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Charlotte Pennington 🌻

@drcpennington.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology @ Aston University 🧠 ; UKRN Local Network Lead 📊; AE of #RegisteredReports for PCI & Addiction Research & Theory 👩‍🔬. Author of: "A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology".

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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🔖 Now up on MetaROR: a full evaluation of the Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies, which enables researchers to conduct high-quality reproductions & replications across social science disciplines. Reviewers praised it as timely & useful while providing recommendations. Read it now 👇
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Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies - MetaROR
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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Available now: Teaching Open Science, edited by Charlotte R. Pennington (@drcpennington.bsky.social) and Madeleine Pownall (@maddipow.bsky.social) Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Read a free sample chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Scientific literacy has long been a cornerstone of higher education but the open research movement has redefined what it means to be literate as a researcher" with @flavioazevedo.bsky.social & @drcpennington.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/if-p...
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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The UKRN Conference 2026 is open for registration! Join us in Manchester, 8–9 July, for keynotes from Stian Westlake & Charlotte Pennington, sessions from UKRN groups, and contributions from the community. Early Bird fees close 15 May. Register: www.conference.ukrn.org
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
✨️Preprint: Awareness & Use of Open Research Practices: An International Survey of Researchers Across Disciplines 📝We surveyed >3,000 researchers (45 countries; 24 disciplines) 📌We show variation in open research adoption across regions, disciplines, methodology, & career level🌎 lnkd.in/e6Ddw-UT
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“Open research is about more than the tightening of analytical and methodological standards. The movement also invites us to reconsider how, and by whom, knowledge is created, shared and evaluated” By @maddipow.bsky.social, @drcpennington.bsky.social, & @flavioazevedo.bsky.social #MetaSci #OpenSci
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If progress is not to falter, students must be trained in open research
The how and why of conducting transparent, rigorous, ethical research must be explicitly taught, say Madeleine Pownall, Charlotte Pennington and Flavio Azevedo
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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We're pleased to announce Dr Charlotte Pennington @drcpennington.bsky.social, author of "A Student’s Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology", will be a keynote speaker at the UKRN conference in July 2026! #ukrn2026joinus #OpenResearch #Research
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Dr Charlotte Pennington – Keynote speaker at UKRN conference | UK Reproducibility Network
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Thrilled to announce that @maddipow.bsky.social and I have just submitted our edited book, Teaching Open Science to the publisher! ✨️ 📖 🌎 It comprises 12 beautiful chapters on topics such as teaching #ReproducibleResearch, developing #OpenEducationalResources, & #DecolonisingTheCurriculum
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Is anyone else experiencing significant issues (lags, not loading) with OSF (@cos.io) since the interface update?
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Aston Psychology @astonpsychology.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Looking for a PhD in Psychology? Look ⬇️ and apply to join our school at Aston!
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Do you have an interest in social cognition and skills in neuroscience? Come and do a fully-funded(!) PhD with Dr Daniel Shaw, Dr Enrico Amico, and me! 🧠 📚 "Social brain fingerprints: using network science to extract neural correlates of interpersonal (dys)function" Apply here: lnkd.in/eNRZxbf5
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Richard Tunney @richardtunney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This just published. Great work by Michelle Oxtoby. Full article: Lower caution, not inhibitory control, predicts gambling severity – a Registered Report www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Lower caution, not inhibitory control, predicts gambling severity – a Registered Report
Models of gambling disorder, along with other addiction-related conditions, identify impulsive traits as a key component to developing challenging behaviors. This is supported by empirical findings...
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Naturally, this is an open educational resource: It is free and will forever stay free. We are also considering making it a living book: There are a few areas that we think deserve more attention. If you are an expert on something that you think is missing from this work, please get in touch!
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...
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Addiction Research & Theory @addictrestheory.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“Lower Caution, not Inhibitory Control, predicts Gambling Severity - A Registered Report” by Michelle C. Oxtoby, @drcpennington.bsky.social‬, Richard J. Tunney, & Craig Hedge #accepted
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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
#OpenScience principles help students gain lots of useful skills that are an advantage on the job market in and beyond academia. Read our latest book chapter where we provide tips for educators to bolster employability through open science: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Open science contributes to more rigorous and impactful science. However, little attention is often paid to the benefits that it provides to its users, such as project management and programming skills. Although not its primary objective, these skills may be considered additional benefits supporting the transition to open science practices. Drawing from international perspectives, this chapter will discuss skills that students develop explicitly or implicitly by engaging in open science and their benefits to careers within and outside of academia. It will also showcase examples of how engagement in open science is considered in (academic) hiring decisions, including ongoing debates and areas for (structural) improvement. Ultimately, this chapter will inform educators about the most important open science skills and provide insights into how to strategically build a resume to present open science-related skills convincingly to improve employability, including practical tips and resources.
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Michelle Oxtoby @moxtoby.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thoroughly enjoyed presenting a 3-minute Rapid Talk at #CAGR2025, about our cognitive psychology study. We found that Lower Caution, not Inhibitory Control, predicts Higher Gambling Severity. Thank you to the best supervisors: Dr Craig Hedge @richardtunney.bsky.social @drcpennington.bsky.social
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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 12/06/2025
PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Reviewing chapters for our "Teaching Open Science" book with @drcpennington.bsky.social! 12 fab chapters including.. 👥Maximising student research 📝Open qualitative research 🔬Promoting responsible research practices 📖Developing Open Educational Resources 🔐Preregistering with students (& a LOT more)
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The Struggle to Make Transparency Mainstream - Initial Evidence for a Slow Uptake of Open Science Practices in PhD Theses: osf.io/kq9zd
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Evelyn Murray @evelynmurray.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I’ve just submitted my first PhD study for publication — and it's officially up as a preprint! "Exploring Public perceptions of Social media: A preregistered Mixed-Methods Study” --> osf.io/preprints/ps... 📱🥳💜(1/5)
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join us for Midlands Innovation Open Research Week, 6th–9th May The theme for this year’s event is “Just fOR the love of it”, where we aim to spotlight open research beyond compliance— focusing on the principles, values, & innovations that drive researchers to embrace openness as a way of working
Schedule of talks for the Midland's Open Research Week.

