Patrick S. Forscher

using AI to review a paper is one thing (and there's a lot to be said abt that), but submitting a paragraph-long AI summary as a review is a whole 'nother level of laziness. editors, flag that shit & never pass it along to the authors. also don't accept any papers or reviews from that reviewer.

Post-tenure scholarly productivity falls way off for most scholars if you're not in a lab field
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New working paper led by Jaspreet Singh: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Some of you may know about repliCATS, in which (mostly Global North) experts used structured peer review to judge judge the credibility of behavioral research.

We used the same method with behavioral scientists from around Nairobi

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We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies.

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If I've piqued your interest, read the full paper here!

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And please do send your feedback our way.

Thanks to Jaspreet Singh, @fallonmody.bsky.social, Joel Wambua, Stephanie Shari, David Wilkonson, and the @replicats.bsky.social team for getting this project done

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This project was a learning experience as it was one of the first that I started at @busaracenter.bsky.social. The project has some flaws.

However, we ended the project with an open dataset of East African credibility assessments. I think that dataset would be fascinating to build upon

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Why did this happen? Honestly I can only speculate. We dig into a few of these speculations in the paper.

However, it does seem that our East African assessors viewed the same papers differently than the original repliCATS assessors

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We expected that East African experts would be more skeptical of the generalizability of the research they assessed than would the original repliCATS experts.

To our surprise, we found the opposite! In fact, across all dimensions of credibility, our East African researchers were more optimistic

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We were especially interested in judgment of generalizability, as much behavioral research in East Africa (and much of the Global South) takes research from the Global North as a starting place and tests whether prior findings generalize to East Africa

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New working paper led by Jaspreet Singh: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Some of you may know about repliCATS, in which (mostly Global North) experts used structured peer review to judge judge the credibility of behavioral research.

We used the same method with behavioral scientists from around Nairobi

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REMINDER: abstracts for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference are due in one week (July 31)!

Any and all work related to large collaborative science is welcome!

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Never been more proud to have published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives! www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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this is the very technology orgs like the UN is adopting to "solve" gender inequity

I've created a shiny app to browse through all (now 3400) open science blog posts. There is a 'happening today' button. Among others, Rolf Zwaan in 2020 on sequential analyses rolfzwaan.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-...

Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.

This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

A bbc Instagram post picturing a very old man drinking custard from a Bird’s Custard jug with the caption “That's my secret to a long life: custard, custard, custard... You can't beat it. I have it every day and I want it every day. Leslie Lemon 106 years old”

This could fully pass for something on Clickhole, but it’s real, and I love it. Even down to his name.

I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "speedrunning" The reason is the left's lack of work ethic ('go fast' rather than 'do it right') and, in a Petersonian sense, to elevate alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace ('fastest mario')

this still makes me giggle uncontrollably

PSE8 Visit the post for more.

Do you want to go to a metascience conference where AI will not solve all problems, you can ask critical questions, and El$evier is not invited? Sign up for the mailing list for the 8th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference in 2026 in Leiden! perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com

A lot of discussions about open science in psychology happened on blogs. I have been archiving them and will make their content available. I remember 37 blogs (with 2827 posts!) but which blogs did I forget, and are not on my list? Please share and reply with any that are missing!

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

SOBC Measure repository -> SOBC Repository

We just pushed an update to the SOBC Measure repository to broaden it to include not just measures of mental processes, but also intervention protocols and indicators of behavior.

repository.scienceofbehaviorchange.org

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There's not a lot of content on the intervention and behavior sub-repositories yet but we hope this can be an extensible framework that can serve behavioral science projects end-to-end.

Check it out! I'd love to hear what you think

repository.scienceofbehaviorchange.org

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SOBC Measure repository -> SOBC Repository

We just pushed an update to the SOBC Measure repository to broaden it to include not just measures of mental processes, but also intervention protocols and indicators of behavior.

repository.scienceofbehaviorchange.org

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Personally I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong in trying to consolidate a discipline in the traditional sense. To me it seems more like someone within the organizing committee for Metascience did not reflect sufficiently on what they wanted the values of the conference to be

And I say this as someone whose day job involves a lot of courting of big funding interests in order to sustain your team. Of course the money needs to exist to hold a big meeting but anyone developing finding streams should know what their values are as they do that work

I’m pretty disappointed to read this and other accounts of the Metascience conference, as I think there is room for a broad conference that attempts to be a big tent. But a metascience that does not retain its skepticism of big corporate interests is not one that I want a home in

A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements Reflections from meetings of Metascience 2025 and the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science

New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

In most prior years, I would have spent the past few weeks at #SIPS2025 and #Metascience2025. This year, I did not attend.

This happened for two reasons. First, I was busy supporting @engys.bsky.social to put on our own conference: #ESAAfrica2025, the premier conference for experimental economics

Expressions of interest in this Metascience PhD scholarship @unimelb are open now