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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Check out this commentary recently published in AMPPS (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...), a discussion of the findings in Grassi et al related to musical training short-term memory. The interesting part: It's written BY THE AUTHORS, with differing views on the same set of results. Luv this one.

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Common Evidence, Multiple Interpretations: Commentaries on a Multilab Study on Musicians’ Short-Term Memory - Rafael Román-Caballero, Deniz Başkent, Anne Caclin, Laura Ferreri, Anna Fiveash, Clément F...

The multilab registered report by Grassi et al. represents the largest collaborative effort to date to estimate differences in short-term memory between musicia...

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🙌🙌🤟🤟Yeah!🤟🤟🙌🙌

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🙌🙌🤟🤟Yeah!🤟🤟🙌🙌

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Being part of a multilab study with >100 authors is very cool, but having a co-authored paper with almost everyone in our field does limit potential reviewer options 😂 @masssimo006.bsky.social @francescatalamini.bsky.social - do you have this problem yet? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Rolf Zwaan is starting a new podcast 'As it Happens', following a large-scale psychology research project, where labs around the world collaborate to study human memory. (I am one of the collaborators). The first episode is out! shows.acast.com/research-as-...

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Research as it Happens

Listen to episodes and learn more about Research as it Happens. What does science look like while it’s still unfolding?In Research as it Happens, we go inside a large-scale psychology project, where…

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Rolf Zwaan @rolfzwaan.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Here is why I have started a podcast that takes us inside big team science. open.substack.com/pub/rolfzwaa...

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Research as it Happens — A New Podcast

A behind-the-scenes look at a large-scale research project in psychology

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Francesca Talamini @francescatalamini.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Sometimes I remember that I have a bluesky account ;) I'm very happy to share our last paper, investigating how cognitive skills relate to different levels of musical expertise: url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

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Musical expertise and cognitive abilities: no advantage for professionals over amateurs

Abstract. Cognitive advantages in musicians are often attributed to far transfer from music training. If this causal interpretation is correct, greater mus

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 23/01/2026

Learning to play a musical instrument is often assumed to improve brain functioning & cognition. To test this, a new #RSOS study compared non-musicians, amateur & professional #musicians: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @francescatalamini.bsky.social @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

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The PAM team @crnlpam.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Non-musicians? Anne-Caclin, Ragnya-Norasoa Souffiane, et Marie-Elisabeth Plasse from the PAM team contributed to this multilab study ! @francescatalamini.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I'm reading an old, classic psychoacoustic experiment (N=3). It is written by 3 authors, and 2 are also subjects. In the procedure authors write: "Subjects [...] were encouraged to "bracket" the match before making the final adjustment". I'm wondering how authors were encouraging themselves.

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Yashvin Seetahul @yashvin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Check out this really cool multilab project about the difference in short-term memory between musicians and non-musicians! By @masssimo006.bsky.social, @francescatalamini.bsky.social, and researchers from 33 institutions around the world.

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Francesca Talamini @francescatalamini.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables! A big thank you to all collaborators! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...

Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Does this happen in your country (Italy here)? Do you receive communications from the head of the university that include sentences such as "working actively for the continuous improvement of" teaching, research or dissemination. Which is usually translated into a set of nonsense numerical indexes?

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Updating my LEGO White House

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 15/10/2025

Have a paper ready for peer review? Consider sending it to PCI Psychology! We are a preprint recommendation platform and recommended papers can be easily submitted to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals! See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The paper mill probably forgot to include several sections in the paper, including the data and results. The Methods section mentions a survey that is never described in the paper. Immediately after the methods section comes the conclusion. Yet, the paper was still published.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We are back! 🎉 Cognitive Science Arena 2026 📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT) 📅 February 5–7 📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Join Us! After the mighty @michelenuijten.bsky.social , this year’s smart talk will be given by the legendary Open Science black belt: Zoltan Dienes! 🥋 RT RT RT

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Cognitive Science Arena: Brixen-Bressanone (IT), February 5-7 2026 [Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute it widely!] Dear colleague! We are pleased to invite you to the fourteenth edition ...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 01/10/2025

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

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AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Little stat I update every now and then (source Scopus). In psychology only we published 33575 papers about COVID-19. I think it is about time we begin to read these papers.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My cat has a rather peculiar habit. He pees in his litter box and then cleans the area outside it. I have to admit, his method is surprisingly efficient. He cleans so well that I’ve never found the slightest trace of pee outside the box

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Wilson da Silva @wilsondasilva.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

For those working with headphones and that need precise intensity level. Calibrate your equipment often, and replace it regularly! I just measured the output of the headphones of the lab and... well, I'm buying a new pair of headphones 😬

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

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FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:

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PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In

The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

One small step and it is done. Just one more small step. What a journey!

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

G*Power. Unbelievable. Every time I read a power analysis calculated with G*Power, no matter the input values, the output is invariably N=24. Is that software calculating anything or is just returning a fixed output?

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Using gen AI to do peer reviews for you is unethical. Trying to game peer review with hidden AI prompts is also unethical. And putting papers on arxiv that still have those prompts embedded is also just incredibly stupid. Uuuuuugh. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

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"Only Positive Reviews": Hidden AI prompts discovered in academic papers from world's 14 biggest universities - The Times of India

A Nikkei investigation reveals that researchers from 14 universities, including Waseda, KAIST and Peking University, embedded hidden AI prompts in 17

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My routine. Wake up before the rest of the family, lay down on the sofa, play the sudoku of the day.

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Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Just learned that Carlo Umiltà has passed away — a giant of Italian neuroscience 🧠 I was lucky to learn from him during my PhD (not my advisor, but a regular presence in the lab).

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The other day, our vice rector was reading the code of ethics and conduct of my university. It is so embarrassing to see that we violate that code in any possible way and on daily basis. I’m wondering what could be the use of a document that is neglected at every step.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

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Introducing Papercheck

Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck An Automated Tool to Check for Best Practices in Scientifi...

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 16/06/2025

📚 Ten simple rules for good research practice doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Ten simple rules for good research practice

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A handful of awful old men are destroying the lives of millions. What a stupid world.

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 12/06/2025

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 11/06/2025

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

First they clone themselves (Nature X...), now they clone MDPI. The goal is to offer a tiered journal system that does not let manuscripts escape to other publishers' offerings. That would be like leaving money on the table.

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