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Flavio Azevedo

@flavioazevedo.bsky.social
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Asst Prof in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University flavioazevedo.com Director of FORRT @forrt.bsky.social forrt.org Google Scholar scholar.google.com/citations?user=O…

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Flavio Azevedo @flavioazevedo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you, @volts.wtf for reading our paper & sharing it so generously! We argue that calls for “less polarization” miss a crucial question: 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭, 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝? Resistance to authoritarianism is not the same as its advance. Open Access doi.org/10.3389/frsp...
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Where we send our reviews matters. Join over 70 researchers and give one review a year to a diamond open access journal and help keep knowledge free for everyone who wants to read it, and support the community that makes that possible. forrt.org/diamond-reviewer #PeerReviewWeek #DiamondOpenAccess
Webpage section titled 'Signatories' showing that 77 people have joined the initiative, alongside a hexagonal dark-blue Diamond Reviewer badge featuring a light blue diamond.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/08/2026
I am once again begging everyone who supervises student theses to stop making students conduct mediation analyses because “a regression isn’t complicated enough for a thesis” 😭
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My friends, Lee Jussim is not at all a serious psychologist. The quality of research is rather bad and his ongoing association with racists, transphobes, and eugenicists forms a carpark of red flags.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"321 postgraduate programmes within the field of social sciences were closed for the 2026-27 cycle." #UKHE #AcademicSky
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Specialist master’s ‘main victims’ of course-cutting spree
More than 300 social sciences programmes lost in past year, figures show, as critics bemoan decisions made on enrolment numbers alone
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How can AI & LLMs improve how science works? FORRT is delighted to host the AI in Metascience online conference. Please join us! 🗓️ 28–30 Sep 2026 · online · free Talks, workshops & hackathons — all career stages welcome. 👉 Submit by 31 Jul: forrt.org/ai-metascience #Metascience #OpenScience
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FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference | FORRT - Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training
Call for submissions — FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference, 28–30 September 2026, online. Deadline 31 July 2026.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Each ICE operation generates roughly $196,000 in monthly losses for nearby businesses and communities. (That's 11x the government's administrative cost of a deportation.) Why? ICE activity decreases foot traffic in those public areas.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/06/2026
This is a diabolically evil report. That is the only way to put it. Its objective is to reignite the culture wars using the imprimatur of both the university and prominent scholars so as to sow deep epistemic doubt about the humanities and hasten the project of killing us off entirely.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/06/2026
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.
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Sakshi Ghai @sakshighai.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Honoured to share our new paper in @nature.com today. Across 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa and Southeast Asia, 1 in 6 internet-using children had experienced technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. A thread 🧵
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Don't believe FIRE. It always skews its supposed research to favor the white Christian nationalist views. Its purported annual survey of campus speech *omits* conservative religious affiliated institutions. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new... 🧵
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Can a Group Allied With the Right Defend the 1st Amendment for All? - Assigned Media
FIRE, a product of the “academic freedom” campaign, wants to protect free speech for everyone. Yet its stances show deference to religious views and a persistent anti-queer strain.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
FIRE is a right-wing dark money outfit. Let’s be absolutely clear about this. It presents as libertarian, but its real agenda is imposing right-wing ideology on schools.
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Join the Replication Hub Showcase on July 1st 3-5pm CEST: t1p.de/replicationhub Learn about ongoing projects at the @forrt.bsky.social Replication Hub, which is a collection of over 20 projects, tools, and events that all have the mission to support replications.
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Birol Akkuş @akkusb.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026
I can't stress how much I value the viewpoints of this excellent paper. A very strong recommendation. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Browsing slides from >4 years ago. The FReD Explorer has come a long way - all thanks to the work of @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social, @sarahaj95.bsky.social, @helenahartmann.com, and 200 other committed researchers: forrt.org/explorer/
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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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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Great new work by @evangiangrande.bsky.social tracking how race scientists exploit preprint servers to legitimize and spread their work
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The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms - Behavior Genetics
Preprint servers and open science platforms have revolutionized the scientific process. A fundamental feature of these platforms is a lack of peer review—virtually anyone with an internet connection c...
