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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 13m

Nice to see the Uni thriving. Yet many of the scientists who contributed to this success will have to leave in a few years. For those who don’t know — many researchers are on temporary contracts & can stay at one U. for a max. of 8y. After that, it’s either a permanent position (lol) or goodbye.

Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 55m

University of Vienna is among the Top 100 in the World University Ranking by @timeshighered.bsky.social for the first time, at rank 95! 🥳 This strengthens visibility & international connections for outstanding researchers and students worldwide. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...

THE Ranking – University of Vienna among the top 100 for the first time

University of Vienna has improved from rank 110 to 95

www.univie.ac.at

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 20h

Great project and great leads! I’m honored to have shared an office with @kimdoell.bsky.social — I wish I’d asked for an autograph back then :P
Also grateful for the opportunity to have contributed to these BTS efforts.
Btw, if you didn’t know, the @btscon.bsky.social is happening right now! Join!

SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations to @madalina.bsky.social, our former member @kimdoell.bsky.social and all of the 256(!) other collaborators for winning SPSP's Robert Cialdini prize for their manylabs project on how behavioral interventions can help address climate change 🎉

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"!

You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 4d

Spoiler: "data is generally not available upon request, and promissory Data Availability Statements are typically not adhered to"
boo! Aint cool :-/

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Kim Doell @kimdoell.bsky.social · 7d

With @epronizius.bsky.social, @monabielig.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social, @protzko.bsky.social, Olena Vitkovska, and Celina Kacperski, we'll explore the ethical tensions, institutional constraints, and political risks of doing science across borders—especially in times of war or crisis.

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 13d

The project also provides a large open dataset for future psycholinguistic research.
If you are interested in large-scale collaborations, check out the ManyLanguages community @manylanguagesc.bsky.social
Powered by @psysciacc.bsky.social and @scanunit.bsky.social Please RT and enjoy

ManyLanguages

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 13d

This is the largest cross-linguistic study on SP to date that used computationally selected stimuli and a continuous lexical decision task. The results reveal consistent & robust priming effects across both Latin & non-Latin languages, pointing to a generalizable cognitive mechanism of SP.

a woman wearing a plaid shirt and a hat says we speak the same language

ALT: a woman wearing a plaid shirt and a hat says we speak the same language

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 13d

@clauslamm.bsky.social & I contributed to a global study that analyzed 21 million trials across 30 languages, revealing semantic priming [SP] as a robust cognitive mechanism across cultures and writing systems.
Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages - Nature Human Behaviour

In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Buchanan et al. show evidence confirming the phenomenon of semantic priming across speakers of 19 diverse languages.

doi.org

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 17d

We developed a step-by-step guide to crowdsourced multiverse analysis. By involving multiple researchers in defining and running analyses, the process becomes more objective, transparent, and resistant to bias, ensuring that researchers do not cherry-pick which paths to include.

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 17d

New tutorial alert! Crowdsourcing multiverse analyses to explore the impact of different data-processing & analysis decisions published in Psychological Methods.
Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social

APA PsycNet

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 22d

I think it is important to understand each student’s way of mastering new skills. Everyone has their own strategies, so I made sure to stay open to any approach, but also made it clear that I wouldn’t simply drop the assignments. The student didn’t want / expect that anyway.

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 22d

i once had such a student. At first, I mistakenly assumed that they would need help finding their way around campus, so I was overly helpful—I think it was probably a bit annoying for them. Later, I asked how we should approach the assignments without me making assumptions about what was doable.

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Open Science Festival 2025 @osfestivalde.bsky.social · 27d

Emily J. Kate and Michael Feichtinger have set a good example and published the material from their workshop "From Data Chaos to Scientific Synergy: PhD Candidates and Mentors Working in Synch" in our Zenodo community. zenodo.org/communities/... All contributors, please follow! #osfestival2025

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Matt Williams @matthewmatix.bsky.social · 28d

If you have submitted a preprint to PsyArXiv in the last year or so and it *isn't* currently accessible, there's a good chance it's due to the document listing authors whom you haven't entered in the metadata.

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 29d

It was a wonderful event—thank you so much for organizing it. I love provocative questions, and I want provocative discussion to continue in 2027! For example: ‘The Dark Side of Open Science.’ How can we make Open Science truly open without exacerbating existing inequalities?...

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · Sep 9

Already in my calender :)

Open Science Festival 2025 @osfestivalde.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 The next #opensciencefestival will be in - wait for it - Bamberg! Our colleagues from @uni-bamberg.de and the Open Science Commission of Bibliotheksverbund Bayern (BVB) will welcome you in Franconia. Block your calendars for September 2027!
#osfestival2025 #openscience

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · Sep 8

And so it begins! @osfestivalde.bsky.social

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yes yes, us! :) Thank you @mamsmandrill.bsky.social We / our paper is about to rock this world! Stay tuned

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Sep 3

⚠️ PsyArXiv is updating its policies in light of a higher volume of low quality submissions and our recent switch to a pre-moderation workflow.

Read more about this change here 👉 (buff.ly/8jhqRJu ) and see our updated policies here 👉 (is.gd/paxpolicy ).

Update to PsyArXiv Policy

PsyArXiv is updating its policies to formalize the guidelines that had already been in place. These policies clarify what types of contributions are appropriate to submit to PsyArXiv, and spell out…

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Hannah Lönneker @hloenneker.bsky.social · Sep 3

As part of the Pilot Reporting Task Force, founded at @improvingpsych.org conference 2023, I would like to share a preprint with you: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We are looking for feedback on our perspective piece, promoting more transparency in the reporting of piloting in psychological science. 1/4

OSF

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 29

📣 Elections for the SIPS Executive Committee are coming up! 🗳️

📅 Voting begins on September 8 and will close on September 21.

To be eligible to vote, please join or renew your SIPS membership by September 3!

Membership

SIPS uses WildApricot to manage its membership and events. You can access SIPS’s membership pages at where you can join SIPS, or manage your membership if you’re already a SIPS member. …

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 30

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work!

Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)

#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 27

Thanks to our amazing moderators working on this 24/7, we are now 50% done with the PsyArXiv backlog! 🎉

For all our PsyArXiv users, thank you for your patience. If you would like to help us, here are some tips to help your next preprint sail through moderation:

#PsychSciSky

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Iain @iainnd.bsky.social · Aug 27

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our university switched to QuestionPro, but I don’t like it. I’m using SoSci Survey. Can highly recommend! 😃 I think Qualtrics deserves to be punished for its greed.

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