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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for sharing. Beautiful

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 2d

My theory is that the cats understand the technology and are trying to export it to humans.

Their requests for food at 3 AM? Just a test to see if you still remember things. One day, you won't. And the food bowls will finally be infinitely full.

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · 6d

Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

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Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW *** >>> View the 2025 BTSCON Program *** > Not...

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 10d

I didn't know, but HAPPY Birthday!

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 11d

You best get out of my way in the gym when you see me dosing 200mg of ✨sparkling peach✨ caffeine

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 14d

Oh wow I didn't know that. Thanks for educating!

Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 22d

"duckweed-infested swamp hole" is what I will yell for now on when I'm mad at UF lol

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xavier roberts-gaal @xrg.bsky.social · 23d

We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)

Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.

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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · Sep 2

We've updated a paper on the 3-year, $1000/month U.S. guaranteed income study.

New results, in 3 figures: 🧵

1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Aug 28

A Border Collie and Aussie both letting each other know they Are not a threat... 😊

#dog #dogday #bluesky

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Eric @erix-place.bsky.social · Aug 28

This evergreen post is my go to.

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 28

a cartoon character says " the very instant i became old " in front of a red phone

ALT: a cartoon character says " the very instant i became old " in front of a red phone

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anything that makes future Associate Professor Erin Westgate happy has my vote 😁

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 28

Dayum

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manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social · Aug 25

Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions?

In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 20

The full program for the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1... If you are interested in causal inference, systematic review, hypothesis testing, and preregistration, join is October 17th in Eindhoven! Attendance is free!

Meta Research Symposium 2025 PMGS

PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 16-17 October 2025, TU/e Eindhoven Conference website: https://paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/ Program Day 1 - Pre-Symposium Mini-Workshop Time Activity…

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Aug 20

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Psychology

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks!

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · Aug 17

I unfortunately think demand characteristics are an underappreciated cause of a lot of effects in the lit

Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 14

New 📰

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans

Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects

In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis

doi.org/10.1525/coll...

A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in experimental psychology. Yet, little is known about the direction, magnitude, and consistency of their effects. We conducted a three-...

doi.org

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Yashvin Seetahul @yashvin.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is in my view the most relevant paper about demand effects, and one of the most important papers to read for anyone doing social science research!

I highly recommend it!

Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 14

New 📰

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans

Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects

In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis

doi.org/10.1525/coll...

A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in experimental psychology. Yet, little is known about the direction, magnitude, and consistency of their effects. We conducted a three-...

doi.org

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 14

New 📰

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans

Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects

In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis

doi.org/10.1525/coll...

A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in experimental psychology. Yet, little is known about the direction, magnitude, and consistency of their effects. We conducted a three-...

doi.org

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 14

New 📰

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans

Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects

In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis

doi.org/10.1525/coll...

A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in experimental psychology. Yet, little is known about the direction, magnitude, and consistency of their effects. We conducted a three-...

doi.org

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 13

Neat!! I'll be following this development with great intrigue and enthusiasm!

Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing".

srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

What is LEVANTE? 🧵

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