Jade Pickering, PhD

a visual illusion: what appears to be some strangely shaped pink pieces of cloth are actually the background on which several forks are laying

these are forks

The first version of the open science blog archive is complete, with 3530 posts from 52 blogs. Browse them in the online Shiny app: shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science... All blog posts are ordered chronologically. Have fun exploring part of the open science history in psychology!

July 2025 By Joanna Rutkowska, SIPS Awards Committee Chair

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science.

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Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck Researchers increasingly use the Open Science Framework (OSF) to share files, such as data and code underlying scientific publications, or ...

New blog post: Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/07/easi...

Downloading all files in an OSF project can be a hassle. Not anymore, with Papercheck! Just run:

osf_file_download("6nt4v")

A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!

🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?

Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

End of an era as yesterday was my last day at Gorilla. I learned a lot and met amazing people, but it's time for new adventures! 🦍❤️

Spending the next month enjoying the Mancunian sunshine (🤞), exploring Corfu, spending time with people close to me, and preparing for my next exciting chapter (🤫)

📣 Call for Proposals: SIPS-PCI Registered Report Funding Partnership!
The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and Peer Community In Registered Reports @pci-regreports.bsky.social invite researchers from all areas of psychology to submit empirical research projects for consideration.

We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops!

Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!

This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm

Out now in Collabra: Psychology: Automated Reproducibility Testing in R Markdown.
The R package reproducibleRchunks, which stores metadata about original computational results and verifies later reproduction attempts automatically. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

The FORRT May newsletter is now out 🎉

🤝 Get paid to co-create open-access educational materials
📰 Updates on the Replication Research Journal
📅 FORRT Replication Hub Hackathon (20th June)
🏗️ FORRT at SIPS 2025

👉 Read here: mailchi.mp/forrt/forrt-...
📩 Subscribe here: forrt.org/newsletters/

Introducing the Medical Evidence Project And the quest to make less dead people

Friends, I have news.

It is very good news.

You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.

jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...

Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles.

Read and consider signing with your support.

www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

I have two @theameliaproject.bsky.social tickets to the evening show but I'm gutted because I won't be able to make it 💔😭 know of any Amelia fans who'd like them?

I'm running a data upskilling workshop on using Quarto/Github Pages for dissemination. I cover books, presentations, and websites, and you can see all the materials here: bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio.... To quote @emilynordmann.bsky.social "For the love of god, share what you do"!

Distraction Comix | The University of Sheffield Player Autistic people share their experiences of distraction.

Created as part of Dr Daniel Poole’s research, this comic may help us understand some Autistic experiences - how everyday spaces can either help or make things harder.

Seems to highlight some nice points about monotropism - what do you think?

player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/distr...

Anyone in my network have their own network of people in the realms of patient and public involvement, public contribution, co-production, experts by experience? 📢

My old lab group are looking for public contributors to have their say on the topic of #OpenResearch

Let your research do the talking!
We’re awarding 5 🦍 grants ($1,770 each)—could one be yours?

Submit a 500-word research proposal + overview on how one could support your next study for a chance to win!

If you're exploring #language, #linguistics or anything in between—apply now!
➡️ bit.ly/3FeV9rX

Hopefully no one there. The sky is clear now so seems to be under control thankfully.

This is after it began to be contained. I live just off the Roundthorn industrial estate and the explosions lasted maybe 15-20mins. Before this the whole sky was thick with smoke and you couldn't see a thing!

We're running a survey to find out what public contributors know/would like to know about open research. Get in touch to share with contributors you work with

Public contributors are also known as patient involvement volunteers, co-production, experts by experience
Ellen.Poliakoff@manchester.ac.uk

Been attending SIPS since 2019! I've met so many amazing people and been involved in loads of projects I wouldn't have otherwise. It really helped me during my PhD and postdocs, and SIPS still supports my passion of improving psychological science from an academic-adjacent role ❤️

The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!

After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

Buses lined up at the temporary deport at Manchester Airport.

Some of the team at the temporary depot at Manchester Airport.

Overnight tonight we will mobilise the single biggest change to buses in the UK for decades as the remaining half of services in GM come back under public control.

Thank you to everyone who has worked through Christmas and New Year to make this happen. 🙏🏻

Street art showing Gisele Pelicot looking badass with the phrase written next to her “the shame must switch sides” in French

Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today

Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us.

Because the shame has to switch sides.

A picture of a trophy. The real award looks much cooler.

Do you know any early career researchers in the UK who have contributed something special to improve research practices?

The call for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop award is open now! Nominations close on 26 January 2025.

www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

Predatory journals Stan(eminem)

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I wrote you, but you still ain't callin'
I left my cell, my pager, & my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em

There's a very strange expectation that any one proposed science reform must:

1) Fully solve a problem
2) Solve MANY vaguelly related problems
3) Have zero negative impact on anything

No single reform like that exists, so the status quo bias reigns and everyone gets pretty weird about it.

Has the scientific reform achieved its goal? Did it go too far? Not far enough?

Register and join us this Wednesday in the #SIPS Early-reformers discussion where I will chat with Simine Vazire, Brian Nosek, Dorothy Bishop, Joe Simmons, and Leif Nelson about these questions.
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‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

« Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril:
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say » @science.org

Me rereading my own code from 2 months ago: