Gratuliere 😊

Looking forward to welcoming you in Bern :-)

Come join the Psychology of Digitalisation lab!

For a short (German) summary of SCORE, check out @briannosek.bsky.social and my interview for @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy
www.deutschlandfunk.de/glaubwuerdig...

First metaresearch crowd review in 💪

Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

We would like to thank the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review Leads for their incredible work!
Jay Patel, @fallonmody.bsky.social, @grinschglsandra.bsky.social, @debrajmanna27.bsky.social, Emmanuel Odame, and Joseph P. Biggane lead the Crowds that collaboratively and openly review preprints!

An amazing project - I was very happy to contribute at least a little bit to it!

Still doesn't work for me. Clicking on this link osf.io/request-acce..., it says permission required

Whoopwhoop our lab will be growing even more 🤩

Our research group in Bern has been awarded two @snsf.ch project grants! We will hire a number of new postdocs and PhD students.

Congratulations to @jamiecummins.bsky.social @malte.the100.ci and @ndevito1.bsky.social whose project deepens the links between @bennettoxford.bsky.social and @unibe.ch

Habilitation @unibe.ch: completed ✔️
Energy level: apparently still enough for the next talk in a few days

🔬 We're looking for German-speaking PhDs and Postdocs of all fields for a study!

Together with a master student, we have a project on well-being among early career researchers. As we want to reach at least 260 people across Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, we need your help. More info in 🇩🇪 ⬇️

Come work with us in beautiful Bern! 🐻

Qualtrics is getting too expensive and our institute is considering switching to another survey software.

What can you recommend?

Needs to be user friendly, have reasonable support, handle similar features to Qualtrics, and be cheaper.

"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40 Berlin (dpo) - Gibt es bald ein Social-Media-Verbot für Über-40-Jährige? In einer Pressekonferenz haben genau das Jugendliche heute gefordert. Ihre Fo

"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40 www.der-postillon.com/2026/02/soci...

New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.

Bin schon gespannt auf beides! Bis später und morgen!

RegCheck RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding.

RegCheck was built to help make this process easier.

Today, we launch RegCheck V2.

🧵

regcheck.app

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

Voluntary retraction remains a key way to put scientific self-correction into practice. Zhu and Holmes (2024) did the right thing when they realized that some of their results were based on a coding error.

Original: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

With retraction: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

THREAD 🧵

Psychology needs… an AI revolution | BPS Psychology is in the midst of an AI revolution. But it’s not the one it needs, argues Jamie Cummins.

I was thrilled to be invited to contribute to a forthcoming special issue for The Psychologist magazine called "Psychology needs a ... revolution".

I wrote about AI and its use in psychology: particularly how we can learn lessons from the past to avoid repeating old mistakes.
@psychmag.bsky.social

Today in "did we take this joke too far?":

@malte.the100.ci @grinschglsandra.bsky.social and I will jointly teach two lecture series this year:

Psychology of Digitalisation: Everything is Computer
Digitalisation of Psychology: Computer is Everything

(really)

Also, new lab logo

I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish.

It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates

+ can validate existing projects

I’m in! Please share. This is a small ask where if enough people come together we can fight those who are trying to disrupt a valuable platform

Check out this cool new package which I will likely also use for my "R u Ready" data wrangling and analyses class. 🐖

Macht KI dumm? Die einfache Antwort ist: Ja Wer mit Chat-GPT Mathe lernt, bekommt schlechtere Noten. Wer damit Recherchen durchführt, vergisst das erarbeitete Material bald wieder. Nun zeigt die frühe Forschung zu Lernen im KI-Zeitalter: Es gin...

🤓In an interview for the @nzz.ch, I presented my perspective on the idea of "AI making us stupid" 🤖: www.nzz.ch/technologie/...

Thanks to the @improvingpsych.org team for the great conference in beautiful (and very hot) Budapest #SIPS2025

- Calling students enrolled at German unis (SHK/SHB) -
FORRT project seeks multiple research assistants for 12 months (remote & flexible). Tasks:
🖥️ Code tools for replication alerts
🌍 Coordinate hackathons & projects
🎤 Help with qualitative interviews
Get in touch if are interested in any of these!

Sounds good to me :-)