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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I wish I had learned unicycling back when I was jugging a lot more, but I fear it's too late for me - my balance isn't what it used to be.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I didn't manage to mention that one, but did mention the money money tree and the psychology research sidewalk placard. Really disappointed that you weren't the one on the unicycle :-(.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The paper cites some of the marketing hype, so that might count as one form of "popularization." There are papers by Dan Hurley (journalist) touting brain training, and plenty of blog posts from people associated with the brain training companies making unsubstantiated claims.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Does that mean you allocate two class meetings for each exam? Do you have to scale back on content then?

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

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Taking Stock of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science at the End of the Beginning - David A. Sbarra, 2025

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simine vazire @simine.com · 26/11/2025

“The articles in AMPPS offer, month in and month out, the invitation to practice aligning your values, intentions, and actions to do less scientific harm and reach for the methodological ceiling” Grateful to @dsbarra.bsky.social for continuing what @profsimons.bsky.social & co started at AMPPS!

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

That is a really large implicit effect, especially given the lack of much evidence for semantic priming… but I haven’t read the paper yet.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

There are other ways of inducing change blindness of that sort. E.g. the ducking behind a counter version. Yes, the nature of giving directions varies by setting. Different task in Ithaca and Boston.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It's possible. That person change does show an ingroup-outgroup effect, so maybe there would be cultural differences in that sort of connection. I imagine the context (e.g., a person change in a bar) would drive it more than East/West diffs. That's my guess, anyway.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Doubt it, but could be wrong. People are always doing *some* task. If the change is unexpected, it seems unlikely that whatever "task" people are doing will happen to differ by culture in ways that affect change detection. Might differ for deliberate detection tasks because strategies might vary

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Here are the DOIs for the handful of ADHD ones we turned up in our preliminary, non-systematic search: 10.1177/1087054711433294 10.1016/j.ridd.2015.12.002 10.4992/pacjpa.73.0_1AM031 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... We likely missed some. I haven't read any of these closely yet.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

My lab has started a change blindness lit review this semester. Our preliminary search (not systematic) turned up a few papers on ADHD (DOIs in next reply), I haven't examined them for quality. We're starting a systematic review on change/inattentional blindness and autism first.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Will do. The Stage 2 RR is ready to submit now but will be submitted next week (after OSF finishes updating to their new interface). I'll send the meta-analytic review paper and the cultural diffs paper.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

But we don't find cultural differences in intentional change detection tasks either: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I wouldn't expect cultural differences for IB (we haven't found those either). I think the same would be true for unexpected changes like the "door." I suspect that individual differences in other cognitive ability measures *are* associated with performance on intentional change detection tasks.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Hi folks. For inattentional blindness, individual differences are limited at best. We did a meta-analytic review and found little or no association with working memory measures, etc. We're about to submit a stage-2 RR also showing little evidence of individual differences in IB.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I don't think I have one. Somewhere in my lab I have an old videotape from Dick Neisser. If I can find it, I'll have it digitized professionally. I don't think the Neisser & Becklen (1975) videos were, though. Maybe @irahyman.bsky.social has that one? Happy to post other variants to my channel.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The original Neisser selective looking video is now posted. The description has lots of details: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g7a... @irahyman.bsky.social - if you have some of the other variants, I'd can post them. too. I don't have them handy right now. @bwyble.bsky.social

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Neisser 1979

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'll try go get that done in the next couple of days if I can.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I used to have it up there. Not sure why I don't any more. For a while, I was handling requests for it for Dick's children, but I haven't needed to do that for a while. I'd be happy to repost it if you think that would be best for visibility.

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Rolf Zwaan @rolfzwaan.eurosky.social · 08/09/2025

Invitation to a potential replication project. rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I'm teaching my grad version of the course again this fall. I haven't started working on the syllabus yet, though. It's my first time teaching it in the LLM era, so that'll be a new challenge. I'd love to see what you're putting together!

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Hmm. That's not me :-). might be the other Daniel J. Simons (at Pittsburgh?)

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simine vazire @simine.com · 08/05/2025

My editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Call for nominations! I know many great people who would do a wonderful job in this position. I also probably don't know many great people who would do a wonderful job as well-- help spread the word! Happy to answer questions about EiC at AMPPS with @psychscience.bsky.social . tinyurl.com/ykpzvp7e

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<em>Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science</em> Call for Editor-in-Chief Nominations

Deadline: March 14, 2025Nominations are now being invited for Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS), APS’s open access journal that serves as the ...

