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Ze Freeman

@zefreeman.bsky.social
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(he/they) psychology metascience postdoc @unibe.ch looking at measurement, mental health, credibility of research zefreeman.com

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The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 24/09/2026
INSPECT-SR – a tool for assessing the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials – has been published today in @bmj.com, giving researchers a structured way to identify problematic studies before they're included in systematic reviews. 🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... #ResearchIntegrity
“Systematic reviews are only as credible as the studies they include.” — phrased as a Cochrane senior research integrity editor; a magnifying glass rests on stacked papers in the background to emphasize careful scrutiny of research.
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chloe 🐇 @sapphic.moe · 22/07/2026
RLHF = reinforcement learning have fun
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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...
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PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)
Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
son's crying now, cheers
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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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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For those looking for alternatives to OSF, I recommend two resources comparing features of other Generalist Repositories. Resources are from GREI, an NIH funded initiative. Comparison tool to help you pick which one you like best: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Decision tree:  doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Generalist Repository Comparison Chart
The Generalist Repository Comparison Chart and FAIRsharing Collection (https://fairsharing.org/collection/GeneralRepositoryComparison) was originally an outcome of the NIH Workshop on the Role of Gene...
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The new UK bathroom ban is many things, but it does not apply to workplaces and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. Trans people do not need to provide 'proof' to use services, and services can choose to be inclusive. More here: transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri...
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Know Your Rights – TransActual
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
congrats!!
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
next level
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
99 Pubpeer comments are ready, with another 2,3K well on their way. By @josefinaw.bsky.social, Prasad Chandrashekar, @zefreeman.bsky.social, and @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, @forrt.bsky.social
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Sandra Grinschgl, (she/her) @grinschglsandra.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Research on cognitive offloading × AI is booming and getting lots of public attention. Unfortunately, some (or even many) of it raises serious credibility concerns. Like this paper, which others and I recently commented on via @pubpeer.com: pubpeer.com/publications...
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PubPeer - AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking (2025)
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 07/07/2026
📢 SPILLING THE REPRODUCIBILITEA: A DECADE ON & DECADES AHEAD 🗓️ Sept. 25, 2026 💻 Online via Zoom | Free Register here 👇 forms.gle/KgemQ3gM2fEe... #OpenScience #ReproducibiliTea #ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility
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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The good news is that someone else now gets to join this amazing team! If you're keen to help develop RegCheck, I'd strongly encourage you to apply. Working with @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @malte.the100.ci is reason enough to apply! jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
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PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern
Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thought this said outfits -- keen to see either
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Any one of these actions could be helpful: If you live in the UK, write to your MP, asking them to reject the EHRC code of practice: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode. Write to your line manager and ask what action they will be taking to protect women and trans staff...
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Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month from Labour!
Headline from the Telegraph "Health Secretary: I changed my mind – trans women are not women
James Murray says he accepts difference between sex and gender and that single-sex spaces should be protected" over a picture of a gormless greying nothing of a man who probably couldn't even pick himself out of an identity parade
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Paulina Manduch @paulinamanduch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📚 New Reading Lists ◾ Post-Publication Reviewing and Post-Publication Culture osf.io/3ed8x/files/... ◾ Error and Error Correction osf.io/3ed8x/files/... Also available via app: rpt-rl.netlify.app #ReproducibiliTea #OpenResearch #OpenScience #peerreview #metasci #academicsky
Reading List - Post-Publication Reviewing and Post-Publication Culture available via: https://osf.io/3ed8x/files/ynbf4Reading List - Error and Error Correction available via: https://osf.io/3ed8x/files/gfrch
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 04/05/2026
Does anyone know of a tidy dataset with a large number of common multi-item self-report psychology scales? Ideally clinical. The data does not have to be within-subject, just a variety of common scales with decent N. I have: - Bainbridge et al - AIID dataset - Ideologies 2.0 dataset
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Crossposting from there onto PubPeer might be the option most visible to authors -- COAR notify protocol coar-repositories.org/tools-and-re... in reverse (for reviewers who deposit their review online then notifying authors whose preprint is deposited in a repository) would be another
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COAR Notify
The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network o…
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
@wchiggins.bsky.social has looked! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Construct validity evidence reporting practices for the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test: A systematic scoping review
The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) is one of the most influential measures of social cognitive ability, and it has been used extensively in …
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"1. Those who resist epistemological norms are often accused of being unscientific or unrigorous. 2. Resisting epistemological norms can be done in an unrigorous way. 3. Resistance does not exist outside of social influence. In resisting some norms, we can recreate other norms."
