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Lenka Fiala

@fialalenka.bsky.social
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Research scientist at the Institute for Replication (University of Ottawa). Amateur circus artist, DnD enthusiast. www.lenkafiala.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026
RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory
MTurk is closing
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@i4replication.bsky.social Aaaaa😅
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teaching evaluations of my Methods course are out! My favorite quotes: 1. What could be improved about this course? "Make it longer :)" 2. "The lectures were very engaging and *surprisingly* fun" 😁🎉
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russians hit the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv with a drone. People are climbing out of windows to escape being burned alive. And the world is watching. Europe is lifting sanctions on russian oligarchs. Trump is asking Ukraine to slow down strikes1/2
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our comment on “Raising Health Awareness in Rural Communities” is finally published in REStat (MIT Press). But the retraction we had been told was coming never happened. Can lawyers derail a retraction? This case raises that uncomfortable question. 🧵
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some of us are having fun today in Germany at the Freiburg Replication Games! Meanwhile, others are in Montreal for a workshop on AI and research integrity that we’re co-organizing. A busy and entertaining weekend for I4R!
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It only took us 5 years, but I4R finally has a newsletter. 🎉 We’ll use it to share new studies, Replication Games, research, events, podcasts, and other updates from the Institute for Replication. Subscribe here: www.i4replication.org/newsletter
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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139
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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138
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[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
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Social Science Prediction Platform (SSPP) @socscipredict.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📣 Does involving journal editors in replication material requests impact the availability of such materials? @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social and coauthors invite your predictions! 🕐Time: 15 min 🗓️ Closes: Sept 15 📚 Field: Economics socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/30...
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The Impact of Journal Involvement on Availability of Replication Materials
I subject the models defending 135 null claims in 81 articles recently published in top economics journals to equivalence testing, which assesses whether an estimate is significantly bounded within a ...
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Institute for Replication and University of Freiburg are jointly organizing the Replication Games on Saturday, September 19th. The Games will focus on replicating papers on the causes of political violence.
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @sleeffers @UCLIRDR who works on topics related to risks, disaster + social protection
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 04/08/2026
Congratulations to the project “Love Replications Week,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! During the Love Replications Week, the researchers gathered to learn about best practices, to get in touch with experts, and to join an open community of researchers who want to support replications.
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Irish Economic Association @irisheconassoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🚨UPCOMING EVENT - REGISTER NOW🚨 We’re delighted to promote a new upcoming event. @i4replication.bsky.social and UCD School of Economics are jointly organising the Replication Games alongside the EEA-ESEM Congress! 📆 Sunday, 16 August 📍 Dublin 👉🏻 More / Register www.iea.ie/2026/07/10/n...
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NEWS: Replication Games – EEA-ESEM Congress (Sunday, 16 August 2026) – Irish Economic Association
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 23/07/2026
Congratulations to the project “Replication Games,” which received🏆2026 SIPS Mission Award! Replication Games builds community and skills for researchers in one-day hackathons to assess the reproducibility and robustness of published research. 🔗https://buff.ly/nXfbAO8
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Institute for Replication (I4R)
The Institute for Replication improves the credibility of science by systematically reproducing and replicating empirical research.
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 21/07/2026
🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd
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SIPS 2026 Awards Announced!
We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the fi…
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 29/06/2026
Register for the Replication Hub showcase here 👇
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Register for: FORRT Replication Hub Showcase
Join the showcase on 1 July 2026 from 3 - 5 pm CEST online. Please enter your email below. We will subsequently send you a calendar invite and the Zoom link.
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Jack Fitzgerald @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
An update on our log-like specifications paper! We’ve updated our recommendations and added new commands in Stata and R for one of our recommended alternatives. 1/ osf.io/preprints/me...
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ZBW – Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Register now for our upcoming Coffee Lecture on #OpenScience Education: “Replication Games: Advancing Reproducibility with Open and Restricted Access Data” with @fialalenka.bsky.social, Insitute for Replication (University of Ottawa) on 8 September, 14:00-15:00 CEST: zbw.to/JVvZz
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The Utrecht Replication Games are a hit! Many thanks to the local organizer Sarah Rezaei Khavas :) #openscience #replication #replicationgames
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Incentives to reproduce and replicate articles are so bad. Even when your comment leads to the retraction of a PLOS One article, the reward is a (10 days late) email with a thank you at the bottom. Retraction notice: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... But we are not complaining about PLOS One 🧵
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#GDRI_rep Update 10 The orphan article has finally been retracted! Took more than a year, but at last. Read about our investigation (bsky.app/profile/i4re...) and updates ( #GDRI_rep). A good summary: a-ortmann.medium.com/the-asad-isl... and a-ortmann.medium.com/tallying-the...
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I get all the justifications here, but the reason I don't use AI is that I just don't want to. I like writing emails and digging around for new papers online. Let me have my fun.
