iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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J Dierkes @dierkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social

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Felix Dietrich @felix-dietrich.de · 28/09/2026

🎶 New paper in Communication Research! Ever listened to a song and suddenly you’re back at that summer, that road trip, that concert with friends? We examined biographic resonance, when music connects with our memories. 📄 The paper: doi.org/10.1177/0093... 💛 Open Access: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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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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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Higher self-rated attractiveness was associated with being male..." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42775791/ 'The fairer sex'

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Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📽️What do MPs communicate beyond their words? Our DFG project (w/ @chrisguarnold.bsky.social + @pluggedchris.bsky.social) studies not just what MPs say, but how and why they say it: voice, gestures, eye contact. We draw on 30,000+ hours of video from the German Bundestag and all 16 state parliaments.

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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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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

EMNLP conference page now live in Lea: lea.ac/conferences/... Papers will land as well once they're up.

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 23/09/2026

Pretty accurate in my case, I guess 😄 Slightly optimistic pragmatist... bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

Results of the AI compass quiz with placement in the lower left corner of the upper right quadrant. The label is: The B2B SaaS Consultant

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Looking for more speakers for Workshops for Ukraine (sites.google.com/view/dariia-...), so if you want to contribute to a series by teaching a workshop on #Rstats, #Python, data analysis, while helping raise money for Ukrainian charities, drop me a message or email dmykhailyshyna@kse.org.ua #Econsky

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.

Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.

Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.

Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I just published my German Open Science book with @uni-muenster.de's library. It contains most of what I know about open science, can be understood by undergraduates, and is free. - published PDF: www.uni-muenster.de/Ebooks/index... - Quarto version: lukasroeseler.github.io/openscienceb...

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Jan Vanhove @janhove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0...

Table of contents:

Refresher: What is cluster analysis?
What are the clusters for?
What clusters, exactly?
Does the pipeline work?
What does the solution look like?
When running follow-up analyses, how is the uncertainty in the cluster assignments taken into account?
Was it worth it?
Conclusion
References

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"An..LLM pipeline [conducted] 1,328 in-sample replications, [and] 1,005..out-of-sample tests. In sample, 75% reproduce the published sign and significance, and the median coefficient recovers 0.93 of the published value. Out of sample, the rate falls to 42%, and the median coefficient ratio to 0.45"

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Does Empirical Finance Replicate?

An autonomous LLM pipeline rebuilds each result from the paper and available databases, with independent audits of every replication. I obtain 1,328 in-sample r

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Out today. Our new report looks at how people define news, how that's changing and the factors shaping these changes. Some key findings in thread. It's based on: 1. media diaries and in-depth interviews in 🇦🇷 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 2. online surveys in 🇦🇷 🇯🇵 🇳🇴 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/changing-def...

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 16/09/2026

Fabulous, comprehensive #SEASON2026 keynote by the great Katrin Weller from @gesis.org on where we are with VLOPSE data access under the labyrinthine EU Digital Services Act. TL;DR: it’s complicated, but researchers must push hard to make it work for us. Liveblog here:

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Making Meaningful Use of the EU’s Digital Services Act in Search Engine Research | Snurblog — Axel Bruns

The second day at the SEASON 2026

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 16/09/2026

Join our hybrid symposium "More than compliance checks and harm prevention? The work of ethics committees in the social and behavioral sciences in a changing research landscape" on Nov 25 (13:00–15:30 CET)!

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André Bittermann @abitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reference limits can exacerbate biased citation behavior! In my current commentary article on the work of @kaileylawson.bsky.social, @brettmurpsych.bsky.social, et al. (2025), I provide empirical support for this thesis. Now published #OA @collabrapsychology.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1525/coll...

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Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The German Local Manifesto Project (GLMP) is now online! 🇩🇪 GLMP provides a systematically documented & reproducible corpus of local manifestos & related political programmes from municipalities across Germany. Browse & download the data: localmanifestoproject.de @christinajuen.bsky.social

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German Local Manifesto Project

Besuche den Beitrag für mehr Info.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Two weeks left to sign up for the Meta-Research Symposium 2026 organized by the Paul Meehl Graduate School paulmeehlschool.github.io/2026-08-04-s... If you've attended previous years, you know this is a lovely day full of cutting edge meta-science, and a great opportunity to network.

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Registration Now Open: Meta-Research Symposium 2026 | Paul Meehl Graduate School

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the third Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta-Research Symposium! In...

