Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Durian and pomelo was easy! Took me a while to remember custard apple but I can't figure out the last one at the bottom 😫 looks a little too big to be a passionfruit!

I'm so thankful to be invited to this event, all thanks to Azura Abrasid & Fairuz Alia Jamaluddin for this opportunity! 🙏🏼 I've got to meet so many interesting & inspiring people across various NGOs/Foundations throughout the day. Looking forward to participate in more @unhcr.org events soon!

The symposium (organised by UNHCR Malaysia @unhcr.org) highlighted persistent challenges faced by refugees in Msia, particularly the limited opportunities for legal employment & equitable access to education. Some stories were touching and made you feel so much grateful for what you have.

Yours truly was at the Parliament of Malaysia over the weekend for the 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗲𝘀! It truly opened my eyes to the ongoing realities faced by refugee communities in #Malaysia — often sidelined and largely misunderstood by the public.

Special issue of Qualitative Research in Psychology Edited by Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Eileen Joy and Lisa Trainor Call for papers New developments and good practice in reflexive thematic analysis The year 2026 is the 20th anniversary of the publication of the paper Using thematic analysis in psychology in Qualitative Research in Psychology. This paper has gone on to be the most cited qualitative methodological paper of all time according to an analysis by the journal Nature. Reflexive thematic analysis (TA) has transformed the practice of qualitative research in and beyond psychology. This Special Issue will mark this anniversary by exploring good practice and new developments in reflexive TA. We invite both full length papers and shorter commentaries and reflections from psychology and related disciplines. Potential topics include: • The use of reflexive TA to analyse visual and multimodal data • Is an N of one possible? The use reflexive TA in case study research • Beyond consensus and theme agreement: Strategies for using reflexive TA when there is more than one analyst • The use of reflexive TA in creative and arts-based research • The use of reflexive TA in Indigenous research • The use of reflexive TA in participatory designs (including participants as co-analysts) • Extensions of reflexive TA (e.g., frameworks and guidance for interpretative analysis) • Reviews of good (and poor) practice • Combining reflexive TA with other approaches (e.g., combining reflexive TA and narrative analysis; reflexive TA and discourse analysis) • “Behind the scenes”: Reflections on doing reflexive TA • Using reflexive TA in constructionist, critical realist or mixed methods research • Can reflexive TA be a feminist method? A queer method? A critical race theory method? • Doing deductive reflexive TA

• Good practice in teaching and supervising reflexive TA • Methodological pluralism and reflexive TA • Power relations and the politics of interpretation in reflexive TA Abstract submission deadline: 29 May 2026 Submit a maximum 500 word abstract to: Victoria.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk Deadline for paper submissions: 30 November 2026 Please contact any of the editors to discuss potential submissions: V.Braun@auckland.ac.nz; Victoria.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk; Eileen.Joy@auckland.ac.nz; L.R.Trainor@swansea.ac.uk Please note that we do not anticipate having a focus on the use of GenAI in reflexive TA as a Special Issue of QRIP on GenAI in qualitative research is currently in progress.

I'm excited to share a Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Qualitative Research in Psychology on New developments and good practice in reflexive thematic analysis co-edited by me, @ginnybraun.bsky.social @eileenjoy.bsky.social and Lisa Trainor. Please contact any of us if you have any questions.

📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027!
The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Happy 2026 everyone! 🎉

Congrats @davidlacko.bsky.social !!! 🥳

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Gratitude to PEMIMPIN (pemimpingsl.org) for leading this important initiative. Events like these remind us why teacher recognition matters, signalling to future generations that education is a calling worth pursuing.

Learn more about the Malaysia Teacher Prize at malaysiateacherprize.org

An inspiring weekend at the Malaysia Teacher Prize Summit 2025 #MTPSummit2025! 🌟

Joined educators across #Malaysia, from Perlis to Sabah, to celebrate the creativity and commitment of our teachers — and to reflect on how recognition strengthens the teaching profession.

