Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimJournal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour @jmpbjournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026📣 We have an active Call for Associate Editors, who help ensure the articles that publish in the journal are rigorously peer reviewed. This is a great opportunity for researchers who want to shape the field through service. More info: journals.humankinetics.com/fileasset/JM... 📅 Deadline: 9/18/26 001
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimSocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Important news from our host, COS. Starting in November SocArXiv users will no longer be able to create new OSF Projects. You will need to host research materials in another repository, such as Zenodo, and link out to them. Existing public projects will be preserved. Preprints service will continue. 167
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 23/07/2026It’s the end of an era: we are sunsetting rpubs.com, quartopub.com, and shinyapps.io in favour of connect.posit.cloud. These services are important, but we need to focus our efforts on a single platform (and it’s overall less confusing to have one place to publish everything you do in R or Python). 13713
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimJoel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I'm excited to announce that the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are now published in Peer Community Journal peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....peercommunityjournal.org The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology 13021
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 10/03/2026If you currently do not have a reproducible workflow where you can share data and code where possible, I expect you will soon not be able to publish in good journals. Beyond being best practice, journals will use this to identify papers written by AI. Plan a new project accordingly. 14717
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 14/08/2025It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x 104511
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimFrank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025New blog article in Statistical Thinking: www.fharrell.com/post/aci/ #Statistics #StatsSky #RStatsfharrell.comMeasures of Central Tendency for an Asymmetric Distribution, and Confidence Intervals – Statistical ThinkingThere are three widely applicable measures of central tendency for general continuous distributions: the mean, median, and pseudomedian. Each measure has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the ... 0427
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimRichard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/? 17288121
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimMatthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 11/06/2025Can you make it easier than "the probability of getting results at least as extreme as the ones you observed, given that the null hypothesis is correct"?fivethirtyeight.comNot Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-valuesP-values have taken quite a beating lately. These widely used and commonly misapplied statistics have been blamed for giving a veneer of legitimacy to dodgy stu… 164
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_... 618359
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimBruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Julia works quite well through Nix, but I need to do some further testing and make sure that the top, say, 100 packages build correctly for the list of dates I choose to support (rix::available_dates()). This will become my next milestone for rix. 021
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Researchers should not make claims based on exploratory analyses because the probability that these claims are wrong can be unacceptably high. doi.org/10.1080/0264... 0103
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimCommunications in Kinesiology (CiK) @cik.bsky.social · 09/03/2025We are delighted to now be part of the Free Journal Network, a community of free-to-read and free-to-publish journals like ours! freejournals.org/current-memb... 013
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimLayan Fessler @layanfessler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025New pre-print out! 🔬In this article, we explain why our clinical trial to improve the automatic tendency to approach PA failed and offer recommendations to help future studies maximise patient acceptability. doi.org/10.1101/2025... @labosens.bsky.social @bcheval.bsky.social 042
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimBruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 03/03/2025In all my years using #RStats, I’ve seen this kind of posts often. I think that R has evolved past the "traditional" way of using it which was installing it system-wide, and then installing packages system-wide. That worked, because there were less packages, but also because the kind of projects 1/3 4222
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDavis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...tidyverse.orgAir, an extremely fast R formatterWe are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter. 20366121
Pierre-Yves de Müllenheim @pydemullenheim.com · 14/02/2025Now published in PeerJ (@PeerJLife is a PCI friendly journal) without further peer-review and with a few minor adjustments (abstract, figure 5 correction, typos). peerj.com/articles/18885 #Cardiology #Rehabilitation #SportsMedicinepeerj.comChange in exercise capacity, physical activity and motivation for physical activity at 12 months after a cardiac rehabilitation program in coronary heart disease patients: a prospective, monocentric a...Background Exercise capacity (EC) and physical activity (PA) are relevant predictors of mortality in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) but the CHD-specific long-term trajectories of these out... 000
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimNathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 13/02/2025Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...flowingdata.comDefense Against Dishonest ChartsThis is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things. 32501250
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The 'PRISMA2020' R package can used to make both static and interactive 'PRISMA' Flow Diagrams. Thanks to @heeminkang.bsky.social for the tip! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...cran.r-project.orgPRISMA2020: Make Interactive 'PRISMA' Flow DiagramsSystematic reviews should be described in a high degree of methodological detail. The 'PRISMA' Statement calls for a high level of reporting detail in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. An integral... 03211
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimMatthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 12/01/2025Our new #preprint led by @bcheval.bsky.social is out: Neural correlates of approach-avoidance tendencies toward physical activity & sedentary stimuli: an MRI study. doi.org/10.1101/2025... 183
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimPeer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Here are some 2024 highlights of PCI and Peer Community Journal.📊 Grateful to everyone who contributed to this success🦸. We're excited and prepared for an amazing 2025🤩! 02720
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 06/01/2025New Sci Rep paper with odd-looking figures that don't look like any image conversion issue I've seen before. Has some AI vibes (fonts, line spacing of legend), but there are likely better explanations. Any thoughts? @nature.com pls investigate (who copy-edited this) www.nature.com/articles/s41... 16506
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimBoris Cheval @bcheval.bsky.social · 30/12/2024How to move more and reduce sedentary behavior in daily life? 💡 Since September, during my teleworking days, I’ve covered 720 km (the equivalent of over 17 marathons), taken 1.2 million steps, and burned 50,000 Kcal — all during my working hours! 031
