Reposted by moin syedMatti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 01/10/2026Good talk. There's a lot of (over)thinking of this at the moment. Zenodo just works. (Until it doesn't when we and our bots ruin that as well.) Collaborate on GitHub and refer to zenodo. 2349
moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306... 213663
Reposted by moin syedDon Lynam @drlynam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I will be accepting a new graduate student this year. You can check my google scholar to see what I have been up to recently: scholar.google.com/citations?us... Be warned, Josh Miller (U of GA) do a lot of co-mentoring (it is actually a good thing). Please send this around.scholar.google.com 064
Reposted by moin syedInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵 18958
Reposted by moin syedJosh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen 413336
moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Folks, the lead author of this paper, Abby Person, just joined Bluesky, @abbyperson26.bsky.social. Give her a follow! Lots more good work to come. 2151
Reposted by moin syedSanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 23/09/2026I predict that this will make Moin as many friends in the qual research community as his metascience work on quant has made him there 2162
Reposted by moin syedTobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 22/09/2026A hammer does not guarantee successful nailing, successful nailing does not require a hammer, & the [generalizability] of the claim is in principle separate from which tool was used. The same is true of methods in the social and behavioral sciences. Shadish (1995, p. 421) Banger start to the paper! 082
moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515... 619258
Reposted by moin syedWhitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I’m accepting applications for PhD students to join my lab in Fall 2027! Our work focuses on psychopathology, personality, classification and assessment, and using AI with intensive longitudinal methods to better understand mental health. See the lab site for more info: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.eduringwaldlab.psych.umn.eduWelcome! | Ringwald Lab 04125
Reposted by moin syedAmanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Curious 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/jW84PxuJTMwyoutu.beGetting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA 67440
Reposted by moin syedJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 08/09/2026*The editor was told where to shove it. 6895
Reposted by moin syedDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I was a reviewer of this paper. It took many revisions to get the author to state his definition of 'replication' is extremely wide, and I agree with @edouardmachery.bsky.social. If I say 'this completely different study replicates findings X' this is not a true replication. Indeed, it is exactly > 1205
Reposted by moin syedData Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 31/08/2026An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138datacolada.org[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About ProcrastinationA new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr… 723799
moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026More suspicion of tampered/fabricated data in a paper published by Dan Ariely, who incidentally still has his job at Duke. 02410
Reposted by moin syedPat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Among the many ironies of this report, I was particularly shocked that Joe Henrich - who coined the "WEIRD" acronym -was one of its 10 (all US-based) authors, making sweeping unsupported generalisations from very limited, "WEIRD" data 3164
Reposted by moin syedAndrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Enjoyed talking to @psychscience.bsky.social about my group’s new(ish) paper for the Observer. I’ve talked about this on here at an earlier stage. In 4 studies, we found no evidence that asking young adults to cut back on their social media improves well-being. Small thread 🧵 follows:psychologicalscience.orgFor Young Adults, Limiting Social Media Use Doesn’t Improve Well-BeingWhat happens when young adults are asked to slash their social media use to 30 minutes a day? In a new set of studies, most did not follow through, and those who did cut back … 46625
moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 20/08/2026University of Minnesota Institute for Child Development is hiring! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in the broad area of developmental psychopathology. Review of applications begins Sep 25. See ad for details. drive.google.com/file/d/1Mndc...drive.google.comICD_Faculty_Ad_2026.pdf 21513
Reposted by moin syedVeli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 18/08/2026new short paper "High-Impact Psychology Journals Fail to Publish Qualitative Studies"-- there's been a lot of discussion about possible bias against qual work in psychology & related fields but limited evidence, so we took a closer look at what's out there 1/ swisspsychologyopen.com/articles/10....swisspsychologyopen.com 2158
Reposted by moin syedJennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.sites.northwestern.eduResearch | Personality Across Development LabCurrent Research Topics Leadership Emergence and Development Tackett, J. L., Reardon, K. W., Fast, N. J., Johnson, L., Kang, S. K., Lang, J.... 14628
Reposted by moin syedDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I was not reviewer 2. But I am so annoyed by Americans pretending the whole open science movement is funded by John Arnold. His investments are absolutely dwarfed by what the European Union and European science funders have invested in Open science. Only incredibly biased people would ignore this. 36514
Reposted by moin syedJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 30/07/2026New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...the100.ciReviewer notes: Odds ratios are really oddWhen psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog... 2428779
Reposted by moin syedPatrick S. Forscher @psforscher.bsky.social · 29/07/2026i tend to agree with @syeducation.bsky.social: the cause for a lack of diversity in psychology is that psychology does not value this type of diversity osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 272
moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Great post from Eiko on conferences, I agree with all of it. And this progression over time on the motivation for attending conferences seems to be universally shared: Phase 1: go for content Phase 2: go for presenting Phase 3: go for the people (maybe then Phase 4: don't go at all) 2113
