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Brice Beffara

@bricebeffara.bsky.social

Lecturer-Researcher @univ-nantes.fr. Social psychology (of organisms) | Methods. Psychology ∈ Biology. Open | Slow science.

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Parfois, les recrutements à l'université se font sur plusieurs disciplines (par ex. histoire contemporaine et anthropologie, ou maths appli et informatique) : l'observation de ces croisements sur 12 ans donne cet espace de l'interdisciplinarité.

04.03.2026 08:22 — 👍 19    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 0
Article du canard, pointant que 100% des facs sont dans le rouge, contre 20 seulement en 2022. Pénurie d'enseignements, de moyens. Aterrant

Article du canard, pointant que 100% des facs sont dans le rouge, contre 20 seulement en 2022. Pénurie d'enseignements, de moyens. Aterrant

Les facs se noient avec les moyens du bord
Toutes les univ frôlent la faillite. Choix de société

03.03.2026 08:11 — 👍 13    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail... There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...

This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen.

A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...

11.11.2025 01:19 — 👍 137    🔁 44    💬 13    📌 15

Randomized controlled trials claiming “personalized”, “individualized” and “precision” interventions: characteristics, transparency and bias. By Luigi Russo, Nicolò Lentini, Luisa Soru, Roberta Pastorino, Stefania Boccia, John PA Ioannidis

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

18.02.2026 06:52 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration As the practice of preregistration becomes more common, researchers need guidance in how to report deviations from their preregistered statistical analysis plan. A principled approach to the use of…

If you set out to test a hypothesis, you should preregister it. If you deviate from a preregistration, report a table with all deviations, and evaluate the consequences for the validity and severity of the test. As a reviewer, ask for such a table!

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

17.02.2026 07:07 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

An interesting Metascientific question is how we deal with deviations from preregistrations. Can we evaluate their impact on the severity of tests? If not, should studies with substantial deviations be reported as non-preregistered?

17.02.2026 07:09 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Le mec a occupé toute la durée de la performance à rappeler ce qui avait besoin d’être rappelé sans jamais accorder le moindre commentaire à ce qu’il se passait sur la piste, c’est lui le vrai, le seul champion

17.02.2026 00:14 — 👍 945    🔁 288    💬 10    📌 5
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Un article de Mélissa-Hanafi Portier & Sarah Samadi @isyeb.mnhn.fr sur le monts sous-marins et leurs écosystèmes, publié dans le n°58 de la revue @especes.bsky.social
👉 especes.org/numeros/nume...
& republié par #Echosciences
🌊 www.echosciences-paysdelaloire.fr/articles/les...

16.02.2026 08:11 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.

My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/

academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

10.02.2026 19:42 — 👍 213    🔁 110    💬 4    📌 9

This one took a while, but we’re happy to finally have it out!

We were wondering how prevalent different Open Science practices are in applied ethology. To find out, check this pre-proof version that is already available.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

10.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
The distribution of questionnaire results

The distribution of questionnaire results

New preprint! 🎉

Led by @heeminkang.bsky.social, we found that a brief teaching intervention (20 min lecture + student activity) improved some aspects open science knowledge and attitudes in students taking an undergrad health psych course osf.io/preprints/ps...

10.02.2026 11:27 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0
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PsychoPy Studio: the app we love, reimagined It’s now over 20 years since PsychoPy’s humble beginnings as an open-source Python library to help users present high-precision stimuli and collect responses from participants. Since 2009 PsychoPy…

We're getting excited... just putting the finishing touches to
**PsychoPy Studio**

This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron.

Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter
🎉 🚀

blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...

09.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 62    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 2

Are you sure there’s no mosquito in the room?
With @matanmazor.bsky.social, Chichi Dézier, @nfaivre.bsky.social & Louise Goupil, we study how we combine multiple sensory sources to be confident in presence and absence: While detection rely on one modality, confidence requires both channels to align!

26.01.2026 06:49 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me,
@iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.

09.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 32    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 2
Appel à contribution (sur fond bleu, avec le logo de la revue)
La revue Scepticisme scientifique fait un appel à articles en français pour l'année 2026, sur le thème "Les mythes de la #psychologie"
Instructions ici : https://revue.comitepara.be/infos-auteurs

Appel à contribution (sur fond bleu, avec le logo de la revue) La revue Scepticisme scientifique fait un appel à articles en français pour l'année 2026, sur le thème "Les mythes de la #psychologie" Instructions ici : https://revue.comitepara.be/infos-auteurs

Appel à contribution
La revue Scepticisme scientifique fait un appel à articles en français pour l'année 2026, sur le thème "Les mythes de la #psychologie"
Instructions ici : revue.comitepara.be/infos-auteurs
A vos plumes !
#scepticisme #science

01.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Feeling some appreciation for @lnalborczyk.bsky.social's logit dot plots (lnalborczyk.github.io/blog/2018-01...).

