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Rick Carlsson

@rickcarlsson.bsky.social
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Open Science. Meta-Science. Editor-in-Chief at Meta-Psychology.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/08/2026
I'm disappointed that after 8 comments nobody has yet asked the obvious question here.
A Facebook question: "Has anyone else used Updoc for their certificate of good health?"
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I agree. I will propose this to the editorial board!
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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I am SO DELIGHTED that public libraries exist🥹 I went to return a book (operation bounce house) and pick up a new one (bobiverse #2: for we are many) and I was so HAPPY to see so many people there enjoying books, services, or just somewhere quiet to exist without buying anything 🙏 Truly incredible.
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
You can easily do this on OSF. Just select the license that matches the usage you are comfortable with.
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
There are parallels to early streaming of music and video. New technology brings new legal situations and it will take time for society to find good solutions forward. Taxing AI corporations and redistributing to artists, science etc., might be a good way forward for example.
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The simple solution is to share it with a license that requires attribution and prohibits the use you are uncomfortable with. CC have good options. If AI scrapes that, then the organization behind it is breaking the law. I definitely agree that we should have conversations about illegal AI usage!
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The dataset should be a strong contribution by itself and if it’s used by other parties (including AI) you should he properly credited. Typically more so than anyone (including you) using it! As a scientific community we need to solve this. We can’t have people fearing being scooped by AI.
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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/
Screenshot of the "Create Dataset" page of the psych-DS Shiny app from the new R package psychds
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Classic type I/II balancing dilemma. I would say that overdressed is slightly worse than underdressed (in academia!) so I would go with step down from suit and go with a sports coat (ideally with some texture) with tailored trousers (or dressy chinos), with a tie. Localization will matter a lot!
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I had the barracuda with the red sails. I don’t know the difference. Is this larger? I traded in all my lego (today’s price is a billion dollars) for an amiga 500 and I have zero regrets
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 15/04/2026
I gave a TED talk today!
me on the TED stageMe giving the TED talkMe, still talkin'
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 09/04/2026
Guéguen is now up to 12 retractions and 15 "eXpReSsIoNs Of CoNcErN" at 13 different journals. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... cc @harrisonmanley.bsky.social @jamesheathers.bsky.social
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Web word processing, presentations and spreadsheets
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A new paper has come out that has Twitter/X afire. It seems to argue that gender-affirming care for transgender youth is not only ineffective, but potentially harmful. It's also a very poorly-done piece of work. My new piece: gidmk.substack.com/p/does-gende...
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Does Gender-Affirming Care Make Mental Health Worse?
The case of a rather poorly-done paper.
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 01/04/2026
Majestic, well done @rickcarlsson.bsky.social
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
how I feel when open science initiatives choose to publish in Nature
Batman breaking a firearm and saying, "This is the journal of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth
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Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters
This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.
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Marcus Crede @marcuscrede.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I am hoping to recruit a graduate student for next year. That person would help conduct research on leadership, individual differences, and methodological skullduggery. Please forward to any potentially interested students.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...
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Open Science Blog Browser
Open Science Blog Browser
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Marcus Crede @marcuscrede.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I struggle to think of a statistical "method" that has been more damaging to psychology (and related disciplines) than mediation analysis based on observational data. IMHO all such manuscripts should be desk rejected.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 09/11/2025
This one surely has something on offer for every one: In this cross-sectional mediation analysis, the "effects" of soft drink consumption on depression were "mediated" by abundance of Eggerthela in the gut microbiome. This was sent to me via dm and now you all got to suffer as well.
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Soft Drink Consumption and Depression Mediated by Gut Microbiome Alterations
This cohort study examines the association between soft drink consumption and major depressive disorder diagnosis and severity and whether this association is mediated by changes in the gut microbiota...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/07/2025
New blog post! Calculating a correlation is easy enough. But let's say you calculated two of them and they happen to differ. What follows from that? Turns out there are too many moving parts for an easy answer. www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/w...
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What’s in a correlation?
Correlation may not imply causation, but let’s just ignore that for a second. Correlations are standardized effect size metrics and as such have some quirks by design. These are benign enough when you...
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
First rule of psychology nomenclature is to only use naming established by Freud. This is where psychometrics fail us.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 07/11/2025
I feel like psychometrics is uniquely bad at naming things. Parallel, congeneric, tau-equivalent, essentially tau-equivalent measures? Configural, metric, scalar, residual invariance? Item difficulty defined so that the higher the difficulty, the easier the item???
