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Nobody past the age of twenty should be obsessed with what people majored in in college and see it as the single defining choice that entirely shapes someone, deterministically, for all time

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 15h

It’s cardboard recycling night this week and guys, I am feeling pretty unhappy about putting this box out at the curb 😭

A large cardboard box scrawled with the label “Fortress of Solitude” in a child’s misspelled writing

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 16h

There are tons of infill homes in my 1970s subdivision that are single-family homes but physically consuming at least equal space to a six-plex apartment walkup.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 17h

Oh it’s a good one today, folks

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 29/09/2026

"Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration & pre-analysis plans were developed to control false positives in experimental research. Does that work in observational studies? Our new paper in Sociological Methods & Research argues for a different approach. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Replication Framework for Observational Research: From Specification Restriction to Specification Expansion
Jonathan Ben-Menachem https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-0848 jbenmenachem@gmail.com, Ari Galper https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7909-8837, and Nic Fishman
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Sociology has remained relatively insulated from debates about the “replication crisis.” Heeding calls to consider replication more deeply, we introduce a distinction between two types of research reforms that have emerged in the wake of the crisis: specification-restricting and specification-expanding reforms. Specification restriction is often promoted as a way to increase the repeatability of research findings by controlling false positives. We argue that this statistical justification is less compelling in observational contexts—where the assumptions licensing false-positive control are harder to sustain and rigid ex ante analytical commitments can instead enshrine fragile specifications—than in experimental contexts. We further argue that apparently low replication rates do not necessarily imply a high prevalence of false positive findings. Instead, we propose a replication framework centered on specification-expanding reforms, stronger incentives for confirmatory research, and meta-analysis. This approach equips sociologists to assess the repeatability of findings and build a more cumulative discipline.

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 28/09/2026

Been thinking about this. People say 'social contagion' like it's a bad thing. Yeah, if you put it like that. What it really is is just: people sharing information. Yes, it can increase identification. That's a feature.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 28/09/2026

As I wrote: "What work is worth being compensated for? What would be the terms and conditions for compensation? What happens when the work is inadequate? Who is invited to review and thus eligible for compensation?" www.kwglobal.com/blog/pay-pee...

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Making “Pay Peer Reviewers” More Than a Slogan - KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd

In this post from ORIGINal Thoughts, author Zen Faulkes addresses a commonly posited solution to the reviewer shortage—compensating reviewers.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is ridiculous. The only avenue for fellowships for international scholars has been the K99. It was already so hard to get, and now there is no way for them to come and train and build a career in the US. It will decimate our ability to recruit the best scholars around the world.

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: I talked to Joseph Henrich about why he wanted to tackle the issue of politicization in anthropology for the Vanderbilt humanities commission, what he found out, and what he thought of my Q&A with the head of the American Anthropological Association. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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The Harvard Anthropologist Who’s Skewering His Own Field

Joseph Henrich, an author of a divisive report about politicization in the humanities, says, “I knew it wasn’t going to make everyone happy.”

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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Getting a bit judgy, tomorrow…

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Please repost!🙏 I’ll be recruiting grad students this year! Looking for students passionate about language and cognition. Some topics could include: -Iconicity and Bouba/Kiki -Embodied Cognition -General Semantic Effects in Word Processing See what we‘ve been up to: classilab.ca DM or email me!

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About — CLaSSI Lab

The CLaSSI Lab is headed by Dr. David Sidhu at Carleton University, in the Department of Psychology. We explore questions related to language and cognition, using a variety of experimental techniques ...

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🥌 CURLING ALERT! 🥌 A new season is starting and if you’re in the #Ottawa area looking for a doubles league, I am the co-ordinator for the NEW Sunday Doubles league at the Carleton Heights club! We still have room for a couple of teams and one individual player. Learn-to-curl spots available too 🥌

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Carleton Heights Curling Club – Curling, ottawa, learn to curl, junior curling, little rocks, daytime learn to curl, stick curling

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good afternoon, psychology! ✨YOUR SCIENCE IS POLITICAL✨

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Everything you ever needed to know about causal inference in one skeet

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BCCHR ResDev (DM) @resdevbcch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‼️ attention Canadian health researchers ‼️ #CIHR has posted the Project Grants Discussion Paper and a related *survey* cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54821.html Please please participate 🙏

photo of the “help shape the future of the project grant program” announcement by CIHR. TEXT is accessible in the hyperlink in this post.

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 24/09/2026

holy fucking shit - see Claude Code (Opus 5.5) rip through a survey eligility test I was really proud of... It requires tracing a route through designated points on a map with server-side Javascript applying eligibility criteria. (1.5 min video)

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let’s put together a symposium and party in Seattle! Seriously, let’s chat about ideas. I’m thinking about symptoms in people in moments; identifying risky moments; configural psychometrics in time series data with @aaronjfisher.bsky.social. Please reach out if interested!

