I always hated doi links in references; a pain to find them.
But NOW it is a great way to check for LLM-hallucinated references.
And this, in evolutionary biology, is called a spandrel.
Something that evolved for one purpose but now serves a different purpose (or none at all).
#phdsky
An old man drinking coffee. In the first panel he is looking at a computer. In the second panel he turns and looks at the reader. Text, panel 1: "Yesterday I was an expert on contract law." Text, panel 2: "Today I am an expert on war."
Oh, Bluesky. Never change.
28.02.2026 14:06 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Just a plea from a struggling stats instructor, could we possibly debate why Type I sums of squares is the default in the base R anova functions
26.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The last SPSP (2015, Long Beach) I went to was so toxic, I haven't been back.
I've been told that was unusual and because of the Reproducibility project: Psychology.
Now I am going back to my first SPSP since then.
I sure hope the SCORE project isn't released this week...
#psych #meta
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I love this kind of stuff.
The oldest sewn clothing has been found.
Shoes and hides sewn together, along with animal traps, found in Oregon.
Made about 10,000 years ago.
From Richard L. Rosencrance
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
#phdsky
Best line about fadeout!
17.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Registered Reports are the way forward
12.02.2026 14:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great team here!
12.02.2026 12:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our lab has the capacity to test ~500 uni students each semester
If you’re a researcher in cognitive psychology or metascience and need data collection support, we’d love to collaborate. We can help collect high-quality data from a large student sample.
Get in touch to discuss potential projects!
I'd love to see an American Culinary Class Wars where the judges are Thomas Keller and Guy Fieri and they are always 100% blind to who cooked what.
11.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nmin = 51?
10.02.2026 21:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have a suspicion researchers have a quantity, let's call it Nmin.
Where any study whose sample size is below Nmin, REGARDLESS OF STATISTICAL POWER, is summarily ignored.
It makes doing within subjects experiments irksome.
Social psychologists' Nmin average seems around 200-250.
#meta #psych
NO BOOKS FOR BOYS Juvenile Literature a Thing of the Past in America, Says Hezekiah Butterworth Author of the Zig-Zag Journeys Says Boys Are Growing Up Too Fast --The Minneapolis Journal, 25 Apr 1903
1903
10.02.2026 01:10 — 👍 55 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 3
Anytime you see a product criticized for "hacking your dopamine reward system"
and it is not a chemical substance,
they just mean it's enjoyable.
That's it.
The product is enjoyable.
Absolutely! As you probably know better than anyone, finding highly able wealthy 18-year-olds who randomly don't go to college is probably incredibly difficult.
Gap year kids maybe?
Maybe it's my own scientism bias but it seems to me:
If something exists independent of what people say it is, it can be studied & understood.
If something only exists as what people say it is, studying people tells us what it is.
Is something missing here or are one of the premises wrong?
Where are the economists at who somehow have a dataset of all people wait listed at only one college who either did or did not get into college?
04.02.2026 18:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
every once in a while I read a paper that changes me.
If you do research involving between-Ss experiments or interpreting between-people correlations in any way (e.g. SEM)
read this paper, weep, & don't ignore the implications.
from Michael D Hunter
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#psych
Really crazy that so many Americans based their entire life around carrying guns to protect US from authoritarians & pedophiles, then when confronted with authoritarians & pedophiles they joined in as paramilitary terrorizing innocent civilians & protecting the pedophiles from accountability.
02.02.2026 03:28 — 👍 291 🔁 95 💬 5 📌 7
If you're interested in data sleuthing but aren't sure where to start,
or if you're conducting a systematic review/meta-analysis and want to ensure you're not including junk studies,
check out this Cochrane training session on Trustworthiness Assessment by @jdwilko.bsky.social
What is a great journal that really likes tutorial papers and re-analyses (metasciencey) that helps translate econometrics to Psychology but DOESN'T charge an APC?
#psych #meta #stats
Both questionable (e.g. p-hacking) and open (e.g. pre-registration) research practices are prevalent in education research. We sought to understand the explanations given by educational researchers for why either should or should not be used. Two teams of researchers independently analysed open-ended survey responses from 1488 education researchers on their feelings about questionable and open research practices. Despite using different analytic approaches, all of the major categorizations of participant responses were similar or related across teams. Our findings suggest that although respondents believe that questionable research practices should not be used, they conceded there are systemic reasons some use them. Similarly, although respondents generally support open practices, they noted situations in which they were not appropriate or necessary for education research. These findings can serve as a catalyst for training and policy initiatives. #MetaSci #Methodology #EduSky #AcademicSky #OpenSci
“Our findings suggest that although respondents believe that questionable research practices should not be used, they conceded there are systemic reasons some use them.”
Open Acc: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
BSky authors: @sarahcaroleo.bsky.social, @jesse-fleming.bsky.social, @bryancook.bsky.social
What drives retention in online longitudinal research? We conducted an experiment (N=1,798) on @joinprolific.bsky.social, orthogonally manipulating payment rate (£6–£9/hr + bonus) and session interval (1, 2, or 4 weeks) across five sessions. The findings challenge some common assumptions 👇
29.01.2026 14:50 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
My Mom: What are you working on now?
Me: A Monte Carlo simulation on the lowly correlation coefficient.
My Mom: I thought you were studying how memory biases influence prejudice against Kids These Days, why are you doing this?
Me: What does it look like Im doing?
behold, we found great variation in how people think! Many activities that we thought would be “gaming” weren't & vice versa, eg half of the participants interpreted ‘gambling’ to be ‘gaming’. Ergo: surveying ‘gaming’ without defining it creates data mess
28.01.2026 09:56 — 👍 49 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2
Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
Me thinking I like reading #philosophy until I get hit with a sentence like this.
Seriously, who writes this, slaps it, and says that's good that's not going anywhere?
P. S. this is a footnote calling to another footnote.
Great team in a beautiful city!
22.01.2026 10:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here, we start the process towards global random sampling. We can't fully get there, but we can make steps. Our framework:
Cluster random sampling, proportional weighting, BTS, nonresponse bias correction.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
with @miguelsilan.bsky.social @grinschglsandra.bsky.social
#psych
