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Raphael Merz

@raphaelmerz.bsky.social

256 followers 251 following 70 posts

PhD candidate @tue.nl | working on theory-informed predictions of plausible effect sizes | board member at the Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS)

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Utopian future meme with "The world when Quarto 2 Drops" caption

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My favorite example of a non-linear effect 🫠

Photo of a bike traffic light with a „wait“ countdown that tends to go down non-linearly. Naturally, the photo was taken in the Netherlands.

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🤔

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not sure how I feel about the measurement scale 🫠

Screenshot of the European Central Bank‘s survey of the new euro bill designs.

Response options are:

😍 Love it

😊 Like it

😐 Neither like nor dislike it

😢 Do not like it

😡 Really do not like it

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Found this gem the other day, and honestly, this is how most Y-axes should be labeled…

Plot with X (Line Length in Inches) and Y (Psychological Scale Values in Arbitrary Units)

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Oh that's new!? First page of the pdf view of a paper on the journal's website is an ad to publish in the journal?? What comes next? 50% off your APC if you agree to have ads in the paper? Sure hope my university got a discount for this Netflix-style service+ads subscription...

pdf view of a paper on the journal website: first page is an ad ("Publishing research supporting global sustainability and innovation"). Above is says "Advertisement Start"...

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Very excited to share results of the first finished project this year (shared first-authorship)! ☃️

Picture of a snowman with snow-hat, stick hands and pine cone nose

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Very useful table of insufficient examples vs. best-practices for statistical reporting! Will definitely point some of my colleagues to it! 📈

Table with insufficient examples vs. best-practice for things like reporting hypotheses, null results, or the software you used.

See https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00356-w for the full table.

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I‘m starting a new 'migration log' here: I work in the Netherlands, of course I commute by bike 🚴🏻

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Wow, so they‘ve really gamified this 'preregistration' thing, huh? 🎮🔬 (also love that it says that the topic is metascience)

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Among other things, we developed an 🚦Authorship Guideline and a 📝Supervision Agreement to support student authorship and spark early conversations about credit and contributions! And we're currently evaluating the impact that these tools had at our department. 📊

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I don’t know what it is but somehow this place makes me wanna fabricate data and publish them in high-impact journals… must be something in the water 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

🚀Very excited to finally see our paper on nonsignificance misinterpretations published! 📈 Together, @smurphee.bsky.social, Aurelio Fernández, Linda Reimann and I investigated the prevalence of "p > .05 = absence of an effect" interpretations. (1/4) doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Yes! Please watch Veritasium's new video on Science Communication! youtu.be/czjisEGe5Cw?... #scicomm #AcademicSky

YouTuber and Science Communicator, Derek Muller, saying "To me, it looks like the source..."

"... of this problem is bad incentives."

YouTube Thumbnail of Veritasium's video called "The Problem With Science Communication". The Thumbnail shows a wormhole, and text: "THIS IS NOT A WORMHOLE".

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