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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 25/09/2026

"Systematic reviews are only as credible as the studies they include" INSPECT-SR was published yesterday, giving concrete guidance on how to exclude untrustworthy studies. Cochrane's statement: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Article: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Guidance: inspect-sr.com

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New tool helps researchers spot problematic trials before they distort evidence | Cochrane

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 13/09/2026

"The ethics review body is the author's own company" reminds me of the guy who passed off fake traveller's cheques, not by forging American Express but by inventing his own bank.

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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Happy Sunday morning! This article was finally retracted: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Unfortunately the author continues as is - no accountability. Curious if we will see more sloppy work from her published in Psych journals soon-ish 🧐

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APA PsycNet

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 13/09/2026

This research was uncritically covered by APA News, Time Magazine, etc. No one needed to be an expert in this area of research to notice the glaring issues in the plots and mismatch between the study and conclusions, but only @grinschglsandra.bsky.social did. www.apa.org/news/press/r...

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Letting AI Do Your Work Erodes Your Confidence, According to a New Study

Those who actively question the technology, however, feel more confident.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 13/09/2026

Reviews point out that it reads like AI slop, so I checked. The book contains 58 references to scientific articles and books. At least 6 are completely hallucinated. Several other are articles irrelevant to the claim. This is ironic given the author's public statements regarding AI and its misuse.

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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Although the author does not admit to anything, I'm very glad to see this article retracted!

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The ASAPbio Meta-research Crowd reviewed a preprint on developing a survey to measure awareness and uptake of Open Research practices. buff.ly/eLk3BQy If meta-research-related topics are of interest to you, and you want to contribute to transparent peer review, join this team 👉️ buff.ly/7ozJGQr

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PREreview of Development of the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) to measure awareness and uptake of Open Research practices

Authored by Sandra Grinschgl, Dr. Mwafaq Ramzi Haji, Quratul Ayn Zahara, Grace Valentine Olagunju, Nitya Khetarpal, Saeed Shafiei Sabet, and 0009-0002-5563-453X of ASAPbio Meta-Research Crowd

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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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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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Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

The University of Graz invites applications for a full professorship in Data Analysis, with a focus on Natural Language Processing! For details, see ▶️ job ad jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/f38f... ▶️ fact sheet cloud.uni-graz.at/s/RA92YSf29z...

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Universität Graz

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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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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Research on cognitive offloading × AI is booming and getting lots of public attention. Unfortunately, some (or even many) of it raises serious credibility concerns. Like this paper, which others and I recently commented on via @pubpeer.com: pubpeer.com/publications...

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PubPeer - AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking (2025)

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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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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The good news is that someone else now gets to join this amazing team! If you're keen to help develop RegCheck, I'd strongly encourage you to apply. Working with @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @malte.the100.ci is reason enough 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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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This bonkers claim is sufficient on its own to conclude that the work is not real.

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 21/06/2026

Our lab loved this paper when it came out as it combined two of our interests, technology effects and schmeasurement. Plus: Registered report, open data. We read it for our journal club and found issues in the Slovak sample that we now posted to PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications...

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PubPeer - Confusion in gaming disorder measurement

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Confusion in gaming disorder measurement (2026)

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 20/06/2026

🧵 New PubPeer comment. @cskay.bsky.social & Vlasceanu (2026) propose ECLAIR, an item battery to catch AI-driven bots. We read the preprint in our journal club & found it very interesting, but our read raised several concerns that we posted to PubPeer. pubpeer.com/publications...

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PubPeer - A scale for detecting LLM-generated responses in online surv...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: A scale for detecting LLM-generated responses in online survey research (2026)

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 16/06/2026

A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the study design, data analysis and ethics approval for the research.

retractionwatch.com

Journal investigating paper on cognitive impact of generative AI

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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thank you @retractionwatch.com for covering this! Very interesting that the study now has IRB approval... Curious on the outcome of the journal's investigation!

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 15/06/2026

The paper "The Bots Ruining Social Science Are Not Bots at All" by Jaffe et al. got a lot of attention when it came out in Perspectives on Psychological Science. We read it in our journal club and have a few comments that we now posted to PubPeer pubpeer.com/publications...

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PubPeer - The Bots Ruining Social Science Are Not Bots at All

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: The Bots Ruining Social Science Are Not Bots at All (2026)

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 03/06/2026

Mediation analysis is surprisingly easy to verify using reported betas, p values, and Ns. Eg the indirect a*b path should be, well, a multiplied by b. Sometimes its not, like in this article claiming SSRI efficacy is mediated by expectations. Whoops. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

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Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth

In this blog post I will analyse the arguments that Dr. Amy Cuddy provided in a blog post “The "Power Posing Was Debunked" Myth: What the Re...

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Congratulations to: @grinschglsandra.bsky.social, Maxime Descartes Mbogning Fonkou, Quratul Ayn Zahara, Dr. Mwafaq Ramzi Haji, Randa Salah Gomaa Mahmoud, Nitya Khetarpal, Gliday Yuka, @sabetssh.bsky.social, and 2 other anonymous authors of ASAPbio Meta-Research Crowd

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Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio

Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Not sure if there is an academic career to ruin here (its the first academic paper of the author)

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This one is wild.

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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We actually didn't discuss this paper in our cakeclub, it was more chance that I came across it and it didn't take long until we (with @ianhussey.mmmdata.io @malte.the100.ci @jamiecummins.bsky.social) discovered different issues.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19/05/2026

There's an interesting conversation unfolding on PubPeer. Inconsistencies were flagged in a paper by a "global keynote speaker on AI&neuroscience" and then the author casually mentions on LinkedIn that she also has pre-post-fMRI for 300 people 👀> pubpeer.com/publications...

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PubPeer - Generative artificial intelligence reliance and executive fu...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Generative artificial intelligence reliance and executive function attenuation: Behavioral evidence of cognitive offload in high-use adults (2026)

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 14/05/2026

Still a few days to apply!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 07/05/2026

This is…an interesting issue, given how absolutely standard it is to simply name the platform you used, or describe whatever you built yourself.

3. Implausible data collection

The description of the data collection procedure raises questions about how behavioral interaction data were obtained. According to the supplementary materials, participants either used their own GenAI accounts or an “embedded interface,” and interaction metrics (e.g., prompts, edits, override behavior) were logged automatically. We are not aware of research platforms of this sophistication and the article (incl. supplementary materials) does not include enough information to understand how such a platform would be administered.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 07/05/2026

@taymalsalti.bsky.social has done trojan work trying to reproduce the results of three meta-analyses, finding the usual host of issues of effect sizes that are apparently incorrect or non-reproducible Our article is out now: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

As someone researching cognitive offloading and human–AI interaction, methodological clarity and reproducibility in this area are especially important to me. Glad we were able to document our concerns on @pubpeer.com

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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Looking forward to welcoming you in Bern :-)

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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Come join the Psychology of Digitalisation lab!

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We would like to thank the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review Leads for their incredible work! Jay Patel, @fallonmody.bsky.social, @grinschglsandra.bsky.social, @debrajmanna27.bsky.social, Emmanuel Odame, and Joseph P. Biggane lead the Crowds that collaboratively and openly review preprints!

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Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio

Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

An amazing project - I was very happy to contribute at least a little bit to it!

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