Lucija Batinovic

ERROR @error.reviews was awarded a Commendation from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science!

For anyone who’s published systematic reviews, how often did you succeed in getting unpublished data by reaching out to authors? I don’t mean additional/IP data from published papers, but new data or data they could not get published. #evidencesynthesis

I asked with the same prompt and z-curve was not mentioned at all. I got too long of a reply but it mentioned:

Among commonly used tests, Peters’ test seems to strike a good balance:
– better power than Begg’s,
– lower false positive rate than Egger’s when heterogeneity is present.

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!

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-...

Agreed, I feel like the overall direction of the entire conference felt too abstract and almost like it’s engaging in “meta-washing”

Agreed, I feel like the overall direction of the entire conference felt too abstract and almost like it’s engaging in “meta-washing”

Yes, very slow, no matter which browser used. It’s been like that since they had the crash…

COSIG logo: COSIG (Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides) Now available at cosig.net!

Anyone can do post-publication peer review.
Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.
Anyone can do forensic metascience.
Anyone can sleuth.

That's why we are launching COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides, an open source resource for all of the above.

cosig.net

What came first, the paper idea or the acronym

5. This is the moment of truth.

The metascience community could tout this as a win and fundraise off of it, cementing their legacy as useful idiots.

Or they can side with science, boldly speaking out about the bad-faith ways the Trump administration is co-opting their language and momentum.

I found this refreshing.

erikengdahl.se/autism/isnt/

Act I: Renaissance
Act II: Cowboy Carter
Act III: TBD

‘Am I gonna regret this?’: The experiences of diagnostic disclosure in autistic adults - Sheena K Au-Yeung, Megan Freeth, Andrew R Thompson, 2025 An increasing number of people receive autism diagnoses in adulthood, and there are few studies investigating autistic adults’ experiences of disclosing their d...

Autistic adults talk about disclosure: "assumptions and lack of understanding about autism meant that not only did disclosure not lead to the desired effect of having their needs met, but they were also either dismissed or discriminated against" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free

Brandolini underestimated how many orders of magnitude are involved

Yeah that’s a very good point. I believe PCI could be more flexible and on hands with making it work than traditional journals may be, so I wonder if that approach would incentivize preregs over registered reports when submitting them directly to journals.

Interesting, if you happened to have edited preregistered studies, would you say there’s any difference in how deviations are perceived when done in an RR format vs. a finalized study that was preregistered?

Thanks! That’s great to hear.

It’s not for me (I hope at least it won’t happen 😂) but I am curious about whether deviations happen less/just as often in registered reports than regular preregs, and what the process is in this case.

For people who published/conducted Stage 2 registered reports, have you ever had issues that required significant deviations from the Stage 1 and how have you handled this? Are there any instances where this did not lead to rejection? #openscience

Can I do another PhD 🥺👉🏽👈🏽

PhD on Metascience

I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

We have the connection folks... RFK jr will find the cause of autism to be something that Elon's neurolink. can fix. Since there is no longer any kind of an FDA, and he is involved with that, guess who is going to fast pass the "cure". This is so fucking dangerous I cannot even....

Trixie and Katya Unhhhh compilations

How a ‘boring administrative task’ transformed my PhD career Good ideas — and impactful tools — don’t just come from rich, Western nations, says Aleksandra Lazić, a social scientist in Serbia.

Good ideas — and impactful tools — don’t just come from rich, Western nations, says Aleksandra Lazić, a social scientist in Serbia

https://go.nature.com/4cPMVUd

The scientific integrity community has many members with no current academic affiliation, who hence make a lot of #ICanHazPDF requests.

Sympathetic institutions could make 1 or 2 fixed-term unremunerated positions available, just for the library access.

Can your university help? 🙏

(Please boost!)

Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python

📚😅🎉

Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData

Amazing progress throughout the years, and the entire platform looks very engaging and easy to use! I really hope to see this spread within psych and adjacent fields.

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.

And it's live RIGHT NOW!

psych-ds.github.io

(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)