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimMatthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 31/12/2024A list of 1,360 predatory publishers 😮 predatoryjournals.org/publisher-li... 294
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimPCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Brave decision by JHE Editorial Board. Hopefully there are transparent, open and even free initiatives out there for human evolution scientific publications. 0216
Pierre-Yves de Müllenheim @pydemullenheim.com · 20/12/2024#rstat note to myself: If you want to convert a factor variable that contains numbers between quotes (eg, "1", "3", etc) to a numeric variable while keeping the original numbers: DO: as.numeric(as.character(my_var)) NOT DO: as.numeric(my_var) The 2nd option returns variable level numbers! 000
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimPhilipp Herzog @herzog.bsky.social · 16/12/2024It was about time…🕰️ 0229
Pierre-Yves de Müllenheim @pydemullenheim.com · 11/12/2024Sharing data along with an article is important for transparency/repro. A nice consequency is that it allows teachers to propose interesting examples to students for improving/assessing data analysis skills. So thanks to Communications in Kinesiology & @pci-hms.bsky.social for their policies! 032
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 09/12/2024Call for Help: As AE for JSS, I am looking for reviewers for a neat paper (and #Rstats package) with low/mid/high precision float support, something of interest for (very) large models and machine learning. If you,dear reader, could review this please get in touch via email. Thanks in advance. 01020
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimMatt Tenan PhD ATC @tenanatc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024There are more authors on this paper than cases of CTE in the manuscript. 161
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimPubPeer @pubpeer.com · 26/11/2024We’re encouraging meaningful commentary with $1,000 rewards for selected PubPeer comments. bsky.app/profile/pubp... Now imagine if @hhmi.bsky.social , NIH, NSF, etc also awarded outstanding public reviews. These could boost careers and CVs while building a vital layer of scientific evaluation. 24324
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimPeer Community in Health & Movement Sciences @pci-hms.bsky.social · 25/11/2024If you want a more affordable publishing system, you should prioritize the review of preprints with us 🙂 012
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Currently reading: Trends in hoaxes of academic communication doi.org/10.1101/2024... 1102
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimPeer Community in Health & Movement Sciences @pci-hms.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Once your preprint is peer-reviewed & recommended by us, if you decide to submit to a journal that is not @peercomjournal.bsky.social, please be sure to cite the @peercommunityin.bsky.social recommendation with its DOI to acknowledge our contribution & to make readers aware of the PCI initiative. 052
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimMatthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 18/11/2024'MatchIt' is an excellent #Rstats package! We used it to match each person with stroke to 5 adults without stroke, ensuring similar propensity scores (i.e. similar covariate distributions) at baseline, when all participants were stroke-free. doi.org/10.1093/ptj/...doi.orgPrestroke Physical Activity Matters for Functional Limitations: A Longitudinal Case–Control Study of 12,860 ParticipantsAbstractObjective. In the chronic phase after a stroke, limitations in basic activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living 0154
Pierre-Yves de Müllenheim @pydemullenheim.com · 17/11/2024Very happy of this one ! Nice first experience with the PCI process! 021
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimBruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Let me share a couple of links I think you could find useful: raps-with-r.dev -> Learn how to build reproducible pipelines with #RStats, #renv and #Docker docs.ropensci.org/rix/ -> rix, an R package that generates #Nix expressions you can use to set up per project development environmentsraps-with-r.devBuilding reproducible analytical pipelines with R 0174
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimSteve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 24/06/2024This is why I don't recommend using G*Power. Its labels are extremely confusing to the point of being misleading. 172
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimLayan Fessler @layanfessler.bsky.social · 21/06/2024Happy to have presented some initial results from my latest PhD study on the association between affective responses, perceived exertion and physical activity in people with chronic disease at ICAMPAM 2024! A sneak peek here, just a few months away from pre-print👀. @labosens.bsky.social 101
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 25/05/2024What does it mean to say ‘preregistration is a plan, not a prison’? In my recent paper on When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... I explain the value of the plan, but also when to deviate from it. >🧵online.ucpress.eduWhen and How to Deviate From a PreregistrationAs the practice of preregistration becomes more common, researchers need guidance in how to report deviations from their preregistered statistical analysis plan. A principled approach to the use of pr... 1209
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 26/05/2024The journal JPE will now require preregistration of empirical work. The number of journals requiring preregistration and a detailed statistical analysis plan will only grow. There will be room for well-justified exceptions, but this will be the default. www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe...journals.uchicago.edu 1204
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimMatthew Kay @mjskay.com · 07/03/2024remember SOFTWARE CITATIONS, people I can see you 1155
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimMatthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 29/02/2024Insight into why we move slower as we age: it isn’t because of diminished motivation, it is because of the increased effort required to move. t.co/pDI4lNgsPl 076
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimPeer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Hello Bluesky! We're a non-gouvernemental and non business organisation (peercommunityin.org). We manage a platform hosting scientific communities evaluating and recommending scientific articles posted in open archives and preprint servers in their field, for free.peercommunityin.orgPeer Community In - free peer review & validation of preprints of articlesPCI is a non-profit open science organization of scientists to evaluate, recommend and publish research preprints in free open access 11727
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimCenter for Open Science @cos.io · 29/01/2024We’re excited to announce that COS is collaborating on a pilot program with Meta. Using innovative methods from the open science movement to promote rigor and transparency, Meta and COS will pilot a new approach to industry-academia partnerships for accessing social media data. bit.ly/48OzLnubit.lyMeta Partners with the Center for Open Science to Share Data to Study Well-being TopicsUsing innovative methods from the open science movement to promote rigor and transparency of research, Meta and the Center for Open Science will pilot a new approach to industry-academia partnerships ... 0139
Reposted by Pierre-Yves de MüllenheimDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 29/01/2024New episode of @nulliusinverba.bsky.social on preregistration. I love recording with Smriti. She brings up an intriguing argument for preregistration that is different from my viewpoint, but very valid. We talked so long, part 2 will follow. nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/preregistr... 084