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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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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New paper🎈: Lessons Learned from Big Team Science Projects in Cognitive Science in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... We share practical, experience-based strategies for running large-scale collaborations - from project structure to ethics, funding, & AI use.
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The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned From Cognitive Science
The credibility revolution in psychology and related sciences contributed to the adoption of large-scale research initiatives known as Big Team Science (BTS). BTS has made significant advances in addr...
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
Screenshot of a paper's title page. Title: "The Difference Between 'Replicable' and 'Not replicable' is not Itself Scientifically Replicable". Authors: Berna Devezer and Erkan O. Buzbas, both at the University of Idaho — Devezer in the Department of Business and the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, Buzbas in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science. Authors contributed equally. Corresponding author: bdevezer@uidaho.edu.
Abstract: Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that matter and do not share a single common data-generating process. We formalize two statistical interpretations of this non-exactness. In a shared latent rate model (benchmark), experiments are exchangeable and depend on a common random replicability rate. In a conditionally independent rates model (operational), each experiment has its own replicability rate drawn independently from a population distribution. Under the shared latent rate model, even small variability among replicability rates induces an irreducible variance floor on the estimated mean replicability rate that cannot be eliminated by adding more replications. Under the conditionally independent rates model, the degree of non-exactness is not identifiable from standard replication data, because one binary verdict per experiment contains no information about between-experiment heterogeneity. Researchers therefore cannot tell which precision regime they are operating in or whether high- and low-replicability sequences can be distinguished in principle. As a result, the usual data structure of one binary verdict per experiment cannot support reliable demarcation between "replicable" and "not replicable" results and systematically understates uncertainty, making high- and low-replicability sequences appear discrim…
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A more honest term would be “validated,” and it’s no professor’s job to validate your opinions
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This passage citing the work of Jonathan Haidt in the Yale Report is instructive. For a group pushing "intellectual pluralism," it is notable that it doesn't mention the widespread criticism of the book, such as the reviewer in Nature who bluntly said his argument "is not supported by science."
In the fall of 2025, NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt visited Yale as a Presidential Lecturer and presented the research behind his book The Anxious Generation, which documents the effects of smartphones and social media on adolescent mental health, attention, and social development. Haidt’s visit helped to inspire a conversation among faculty and students about the fundamental shift that has taken place in the relationship between technology and learning.47
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This looks to be a really fascinating special issue 👇
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New work and events... 🔸 Workshop on the politics and finances of open science reform 🔸 Symposium: “Who critiques the critique? Toward a reflexive metascience” 🔸 Preprint encourages establishing phenomena before testing theories 🔸 Systematic review of questionable research practices
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Critical Metascience Roundup
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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
== Effect Size and Confidence Intervals (ESCI) check == Lots improved. Has a revamped website and R package on CRAN. Works like statcheck, also checks effect sizes and calculates confidence intervals. Tricky countless edge cases, but after testing it on 1000s of articles, seems pretty decent.
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In case you missed it 👀 ❗ FORRT has launched the Open Research Games Portal — a collection of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible science ! Explore it here: forrt.org/games/ and feel free to browse and use ✨
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
>5h recordings and slides for most #LoveReplicationsWeek talks are now available on our updated website. Thank you so much everybody who contributed to this wonderful week, participated in the talks, and partnered-up with us. I think there should be a replication of this. forrt.org/LoveReplicat...
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Dr. Sara L Middleton @saralilplants.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
After 4+ years of work the Academic Wheel of Privilege is out! One of the most complex projects I’ve led! Deeply grateful to coauthors Justin, Bethan, Mahmoud, Flavio and 30+ expert reviewers for their care, time and dedication in developing this framework. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me... #AcademicSky 🧪
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Justin Sulik @justinsulik.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It's been a long journey to this point but very rewarding. Check out the app I built to support it---it was fun working out how to make this static image into something dynamic/interactive (though still room for improvement, especially accessibility). academic-privilege-2177e04480f1.herokuapp.com
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Flavio Azevedo @flavioazevedo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This has been many years in the making. We wanted to do it right—not simply get it done. Our goal was to contribute, however modestly, to an academia that genuinely strives for inclusivity. May the AWoP—small as the step may be—help move academia toward greater inclusion. 🤝🫂🌈🍉🏳️‍⚧️✊⚖️♿🦮🌐
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Out now! The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡 We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions. @saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...