Here are some highlights! 📸

iconic scene from Grey's Anatomy. Meredith Grey in scrub telling Derek "so pick me, choose me, love me"

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

The A in ABRIR is for Aleksandra! 🚀

So proud of @alelazic.bsky.social of @abrir.bsky.social for leading this another amazing initiative!

Do check the resources and also, don't forget to watch out for more info on the workshop!

So many amazing speakers from all over Southeast Asia & beyond at the #ICIE2025 conference, and it got me thinking on how I can contribute further — particularly in strengthening the representation of Asian perspectives in #inclusiveeducation, in line with @abrir.bsky.social mission. What a day!

Last week, I had the privilege of serving as the emcee for the Opening Ceremony of the International Conference on Inclusive Education, hosted by the School of Education at Sunway University.

Spot me if you can! :D

#ICIE2025 #InclusiveEducation #SunwayUniversity #5thGenUniversity

Wootsss congrats @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social !!!

If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...

New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

Excited to share my new preprint. My work focuses on solitude, but I am not one to advocate for a "solitude theory"; psych has too many theories so one less would be good. So, what I did the past 2 yrs is talking to people, reading work outside of my literature, essentially to shop for a framework 🧵

program Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW *** >>> View the 2025 BTSCON Program *** > Not...

View the 2025 BTSCON programme here!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

Join @abrir.bsky.social + @psychrstats.bsky.social together with @alelazic.bsky.social, @almajeftic.bsky.social, @krealivazquez.bsky.social, @nscorralfrias.bsky.social, Pooja Kulkarni, Sergio Barbosa, Federico Alegría and myself at UTC 1700 very VERY SOON!

Do you wish there was a repository of Big-Team and Open Science resources? So do we!! Join us live via Zoom on Wednesday, October 8 from 17:00-17:55 UTC. Register now (for free or pay-what-you-want) at bigteamscience.github.io. @abrir.bsky.social @psychrstats.bsky.social @btscon.bsky.social

If you are a LGBTQ+ identified Heartstopper fan - or know LGBTQ+ fans aged 14+ - my undergrad students' project this year is exploring why this group ❤️ Heartstopper & why positive media representation is important to LGBTQ+ people using a qualitative survey.

uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

3 days of #BigTeamScience brilliance starts tomorrow!!!

There's still time to be part of this virtual event, so hurry and register now (fees are optional, and yes this means you can attend for free too!) 👉 bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

🌍 Glad to see our paper out!
How researchers in developing countries & other resource-constrained contexts (can) practice #OpenScience, with free tools, training, success stories, & more.

🔓 doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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More in this thread by @hcp4715.bsky.social 👇 #AcademicSky #PsychSky

More time to submit your abstract on #openscience and #bigteamscience to the 2025 Big Team Science conference @btscon.bsky.social ? YASSSSSS

Remember to submit it by 8th Aug, and here's the link!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Christopher has short gray hair and a beard. He's wearing an oxford shirt and giving a slight smile.

KEYNOTE:

Dr. Christopher Stubbs, Harvard Physics and Astronomy

"Going Big: How it's different, the ways it challenges us, and why we (increasingly?) need to do it"

Tuesday, October 7 | 14:00-15:00 UTC

register now (for free or pay-what-you-want):
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

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KEYNOTE:

Dr. Angela Duckworth, co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative

Megastudies: A new paradigm for field studies in social science

Monday, October 6 | 15:00-16:00 UTC

register now (for free or pay-what-you-want):
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

Don't forget to submit your abstracts to the 2025 Big Team Science Conference by 31st July!

Register a spot and submit your abstract here:
bigteamscienceconference.github.io

psstt:

we also talked about the future (not surprisingly) — how #AI’s gonna be a huge part of our lives, and why it’s so important to stay mindful and intentional in how we use it, especially in #clinicalpsychology research + practice 🤖

#AcademicBluesky