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Abbie Clapp

@abbie-clapp.bsky.social
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PhD student in UW-Madison Psychology and Gender and Women's Studies. Studying sexual wellbeing, romantic relationships, masculinity, and status threat.

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reproducibility depends heavily on where you start. From authors' final analysis data: ✅: 58.2% fully reproducible 🟡: 32.8% partially reproducible ❌: 9.0% not reproducible From raw data: ✅: 28.4% fully reproducible 🟡: 34.3% partially reproducible ❌: 37.3% not reproducible
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵
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Ana Martinovici @anamartinovici.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Workshop done 😀 since I anyway put together a list of resources, I'm going to share it in this thread. So here we go, my top recommendations for how to improve computational reproducibility of your work
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1/ What is the prevalence of personally identifiable information (PII) in author-collected data publicly shared in the social sciences? We audited 327 replication packages from 11 leading journals in economics, political science, and psychology Answer: surprisingly high 🧵
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20/08/2026
The NSF Proposal is open for comments until the 24th of this month. Leave your public comment now!!! fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/Pro...
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Stand up for Science
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20/08/2026
The NSF has a sneaky proposal that'll implement Vought's OMB Proposal policies ahead of time such as removing requirements tied to statutory civil rights obligations and applying international collaboration restrictions.
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Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fostering science identity among students from historically underrepresented backgrounds is critical to increase STEM representation and further scientific progress. Through a Research-Practice Partnership between a grad student org and a WI high school, we achieved just that! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026
Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...
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12  Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026
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 >
Thinking Clearly About Sampling and Representation With the Total Survey Error Framework

Collecting a sample that represents the population of interest well constitutes a challenge across the social and behavioural sciences. Psychology in particular frequently relies on convenience samples—most notably students and, increasingly, online participants—with a tendency to either (implicitly) assume representativeness without substantive justification, or to acknowledge a lack of it only in passing. In contrast, researchers rarely engage with the actual implications for their inferences, which undermines the generalisability of psychological findings. Critically, representativeness must be defined with respect to variables relevant to the target of inference, rather than superficial demographic diversity. Here we present the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework as a methodological tool that systematically addresses the multifaceted sources of error—particularly those related to representation—that emerge throughout the research cycle. Although TSE originated in survey research, its principles are broadly applicable to any psychological study seeking inference from sample to population. We offer practical strategies for identifying, preventing, and mitigating representation errors to improve the credibility and generalisability of psychological research.

Illustration of the total survey error framework with the representation strand highlighted. It shows how coverage error, sampling error and non-response error arise during the sampling process.
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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You know what’s not great for women’s sexual desire? When men partners pressure them to have sex! Surprisingly, there’s been very little research on this association. UNTIL NOW! 😉 Excited to announce our new open access article on sexual coercion & desire, published in Sex Roles! rdcu.be/fxXCV
Picture of the paper’s abstract, which can be read in full by following the link.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself
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Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Do you have a VPN installed on your computer/phone? If so, you're invited to participate in a study on data quality! Participation involves completing an ~10-minute survey. If interested, *please connect to your VPN before entering the survey.* Click here to access the survey! rb.gy/7zimd1
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You
A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 16/06/2026
Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio, or go here 👉 zurl.co/lBQ4l #StandUpForScience #Science #OMB #Vought #SaveScience
The graphic includes photos of Russell Vought, the red Stand Up for Science logo, and a fist held in the air in protest. The graphic reads: "50% OF ALL CLINICAL TRIALS IN THE US ARE AT RISK OF BEING CANCLLED IF THE OMB GRANT PROPOSAL PASSES. AT-RISK TRIALS INCLUDE: 1026 FOR CANCER, 273 FOR PEDIATRICS, 115 FOR HEAR DISEASE,  184 FOR DIABETES. Stop Vought. Save Science. EMAIL & CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, LEAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT, DONATE TO FUEL THE FIGHT FOR SCIENCE, LINK IN BIO".
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/06/2026
Really wondering when the New York's state and city Human Rights Law is going to be enforced against these hospitals.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Shredding and shedding the First Amendment.
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/04/2026
"All in all, the use of ChatGPT for scientific purposes, in my honest opinion, clashes with core scientific integrity principles such as honesty, scrupulousness, transparency, responsibility, and independence. Therefore, I need to decline this invitation to review."
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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
IRAN & REGION
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How to help everyday people suffering in Iran — and beyond
Getting aid to civilians during wartime is difficult. Here’s the best approach.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026
Horrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...
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Vanderbilt Will Stop Providing Gender-Affirming Surgeries to Trans Adults
The hospital cited “operational limitations” for the decision.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Tehran tonight. Twenty people were killed in a US–Israeli attack on Niloufar Square, a busy mixed residential and commercial neighborhood in Tehran. (The photo was taken by Iran’s Student News Network and has been geolocated.)
Trio of people covered in dust and ash, including an elderly woman and a man carrying a woman in his arms. The street behind them is in flames.
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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Proud advisor moment after watching @abbie-clapp.bsky.social’s great presentation on our new BOP Scale!! We found that aspects of the BOP scale predicted things like lower desire & more sexual coercion experiences four months later in women partnered with men!
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Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I'll be presenting work on the Development and Validation of our new Behavioral Objectification from a Partner (BOP) Scale at SPSP, which demonstrates implications of experiencing sexual objectification from a partner for women's sexual/relationship wellbeing. Fri, Feb. 27th at 9:30 am! #SPSP2026
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...
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Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research
On reasonable resistance to using GenAI in research
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Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Our lab at UW–Madison is recruiting young men who are in a relationship with a woman (6+ months) to participate in a ~20-minute online survey study! Participants can enter to win a $50 gift card. Click here to enter the survey: bit.ly/49U0j9N Please share with any eligible men you know!
A flyer advertising an online research study with study information, a QR code, and a graphic of a couple holding hands
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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The widespread sexual abuse committed by Epstein and his cronies is unfathomable. Alongside that, there is another story about widespread sexual abuse that isn’t getting much attention at all. ICE agents are raping immigrant women. It’s happening now. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
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Sexual assault and ICE
Rape is a tool of war, including Trump’s war on immigrants.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The rest of the thread gets into it, but the violence is less visible—and that translates into fewer resources for growing need. Minnesota is truly in an economic crisis. Every harm compounds every day that the ICE occupation continues. If you donated a month ago, it’s time to donate again.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2026
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“Holding facilities were so crowded that immigrants in one cell had to take turns lying down because there was no space, according to a refugee detained there for one night in January. Basic human needs like food and medical care were sometimes denied. ‘There was no humanity.’”
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‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building
Immigration sweep brings overcrowded rooms and overflowing toilets. Lawyers say they can’t visit their clients. The Department of Homeland Security says “all detainees receive full due process.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/01/2026
If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/01/2026
These kids should be going to school. Playing with their friends. Eating dinner with their families. Detaining them is cruel and inhumane.
Chart showing a more than 6x rise in ICE detention of children under the current administration
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2026
ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/01/2026
To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” (Published Nov. 2025)
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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is really a nightmare for scientific integrity and public trust. The reputational damage was there before Trump even took office & it's only going to get worse. How can you convince people to enroll in these kinds of studies to improve health & wellness if this is what can happen to their data?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“.. Then, while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help. We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today. Let’s make a list of things that could help.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/01/2026
This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
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