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Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#methoden26 is coming to @gesis.org. I am super excited and looking forward to the best conference of the year and the Klassentreffen. Check out the program here: www.gesis.org/forschung/pr...

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Computational Opportunities and Challenges in the Measurement of Media Use and Media Effects

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"authors could not answer...even basic questions about the paper...difficult to see how they could have verified the paper’s contents" medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · 23/09/2026

📣 #OpenCall: NRP 85 "Mental Health of Adolescents" NRP 85 aims to improve mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention approaches for adolescents in Switzerland. 🗓️ Submission deadline : 24 November 2026 (expressions of interest) ➡️Read more: sohub.io/uvkv

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 22/09/2026

A 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!

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PROMISE @promiseproject.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yesterday, the EU presented plans for stricter age-based rules for social media use. Includes - a ban for under-13s - “mini accounts” for 13–15-year-olds under parental supervision with time limits - A separate Digital Fairness Act targeting addictive design features. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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EU KIDS Act to restrict social media platforms\' access to children in the EU

Today, the European Commission has adopted the EU KIDS Act to enhance the online safety of children throughout the Union.

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 31/05/2026

Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On the 1st of October I will give a talk on sample size justification for the PCI webinar series. I'll discuss the importance of considering a smallest effect size of interest when planning a study, and how to use sequential designs when there is uncertainty. peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

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PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In

The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/09/2026

This came up often enough that I dedicated an overly long footnote to it (www.the100.ci/2024/04/13/i...)

In psychology, I sometimes encounter the misconception that when effects are heterogeneous, the average effect is wrong in some meaningful way. It is true that the average effect may not apply to any single individual; just like no single individual in a sample with an average of M = 100 may actually precisely score 100, even if the distribution is perfectly normal. But the average effect is still the average of the effects; nobody (I hope) says that the mean is wrong just because it does not always reflect anybody’s actual value. Maybe people are confused because in psychology, the implicit assumption is that the coefficient we estimate is indeed the effect for every single person; when they see evidence that this is not the case, their brain short-circuits. Maybe this has to do with statistical training focusing on factorial experiments, in which researchers can control the distribution of the factors. In case of interactions, the average effect of one factor will be a feature of the distribution of the other factor, which is a feature of the design and can be arbitrarily chosen by the experimenter. In the causal inference literature, the default assumption is that effects vary between individuals.

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ever wondered what (test!) chatlog data donations from ChatGPT and Character.AI look like – and how to set up extraction in UZH's Data Donation Module? datadonation.uzh.ch Little blog post (part 1) here: nadjarupprechter.com/nadja-ddm-bl... #commsky #datadonation #ai

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Journals should stop offering to store supplemental information. Everything that is shared with a paper should have it's own DOI, and live in a proper repository. As authors, link to files (e.g., Zenodo), but never add them as supplemental files.

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PROMISE @promiseproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RELEVANT: On Sept. 16 Ursula von der Leyen will present the EU strategy toward social media regulation.

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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Dass die Nazis unsere Feinde sind. Mein Gott! Wir brauchten doch bitteschön nicht Hitlers Machtergreifung, um das zu wissen. Das war doch seit mindestens vier Jahren jedem Menschen, der nicht schwachsinnig war, völlig evident."

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So I did tell the editor where to shove it — politely of course

Dear Professor Bee,

Thank you for your email, and again for the time that you, the handling editor, and the reviewers have devoted to my manuscript, "Method: Using generalized additive models in the livestock animal sciences". I am very grateful for the constructive review of the paper and was pleased that it was accepted for publication in animal – open space.

I have considered the requested changes to remove first-person formulations such as “I show”, “I describe”, and similar expressions. I respectfully disagree with this stylistic requirement and am not willing to revise the manuscript throughout to adopt an impersonal style. The use of first-person, active prose is a deliberate authorial choice, and there is substantial contemporary guidance encouraging clearer, more direct scientific writing of this kind, including Brennan (2024, *PNAS*, doi:10.1073/pnas.2316966121) and guidance from Nature advocating active rather than passive scientific prose (https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/effective-writing-13815989/).

I would therefore be very happy for the manuscript to remain with animal – open space and proceed to publication, subject to normal copy-editing, provided that the requirement to convert first-person formulations throughout the manuscript to an impersonal style is withdrawn.

If the journal considers this stylistic change to be a condition of publication, please treat this email as my formal request that the manuscript not proceed to publication.

As I signed the publishing agreement following acceptance, I would be grateful if, in that event, you could confirm in writing that the manuscript will not be published by animal – open space and that, pursuant to the “Reversion of Rights” provision in the agreement, all rights granted under the exclusive publishing and distribution licence have reverted to me. I would also appreciate confirmation that I am free to submit the manuscript for consideration by another journal.

I regret that we have reach…

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That leadership has evolved: leaders were once expected to be extroverted and charismatic, but today there is growing space for more introverted personalities and different leadership styles. The key is to find your own way of leading ad remaining true to yourself is the most important aspect.