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Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We just launched #GuesstheReplication (GutheR). It is a challenging game where you predict replicability based on the abstract and title of an original study. Play it now and beat my high score at lukasroeseler.github.io/GuessTheRepl... or use our free slides for teaching zenodo.org/records/1985...
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Nicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
OSF-induced frustration is one of the most replicable and robust effects to come out of the social sciences over the past decade
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨 New AI Games round is live 🚨 Our first AI Games paper is now out at a top general interest journal (see preprint here: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... So… we’re launching the next stage 👇
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 07/04/2026
What can large-scale studies tell us about reproducibility? In our webinar on April 16, researchers from COS, I4R, and META-REP will discuss findings from three papers—one from the recently published SCORE effort—and insights on reproducibility, transparency, and credibility cos-io.zoom.us/webin...
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April 16 // 1 pm ET
NEW EVIDENCE ON REPRODUCIBILITY ACROSS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH
Moderator: Tim Errington
Speakers: Katrin Auspurg, Abel Brodeur, and Andrew Tyner
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Nature @nature.com · 02/04/2026
A package of papers looking at the social and behavioural sciences shows the value of researchers collaborating to further the cause of reproducible, replicable and robust findings go.nature.com/4cjtN1X
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More self-reflection in research can lead to better science
A package of papers looking at the social and behavioural sciences shows the value of researchers collaborating to further the cause of reproducible, replicable and robust findings.
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Nature @nature.com · 01/04/2026
A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W
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Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project
Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for solutions.
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 23/03/2026
"If authors cannot stand by their own descriptions of their methods or data, retraction should be automatic," says @eugenie-reich.bsky.social.
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Guest post: A call to end the ‘impact on conclusions’ test for retraction
The Ship of Theseus paradox asks, if you replace all the wood in a ship, is it still the same ship? Likewise, is it possible to change all the facts inside an article without altering its conclusio…
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I agree, we need a replication of this week of #LoveReplications. Just to confirm its awesomeness.😉 Thank you @aufdroeseler.bsky.social for organizing! #openscience
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Jack Fitzgerald @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New preprint! We reanalyze 46 papers that use log-like specifications (ln(Z+1), inverse hyperbolic sine etc). We find widespread non-robustness, and we show through theory + simulation how these models drive spurious significance. 1/ doi.org/10.31222/osf...
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Join us in beautiful Utrecht! Sign up today💪 #reproducibility #openscience
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We have a new blogpost on What will the paper of the future look like? What if research papers stopped being static PDFs and became closer to software?
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Join us for the Love Replications Week! #openscience #econsky #replications #reproducibility
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
YEM is one of my favorite conferences. Recommended! :) #econsky
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Olle Hammar @linneuni @handels_sse who works on topics including migration, inequality + replication .
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Wrapping up my trilogy on how to put together a replication package: The Return of the Code i4replication.org/a-researcher... #econsky #openscience
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A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages: Episode 3
Episode 3: The Return of the Code Hooray, your paper has been accepted! As you are putting together the replication package for the journal, you ask your research assistant to…
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Reject button is red Your sloppiness makes me blue Yours sicerely Reviewer #2 #academicvalentine
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Angelica Maineri @angelicamaineri.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Almost at the end of a very intense 3-day CBS Replication Games! Co-organised by @odissei.bsky.social and @i4replication.bsky.social, 19 researchers (6 teams) came together to replicate 6 papers using Dutch admin data from top economics journal @fialalenka.bsky.social @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Hero. www.independent.co.uk/sport/winter...
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Ukrainian disqualified from Winter Olympics over war tribute helmet
Vladyslav Heraskevych defied pleas from the International Olympic Committee after it warned him a helmet featuring images of compatriots killed during the war with Russia would not be allowed
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CERDI @cerdi.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
📣 @i4replication.bsky.social and CERDI are organizing a Replication Game on May 29, 2026 in #ClermontFerrand. 🧠💡 Teams of researchers, PhD, and master's students will reproduce the results of an academic article. Register now: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/F6XWX9F
A team of young people talking and working together, sharing and writing down ideas, using laptops.
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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Join us at the Open Research week! Sign up today :) libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465346
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Bitesize Replication Games
Join us for Bitesize Replication Games, a hands-on online workshop where researchers test their skills by attempting to reproduce a key result from a published paper. In a...
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Join us for the LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK from March 2 - 6 with talks on reproductions, replications, how to find them, how to conduct them, how to have them conducted on your study, where to publish them, and much more!
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
On Jan 19th, we held the first Replication Games of 2026 at the University of Zurich! We had 47 participants reproducing papers from economics, political science, and psychology with great success. Many thanks to local organizers Johannes Ullrich and Joanna Rutkowska!
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Easy A’s, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation" drive.google.com/file/d/1CcS_...
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