David C. Vaidis

🎉👶 Welcome to the last new born in the Open Science effort!
Replication Research is a diamond open access journal dedicated to robust, transparent and reproducible science.

#OpenScience #ScientificPublication #Replication #OpenAccess

Domain-General Cognitive Ability In subject area: Psychology Domain-general cognitive abilities refer to cognitive skills that are not unique to humans but are present across various primate species and potentially other mammals and birds, indicating a general factor underlying cognitive performance that correlates with brain size and is associated with selective attention and working memory capacity. AI generated definition based on: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2012

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.

Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.

Sigh.

Oups. 😄 It seems my close colleague forgot to cut my joke at the end of the sentence... And then not the editor, nor the people in charge of editing considered necessary to change it before publication! #SciencePublication #FunButSad #SadButTrue #FrenchAcademic

240,245 participants in a single study, not too bad. The effect size is modest, but ecological validity is high due to real-world implementation! #BehavioralScience #SocialPsychology #Megastudy #ClimateChange #ImplementationScience
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submissions >>> Submit your abstract here! Submissions for all session types are now open! * *Panels, hackathons, and symposia:* maximum 500 words * *Talks, lightning talks, and unconferences:* maximum 250 words ...

The 4th Big Team Science Conference (aka #BTSCON) will be held online October 6-8. A unique opportunity to discuss, join and anticipate the future of BTS. Registration is free/'what you can' but beware submission deadline is short! (31st July). bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/
#psysci

June 2025 The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) and Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCI-RR), together invite researchers to submit empirical research projects for consideration…

Awarded projects will receive:
✔️ Research funding from SIPS (up to $2,000 USD)
✔️ A recommendation decision from PCI-RR.

Deadline: August 1st.

🔗 More details: buff.ly/AigqCod

Shame on Wiley!

Ce fut une rencontre fort plaisante. Encore merci à tou•tes les communicant•es, au comité d'organisation et à toutes les personnes ayant assistées au CJC2025.

A bientôt pour une prochaine rencontre de l'ADRIPS !

#ADRIPS #CJC2025 #Besançon

Et entre les deux... on arrête de se poser la question par peur de trouver une réponse !

In France, only 3% of public spending goes to research — just €27B budgeted for 2025. Shockingly low for a country that prides itself on innovation.

🧪 Underfunded labs
🧠 Brain drain
🏫 Poor faculty conditions

Investing in the future isn’t optional.
#Research #Science #France #WhereGoesTaxes

Great having @protzko.bsky.social at the (big) Lab these past two weeks! Inspiring discussions and exciting ideas in #metascience.
Thanks for the engaging talk at the #AtelierMMS (Methodology, MetaScience & Stats Lab Meeting). #UniversitéDeToulouse #UT2J

Expectation violation and cognitive dissonance theory: Proposal for an epistemic inconsistency management model A crucial dilemma for any individual facing contradictory information is whether to maintain or disengage from an expectation. Cognitive dissonance theory offers an influential model of these situati...

Our EIM model paper with Ben Aubert-Teillaud and Alex Bran "Expectation violation and cognitive dissonance theory" was among the top 10% most viewed in EJSP in 2023... Good for an 'august' paper ! 😏
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#CognitiveDissonance #FormalizedModel #SocialPsychology

Comment aider les chercheurs disposant de moins de ressources ou des réseaux moins développés à faire de la recherche ? L'étude bit.ly/GrEenwIch cartographie cela et s'adresse à des C, EC et post-doc. 20GBP à la clé pour les participants (voucher ou don). #FrenchAcademic #recherche à diffuser

Toulouse University, France, offers refuge to US researchers in fields under threat by the Trump administration.
www.univ-toulouse.fr/actualites/c...
#UniversitédeToulouse #Academicsky #ScienceNotSilence

⏲️L'étude prend une dizaine de minutes tout au plus. Toutes les disciplines sont concernées et nous avons besoin d'un nombre important de participants en France pour garantir des résultats représentatifs.

💡Portée par un large consortium en science ouverte (FORTT – forrt.org), cette recherche s'adresse aux personnes employées dans un établissement d'enseignement supérieur (ou équivalent) avec des responsabilités de recherche (chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs, post-doctorants).

🔬 Cette étude s'intéresse à l'activité de recherche en milieu académique, avec pour objectif ultime de soutenir les "pays du Sud", les minorités et d'autres groupes sous-représentés.

⚠️ Nous recherchons des chercheur-euse-s (C, EC, post-doc) pour participer à une étude collaborative internationale menée par l'Université de Greenwich. #FrenchAcademic #FrenchUniversities

📌 Lien vers l’étude : bit.ly/GrEenwIch

Attention : les doctorants ne font pas partie de la population cible.

How accurately do citations reflect the original research? Do authors truly engage with what they cite?

In a new study, we analyze millions of citation sentence pairs to measure citation fidelity and how it varies depending on authors’ engagement with prior literature.

arxiv.org/abs/2502.20581

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I went through the paper - I promise I won't cite it without deeper reading ;) - but I did not find any analysis based on the number of cited papers. I remember the old papers with often less than 10 citations, while the current ones have dozens. The commitment cannot be the same. Some insights?

Another time, other practices, other threats. Yet in this dark period, Merton's take on the norms of science remains strikingly contemporary, relevant and necessary! #ElonMusk #Science #Openscience #Metascience #academicsky

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The tautology problem of epistemology Epistemology is faced with a fundamental dilemma that is reminiscent of Baron Munchausen’s famous attempt to pull oneself out of the swamp…

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C'est plus long qu'un slogan épistémologique, mais plus nourrissant. Bonne digestion.

The tautology problem of epistemology Epistemology is faced with a fundamental dilemma that is reminiscent of Baron Munchausen’s famous attempt to pull oneself out of the swamp…

A meta-epistemological problem... In short, this resolves the replication crisis with an upper class problem, as understanding knowledge itself IS the problem! Happy Friday.

US is firing researchers? Bad news 😤 (stupid choice) but lucky opportunity for you! Liberty🗽 🇫🇷 France's application session is opening very soon! Transparent process, tenured positions and now a much easier portal in English. odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/accueil?lang... #sciencesky

Got the same from France, with translation. Due to its allegiance and the power we grant it, Google threatens democracy by rewriting history. What a shame! #Google #democracy #MakeAmericaAdultAgainNotDangerousBullyingAsshole

We talk a lot about predatory journals, but I just encountered my first PREDATORY PODCAST!🚨 www.scipod.global
They reach out, set up a meeting, then—when you ask about their economic model—you realize they want £1000 for a 10-min recorded podcast. That’s here you run away.
#PredatoryJournal #Scisky

"Editors resign from Springer immunology journal to launch nonprofit title" | @RetractionWatch.com | https://buff.ly/3CD3rco

Hoooops too bad. I won't change my practice concerning RR but I will delve into their registered report! I also think that finally, RRR are RR but I bet they are much more cited than any regular paper!

The Collapse of Ego Depletion Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):