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👊 Der wahre, antifaschistische Schutzwall 👊💥 ❤️ 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 👎🇺🇲 @ulrichschimmack.bsky.social · 4d

Sure, you can be for or against AI, but to be against AI and trying to compete in the Hunger Games of academia is rather foolish.
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Is Using AI in Science Really “Research Misconduct”? A Response to Guest & van Rooij - Replicability-Index

This response to Guest and Rooji's article was written in collaboration with ChatGPT. I asked ChatGPT critical questions and probed their arguments in critical discussions. I even asked ChatGPT to pla...

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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!
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LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Julian Matthews @quining.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Out now in @commspsychol.nature.com 🚨
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Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.

Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.

A picture of our paper's abstract and title: The order of task decisions and confidence ratings has little effect on metacognition.

Task decisions and confidence ratings are fundamental measures in metacognition research, but using these reports requires collecting them in some order. Only three orders exist and are used in an ad hoc manner across studies. Evidence suggests that when task decisions precede confidence, this report order can enhance metacognition. If verified, this effect pervades studies of metacognition and will lead the synthesis of this literature to invalid conclusions. In this Registered Report, we tested the effect of report order across popular domains of metacognition and probed two factors that may underlie why order effects have been observed in past studies: report time and motor preparation. We examined these effects in a perception experiment (n = 75) and memory experiment (n = 50), controlling task accuracy and learning. Our registered analyses found little effect of report order on metacognitive efficiency, even when timing and motor preparation were experimentally controlled. Our findings suggest the order of task decisions and confidence ratings has little effect on metacognition, and need not constrain secondary analysis or experimental design.

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Manuel Rausch @manurausch.bsky.social · 11d

A new version of the statConfR R package is now available on CRAN. Now the CASANDRE model and the response-congruent evidence model are available as well. Check it out! Bug reports much appreciated.

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 13d

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure”
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“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 14d

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 19d

Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o.

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · 24d

Re-advertisement: #HPGVienna @univie.ac.at is hiring! We are looking for a PhD-level researcher excited about all things EMA to join us as Senior Scientist/ Lab Manager as soon as possible. Position is initially for 4.25 years & part-time (50% FTE) (more info in 🧵).
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Senior Scientist at the Faculty of Psychology. Start date 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. 20 hours per week. Salary according to the collective bargaining agreement §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b (postdoc). Contract (initially) limited for 4 years and 3 months. Job ID: 4269

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Sebastian Hellmann @sehellmann.bsky.social · 28d

For all who use Bayesian hierarchical models, have a look at our new preprint, out now together with @linushof.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social and @thorstenpachur.bsky.social

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 28d

Can we use confidence-driven information-seeking as a tool to combat fake news!? Really cool study by really cool @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social ↓↓↓

Hélène Van Marcke @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social · Sep 8

Warning: this is *not* fake news! New preprint out w/ S. Kunkle & @kobedesender.bsky.social on how confidence-driven information seeking is suboptimal in the context of fake news 📰🔍🧵 (1/6):
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Manuel Rausch @manurausch.bsky.social · Sep 5

Happy to announce that I I'll be moving to Austria soon to start a new job @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social as senior scientist. Looking forward to meeting new colleagues and students!

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Lena Hahn @lenahahn.bsky.social · Aug 18

How complete are preregistrations?

Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications

Medium answer: 🧵

Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/2515...

A Cross-Sectional Study of the Completeness of Preregistrations by Psychological Authors From German-Speaking Institutions - Lena Hahn, Andreas Glöckner, Mario Gollwitzer, Jens Hellmann, Jens Lange, S...

Preregistering confirmatory research aims at reducing researchers’ degrees of freedom and increasing transparency to ultimately increase replicability. Yet the ...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 15

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · Aug 12

Metascience 2025 recordings are now available! #Metascience25 gathered researchers, funders, policymakers & more to explore how the research process can improve. The program included preconference symposia & plenary sessions on topics from policy change to AI in research.

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Cassyni | Science starts with a seminar

Seamlessly organise, run and publish academic research seminars. Get started in minutes.

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👊 Der wahre, antifaschistische Schutzwall 👊💥 ❤️ 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 👎🇺🇲 @ulrichschimmack.bsky.social · Aug 9

Here is a post-publication peer-review of this article.

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Review of “On the Poor Statistical Properties of the P-Curve Meta-Analytic Procedure” - Replicability-Index

This post-publication peer-review was created in collaboration with ChatGPT5.0. Critical Review of “On the Poor Statistical Properties of the P-Curve Meta-Analytic Procedure” by Richard D. Morey & Cli...

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · Aug 8

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397

Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · Jul 25

2 new job opportunities at the @cais-research.bsky.social:
- PhD student, team "Research Data & Methods" stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=f50b76
- Researcher, DFG project "SocEnRep - Automation of Reproducibility in Economics and Social Sciences" stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=f50b76

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Matan Mazor @matanmazor.bsky.social · Jul 23

Confidence in absence as confidence in counterfactual visibility: a CogSci proceedings paper with star MSc student Maya Schipper, is now out on PsyArXiv:

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jul 22

New blog post: Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/07/easi...

Downloading all files in an OSF project can be a hassle. Not anymore, with Papercheck! Just run:

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Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck

Researchers increasingly use the Open Science Framework (OSF) to share files, such as data and code underlying scientific publications, or ...

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀
I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales
👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

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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:
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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...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jan 29

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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ASSC28 @assc28.bsky.social · Jul 6

We are happy to provide lunch during all days of the conference starting from today #ASSC28 🍽

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Frank Renkewitz @renkew.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨 PhD position (75%, TV-L E13) at LMU Munich!
Join our DFG funded META REP project on heterogeneity & replicability in psychology.
Work on meta analysis, simulations, modeling in R/Python.
📅 Apply by July 15
🔗 shorturl.at/939tP
🔗 shorturl.at/2bRLD
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Research Associate (m/f/x)

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Jun 24

“It is possible to support science and hold it accountable at the same time.”

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Sluggishness and defensiveness helped enable an executive order on research integrity

In the last week, Science has published commentary condemning and supporting the Restoring Gold Standard Science executive order from the Trump administration that purports to strengthen research inte...

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