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Deborah Hyde @deborahhyde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Piccie of me and @maddipow.bsky.social at Raworths Salon North last week. I was talking about ghosts and she about the forgotten voices of women in psychology.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The day has been long and full of teaching, supervision and meetings, but at least there was an excellent haul of books in my mail tray today. @marekmcgann.bsky.social @craigspeelman.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @sandersonspeaking.bsky.social

Three books on a desk. Absent Minds by Madeline Pownall, The Great Psychology Delusion by Craig Speelman & Marek McGann and Teaching Social Psychology edited by Catherine Sanderson & Rebecca Totton

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW on Wonkhe: Madeleine Pownall and Mary Hausfeld call for research teams to be more explicit, equitable, and reflective about how they assign scholarly credit buff.ly/9UBLVXo

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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'The word traceability, in place of reproducibility, [...] refers to the extent to which the decisions made by the researcher are transparently documented, allowing readers to see how conclusions were reached' @maddipow.bsky.social in new paper 'Can open science speak qualitative?' ⬇️

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Can open science speak qualitative? Rearticulating open science vocabulary for qualitative research

‘Open research’ (or ‘open science’) has substantially reshaped conversations surrounding rigor, transparency, and accountability, yet its vocabulary remains largely rooted in quantitative, positivi...

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hearing now from @nickshepp.bsky.social and Thom Freeth repping @openresleeds.bsky.social who are talking about the Knowledge Equity Network and connecting “the opens” (Open Education, Open Science, Open Access and Open Infrastructure) #OpenFest2026

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Open Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1. Feminist scholars “Feminist scholarship has been talking about bias, reflexivity, representation, and power long before contemporary Open Research discourse” #OpenFest26

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Followed by an excellent talk from @maddipow.bsky.social on the marginalised researchers whose valuable expertise on openness should be better incorporated into our thinking on open research and research culture including women, indigenous scholars, and arts and humanities researchers.

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Open Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Take home number 1: *Cite women *Undo injustice through citation *Consider historical and cultural dimensions of who we credit #OpenFest26

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nick has been expertly live Blue-Skying my keynote at #OpenFest2026! ⬇️

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Open Research Leeds @openresleeds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#OpenFest26 keynote: Who Built Open Research? Reclaiming the Intellectual Lineage of Open @maddipow.bsky.social

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

LIVE from OpenFest 2026: Our brilliant keynote speaker @maddipow.bsky.social asks us to confront why feminist scholars still struggle to be heard. What does this mean for open research, how is this serving us but more importantly, how can WE do better? #openfest26 #openscience #genderequity

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 15/09/2026

"Rearticulating open research through a qualitative lexicon, as we do here, does not dilute standards of quality [...] but simply relocates them within epistemic framing where interpretation, context, and collaborative meaning-making are central to knowledge production." Quite enjoyed this piece.

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I love @maddipow.bsky.social 's perspective here. I'm not convinced epistemological and linguistic issues are the real barriers to realising open research: we have to tackle the socio-political - & the psychological, too! Looking forward to Maddi's keynote at OpenFest tomoz @openresshef.bsky.social

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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 17/08/2026

Should we still use the term "preregistration"? Our take here: osf.io/preprints/ps... tl;dr: we think yes! With @lspitzer.bsky.social, @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, and @josefinaw.bsky.social

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Open Research in Sheffield: People and Place: Join us for #OpenFest26 and hear keynote speaker Dr Madeleine Pownall from @universityofleeds.bsky.social present "Who Built Open Research? Reclaiming the Intellectual Lineage of Openness." Explore our full programme: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thing I learned today: Do not save the expressionless dead-eyed selfie you took for a visa as "head shot" or you might accidentally provide that for a professional speaking event promotion

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Metascience needs psychology and we need to be better at communicating this need. Understanding how researchers actually develop and change may be one of the most missing pieces in understanding how science itself changes." www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Meta(science)-morphosis… Dr @maddipow.bsky.social on personal moments of change for researchers. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Meta(science)-morphosis | BPS

Dr Madeleine Pownall on personal moments of change for researchers.

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Deborah Hyde @deborahhyde.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'll be at Raworths Salon North in September talking about why humans are drawn to the supernatural. Professor Adam Zeman will talk about imagination & @maddipow.bsky.social will talk about women in psychology. See you there! thestrayferret.co.uk/event/rawort...

