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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Uhhhh, predatory repo’s, scary thought.

Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hear you, I also think no policy developed for a part of infrastructure, however central, will change the behavior of scientists en masse. But a man can dream!

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/10/2026

It shows you how bad the problem is that limiting people to 24 submissions a year will make a meaningful difference.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Might the slop machines finally create incentives to publish less? Or am I too optimistic?

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Journal of Trial and Error is looking for a new Editor with an interest in meta-research, open science, or academic publishing. More info: www.linkedin.com/posts/were-l...

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are a number of folks who have written extensively on this problem. The fact the critique isn't better known is in part because the critics don't have the money and media power of the AI lobby. Also they're often women, BIPOC, queer, or some combination of all three.

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Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#jobopportunity 2 PostDoc Research Positions "Fluid Curtain. Managing the Danube River During the Cold War" (Univ. of Trento) www.connections.clio-online.net/job/id/job-1...

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#opportunity 5-6 Fellowships "Center for Eastern European Studies" (Univ. Zurich) @uzh-ch.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/sti...

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Has anyone ever drawn a map of ALL the various cognitive systems and constructs that psychology has measures for? I feel like there might be an unreasonable number and that no one’s noticed because they only ever do a couple at a time 🤔

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The best name I read for this tendency to accummulate is Charles Bazerman’s incremental encyclopedism. It’s not constructs per se, but it is a map of late 20th century psychology that I made with @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social: research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/246...

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The converse also applies, but that one is (I think?) a bit more obvious.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It tilted me so much, I was staring at the pic for half a minute. Very cool.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't think they're confused, my impression is that they're disappointed and shocked that we don't believe them.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Science will always appear to be in a crisis if we insist on comparing it to an ideal that has never existed and can never exist. It is delusional to claim that science cannot produce useful knowledge unless it matches a confabulation made up by those who refuse to understand it as a social process.

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Micah @argenben.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

tragedy, we should take epistemology seriously after the worldwide epistemic in 2020

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Cognitive Sciences Rijeka @ricogsci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Finally, on Friday 11 September, @merimahalilbegovic.bsky.social and @terrin007.bsky.social will be presenting their community building project around Open Science - 'Advancing Open Science in India Through a Student-Led Initiative' with @iflis.bsky.social and @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social

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Cognitive Sciences Rijeka @ricogsci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

On Tuesday 10 September, Roberta Bajcic will present her work on inclusivity in research - 'When Openness Isn’t Enough: Case Study on Autism Framing in Croatian Scientific Discourse' pubmet.hr/03-p-1760-wh... with Miguel Núñez de Prado Gordillo and @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social

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S3_PP When Openness Isn’t Enough: Case Study on Autism Framing in Croatian Scientific Discourse – PUBMET 2026

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Cognitive Sciences Rijeka @ricogsci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And we have three student posters :) On Monday 9 September, @petrasaric.bsky.social will be presenting her poster 'Researchers for Diamond Open Access: Theory vs. Practice' pubmet.hr/02-p-3205/ with @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social and @edlegg.bsky.social

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S2_PP Researchers for Diamond Open Access: Theory vs. Practice – PUBMET 2026

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m so happy to see our unique little open science community at @ricogsci.bsky.social represented in the best possible way - by student research and initiatives!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Contemporary narratives often frame Open Science and metascience as novel frontiers of transparency and rigor, obscuring their deep roots in feminist methodologies and critical social science traditions." New work by @maddipow.bsky.social