The Academic Wheel of Privilege showing the 24 socio-cultural identities. The 24 socio-cultural identity types span six sectors: health and wellbeing, society, culture and communication, gender and sexuality, education and career, living arrangements and lastly childhood and development. These identity types are shown as circles connected to three concentric rings (outer, middle and inner) of “identity” circles with increasing privilege as you go towards the centre.
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
⏳ 2 weeks left to apply to the Making Replications Count Hackathon (Münster, 4–6 May 2026). Join us to build open tools that make replications impossible to ignore. Apply by 16 March: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“Not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable” New preprint by Felipe Vilanova and @flavioazevedo.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Abstract: This piece critiques the dominant assumption in social and political psychology, as well as in political science and other disciplines, that polarization is inherently undesirable and should therefore be reduced under all circumstances. We argue that this premise reflects a neutrality bias (or depoliticizing bias) that obscures the asymmetrical nature of contemporary political conflict. We distinguish democratic polarization—agonistic contestation among actors who accept multicultural pluralism, democratic institutions and election outcomes, civil and human rights, and epistemic accountability—from anti-democratic polarization, in which conflict is strategically mobilized to delegitimize opponents, erode institutional constraints, and normalize dehumanization, scapegoating, misinformation, anti-scientific, and conspiratorial narratives as a route to political power. In a global context marked by the growing...
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It’s the FORRT that counts… How the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training are tackling big problems with a big community. Dr @flavioazevedo.bsky.social, Dr @maddipow.bsky.social, and the @forrt.bsky.social Community. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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It’s the FORRT that counts | BPS
How the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) are tackling big problems with a big community. Dr Flavio Azevedo, Dr Madeleine Pownall, and the FORRT Community.
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"@forrt.bsky.social's work is, and always has been, driven by a core belief in the power of community to solve the complex problems that no single researcher, lab, or institution can fix alone." Our feature is out today in The Psychologist! @flavioazevedo.bsky.social❤️ www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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It’s the FORRT that counts | BPS
How the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) are tackling big problems with a big community. Dr Flavio Azevedo, Dr Madeleine Pownall, and the FORRT Community.
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John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Economic System Justification Predicts Stigmatization of Mental Illness in the United States -- new article in American Psychologist with Jussi Valtonen and @flavioazevedo.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026
Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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Jenny Terry @jennyterry.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Two preprints from my PhD are now up! Both ask: is the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) is measuring something distinct from the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Scale (R-MARS), or is this a jangle fallacy? Study 1: osf.io/preprints/ps... Study 2: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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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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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“We should be careful not to marginalise questions of power, because in wearing that aura of clean objectivity, metascience risks becoming strangely depoliticised.” By @batoolmm.bsky.social
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Metascience for whom? A question as old as science.
Before we fix science, we need to ask who built it!
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Happy Valentine's Day from us at FORRT! ❤️ forrt.org
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Hot Politics Lab @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🎓 This Friday (13.02), we welcome @flavioazevedo.bsky.social as our guest in the #HotPoliticsLab! He will present his work on building academic infrastructures for credibility and inclusivity. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
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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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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
It must be very hard to publish null results
Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
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University of Limerick Department of Psychology @ulpsych.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Join us Monday 9th Feb at 1pm for a presentation on Measuring Ideology: Current Practices, Its Consequences, and Recommendations by Alexandra Zapko-Willmes, University of Siegen & Flávio Azevedo @flavioazevedo.bsky.social, Utrecht University To access the meeting, email maeve.maguire@ul.ie
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
i'll allow myself a contrived rhetoric for this once academics: p-hacking should be criminalized. p-hackers should be jailed. also academics: what if these men weren't pedos themselves but selflessly befriended and took money from one for the benefit of their labs?
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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