Amazing lunch meeting earlier today!

Consider signing up for the other sessions this week! 🥪📖

The first session of our Online Presentations week will be today at 12:00 (CEST)

Today, @karolinehuth.bsky.social will present on the need for reporting standards in methodological research, and Noam Tal-Perry will present on team compositions of research teams

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PhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology - Universität Bern Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology

I’m hiring a PhD student!

The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc.

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Don't forget to sign up to attend one or multiple online ECR presentations next week!

Ten ECR's will present their work in five lunch sessions Monday to Friday

They would love your support and feedback!

Full program: tinyurl.com/22v38up2
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Postdoc In Meta-science Personal type: Scientific staff

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Short overview of program of the online lunch meetings.

Registration is now open for our online presentation series!

Every day from April 20–24 (12:00 CEST), two ECRs will present their work. Finished projects, raw ideas, and everything in between

Sign up now!

Full program (abstracts): tinyurl.com/22v38up2
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Shape the future of social science as a PhD student of machine learning-informed theory construction, based on patterns in high-frequency longitudinal data! You will be part of vibrant communities like the INSIGHT Lab, Theory Methods Society, and Tilburg Experience Sampling Center

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Last day to sign up to present!

We already have some great presentations lined up for the first edition of our Online Lunch Presentation series.

Still some spots to present left, sign up before Tuesday!

PYMS is organizing online lunch talks from 20th–24th April! 🥪📖

If you‘re an ECR and want to discuss your meta-scientific research (or ideas for it), sign up now! 🚀

PYMS is organizing online lunch talks from 20th–24th April! 🥪📖

If you‘re an ECR and want to discuss your meta-scientific research (or ideas for it), sign up now! 🚀

This will help (although there‘s still some debugging to do, I think):

We are pleased to announce that the Paul Meehl Graduate School is launching the PMGS Dissertation Award, recognizing outstanding PhD dissertations that advance meta-research.

See the eligibility criteria and apply before June 1st, 2026 at:
paulmeehlschool.github.io/award/

Plot with X (Line Length in Inches) and Y (Psychological Scale Values in Arbitrary Units)

Found this gem the other day, and honestly, this is how most Y-axes should be labeled…

Taken from: Chapter 2 of Woodworth & Schlosberg‘s Experimental Psychology (3rd Edition, 1971)

Plot with X (Line Length in Inches) and Y (Psychological Scale Values in Arbitrary Units)

Found this gem the other day, and honestly, this is how most Y-axes should be labeled…

Are you passionate about teaching #statistics? Would like to have a permant #job in #academia? Are you fluent in #English and #German? Do you want to become a senior lecturer @uni-graz.at?
Apply!: jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/3cb1...

pdf view of a paper on the journal website: first page is an ad ("Publishing research supporting global sustainability and innovation"). Above is says "Advertisement Start"...

Oh that's new!? First page of the pdf view of a paper on the journal's website is an ad to publish in the journal??

What comes next? 50% off your APC if you agree to have ads in the paper? Sure hope my university got a discount for this Netflix-style service+ads subscription...

Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

🎉 PYMS just passed 100 members on Discord!

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our growing community of young meta‑scientists 🧡

Want to be part of the server too? Send us a DM!

This gif took way to long to create - I hope you like it!

When psychologists mislead us From Piltdown Man to the Stanford prison experiment, many famous scientific discoveries have been exposed as hoaxes or distortions

"The rewards to 'discovering' a spectacular scientific finding [in psychology] are large; the rewards to debunking frauds or deflating exaggerated claims are small if not non-existent. If these are the rules of the game, we should not be surprised at the way the game is played."

Picture of a snowman with snow-hat, stick hands and pine cone nose

Very excited to share results of the first finished project this year (shared first-authorship)! ☃️

In meinem Neurowissenschaften-Master haben wir sehr viele halb-gare „weil Hirn“-Erklärungen bekommen. Rückfragen haben mir nicht so oft geholfen aber bestimmt lag das an mir (weil zu wenig Hirn) :/

Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

Perfect time to join the PYMS Discord if you haven’t already! We have a Meme Channel now!

Now this is a new one: My university's license of SAGE journals allows me to view but not to download the research articles. According to ChatGPT read-access costs 100K€ p.a. If you want to make 100% sure that interested readers can access your article, publish it in a #diamondopenaccess journal.

Getting journal rejections like

Looking for ways to contribute to open and reproducible research? Want to collaborate on projects (or start your own), develop skills, and connect with fellow enthusiasts from different countries and disciplines?
Then join our Steering Committee and become part of a global community!🚀

Which variables to control for, and why | Peder M. Isager Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager

New blog post! ”Which variables to control for, and why”: pedermisager.org/blog/which-v...
In this post I give a beginner-friendly introduction to causal inference and statistical control, explaining why adjusting for the right variables clarifies relationships >