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ever wondered what (test!) chatlog data donations from ChatGPT and Character.AI look like – and how to set up extraction in UZH's Data Donation Module? datadonation.uzh.ch Little blog post (part 1) here: nadjarupprechter.com/nadja-ddm-bl... #commsky #datadonation #ai

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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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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 10/09/2026

🎉 COS has established an independent subsidiary organization in Brussels! While the Belgian organization is legally independent from COS in the US, it will not operate separately—it's part of one integrated, global COS organization with a shared mission, strategy, & brand

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A New Chapter for COS in Europe

The Center for Open Science (COS) has officially established an independent subsidiary organization in Brussels, Belgium. This presence gives COS flexibility to engage with European institutions, organizations, funders, and communities.

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at

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DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We kicked off the third day at #DGPS26 in Luxembourg with an inspiring symposium featuring experts in #MediaPsychology that research, reflect, and work with #AI.

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Malika Ihle @malikaihle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Please anonymise your data before sharing ! At the @lmu-osc.bsky.social we promote responsible data sharing through data anonymisation, or the creation of synthetic data to share instead of sensitive data. Our self-paced tutorials: lmu-osc.github.io/data-anonymi... lmu-osc.github.io/synthetic-da...

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Welcome to the Data Anonymization Course! – Data Anonymization Course

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 09/09/2026

Which DFG funding opportunity is right for you? Join our next #PROSPECTS online talk for an overview of the DFG funding programmes for PhDs & postdocs – plus practical tips for preparing your proposal. 🔗 Meeting link: www.dfg.de/en/research-... #HowToDFG

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New #rstats 📦: mediacloud2 (happy about name recommendations). Since the exitsting R packages were stale and I needed data, I wrote a new package. MediaCloud is an amazing resource for getting news media data, especially if you rehydrate the articles (e.g., through paperboy).

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MediaCloud API (v4) Wrapper

A simple wrapper for version 4 of the MediaCloud API, which provides programmatic access to the MediaCloud archive of online news content (<https://www.mediacloud.org>).

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)

YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've followed this work (& 'participated' in it as @apsrjournal.bsky.social 's data editor). It's extremely important and carefully done. I wasn't shocked by the results (they asked us what we expected before they started) & we had started checking for PII earlier, but doesn't mean I'm not worried

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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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ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a Data Steward! We are looking for someone with good knowledge of and enthusiasm for research data management and the broader field of privacy and data management. See link below👇 📅Deadline: 22 September 2026 🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 08/09/2026

@meta-rep.bsky.social is also well-represented by @dirkwulff.bsky.social & Andrea Hildebrandt in the #DGPs2026 panel on "Psychological Research Methods in the Age of AI" 💪

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MZES Social Science Data Lab @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

▶️ Social Science Data Lab: Fall 2026 Events Four input talks by great researchers (see below ⤵️)! 🗓️ Details & Zoom: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/ 👥 Organizers: @rubac.bsky.social, @denis-cohen.bsky.social, Nadia Granato and Alexander Wenz

Upcoming
2026-12-02 | Workshop | Johannes B. Gruber (GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften)
Vibe, Check: Authoring R Packages for Open Science in 2026 with usethis, devtools, and Coding Agents
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2026-11-04 | Input talk | Anne-Kahtrin Stroppe (University of Greifswald)
Measuring Infrastructural Deprivation from Big Geodata: On the Inferential Validity of OpenStreetMap Proxies
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2026-10-14 | Input talk | Valentyn Melnychuk (LMU Munich)
Causal ML for treatment effect estimation
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2026-09-16 | Input talk | Marc Ratkovic (University of Mannheim)
Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 08/09/2026

SIPS [@improvingpsych.org] elections are here! Don't forget to cast your ballot. If you don't already know the candidates, I would like to put a special shout out to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social who is running in the graduate student and postdoc category ✨

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GESIS Panel @gesis-panel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We are pleased to announce that wave md of the GESIS Panel data has just been published! Click on the link and follow the instructions to get our data: gesis.org/en/gesis-pan... If you use our data, tell us! We will gladly include your publications in our bibliography.

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 08/09/2026

#DGPsKongress2026 Come and visit us at the 54th DGPs Congress in Luxembourg! www.dgps.de/schwerpu...

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 07/09/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗤𝗣 𝟯.𝟬 sqp.gesis.org 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝘄𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮?

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 05/09/2026

Social psychology in the lab: Telling undergrad psych students to imagine being well-off and take some candy. Social psychology in the press: Rich people steal kids' candy!

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's a systemic problem in science reporting that these summaries exaggerate the evidence. In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces.

Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

anyhumanever.com

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Many chatbot users form companionship-like bonds with them An analysis of 1,131 Character.AI users revealed that people with smaller real world social networks reported companionship as their primary chatbot use which, in turn, was associated with lower well-being. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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