Savannah C. Lewis

Psychological Science Accelerator - March News from the Accelerator Savannah Lewis

The latest newsletter is out! An SPSP roundup, with PSA005 findings presented to a packed audience! Collaboration opportunities in PSAJTF1 Moral Experiences & PSA009 Gendered Leader.

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‘Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisis Survey of more than 1,600 biomedical researchers also flagged small sample sizes and cherry-picking of data as leading causes of reproducibility problems.

Is the "publish or perish" culture at the center of the troubles we're experiencing in scientific publishing? Or is it actually because of the growing corporate greed of the big publishers?

What do you think #AcademicSky?

#SciPub 🧪

Februrary News from the Accelerator – Psychological Science Accelerator Erin Buchanan

The latest newsletter is out for the Psychological Science Accelerator! PSA 007 (semantic priming project) has reviewed minor reviews back on their stage two registered report! 009 Gendered Leadership and JTF3 Error Correction both started data collection.



Check it out here:

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2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb.
Please share!

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Save on #SPSP2025 in Denver! Register by January 16 for Early Bird rates and join us February 20-22 for our 25th Annual Convention. Experience cutting-edge personality and social psychology research in the Mile High City!

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Dear academics

We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists.

This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by…

*checks notes*

…every other industry on earth.

It is definitely a hard endeavor! Erin Buchanan and I are working on a paper rn that defines BTS. We started with a version of it called Who BTS (it’s available on Osf) where we arbitrarily define it.. so now we are testing our definition.

Super stoked to see the new study submissions and what our assistant directors have in store for the PSA!

Me trying to keep up with the literature

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Murder and plastic surgery….. so that’s sketchy

The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.

the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Examining the replicability of online experiments selected by a decision market - Nature Human Behaviour This study finds that decision markets can be a useful tool for selecting studies for replication. For a sample of 26 online experiments published in PNAS selected by a decision market, the authors fi...

New in NHB: We systematically replicated 26 of 41 PNAS social science studies that used MTurk. The approach provides a proof-of-concept for using decision markets to select findings to replicate.

Replication effect sizes were 45% of original effect sizes.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks! This is one of the closest I’ve found but I haven’t found any looking at the morality/personality aspects of the research accused of doing QRPs.

Also, shoutout to @juliabottesini.com @mijke.bsky.social and @simine.com for a stellar paper.

All right #psychsky… who knows of papers looking at how researchers taking part in QRPs are perceived? So far, I’ve found some stellar one on researchers views on QRPs…

#dissresearch

I have been thinking of doing a meta-science one but haven’t made it that far yet!

Well the cat just went marching by me with a funfetti cupcake in her mouth so that's a fun way to learn my wife made them and that the cat will eat them if left unattended

Social psych studies are getting crazy again.
This time, instead of ridiculous conclusions, they are written with 10 studies, 60,000 people, and written in so complicated a way that it is nearly impossible to figure out what is happening from one study to the next.

#psychsky

Hello! Add me pls 💜

Hey thanks for making this! It was on my “to-do” list. Can I get an add?

They all have been added to the BTS Orgs/groups starter pack!

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We’ve made a big team science leaders starter pack!

Please let me know if you want to be added or know someone who should be!

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Happy birthday to me…

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