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DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tomorrow morning at 8am, we will hold the symposiom: #MediaPsychology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence! Özen Odag will chair this early session featuring experts in Media psychology's research on #AI in 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑 0 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒖𝒙𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 New preprint: In this paper we make the case for measuring social media use at the level of naturally occurring sessions (i.e., beginning when the app/site is opened and ending when it is closed). Across 7 days and 161 participants this gave us nearly 4,000 paired sessions of use 🧵

Depicts the data collection process. 1) participant opens TikTok, 2) open survey is prompted, 3) participant uses TikTok as normal, 4) participant closes TikTok, 5) close survey is prompted

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 02/09/2026

This level of transparency is remarkable. Great!

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 02/09/2026

This is so cool! Kudos to an already great journal becoming even greater 💙 #openscience

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

✅ ethics approval for human subjects research ✅ open data and materials required for quantitative research (exemptions apply) ✅ preregistrations for experiments ✅ CFA for reflective factors

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 28/08/2026

The existence of the desk-reject implies the existence of a desk-accept. Let’s do this !!!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

😃 nice - zenodo is back on the menu!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 26/08/2026

Some people on here really need to go touch graph.

A graph with a green noisy line that looks like grass. X-axis label "x", Y-axis label "y"

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 26/08/2026

ION, I have created an account on Zenodo and uploaded my first talk! Process was quite smooth, I have to say :) #openscience

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 26/08/2026

Ich habe heute einen Vortrag bei der ZHAW Doctoral Summer School gehalten zum Thema "Rhetorik und Präsentieren". Habe mich sehr über die Einladung gefreut! Die Folien gibt es hier zum Download ⬇️ zenodo.org/records/2211...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/08/2026

I enjoyed this article on the effects of daycare on child development, for obvious reasons.> www.worksinprogress.news/p/daycare-ba...

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Does daycare damage children's brains?

If it had a clear effect on children we would know by now.

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IKMZ Media Change and Innovation Division @ikmzmediachange.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

💡We are pleased to invite you to our public lecture series, “How Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence Are Changing Our Society.” Starting September 22, international experts will share new perspectives and discuss current issues every week.

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm teaching a course this coming semester called Social Media and Well-Being. Each week, we’ll focus on a different facet of well-being (e.g., depression, anxiety, life satisfaction, etc) and its relationship to social media. I'm specifically choosing two papers that come to different conclusions.

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m still gathering papers, so this is a call to my social media research colleagues 📣: if there’s a paper you find especially interesting, informative, or thought-provoking (yours or someone else’s) please pop it in the comments or email me sabrina.norwood@unibe.ch!

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Media Psychology & Methods @mepsyme.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We also had the pleasure of meeting @unibe.ch colleagues @ianhussey.mmmdata.io, @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social, & @lhdjung.bsky.social. Thank you for the wonderful city tour! We were also delighted that @yesuncomm.bsky.social joined us, currently visiting professor at @ikmz.bsky.social ! (2/2)

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Media Psychology & Methods @mepsyme.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And that’s a wrap on our second retreat! The city of Bern treated us very well. We explored the city, enjoyed a movie night (Bicentennial man 🔥), visited the museum of communication, and exchanged ideas. We even spotted the Berner bear! (1/2)

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026

Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...

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12 Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 29/06/2026

I have managed to abstract the template for replies to critiques.

A reply to critique

In this reply to the recent critique of our article, we: mischaracterize the critique; mischaracterize our own original claims; respond only to the peripheral arguments while remaining silent about the critique’s most devastating points; claim that the issues raised do not affect our core conclusions, regardless of whether this is the case or not; radically change the implied generality of our original claims; commit ad hominem while accusing others of it; and leverage the fact that we are likely to have the last word to generally muddy the waters.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/08/2026

Hard to overstate how much the OSF did to make sharing more mainstream in psychology by providing a fairly simple workflow.

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 11/08/2026

This is sad news but understandable. When I registered on OSF years ago I was particularly impressed that the service was set up such that finding would suffice to keep posted materials permanently available. Great to see this promise was kept despite financing problems. OSF such a trailblazer!

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is also a good reminder that scientific infrastructure is not free. Very easy to forget when the service *itself* is free.

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Team retreat with the best in Bern 🥳

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Are you interested in smartphone interventions?📱 We are too. Specifically we were interested in increasing retention in a digital friction intervention. Let me tell you about our new preprint (1/n) with @dgruning.bsky.social @frederik.riedel.wtf @malte.the100.ci using one sec

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 24/07/2026

Congratulations to the project “Replication Research (R2),” which received🏆2026 SIPS Mission Award! Replication Research is a diamond open-access journal that publishes reproductions, replications, and conceptual articles concerning the repetition of research. 🔗 replicationresearch.org

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Replication Research

A diamond open-access journal publishing replications, reproductions, and meta-scientific research.

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 04/08/2026

This is so cool! You can quickly see all papers currently under review -- wow. Exemplary. #openscience

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 04/08/2026

Our department (@ikmz.bsky.social) is looking for a new post-doc working on AI, machine learning, and Digital Transformation in communication! Can only recommend applying! Deadline: August 15. More information: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 04/08/2026

This fall semester, there's a cool lecture series at UZH titled "Fake Science". Presenters include @yesuncomm.bsky.social, @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and @heldleonhard.bsky.social. Takes place every second Tuesday at 6.15 pm, open to the public. More information: www.uzh.ch/de/events/rv...

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