James Bartlett

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You normally speak so much sense 😂 1.5 is my absolute minimum, I find single spacing so much harder to read.

What beautifully clear visualisation!

Highlights of the US National Academies Report on “Reproducibility and Replicability in Science” An interview with Harvey Fineberg and Victoria Stodden by Xiao-Li Meng

I love some of the points in this interview. Reproducibility is essential but a failure to replicate not necessarily a problem. They describe helpful and non-helpful sources, where you expect a rate of replication failure given uncertainty in the system.

hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/6an6ppum...

As an aside, immensely funny that undergraduates are (rightly) paid to complete verification reports, since it's - you know - a job role that should be compensated 🤷‍♂️

Teaching for Large-Scale Reproducibility Verification We describe a unique environment in which undergraduate students from various STEM and social science disciplines are trained in data provenance and reproducible methods, and then apply that knowle...

Some really interesting details in here for supporting/training undergraduates to complete reproducibility checks. Given the new psych science initiative, I didn't realise some economics journals have been doing it systematically for years.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Come work with us!

We are recruiting for a 1 year fixed term Assistant Professor in Psychology

@micireland.bsky.social has a beautiful campus right in the heart of Limerick city & MICPsych is a small but beautifully formed welcoming & supportive department

www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

Maybe basing it on news articles? Not everyone will go to university, but almost everyone comes across news of studies etc. Teach people to recognise correlation/causation, confounds, accumulating evidence etc. I’ve never taught below HE though, so I don’t know a realistic level.

It was also the most ridiculous editorial experience I've ever witnessed, where it was published around two years after submission, despite being a registered report 🤷‍♂️

Led by Thomas Rhys Evans, we recently had this multi-site replication study published on unethical workplace behaviour: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....! It was a great opportunity to pool resources and get dissertation students involved.

I don't think it's crazy, I think it's sensible. It's really easy to overestimate statistical literacy when you're surrounded by scientists, so developing that, interpreting graphs, challenging confirmation bias will always be worthwhile.

This looks incredible! I absolutely adore it when there is an open online book but you can pay for a print copy if you want one.

July 2025 By Joanna Rutkowska, SIPS Awards Committee Chair

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science.

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Innovative and interactive statistics teaching using Quarto Quarto is an open-source system that is useful for creating scientific teaching resources, particularly statistical resources, in various formats. Quarto is the next-generation version of R Markdown,...

Neat little article on using Quarto and creating course materials: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Resonates nicely with our experiences creating all our workbooks in R Markdown / Quarto.

I completely forgot I wrote this in a past life to support creating tasks in OpenSesame osf.io/tm3z2 😅 I'm essentially looking for a longer version of PDF page 22 about creating/recreating tasks, so maybe I need to go back and write it myself...

Fantastic book but not quite what I'm looking for. I remembered in a past life I wrote this: osf.io/tm3z2. Page 22 of the PDF is a very short version of what I'm looking for, so maybe I do need to work on it again 😅

Oh that's not promising if you've never been able to find anything! If I didn't already have a long to-do list, I might have been tempted 😅

Thanks! I couldn’t see anything standing out but looks like a treasure trove regardless.

Does anyone know of a (preferable accessible) guide to understanding / building cognitive tasks? You have software specific books like Building Experiments in PsychoPy, but I'm looking for more of a dummy's guide to tasks to think about trial structure, responses etc.

Really interesting post here. For me, statisticians teaching statistics to psychologists rarely goes well, while the average psychologist teaching statistics is borderline dangerous. I think the combination of data skills, statistics, and domain knowledge is the key thing and often one is missing.

RSS issues joint statement expressing concerns over university assessment

We have issued a statement with @ima-maths.bsky.social & @londmathsoc.bsky.social on our growing concerns over university assessment integrity - especially with the rise of AI

We urge universities to support a full range of assessment methods, including in-person exams

A screenshot of the paper, titled "Bridging qualitative methods and open research"

My comment about open research and qualitative methods is out! I argue that open research needs to take seriously the notion that "rigour" looks different for different methods and can learn from qualitative traditions. It feels very apt to be at #QMIP2025 for this publication day rdcu.be/evEpk

Ah yes, I spot it! I'll hopefully come along to that session.

I wondered if you’d be there! Do you have a talk or just attending?

Also, I've wrangled being in Münster two days before the conference. So, if any of my German contacts have any recommendations on things to do/see near Münster or want to meet up, sag mir Bescheid!

Super excited to see the final programme for ESPLAT! The final conference in my workshop roadshow creating open education materials. No pressure being the only event on the morning prior to the welcome session 😅

www.uni-muenster.de/Psychologie/...

I spent the first two episodes repeatedly saying: "surely that was like four years ago, not last year" 😅

Ah this reminds me when I was a PhD at Coventry University. GTAs were employed and paid through a subsidiary so you couldn’t technically say you were employed by the university 🤷‍♂️

I cover research ethics / integrity in a lecture every year and you couldn't script the whole Ariely / Gino fiasco. It's unbelievably fun updating the timeline every year for another layer of shenanigans.

Riiggghhhtttt. Didn't think it was that separate! I normally submit them under PsyArXiv, so not sure what happened here. That's why I prefaced my comment with "as you're the chair" 😅