"It is preferable if open research practices come from communities, because researchers can be much better convinced by their peers and discipline-specific differences can be taken into account."
The Wikijournals (WikiJournal of Science, WikiJournal of the Humanities) are Scopus-indexed journals that exist in part to get more expert input to Wikipedia and facilitate completely replacing an existing article with a new and better one.
Theories Don't Die!
Excellent post by @mastroianni.bsky.social on the futility of trying to kill off scientific theories.
#MetaSci #PhilSci
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PostDoc #SocialPsychology
My collaborator Rose Meleady is advertising a postdoc position
Requires expertise in intergroup contact/ESM studies
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21...
Rose is excellent -- high competence, high warmth. You'd won't find a better advisor!
Editor-in-Chief @akfetterman.bsky.social has Editorial here: "Be Daring and Caude Trouble!"
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
Whatever happened to 'Education, education, education'?
Thanks Vilgot - replied in the comments section of the blog.
And the ClimateSky feed to follow work in the area of climate change.
You can pin the #SocialPsyc feed to follow research in the area of social psychology...
ClimateSky
"These findings highlight the fundamental social underpinnings of collective adaptative capacity for communities responding to the threat of future climate-related disasters."
BSky Authors:
@mikedare.bsky.social
@jolanda-jetten.bsky.social @hemapreya.bsky.social @drcharlie.bsky.social
Sense of community and adaptive capacity: Insights from the 2019/2020 Australian ‘Black Summer’ bushfires The escalating threat of climate-related disasters is challenging vulnerable communities to adapt across the world. This study examined the relationship between people's sense of community (as assessed by perceived cohesion and identification) and their perceptions of adaptive capacity, along with the role that their willingness to include all stakeholders may play in moderating this relationship. Geo-targeted surveys were used to collect data from 363 participants affected by the 2019/2020 ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires in Australia. We found that increased community cohesion and identification were linked to greater perceived adaptive capacity, along with evidence that these relationships may depend upon attitudes towards accommodating diverse stakeholder interests, such that more positive attitudes strengthened some of these associations while less positive attitudes attenuated them. These findings highlight the fundamental social underpinnings of collective adaptative capacity for communities responding to the threat of future climate-related disasters.
Analysis of people affected by the 2019/2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires in Australia finds that a stronger sense of community cohesion and identification is linked to greater perceived adaptive capacity to engage in responses that reduce risks and maximise recovery.
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
Kill or cure? Different types of social class identification amplify and buffer the relation between social class and mental health The present research investigated different types of social class identification as moderators of the negative relation between social class and mental health problems. Psychology undergraduates (N = 355) completed an online survey that included measures of social class, mental health and well-being, and three aspects of social class identification: importance of identity, salience of identity, and perceived self-class similarity. Perceived self-class similarity buffered the negative association between social class and depressive symptoms. However, importance and salience of social class identity amplified the associations between social class and anxiety and life satisfaction. These findings contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the way in which social identification may operate as a social cure.
Social Cure or Social Curse?
The study picks up on our previous work showing that different aspects of social identification can both amplify and buffer the effects of membership in low status groups on mental health.
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
To be or not to be (a prisoner): Social identification as cure and curse via self- stigma and social exclusion Research on social identification in marginalized populations has documented both social cure and social curse effects, suggesting that distinct identification dimensions may underlie opposite outcomes. This study integrated the Social Identity Approach to Health with stigma and social exclusion research to explore a dual pathway in which ingroup ties and identity centrality are respectively associated with greater or lower well-being among prisoners through their links with self-stigma and perceived social exclusion. A path analysis was conducted with a sample of 160 prisoners. Findings suggest that belonging and connectedness derived from identifying with fellow prisoners (i.e., ingroup ties) are associated with reduced psychological distress via lower perceived exclusion. In a context characterized by disconnection, social identification may provide a form of reconnection that supports well-being. Conversely, the personal importance attributed to the prisoner identity (i.e., identity centrality) was associated with greater self-stigma and perceived exclusion, with the latter mediating its negative association with well-being. Within a highly stigmatized group, the centrality of group identity may amplify feelings of exclusion, undermining well-being. Overall, the study advances understanding of the dual effects of social identification in marginalized groups and underscores the value of applying established psychosocial frameworks to hard-to-reach populations.
New study finds "social identification among male prisoners may simultaneously protect and threaten well-being, depending on the role of ingroup ties and identity centrality."
BSky authors: @marc0marinucci.bsky.social
@jolanda-jetten.bsky.social
Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...
"Demand characteristics can create false positives, false negatives, upward bias, and downward bias."
#Methodology #MetaSci
"Cataloguing and theorising open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Problematising and diversifying ‘Open Science’"
New preprint from members of the @morphss.bsky.social team
f1000research.com/articles/15-...
"We are all just devastated there is so much fear and anxiety across all of the campuses."
Staff at Ulster University told today the uni will cut 450 jobs to save £25 million
#UKHE #HigherEd #AcademicSky #UCU
Hello Bluesky — I research how communities live with floods, uncertainty, and environmental change.
My work explores resilience as lived experience, negotiation, and sometimes resistance.
Developing XR tools for participatory climate decision-making.
#HumanGeography #ClimateResilience
"Emphasising the diversity of open practices in AHSS carries the potential to enrich debates around open research at a multidisciplinary level, problematising and diversifying existing models [...], and inviting reconsideration of approaches to openness across all areas"
#OpenResearch #AHSS
Is a 55% replication rate too low, too high, or just right? Some thoughts on Tyner et al.’s (2026) recent study.
#MetaSci #PhilSci
New work and events...
🔸 Workshop on the politics and finances of open science reform
🔸 Symposium: “Who critiques the critique? Toward a reflexive metascience”
🔸 Preprint encourages establishing phenomena before testing theories
🔸 Systematic review of questionable research practices
Teaching-Only Roles
"The sector’s long-term rebalancing towards teaching-only posts has created a workforce that expands quickly in periods of student growth, but contracts sharply under financial pressure."
#UKHE #AcademicSky
Seems to be > $10,000 for some others!!
www.cell.com/open-access#...
The fee to publish an open access paper at Trends in Cognitive Science is now over $7,000. Seriously, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social ??? For a 4,000 word piece? Talk about a broken system.
Research institutes and funders: Develop context-sensitive solutions and expectations for reproducibility that reflect the diversity of research practices and epistemologies Researchers, research funders and publishers: Foster community-driven initiatives for developing infrastructures and reproducibility and/or transparency guidelines tailored to specific domain, methodological, and epistemic contexts Research institutes and funders: Recognize the additional resources required for reproducibility practices (e.g. in terms of labor, skills, infrastructure, and tools), making sure these are available and fairly distributed among the actors involved.
"We do make three main recommendations that capture the main enablers and barriers in slightly less obvious ways..."
#MetaSci
“We recommend the development of guidelines for reproducibility (and/or transparency) practices tailored to specific domain, methodological and epistemic contexts.”
New work by Serge Horbach and colleagues
The Discovery Model
“The essential elements in this model are the psychological factors that guide individual scientists in their exploration of nature, and the philosophical criteria by which theoretical scientific knowledge is validated.”
#STS #PhilSci
The Instrumental Model
“Science and technology are lumped together, under the label ’R&D’, as an instrument for processing social and technical problems. When a power supply of money and personnel is switched on, this black box generates solutions, advice, and inventions, as required.”
