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Amélie Godefroidt

@ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Conflict Management @IESEG School of Management, working at the intersection of Peace Processes, Public Opinion, and Political Communication. www.ameliegodefroidt.com

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 21/04/2026
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Does Islamist terrorism still affect political attitudes? - cup.org/42697Vi - Micha Germann, @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social & Fernando Mendez #FirstView
Logo for the European Journal of Political Research displaying the text "EJPR European Journal of Political Research" in cream letters on a blue background, accompanied by the hashtag "#OpenAccess".
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Veel dank aan de makers voor het uitnodigen van een reflectieve dialoog over de rol van media in complexe conflicten. #Medialogica #mediastudies #journalistiek #beeldvorming #democratie
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Het vereist journalistieke moed om te vertragen, context te bieden en nuance te behouden – zeker als feiten en emoties door elkaar lopen, en de heersende elite luid roept.
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
In het gesprek heb ik benadrukt hoe oorlogsjournalistiek in situaties van (gewelddadige) chaos en onzekerheid snel kan polariseren: redacties voelen enorme druk om direct te rapporteren, wat vaak leidt tot simplificaties die democratische debatruimte ondermijnen.
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Zondag was ik te gast in Medialogica: “Een gitzwarte nacht” – een episode die de mediastorm rond de Amsterdamse Maccabi-wedstrijd en de beeldvorming daaromtrent onder de loep neemt. @nieuws.nos.nl
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
As kids head back to school across Belgium today, I’m also stepping into a new classroom — but this time as Assistant Professor in Conflict Management at @ieseg.fr Grateful and excited for the journey ahead.
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 16/07/2025
💡 Meet @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social, Postdoc & Lecturer at KU Leuven. She studies public response to war & conflict, often working with sensitive, complex data. In our Q&A, she discusses her open science summer course & how transparency can strengthen trust & collaboration: www.cos.io/blog/amél...
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Q&A with Amélie Godefroidt: Building Trust and Transparency in Complex, Sensitive Research
Amélie Godefroidt applies open science practices in her research on public opinion regarding wars, conflicts, and terrorism. Explore her work, insights, and free course materials on OSF.
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🎉 Long overdue announcement: I’m thrilled to join @ieseg.fr as Assistant Professor in Conflict Management! Sad to be leaving @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social but excited to explore new intersections between conflict studies, international negotiation & organizational dynamics 🤝
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics. Academic mothers are much more likely to... ◾temporarily leave the labor force ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions. scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My dear friend and colleague @chrisdworschak.bsky.social is kicking off #NEPS2025, presenting fascinating work with @kmross.bsky.social on conflict forecasting using… music data! 🎶📈 “Rhythms to riot” is already setting the tone for a brilliant few days of peace science! #conflictforecasting
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Excited to be at the annual conference of the European Peace Scientists in sunny Barcelona! Looking forward to three days of inspiring research, new ideas, and great conversations on peace and conflict. #PeaceScience #NEPS2025
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Thanks, Elise! Happy to hear you learned a lot!
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
No, I've missed it! Looks great. Thanks for sharing. I'll have a closer look at it later this week.
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Please do so! The FORTT materials were truly inspiring for creating this course, so always happy to support others as well. I’ve uploaded everything to @cos.io, and you can also reach me at amelie.godefroidt@kuleuven.be if needed! osf.io/s8mxd/files/...
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
As promised: I’ve just uploaded all course materials of the Open Science in Social Sciences summer school on @cos.io: osf.io/s8mxd/? 🚀 Feel free to explore, reuse, and share (under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license). #OpenScience @forrt.bsky.social
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Teaching Resources
A collection of slide shows, syllabi, and other teaching materials used in my courses, seminars, and workshops. Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Btw: after a well-deserved long weekend, I’ll be sharing all course materials from the Open Science in the Social Sciences summer school @cos.io !
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🎉 That’s a wrap! Four days of deep dives into #OpenScience, #preregistration, #replication, #reproducibility, #multiverse, & more—applied to the social sciences. Huge thanks to all participants for the energy, insights & thoughtful questions! @ugentopenscience.bsky.social @gasparugent.bsky.social
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🗣️ Fourth and final stop: Open Peer Review We debated: ✍️ Signed reviews 🧾 Public reports 💬 Community commenting ✅ Platforms like @pubpeer.com @F1000Research & @publons #OpenPeerReview
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🔐 Third stop: how open can your data be under GDPR? Enter: ✅ FAIR principles ✅ Personal data, special categories of data ✅ Anonymization vs. Pseudonymization ✅ Consent, licensing, & DPO support More info: www.kuleuven.be/rdm/en/guida... #FAIRdata #DataSharing #OpenData
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Data sharing
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
💻 Second stop: #rMarkdown 📝 YAML -> Code chunks -> text -> Knit! 🔁 We did various exercises to knit dynamic, reproducible reports (HTML, pdf, word) 🛠️ Bonus: it’s the perfect gateway to @quarto.org 🔗 rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_qu... #rStats
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R Markdown Quick Tour
Turn your analyses into high quality documents, reports, presentations and dashboards with R Markdown. Use a productive notebook interface to weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantl...
