Matt Makel
@mattmakel.bsky.social
educational researcher focusing on academic talent (identification and development) and open science research practices (implementation and assessment). Now in Canada @UCalgary
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Matt Makel
@mattmakel.bsky.social
· Jan 14
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“Why do you think this practice should or shouldn’t be used?” We asked education researchers about #QuestionableResearchPractices (e.g., selectively reporting results) and about #OpenScience practices like preregistration, open data, and replication. #Preprint osf.io/preprints/ed...
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📅 Mark your calendars for SIPS 2026! 📅
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
📅 Mark your calendars for SIPS 2026! 📅
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2026.
The conference will be at the George Mason University Arlington, Virginia campus (thanks to @natonge.bsky.social, our 2026 local host!)
Job opportunity: postdoc for the National Center for Research on Advanced Education: apply.interfolio.com/175953 PhD in education or a related field? Have strong quantitative and mixed methods methodological skills? Experience with advanced education, gifted education, or talent development? Apply!
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October 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Job opportunity: postdoc for the National Center for Research on Advanced Education: apply.interfolio.com/175953 PhD in education or a related field? Have strong quantitative and mixed methods methodological skills? Experience with advanced education, gifted education, or talent development? Apply!
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If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️
datamgmtinedresearch.com
1. Organizing data (Ch. 3)
2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9)
3. Documenting data (Ch. 8)
4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)
datamgmtinedresearch.com
1. Organizing data (Ch. 3)
2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9)
3. Documenting data (Ch. 8)
4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)
a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right
ALT: a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right
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October 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️
datamgmtinedresearch.com
1. Organizing data (Ch. 3)
2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9)
3. Documenting data (Ch. 8)
4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)
datamgmtinedresearch.com
1. Organizing data (Ch. 3)
2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9)
3. Documenting data (Ch. 8)
4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)
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Hi all! I'm on sabbatical this year and have bandwidth to zoom into lab meetings to talk about open science in cog psych and speech research and/or how to implement practices that reduce research errors! (www.carleton.edu/perception-l...).
Email me if that sounds fun to you too!
Email me if that sounds fun to you too!
Error Tight - Carleton College
No one is immune from making mistakes. However, it is possible to set up our labs and research systems in ways that reduce the likelihood that we will make mistakes…
www.carleton.edu
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hi all! I'm on sabbatical this year and have bandwidth to zoom into lab meetings to talk about open science in cog psych and speech research and/or how to implement practices that reduce research errors! (www.carleton.edu/perception-l...).
Email me if that sounds fun to you too!
Email me if that sounds fun to you too!
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director
pkp.sfu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
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If my experience in academia has taught me anything it's that logging in to my same account on my same computer requires 2FA *every time* lest someone hack in and see my course schedule, but the forgery-proof method for approving things is to paste in a JPG of one's signature into a Word document.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If my experience in academia has taught me anything it's that logging in to my same account on my same computer requires 2FA *every time* lest someone hack in and see my course schedule, but the forgery-proof method for approving things is to paste in a JPG of one's signature into a Word document.
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You have been thinking about Canada. So just do it. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1661564...
Assistant Professor, Industrial & Organizational Psychology in
Calgary,
AB,
...
Assistant Professor, Industrial & Organizational Psychology in
Calgary,
AB,
...
careers.ucalgary.ca
August 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
You have been thinking about Canada. So just do it. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1661564...
@elisabethbik.bsky.social if you need any recruits, she looks like she's got some serious skills www.instagram.com/reel/DHtAcJ-...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
@elisabethbik.bsky.social if you need any recruits, she looks like she's got some serious skills www.instagram.com/reel/DHtAcJ-...
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Children vary! We see this variation everywhere - within households, classrooms, and schools, but also in cross-cultural comparisons. We even see substantial variation within individual children from day to day. How can we measure and understand this variability? That's the goal of LEVANTE.
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Children vary! We see this variation everywhere - within households, classrooms, and schools, but also in cross-cultural comparisons. We even see substantial variation within individual children from day to day. How can we measure and understand this variability? That's the goal of LEVANTE.
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Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing".