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This looks like a fantastic resource

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

(I also don't review for them for the same reasons)

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It used to be a decent journal. Years ago I submitted what I felt was good work and it underwent rigorous review. Haven't gone there for years due to the increasingly iffy approach to review.

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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"Coyne’s blogs were verbose and erratic, often veering into personal attacks. He freely fabricated conspiracies and leveled baseless accusations that obscured whatever legitimate critiques he might have had."

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The Troubling Legacy of James Coyne

Psychology's infamous bully

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Diane Beck @diane-beck.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

@fovea-vs.bsky.social is on Bluesky now! Follow FoVea to learn more about ways we can advance the visibility, impact, and success of women in vision science!

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 10/12/2024

New post on The 100% CI: I read @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social's book on the alleged teen mental health crisis and social media's role in it. Then, I tried to make up my own mind, with limited success. www.the100.ci/2024/12/10/t...

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The Hare-Brained Generation: Teen mental health crisis or lacklustre record keeping?

In The Anxious Generation, Jon Haidt argues that social media is driving a mental health crisis among teens. It's a compelling thesis, widely discussed in the media, mostly accepted by my students and...

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It was @cfchabris.bsky.social's blog post by about Dobelli's plagiarism of The Invisible Gorilla in The Art of Thinking (he also cribbed passages from Taleb). Although Chris's blog is down, Dobelli's website lists his "corrections" (www.dobelli.com/book-correct...) @axc.bsky.social

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Ian Wells @ianrwells.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Really enjoying @profsimons.bsky.social & @cfchabris.bsky.social ‘Nobody’s Fool’. Yet more content for my ‘Thinking Like a Psychologist’ module next year. This stuff seems to me to be vital for the future of the discipline

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Just 1, actually. Steve most is the only one in the pack who was IN the video.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Looks like it's just those two on Bluesky so far. I have contact info for 4 of the remaining 5, but none are on Bluesky. I'll keep checking periodically in case they show up.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I know two six of the players are here. Not sure about the remaining four or the person in the gorilla suit. Chris and I weren’t actually in the video. I’ll do some digging to see if I can convince any others.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Not sure they’re all on Bluesky yet, but at least a couple of them are :-). Gotta convince the rest of them to make it happen

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 07/11/2024

One thing I wish I saw more from communicators especially on health & medicine: Let's be more vocal about the positives of interventions that work. Yes, it's important to push back on misinformation, poor research practices & clarify side effects. But let's not forget how important this all is.

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Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

NEW: I wrote about a study that challenged “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt going to war over it, and the chaos that ensued. Here’s how a fight over science and social media got messy, fast. www.chronicle.com/article/jona...

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Jonathan Haidt Started a Social-Media War. Did He Win?

When a study challenged his bestselling book’s thesis — that social media harms kids — the New York University psychologist fired back. That was just the beginning.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

The github readme has a link to a website that implements their version of statcheck. I don't know if that's the latest version. I didn't play with the actual R package, so maybe it's more robust.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

I tried the online version with the pdf knit from a markdown file and it didn’t find any of the F tests that were in APA format. Not sure why.

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 29/09/2024

Here's a fun way to encourage students to always look at their data. A few years ago, I wrote a script that converts a black and white png to data and plots it.

Plotted version of png converted to data with regression fit line. It appears there's a positive association between steps and sleep. But the simulated data points spell out "OH NO!"

Png showing "OH NO!" in black letters on white background

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

Possible, but would require some serious lifting, I’d think.

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

The 2cm drop in the other group is impressive too, especially with a BMI increase at the same time

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Daniel Simons @profsimons.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Loved the book and narration. Your narration sounds like you've been doing it forever, and your voice conveys the subtle humor and distinguishes the characters perfectly. Readers for your other books have been great too, but I'm glad you chose to read this one yourself. Kudos!

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Get your spot while you can! …https://openresearchsummerschool.eventbrite.co.uk

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ERROR @error.reviews · 16/02/2024

Error checking is an important service to science, but it doesn't pay the bills. But what if it did? Introducing ERROR, a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications error.reviews

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