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Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns over fraud, questionable research practices, and low reproducibility in psychological research that emerged in the 2010s, Open Science has been framed by some dominant advocates as a new approach to research in psychology and across the social sciences. However, women in social science have long practiced and promoted principles now hailed as innovative, although their contributions are often left out of mainstream narratives. This erasure is troubling, especially as feminist scholars have critiqued the increasingly exclusionary culture of mainstream science reform. This article traces the overlooked contributions of five pioneering women: Mary Whiton Calkins and her replication efforts in the 1890s; Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley, who advocated for analytical precision in the 1910s; Alice Bryan’s 1940s adversarial collaboration; Carolyn Wood Sherif’s metascientific work in the 1960s; and Leonore Tiefer’s promotion of conflict-of-interest declarations of sex research in the 2000s. I document how their contributions laid the intellectual foundations of what is now contemporary Open Science in the social sciences. In doing so, I celebrate a lineage of feminist scientific labor that has always emphasized openness, ethics, and equity.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This was a paraphrase from Gail Hornstein’s excellent text on the tortured history of measurement in psychology (Chapter 1) that appears in Jill Morawski’s The Rise of Experimentation in American Psychology archive.org/details/rise...

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The Rise of experimentation in American psychology : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xvii, 220 p. ; 24 cm

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The opposition psychologists have been successfully ignoring for some century and a half now.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Kradem od @ivanrosko.bsky.social, Tuđmanov opis znanstvenih institucija koji je čini se primjenjiv već šezdesetak godina. Što se više stvari mijenjaju, to više ostaju iste.

Quote from administrative minutes in Croatian. Translation.

Franjo Tuđman: You must understand that the funding system is so harrowing, it requires a bewildering bureaucracy, and every scientific worker runs from bureaucracy because it is burdensome. So I ask for less bureaucracy.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Top ten myths scientists have about science: 1. Good science is guided solely by the search for Truth. 2. 1 is logically sound. 3. Publishers can exist simply to disseminate results, not for profits. 4. Talks are meant to convey information, not power.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

10. Science is self-organizing. 11. You only need a good theory to get to the truth. 12. You only need good measurement to get to the truth. 13. Truth is something more than intersubjective consensus. 14. Science operates outside of the social realities of its affordances. 15. Science is neutral.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23/06/2026

I agree with this - amid all the creative ideas people have had for new assessments, we also need an explicit, robust defence of the essay. Writing essays does something to your thinking and improves your neural wiring. You can produce essays (as objects) with AI, but you don't get this benefit.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“Identity and resemblance would then be no more than inevitable illusions - in other words, concepts of reflection which would account for our inveterate habit of thinking difference on the basis of the categories of representation.”

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This should be the real cover, wow, I’m not even joking.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

(is there a difference between a Zizek, Harari or Sunstein really?)

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Goes back to the tired question should we even have public intellectuals. Maybe an extension: should academics themselves put any faith in the opinions of public intellectuals?

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Susstein had bad takes even before he started talking to the slop machines. Plus ça change…

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’d love to, but I can’t seem to send DMs your way.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I don’t watch a lot of anime, but Frieren felt like the center of the strangest Venn diagram that combines DnD, memory, narrative and storytelling that just kept me glued to the screen.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Okay, I'm dying from laughter just now. You made my day!

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So far the best interpretation. You get the added benefit to collapse the two universes into one, which, objectively, it should be done. Himmel is a type of doll, tbh.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

How can you trust your emotional reactions if you can't willfully retrieve the events that colored them in the first place? Can you love somebody you don't remember?

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

She can experience and internalize emotions through her companions (Himmel above all others), but not the other way around. It's not just a discontinuity of memory --> identity, but also identity --> emotional registers.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

What's interesting is that it's a combination of his emotional load into the event and the place (or item) that is somehow there. Which makes me think, (I might be overinterpreting), that it's not only the salience of memory but also the way her surroundings elicit emotions from her.

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It can still be jolted when the memory is made salient by something in the material world that brings it forward. But who is then Frieren? An assemblage that can be jolted into salience depends when and where she is; there is no unitary identity just the ebb reacting to the current events around her

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yup. It's kinda taking seriously the idea that our personal identity is a narratologically ordered set of memories. What happens when the narrative becomes overburdened with too many events?

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Ivan Flis @iflis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I love it. It also takes seriously the common fantasy trope: elves live longer lives than anybody else. What does that longevity do to their motivation and memory?

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Sad news: anyone who has read his work will know how inspiring and thought-provoking it is.

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