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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/02/2026

NEW BLOG! Ruxandra Teslo @ruxandrabio.bsky.social, Adam Kroetsch, Manjari Narayan @neurostats.org, Witold Więcek and I have started a joint blog on clinical trial reform. We'll aim to publish weekly on how to make clinical trials more efficient. Subscribe: clinicaltrialsabundance.blog

Welcome to the Clinical Trials Abundance blog! This is a joint blog where we’ll post ideas, thoughts and commentary about clinical trials and how to make them more efficient.

Clinical trials are how new drugs are tested before becoming widely available. In most countries, like the US and UK, where we live, trials are expensive and slow. Effective drugs can be stuck in clinical trials for years, sometimes a decade or more, before the results are clear and those drugs are available to patients who need them. Clinical trials are also generally treated as a high-stakes, one-shot test to produce a final binary decision on whether a drug works, rather than as part of an ongoing evidence loop that could help accelerate innovation.

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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 is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 19/01/2026

3 months later, this is still unsolved? When I search for preprints I know are on psyarxiv via DuckDuckGo/Google, I don't find them (only their traces on the web), maybe because you broke working links and indexers delisted? This is really bad.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 15/01/2026

I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>

Average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" plotted over time

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Laura Botzet @laura-j-botzet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If you’re into beautiful graphs and rigorous science, check out Ruben’s new position at Uni Witten/Herdecke. I’ve worked with him for over a decade, and it’s been an inspiring, supportive collaboration throughout.

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European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) @eapp-official.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

☀️To all Master’s & PhD students: Join the Summer School of Personality Science 2026 (July 15–19, Edinburgh) for a week of research training, mentoring & networking in personality psychology. Template: osf.io/76ej2/files/... Apply Nov 2-20: www.conftool.org/ssps2026 #SSPS #eapp

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/03/2025

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

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Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

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Laura Botzet @laura-j-botzet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you are interested in beautiful graphs, fun science projects and the best phd supervisor, reach out to Ruben. One phd project focuses on LLMs and defragmenting psychology, the other phd project just has to fit in Ruben’s interests (which is not very hard😊).

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Laura Botzet @laura-j-botzet.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Why do women switch their contraceptive method? We have a new preprint led by Chiara Draxler with a focus on sexuality-related predictors: osf.io/preprints/ps... Contraceptive satisfaction - but not sexual satisfaction or sexual frequency - predicts contraceptive switches.

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Maike Luhmann 🇪🇺 @maikeluhmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

JOB ALERT! I am looking for a postdoc (100%) or PhD student (75%) for a new research project on work and #loneliness. The deadline for applications is Oct 31. More details: www.stellenwerk.de/bochum/jobbo... #PsychSciSky #SocialPsych #PerPsych

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