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Reposting as local convenor of the 2026 ICA PolComm Summer School at @polisatleeds.bsky.social
Opportunity for PhD students/ECRs working on any aspect of political communication to learn & get detailed feedback from an top international faculty
DL: 30 Mar, 17:00 GMT
My moderation shift. This was not sophisticated forgery but even with low effort it's child's play with LLMs to make something that looks like a real paper to a quick skim. And we don't go around accusing people without being sure. So I wasted a chunk of time on the first before I noticed the others
People often ask how to get social media and online platforms' data these days after a lot of them shut down academic access
This course by Noëlle Lebernegg at the @methodsnet.bsky.social summer school gets you covered 👇
Registrations open
methodsnet.org/course/d04-c...
Indeed. There is a paper to be written on how journalists make deliberative politics less probable by routinely framing changes of party/politician policy positions as "climbdown", "flip-flopping", etc.
Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs!
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
reviewing preprints by writing down discussions we were already having! open review is nice, open review together is nicer (imo)
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
UK Reproducibility Network Local Network Leads engaged in discussion around a table.
UK Reproducibility Network is having a conference, July 2026 in Manchester!
Please register your interest: www.ukrn.org/conference/
Bringing together researchers, institutions and research stakeholders from the UK and beyond to drive collaborative change within the UK #research sector.
'The central goals of open science – transparency, social accessibility, robustness – apply across all disciplines.'
In a recent interview, Dr Eike Rinke discussed the importance of open research in improving the quality of research in higher education:
open-science-future.zbw.eu/en/shift-tow...
*Overstate*, Josh, overstate! (And: yes!)
In which I note that OS is a social movement aimed at better aligning "good" & "successful" research - and shoutout @ukrepro.bsky.social, @reproducibilitea.org & our wonderful librarian allies like @openresleeds.bsky.social
English version here: open-science-future.zbw.eu/en/shift-tow...
We have a new blog post about lowering the voting age to 16 in the UK by @oliver-booth.bsky.social
Check it out 👇
This looks like some good evidence-assessment stuff right here.
Looking forward to this in Leeds tomorrow!
@lida-leeds.bsky.social @srmleeds.bsky.social
Most weeks I recommend to our Leeds @ukrepro.bsky.social network an "Open Research Friday Reading". Why not share it here, too?
Today I shared "A Manifesto for a Globally DEI Open Science" by @sakshighai.bsky.social et al. - important read for any social scientist ☝️
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This morning @helenblomfield.bsky.social and @nickshepp.bsky.social have teamed up with @emrinke.bsky.social to talk about Open Political Research
(Described by @lauracon.bsky.social as an #OpenResearch / data management super group 🤣)
The Centre for Democratic Politics is also on LinkedIn!
Follow our page for information about upcoming events and research.
Dr Eike Rinke and co-authors have had their article on 'The reliability of replications' published by The Royal Society 📃
In it, @emrinke.bsky.social explores the importance of including clear explanations alongside research results 🔍
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
📣 New Open Research event at University of Leeds
Open Research for All: Bridging Disciplines 🌉
Join us at this in-person event (including lunch) on Wed 14 May (11am-2pm) for several exciting OR talks 🌟
Register: leeds.libcal.com/event/4369744
@openresleeds.bsky.social @nickshepp.bsky.social
Congrats, @breznaunate.bsky.social @emrinke.bsky.social @kunkakom.bsky.social and team. Taking part in this project was not only eye-opening in terms of #metascience but also great fun. Even with shared data and code, reproducibility is not a given. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Open code and software encourages collaboration between code users, developers and researchers.
What are your experiences with sharing your code and software?
#OpenResearch #Research #OpenCode #OpenSoftware
Your regular reminder that the position to only make "the data supporting the findings of this study ... available upon reasonable request" is not (usually) itself reasonable.
(Ugh, when will this practice finally end?)
Do you have recommendations for people who are interested in / have spoken about the problems (practical or ethical) of using AI in social science research?
They need to be UK based. I am organising a panel for an event. Thank you so much!
An excellent investigation highlighting the value of sharing code, in addition to data, for establishing reproducibility.
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
📊 Large-scale reproducibility experiment out now @royalsocietypublishing.org
☝️Moral of the story: When you publish research results, do it along w/ hi-qual code & clear explanations of what you did. Otherwise they may be less reproducible than you think.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀
Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?
✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...
There are concerns that Bluesky's impact has faded since the initial hype. This is false.
That impression results from reading headlines about social media instead of the hard data.
The five HIGHEST points of Bluesky posts mentioning research all occur in the last 2 weeks.
We are trying to build the most ambitious infrastrucutre for democracy research - and we need your support !
This event happening today with us at CDP from 3-4 pm UK time. This is a hybrid, open event, so join us from afar or at Leeds if you are interested to learn more about Cláudia's work on "Parliamentary Storytelling in Brazil and in the UK".