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Raworths Salon North: September - The Stray Ferret

Get ready for a night of curiosity, creativity and unexpected connections. This September, Raworths Salon North dives into the extraordinary inner workings of the human mind, exploring how our brains...

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

To make it easier to tell other academics that you appreciate their work, I've created the "Academic Appreciation Project" which is way to send someone an automated note about the impact their teaching, research, resources has had 💘. Pls use & share! leedspsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#MultilingualCritical "This valuable guide for teachers offers practical guidelines for integrating the principles of Open Science into education in diverse contexts." Editors: @drcpennington.bsky.social, @maddipow.bsky.social Publisher: @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Issue 54 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ filetree R package @tjmahr.com ➡️ Women as the First Open Scientists @maddipow.bsky.social ➡️ Accessibility for Data and Data Repositories @researchdataall.bsky.social ➡️ How to Share Qualitative Data @jenniad.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 054

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New paper!🔓🌎 How are the Sustainable Development Goals integrated in training the future mental health workforce? What are the pedagogies? What's the practice? We reviewed the literature and found three core pedagogies & end with recommendations! iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“women in social science have long practiced and promoted principles now hailed as innovative, although their contributions are often left out of mainstream narratives”

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm delighted to learn that this article on open science by @maddipow.bsky.social is just one taste of the collection of stories in her new book "Absent Minds" about women who changed psychology forever: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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A womanless Psychology is an incomplete Psychology | BPS

An exclusive extract from ‘Absent Minds: The Untold Story of the Women who Changed Psychology Forever’, by Madeleine Pownall.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"We open the issue with Madeleine Pownall’s article, 'Women as the First Open Scientists'.” @maddipow.bsky.social

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Introduction to a special issue on feminist metascience and open science by Christin Munsch and @divreyes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Abstract This introduction brings feminist scholarship into conversation with metascience and open science. Drawing on feminist epistemology, we argue scientific reform is not a neutral technical project. Rather, practices intended to improve rigor, transparency, and accessibility may also expose marginalized scholars and research participants to harm, reproduce inequality, and facilitate hostile scrutiny, particularly in the current political environment. These tensions point to the need for feminist metascience and feminist open science. We define feminist metascience as the study of how gender and intersecting relations of power shape the production, evaluation, circulation, and correction of scientific knowledge, and we define feminist open science as an approach to transparency that remains attentive to care, protection, and risk. We offer these definitions and the articles in this special issue as a starting point for larger conversations about how feminist scholarship might contribute to emerging debates over scientific reform.

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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vanessastanu.bsky.social @vanessastanu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just read this paper and thought it was excellent! Would recommend to anyone interested in the feminist foundation of open science practices.

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Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Amazing work from @maddipow.bsky.social 🔥 🔥

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Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This really is an excellent paper. Incredibly informative and an instant addition to my methods class

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say I have been writing this paper for literally years now, so I'm proud that she's finally out in the world. It was also probably the most constructive, kind, challenging review process I've ever had.

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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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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Brilliant! "[C]ontemporary understandings of Open Science, as both an epistemological orientation and a set of practical tools, may be strengthened by more clearly connecting them to the scholarship and practices developed by women" 👏👏 cc @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social

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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

[…]as an entirely new movement overlooks its intellectual precedents […] risking the neglect of earlier scholarship. Second, when historical work is cited as foundational to Open Science, it typically reproduces existing patterns of gendered exclusion, rarely crediting women’s longstanding work […].

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Adding this to my To Read list. Unfortunately, even just the abstract will teach you more than most people know. #OpenScience

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 29/06/2026

SIPS community members worked through the years to develop many resources that help to improve psychological sciences. We gathered them all, so you can find everything you need in one place. buff.ly/QIX07s3

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SIPS Products

If you have a project that started or developed at SIPS, or have updates on listed products, we would love to hear about it! Please email sips@improvingpsych.org to have it added to this list or up…

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Available now: Teaching Open Science, edited by Charlotte R. Pennington (@drcpennington.bsky.social) and Madeleine Pownall (@maddipow.bsky.social) Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Read a free sample chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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Sakshi Ghai @sakshighai.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A book on Teaching Open Science by two absolute powerhouses of open science ✨ Huge congrats to @drcpennington.bsky.social and @maddipow.bsky.social 📚

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

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