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
What is LEVANTE? 🧵
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
What is LEVANTE? 🧵
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing".
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
What is LEVANTE? 🧵
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
What is LEVANTE? 🧵
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Promising way to crowdsource data on academic journal decision timelines. I'm uploading my data. You can too!
Stories like this are why my lab started the Coauthor Project. If this was a manuscript central submission, can you upload it to the dashboard?
coauthor.fly.dev
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coauthor.fly.dev
August 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Promising way to crowdsource data on academic journal decision timelines. I'm uploading my data. You can too!
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The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November:
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
August 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November:
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
This is incredible.
No. Wait.
It is amazing.
No. Wait.
It is amazing.
I learned the most amazing thing from Anne Greene's new book "Writing Science in Plain English": the human retina can process only ~7 letters at a time.
That means you have to focus on longer words twice to process them. It's another good reason to use shorter words!
🎧 pod.link/173429229
That means you have to focus on longer words twice to process them. It's another good reason to use shorter words!
🎧 pod.link/173429229
July 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is incredible.
No. Wait.
It is amazing.
No. Wait.
It is amazing.
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🏆 achievement unlocked 🏆
initial submission: minor revision
resubmission: major revision
I don't believe I have ever accomplished this feat before.
initial submission: minor revision
resubmission: major revision
I don't believe I have ever accomplished this feat before.
a man wearing a cowboy hat and sweater says " this is " in black letters
Alt: a man wearing a cowboy hat and sweater says " this is going backwards" in black letters
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July 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🏆 achievement unlocked 🏆
initial submission: minor revision
resubmission: major revision
I don't believe I have ever accomplished this feat before.
initial submission: minor revision
resubmission: major revision
I don't believe I have ever accomplished this feat before.
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As many work to finish up #AERA26 submissions, @agustingarcia.bsky.social just told me that #AERA27 is going to be in Toronto, Canada! 🇨🇦
July 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As many work to finish up #AERA26 submissions, @agustingarcia.bsky.social just told me that #AERA27 is going to be in Toronto, Canada! 🇨🇦
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Yep, a good point. I either know what "Author (Year)" refers to, breaking blindness, or I don't, in which case I can't evaluate that part of the manuscript.
July 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yep, a good point. I either know what "Author (Year)" refers to, breaking blindness, or I don't, in which case I can't evaluate that part of the manuscript.
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I wrote a popular press article about Replication Research! First time writing like this, but it was pretty fun. theconversation.com/research-rep...
Research replication can determine how well science is working – but how do scientists replicate studies?
Replication research can take the temperature on how accurate science in a given field is, but research replication is easier said than done.
theconversation.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I wrote a popular press article about Replication Research! First time writing like this, but it was pretty fun. theconversation.com/research-rep...
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I really appreciate being given the opportunity to contribute to this Nature article on best practices for versioning shared data! 🫱📂🫲
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Need to update your data? Follow these five tips
Researchers engaged in long-term projects often need to update their data sets over time. Here’s how to do it while maintaining reproducibility.
www.nature.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I really appreciate being given the opportunity to contribute to this Nature article on best practices for versioning shared data! 🫱📂🫲
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Getting a "Decision on manuscript" email, only to discover it is about something I reviewed and not my manuscript.
a woman in a blue tank top is holding a cup of ice cream .
Alt: a woman in a blue tank top is holding a cup of ice cream who initially looks happy and excited but then transitions to looking disappointed.
media.tenor.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Getting a "Decision on manuscript" email, only to discover it is about something I reviewed and not my manuscript.
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Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like
July 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like
I know there's a lot going on, but today I am stuck marveling at the recommendation of no punctuation after the page number parenthetical at the end of block quotations in APA style. apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...
apastyle.apa.org
July 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I know there's a lot going on, but today I am stuck marveling at the recommendation of no punctuation after the page number parenthetical at the end of block quotations in APA style. apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...
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Being a social scientist means holding two truths at once: 1. This is all deeply complicated 2. I have to submit something by Tuesday
June 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Being a social scientist means holding two truths at once: 1. This is all deeply complicated 2. I have to submit something by Tuesday