Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky
New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.
Our lab has the capacity to test ~500 uni students each semester
If you’re a researcher in cognitive psychology or metascience and need data collection support, we’d love to collaborate. We can help collect high-quality data from a large student sample.
Get in touch to discuss potential projects!
📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published:
doi.org/10.1162/QSS....
@tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)
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.
@forrt.bsky.social and the Münster Center for Open Science are organizing a Love Replications Week this year. Get in touch if you would like to contribute with tutorials, case studies, or discussions surrounding #reproductions and #replications! The full program will be announced soon!
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.
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regcheck.app
📽️ "Taboo topics we can no longer avoid: negligence, tampering, and fraud" / with Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io
youtu.be/sdRRafephyM?...
The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel @swissrn.bsky.social
There is something there but as usual the appeal to incentives to make sense of social phenomena- in this case bad science- is a just so story with little evidence supporting it. See my forthcoming book on trust in science for more on that idea.
Some fields list authors alphabetically. Others use norms like "senior last". Others use order to signify relative contributions. In a new paper with @kevinzollman.com, we model the evolution of these norms, and then look at which type of norm is best for science. doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Thank you! I guess I didn’t think that anyone would seriously say what I wrote sarcastically, and I’m genuinely sorry if that’s how things are where you are!
I was replying to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci about the Denmark thing and being sarcastic. I’m saying that even “just” placing an IV is horrible. I would appreciate if you could delete your quote post. I am entirely in agreement with you and have lived this myself as a mum.
Having spent a LOT of time on paediatric wards I can confirm that’s a wild take. I mean, in my experience if the kid is admitted they at the very least get a cannula put in, which is famously super easy and not traumatic at all for small children 🙃
Can AI be used to evaluate open science practices? 🤖🔎
Join us to find out from Dr Daryl Lee at the next ReproducibiliTea! 🫖
📅 Jan 13th, 3pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evaluating...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @uclopenscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org @ukrepro.bsky.social
One of the best ways for early-career researchers to create community within their department and effect change towards doing open and thoughtful research is to start a ReproducibiliTea journal club. We've distilled our network's experience into a set of simple rules to follow and get started!
Benefits of being involved in a ReproducibiliTea journal club
📢 New preprint! Ten Simple Rules for Running a ReproducibiliTea Journal Club
🔗 doi.org/10.31222/osf...
Our aim is to equip you as early career researchers with the tools needed to lead grassroots change in research culture.
#reproducibility #openresearch #openscience #metasci #academicsky
Our local node at the University of Zurich, the @crs-uzh.bsky.social is organizing a Research on Research event on January 29 and 30, 2026. You can still register until 12 January. Join us to shape future Research on Research collaborations in Switzerland!
Find the program here: www.ror-event.ch
Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci
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Please share widely! #ESTEEM #postdoc CFA: 20 positions for female scientists in natural sciences, life sciences, economics @univie.ac.at: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
To save you a click: PhD completed in 2022 or after (minus career interruption), defended by deadline #UniVienna
Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit, says researcher Jennifer A. Byrne
go.nature.com/4sgKWzg
one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers
Parents & anyone else up early on Christmas morning: there’s a bright pass of the International Space Station over the UK, just after 6.15.
Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home…
Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....
'The “big five” academic publishers have all reached agreements with UK universities, with a trial that will remove fees on a per article basis from certain journals being hailed as a “global first”.'
Now that is love!
My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…
5. Monocles
4. Bicycles
3. Popsicles
2. Obstacles
1. Testicles
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.
Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”
Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Stealth Corrections are corrections that are not marked at all, not traceable, unless you compare an old copy of the paper to the current version.
See this paper by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I’d assume that @isager.bsky.social knows what you mean!
Sometimes, I reminisce about academic Twitter the same way I reminisce about theater camp. We were all together in this wonderful and complicated and often messy space for a short time, where we built community and created something wonderful. Then the summer ended, and the magic was gone.
I maintain that this is an excellent benchmark for d-type effect sizes:
Sleep satisfaction & duration declined with childbirth & reached a nadir during the first 3 months postpartum, with women more strongly affected (satisfaction d = -0.79, duration minus 62 min, d = -0.90)>
