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Justice Department unexpectedly drops fraud case against Alzheimer’s scientist
Decision comes after disclosure of university letter concluding Hoau-Yan Wang did not engage in misconduct
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October 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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mamsmandrill.bsky.social
1/7 🤯 STOP! When someone points, your brain doesn't just look—it strategizes. Our new study reveals that Joint Attention is a complex calculation of social intent and space! Kudos to undergraduate researchers Isabel Blackie & Anisah Islam for leading this work. 👇
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October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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alexh.bsky.social
MetaROR, a platform for reviews of research on research, is a success! We have published 24 sets of reviews and have 16 submissions in process. MetaROR now has 9 partners - these are journals that agree to use our reviews when authors submit to them. metaror.org #metascience #openaccess
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MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review A new platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch A new platform designed to transform
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October 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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anavaldi.bsky.social
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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noethematt.bsky.social
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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graas.bsky.social
Related: an absolute must-read for anyone in academia, especially those in the social sciences.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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lakens.bsky.social
Are you interested in thinking about which studies are worth replicating? Then you have 10 articles to dig into in Meta-Psychology, representing a very wide range of viewpoint on this topic, out now: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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mamsmandrill.bsky.social
🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨 Our study in Scientific Reports shines a crucial light on Academic Anxiety in Neurodivergent Individuals in #highered. Findings reveal high anxiety is a major barrier, not an impairment, in core thinking skills. Read this thread👇
🔗 #neurodiversity #AcademicAnxiety
Academic anxiety and cognitive reflection in neurodivergence based on evidence from a large international sample - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Academic anxiety and cognitive reflection in neurodivergence based on evidence from a large international sample
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October 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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malikaihle.bsky.social
How to create data dictionaries for all your reserch projects!
lmu-osc.bsky.social LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · Oct 31
How to ensure your research data is error-free & understandable by other users & your future self?🗂️ This tutorial by LMU OSC is on documenting & validating data in R to make it more reusable.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Data Documentation & Validation using R📑 lmu-osc.github.io/data-documen...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’

Thrilled to announce this new $900,000 project headed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social
Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’
Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.
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June 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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🔔‼️ New papers alert

In these papers, @lakens.bsky.social
takes a deep dive into the two major crises in psychology.
Concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology are discussed.

A must-read for every psychology researcher!

Available in #OA 👇👇
May 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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ditroilo.bsky.social
A reminder that at University College Dublin we are hosting @lakens.bsky.social from Eindhoven University of Technology. On Wed 4th of June, 12-13, C006 Health Sciences, Prof. Lakens will give a talk on open science and will discuss why it is worth improving our research practices. All welcome!
May 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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briannosek.bsky.social
It was not impossible, but it was not easy either.

One variable, for example: Joy-Gaba and Nosek (2010) had (if memory serves) >50X the original sample size. Schmidt and Nosek (2010) had >1000x the original sample size. The increased precision was not necessarily appreciated by reviewers.
June 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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lakens.bsky.social
Can you imagine that in 2010 if you worked in psychology you could not publish a replication study that yielded a null result if your life depended on it?

You might think: So how did they identify Type 1 errors in the literature?

They didn't!

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June 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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ianhussey.mmmdata.io
@jamesheathers.bsky.social has won $900k in philanthropic funding to establish The Medical Evidence Project, which will find flawed medical research that costs lives.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’
Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.
www.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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mamsmandrill.bsky.social
Our new commentary on #Dyspraxia is out! We dive into misdiagnosis, lived experiences, identity, and the systemic barriers faced in an ableist world. Read more! 🧵
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June 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Better late than never. A fabulous presentation by the @drcpennington.bsky.social who discussed her book on #OpenScience. Thank you Charlotte for teaching us #OpenScience and giving us two of your 📚as a prize for our winners!🫖🍵🧋🧉
October 26, 2023 at 9:29 AM
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The SIPS EC recently voted to endorse PCI. We consider articles recommended by a Peer Community In to be of the same value and to have the same status as articles published in a high-quality journal in the same discipline.
October 10, 2023 at 4:49 PM