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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Keynote mal anders?

The number of submissions will only increase and I believe their solution is a poor fix. But my friends and I disagree about better solutions. To make resubmission intervals longer for people who get a low rating acts as a penalty for low ratings. If these ratings reliably evaluated quality: good.

Are you paid to post bullshit or do you do it for the love of the game?

Having my name as a scientific unit is all I ever wanted, even if it is for units of bad scienciness

Applying for an ERC grant in the 2027 competitions: what you need to know The ERC plans to launch the grant competitions under its 2027 Work Programme between July 2026 and June 2027, with the calls for proposals introducing several changes to the eligibility rules for appl...

I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

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...

me on the TED stage

Me giving the TED talk

Me, still talkin'

I gave a TED talk today!

Science needs downvotes A bug bounty module in grants would give criticism a leg up The Soviet Union was good at producing shoes. Factories made 800 million pairs a year, twice as many as Italy, three times as many as the...

New post on The 100% CI: Science needs downvotes.
www.the100.ci/2026/04/13/s...
In which I make the case that grant funders should add funding lines that include a module for bug bounties.

New blog posts, new mistakes, new (to me) kinds of error! Recently, @schmukle.bsky.social was confused about a plot in one of my papers. This usually means I messed up bad. After a couple-month-long investigation, I can now report: I messed up, but fortunately it was fairly inconsequential.

"Applicants must have Swiss citizenship or a Swiss permanent settlement permit, or be married to or in a registered partnership with a Swiss citizen." 🤔

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...

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

**At my funeral**

Student: "Will this be on the exam?"

This but for social science theories

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A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

Offering scientists cash to spot errors in published papers doesn’t work The ERROR project tried enticing reviewers with payments. Now, it’s launching a journal—and promising papers as rewards

The ERROR project recruits independent experts to recheck social sciences papers’ data, statistics, methodology, code; now the project plans to publish the reviews in a new peer-reviewed journal.
science.org/content/arti...
@dalmeet.bsky.social @science.org
#reproducibility

Not autistic, just German german.millermanschool.com

Many folk are surprised to discover thay Risk of Bias assessment tools tend not to interrogate the question “Did this study actually happen? And are its results trustworthy enough to believe?”

Jack’s Cochrane endorsed INSPECT-SR checks have done a lot to mainstream such Trustworthiness Assessment.

Josh is bouba, Zach is kiki

Fun facts

- The original study reported 23 IQ point gains
- Jordan Peterson tweeted about it (sort of)
- @jamiecummins.bsky.social new preregistered RCT shows null effects

A failure to find effects of relational operant training on scholastic aptitude of school children: A randomised controlled trial: https://osf.io/cauvz

Opinion | It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling

Very pleasantly surprised to see my recent preprint being discussed in this NYT article on silicon sampling and its implications for opinion polling. More forthcoming work on this coming soon!

(H/T @rohanalexander.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

I Sued the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for Research Fraud and Won $2.6 Million Dollars YouTube video by Sholto David

Now that I have finally been paid I made a video about the Dana-Farber legal case from my own perspective: youtu.be/ioRtnMEV46Y

Subsidize demand meme First panel: I just need to subsidize demand Second panel: guy lying in bed “I just need to subsidize demand” Third panel: home prices go up -> people get angry -> subsidize demand Fourth panel: man coming in asking “bro are you okay?” — everything is black chaos “yes I just need to subsidize demand”

Live footage of German politicians