@juliabottesini.com
Community Manager for Data-PASS JEDI @dpjedi.org, admin & co-founder at PCI Psych @psych.peercommunityin.org, and one of the people helping SIPS @improvingpsych.org run smoothly. Sometimes also a metascientist doing research on scientific publishing.
Collabra: Psychology is seeking a new senior editor for the clinical section and new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested in either of these positions and you believe you are qualified, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...
PSA to all of us with international collaborations that the Chaos Weeks start on Sunday (US/Canada goes into DST but the EU/UK don't until near the end of March). Check your meetings!
Have you ever submitted a manuscript to Collabra: Psychology, SIPS’s official journal? If you have 5-10 minutes, we’d love to hear your thoughts about where Collabra should go next! buff.ly/1rj92gz
All responses are anonymous.
Are you looking to connect with social-personality researchers at the upcoming SPSP conference in Chicago?
Join SIPS members on Friday, Feb 27, at FatPour, just a short walk from the conference center.
If you’re planning to join us, please fill out this quick form.
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#SPSP2026
I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
We're doing summerpsych.com again this year!
PhD curious undergrads, come hang out at the CSI lab, help us push forward a project and develop your social science chops Applications are due March 1st:
‼️Deadline extended‼️
If you need a little extra time to polish your session proposal for #SIPS2026, we have good news! The deadline has been extended to January 30!
We are looking forward to your submissions!
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Would you like to attend #SIPS2026 but don't have access to travel funds?
SIPS makes available a limited number of:
✨travel grants (for people who’d like to attend in-person)
✨internet/technology grants (for people who’d like to attend online).
Details here 👉
Are you a #Psychology grad student/ECR in the US who wants to do more rigorous research? This meeting is for you! SIPS is hands-on and often referred to as "my favorite conference" by people who've been. Travel grants + reg. fee waivers are available. Submit a session & RT to help spread the word!
Are you a #Psychology grad student/ECR in the US who wants to do more rigorous research? This meeting is for you! SIPS is hands-on and often referred to as "my favorite conference" by people who've been. Travel grants + reg. fee waivers are available. Submit a session & RT to help spread the word!
Our machine learning competition on forecasting depression is online! We'd love for as many people as possible to participate. Please share in your respective networks — thank you :).
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...
🌟 Call for Session Proposals 🌟
Don’t miss your chance to shape the agenda for #SIPS2026!
Propose:
✨workshop,
✨hackathon,
✨unconference,
✨lightning talk,
✨roundtables.
Submission Deadlines:
🔹 In-Person (Washington, DC, USA): Jan 23, 2026
🔹 Online: Feb 27, 2026
Details:
#OpenScience community! Join us for a VIRTUAL meeting SIPS@SPSP: Improving Open Science for Social-Personality Psychology (but really also everyone is welcome!). Early bird registration closes on Jan 22. @improvingpsych.org @spspnews.bsky.social
📢 PsyArXiv 12 Days of Christmas 🎄 🧑🎄 🎁
PsyArXiv moderators will be taking a holiday break from Dec 24 to Jan 4. Please avoid uploading work to the archive during this time to prevent a backlog, and expect some delays in moderation. We aim to clear any holiday backlog by Jan 16.
Happy Holidays!
Hey out there to all my mid-to-late career colleagues, do you want to come work at Carleton? Our government is pushing hard to recruit international talent right now.
Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work
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Congratulations, Dr. Clarke! 🎉🥳
Simine and Beth in graduation regalia outside
Selfie of Beth and Simine holding glasses of sparkling wine in graduation regalia.
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! 🎉🥂🌟
1. Transparency is necessary for credibility
2. Transparency is hard to change
3. Require transparency*
4. Transparency is not magic
5. Journals are part of problem
6. Expect more from journals
7. Peer review is not magic
8. A crisis can look a lot like „normal“ science
9. Meta-analysis is not magic
We're very excited to see the first recommendation by PCI Psych out now in Peer Community Journal! 🎉 Not only can you read the full article for free below, you can see the full peer review history and editorial decisions. It cost the authors $0. This is what scientific publishing should be.
🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)
Parabéns à Iniciativa Brasileira de Reprodutibilidade, nosso projeto-mãe e membro da Rede, pela conquista do Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research na categoria instiucional!
I think it's hard to overstate how much Simine has changed research practices and standards in psychology for the better, despite at times massive resistance from powerful parties with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Very well deserved award imho 🥳
🚧 OSF experienced a temporary slowdown today due to a surge of automated bot traffic. This overwhelmed parts of the production environment that didn't yet have the right safeguards in place, causing performance issues. The underlying issue has been addressed, & further protections are now in place.
Job posting alert! Open Science Specialist at the University of Calgary (in Canada!) #job #OpenScience careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1704502...
I will be giving a workshop "A Guide to Replication Studies" at #LoveMethods26, register for free 👇
Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social
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Metric Tip
xkcd.com/3164/
Curious about becoming a PCI Psych recommender, but not sure if you should? Here's a short video with some reasons why it might be time to sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v