Reposted by Abbie Clappmoin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306... 215772
Reposted by Abbie ClappInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reproducibility 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 196
Reposted by Abbie ClappInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Over 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 🧵 19260
Reposted by Abbie ClappAna Martinovici @anamartinovici.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Workshop 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 13921
Reposted by Abbie ClappInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/09/20261/ 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 🧵 25537
Reposted by Abbie ClappStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20/08/2026The NSF Proposal is open for comments until the 24th of this month. Leave your public comment now!!! fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/Pro...fight2win.standupforscience.netStand up for ScienceStand up for Science 03831
Reposted by Abbie ClappStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20/08/2026The 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. 411379
Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Check out our website for more info about the science expo: alaneuro.weebly.com/science-expo...alaneuro.weebly.comScience ExpoTo help improve representation and connections with the broader Madison community, we have developed the Science Expo : a one-day, in-school program in collaboration with Madison East High School,... 000
Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Super excited about our new preprint with results from an exploratory evaluation of our yearly science expo partnership event, led by @shinyfreya.bsky.social & @nicholasvest.bsky.social, also with Laura Jett & Kelci Cox! Thanks to @nicholasvest.bsky.social for the great infographic 🌟 101
Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Fostering 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... 122
Reposted by Abbie ClappRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026Many 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...bettercode-book.org12 Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science 317783
Reposted by Abbie ClappJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026New 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 > 1028197
Reposted by Abbie ClappDr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026You 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 1237
Reposted by Abbie ClappYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself 2538591294
Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Do 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 000
Reposted by Abbie ClappGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Russell 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...thenation.comRussell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify YouA proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country. 601371715
Reposted by Abbie ClappStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 16/06/2026Russell 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 18398207
Reposted by Abbie ClappErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/06/2026Really wondering when the New York's state and city Human Rights Law is going to be enforced against these hospitals. 301753445
Reposted by Abbie ClappRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Shredding and shedding the First Amendment. 0149
Reposted by Abbie ClappLina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Massacre 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 3935271799
Reposted by Abbie ClappOlivia 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." 211246
Reposted by Abbie ClappRachit 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/ 261536684
Reposted by Abbie ClappEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 15/03/2026IRAN & REGIONvox.comHow to help everyday people suffering in Iran — and beyondGetting aid to civilians during wartime is difficult. Here’s the best approach. 16331
Reposted by Abbie ClappChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026Horrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...them.usVanderbilt Will Stop Providing Gender-Affirming Surgeries to Trans AdultsThe hospital cited “operational limitations” for the decision. 61135485
Reposted by Abbie ClappLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Tehran 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.) 7468249
Reposted by Abbie ClappDr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Proud 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! 082
Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I'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 052
Reposted by Abbie Clappmoin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 24/02/2026New 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...getsyeducated.substack.comValuing the Process vs. the Product in ResearchOn reasonable resistance to using GenAI in research 74925
Abbie Clapp @abbie-clapp.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Our 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! 034
Reposted by Abbie ClappDavid Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Bots 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/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings 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... 717098
Reposted by Abbie ClappZachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Yesterday, 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: 17928371614
Reposted by Abbie ClappAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026In 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. 6154912992
Reposted by Abbie ClappPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/ 21592224
Reposted by Abbie ClappKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it. 612882690
Reposted by Abbie ClappRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The 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...open.substack.comSexual assault and ICERape is a tool of war, including Trump’s war on immigrants. 99969
Reposted by Abbie ClappNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/02/2026The 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. 19145
Reposted by Abbie ClappProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2026Civilians 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.propublica.orgWe Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off BreathingCivilians 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 ... 611819932
Reposted by Abbie ClappNicole 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.’”startribune.com‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal BuildingImmigration 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.” 27841
Reposted by Abbie ClappAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/01/2026If 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. 6190197377
Reposted by Abbie ClappJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/01/2026These kids should be going to school. Playing with their friends. Eating dinner with their families. Detaining them is cruel and inhumane. 18332
Reposted by Abbie ClappAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2026ICE 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. 250102913617
Reposted by Abbie ClappWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I 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. 23697084906
Reposted by Abbie ClappErin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election. 311267
Reposted by Abbie ClappProPublica @propublica.org · 27/01/2026To 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)propublica.orgWhat the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu PandemicEgg 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... 20676351
Reposted by Abbie ClappKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026This 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? 16118
Reposted by Abbie ClappCarl 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/... 53846337
Reposted by Abbie ClappKimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026theguardian.com‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil warAlex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people 021
Reposted by Abbie ClappNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 24/01/2026My 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. 201400500
Reposted by Abbie ClappDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I 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. 1737801206
Reposted by Abbie ClappMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026 387145516912