David A. Sbarra

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Meeting the Bare Minimum: Quality Assessment of Idiographic Temporal Networks Using Power Analysis and Predictive-Accuracy Analysis - Yong Zhang, Jordan Revol, Ginette Lafit, Anja F. Ernst, Josip Razu... The network theory of psychopathology inspired clinicians and researchers to use idiographic networks to study how symptoms of an individual interact over time,...

From my master’s thesis to my first PhD project — excited to share that this work (together with @jordanrvl.bsky.social, @ginettelafit.bsky.social, Anja Franziska Ernst, Josip Razum, Eva Ceulemans, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social) is now published in AMPPS!

Link: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Looking forward to this next week!

During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.

Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Massive thanks to our Deputy @umpamdk.bsky.social and Associate Editors @rogierk.bsky.social @jkflake.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social & Yasemin Kisbu... and to everyone at @psychscience.bsky.social . @felixthoemmes.bsky.social -- your turn now!

Taking Stock of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science at the End of the Beginning - David A. Sbarra, 2025

My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

This paper provides guidance and tools for conducting open and reproducible systematic reviews in psychology. It emphasizes the importance of systematic reviews for evidence-based decision-making and the growing adoption of open science practices. Open science enhances transparency, reproducibility, and minimizes bias in systematic reviews by sharing data, materials, and code. It also fosters collaborations and enables involvement of non-academic stakeholders. The paper is designed for beginners, offering accessible guidance to navigate the many standards and resources that may not obviously align with specific areas of psychology. It covers systematic review conduct standards, pre-registration, registered reports, reporting standards, and open data, materials and code. The paper is concluded with a glimpse of recent innovations like Community Augmented Meta-Analysis and independent reproducibility checks.

There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts.

Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Thanks for the great endorsement!

Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social

I think the container paper is predicated on some knowledge of version control, but to this point, we do have on Git version control paper at AMPPS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Found this gem of a paper in the AMPPS archives on using containers in psychological science. What's a container, you ask? Read on...

Also see: osf.io/preprints/os...

Just when you were getting used to the term preregistration... New paper at AMPPS calling for improved terminology in the field and better alignment with TOP 2025 . journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you wish to submit a Commentary on this paper, please do so by the end of December, 2025. To submit a Commentary, please follow our Submission Guidelines: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... . The authors of the target article will reply to the accepted Commentary articles as a set.

Call for Commentary articles at AMPPS! We recently accepted a "Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal Level Theory" (osf.io/preprints/ps...) and are soliciting Commentary articles on this paper.

The Arizona Daily Star ran a great story on @uarizona.bsky.social's decision not to sign the compact for academic excellence. I especially loved this quote

If you do online data collection, this paper is worth checking out! I especially like the access to the codebook, which helps operationalize best practices: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science - Volume 8, Number 3 Table of contents for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 3

Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3

APCS (www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/)-- the Academy-- is a major training organization in clinical psychological science. We worked with the Academy's leadership team to craft this letter and to encourage programmatic self-study in open science training. Let's get to work!

We're searching for a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology here at the University of Arizona! Come to Tucson-- great place to live and work! 🌄🌵🏀 @uarizona.bsky.social

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Absolute best breakdown of this "compact" and its inherent ridiculousness. Thanks!

Apropos of recent open science conversations - this paper is an awesome primer for grad students and faculty who want to learn more: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

I've obtained the Trump compact document, let me summarize it for you.

Rigorous science is transparent science.

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

A Faustian bargain- it’ll never end well. These schools must together to oppose this “compact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

US-based 2025 NSF GRFP Competition is severely reduced, with dramatic exclusions added in the dark. Here's a petition you can sign. Please consider signing and circulating. Also see: jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Great news-- @felixthoemmes.bsky.social to be the next EiC at AMPPS! See below for information about joining his team.

I was so unimpressed with this interview. I could go on and on, but simply: there’s no there-there. Just culture war cudgels to the moon. She also uses a deeply weird logic that universities wanted to change, and we gave them a permission structure to do so with our draconian mandates. Hahaha

Love to hear it! I felt similarly about the paper.

This report shows us that 1.7% of N = 919 papers studied were preregistered and 6.0% had a pre-study power analysis. Transparency goes way beyond preregistration... read the paper to find out more!