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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: researchers say one 'zombie' study in Iran, 20 years ago, has skewed the world's medical evidence base for using Prozac to treat depression in children. They stop short of saying don't use Prozac this way, but want clinical guidelines revised. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial

One small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say.

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Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science @bennettoxford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📣Cory Doctorow will deliver the closing keynote at the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium! Open to the public. Already attending? No need to register again. 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro… 📸 Anna Olthoff

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📣 Delighted to share that I have joined WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) as Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Science. Announcements for at least one postdoc-level position will follow soon. Please reach out if you are interested.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 29/09/2026

Hayes has been banging this drum about idionomic analyses for 6+ years, with folk like @jamiecummins.bsky.social pointing out that its reinventing-the-wheel-but-worse for just as long. My experience is that the ACT community is insufficiently interested and aware of existing methods+stats work.

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My lukewarm take is that when people disagree about whether LLMs can do X (be it reasoning, creativity, etc), the substantive disagreement is really about what X means, rather than about LLMs themselves. Aka Wittgenstein was right

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Magnus Johansson @pgmj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our commentary "A Revolution in Search of an Estimand: On the Idionomic Proposal of Hayes et al. (2026)" is now available as a preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... With @rpsychologist.com, @matti.vuorre.com, and Nils Hentati Isacsson.

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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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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 25/09/2026

Happy Friday! Iʼve created a game for you to play! Will AI cure all diseases in 10 years? Inspired by bottlenecks discourse, I created a game to help build your intuitions. Play it here: game.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog Naturally, it’s bottle-themed with bubbles and there are leaderboards too.

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I sincerely hope this paper will be seen as a turning point in how the medical sciences think and approach the issue of trustworthiness assessment (and I hope the social sciences follow suit!). Congrats to @jdwilko.bsky.social and colleagues (incl. @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and @lhdjung.bsky.social)!

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The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 24/09/2026

INSPECT-SR – a tool for assessing the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials – has been published today in @bmj.com, giving researchers a structured way to identify problematic studies before they're included in systematic reviews. 🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... #ResearchIntegrity

“Systematic reviews are only as credible as the studies they include.” — phrased as a Cochrane senior research integrity editor; a magnifying glass rests on stacked papers in the background to emphasize careful scrutiny of research.

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Randy Ellis @randalljellis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here’s my conversation with Chris Chambers on Metascience Matters. Chris was the first journal editor to offer registered reports, starting in 2013 at Cortex. youtu.be/PgZjgZlxsYw?...

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Registered reports | Chris Chambers

YouTube video by Metascience Matters

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We just published a new paper (led by Love von Schreeb) demonstrating how large language models can be used to link published results to trial registrations with very high accuracy! Now out in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - check it out: www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

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TrialScout links published results to trial registrations using a large language model

Multiple stakeholders need to locate results of registered clinical trials but frequently struggle to find them. Summary results of clinical trials are often not published in trial registries, and pub...

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Eileen Clancy @eileenclancy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RegCheck leverages LLMs and AI to automatically compare preregistration plans with scientific publications. This lets researchers effortlessly identify if and how executed studies deviated from the initial plan regcheck.app

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RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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Rafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve got a @semble.so Collection of #AI tools I’ve come across specifically for academic research. Most of these Ive tried and found them user-friendly-ish. If you use something not on the list, please share it :) semble.so/profile/rafm...

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AI Tools for Academic Research (by Rafael M Batista) — Semble

View Rafael M Batista's collection on Semble

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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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Luna Fazio @lunafazio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Had a Zoom meeting earlier today where a lot of great exchanges were happening in the chat, so we wanted to save the log for later. Zoom exports a plain text file, so I made a tool to convert that into something that's more convenient to interact with. Sharing in case anyone else finds it useful!

Example of what a zoom chat log looks like (fictional conversation)

The chat log after being converted into an interactable html

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 11/09/2026

An interesting thing is happening to me at the moment. I have a standing bug bounty policy for my first authored scientific work. That means, I've committed to pay people who report bugs in my code, up to 750€ for severe errors. Since GPT-6 Astra came out, I'm now getting several bug reports daily.

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Machine learning and generative LLMs are subject to many of the same drawbacks and issues as general empirical research in the typical publishing system. In this piece now published at NHB we argue that, like for empirical research, ML and LLMs can benefit from the use of Registered Reports.

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Kristin Jankowsky @krijanko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Out now, with @jamiecummins.bsky.social & @uschroeders.bsky.social: why ML research benefits from Registered Reports, and where the format reaches its limits. Table 1 goes through 7 scenarios, from confirmatory prediction to climbing a benchmark leaderboard. Free view-only link: rdcu.be/MCamygrKHKxa

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1/ What is the prevalence of personally identifiable information (PII) in author-collected data publicly shared in the social sciences? We audited 327 replication packages from 11 leading journals in economics, political science, and psychology Answer: surprisingly high 🧵

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Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After Science News, our recent ICML paper also got featured in @science.org! Article: www.science.org/content/arti... Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2605.03202 @dirkhovy.bsky.social @sanmikoyejo.bsky.social #science #PeerReview #research

Screenshot of an article in Science Magazine on the opportunities and risks of AI used for peer review featuring an ICML conference paper by Joachim Baumann et al., 2026.

