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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · 6d

I think my students are too young to get the reference but I said I'm the worst in class today and then sang it Jean Ralphio style

three men are standing next to each other in a room with the words the wooorst written on the bottom .

Alt: three men are standing next to each other in a room with the words the wooorst written on the bottom, a gif from the show Parks and Recreation with the character Jean Ralphio

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · 12d

Journals should pay peer reviewers. That's the post.

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · 23d

Forgot to tag @carltonfong.bsky.social @dryasmiyn.bsky.social

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · 23d

Assigned Fong & Irizarry's "Too quant to crit" paper in my doctoral course on epistemologies of research and I have to say that citing MC Hammer in service of advancing quantcrit in educational psychology is exquisite work. This millennial is in awe.

A screenshot of the end of an article titled "Too quant to crit? Advancing QuantCrit methodologies in educational psychology," published in the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology by Carlton Fong and Yasmiyn Irizarry, with a highlighted excerpt which states "Will they be too reliant on triaditional quantitative approaches to critically approach the work ("Too Quant to Crit"), or will they be "too legit to quit" (Hammer, 1991) in the pursuit of building anti-racist bodies of knowledge."

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Sep 8

My career goal as a meta-analyst is to title a paper "Can't See the Forest (Plot) for the trees: ..." and that's really the only professional goal I care about.

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Sep 5

I didn't know I needed to see this today

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks for sharing this!

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you lead or know of an ongoing or recently completed controlled group study, please get in touch to talk about sharing summary data (note, we don't need or ask for your full dataset, only summary-level data). Contact me at [email protected] .

Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 29

When updating, we always systematically search for studies that have not yet been published. For the first time, we're adding social media to our grey literature search strategy!

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 29

We are updating Project AIM, the comprehensive meta-analysis of nonpharmacological interventions designed to support young autistic children, to include recently published and completed studies.

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 26

Multiple autistic scientists are part of this coalition.

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 26

Coalition of Autism Scientists | "autism scientists" share.google/npC7V5Wh84re...

Coalition of Autism Scientists | "autism scientists"

The Coalition of Autism Scientists formed in 2025 and is comprised of the leading autism researchers across the United States. The website includes statements made by researchers and science-based edu...

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 26

There is a Coalition of Autism Scientists that meets weekly and has done some polling to track this. Are you aware/have you been in touch?

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 23

I never bring a laptop or phone to meetings. I write down notes on a notepad and then ignore them for the rest of my life.

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 22

Reader, it was because the OSF file was set to private. And that took me ***many*** hours to determine.

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 22

Is the garage door open? Are items actually on the lawn? These are the hard-hitting questions you need to be asking.

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 22

"My R code now works. I am the smartest person who has ever lived" and Other Tales: A Memoir

Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Why doesn't my R code work?" and Other Sad Stories: a Memoir

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 22

The presence/absence of a garage.

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Why doesn't my R code work?" and Other Sad Stories: a Memoir

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 4

Educating students and the public about this issue at a time when science is under attack and public trust in science is low can serve to reinforce opinions that science is fraudulent and wasteful. We have to find a way to stop this tidal wave of trash. 6/6

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 4

Teaching future clinicians to consume reliable evidence in order to make evidence-based clinical decisions under these conditions is remarkably difficult, especially because in their searches of google scholar, open access publications are typically the first they select to avoid paywalls. 5/

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 4

Lately I'm seeing situations where legitimate publishers purchase journals that have a history of predatory publishing. Since 2022, Springer Nature has published Cureus, a journal that has a long history of accusations of predatory publishing/sham peer review. 4/

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 4

Beall's list is no longer maintained, and I don't know of any other systematic attempt to maintain an updated list of predatory publishers. There are some known offenders, such as MDPI and Hindawi, but 3/

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 4

Certainly I have gut feelings, but "gut feelings" aren't acceptable exclusion criteria. We have always tracked whether articles were published in indexed journals, but lately I'm seeing journals published by known predatory publishers (e.g., MDPI) getting indexed. 2/

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Micheal Sandbank @michealsandbank.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is an issue that I increasingly struggle with as we synthesize evidence for Project AIM. While it might seem easy to reliably identify fraudulent papers published by predatory publishers, I have not yet found clear criteria that reliably distinguish predatory from legitimate papers. 1/

Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.com · Aug 4

Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

Yes! Especially with issues with indexing through search, some new journals from serious publishers might lag in indexing, but if you want to include other papers outside of the main search databases, you sort through a lot of nonsense.

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

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