedo, and Charlotte Pennington.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢 🧠 📚 POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

I am hiring a PDRA to work on a project investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning adolescent alcohol consumption, funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Apply by 11/04/25: lnkd.in/eVwEeAZX
Contract: 24 months
Location: Birmingham, UK

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Mar 11

Join us for Midlands Innovation Open Research Week, 6th–9th May 2025 – a celebration of openness in research!

This year’s theme, "Open Research: Just fOR the love of it!", highlights the intrinsic value of open research practices & the passion that drives them.

Stay tuned for registration details!

An advert for the Midlands Innovation Open Research Week. The dates are 6th to the 9th May. Save the dates!

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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Feb 24

Undergraduate Psychology Students’ Perceptions of #OpenResearch: The Relationship Between Statistics Understanding, Attitudes, and Questionable Research Practices, from @kaitclark.bsky.social @leede-wit.bsky.social @flavioazevedo.bsky.social @drcpennington.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Undergraduate Psychology Students’ Perceptions of Open Research: The Relationship Between Statistics Understanding, Attitudes, and Questionable Research Practices

Following growing awareness of replication concerns in research and the rise of Open Research (OR), psychologists have begun investigating what contributes to Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) am...

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · Feb 10

This is the most beautiful front cover I've ever seen! Can't wait to watch your talk, too! Congrats!

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