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Priya Silverstein

@priyasilverstein.com
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www.priyasilverstein.com Assistant Researcher, EXCELScIOR project excelscior.uc.pt, University of Coimbra, Portugal | Psychology, Metascience | Transparency, Replicability, Generalisability, and Diversity | they/she

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ingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵
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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🔍 What is the current status of Open Science in the academic publishing system? Join us for an IGOR panel discussion: “Rethinking Scholarly Publishing: Preserving the Good, Changing the Bad, and Supporting the New” 📅 Thursday, 1 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET 💻 Online (contact us for the link) [1/2]
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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Come work on a PhD in Metascience with me! There’s just a little over one week left to apply!
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What does it take to sustain R? Join R Consortium, R Core & R Foundation Oct 6 to discuss the people, infrastructure & community behind R. 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats
Graphic for upcoming R Core and R Foundation panel discussion - Oct 6, 2026
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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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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
📢 ***Call for papers at Psychological Science (APS)*** Dr Roni Porat and I are editing a special issue, "From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World.” Please see the detailed call here (www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...) and send us your best work!
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ever since this happened, I have never given journals sole ownerhip of my supplemental materials .. eiko-fried.com/blog/supplem...
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Supplementary materials fail | Eiko Fried
A few months ago, we published a new paper Fried, E. I., van Borkulo, C. D., Cramer, A. O. J., Boschloo, L., Schoevers, R. A., & Borsboom, D. (2017). Mental disorders as networks...
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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Arts, humanities & social science researchers, are you aware of any journals in your field that make good use of plain language summaries to make publications more accessible to non-academic or practitioner audiences? If so, we'd love to hear from you - do reply in-thread!
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@shreyadimri.bsky.social et al. “Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles” We assessed meta-analyses in ecology, evolution & environmental sciences for methodological & reporting quality, data/code sharing, and data FAIRness. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
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Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles
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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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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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EXCELScIOR ERA Chair Project @excelscior-era.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚀 We are happy to be part of the new #HorizonEurope project CATALYST! #EXCELScIOR will contribute to activities on monitoring and evaluating reproducibility practices and culture change alongside partners from across Europe and beyond. 🌍👏 Looking forward to the collaboration! @ucoimbra.bsky.social
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LGBTQ+ STEM @lgbtqstem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you want a last cheeky day to submit, it's today!
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Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity, and Policy @accountabilityair.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝 "Radical reproducibility, real constraints: An autoethnography of open and transparent research from the inside" Nicki Lisa Cole & Serge P. J. M. Horbach → doi.org/10.1080/0898... #Reproducibility #OpenScience #MetaScience
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Radical reproducibility, real constraints: An autoethnography of open and transparent research from the inside
This paper presents a three-year longitudinal autoethnographic study of the TIER2 project, an international, interdisciplinary consortium committed to “radical reproducibility” through open researc...
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 27/08/2026
More of this please!
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026
Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets; 
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some days I think about how we’ve been carefully developing and validating metacheck for two years now, with limited and always-optional local LLM use, and worry it’s just going to be lumped in with quickly vibe-coded AI agents.
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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...
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PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)
Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...
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Samuel Pawel @samuelpawel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research is just around the corner! How can we improve research on research methods? 💻 Registration for online attendance is still open! 📅 31 August - 1 September 2026 🔗 crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/ #MSMR2026 #MetaScience #MetaResearch
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1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research – MSMR 2026
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wherever you go to store data instead of #OSFprojects, please choose a non-commercial provider. Commercial interests are not aligned with scientific interests: They aim at turning your data into money by selling it, training AI models with it and locking us into an ecosystem: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats
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Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed
This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 21/08/2026
Yesterday I was dreading having back-to-back meetings, but then two of those meetings were essentially just two neurodivergent people galaxy-braining all things open science and queerness and anti-capitalism and now my heart is full 🤍
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EXCELScIOR ERA Chair Project @excelscior-era.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New preprint by EXCELScIOR team member @priyasilverstein.com and colleagues on the use of the term "preregistration". Check it out! 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.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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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 29/07/2026
A really interesting thread. I usually find myself leaning closer towards an "abolish journals" stance, but I found this perspective very interesting...
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 21/07/2026
🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd
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SIPS 2026 Awards Announced!
We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the fi…
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Here we show, in a large post-publication peer review database, that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research. " arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783
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Judges matter more than papers in post-publication research assessment
Research assessment relies on expert evaluations, yet human judgement is noisy, and it is unclear whether differences in assessment arise primarily from differences in genuine research quality or from...
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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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EXCELScIOR ERA Chair Project @excelscior-era.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🔍 Considering a la Caixa Junior Leader Fellowship 2026 application? The #Meta-Research Group at the University of Coimbra 🇵🇹 welcomes researchers interested in developing a fellowship proposal with our team as host. 📩Contact: tracey.weissgerber@uc.pt @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026
New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >
Thinking Clearly About Sampling and Representation With the Total Survey Error Framework

Collecting a sample that represents the population of interest well constitutes a challenge across the social and behavioural sciences. Psychology in particular frequently relies on convenience samples—most notably students and, increasingly, online participants—with a tendency to either (implicitly) assume representativeness without substantive justification, or to acknowledge a lack of it only in passing. In contrast, researchers rarely engage with the actual implications for their inferences, which undermines the generalisability of psychological findings. Critically, representativeness must be defined with respect to variables relevant to the target of inference, rather than superficial demographic diversity. Here we present the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework as a methodological tool that systematically addresses the multifaceted sources of error—particularly those related to representation—that emerge throughout the research cycle. Although TSE originated in survey research, its principles are broadly applicable to any psychological study seeking inference from sample to population. We offer practical strategies for identifying, preventing, and mitigating representation errors to improve the credibility and generalisability of psychological research.