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🌌 First stop: Multiverse Analysis We explored how analytic decisions shape results—and why reporting just one is like publishing from a parallel universe. 📚 Steegen et al. (2016): doi.org/10.1177/1745... 📚 Simonsohn et al. (2020): www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔗 specr: masurp.github.io/specr/
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Conducting and Visualizing Specification Curve Analyses
Provides utilities for conducting specification curve analyses (Simonsohn, Simmons & Nelson (2020, <doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-0912-z>) or multiverse analyses (Steegen, Tuerlinckx, Gelman & Vanpaemel, 20...
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🚀 Day 4 of our #OpenScienceInSocSci summer school @gasparugent.bsky.social @ugentopenscience.bsky.social wrapped up with new tools, big questions & practical skills. Here’s your (final) recap thread 🧵 #OpenScience #PhDlife #Reproducibility
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 04/06/2025
We are reviewing the current state of scientific publishing, and we want to hear from researchers on their perceptions of publishing in the current context and how it might develop in future. Complete our short survey now:
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The Future of Scientific Publishing - survey
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🔥 Big day ahead at the #OpenScience summer school! On the menu: 💻 Making your research reproducible with @rmarkdown.bsky.social & @quarto.org 🔐 Balancing Open Science with Data Protection 🧐 What’s the deal with Open Peer Review? 🌐 A quick dive into Multiverse Analysis
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We ended with a #pHackathon 🎯 Students were challenged to “find significance” in a fake dataset using researcher degrees of freedom 😅 shinyapps.org/apps/p-hacker/ Key lesson: flexibility isn't bad—but without transparency, it’s dangerous.
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Experience Statistics
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
2️⃣ Smart data sharing: as open as possible, as closed as necessary! 3️⃣ Reproducible reporting with @rmarkdown.bsky.social n & @quarto.org 4️⃣ Built better replication packages with solid README files, transparent code, and full workflows. social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_REA...
social-science-data-editors.github.io
A template README for social science replication packages.
The template README provided on this website is in a form that follows best practices as defined by a number of data editors at social science journals.
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
1️⃣ Consistency checker: Want cleaner science? Use these tools: ✔️ GRIM test → check if reported means are possible ✔️ shinyapps.org/apps/p-check... → spot wrong p-values ✔️ michelenuijten.shinyapps.io/statcheck-web/ → scan entire papers for wrong p-values
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🧰 Beyond (a priori!) power analysis, students got 5 more tools for their repro toolbox: 1️⃣ Consistency checkers (GRIM, p-checker, statcheck) 2️⃣ Smart data sharing (more tomorrow!) 3️⃣ Reproducible reporting (more tomorrow!) 4️⃣ Crafting solid replication packages 5️⃣ #ManyLabs5 on quality > prereg
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We’d tackled HARKing & p-hacking—but what about statistical power? 🧠 We broke down how sample size, effect size & alpha shape our ability to detect real effects. Median power in poli sci = 10% 😬 (Arel-Bundock et al. 2024). To solve this, we introduced: 🧮 G*Power and 📦 pwr in R (recommended)
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
First up: two terms that often get mixed up 👇 🔁 Reproducibility = same data, same code 📦 Replicability = new data, same design We unpacked these (and more) with help from Brodeur et al. (2024): 📖 www.iza.org/publications... 🔥 Pro tip: join a #Replication Game via @i4replication.bsky.social
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Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope
This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political sc...
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🔍 Day 3 of our #OpenScience summer school @gasparugent.bsky.social @ugentopenscience.bsky.social was all about: ✨ Reproducibility & Replicability—including a primer on power! 🧰 Expanding our **Reproducibility Toolbox**—beyond preregistration 😈 A cheeky #pHackathon Recap below 🧵 #Reproducibility
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Thanks to everyone for showing up ready to reflect and critically discuss the pro's and con's of preregs! 💪 Tomorrow: #Reproducibility & #Replication (with a lot of tools to use). Stay tuned. #OpenScience @ugentopenscience.bsky.social
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We wrapped up Day 2 with some hands-on fun: 🔍 Spotted flaws in vague prereg items 🧐 Reviewed my working paper for prereg slip-ups (yes, that was a bit selfish 🙃)—a great way to learn how to review prereg’d work! 📄 Explored both the default & qualitative @OSFramework templates together.
