Deutschland und der Problemwal Walversteherinnen, Schamanen, bedrohte Meeresforschende und Politiker. Haben wir den Verstand verloren? 3 Lektionen aus dem Waldrama.

Alles, was "man" zum Wal wissen muss, hat @perspectivedirk.bsky.social für
@perspective-daily.bsky.social zusammengefasst (inkl. Zitaten von mir;))
perspective-daily.de/article/4449...

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...

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research.

Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

META/e Events ## META/e Conference on Transparency, Technology and AI in Peer Review **Eindhoven University of Technology, 5 June 2026** Maximum attendees: 100 **Organizers**: [Vlasta Sikimić](https://vlastasikimic.com/),...

Hope to see you at the Conference on Transparency, Technology and AI in Peer Review on June 5, 2026, which is organized in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Register at: meta-eindhoven.github.io/events/

Screenshot aus dem Tagesschau-Interview von Maren Urner mit Anja Martini

Warum fiebern wir gerade mit einem (!) Wal …?!
Während unsere Spezies noch immer hunderte seiner Artgenossen jährlich umbringt und den Lebensraum aller Übriggebliebenen aktiv zerstört? 🧵1/4

www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...

Suppose parts of this industry actually follows up the correlations and experimentally tries to manipulate attitudes/beliefs etc., would this trend be a problem?

Reviewing for legacy journals often means reviewing for the trash bin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps publication after transparent PCI review could be a solution.

I tell myself we're in a transition phase where the "doing service" cope can be forgiven, unless you're a fully established field leader or a funding agency

Wait until the editors find out they're doing unpaid high-skilled work for billion dollar corporations who milk the tax payer :/

It's #LoveReplicationsWeek!
I'll be posting impressions from the talks all week here.

>> You can still sign up for talks since we are sending out invites on the morning for new registrations.
forrt.org/LoveReplicat...

>> Slides will be shared in our Zenodo Community: zenodo.org/communities/...

Against frictionless AI - Communications Psychology AI’s greatest strength—removing friction from work and relationships—is also a liability. Prioritizing outcome over process, it eliminates desirable difficulties that drive growth. By subtracting effo...

1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social.

The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I got very lucky that twitter’s Golden Age and my postdoc period happened to align. I hope to see bluesky reach the same level of utility one day 🤞

Screenshot of springernature journal page saying "great news! fundign is available for open access publishing. Explore open access funding | change institution."

Table with profit margins from big publishers of research

Sad news! By choosing to publish with us, you are wasting a horrendous amount of tax money. Learn about Diamond Open Access and where to submit instead Buy yourself prestige here -->

Apparently, there is still funding left in academia even though Springer Nature made $489 million profits off of it in 2024. And now they are telling researchers what great news that is.

Let me fix this for you... (inspired by arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820)
#springernature #closedscience

Ok researchers rise and shine, it's groundhog day - what better way to get you up to date with what has been going on at the FORRT Replication Hub? forrt.org/replication-...

The annals of Elsevier villainy are extensive, but perhaps their funniest gambit was when they started six "Australasian" fake journals that were really just sponsored publications for pharmaceutical companies, set up to launder their marketing as ostensibly peer-reviewed research.

The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self The recent exceptional growth in the number of special issues has led to the largest delegation of editorial power in the history of scientific publishing. Has this power been used responsibly? In thi...

PISS journals 😂
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

Who did this> 🤣

I am very proud to have published my second file-drawer report at my favourite journal Meta-Psychology together with Lisa Incerti, @tobiasrebholz.bsky.social, Christian Seida, and Frank Papenmeier. It includes four failed attempts to confirm a new hypothesis on #anchoringeffects.

Congrats! Do you have a link to the full paper?

The social constructivist movement in science has provided the fuel for the rise of anti-vaxxers and climate change denial. What is the best paper that provides a historical analysis of these negative consequences of social constructivism?

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Very pleased to share this meta-analysis on the relationship between interpretation biases and anxiety. This was a huge team effort, and it’s great to see it finally out. Happy reading!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How Effortful Is Boredom? Studying Self-Control Demands Through Pupillometry, from Vanessa Radtke, @wanjawolff.bsky.social, and @corimartarelli.bsky.social #RegisteredReport doi.org/10.1525/coll...

For many social dilemma's in Science (e.g. the slow uptake of diamond open access journals) stronger top down management is necessary. It won't just happen. If scientists will not create this management themselves, someone is going to create it for us.

Just feeding "slow uptake of diamond OA journals" with numbers from Germany: According to OA Monitor (open-access-monitor.de/open-access), which uses WoS, Scopus, and OpenAlex, we are talking about less than 5% (!) of articles being published as Diamond OA.

Systematic reviews can very quickly become outdated. Living systematic reviews (LSRs)—which continuously integrate new evidence—offer a solution, but their adoption has been limited to date.

In our new preprint, we suggest two approaches that can help facilitate LSR uptake osf.io/preprints/ps...

Must We Always Go Idiographic? - Cognitive Therapy and Research Purpose While psychological change processes are increasingly assumed to be “non-ergodic”, prompting a shift toward idiographic approaches, the assumption of ergodicity is often accepted a priori rath...

🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT

Task-related effort - distinguishing boredom- and difficulty-related effort via electrodermal activity Exerting effort is central to human performance, with the sources of effort varying across tasks. While traditionally linked to task difficulty, effor…

Very cool to see this one out now in Physiology & Behavior 🤩

- We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity

Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Revisiting the theoretical and methodological foundations of depression measurement - Nature Reviews Psychology Depressive disorders are among the leading causes of global disease burden. In this Perspective, Fried et al. argue that limited progress in understanding, predicting and treating depression despite a...

Here a paper version rant on this in Nature Reviews Psychology.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...