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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 7h

In an hour and a half (12:30 UTC / 14:30 CET) I'll give a lightning talk at the online BTS conference about the tool we are putting together for standardizing hypotheses.

Free registration: https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/
Tool: https://tinyurl.com/hypothesizer
Slides […]

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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

In about two hours (12:30 UTC) I'll be hosting a hackathon where we'll work on a checklist for generating research collaboration statements. Register for free and join us in the brainstorming: bigteamscience.github.io

#bigteamscience #bigteamscience2025 #bts2025 #OpenScience #authorship […]

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Bjørn Sætrevik @drsatrevik.bsky.social · 1d

Functioning link: bigteamscienceconference.github.io

Big Team Science Conference

The fourth annual Big Team Science Conference will be held virtually via Zoom October 6-8, 2025. The goal of this three-day virtual conference is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researc...

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Bjørn Sætrevik @drsatrevik.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for your concern! But I sort of let it happen on purpose, it was the push I needed to get out of those services, and I'm glad I'm out of there now.

Earlier this summer I received a warning from Meta Quest that my 19 year old account was being used by a child.* They wanted me to confirm my age by sending them a photo of a government ID or credit card, which I was reluctant to do. Hence they suspended my Facebook, Instagram and Messenger account, I let the reactivation period lapse.

I'm actually glad it happened, this was the push I needed to de-Facebook my life. Luckily I had already downloaded and deleted most of my data from the services.

* I still don't know what caused this, it could be that my kids' use of a Quest headset on my account was analyzed in some way.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 20d

Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25d

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

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Bjørn Sætrevik @drsatrevik.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ja, Kvam bygdemuseum.

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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

I'm putting together a short bibliography of recent papers about #bigteamscience, with emphasis on challenges and solutions for large social science projects. Am I missing any important papers? I'm in particular looking for any tools or checklists to use when […]

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A screen shot of a bullet list containing the following items:
Teasley, S., & Wolinsky, S. (2001). Scientific collaborations at a distance. Science, 292(5525), 2254-2255.
Bammer, G. (2008). Enhancing research collaborations: Three key management challenges. Research policy, 37(5), 875-887.
Vogel, A. L., Hall, K. L., Fiore, S. M., Klein, J. T., Bennett, L. M., Gadlin, H., ... & Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. (2013). The team science toolkit: enhancing research collaboration through online knowledge sharing. American journal of preventive medicine, 45(6), 787-789.
Yao, B. (2021). International research collaboration: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 37(2), 107-108.
Coles, N. A., Hamlin, J. K., Sullivan, L. L., Parker, T. H., & Altschul, D. (2022). Build up big-team science. Nature, 601(7894), 505-507.
Baumgartner, H. A., Alessandroni, N., Byers-Heinlein, K., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Soderstrom, M., ... & Coles, N. A. (2023). How to build up big team science: A practical guide for large-scale collaborations. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), 230235.
Forscher, P. S., Wagenmakers, E. J., Coles, N. A., Silan, M. A., Dutra, N., Basnight-Brown, D., & IJzerman, H. (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of bi

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · Jul 18

Attention conference hosts

The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · Jul 18

Tucked away in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' is the requirement that all visitors to the US must pay $250 just to enter the country starting 1 October! For a family of 5 that's $1250! I doubt this will help America's crashing tourism business which is down 10% already since January

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Jul 14

the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago is hiring SIX faculty. open area

Otago is the second-largest research university in New Zealand, and, among other nice things, is located near some of the best wineries on the planet

www.seek.co.nz/job/85709111

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor - Psychology Job in North Dunedin, Otago - SEEK

The University of Otago’s Department of Psychology is a highly ranked, internationally respected hub of research and teaching excellence.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · Jul 14

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Jun 12

How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️

In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · Jul 9

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

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Bjørn Sætrevik @drsatrevik.bsky.social · Jul 7

We found support for the most supported associations in the literature, that conscientiousness <-> compliance and neuroticism <-> perceived risk. Other associations occasionally seen in the literature were less strongly indicated, and there were some novel discoveries. (thread 5/5)

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Bjørn Sætrevik @drsatrevik.bsky.social · Jul 7

Our stage 2 with results and discussion has just been recommended at @pci-regreports.bsky.social (with @sebastianbjorkheim.bsky.social).

rr.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... (thread 4/5)

Associations between personality traits, compliance and risk per...

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Bjørn Sætrevik @drsatrevik.bsky.social · Jul 7

We measured personality in 2019, and perceived #risk and #compliance to #COVID19 infection control measures in 2020. To restrict hypothesis and analysis freedom, we received expert peer-reviews and adjusted our research plan with a stage 1 #RegisteredReport. (thread 3/n)

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Bjørn Sætrevik @drsatrevik.bsky.social · Jul 7

But cross-sectional measures are problematic, and there is a high number of possible associations, outcomes, and analysis degrees of freedom. (thread 2/n)

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Bjørn Sætrevik @drsatrevik.bsky.social · Jul 7

Do #personality traits predict #PublicHealth behaviour and reactions to #pandemics? Various traits have been suggested to associate with various outcomes, with varying strength of evidence. (thread 1/n)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jul 5

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

$The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.$

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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 5

Buying train tickets for British rail travel makes it all worth it. #academicchatter #TrainTravel #togferie

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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 23

I just got a first round #PeerReview where #Reviewer2 just wrote "I did not find anything to comment on and congratulate the authors on a well written manuscript." That's gotta be a first. Reviewer 1 had a number of comments though, but they seem reasonable and constructive.

#academicchatter […]

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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 20

I think the "streamlined review" option offered by Collabra: Psychology (@collabraoa) is under-appreciated.

Have you received a #PeerReview that you think was unfair, overly critical, based on a misunderstanding, or on scientific criteria you disagree with? Do you think you could have responded […]

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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 2

Uh-oh, this could have depressing interpretations... (graph from @infobeautiful). But while "major breakthroughs" peak early-ish, perhaps the slow-and-steady work that benefits the field in the long term also comes later in life?

Graph showing peak age for scientists' major discoveries and publications. The x-axis represents age ranging from 20 to 80, and the y-axis shows the number of discoveries. The purple curve (1935-1965) peaks sharply around age 37, while the green curve (post-1965) peaks more broadly. Annotations indicate that the burden of knowledge increased after 1965, requiring more time to master fields.

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Bjørn Sætrevik @drsatrevik.bsky.social · Jul 1

Could it be this one (assuming that "psychologists" are a subset of "humans"): Halford, G. S., Baker, R., McCredden, J. E., & Bain, J. D. (2005). How Many Variables Can Humans Process? Psychological Science, 16(1), 70-76. doi.org/10.1111/j.09...

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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 1

I had a great time at #sips2025 last week! I learned lots about theory building, preregistration tools, scientific assessment and dissemination.

This being my fourth SIPS, it was about time I hosted my first (on-the-fly) #hackathon. Reach out if you'd like […]

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Group photo of SIPS2025 participants taken from a river boat on the Danube.

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