Advice on how to be a good reviewer of preregistered research based on Simmons et al. (2021)
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We also tackled some common fears: 😱 “Someone will scoop me!” — Nah, you're ahead of them. It’s time-stamped & can be embargoed. 😬 “What if I change my mind?” — That’s science! Deviate transparently. 😟 “This doesn’t fit my method.” — Are you sure? Check all templates: help.osf.io/article/229-... ...
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Why bother? Because PRs/RRs separates exploration from confirmation. 📉 Without it, we risk p-hacking, HARKing, and data dredging. #QRPs 🎯 With it, we build credibility, clarity, and cumulative science. #TrustScience 🙋‍♀️ Selfish reasons: www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/sev...
seven selfish reasons for preregistration : https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/seven-selfish-reasons-for-preregistration
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📌 What is preregistration? “It’s like locking in your recipe before tasting the dish” (ChatGPT, 2025) You write out your research plan before seeing the results. It’s about transparency—not rigidity. ▶️ Key resource: cos.io/prereg/ @cos.io ▶️ Key reading: Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2021)
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🔐 Day 2 of our #OpenScience Summer School @gasparugent.bsky.social zoomed in on... preregistration ! Why? When? How? And... what if I mess up? We tackled it with hands-on exercises and open, honest conversations. 🧵Thread below #Reproducibility #PhDlife #OpenScienceInSocSci
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Teaching this course is a joy. Thanks to the UGhent Doctoral School for the support, @lisajanssen.bsky.social and @annakern.bsky.social for organizing, and to all participants for keeping the conversation sharp & honest. Next up: preregistration! Stay tuned. #ScienceIsForSharing
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Students also shared what they actually want to learn more about. 📝📊 This, in the Spirit of Open Science, will shape our final day! #OpenEducation All materials will also be posted online on Friday! (@forrt.bsky.social)
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
In the afternoon, we mapped open science practices—preprints, open data, preregistration & RRs, replication studies—and explored their prevalence and effectiveness. Highly recommended: 🔹 Balafoutas et al. (2024)
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We started by unpacking what went wrong in the past (disclaimer: a lot 😬). From HARKing and p-hacking to publication bias and our cognitive biases—students reflected on key problems. Readings included: 🔹 Ioannidis (2005) 🔹 Simmons et al. (2011) 🔹 Camerer et al. (2018) #MetaScience #Transparency
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚀 Kicked off Day 1 of our #OpenScience Summer School at @gasparugent.bsky.social ! We explored what triggered the replication crisis & how it reshaped research across the social sciences. 🧪🔍 Thread ⬇️ #PhDlife #OpenScience #Reproducibility
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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Our community must take this issue very seriously! ideally, we'd post these publicly: raw_no_pii.csv cleaning.R clean.rds analysis.R but destroy or archive privately: raw.csv remove_pii.R (was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Excited to be at today’s Reimagining PEACE conference bringing together nearly 300 peace researchers from around the world! Grateful to be part of this global exchange of ideas and insights. #ActionPEACE2025 | Organized by the Flemish Peace Institute
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🤝 Interested? Let’s Connect! If you're into political violence, peacebuilding, public opinion, media framing, or open science, let’s chat! Follow, reply, or boost—always happy to connect. #Academia #WhoToFollow
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🌍 Global & Comparative Lens From Nigeria to Northern Ireland, Azerbaijan to Guatemala—I work cross-nationally to understand how context shape attitudes toward violence and peace. In sum, I conduct comparative research, grounded in real-world complexities, on the legitimacy of peace.
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🔍 #5: Open Science Beyond practicing open science, I’ve also researched it (tinyurl.com/dk7yarjf) and I’ve joined several large-scale replication projects to explore how much results depend on analytic choices (tinyurl.com/3tum7p2f). #OpenScience #MetaScience #Replication
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
📰 #4: Framing War, Shaping Peace How media tell a story can shape how people think about war and peace. Therefore, I explore media coverage of terrorism and war. 📄 tinyurl.com/y9wuwzfa, w. Leila Demarest and Arnim Langer 📄 tinyurl.com/mw4j4rmv, w. Anna Berbers and @leendhaenens.bsky.social
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🎯 #3: How to Forgive Your Enemy? Understanding attitudes toward former fighters is critical for peace processes. My research explores the factors influencing public acceptance of ex-combattants. 📄 tinyurl.com/3t98nph7, w. Arnim Langer and much more in the pipeline!
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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🕊️ #2: The Legitimacy of Peace Processes Why do some peace processes gain support while others spark backlash? I study how people various perceive peace provisions, including truth-seeking initiatives. 📄 tinyurl.com/yjecxk4w, w. @lalamur.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/mut76n6w, w. Karin Dyrstad
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