Frauke Beyer

“No, we’ve all accepted that the goal is to publish anything and everything and see what sticks. More students. More “collaborations”. So many papers that no human can possibly be paying very much attention to any of it. And we all know where the incentives lie.”

Shingles vaccine protects against dementia?? 🧪

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

The DIM C-BRAINS international PhD program opens its 2026 call for applications. | Paris Brain Institute The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back. Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by the Institut du Cerveau. Applicati...

📚 The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back!

Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by Paris Brain Institute.

📆 Application deadline: February 1, 2026.

👉 Find out more: parisbraininstitute.org/dim-c-brains...

📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you.

📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...

ROSA e.V. - rolling safespace ROSA e.V. ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein, der in Griechenland mit einem umgebauten LKW einen Saferspace für Frauen auf der Flucht bereitstellt

Wenn Ihr noch Spenden loswerden wollt:

rolling-safespace.org

Bildbeschreibung Grafik: Ein Junge kniet und hat ein bedrücktes Gesicht. Dazu von seinem Kopf ausgehend eine Gedankenblase mit dem Text "Ich bin schuld, dass die Klimakrise schlimmer wird." Und ein weiterer Text in roter Schrift mitten im Bild: NEIN. Kinder sind NIE schuld an der Klimakrise.

❗ Kinder bekommen mehr mit, als wir ahnen. Kinder machen sich viele Gedanken.
Kinder hören zum Beispiel, dass Autofahren nicht gut fürs Klima ist. Dennoch werden sie im Auto herumgefahren. Das beschäftigt sie. Viele haben ein schlechtes Gewissen, reden aber nicht darüber.
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Metacheck can now automatically 1) download a preprint from PsyArXiv, 2) create a report of the checks (stats, reporting guidelines, references, code, etc), 3) retrieve the authors email, and 4) send them the report.

Would you as an author appreciate this? When yes, when no?

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened!

Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement.

Nominations close 18 January 2026.

#AcademicSky #Research

1. Transparency is necessary for credibility
2. Transparency is hard to change
3. Require transparency*
4. Transparency is not magic
5. Journals are part of problem
6. Expect more from journals
7. Peer review is not magic
8. A crisis can look a lot like „normal“ science
9. Meta-analysis is not magic

cahier d'exercices pour enfants : "relie les points et colorie, spécial garçons" avec un joueur de foot et un robot en couverture

Que se passe-t-il si une FILLE essaie de relier les points ? 👀

We just preprinted a huge meta-meta-analysis examining the effects of exercise on cognition, memory, and executive function

In short
- 2239 effect sizes
- extreme between-study heterogeneity
- extensive publication bias
- some subgroup/exercise-specific effects

More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)

Rate your score on Factor Fexcectorn.

Well done, Scientific Reports. pubpeer.com/publications...

Ein Mann im gelben Anzug schaut hinter einem Baum hervor, reibt sie die Hände und sieht knilchig aus

Weihnachtsbäckerei: macht so manche leckerei

Knilche:

QUREM BRAUCHT EURE UNTERSTÜTZUNG! Seit dem 01.07.2025 wird QUREMI aufgrund der Haushaltssperre der Stadt Kiel nicht mehr gefördert. QUEER Refugees & Migrants Network Kiel

Das #QUEER #Refugees & #Migrants
Network #Kiel braucht Deine Unterstützung!

Damit #QUREMI bleibt, wirst Du gebraucht: Jede Spende hilft, queere #Geflüchtete weiterhin zu begleiten, zu empowern & in die Community einzubinden.

Ganzer Beitrag:
norden.social/@haki/115610...

#haki #schleswigholstein

LdN455 Rentenstreit gefährdet Regierung, Kann Merz kein Kanzler? Union erwägt Minderheitsregierung, Betrug mit KI-Büchern, Endometriose und Gendermedizin, Feedback zum Bürgergeld, WERO als europäische...

Kudos! The biggest German political podcast @lagedernation.org recently featured endometriosis, women's health & the gender health/data gap lagedernation.org/podcast/ldn4...

WDYT @cogneuroend.bsky.social @kimhoffmann.bsky.social @liviaruehr.bsky.social @nifti12.bsky.social @emilybmay.bsky.social ?

What's next? There are still many interesting questions at the trait level. For example, heritability estimates for BMI vary substantially across methods and suggest that more complex environmental interactions may be at play (an echo of prior work: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28692066/).

So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.

Looks like a great job in a great place, and the honesty in the job description is a nice touch. I mean, is it interdisciplinary scientific data? Then yeah it's going to be parts messy, unstructured and incomplete. Research Data Management is won in the trenches.

Huge congrats to Philipp Kaniuth for successfully defending his PhD summa cum laude (with distinction) “on the measurement of representations and similarity”! Phil was my first PhD candidate, so it’s a particularly special event for me, and he can be very proud of his achievements!

We @opensciencenl.bsky.social proudly present the new work programme for 2026–2027. 13 funding instruments to strengthen #openscience in the Netherlands.
Structured around 5 themes:
🔹infrastructure
🔹capacity
🔹communities
🔹incentives
🔹monitoring

www.openscience.nl/en/news/work...

Glad to see that in the criteria for tenure our department now explicitly includes #openscience. There’s hope!

@ikmz.bsky.social @esserfrank.bsky.social

Presentation slide: "Working with data and code like a pro – Data Literacy, Open Science and Collaborative Coding and CI/CD," by Mike Berger, Pia Voigt, and Matthias Täschner at the ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig General Assembly in Leipzig, 6 September 2023; with logos for ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, the Competence Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science, and Technische Universität Dresden, slides are reusable under CC BY 4.0, and funding from the Federal Ministry of Research, Science and the Arts.

Now on #Zenodo: "Data literacy, Open Science and Collaborative Coding and CI/CD" slides from the @Sca_DS GA workshop presented by Mike Berger, Pia Voigt and Matthias Täschner. 
Share, copy, distribute & adapt the work with proper credit to creators!
🔗 https://zenodo.org/records/17130780

Binney et al. examine preregistration benefits in neuropsychology, and routes to achieving key objectives. They survey barriers and argue that these biases are surmountable. From the Reproducibility collection, please read at buff.ly/kxMjhhd.

Zhou et al. report that parenchymal CSF (pCSF) mapping from T2 relaxometry is more strongly associated with beta-amyloid deposition than other MRI-based glymphatic markers; pCSF is a sensitive, whole brain, non-invasive AD glymphatic dysfunction biomarke (buff.ly/tOAZ7k2)

You et al. reported among older adults that APOE e4 genotype and non-favourable lifestyles were associated with smaller brain volumes and poorer white matter tract integrity. No interactions were found between lifestyle and APOE e4 👉 buff.ly/BVYXp8d

Dadsena et al. report on brain changes in patients with post-COVID-19 condition three years after SARS-CoV-2 infection using multimodal MRI brain imaging, clinical, neuropsychological and fluid markers 👉 buff.ly/mPNoxpe

Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...