Priya Silverstein

Should we still use the term "preregistration"? Our take here: osf.io/preprints/ps... tl;dr: we think yes! With @lspitzer.bsky.social, @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, and @josefinaw.bsky.social

I’ve been having a pretty rough couple of weeks, but these things have cheered me up a lot today so far: - Speaking Portuguese to various people successfully - Watering the plants in my designated campus planter - Having students laugh at my silly jokes in my slides and ask insightful questions

"Defensive anomaly-reduction strategies, which allow researchers to preserve an initial theoretical claim", can have benefits in science pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42896580/ Up to a point, yes. Adjusting your theory to fit the data is the cholesterol of science. Needed, but dangerous in excess!

Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Special Issue Call for Submissions: "Appraising the Foundations of Psychological Science" www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... Edited by @heatherurry.io @tombeckers.bsky.social

New preprint from @priyasilverstein.com and colleagues: 📄STORM: Study of Open Research Methods in Undergraduate Psychology Students Check it out! 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social #STORM #OpenResearchMethods #Meta-Research

Join us at @btscon.bsky.social, where we'll be holding a panel on "Tips for leading the writing of a many-author paper" on October 7 from 14:00-14:55 UTC. Register now (for free or pay-what-you-want) at bigteamscience.github.io 🌟 @excelscior-era.bsky.social

New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵

🔍 What is the current status of Open Science in the academic publishing system? Join us for an IGOR panel discussion: “Rethinking Scholarly Publishing: Preserving the Good, Changing the Bad, and Supporting the New” 📅 Thursday, 1 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET 💻 Online (contact us for the link) [1/2]

Come work on a PhD in Metascience with me! There’s just a little over one week left to apply!

What does it take to sustain R? Join R Consortium, R Core & R Foundation Oct 6 to discuss the people, infrastructure & community behind R. 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats

'The word traceability, in place of reproducibility, [...] refers to the extent to which the decisions made by the researcher are transparently documented, allowing readers to see how conclusions were reached' @maddipow.bsky.social in new paper 'Can open science speak qualitative?' ⬇️

📢 ***Call for papers at Psychological Science (APS)*** Dr Roni Porat and I are editing a special issue, "From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World.” Please see the detailed call here (www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...) and send us your best work!

Ever since this happened, I have never given journals sole ownerhip of my supplemental materials .. eiko-fried.com/blog/supplem...

Arts, humanities & social science researchers, are you aware of any journals in your field that make good use of plain language summaries to make publications more accessible to non-academic or practitioner audiences? If so, we'd love to hear from you - do reply in-thread!

@shreyadimri.bsky.social et al. “Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles” We assessed meta-analyses in ecology, evolution & environmental sciences for methodological & reporting quality, data/code sharing, and data FAIRness. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X21...

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

🚀 We are happy to be part of the new #HorizonEurope project CATALYST! #EXCELScIOR will contribute to activities on monitoring and evaluating reproducibility practices and culture change alongside partners from across Europe and beyond. 🌍👏 Looking forward to the collaboration! @ucoimbra.bsky.social

If you want a last cheeky day to submit, it's today!

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝 "Radical reproducibility, real constraints: An autoethnography of open and transparent research from the inside" Nicki Lisa Cole & Serge P. J. M. Horbach → doi.org/10.1080/0898... #Reproducibility #OpenScience #MetaScience

More of this please!

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Some days I think about how we’ve been carefully developing and validating metacheck for two years now, with limited and always-optional local LLM use, and worry it’s just going to be lumped in with quickly vibe-coded AI agents.

I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...

1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research is just around the corner! How can we improve research on research methods? 💻 Registration for online attendance is still open! 📅 31 August - 1 September 2026 🔗 crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/ #MSMR2026 #MetaScience #MetaResearch

Wherever you go to store data instead of #OSFprojects, please choose a non-commercial provider. Commercial interests are not aligned with scientific interests: They aim at turning your data into money by selling it, training AI models with it and locking us into an ecosystem: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats

Yesterday I was dreading having back-to-back meetings, but then two of those meetings were essentially just two neurodivergent people galaxy-braining all things open science and queerness and anti-capitalism and now my heart is full 🤍

New preprint by EXCELScIOR team member @priyasilverstein.com and colleagues on the use of the term "preregistration". Check it out! 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social

A really interesting thread. I usually find myself leaning closer towards an "abolish journals" stance, but I found this perspective very interesting...

🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd

"Here we show, in a large post-publication peer review database, that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research. " arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

🔍 Considering a la Caixa Junior Leader Fellowship 2026 application? The #Meta-Research Group at the University of Coimbra 🇵🇹 welcomes researchers interested in developing a fellowship proposal with our team as host. 📩Contact: tracey.weissgerber@uc.pt @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

When people use AI-produced slides it makes me completely distrust everything the speaker is saying... It is impossible to tell whether you wrote really good notes about your topic and AI just ruined it vs. your prompt was just "write me a presentation on this topic". It's really sad!

WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

The good news is that someone else now gets to join this amazing team! If you're keen to help develop RegCheck, I'd strongly encourage you to apply. Working with @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @malte.the100.ci is reason enough to apply! jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Check out our new preprint on how to write a reusable step-by-step protocol... especially if you like crème brûlée! 🍮✨

Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R 📚 Applications OPEN 🗓️ Oct 19–23, 2026 📍 University of Coimbra 📝 Apply until Sept 18 Registration from only €150-€250 for this 27-hour intensive course! I'll be teaching the session on preregistration 😄

My past few weeks were @psychscience.bsky.social in Barcelona, @improvingpsych.org in DC, and examining @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social's amazing PhD thesis, followed by some much needed relaxation camping and hiking in northern Portugal. Feeling lucky and hopeful about the future of psychology! 🤞✨

New website is live, including a new blog post :). I respond to the call by @psychscience.bsky.social asking how we can improve APS conferences. eiko-fried.com/blog/in-pers...

Register for the Replication Hub showcase here 👇

Available now: Teaching Open Science, edited by Charlotte R. Pennington (@drcpennington.bsky.social) and Madeleine Pownall (@maddipow.bsky.social) Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Read a free sample chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...