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
All researchers also needs to take full responsibility for their research methods. Not understanding something and just citing an authority figure isn’t good enough. If you don’t have the competence to apply methods, either learn, get people on your team who do, or switch methods.
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Agreed. All fields need to take full responsibility for their research methods. Full stop. Likely, most research methods cannot be fully vetted without cross-disciplinary collaborations, but sitting around waiting for discipline x to solve our problems is not an option!
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New blog post: Why we should stop using statistical techniques that have not been adequately vetted by experts in psychology daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-... where I reflect on how we should check the quality of novel statistical techniques.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 31/10/2025
Pro tip: When fabricating a dataset, also make several errors in the analysis of the fake data. Then when sleuths point out the errors as well as the fabrication, you can make a more plausible fake dataset when the editor lets you correct the statistical errors "in the interest of fairness".
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I think good description and indexing is important on its own. I don’t mind a database of bad theories as long as it’s transparent that it’s just a collection without any claims of validity. It’s important that the database is correct and exhaustive though!
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Marcus Crede @marcuscrede.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
After a day or two of sleuthing I have realized that a recent (and likely to be very influential) meta-analysis missed 30%-40% of the relevant literature. Do I bother trying to correct the record?
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Or submit it as a registered report format systematic review!
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I tend to ignore meta-analyses that aren’t systematic reviews as they tend to be haphazard collections of studies at best. If it claims to be a systematic review you should correct and/or submit a registered report with proper searches etc.
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I think it’s deliberately not supported.
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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
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Psych-DS
A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 10/03/2025
This article notes that "Among 40 papers flagged as having issues, he [i.e., me] found 14 false positives (for example, the model stating that a figure referred to in the text did not appear in the paper, when it did)". For background, here are the cases that I believe to be false positives. /0
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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
OSIRIS (Open Science to Improve Reproducibility in Science) is currently conducting several interventional studies on Open Science practices. We invite interested colleagues to register and join a group that may take part in these studies. More info and registration 👇
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Join the OSIRIS Reproducibility Network: A Collaborative Effort to Advance Open Science
Become part of a dynamic network committed to enhancing research transparency and reproducibility through innovative randomized controlled trials. Contribute your expertise, gain valuable training, an...
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
That’s a description of how things have been. The idea of FMS as an emerging scientific field will definitely require a more formal approach. I can agree on you on that.
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If so, then metascience is not science either. I think we have to separate application of a scientific discipline with the discipline itself.
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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I will therefore not complain if someone tries to introduce more structure. And so here you go: a decent attempt at methods building from @jamesheathers.bsky.social : jamesheathers.curve.space (Could I have a PDF though? </s>) 2/
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An Introduction To Forensic Metascience
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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 24/02/2025
Wow, this should be super interesting. Wait, no, that's his book from 2022. Sorry!
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Only way to get people to download metadata!
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I am sorry that you fail to see the benefit of this paper or this type of work, Brett. Read it first, perhaps.
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ERROR @error.reviews · 08/01/2025
We are excited to announce the review of Lades et al. (2020) "Daily emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic". Based on the review by Joop Adema, we find Moderate Errors which do not affect the core conclusions. We recommend the authors seek a correction error.reviews/reviews/lade...
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Lades et al. (2020)
ERROR is a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications
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Marcus Crede @marcuscrede.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Hey Quant Folks: Does anyone have any recommendations for testing if two correlation matrices are meaningfully and/or statistically significantly different from each other? NB: In the words of Jeremy Irons: "Please feel free to speak to me as you might to a young child or a golden retriever."
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Yes, cheaper and more accessible technology is a way for academics too take control of publishing!
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Maybe I should just use fraud to fund it?!
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I have even gotten multiple grants rejected on this idea. It’s my mad scientist arc for sure.
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Rick Carlsson @rickcarlsson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Bluesky has finally reached the maturity that we get the important content
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 17/11/2024
Just thinking, my name sounds Italian enough that I could probably invent a new pasta shape and name it after myself and no one would find it strange.
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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I understand that there was considerable resistance to the introduction of Risk of Bias tools, but I don't know where to find this discussion, which took place before my entry into the world of research. Any suggestions?
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
And just like that-academic twitter reformed into academic BlueSky. I’ve missed seeing all this interaction and sharing of science.
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