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Harry D. Coulson

@harrydcoulson.bsky.social
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PhD student @UCL researching judgement and decision-making & pro-environmental behaviour change. Current focus: social norms & rank-based nudging. Based in Basel 🇨🇭

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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just opened: UBEL PhD studentships (eg at UCL): ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-student... Reach out if you are interested in working with me on computational modelling in decision-making, memory, etc. or quantitative psych. 1st deadline: 30 October Unfortunately, only few places for international students.
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ESRC Studentships Main Competition - UBEL DTP
ESRC Studentships Main Competition The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend. What’s on offer UBEL DTP studentships co...
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎯 What should we expect from behavior change interventions? Growing evidence suggests that most behavior change interventions have small effects on behavior. I regularly hear fellow behavioral scientists understandably feeling discouraged by this. But should we be discouraged? Not necessarily.🧵
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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If we have to call them Type 1 / 2 instead of false positive and false negative, use this mnemonic: the boy who cried wolf caused both Type I & Il errors, in that order.
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon🚀 create open source tools that make replication studies impossible to ignore. 📅11th-13th November 2026 Münster, Germany ✈️ Travel & accommodation covered Looking for coders, data wranglers, UX folks & open science enthusiasts Apply: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco3
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Kevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io · 17/09/2026
New commentary! Are scientists and laypeople alike under persistent illusions of understanding? Shiffrin, Stigler, & Keil (2026) seem to think so. I argue this isn't the case w/ @sharonchungsl.bsky.social, Adam Harris, @davidlagnado.bsky.social & @singmann.bsky.social: rdcu.be/3swzbgH3ePva
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh boy. I owe academia about 45 reviews. I am sorry. Please invite me as a reviewer! Apart from writing a review during #PeerReviewWeek I cleaned up my own tracker and you can read most of my reviews since 2024 online on a page on my Uni's gitlab: lroesele.zivgitlabpages.uni-muenster.de/reviews/
Plot of reveiws by journal (stacked bar chart)
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Peer review is a gift researchers give to the field, worth >$1B globally in 2020. Imagine if more of that generosity flowed straight back into the scholar-led journals that make research free to read and free to publish. Help build that future, become a diamond reviewer forrt.org/diamond-reviewer
A hexagonal badge with a diamond and the words "diamond reviewer" below it.
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Zahra Rahmani @zah-rahmani.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
[As promised some details on our new preprint] What happens when people freely choose information about climate policies? For 4 climate food policies, participants from 15 countries from the Global South and North sampled arguments: either for or against the policy, or unrelated trivia.
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/
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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our task-switching paper is now out at Current Biology! www.cell.com/current-biol... We find that that our brains reset to a task-neutral state between trials, providing flexibility when the upcoming task is uncertain. RNNs also learn this strategy, but only when trained to switch tasks.
schematic of how a brain might reset to a neutral state between trials
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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Looking for a fun & useful science sidequest? Consider contributing to FLoRA. We did some coworking sessions in our lab this week, using their fun gamified app Learn more: forrt.org/replication-... Bonus: Reading interesting articles (I annotated one on the link b/w sleep & cruise tour enjoyment)
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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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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For #OpenScience events, my go-to is @openresearchcalendar.org!
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I’ve just published a #PreprintReview of “Anchoring-Based Causal Design (ABCD): Estimating the Effects of Beliefs” on @prereview.bsky.social prereview.org/reviews/2128...
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PREreview of Anchoring-Based Causal Design (ABCD): Estimating the Effects of Beliefs
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I really like @randalljellis.bsky.social's conversations for being about things that you would not read in a paper and I was honored to be one of his guests. We talked about replications, publishing, research assesment, @r2journal.bsky.social, @forrt.bsky.social, power posing, and many more things.
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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our "insights" page updates automatically after every single match and offers more metrics and visualisations of the ongoing 🧠🤖 battle 👇 forecast2026.com/insights Plenty of football left to play, more forecasts to be made and many more insights to be uncovered! #FIFAWorldCup2026 #forecast2026
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Forecast 2026 — Humans vs AI
After 48 matches, it's a genuine contest: the AI edges ahead on average, but the single sharpest forecaster of the whole field is a human.
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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The #FIFAWorldCup2026 is in full swing, and so is our forecast2026.com study, where we pit human forecasters against mainstream LLMs! ⚽🧠🤖 After 2 rounds and 48 matches, who is leading the race?
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Forecast 2026
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Check for replications of a specific article or your entire Zotero library - it only takes a few seconds with our Zotero Replication Checker. Download it for free at forrt.org/flora-zotero/ @zotero.org @forrt.bsky.social
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Sander Hermsen @sanderhermsen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Love how all the posters are openly available online padlet.com/bcconf2026/p.... Abstracts will be available through zenodo later #BCConf2026
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Behaviour Change Conference 2026
Made with Padlet
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 10/06/2026
Interested in the Editor-in-Chief role of a journal that: ✅️ is a mission-driven Open Access journal ✅️ run by a scientific society, and ✅️ represents the broad field of psychology? Then we encourage you to apply for the EiC role in Collabra: Psychology! 📅 June 30th, 2026 buff.ly/PRQn7Ei #PsychSciSky
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Collabra: Psychology seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief
Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, is a mission-driven Open Access (OA) journal from the University of California Press that sha…
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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
⚽ Can humans beat AI at forecasting the World Cup? @rezlescu.bsky.social and I are launching Forecast 2026, a live research study comparing real-life, real-time human predictions about World Cup matches with those of AI models. Join our study at: forecast2026.com
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Forecast 2026
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Lara Kirfel @larakirfel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Representing possible alternatives lies at the heart of moral judgment. As LLMs become embedded in our reasoning processes, they change the set of alternatives we bring to mind. 💭 Our #CogSci2026 paper shows that AI might be making us judge people harsher. ⚖️ osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Maarten Speekenbrink @maartenspeek.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Out now in Cognitive Psychology, paper spearheaded by @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social showing that questions like "Does a torch cost more or less than a laptop?" can generate mutual anchoring effects: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Anchoring the anchor: judgments of both items assimilate in item-based anchoring
Anchoring is a prominent judgment bias which causes people’s estimates of uncertain quantities to assimilate towards recently encountered values. Here…
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 05/03/2026
Wish there was a better academic publishing system? Bluesky and its underlying ATProto technology, along with services like @chive.pub and the broader @atproto.science ecosystem, could do the job. #AcademicSky 🧪 leaflet.pub/2f431faf-c12...
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Each academic paper should have its own Bluesky account
By @edhagen.net
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Welcome to #LoveReplicationsWeek Day 4 - with 4 events! - Getting your replication report ready by @r2journal.bsky.social - Large scale replications vs. Meta-analyses by @chbergma.bsky.social - CREP by @jorowags.bsky.social - Writing Reproducible Manuscripts by @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social
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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...
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Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Now out in Behavior Research Methods! With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder, we developed the 12-item Decision Process Scale, which measures how much people rely on rules vs. cost-benefit reasoning and intuition vs. deliberation in individual dilemmas. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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The Decision Process Scale (DPS): Self-report measures of reliance on rules, cost–benefit reasoning, intuition, and deliberation in (moral) decision-making - Behavior Research Methods
Understanding how people make decisions in specific situations is a central challenge in (moral) psychology research. Yet there are no existing self-report scales for measuring the process of decision...
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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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BAMB! @bamb-school.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open! Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty: @meganakpeters.bsky.social @marcelomattar.bsky.social @khamascience.bsky.social @thecharleywu.bsky.social Apply now here: www.bambschool.org
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BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Dear colleagues - we want to better understand perceptions of data fraud and its detection and need your support! Are you currently a #researcher in #psych (or related fields) working with #data? Perfect - please respond to & share this short study (7min): sosci.rlp.net/detection/?r... Thank you!! 🫶
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Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Nice bluesky tool!
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London Judgement and Decision Making seminar series @ljdm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Next Wednesday (Feb 11th) Dr @thecomplexbrain.bsky.social will join to guide us on how to uncover cognitive processes from open-text box data (full details: surl.li/mqtofs). All welcome (in person)!
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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
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dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 05/02/2026
Early draft of my ebook for the course: ianhussey.quarto.pub/reproducible...
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Don't you f**king dare.
Screen shot of a youtube video titled "AI.FILL Function Explained: 10X Productivity in Excel with AI" with the caption "Let ChatGPT fill your missing data"
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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Researchers often present participants with stimuli that are assumed to reliably and exclusively evoke one, and only one, emotion category. This study shows that this is rarely the case for some widely used stimuli. doi.org/10.1037/emo0...
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Thomas Pollet @tvpollet.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I built a basic shiny app to check doi's (with help of LLM, Claude Opus). The use case is for when students submit work with fabricated references (I used to randomly check, this will systematically check). Note it comes with no warranties,... . tvpollet.github.io/2026-01-30-D...
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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 30/01/2026
This is how you can split a plot into multiple subplots using #tidyplots 🚀 #rstats #dataviz #phd
library(tidyplots)

