iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 06/02/2026

I tried to explain what's happening in that recent paper about the heritability of human lifespan: dynomight.net/lifespan/

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Annika Külpmann @anniria.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

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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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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"A cat in the wall can either indicate a serious health problem (e.g., neurological, pain, vision loss) or indicate boredom, stress, or hunting instinct [...]." - Gemini (2026) In response to me typing "cat in the wall" in google search (to find out more about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_cat)

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Sounds like a psychologist who wants to make sure you learn what they’ve written and that’s their way of using the very sound framework of desirable difficulties (/s).

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

That's beautiful! Also cool that she puts the pedal in that mid-range and allows herself to move by half-steps below it. Creates more movement and less of a mediation-association for me than if she had tried to keep the intervals large down there.

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Beautiful! In this version she creates more tension than on the album, I think partially through overtones (some of non-diatonic notes) that are enhanced by the reverb, I assume (could also be the delay, or both?). So happy she's with Gondwana - they're such a good fit and a gold mine!

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Fingers crossed that the next sequel to the Curve-Debates is gonna make use of Sora.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 07/01/2026

NEW article by me! We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before. We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.

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The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine

The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Scientific funding is a net negative: "European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/12/2025

Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fig. 3. Scatter plots of the synthetic and empirical estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Showing N = 30,135 item-pair correlations, N = 257 scale reliabilities, and N = 1,568 scale-pair correlations for (top) the pretrained SBERT model and (bottom) the fine-tuned SurveyBot3000 model. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

Fig. 4. Prediction error of the synthetic estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Our prediction model allowed the error term to vary freely according to the predictor, the synthetic estimate. The thin-plate splines show that some synthetic estimates were predictably more accurate.

Fig. 5. Accuracy by domain. Accuracy differed across domains. SurveyBot3000 accuracy (colored) was always higher than SBERT accuracy (gray). Results were largely consistent whether accuracy of items was tested (left, circle) within domains or (right, cross) across domains.

Fig. 1. Multistep training procedure for the SurveyBot3000, which produces synthetic estimates of interitem correlations. (a) Pretraining base model (SBERT). (b) Fine-tuning SurveyBot3000. (c) Validation. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10/12/2025

Many psychologists are treating LLMs as if they are the mind of god. This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs. Why would chatGPT know this? Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid? compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"Visible learning" (Hattie) had a strong influence on what & how students have been taught around the world, including me during my master's at @unierfurt.bsky.social. Kalmendal et al. have a preprint out, detailing serious quality concerns in his non-peer-reviewed book: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

So...my undergrad thesis student is doing a quality analysis of studies found in meta-analyses. She identified a few and we contacted the authors to request their effect sizes and other variables for the studies in their papers. Here's what happened: scientiapsychiatrica.com/index.php/Sc...

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The Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis | Scientia Psychiatrica

Introduction: The proliferation of social media has raised significant concerns about its potential effects on the mental health of adolescents. This meta-analysis aims to provide a comprehensive asse...

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Let's hope we never see the strawberry-vanilla-flavored vape of psych science! I'm also rather optimistic, but I think there's a ceiling of thinking about this / acting on it merely as individual choices: The money in the system and its interaction with individuals & institutions.

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Cutting down on em dashes—by far the hardest and least enjoyable part of writing in APA format!

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 28/11/2025

"In 2019 we notified journals about serious integrity concerns in 172 clinical trials. Over five years later, only 22 have been retracted. The 135 unretracted trials have 1989 citations in systematic reviews, clinical guidelines, and consensus statements" [paraphrased] www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

And, of course, there's an app to check out: www.apps.meta-rep.lmu.de/shiny_umbrel...

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Shiny Umbrellas

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Yay! We took the umbrella observed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social et al. (2016), formalized a version of it, and explored what we can learn from it regarding power and heterogeneity analysis. Article now out at BRM: rdcu.be/eRAyW. Many thx to my coauthors @lbnhr.bsky.social and @renkew.bsky.social!

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Under my umbrella: Rating scales obscure statistical power and effect size heterogeneity

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Inhibiting and facilitating conditions of the h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ smile: a n̶o̶n̶obtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis (Strack et al., 1988)

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Plot twist: the heterogeneity was mostly measurement error! Turns out the heroes of the story were just beating up people who had the flu. Will they retract?! ...all this and other delicious moral dilemmas in "Self-Correction vs. Zombie-Infection".

