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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · Nov 20

Here's a starter pack of scholars in Communication pushing for Open Science 🤍

go.bsky.app/U2af8bT

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 1h

Good one!

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 4h

Yes, we’re seriously considering to install an open science bell 🤣

You can ring it when

- publishing a printing
- doing a preregistration
- (privacy friendly) sharing data
- submitting an RR
- submitting to a diamond OA journal
- sharing code

What did I forget?

Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 6h

I will never forget…Yesterday at our team meeting I got applauded for publishing my first ever preprint 🎉
Things escalated quickly and now they wanna use a cowbell every time we do an open access achievement 🐄🔔

Link to (IMHO) a fresh perspective on media effects on well-being
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 4h

In this ms led by @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social, we argue that some use social media not to improve their well-being.

Instead, some aim to confirm their (often negative) self-view.

We call this self-defeating social media use, and in the ms we suggest a research agenda on how to analyze this q.

Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 6h

I will never forget…Yesterday at our team meeting I got applauded for publishing my first ever preprint 🎉
Things escalated quickly and now they wanna use a cowbell every time we do an open access achievement 🐄🔔

Link to (IMHO) a fresh perspective on media effects on well-being
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Seminar series
20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1)

"Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream"
Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University

Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

Yes, agreed. But then, in one advanced stats course we only had students conduct secondary data analyses. And there were always several really good and insightful studies. And I thought, well, I trust these results more than 3/4 of what’s published out there.

So I guess both can be true.

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 7d

➡️List of OA journals in Communication!
Excellent resource if you want to publish open access (and you should!) and can't or don't want to pay off the big publishers' "Gold" (gilded indeed 💰💰💰🦹‍♂️) open access deals.
Many thanks to @tobiasdienlin.com and @moritzbuchi.bsky.social for curating this!

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Open Media and Communication Research

docs.google.com

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

Thank you! And for the record , @moritzbuchi.bsky.social did 99% of the work 💪

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

🤐

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

@bowmanspartan.bsky.social, I couldn't find the journals ISSN -- do you know it? Also, do you know where the journal is listed? Then we can add that to the spreadsheet. Thanks :)

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Open Media and Communication Research

docs.google.com

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

Yes, indeed.

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

Yes, I think there's something to this argument, and I've recently made that myself. Indeed, here they "learn the trade".

However, it's ironic that learning the trade means they'll produce sth that's uninformative. Shouldn't we rather prioritize producing knowledge? Honest q, I don't know.

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

When I hear this point, I often mention @orbenamy.bsky.social PhD, which was one of the most influential ones in recent years, based (almost? entirely?) on secondary data analyses.

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 7d

During my PhD I did collect data simply because I knew that everybody expects people to collect data and indeed it was brought up during my defense and later even during a grant review — I wanted to conduct a qual interview study and somehow it was a problem that I supposedly never collected data.>

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

This. Especially applies to BA/MA theses. We require students to collect samples and hence conduct research that in many if not most cases is uninformative if not misleading re the RQ.

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 7d

I’ve even encountered the explicit notion that everybody has to collect data *because* it’s such a pain in the ass — super expensive and involved, and then you can’t find anything bc of course nobody has the resources to appropriately power studies. Most pointless rite of passage.>

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 7d

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 9d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 11d

@hcr-journal.bsky.social

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 11d

Thank you. Yes, I read that and I agree. I think it’s mostly a matter of emphasis and priorities. And ofc, also description is never theory free.

I also very much agree that if doing deductive research, we should pursue the points you raised. And take theory more seriously, not just pretend.

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 11d

While I agree with many points, I believe it overemphasizes deductive research. Inductive research, description, measurement of effects, is all crucial to have a basis upon which to build explanations of effects. I believe induction is strongly underappreciated in current Comm.

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 11d

“[S]tatistical complexity risks becoming decorative—used to signal analytical sophistication rather than deepen theoretical insight”

Several good points by Winston Peng in his inaugural piece as HCR editor.

academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

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

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/25/o...

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

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Stephan Winter @stephanwinter.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

W 2-Professur für Politische Psychologie (m/w/d)

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 13d

Have received my first review that’s clearly and entirely written by AI.

Have to say it’s definitely better than most other reviews I got so far.

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 13d

h/t @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social

Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 13d

ICYW, this is how @ikmz.bsky.social students are writing their theses.