Reposted by Aurélien AllardAntigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People don’t realize how serious the situation is. 351278337
Reposted by Aurélien AllardJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10hWhat’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌ 29500145
Reposted by Aurélien AllardJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21hTIL the American Red Cross was so serious about the “only voluntary blood donations” thing, they didn’t allow patients who had to frequently have their blood removed for medical reasons to donate it. Because those patients profited from having their blood removed. 3389
Reposted by Aurélien AllardBenjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett 7559931433
Reposted by Aurélien Allardhilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Kieran Healy, on that tourism graph. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...kieranhealy.orgTrump Tourism EffectsIn the past day or two on social media I kept seeing this graph from a Semafor story on the declining volume of international visitors to the United States. Semafor Graph. It seems to show, and was be... 13523
Reposted by Aurélien AllardNicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When we fake smiles, are we smiling our way to happiness or misery? 🙃 For decades, emotion embodiment theorists have emphasized happiness boosts -- all while emotion labor theorists emphasized misery costs. In this Registered Report, we finally put these ideas side-by-side doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 1168
Reposted by Aurélien AllardRichard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: researchers say one 'zombie' study in Iran, 20 years ago, has skewed the world's medical evidence base for using Prozac to treat depression in children. They stop short of saying don't use Prozac this way, but want clinical guidelines revised. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comProzac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trialOne small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say. 1218
Reposted by Aurélien AllardBenoît de Courson @bdecourson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🔺🔺 @gallicagram.bsky.social v3 !! 🔺🔺 Avec l'aide de l'incroyable Elias Echikr (désormais ingénieur sur le projet), on a ajouté 36 médias à jour, 3 chaînes d'infos en continu (merci Yann de Boisvilliers), une nouvelle syntaxe de fou. Oh et Cairn et MajinBook aussi www.gallicagram.com 🧵gallicagram.comGallicagramA lexicometrics app to explore word frequencies in diachronic corpora, with a focus on French press since 1789 32810
Reposted by Aurélien AllardNick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026"A new observational study has found that..." 0297
Reposted by Aurélien Allardlaurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Your sense of humor may differ from mine but I find this one of the most hilarious jokes I have seen in recent weeks 3298
Reposted by Aurélien Allardsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here 1018154
Reposted by Aurélien Allardmoin 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... 215072
Reposted by Aurélien AllardJeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When it closed, the server was opened to reveal a little man who took a bow. 012015
Reposted by Aurélien AllardRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My priors about chimp anti-sociality confirmed: They stole from "friends" 61% of trials, from non-friends 70% of trials. Continues to be one of the biggest puzzles about human evolution, which mechanisms and evolutionary history make humans qualitatively more cooperative than other apes. 810821
Reposted by Aurélien AllardAlex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New from Hainmueller and Laitin on the causal effects of becoming a citizen on wages. Short story: the observational ests overstate the premium relative to the experimental ests. Authors conclude "observational averages should not be used as causal forecasts for policy" doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 12512
Reposted by Aurélien AllardBenjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict 9565143
Reposted by Aurélien AllardAmanda J. Wright @ajwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Since our paper on the Changing How I Live Life (CHILL) Study is now out in Psychological Science (doi.org/10.1177/0956...), here's a LONG overdue post on the intervention work we've been doing the past few years! Have you ever wanted to change one of your personality traits? 14520
Reposted by Aurélien AllardJustin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 29/09/2026"The story about the analytic turn is more complicated than the McCarthyist thesis suggests..."dailynous.comAnalytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post) - Daily NousTo what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years […] 0126
Reposted by Aurélien AllardIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 28/09/2026Germany has cancelled funding for the German Cochrane Foundation. Bad news all around. Cochrane’s benefit to cost ratio is huge. @cochrane.org www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/wark...sueddeutsche.deBund streicht renommierter Cochrane-Stiftung die FörderungDie Cochrane-Stiftung, die seit Jahren die Nutzen medizinischer Therapien untersucht, soll künftig nicht mehr staatlich gefördert werden. 32914
Reposted by Aurélien Allardingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This was a fantastic team effort across 30+ labs 🌍 Paper (open access), data & code all public. > 📄 doi.org/10.1111/desc... > 💻 github.com/manybabies/m... > #ManyBabies #InfantCognition #OpenScience #DevSci, lead team: Andreea Geambaşu, Melanie Soderstrom, and Claartje Leveltdoi.orgManyBabies 3: A Multi‐Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule LearningThe ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7-month-old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were... 33822
Reposted by Aurélien Allardingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵 37647
Reposted by Aurélien AllardJoe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 27/09/2026My friend: "I don't know what to get my family for Christmas!" Me: 0113
Reposted by Aurélien AllardJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/09/2026I do find economists annoying sometimes, but they’re usually less annoying than the people who mindlessly hate on economists 😭 4152
Reposted by Aurélien AllardIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 25/09/2026"Systematic reviews are only as credible as the studies they include" INSPECT-SR was published yesterday, giving concrete guidance on how to exclude untrustworthy studies. Cochrane's statement: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Article: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Guidance: inspect-sr.comcochrane.orgNew tool helps researchers spot problematic trials before they distort evidence | Cochrane 26031