Tuesday 6th May
11:00am - Improving student research training through a consortium model (Dr Charlotte Pennington, Aston University)

1:00pm - Open Peer Review: perspectives from editor, author and reviewer (Dr Lara Skelly, Loughborough University)

Wednesday 7th May
11:00am - What if I really can’t share my data but want to be open? Synthetic data (Dr Krzysztof Cipora, Loughborough University)

1:00pm - The intersection of neurodiversity and open scholarship (Dr Mahmoud Elsherif, University of Leicester)

Thursday 8th May
11:00am - Computer Vision for Old Books: Open Research in the Digital Humanities (Dr Hazel Wilkinson, University of Birmingham)

1:00pm - Get Feedback, Work Smarter: The Hidden Perks of Preregistration (Dr Roni Tibon, University of Nottingham)

3:00pm - Building a Thriving Research Culture: The Importance of 'Openness' in its broadest sense! (Dr Marie Sams, Vicky Strudwick, & Dr Jake Spicer, University of Warwick NCRC)

Friday 9th May
11:00am - Measuring Ourselves: A Self-Assessment Tool for Open Research Practices (Dr Masi Noor, Keele University)

1:00pm - What can open research learn from the open source movement in computing? (Professor Stephen Eglen, University of Cambridge)
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Loughborough Open Research Team @lboroor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Midlands Innovation #OpenResearch Week 2025! Here's the lineup for Tuesday. Signups are open: midlandsinnovation.org.uk/latest/event... @lborouniversity.bsky.social @krzysztofcipora.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @drcpennington.bsky.social
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Academy of Medical Sciences @acmedsci.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Congratulations to #Springboard25 awardee @drcpennington.bsky.social 🎉 Her research explores how brain development affects teen drinking, aiming to reduce alcohol harms among young people 🧠 👉 bit.ly/44irB7l #TeenHealth #PublicHealth #Psychology @wellcometrust.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
📢 🧠 📚 POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE I am hiring a PDRA to work on a project investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning adolescent alcohol consumption, funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. Apply by 11/04/25: lnkd.in/eVwEeAZX Contract: 24 months Location: Birmingham, UK
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Some really good advice here from the Open Science Framework (@cos.io) on organizing files. I particularly like the recommendation to make raw data 'readme' so it can't be accidentally altered or mixed. help.osf.io/article/147-...
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Organizing files (OSF Projects)
This article is licensed under CC0 for maximum reuse.  Organizing your files using names and locations that are informative help to document what your files a
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Celebrating Magda Skubera's first, first-author paper 👏 🥳 and a super collaboration with @forrt.bsky.social Published in Royal Society Open Science, our systematic review of international Open Research initiatives in Psychology! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #OpenResearch #OpenScience
Front page of our systematic review, "International initiatives to enhance awareness and uptake of open research in psychology: a systematic mapping review" showing the title page and abstract. Authors are Magda Skubera, Max Korbmacher, Thomas Rhys Evans, Flavio Azevedo, and Charlotte Pennington.
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
📢 🧠 📚 POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE I am hiring a PDRA to work on a project investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning adolescent alcohol consumption, funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. Apply by 11/04/25: lnkd.in/eVwEeAZX Contract: 24 months Location: Birmingham, UK
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Join us for Midlands Innovation Open Research Week, 6th–9th May 2025 – a celebration of openness in research! This year’s theme, "Open Research: Just fOR the love of it!", highlights the intrinsic value of open research practices & the passion that drives them. Stay tuned for registration details!
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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Undergraduate Psychology Students’ Perceptions of #OpenResearch: The Relationship Between Statistics Understanding, Attitudes, and Questionable Research Practices, from @kaitclark.bsky.social @leede-wit.bsky.social @flavioazevedo.bsky.social @drcpennington.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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Undergraduate Psychology Students’ Perceptions of Open Research: The Relationship Between Statistics Understanding, Attitudes, and Questionable Research Practices
Following growing awareness of replication concerns in research and the rise of Open Research (OR), psychologists have begun investigating what contributes to Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) am...
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Andrea Kis @andreakis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thank you @lakens.bsky.social for the shout-out as well as the years of working together. It's been a fun ride - excited to see what comes next! #PhDone PS: The digital version of the dissertation is now officially available via my website - www.andreakis.com
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Nullius In Verba @nulliusinverba.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New episode, the first of two, on scientific fraud: nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-52...
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Episode 52: Fraus - I | Nullius in Verba
Babbage, C. (1830). Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes. B. Fellowes. Sokal, A. D. (1996). Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of...
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Call for papers for a Special Issue on Metascience and Psychology Pedagogy in Teaching of Psychology with @richharrisleeds.bsky.social! 2-page abstracts due to me by 1st April please! Always happy to chat through ideas journals.sagepub.com/page/top/cal...