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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 24/04/2026
This is why we (@jamiecummins.bsky.social @bethclarke.bsky.social and I) have developed RegCheck, a tool that automatically checks for potential deviations. regcheck.app
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RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Level B/C (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) continuing position, open area, available at our School of Psychology at the University of Sydney 🐨 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
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Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology
1 full-time continuing position available, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to contribute to research and teaching in a world leading Psychology department Base...
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is a nice guide asapbio.org/focus-areas/... with some more resources focused on journal peer review at the bottom
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FAST Principles – ASAPbio
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
media.tenor.com
homer simpson is laying on his stomach on the floor in a cartoon .
Alt: homer simpson spinning on the floor
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Thanks Max!!
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Excited to start work together on a project I'm so passionate about!
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
report back!
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
cool!! The Lighthouse is great imo
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is short and meaningful and worth your time
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"honesty, insofar as I have a public voice, about the ways in which the profession I practice is being asked to absorb and individually manage forms of suffering that are, in part, collective in origin and that deserve collective responses"
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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Has transparency improved in clinical psychology? New cross sectional study from us (Bianca Kotoulas, Justine Blackwell & me). Adoption of transparent research practices has increased between 2012, 2018, & 2024, but aside from coi and funding disclosures, they remain uncommon osf.io/preprints/ps...
Graph showing the proportion of clinical psychology studies that adopted four transparent research practices (preregistration and sharing of measurement instruments, data, and analysis scripts) at three time points (2012, 2018, 2024). The graph suggests adoption of these practices has increased but remains uncommon.Graph showing the proportion of clinical psychology studies that adopted three transparent research practices (reporting guidelines and disclosure of conflicts of interest and funding) at three time points (2012, 2018, 2024). The graph suggests use of reporting guidelines has increased but remains uncommon. Conflict of interest disclosure statements have increased and are now quite common. Funding disclosure statements were relatively common across the three time points.
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
NTS! www.nts.live
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NTS | Don't Assume
NTS is a global radio platform broadcasting music from over 50 cities around the globe, live 24/7.
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"Pooling data across many trials could also help answer questions about studies’ operational characteristics: How does remote monitoring compare with on-site testing? Which trial sites reliably deliver high-quality data? Which eligibility criteria slow down recruitment?"
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
well luckily I love to systematically gain knowledge of pertinent characters
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
this might be the thing that gets me to watch star trek
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Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
behold, we found great variation in how people think! Many activities that we thought would be “gaming” weren't & vice versa, eg half of the participants interpreted ‘gambling’ to be ‘gaming’. Ergo: surveying ‘gaming’ without defining it creates data mess
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/01/2026
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data. 1/19 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Seven Symptoms Over Nearly 4,000 Days: Item-Level Variability in the Psychometric Properties of Daily Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms in Young Adult Drinkers - Kevin M. King, Dahyeon Kang, Megan E. Schu...
People experience symptoms of alcohol use disorders (AUD) in their daily lives, including more impairment-based symptoms (e.g., hazardous use, interpersonal pro...
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 19/01/2026
COW TOOLS www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
but what if there's loads of it really fast? makes you think
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
indeed! and an interesting binary
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
yep
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
the energy of this new year
a tan coloured Alpaca is lying down on a hill in its enclosure, stretching its neck in the air as it yawnsa pink sign shows a rough line drawing of a four legged animal with a speech bubble saying "I feel sick"
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Systematic reviews often guide policy and theory, but they can become quickly outdated. Almost 10% of systematic reviews are out of date even *before they are published*. Living systematic reviews (LSRs) continuously integrate new evidence, therefore they offer a solution to this problem. 2/8
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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Free online Intro to INSPECT-SR workshop in January - this one was designed to be convenient for Australian colleagues but may work for others too: www.trybooking.com/uk/FPDL
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Introduction to INSPECT-SR Training Workshop Jan (Australia)
An introductory 2-hour online workshop will introduce participants to the INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled...
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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
they don't know how to make things better but they do know how to make it a lot worse, so by god will they
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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Gonna need the general public + journos to properly reckon with how much of the social/legal policing of space is done purely on vibes. Invoking a 'common sense' approach to who deserves to be in a space, only serves to reinforce who is thought of as the 'common' body and who is seen as aberrant.
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