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Why is Psych Science doing a bunch of special issues? We want to get more submissions on these topics! Authors may not submit papers on these topics because they don’t see many examples in our journal. Hopefully special issues can help! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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...

I’ve been quiet on social media lately, but today I’m launching Audit Clinical Evidence (ACE), an initiative I’ve been developing over the past year. Take a look: AuditClinicalEvidence.org

A psychology journal has retracted a seminal 2002 paper on deadlines and procrastination coauthored by behavioral scientist Dan Ariely of Duke University just days after a team of sleuths published analyses of the original study data, finding it had been tampered with.

Psych Science (the journal) is broader than you might think! Do you do descriptive research? Or research w/ underrepresented populations or cultural frameworks? Or research on AI/LLMs for psych? Or research testing lab findings in the real world? We have a special issue for that!

It’s amazing what Brian and OSF have done for science. I can imagine how hard the folks at COS must’ve worked to avoid this outcome. I’m extremely grateful to them for creating the reality we live in now. The fact that we’ll miss these services so acutely is a testament to how much they shaped us.

Special issue at Psych Science on psychology research using LLMs Theoretical & methodological work welcome. Read the full call for important info about what we’re looking for! Submission deadline: 15 March 2027 (15 October 2026 for Registered Reports) www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Beth continues to kick ass. So glad this kind of permanent academic position exists in metascience, and so glad @bethclarke.bsky.social is paving the way. Hopefully there will be lots more departments adding metasciencey people like her in the years to come! A pretty smart move if you ask me.

Very excited to announce that I’ll be joining @zpid.bsky.social in Trier, Germany as a tenure-track Jun.-Prof. in Psychological Metascience in November! 🤸🏻‍♀️✨

Psychology researchers: Got questions about what kinds of submissions we’re looking for at Psych Science (the journal)? (Short answer: empirical research in any area of psychology!) If you’re at #APS26BCN, stop by the APS booth in the exhibit hall between 4-5pm today to chat with me!

At #wcri2026, @brandonstell.bsky.social makes the point that the “happy face” version of PubPeer didn’t really take off, but that makes sense bc authors of journal articles already hype their work to the max, so there’s often only one direction post publication comments can go, realistically (down).

[Taking a tiny break from Iran-war-induced social media avoidance.] Seeing smart people with a platform express clear & well-articulated indignation is surprisingly reassuring. Thank you to those in the US who keep fighting for humanity. [If it’s ok I’ll go back to hiding now.]

Has transparency improved in clinical psychology? New cross sectional study from us (Bianca Kotoulas, Justine Blackwell & me). Adoption of transparent research practices has increased between 2012, 2018, & 2024, but aside from coi and funding disclosures, they remain uncommon osf.io/preprints/ps...

We're thrilled to open registration for the Utrecht Replication Games. The event will be at the at the University of Utrecht on June 4th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Excited and nervous for this event tomorrow. Come in person in Berlin, or join online! www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

I’m impressed. A nice example of how to handle this with transparency and honesty. Carroll makes a strong case for accountability. This thread makes clear that it’s reasonable to expect some explanation and soul-searching from those who were connected with Epstein.

Need a bit of happy news in your timeline? I haven’t read the full report yet, but this thread makes me happy. @tomhardwicke.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social @i4replication.bsky.social

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Don Lemon’s Arrest Is a Five-Alarm Fire Moment slate.com/news-and-pol...

“many communities in war zones in other countries have outlasted their oppressors. Americans are learning and doing what civilians in war zones worldwide have done for decades” theconversation.com/anti-ice-pro... Excellent piece by @oliverkaplan.bsky.social

so ALL of these children just magically *have* orange slices after EVERY soccer game??? ok George Soros

📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Yep. This angle shows that what Bovino said — and what Trump, Miller, and DHS wrote —are lies. They’ve again murdered someone trying to help neighbors, and are again slandering that person. Not to cover anything up, but to project their power and impunity. To suppress dissent, and to set an example.

I don’t think it’s a complete coincidence that, yesterday, so many of us around the world were in awe of what Minneapolis was doing, and, today, the government brutally murdered one of those courageous people, just to show us they could. They think they’ll scare us into submission. They’re wrong.

Thrilled to share our new paper introducing “validity potential” versus “realised validity” as a key distinction for psychological measurement, with @davidmkaplanx.bsky.social, Alexander Gillett, @suttonprofessor.bsky.social, and @robert-m-ross.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

That’s “below-zero temperatures” in Fahrenheit. -22 in degrees Celsius. Minneapolis, you’re amazing.

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

Following the news from Iran and Minnesota. It shouldn’t require so much courage just to live. I’m in awe of the people fighting to protect each other and their communities.

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Some trees around the Sydney area. I love them.

New post! There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost. Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...

What should psychology journals do about this? What’s a reasonable policy/standard to apply to research using online data collection methods?

Sydney, and Australia, are still grieving the attack on our Jewish community. Since moving to Australia, one of my favorite things about it is that I feel so safe here. It’s devastating to know that that feeling has been taken away for our Jewish friends and neighbors. I’m so sorry.

We all need something uplifting right now, especially in Sydney. Here is “an absolute bloody legend” (according to his owner, but I agree):

Congratulations to @bethclarke.bsky.social on her PhD graduation!! It’s been amazing watching you become the incredible scholar that you are, thanks for letting me come along for the ride! You’re the best! 🎉🥂🌟

Preparing this talk gave me an opportunity to reflect on what lessons I've learned from psychology's replication crisis and credibility revolution, and what advice I would have for other fields. We've come a long way! Video: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM?... Slides : osf.io/cuj62/files/...

Fadeout of cognitive training remains one of the more replicable findings in psychology in this preregistered study of 300 preschool children. Well-done study with a 4 year follow up. The language gains either faded or the control group caught up. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The first article recommended by @psych.peercommunityin.org is now published in PCJ!!

Starting in about two hours, I’ll be giving a zoom talk about what lessons other disciplines can take from Psychology’s replication crisis. Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking forward to this next week! During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas. And the Middle East. And parts of Asia. Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ. Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

“The articles in AMPPS offer, month in and month out, the invitation to practice aligning your values, intentions, and actions to do less scientific harm and reach for the methodological ceiling” Grateful to @dsbarra.bsky.social for continuing what @profsimons.bsky.social & co started at AMPPS!

Job posting alert! Open Science Specialist at the University of Calgary (in Canada!) #job #OpenScience careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1704502...