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My new favorite first sentence of a psych paper: "From San Francisco to Santiago, Sydney to Seoul, people want to be cool (Belk et al., 2010; Heath & Potter, 2004; Rahman, 2013)." - Cool People (Pezzuti et al., 2025). Just a bit unsettling how close that sounds to "What's the deal with birds?"

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Sebastian Hellmann @sehellmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

For all who use Bayesian hierarchical models, have a look at our new preprint, out now together with @linushof.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social and @thorstenpachur.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

For Monday crowd. INSPECT-SR, a tool to help you identify problematic (inc. fraudulent) RCTs, now available.

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Great comment for managing expectations.But naivety around interdisciplinary communication is likely related to its failure. We take years to study our own discipline. Why expect productive collabs with another discipline w/o decent prep? A "single head" necessitates at least some translations/prep.

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Love this! Especially the fact that you start with a session on logic. In my experience that's quite foundational and is usually ignored in psychology courses in general. Also, I always thought something about "how/why utilize chance in science" would be cool (before getting to a specific test).

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/07/2025

New blog post! Calculating a correlation is easy enough. But let's say you calculated two of them and they happen to differ. What follows from that? Turns out there are too many moving parts for an easy answer. www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/w...

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What’s in a correlation?

Correlation may not imply causation, but let’s just ignore that for a second. Correlations are standardized effect size metrics and as such have some quirks by design. These are benign enough when you...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The first version of the open science blog archive is complete, with 3530 posts from 52 blogs. Browse them in the online Shiny app: shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science... All blog posts are ordered chronologically. Have fun exploring part of the open science history in psychology!

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Feedback: What is good? What is bad? (and to complete the sandwich: What else is good?) German Feedback: How bad is what?

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I often have trouble finding or connecting to eduroam at my University, but I seem to have made the obvious error of not working on a boat! Either that, or it's just another example of the Dutch University system being miles ahead of that in Germany.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

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Basic Income Pilot Project / Study results

What does a universal basic income really achieve? Find the results of the first long-term German study here.

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 22/07/2025

📚 Ten simple rules for failing successfully in academia journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Südhof: “There's no structural crisis of fraud or reproducibility.” Also Südhof: “Yes, there are errors, but we adhered to norms in the field. We all need to figure out how to do a t-test, & how to improve journal practices.”    …and of course it’s all the trainee's and post-doc's errors. Not his.

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Thomas C. Südhof - Lectures | Lindau Mediatheque

Science Integrity: What Can Go Wrong?

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Because it's hip, because it's fun, and because I do hope that people find it to be useful in understanding and conveying the quirks of rating scales, and how we can be smarter about them: Here's a Shiny App :)

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Where was this high horse when we learned that "wine makes you live long", "video-games are heroin" or "we can feel the future"? Who is eroding trust in science, and who are we placing responsibility with? And if primary research is not pointless to begin with: Improving it seems pretty useful.

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Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too

Researchers studying research must avoid the temptation to get too stuck in the academic weeds.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10/07/2025

Some folk imply that scientific critique that could be misused should not be done, or should be done in some unspecified better way. I don’t interpret it that way. The messenger can express concern about how the message is used by others without asking to be shot. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Research-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine science

Some sleuths fear that the business of cleaning up flawed studies is being weaponized against science itself.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A lot of discussions about open science in psychology happened on blogs. I have been archiving them and will make their content available. I remember 37 blogs (with 2827 posts!) but which blogs did I forget, and are not on my list? Please share and reply with any that are missing!

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Frank Renkewitz @renkew.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🚨 PhD position (75%, TV-L E13) at LMU Munich! Join our DFG funded META REP project on heterogeneity & replicability in psychology. Work on meta analysis, simulations, modeling in R/Python. 📅 Apply by July 15 🔗 shorturl.at/939tP 🔗 shorturl.at/2bRLD 👇🧵

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Research Associate (m/f/x)

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 26/06/2025

Wake up babe, new badge just dropped.

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Different types or errors in academia: fraud, questionable research practices, and honest mistakes. I think we really really need to have more open discussions about & destigmatize honest mistakes, so I'm super happy about this session!

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Jens Fünderich @jensfuenderich.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

yeah, we may still be in the soapbox derby era of team science: what looks like a good idea is often mostly held together by super glue and a disregard for the laws of nature, and after the start it's probably all downhill.

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