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Kinga Bierwiaczonek @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social · 17d

New publication!

Matthew Horsey, Kana Imuta and I integrate insights from social, cognitive, political, and developmental psychology and propose a lifespan model of conspiracy belief formation, from infancy, through childhood and adolescence, into adulthood.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 20d

Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”!

📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom

👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky

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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 22d

While re-writing my R tutorials I removed the Bayes material from individual tutorials, rewrote it, and collected it in its own home. Just pushed the resulting tutorial `discovr_bayes` to github, it's a gentle intro to Bayesian estimation using rstanarm. github.com/profandyfiel...

GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio

discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr

github.com

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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · 22d

Kicking-off her PhD journey, @wagunyego.bsky.social talked about her initial findings capturing epistemic injustice and its relationship to trust in science. So many interesting avenues to go from here, more exciting stuff coming over the course of the next years of her dissertation. #SciReLab

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André Bittermann @abitter.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to share that our #bibliometric analysis of #translational psychological treatment is now published OA in the latest issue of @apajournals.bsky.social's Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice! doi.org/10.1037/cps0...

Terminological inconsistency may threaten the progress of the field!

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Aug 4

Fantastic new paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al.

An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors.
The number of fraudulent publications grows at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Jonas R. Kunst @kunstjonas.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thrilled to share that The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism is now available. Milan Obaidi's and my goal was to create the book we missed as students—a complete overview over every major perspective in the field.

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Jonas R. Kunst @kunstjonas.bsky.social · Jul 28

The book features many prominent scholars such as Alex Schmid, Robin Bergh, John F. Dovidio, Tore Bjørgo, @katrif.bsky.social, Inger Skjelsbæk, Erica Molinario, David Webber, @katarzyna-jasko.bsky.social, Arie Kruglanski, Mirra Noor Milla, Whinda Yustisia, @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social

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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....

doi.org

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 8

Robust Bayesian Multilevel Meta-Analysis: Adjusting for Publication Bias in the Presence of Dependent Effect Sizes: https://osf.io/9tgp2

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Kinga Bierwiaczonek @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social · Jul 8

Fresh of the press! I'm incredibly proud of this new paper by Kiki Vu and myself where we show how much bias is introduced when people use workarounds to test interaction hypotheses meta-analytically. Check it out: advances.in/psychology/1...

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · Jul 1

It's ok to acknowledge one's positionally in the world while doing research. There's no way to avoid the reality that where you stand is based on where you sit.

~Andy Sterling #metascience25

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Jul 1

@crsugimoto.bsky.social observes that with current Trump cuts to science (about 50%), China will take over as the top science spender in the world this year (without the cuts this would happen by 2030 or so).

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · Jul 1

See scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/ to install the newest version

And scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/a... for a set of introductory blog posts about the project and some new modules.

Check Scientific Papers for Best Practices

A modular, extendable system for automatically checking scientific papers for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.

scienceverse.github.io

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Kinga Bierwiaczonek @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social · May 26

New preprint! We meta-analyzed data from 1,114 studies to identify the strongest correlates of migrants' adaptation to living abroad. Co-authored by Kiki Vu, George Tong, Mike Cheung, Nora Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, and @kunstjonas.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Apr 15

Related: PhD students who are told that "identifying a gap" is the most important part of research is probably one of the reasons we have a replication crisis.

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Jonas R. Kunst @kunstjonas.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our commentary on emotion-conspiracy theory frameworks was just published! While @lpummerer.bsky.social et al.'s AMCT model is excellent, we show mathematically how model complexity exponentially decreases cross-cultural replicability. Thanks @igi.bsky.social for the invitation!

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jan 4

The more simplistic the take you see on here, the more it generalizes, the more it is an act of politics, not science.

If the take comes from a scientist, they know they have no evidence for their take, or they would use it.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Dec 27

Want to find happiness?

People are happiest having sex, dancing, at a museum, playing sports, gardening, or socializing.

People are less happy at work than any of the other 39 activities they reported engaging in (except for being sick in bed) academic.oup.com/ej/article-a...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Dec 27

As I heard someone repeat the trope that frequentist statistics was developed to promote an eugenicist agenda, here is your reminder that Jerzey Neyman, who created the approach most scientists use to test hypotheses, was a better human being than you are. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2021/09/jerz...

Jerzy Neyman: A Positive Role Model in the History of Frequentist Statistics

Many of the facts in this blog post come from the biography ‘Neyman’ by Constance Reid . I highly recommend reading this book if you find ...

daniellakens.blogspot.com

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👊 Der wahre, antifaschistische Schutzwall 👊💥 ❤️ 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 👎🇺🇲 @ulrichschimmack.bsky.social · Dec 20

Well, if the main purpose of bluesky to promote yourself, I am finally doing something right. Zcurve analysis of emotion research. Main finding: alpha = .01 reduces false positive risk below 5%.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Credibility of results in emotion science: a Z-curve analysis of results in the journals Cognition & Emotion and Emotion

Failed replication attempts have raised concerns over the prevalence of publication bias and false positive results in the psychological literature. Using a sample of 65,970 test statistics from Co...

www.tandfonline.com

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Kinga Bierwiaczonek @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thanks, I will definitely read it!

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Kinga Bierwiaczonek @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social · Dec 14

What's behind the link between conspiracy theories and radicalization? In a new preprint, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, Bettina Rottweiler, and I review the research on this link. Read more at osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · Nov 16

SciSci starter packs!

Adding a second starter pack here since we ran out of capacity with the first one: go.bsky.app/NeZvnb5

The first one can be found here: go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD
Please nominate or self-nominate with an example work.

Please share!

#AcademicSky #SciSci #SciPol #metascience

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Kinga Bierwiaczonek @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social · Dec 13

Done! Thanks.