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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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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3d

I wouldn’t normally endorse AI prompts but these are indeed essential for all academics.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 3d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

10 AI Prompts for Academics

making those hard jobs a little easier ...

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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · 7d

The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.

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Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 12d

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref

Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 13d

Replicability and transparency in physical therapy research: Time to wake up! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Aug 20

Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · Aug 12

Le monde médical aussi porte un regard biaisé sur les personnes handicapées

Deux études réalisées à partir de tests sur des associations automatiques de notre cerveau montrent que les professionnels du soin ne sont pas à l’abri des préjugés négatifs sur le handicap.

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · Aug 15

Great question!

Indeed @metaror.bsky.social and @peercommunityin.bsky.social have a lot in common, and in fact the MetaROR model was partly inspired by the great work done by Peer Community In (PCI).

However, there are also various differences between MetaROR and PCI. Let me highlight two of them.

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Aug 11

Explicit attitudes toward people with disabilities became less unfavourable over the 19 years of the study, irrespective of occupation. This effect was not observed for implicit attitudes. utppublishing.com/eprint/CXG7E... doi.org/10.3138/ptc-...

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Clintin Davis-Stober @clintin.bsky.social · Aug 9

New paper with @richarddmorey.bsky.social now out in JASA, where we critically examine p-curve. Below is Richard’s excellent summary of the many poor statistical properties of p-curve (with link to paper). I wanted to add some conceptual issues that we also tackle in the paper.

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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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Aug 9

Should I say “disabled people” or “people with disabilities”? Out of 519 disabled people from 23 countries: 49% preferred identity-first language (disabled people), 33% preferred person-first language (people with disabilities), and 18% had no preference. doi.org/10.1145/3517...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Aug 7

Health care professionals (physicians, physical therapists, nurses, etc.) are not immune to bias against people with physical disabilities. They exhibit similarly unfavourable attitudes as individuals in non-health care occupations. doi.org/10.52057/erj...

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Xavier Job @xavierjob.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 New preprint 📣

The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈

Motor prediction reduces beta-band power and enhances cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch to enable its attenuation

Prevailing theories suggest that the brain uses an internal forward model to predict tactile input during voluntary movements, thereby reducing the intensity of the reafferent tactile sensation, a phe...

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them

Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jul 28

'Wiley had attempted to keep the journal going without an academic editorial team in place, but those efforts have now come to an end. The publisher says, “All authors with active submissions will be contacted directly by Wiley to discuss available alternatives and next steps.”'

Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous

"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · Jul 28

Many alternatives to NIH's APC caps discussed, including "If the goal is genuinely to lower costs, then the agency could direct that a portion of each grant be used to support institutional repositories and diamond open access journals. "
doi.org/10.54900/j3c.... #openaccess freejournals.org

Capping APCs May Backfire on NIH

Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will cap the amount of direct funding support that researchers can spend on paying for article processing charges, or APCs. These fees ar...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Jul 25

"a real problem that we have in the scientific community...the word retraction is associated with the notion of wrongdoing or lack of integrity"

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ScienceAdviser: Infamous ‘arsenic life’ paper ignites a different type of controversy

Today in Science and science: Sticky underwater robots inspired by sea stars, MPAs kind of work, and more

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Jul 23

7000 steps a day keeps the doctor away

Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis

Despite the rapid increase in evidence from the past decade on daily steps and health-related outcomes, existing systematic reviews primarily focused …

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Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani.bsky.social · Jul 19

My colleague Quentin Atkinson wrote this piece - How Not To Run a University. It is an insanely good read about how managerialism is destroying universities.

Make time for it. Talk about it. Share it.

quentinatkinson.substack.com/s/how-not-to...

How not to run a university | Quentin’s Substack | Quentin Atkinson | Substack

A case study of one university’s managerial misadventures, why it is happening and what we can do about it. Click to read Quentin’s Substack, by Quentin Atkinson, a Substack publication. Launched a mo...

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Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall @tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 22

<TMS best practices>

Hi folks,

Could you please point me to the most up-to-date consensus paper you're aware of relating to TMS safety? Number of pulses / intensities / frequencies / other parameters etc.

I want to take as wide a look at the literature as possible.

Please repost for visibility!

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jul 20

"The dysfunctions of scientific publishing that your article so aptly captured derive from two forces [...] - researchers are incentivised to publish as much as possible and publishers make more money if they publish more papers."

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Scientific publishing needs urgent reform to retain trust in research process | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to an article on how too many low-quality papers and journals are being churned out

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Jul 21

"Review mills: groups of reviewers who generate boilerplate peer reviews that do not evaluate the content of the article, and so can be applied to almost any field. Their main function appears to be to act as citation vehicles for members of the review mill." deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/trou...

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thrilled to announce @simine.com as our plenary presenter at the 2025 SORTEE Conference.

Prof. Simine Vazire will give a talk titled ‘Journal Prestige Can and Should be Earned’.

More info: sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2025

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jul 17

New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
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#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

An overview of open science in eco-evo research and the publisher effect.

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