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here’s a video showing how it looks for the user! With example survey questions at open and close

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Early in this study I knew I’d want to run many more observational and intervention studies using this method. And I wanted to make it easier for myself and other researchers to do it So @ianhussey.mmmdata.io & I spent time developing an iOS app that can collect these data and deliver interventions

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 New preprint: In this paper we make the case for measuring social media use at the level of naturally occurring sessions (i.e., beginning when the app/site is opened and ending when it is closed). Across 7 days and 161 participants this gave us nearly 4,000 paired sessions of use 🧵

Depicts the data collection process. 1) participant opens TikTok, 2) open survey is prompted, 3) participant uses TikTok as normal, 4) participant closes TikTok, 5) close survey is prompted

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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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JsonGeller @jgeller1phd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Are preregs just a way for people to virtual signal now? Comparing pregregs to published papers is very sobering. Also shout out to @debruine.bsky.social and @lakens.bsky.social for metacheck and regcheck @ianhussey.mmmdata.io for making this easy!

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This distinction is critical for when we talk and think about “evaluating AI” for research tasks. When thinking about institutional use of AI in science, we should be thinking about designed (open-source) genAI tools, not retail genAI.

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simine vazire @simine.com · 28/08/2026

Psych Science (the journal) is broader than you might think! Do you do descriptive research? Or research w/ underrepresented populations or cultural frameworks? Or research on AI/LLMs for psych? Or research testing lab findings in the real world? We have a special issue for that!

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Randy Ellis @randalljellis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m a big fan of RegCheck by @jamiecummins.bsky.social. I found some deviations in a paper the other day using it regcheck.app/result/8825b... I hope journals start integrating it. I also recall our thread about registered reports having better defense against this

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RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Four (4!) special issues at Psychological Science - including one I am co-editing on the use of LLMs in psychological science. Come submit your work!

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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

3. From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 4. Centering Underrepresented Populations and Cultural Frameworks in Psychological Science: African and Global Perspectives www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Send your best work to Psychological Science! Four special issue calls: 1. Descriptive Research in Psychological Science www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 2. Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language Models www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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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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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Mathematics in the age of AI by Terence Tao An essay on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of AI tools that are capable of performing research-level mathematical tasks. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753

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Mathematics in the age of AI

An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that...

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"if there was a cure to cancer they wouldnt sell it to you, to sell you chemo instead" (actual market): holy fuck these guys mightve cured melanoma BUY BUY BUY

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 17/08/2026

Congratulations to the project “RegCheck,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! RegCheck is a tool that makes it easier and quicker for researchers to compare published papers with their associated study registrations. regcheck.app

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RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 17/08/2026

It's finally here! I gave a TED talk in April in Vancouver, and it was released online today. You can watch it here: ted.com/talks/saloni... I've also adapted it into an article, which was published last week: worksinprogress.co/issue/future...

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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you've got interesting research, experiences, or thoughts on open code in science (or elsewhere!) please consider putting in an abstract to this year's @bennettoxford.bsky.social Symposium! Info here: www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/08...

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Got something exciting to share? Submissions are open for the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Call for submissions for the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Metacheck Shiny app to download all private OSF Repositories is done. The manual is updated, and everything is in the dev branch on GitHub. As a bonus, we explain how you can run repo_check, data_check, code_check, and codebook_check on your repository with 1 line of code. Launch next week.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My favorite Metascience conference will land in Copenhagen next year. The 9th (!) edition of the Perspectives on Science Error conference will be from January 27 to 29. Block your calendar, and see you there! errorsin.science

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Perspectives on Scientific Error 2027 · PSE9

Johanna Einsiedler, University of Copenhagen & University of Basel, johanna.einsiedler@sodas.ku.dk

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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We have a new pre-print, which I am very excited about! We report an exploratory mixed methods study to see how students would find wrangling realistic data as part of the analysis process. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 11/08/2026

The Center for Open Science recently announced its decision to phase out OSF Projects. We want to share how those changes will affect PsyArXiv, a psychology preprint server run and maintained by SIPS volunteers but hosted on the OSF platform. improvingpsych.org/2026/08/11/w...

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What Researchers Need to Know about PsyArXiv Given Upcoming Changes to OSF Projects

In just a few short days (August 15th, 2026), PsyArXiv – the community preprint server for psychology – turns 10! 🥳 Over the past decade, our community has published over 58,000 preprin…

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 11/08/2026

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.

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Every disease is a policy failure

Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.

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