Illustration of the total survey error framework with the representation strand highlighted. It shows how coverage error, sampling error and non-response error arise during the sampling process.
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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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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 08/07/2026
When people use AI-produced slides it makes me completely distrust everything the speaker is saying... It is impossible to tell whether you wrote really good notes about your topic and AI just ruined it vs. your prompt was just "write me a presentation on this topic". It's really sad!
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
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PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern
Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science
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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The good news is that someone else now gets to join this amazing team! If you're keen to help develop RegCheck, I'd strongly encourage you to apply. Working with @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @malte.the100.ci is reason enough to apply! jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
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PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern
Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 02/07/2026
Check out our new preprint on how to write a reusable step-by-step protocol... especially if you like crème brûlée! 🍮✨
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 01/07/2026
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R 📚 Applications OPEN 🗓️ Oct 19–23, 2026 📍 University of Coimbra 📝 Apply until Sept 18 Registration from only €150-€250 for this 27-hour intensive course! I'll be teaching the session on preregistration 😄
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Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 01/07/2026
My past few weeks were @psychscience.bsky.social in Barcelona, @improvingpsych.org in DC, and examining @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social's amazing PhD thesis, followed by some much needed relaxation camping and hiking in northern Portugal. Feeling lucky and hopeful about the future of psychology! 🤞✨
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New website is live, including a new blog post :). I respond to the call by @psychscience.bsky.social asking how we can improve APS conferences. eiko-fried.com/blog/in-pers...
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In-person conferences in 2026: yay or nay? | Eiko Fried
Some ideas on improving conferences so they are worth the financial, time, and ecological investments.
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 29/06/2026
Register for the Replication Hub showcase here 👇
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Register for: FORRT Replication Hub Showcase
Join the showcase on 1 July 2026 from 3 - 5 pm CEST online. Please enter your email below. We will subsequently send you a calendar invite and the Zoom link.
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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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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How much heartache would be saved if we routinely used cognitive interviewing/think-aloud procedures when developing instruments? We should know how respondents are interpreting instructions. Just frickin' ask people. It doesn't even need to be particularly rigorous.
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 15/06/2026
Loved reading these reflections on #OSR26UK by Ruth Davies and @josefinaw.bsky.social 🥰
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Reflections from the Open Science Retreat 2026 | UK Reproducibility Network
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 15/06/2026
Really excited to be giving an invited talk at WoReLa 2! Submit an abstract at the link below 👇✨ 🌟 Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences 🌍 Cologne, Germany 📅 8-9th July, 2027
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WoReLa 2 - Call for abstracts
The Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) focuses on building cumulative knowledge in linguistics through reproducible, robust, and replicable research findings. Building ...
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 05/06/2026
I'm examining my first PhD defence in a couple of weeks and the dissertation so good that I want to request dozens of hard copies to hand out to everyone I encounter in my life. For a first PhD examination, I think I got pretty lucky!
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Research on Research Association @roration.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS
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Introducing the Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR): aligning constellations and communities
Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)
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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
(How) can pre-registration serve the needs of qualitative research communities? Check out our entry for Practice #21 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Pre-registering qualitative research ⬇️ #OpenAHSS #OpenResearch #Pre-reg
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Pre-registering Qualitative Research | The MORPHSS Catalogue
Disciplines include: economics, education, library and information science, politics, sociology
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 02/06/2026
We got some nice pictures taken of the @excelscior-era.bsky.social team :) new profile picture time!
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 30/05/2026
That smile says it all! Was great to present some of the data from the Dignity Honor Face @psysciacc.bsky.social project at #APS26BCN! As far as I know, this is PSA's largest data collection to date and its first scale development study! Exciting all round 🤩 Many thanks to our 400+ coauthors!
Priya smiling while presenting a slide at a conference with a world map showing countries shaded in different shades of blue representing how many participants were collected from each country (Total: 26k+)
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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Join our Mini-Hackathon and help us draft community-driven best-practice guidelines for preregistration!✨ 🗓️ Friday, June 5, 4-6 PM CET 📍 Zoom Register by indicating your interest in participating in the #prereg community events here: forms.gle/yrmK8Wnd4oqw... @zpid.bsky.social @forrt.bsky.social
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Best-Practice Guidelines for Psychology
Thank you for your interest in being part of our community project "Best Practices in Psychology"! For more information on the project, please refer back to our website: https://forrt.org/best-practic...
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