Reposted by Aurélien AllardVera Wilde @verawil.de · 25/09/2026Now published in *Behavior Research Methods*: An LLM canary in the online data coalmine. LLMs solve Bayesian reasoning problems way better than people do. That capability gap can flag LLM contamination in online samples. rdcu.be/4Fw8jpGpkVpardcu.be 292
Reposted by Aurélien AllardKristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🎯 What should we expect from behavior change interventions? Growing evidence suggests that most behavior change interventions have small effects on behavior. I regularly hear fellow behavioral scientists understandably feeling discouraged by this. But should we be discouraged? Not necessarily.🧵 44617
Reposted by Aurélien Allardlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated. 7557105
Reposted by Aurélien AllardCarsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/20261/6 What happens when you tell an AI browser: “Fill out this survey”? It fills out the survey. In our new study, led by @rtopinkova.bsky.social, we tested three consumer-facing agentic browsers without lengthy prompts, custom code, or technical fine-tuning. 33728
Reposted by Aurélien AllardRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 23/09/2026if anyone tells you to cite my papers that is also paul 3393
Reposted by Aurélien Allardmoin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515... 619258
Reposted by Aurélien AllardOur World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 21/09/2026📝 New article on Our World in Data: How high is current immigration to the United States, in historical perspective? Ask Americans about the top concerns for the United States, and immigration is rarely far from the top of the list. 1386
Reposted by Aurélien AllardNick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 21/09/2026Has ego depletion research been resurrected as “cognitive depletion”? “Study 2 [shows that] glucose levels, can modulate deliberative thinking…” doi.org/10.1080/0144... I have a memory of papers arguing that drinking glucose can’t directly change brain glucose. Is that false? 151
Reposted by Aurélien AllardBart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2 316486
Reposted by Aurélien AllardMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Good news everyone who is having a hard time picturing the solid, spin it around zoom in at Math.mino.mobi/szilassi 6827
Reposted by Aurélien AllardKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026Apropos of the campus-setting novel I’m currently reading, I’d just like to put out there that I am available to authors to consult on what grad students and researchers and professors actually do and act like and my rates are reasonable. 39103685
Reposted by Aurélien AllardJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I got a *remarkably quick* rejection email from a tenure track job that I applied to. Rejections are part of the process! However, if you’re going to screen candidates with ai, please don’t ask for more than a cv and let us know! It’s a lot of time learning about your dept, writing and tailoring. 510123
Reposted by Aurélien AllardDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵 4265113
Reposted by Aurélien AllardJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!> 511835
Reposted by Aurélien AllardBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"An..LLM pipeline [conducted] 1,328 in-sample replications, [and] 1,005..out-of-sample tests. In sample, 75% reproduce the published sign and significance, and the median coefficient recovers 0.93 of the published value. Out of sample, the rate falls to 42%, and the median coefficient ratio to 0.45"papers.ssrn.comDoes Empirical Finance Replicate?An autonomous LLM pipeline rebuilds each result from the paper and available databases, with independent audits of every replication. I obtain 1,328 in-sample r 3192
Reposted by Aurélien AllardVilgot Huhn @vilgothuhn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026True true. The more I think about these AI citations the crazier it seems. Hayes is a titan. And this is super embarrassing. Why risk the reputation loss? But also, Clinical Psychological Review is a big deal as well. Why are they risking the reputation loss? The cost of a check is essentially zero. 162
Reposted by Aurélien AllardAnna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is a big deal. For the first time (I believe) the Lakatos Award goes to a book not published by one of the big commercial presses but by BSPS Open, an idealistic project to issue diamond access monographs. Small budget, top notch philosophy. Congratulations to John Norton and BSPS open! 0458
Reposted by Aurélien AllardDaniel Nettle @danielnettle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of 'From Questions to Knowledge: Data Analysis for Psychology and Behavioural Science Using R' mybook.to/questionstok... 11613
Reposted by Aurélien AllardSanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 16/09/2026Fully expecting this to be based on a tiny self-selected sample predisposed to aggression, with participants coached on how to act, exaggerated performances for observers, all run by a host with a flair for showmanship but questionable ethical instincts. You know, a direct replication 723240
Reposted by Aurélien AllardExperimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Philosopher @nathansen.bsky.social has created a website that uses AI to take people through a Socratic dialogue about a philosophical thought experiment I gave it a try. In my opinion, it really does help users think through these questions www.ux-phi.com/experiments 1269
Reposted by Aurélien AllardIsidro F. Aguillo @isidroaguillo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Monthly review of the coverage of the main bibliometric tools 078
Reposted by Aurélien AllardOur World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 14/09/2026📝 New article on Our World in Data: Is organic farming better for the environment than conventional farming? One of the most common questions we’re asked about food systems is whether organic farming is better for the environment than conventional methods. 411354
Reposted by Aurélien AllardBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread. 55426
Reposted by Aurélien AllardMatthew B. Jané @matthewbjane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’ve been quiet on social media lately, but today I’m launching Audit Clinical Evidence (ACE), an initiative I’ve been developing over the past year. Take a look: AuditClinicalEvidence.orgauditclinicalevidence.orgACEIndependent audits of published clinical research for statistical errors, data inconsistencies, and research integrity violations. 89132