David A. Sbarra

@pci-regreports.bsky.social -- look at us go!

If you've heard the term bestiary but never knew what it meant, now is your chance to learn more about open science-- new at AMPPS:
doi.org/10.1177/2515... . A compendium of beasts! A most perfect title...

Very bad, awful, no good...writing is on the wall here.

The Academy of Psychological Clinical Science is offering dissertation awards to students in our member programs. Please see: www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/07-07-25-apc... for all the details, deadline 9/1/25.

We also need reviewers, details at same link!

I have always wondered... can a paper even be considered any good without a limecat reference?!

Great new review on mixed-methods research in AMPPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Congrats to @syeducation.bsky.social and @dulcewestberg.bsky.social . We need more of this work across the different areas of psych science!

Check out this awesome new paper about #OpenScience in developing countries! Paper is forthcoming at AMPPS- very proud that we can promote this work. Congrats to the large and international authorship team, and esp @hcp4715.bsky.social for leading the charge. @psychscience.bsky.social

What he said! 👇 Help spread the word. We're looking for the next Director of our Behavioral Health Clinic, a core member of our clinical faculty who will help lead/organize clinical training at the Univ of Arizona.

Wiley goes "PCI-hostile" with a backward looking move on preprints. Read more on it here: osf.io/tn8mh. Meanwhile, AMPPS just accepted our first PCI RR friendly direct to publication paper!

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳

After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org
#PsychSciSky #scipub

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

10 Early Career Researchers Join APS’s 2025 Cohort of Editorial Fellows APS welcomes 10 researchers from across the globe to the second cohort of APS Editorial Fellows.

We have a new group of Editorial Fellows at @psychscience.bsky.social journals-- check out their bios here: www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-ma...

Please spread the word!

Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Yikes, sorry. Eeek! Send me an email and I'll take it up with the team at SAGE.

ITO of workload, recommenders don't have papers assigned to them, they choose from available papers; so, you can work in this capacity without having it be an overwhelming commitment. There's recommender training, and you'll learn a lot-- I certainly did.

@psych.peercommunityin.org is getting ready to launch! This is going to be a major advance for open and transparent psychological science via preprint peer review. Looking for more RECOMMENDERS-- similar role to an AE at traditional journals. Please consider it and share news about the psych PCI!

I've been asked about silver linings, and I can't see any. It is a terrible waste of talent, and a betrayal of social contracts. By the time this loss is felt by the public it will be hard to recover. It makes me so sad.

@therealspr.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @sfn.org @dsbarra.bsky.social @esfinn.bsky.social @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @dylanggee.bsky.social @ajaysatpute.bsky.social @neurosynth.bsky.social @jamielarsh.bsky.social

Some nice new papers hitting the AMPPS website-- check 'em out! @psychscience.bsky.social

April 14, 2025 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Josh Gruenbaum Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration Sean R. Keveney Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Thomas E. Wheeler Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Education Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler: We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11, 2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community. Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s values but also threaten its academic mission. To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural, policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source. Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures; imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to strength…

recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement in principle. Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration. William A. Burck Robert K. Hur Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 1300 I Street NW Suite 900 Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 King & Spalding LLP 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article) It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

This is really spot on: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Me when I submit a new paper to a journal 🙏🏼

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.


I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

that's preprint only or do people post peer-reviewed articles? I'll check it out. Thx

Science nerds: What are the best platforms that are available to do post-publication peer review? Of published work, not necessarily preprints, but I guess the distinction is blurred with platforms like PCI or eLife, etc? All thoughts appreciated.

Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

Seems like a good time to bump this excellent piece written by (at the time) trainees. Highlights many longstanding issues with the internship model as well as insights gleaned from new challenges encountered during the pandemic.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Someone asked me last week how much I work on the journal each week. I did a careful study of this and think it's about 7-8 hours/week; can be variable, of course, but this is a pretty stable estimate, I think... FYI FWIW.

Replace me! Serving as EiC at #AMPPS has been wonderful-- great people, great ideas, great work! You should go for it.

I don’t post here often, but today, I wanted to share a paper I truly enjoyed working on, which was recently published in one of my favorite journals, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....