gene_expression |> 
  head(n = 180) |> 
  tidyplot(x = group, y = expression, color = group) |> 
  add_mean_bar(alpha = 0.3) |> 
  add_sem_errorbar() |> 
  add_data_points_beeswarm(white_border = TRUE) |> 
  adjust_size(width = 25, height = 25) |> 
  split_plot(by = external_gene_name, ncol = 3, nrow = 3)
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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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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Really nice paper by @neillewisjr.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/01/2026
May be of interest to the reproducibility folks: New tutorial on computational reproducibility for simulation studies just dropped! felipelfv.github.io/Why-risk-it-... by @felipefv.bsky.social, Jason Geller & @brodriguesco.bsky.social
Why Risk it, When You Can {rix} it: A Tutorial for Computational Reproducibility Focused on Simulation Studies
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Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Highly recommend Replication Games! Key takeaways: 1. Great way to learn about other psych methods 2. Improve on stats 3. More enjoyable with others 4. Realised my own code needs improving after being on the other side of a paper (replicating) Thanks @fialalenka.bsky.social @rujoanna.bsky.social
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 25/01/2026
The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app
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RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street execs, top govt officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/a...
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This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally fl...
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Manikya Alister @manikyaalister.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Most popular decision-making models assume that cognitive processes are static over time. In our new paper in Psych Review, we offer a simple extension to evidence accumulation models that lets researchers account for systematic changes in parameters across time 📈 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seek…
To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project:  Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag
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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳ We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r... www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...
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