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Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS) @youngmetascience.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yesterday, we concluded the first day of the PMGS Meta Research Symposium playing Open Science games Happy to be part of this great event as PYMS, and a thank you to Stefan Kirsch from the GHOST collective for bringing and explaining the games they developed! Games: ghostcollective.github.io

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Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We are excited to announce that we are going to broadcast the second day of Meta-Research Symposium 2026 (this Friday on October 9th) for those who were interested but unable to join in person. You can join the meeting using this link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New preprint: When should you use linear mixed models (LMMs), and when is repeated-measures (RM) ANOVA enough? LMMs offer greater flexibility. But does that make them a better default? My paper argues for statistical parsimony: use RM-ANOVA when both methods are appropriate. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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When to Use Mixed Models and When RM-ANOVA - An Argument for Statistical Parsimony

When should researchers use linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) versus repeated-measures analysis of variance (RM-ANOVA) for analysing repeated-measures data? I first outline the conceptual and statist...

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

A card for the R package webrarian. Large text reads "A folder in. A website out." On the left, a small card lists a folder named lab-01 holding lab.R, setup.R and a data folder. A red arrow points from it to a browser window that shows a scatterplot of car weight against miles per gallon with brick-red points. The address coatless-wasm.github.io/webrarian is on the card.

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scientific norms derived from a philosophy of science should perhaps not be viewed as “restrictive rules,” but rather as “enabling conditions”

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Great thoughts on replications! @uyguntunc.bsky.social I’d vote for an additional educational version that is, as far as possible, jargon-free and suitable for undergraduate students. :) bsky.app/profile/phil...

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New on the Archive: Uygun Tunc, Duygu (2026) What is an informative replication? In: UNSPECIFIED. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29781

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New 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 🧵

Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.

Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.

Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.

Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.

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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Give your peer review to the journals that give back. Diamond open access journals don't charge authors to publish or readers to access; they run on community effort, for the community's benefit. Pledge one review a year and help sustain the research community. forrt.org/diamond-reviewer

Hexagonal badge with a diamond and the text "diamond reviewer". Below it, it says "Give your peer review to the journals that give back"

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Data, into your hands I commend my spirit Data, into your hands Why have you forsaken me? ;)

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/09/2026

Did you know that there’s only a single letter separating an “idionomic clinical workflow” from an “idiotnomic clinical workflow”? I haven’t managed to write my screed about cluster analysis yet, here’s another blog post in the meantime: www.the100.ci/2024/10/28/i...

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Idiographic Approaches in Psychology: Hold your horses

There have been persistent calls spurring psychologists to do more “idiographic” research, starting even before Peter Molenaar’s “Manifesto on Psychology as Idiographic Science”, which is already 20 y...

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Matthew B. Jané @matthewbjane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’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.org

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ACE

Independent audits of published clinical research for statistical errors, data inconsistencies, and research integrity violations.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Journals should stop offering to store supplemental information. Everything that is shared with a paper should have it's own DOI, and live in a proper repository. As authors, link to files (e.g., Zenodo), but never add them as supplemental files.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026

By the way, if you enjoyed that, you might also enjoy Giving What We Can's version of the birth lottery. It's a random generator for people born today: www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

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Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Join us on October 8–9 at TU Eindhoven for two days of metascience, including a hands-on workshop, hackathons, research presentations, and keynote talks 🔸️Free to attend, but registration is required. Check out the program and details here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/sy...

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Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium 2026 | Paul Meehl Graduate School

October 8-9, 2026

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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...

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PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)

Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The fact that this view is even remotely controversial is a good illustration of what you could call 'mindless reform' - changes that are not improvements. Preregistration of secondary data analysis does not coherently follow from any philosophy of science. Just use an open lab notebook instead.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A wise person doesn't just ask "What do I know?". A wise person will ask: "How do I know it? For whom might it be true? Under what conditions has it been true? What does my experience help me see? And what might what I think I know prevent me from seeing?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4sM...

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Running Wise

YouTube video by Just Another Runner

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is also a good reminder that scientific infrastructure is not free. Very easy to forget when the service *itself* is free.

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 11/08/2026

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

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Peder M Isager @isager.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In practice, I think I would normally recommend a sequential analysis approach with a max N set to the number of participants you can afford, but with the option of stopping early if power is high for the TST before max N is reached. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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10 Sequential Analysis – Improving Your Statistical Inferences

This open educational resource contains information to improve statistical inferences, design better experiments, and report scientific research more transparently.

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A little progress in sport and exercise psychology regarding sample sizes: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Agree! Then I misunderstood you here in the second sentence... bsky.app/profile/jack...

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It seems that only in the context of a superiority test does considering the expected true effect size become relevant again. bsky.app/profile/cspa...

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'm not a meta-scientist, though—I'm just trying to stay up to date with the current state of the field. My understanding so far has been that one should power a study based on the SESOI. ->

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So, would you say that this statement has been overcome? mastodon.social/@lakens/1098...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have a renewed appreciation for the statistical software packages Jamovi and JASP. Use them! In terms of reproducibility, they can't be beat. Archiving the data, code, and output in a single file is a genius move. Achieving the same reproducibility in R is very hard work.

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wouldn't we need an additional SESOI for the exceedance beyond the superiority margin?

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Because if we follow (more or less informed) assumptions of the expected effect size, aren't we shifting the same problematic of the conventional NHST (H0 is specified, H1 is inductive guess-work when a SESOi is missing) to superiority testing?

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thank you for the reply! It seems reasonable to justify the powered margin exceedance in terms of the expected effect in your specific example. However, I am still interested in examples of other justifications.

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I agree! I also think that papers should originate on the lead author’s institutional repository and the only journals are overlay journals run by learned societies.

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Uncertainty in Psychology Research Articles: The Evolution of Its Frequency Between 2005 and 2020: osf.io/qz96d

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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📢 Jetzt bewerben! Für den Bereich Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung & Forschung suchen wir eine Person auf PostDoc-Level (all genders). 📍Bochum & mobiles Arbeiten 📄 Vollzeit, TV-L E13, unbefristet 📅 Bewerbungsfrist: 30.08.2026 🔗 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=e22ee7 #Stellenangebot #Bochum

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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

If you had to guess, what proportion of social/personality psych articles include a claim that the findings can be applied in the real world?

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

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Assistant Professor in Metascience

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

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RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

" (...) this requires researchers to have an informative a priori expectation of both the effect size they will observe and the standard deviation(s) of their outcome(s) of interest. Both quantities can be derived from either pilot studies or the results of similar previous studies."

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

@isager.bsky.social I just saw that you illustrated a thought experiment ("Insomnia Treatment Experiment") when explaining power planning for TST. But also in this example it is basically (inductively informed) guesswork, isn't it? -> journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Three-Sided Testing to Establish Practical Significance: A Tutorial - Peder Mortvedt Isager, Jack Fitzgerald, 2026

Researchers may want to know whether an observed statistical relationship is either meaningfully negative, meaningfully positive, or small enough to be consider...

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

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PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

But justifying the desired sensitivity in superiority testing seems to be a different level of complexity... But thank you for the reply!

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Constantin Späth @cspaeth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In principle it's the same, but in the case of a conventional NHST, I would recommend using the SESOI to power H1. Even in inferiority or equivalence testing, 0 can be used as H1, although it would also be reasonable to assume at least some crud/none-zero-difference that could be used instead.

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