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RENEW WAR ON SANTA CLAUS Asbury Park, N.J. July 8 - War on Santa Claus has been renewed by the School of Methods of the New Jersey Sunday School Teachers' Association in session here. The battle against the children's idol of Christmastide was begun last summer on the ground that the time-honored institution of Kris Kringle takes the minds of the young scholars from the religion [sic] significance of the day. Last year the teachers sought to have substituted a model Christmas festival, in which the stereopticon played a prominent part and the jolly old saint was banished. It failed Now the teachers have a new scheme of a "living Christmas tree." Teachers and scholars of Sunday schools are to stand in serried ranks upon a circular platform built in tiers, each holding a Christmas tree branch, laden with candles and gifts. At a given signal all are to step down and carry their branches through the audience, distributing the gifts. --Miners Journal, 9 July 1904

1904

ZPID Trier: Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent) (f/m/d) leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 #Stellenangebot

The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:

It should also not fade IF things like mutualism or other feedback loops are at play.

Who wouldn't want this?

YouTube video by Gilad Feldman Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework | CUHK library

Workshop I gave for the Chinese University of Hong Kong now online:
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"

Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh.

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...

Sometimes people, like programs, get caught in a loop.

These loops can last minutes, these loops can last years.

But the solution is the same.
Just turn it off and on again.

Realizing that the people who decide the defaults in stats programs have an unrecognized influence on all statistical analyses.

#stats

Corrections to misinformation work & may increase perceptions of truth & feelings towards the target of the misinfo!

For 1-2 weeks at best.

From @jhchae.bsky.social, Groeling, & @hyunjinsong.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

#psych

We need to see how long our interventions last!

Fasting for 8-48 hours shows no major effect on cognitive abilities.
Longer fasting shows even less cognitive effects, but there may be some small 8-hour effects. Therefore, lunch to lunch is probably best for a 24hour fast.

From Bamberg & @davidmoreau.bsky.social

psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles...

Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.

Wheeled toys were all the rage in the ancient world. Here are four lovely examples: a Greek horse, a Mesopotamian ram, an Iranian hedgehog & a Mesoamerican jaguar. The jaguar one is particularly cool because it shows that Mesoamericans knew about wheels; they just didn't use them for transport.

Upcoming Zoom talk:
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"

(Chinese University of Hong Kong library)
Tues, Nov 25 2025, 2-330pm HK time (GMT+8)

All are welcome.

Registration:
cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view...

I can talk for hours about BTS and especially about my dream of clinical BTS. If this sounds interesting, feel free to invite me to your department. No funding required, just cookies and (virtual) warm hugs. #BigTeamScience
This work received support from the @fwf-at.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at

It is either a really good or a really bad time for my call for countries to come together and allow free collaboration and tool use between countries outside the realm of international relations problems...

osf.io/preprints/ps...

the internet has decided that em-dashes are a hallmark of llm writing, which is *extremely* annoying to me, as someone who uses em-dashes all the time.

dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good

Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ok, fine, I'm gonna make a DAG. #stats and #episky people, what is dagitty and how do I make it DAG?

Draw 2 boxes: exposure & outcome on opposite sides of screen.
Draw 3 causes of exposure w arrows going from cause to exposure.
Draw 3 unique causes of outcome same way.
Draw 3 causes for each of the 6 causes.
Connect any of left side of screen to right side of screen.
Repeat until out of causes

If I ever write an r package for DAGs, I call dibs on dagnabbit

...through foreign language instruction?

www.polyu.edu.hk/cbs/rclcn/im...

Wanna do #openscience and get credit for it in your career? Try a #replication at @i4replication.bsky.social i4replication.org. You will contribute to better science, build your skills and get a CV item.

It's that flair I guess!

Power analyses are all fine and dandy until your power analysis comes back with you needing N = 34 people to have 90% power, you run the study with N = 34, get the effect, and no one believes your study because your sample size is so small.

Good to see that some people are still reading the full paper and not only the abstract. I think Science would thank you if it can. :)

a man pointing to a sign that says believe ALT: a man pointing to a sign that says believe

Can reading one article change your belief in free will? New studies say maybe—but the effect doesn’t last. Our beliefs might be more resilient than they seem

New work by @olivergenschow.bsky.social
@protzko.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social 💡

Online Moral Conformity: how powerful is a Group of Strangers when influencing an Individual’s Moral Judgments during a video meeting? - Current Psychology People make moral decisions every day. When making such decisions, they may be influenced by their companions (a so-called moral conformity effect). Increasingly, people make decisions in online envir...

Asch seems to keep replicating and is hopefully okay
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Kitty doesn't seem to really work in real life scenarios (e.g. Cctv footage)
research.vu.nl/files/259918...

Rob Chavez gives the helpful/correct answer below, but here's another thought:

Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.

International research collaborations run into international problems: Embargoes, authorship conflicts, ethical use agreements. This should not be the way.
We propose a framework, a memorandum of understanding between countries, to allow free collaboration between researchers

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