Reposted by moin syedEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/06/2026New 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...eiko-fried.comIn-person conferences in 2026: yay or nay? | Eiko FriedSome ideas on improving conferences so they are worth the financial, time, and ecological investments. 76516
Reposted by moin syedIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 29/06/2026I have managed to abstract the template for replies to critiques. 49725
Reposted by moin syedMike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Some thoughts on how to collaborate on reproducible paper writing with AI agents, without them introducing hallucinated references or other issues into your paper. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/06/help...babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.comHelp me, but don't touch the paper!Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science. 3435
moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 25/06/2026New post! "Making Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)," in which I suggest a journal club reading list of new papers on replication, and push back on claims that the replication crisis is fake. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/making-sen...getsyeducated.substack.comMaking Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)It’s hard to overstate just how much the culture around replication in science has changed over the past 15 years. 34720
Reposted by moin syedMattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 31/05/2026Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme 940763
Reposted by moin syedJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/05/2026New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...the100.ciFriends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressionsHeader image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal... 1817047
Reposted by moin syedElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 20/05/2026PSA to authors who assume that their reviewers are demanding citations to themselves: I just got the reviews of something where I was a reviewer, I was NOT the reviewer who told them to cite me, and this is not all that rare an occurrence 3142
Reposted by moin syedDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 14/05/2026did… did a journal write this? 66614
Reposted by moin syedDon Lynam @drlynam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026And importantly: there is no external “system” waiting to reform itself. Senior researchers are the system. We are editors, reviewers, grant panelists, trainers, hirers, promoters, producers, and consumers of research. We already possess many of the levers needed to change incentives and norms. 8/8 0253
Reposted by moin syedDon Lynam @drlynam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Excited to share this one: Open Science Now: A Response to Commentaries on Van Til et al. (with @kaelavantil.bsky.social, @nphillips36.bsky.social, Tinawei (Vera) Du, Leigha Rose, @jdmiller.bsky) osf.io/preprints/ps... See below for the TLDR version 1/8osf.ioOSF 12214
Reposted by moin syedM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>youtube.comNAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards CeremonyYouTube video by National Academy of Sciences 14476158
Reposted by moin syedDr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026First copies of Absent Minds are here 💙 Launch on 7th May! www.waterstones.com/book/absent-... 2245
Reposted by moin syedPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 23/04/2026Why on earth is Demography publishing a paper using these ridiculous categories 4165
Reposted by moin syedKimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Having FINALLY spent some quality time with @syeducation.bsky.social talking methods and meta-science, I most enthusiastically recommend applying for this! 142
moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO... 02840
Reposted by moin syedMike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.comUsing AI to improve (not automate away) academic researchBlog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science. 55428
Reposted by moin syedMatti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 13/04/2026"Preprinting Does Not Meet Science’s Duty of Care Responsibility to Society" raises questions such as "why do they talk of science as a monolithic thing but only discuss a narrow corner of it?" and "what the hell?" journal.trialanderror.org/pub/preprint... 1224
Reposted by moin syedSamantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 06/04/2026New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgPredicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measuresIn relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ... 38037
Reposted by moin syedWendel van der Sluis @wendelvandersluis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026🚨 Researchers, take note! Animal Biology now publishes Registered Reports! 🐒 💡 Peer review happens before results are collected. Studies are judged on quality & rigour, not “significant” outcomes. 161
Reposted by moin syedBen Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2026No Kings #TwinCities 484398901
Reposted by moin syedEnrique Neblett @eneblett.bsky.social · 20/03/2026📢 CFP: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Special Section: Open Science in Multicultural Psychology Empirical & conceptual work welcome across quant, qual, mixed & CBPR approaches, including supportive & critical perspectives 📅 LOI due May 15, 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/CDEMP-OpenSc...tinyurl.comCDEMP Special Section CFP - Open ScienceCultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (CDEMP) Call for Papers Special Section on Transparency, Credibility, and Accountability in Context: Open Science as Psychological Inquiry in Ethnic M... 276
Reposted by moin syedBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 07/03/2026 I finally gave "Is open science neoliberal?" by @uyguntunc.bsky.social @mntunc.bsky.social and Eper a close read. It made sense of critiques that did not resonate w/ how I understand the reform movement. Are there rejoinders defending the neoliberal attribution or challenging this description?journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 2122
Reposted by moin syedDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn 81326264
Reposted by moin syedDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I searched my zotero library for 'personal communication', because these tend to be interesting and can illustrate how science really works. I was not disappointed, the most recent one in my library was this from @syeducation.bsky.social. More of this! doi.org/10.36850/mr11 3367