Samantha Joel

Editors already grade the quality of reviews at a lot of journals. It would be important that low-quality reviews do not improve the ratio.

Of course this wouldn't apply to new scholars who aren't asked to review. You would have to decline a certain number before this kicks in. Low-quality reviews also should not improve the ratio.

Notably, journals already keep track of all these things (submissions, invites, declines, review quality)

I would be in favor of journals keeping track of the ratio of articles a given researcher submits versus reviews. When the ratio reaches a certain threshold, you can't submit any more articles to that journal as an author until you fix the ratio by reviewing. Seems very fair.

Using CATAcode for Choose-All-That-Apply Sexual Orientation and Gender Questions In mid-2025, I collected data from trans participants, and some of my survey questions were choose-all-that-apply. Since that time, Merrin and Nickodem (2025) released an R package, CATAcode, to he…

Started a blog! One of my first posts walks through how to prep your data to use the CATAcode #rpackage (with code + diagrams). With CATAcode, you can easily summarize and visualize responses from choose-all-that-apply questions:

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Lessons from other eroded democracies show there’re multiple ways to destroy the free press.Yes, you can arrest/intimidate journalists like last week.You can also buy news organizations, destroy their credibility and gut their newsrooms. You can sue frivolously until newsrooms can’t afford to fight.

New signature added: "All emails 100% human-written."

A list of Canadian companies profiting off of ICE and Trump's violent mass deportation regime Watch now | Several Canadian companies appear to be pocketing profits as this horrific agenda rolls out.

Canadians! If you're looking for ways to aid the resistance efforts of Americans, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social compiled a resource of Canadian companies with ICE contracts. These are excellent targets for local resistance with international effects!

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I'm supporting Avi for a lot of reasons. But primarily: he seems to understand that Canada is basically five corporations in a trench coat and he has a detailed plan to fix the problem.

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Today is the LAST DAY to sign up to vote on who will replace Jagmeet as leader of the NDP. It's been nine years since we last got to choose a leader of this party. Canadian primaries: all of the importance, none of the gravitas. Help us elect someone good!

Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...

Some thoughts:

1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.

2. History professors are qualified nominators.

3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.

4. He would be so mad.

Two cards side by side. Left card: Jill Andrew endorses Avi Lewis for NDP Leader. Right card: Group photo and Jill Andrew quote: "I am impressed with Avi's immense passion for community-based, grassroots organizing. He is meeting us where we are at and he listens and that gives me hope! Avi knows we are at a critical moment where platitudes just won't cut it. Only real, people-centred solutions can cut through."

Jill made history as the first Black, queer MPP in Ontario, and she’s fought relentlessly for affordable housing, health care, the arts, and gender & racial justice.

She is a principled, courageous leader who knows how move a room — and a movement. I'm delighted to have her support.

Avi Lewis is proposing a public option for grocery stores!

Create competition to force the grocery giants to lower their prices.

Ooh! Example gestures?

⏰ 4 days left! We're building a movement of movements that's been inspiring people across Canada. Don't miss your chance to be a part of it!

You must become an NDP member by Jan 28th if you want to have a say over its next leader.

Join today: https://avilewis.link/join

We have a new paper in Science today on how malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy.

AI systems can already coordinate autonomously, infiltrate communities, and fabricate social consensus.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social & @daniel-thilo.bsky.social!

I fully expected the rest of the meme to say, "How did it end up like BAS"

Trump: Nice country you got there, hate to see anything bad happen to it.

CNN/CNBC: Trump says country is nice and he does not want anything bad to happen to it

I've gotta assume that they removed all mirrors from their environments years ago.

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication.

For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

The NDP got absolutely pummeled in the last federal election. Historically, this is when a party is most open to change. Since Layton, the party has moved toward the center and it hasn't gone well. Now could be the time for the party to return its bold, democratic socialist roots.

If you're a progressive in Canada, you should know that the NDP leadership race is currently ongoing, and January 28 is the deadline to register with the NDP to be able to vote on the next party leader.

On Guard For Thee A Canada-specific subreddit that allows all types of Canadian content. The only general Canadian subreddit that doesn't allow bigotry or hate.

Hey everyone! Tomorrow (Jan 19th), I’ll be answering your questions on Reddit's r/onguardforthee from 3–5 PM ET! Find me at u/avilewis.

Bring your questions and ideas! See you there: www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee

I read Avi's platform, watched a couple of his videos, and immediately signed up to volunteer for his campaign.

This is the kind of political leadership we need in Canada right now. I really think he could revitalize the party.

My absolute favorite aspect of this premise is the part where the general public is willing to read a dissertation in exchange for money.

The Dean of Yale? No thanks, I'm holding out for my phone call from the Provost of Canterbury

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I love when my grad students send me dorky memes

🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)

This paper provides guidance and tools for conducting open and reproducible systematic reviews in psychology. It emphasizes the importance of systematic reviews for evidence-based decision-making and the growing adoption of open science practices. Open science enhances transparency, reproducibility, and minimizes bias in systematic reviews by sharing data, materials, and code. It also fosters collaborations and enables involvement of non-academic stakeholders. The paper is designed for beginners, offering accessible guidance to navigate the many standards and resources that may not obviously align with specific areas of psychology. It covers systematic review conduct standards, pre-registration, registered reports, reporting standards, and open data, materials and code. The paper is concluded with a glimpse of recent innovations like Community Augmented Meta-Analysis and independent reproducibility checks.

There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts.

Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...