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another good summary of our research showing that cash gifts to families facing poverty slowed their 4-year-old children's biological aging. (led by @laraffington.bsky.social) paper in Nature Human Behavior here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🌟 Vanderbilt Psychology has an open rank position available in our clinical area! Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/194049 (Note that this position is separate from our other psych department's asst prof search: apply.interfolio.com/194058) RTs appreciated!!

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 23/09/2026

after some in-depth discussions with my lab and also drawing on conversations on here, we've edited our new policy on AI usage in my lab feel free to adapt or re-use with attribution, or to reply to tell me how awful this policy is lol

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fun story. As I was a grad student I published a 1st-author paper on co-rumination in J of Adolescence that got discussed in the NYT (side note, the reporter interviewed me but only named my advisor in the story). Our PR office wanted to build on it for more press, so they wrote up a press release…

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe the first weekend stats workshop I ever took was with Paul Allison, about 20 years ago. I remember that he made the material (missing data) accessible enough that I came away feeling capable, and I really appreciated that.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like this makes me look older than I am. We were a very computer-forward extended family and I played on this regularly from about age 5.

A Texas Instruments TI-99 cartridge-based computer with a crappy colour monitor. This image is from the website linked below but it’s basically the exact setup we had when I was a kid.

https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/ti99-4a.htm

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New 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...

article header for, "Qualitative Researchers Can and Do Generalize: Generalizability Claims in Qualitative Psychological Research". Metascience!

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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Join us tomorrow…

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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Give Per all the fun examples so that we too may be entertained

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is a familiar problem some of us learned about doing open science badge eligibility checks. I think it’s harder than people realize to adapt materials/code/data so that they’re shareable and accessible to people who don’t live inside your head. Check out Dan’s thread (read ⬆️ ⬇️)

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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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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper from me, out soon in Behavior Research Methods: I'm a lil bit obsessed with good online recruitment and the result is this side-quest paper that made use of data we had collected that recruited people online in three ways (met them on Zoom, validated their email, and Prolific). 🧵>>

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think the "indirect" versus "direct" distinction is important here. Is your Aim 1 question "are there clusters?"? Don't; the method will never tell you there aren't. If you're using clusters as a handy way of handling variability, and you don't treat them as real and observed, probably fine.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Large green orb the size of a small green orb blocking the Pope, please use caution when traveling in the area

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026

This 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!>

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MediaSmarts @mediasmarts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our Teen Fact-Checking Network member Lukas joined @globalnews.ca to talk about the #TFCN program and the importance of fact-checking: globalnews.ca/video/120566...

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The importance of fact-checking posts | Watch News Videos Online

Watch The importance of fact-checking posts Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'll be reviewing applications for a new student or two for UNC-CH's clinical psychology PhD program! Social anxiety, pain, intensive longitudinal data, all that fun stuff. What prospective applicants get if they email me (so no need): docs.google.com/document/d/1... Lab: tarheels.live/rodelab/

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Welcome to the Rodebaugh Lab Website - Rodebaugh Laboratory

Welcome to the Rodebaugh lab website! Here you can learn about what Dr. Rodebaugh & colleagues are working on and what research is being conducted.

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Anne Bowker and Dr. Janet Mantler to the CPA Satellite Conference: Women's Mental Health. Don't miss "We need to talk about menopause: The menopausal transition and women's mental health" Friday, Oct 23 9:45-11:00 at Carleton. Register: buff.ly/IBPePNr

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This report says that poverty and food insecurity affect between 20-30% of children but that’s only enough to make it a # 4-ranked threat, with # 1 being “online harms.” This is extremely unserious.

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New piece on a great project from @matthewbjane.bsky.social looking at problematic research. Also, extremely worrisome issues in studies of exercise for depression. gidmk.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

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How Do We Deal With Seriously Problematic Research?

A new solution to a very serious issue

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I made this video *just for you*...here's a link to read the compact and if you scroll down you'll see the button to click to email your university leadership! www.standupforscience.net/sufs-compact...

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Five hundred years ago a guy lost a bet to the metalsmith in Ye Olde tavern and he had to wear this for the next six battles and also say “buck buck buck!” as a battle cry

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As a woman in a fully cishet marriage, I get the bill put in front of me way more often that I bargained for.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The cover-up is always worse than the crime? Harvard's latest filing says that Gino manipulated a file to cover-up fabrication, hid the laptop used to do it during the discovery process, and did more [redacted] destruction of evidence after being compelled by the court to share the laptop.

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 A somber day to reflect on lost loved ones. But also to reflect on who your friends and allies are, and why those relations are worth fostering.

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