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Just to reiterate our huge congratulations to @utafrith.bsky.social @cdfrith.bsky.social @drcpennington.bsky.social @peteetchells.bsky.social @montylyman.bsky.social on their @bpsofficial.bsky.social Book Awards! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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James Morris @jamesmorris24.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Does 'teaching' adolescents to drink work? Supervised teenage drinking associated with MORE not less heavy drinking, but monitoring/rules associated with less. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Longitudinal associations between adult-supervised drinking during adolescence and alcohol misuse from ages 25–31 years: A comparison of Australia and the United States
Prior studies suggest that adult supervised drinking in adolescence predicts greater adolescent alcohol misuse. Long-term follow up data examining how…
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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
New preprint! 🚨 "Using Open Data to Create Applied Statistics Assessments on Reproducibility and Replicability" Currently submitted to Teaching Statistics for a special issue on the back of the UK Conference on Teaching Statistics. osf.io/preprints/os...
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Our latest Reg Report, led by the amazing Alex MacLellan with Natalia Lawrence, Kate Button, @samwestwood.bsky.social, Andy Jones, & our superb students! The effects of isolated game elements on adherence rates in food response inhibition training 🎮🍕 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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The effects of isolated game elements on adherence rates in food response inhibition training | Royal Society Open Science
Food response inhibition training (food-RIT) is found to aid weight loss and reduce snacking of foods high in sugar, salt and fat. However, these interventions suffer from a lack of adherence, with ga...
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 07/01/2025
2025 is the 10 Year Anniversary of SIPS. There is much to celebrate! Much has been achieved although much remains to be done. We would love to hear from everyone about what SIPS has meant to you professionally or personally. And where should we go from here? Please add your thoughts below.
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
& we see this evidence of poor/non-reliability in the widely used Addiction Dot Probe Task, too. And people continue to use it despite our recommendations not to: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Raising the bar: improving methodological rigour in cognitive alcohol research
Background and Aims A range of experimental paradigms claim to measure the cognitive processes underpinning alcohol use, suggesting that heightened attentional bias, greater approach tendencies and ...
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Over the moon 🌙 that "A Student's Guide to Open Science" has won the British Psychology Award 2024 in the Textbook category! Thank you to everyone who's read the book, written reviews, & supported 🥰😁 What a way to end 2024! 👏🎉 #OpenScience
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Ending the last working week of 2024 reviewing Abstracts for mine and @maddipow.bsky.social's co-edited book, "Teaching Open Science". The Abstracts received are absolutely fantastic!! I'm sooo excited for this super useful resource to be available to educators. All chapters will be preprinted! 😁
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Excellent, truthful, blog post by @minzlicht reflecting on his reflections of studying stereotype threat, and leaving it behind. www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/revisiting...
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Revisiting Stereotype Threat
A Reckoning for Social Psychology
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Eagerly waiting for the #SIPS2025 Early Reformers Discussion to start! 🤩
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simine vazire @simine.com · 17/12/2024
Tomorrow I’ll be part of a panel discussing psychology’s reform movement, looking back over the last 10+ years! You can register to attend here: improvingpsych.org/sips-2025-pr... Wednesday 18 Dec at: 11:30am Pacific US time 2:30pm Eastern US 8:30pm Europe 6:30am Thur in Sydney/Melb Please share!
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Dr Ashleigh Johnstone @ajohnstone.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I’d agree with this recommendation! I’ve set it as a key text for our first year undergrads on RM. I also reviewed it here: explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpsp...
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A Student’s Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology
BPS Explore is our easy-to-access central location for you to read and download a wide range of psychological content from practitioners, researchers and working groups.
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Open University Press have kindly allowed me to share this chapter as a preprint: it outlines a recent history of the replication crisis & intertwined explanations. 🌎📖 osf.io/preprints/ps... ✨🚨 Interested in the full book? Code OPENUP20 gives 20% off the RRP: www.mheducation.co.uk/a-student-s-...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨 After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!! In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything... doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Of interest to those interested in the 'effects' of social media on youth mental health: a Channel 4 titled “Swiped: The school that banned smartphones” (Wed 11th Dec, 8pm UK). They are labelling it an "experiment", so I'm interested to see how experimental it is! www.channel4.com/programmes/s...
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Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones
Emma and Matt Willis challenge Year 8 pupils to give up their smartphones for three weeks
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