05.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 80    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1
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Concerns About Theorizing, Relevance, Generalizability, and Methodology Across Two Crises in Social Psychology | International Review of Social Psychology During two crises in social psychology, the first from the 1960s to the end of the 1970s, and the second starting in 2010 and still ongoing, researchers discussed the strength of theories in the…

Most researchers are unaware that the concerns about strength of theories, methodology, and lack of generalizability led to a crisis in the 60's and 70's as well. Nothing changed then, and history is a good teacher for why nothing is likely to change this time around doi.org/10.5334/irsp...

05.02.2026 04:16 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
Magazine Bretons

Magazine Bretons

Séverine Erhel, les réseaux sociaux ne sont plus au service de l’humain

Séverine Erhel, les réseaux sociaux ne sont plus au service de l’humain

Merci au magazine Bretons @ouestfrance35.bsky.social pour ce beau portrait !
Très fière de me retrouver dans un magazine qui met si joliment en avant ma région ! 

04.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 23    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Episode 74: Notiones Vague | Nullius in Verba In this episode, we discuss the problems associated with vague concepts in psychological science. We talk about the jingle-jangle fallacy, the trade-off between broad concepts and more precise…

New episode of Nullius In Verba! We discuss the jingle-jangle fallacy, the problem of vague concepts, how the incentive structures promote vagueness, why people who prefer more rigour have to be called the validity 'police', and much more!

nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-74...

30.01.2026 20:57 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 2
What’s a multiverse good for anyway?

Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and  Andrew Gelman

Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed – as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool – as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.

What’s a multiverse good for anyway? Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and Andrew Gelman Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed – as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool – as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?>

With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social

juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

04.02.2026 10:24 — 👍 173    🔁 52    💬 9    📌 3
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📜 Very happy to see our article on domain-general metacognition now published in Psychological Sciences ! Congrats to my co-authors @khat.bsky.social, Renate Rutiku, Michał Wierzchoń, and @krsandberg.bsky.social #skudnet journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Quick thread:

04.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
violin plot of results by testosterone measure

violin plot of results by testosterone measure

violin plot of result by risk pref measure

violin plot of result by risk pref measure

New meta finds no correlation between testosterone and risk preference, buuuuut testosterone was mainly measured using 2D:4D (nonsense) or saliva (still bad) and we know from Frey et al. 2017 that the risk measures don't tap into a coherent preference.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

03.02.2026 12:03 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 1
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Frontiers | The use of applied improvisation at university: a mini-review AimThis mini review aimed to synthesize current evidence on applied improvisation programs in higher education across disciplines, identifying their impact, ...

L'improvisation appliquée à l'Université, qu'est-ce que c'est ?

Une revue de littérature portée par Marine Jouin et plusieurs autres collègues synthétise la littérature et propose des pistes pour la suite.

Article en open access

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

03.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

the effect of acclimation and the time required are not yet well understood. In our study, even in a highly standardised protocol, we did not find the expected effect of acclimation. Acclimation is probably necessary in many experiments, but we need more data to understand when and how it works.

03.02.2026 08:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New preprint. We explored the impact of pre-experimental acclimation on the behaviour of woodlice. Previous studies suggest that acclimation is a good way to reduce stress in an organism before an experiment. This is probably a good idea, but ⤵️

03.02.2026 08:49 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Introduction à la modélisation statistique bayésienne – IMSB2026

Je viens de terminer une semaine d'introduction à la modélisation statistique bayésienne en R et brms (~24h de cours niveau Master-Doctorat). #rstats #brms

Comme les années précédentes, le code et les slides (en Français) sont disponibles sur le site de la formation lnalborczyk.github.io/IMSB2026/

23.01.2026 13:21 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - PhD contract on ANR COPYCAT : "Study of the relationship between conspiracist beliefs and perceptions of corruption" M/F Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler

📢 Post-doc position – Toulouse (France) 🇫🇷
A post-doctoral position (12 months) is open at CNRS in Toulouse to work with me on the relationship between signal detection theory, conspiracy beliefs, and perceptions of corruption...
🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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22.01.2026 08:39 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights

15.01.2026 12:52 — 👍 18    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
Research Fellow - AR3233 Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science"

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#philosophy #philsci

07.01.2026 19:31 — 👍 72    🔁 69    💬 3    📌 3

I hope this will encourage researchers to return to the field/laboratories.

09.01.2026 13:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0