Nicholas Gibson
@njsgibson.bsky.social
research funding and strategery | cognitive science | religion | mental health | open scholarship | metadata | jazz | pipe symbols
$25K fellowships for early career researchers studying the intersection of psychotherapy and relational virtues (e.g., gratitude, humility, forgiveness). Deadline Dec 15, 2025. mstargsu.substack.com/p/rfp-flouri...
RFP: Flourishing and Relational Virtues in Psychotherapy
Flourishing and Relational Virtues in Psychotherapy
mstargsu.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
$25K fellowships for early career researchers studying the intersection of psychotherapy and relational virtues (e.g., gratitude, humility, forgiveness). Deadline Dec 15, 2025. mstargsu.substack.com/p/rfp-flouri...
Musical serendipity: quoting Mike Tyson while writing a grant proposal while Charlie Hunter comes up on shuffle... www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CA...
Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth
YouTube video by Charlie Hunter - Topic
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Musical serendipity: quoting Mike Tyson while writing a grant proposal while Charlie Hunter comes up on shuffle... www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CA...
Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org
Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement
www.ma3challenge.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org
If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network
Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Description: We are looking for a full-time data scientist to join the Developing Belief Network, a global team of psychologists studying...
docs.google.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In case anyone else is overdue on deleting your academia.edu account, here's how (and why):
September 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In case anyone else is overdue on deleting your academia.edu account, here's how (and why):
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We did something radical that shouldn’t feel radical: we stopped funding science built for journals so that we can reimagine scientific publishing. First @arcadiascience.com. Now at @asterainstitute.bsky.social.
June 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
We did something radical that shouldn’t feel radical: we stopped funding science built for journals so that we can reimagine scientific publishing. First @arcadiascience.com. Now at @asterainstitute.bsky.social.
What search terms do you use in interdisciplinary literature searches to narrow your scope to (a) empirical work (vs. literature reviews or theory, say) and/or (b) research involving religion? docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Add your terms or comment here. 1 / 2
religion and/or empirical research search terms
docs.google.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
What search terms do you use in interdisciplinary literature searches to narrow your scope to (a) empirical work (vs. literature reviews or theory, say) and/or (b) research involving religion? docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Add your terms or comment here. 1 / 2
Vogon rest stop confirmed.
doi.org/10.3847/2041...
doi.org/10.3847/2041...
Four Sub-Earth Planets Orbiting Barnard's Star from MAROON-X and ESPRESSO - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tabopens in new tabopens in new tabopens in new tab
Four Sub-Earth Planets Orbiting Barnard’s Star from MAROON-X and ESPRESSO, Basant, Ritvik, Luque, Rafael, Bean, Jacob L., Seifahrt, Andreas, Brady, Madison, Zhao, Lily L., Brown, Nina, Das, Tanya, Stü...
doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Vogon rest stop confirmed.
doi.org/10.3847/2041...
doi.org/10.3847/2041...
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We are live!
Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings.
Check out our website and blog post about the journal:
🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep
📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...
Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings.
Check out our website and blog post about the journal:
🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep
📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...
![[Editorial: Introducing the Journal of Robustness Reports]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4bdpxswsa5p65ni7dd2f7f5y/bafkreia6p2iuq3bb4q2v5bsemv4wuw6q43635ppvcv7t2cfx7pqr74alxu@jpeg)
April 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We are live!
Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings.
Check out our website and blog post about the journal:
🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep
📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...
Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings.
Check out our website and blog post about the journal:
🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep
📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...
The Navigation Fund's open science funding portfolio is now up and running with two RFPs, one for OS meetings and one for OS and AI. (See onward links at the bottom of this call for more.) It's all looking encouragingly nimble, and with a substantial annual payout for OS. os.nav.fund/meeting-fund/
Open Science Meeting Fund 2025
os.nav.fund
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Navigation Fund's open science funding portfolio is now up and running with two RFPs, one for OS meetings and one for OS and AI. (See onward links at the bottom of this call for more.) It's all looking encouragingly nimble, and with a substantial annual payout for OS. os.nav.fund/meeting-fund/
Deadlines are May 30:
The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications!
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...
ACE Outreach Awards
CES will give out two awards of up to $2500 each to support activities that translate cultural evolution research for a non-academic audience or for students outside of the field of cultural evolution...
forms.gle
May 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Deadlines are May 30:
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Rapid response grants for cancelled NSF education-related grantees. Great work Spencer
Foundation!!
Foundation!!
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Rapid response grants for cancelled NSF education-related grantees. Great work Spencer
Foundation!!
Foundation!!
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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great to see senior academics in cognitive development calling out current threats to foundational scientific study of how children learn and think while also praising collaborative innovations like the Open Science Framework and the Developing Belief Network.
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times
Published in Journal of Cognition and Development (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Great to see senior academics in cognitive development calling out current threats to foundational scientific study of how children learn and think while also praising collaborative innovations like the Open Science Framework and the Developing Belief Network.
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🛠️ Calling all open source developers!
COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.
Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.
🔗 http://cos.io/pose
#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience
COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.
Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.
🔗 http://cos.io/pose
#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience
Funding for Open-Source Development to Advance OSF Integrations
The Center for Open Science (COS) is seeking proposals for open-source development projects that will improve usability, interoperability, and research workflows on the Open Science Framework (OSF)—a free, open-source platform maintained by COS to support researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle.
cos.io
May 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🛠️ Calling all open source developers!
COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.
Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.
🔗 http://cos.io/pose
#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience
COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.
Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.
🔗 http://cos.io/pose
#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience
Post-doc opportunities in religious cognition don't come up too often these days, but here's a good one in the Czech Republic with @martinlangcz.bsky.social www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...
Postdoctoral researcher in social cognition | Masaryk University
www.muni.cz
May 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Post-doc opportunities in religious cognition don't come up too often these days, but here's a good one in the Czech Republic with @martinlangcz.bsky.social www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...
In full accordance with the liturgical calendar of no one, today was the day to take the outdoor Christmas lights down, partly but mainly so the lawn guy didn't cut the cable.
April 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
In full accordance with the liturgical calendar of no one, today was the day to take the outdoor Christmas lights down, partly but mainly so the lawn guy didn't cut the cable.
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Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
Psych-DS
A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.
psych-ds.github.io
April 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
No relationship observed between religious service attendance and measures of mental health in a longitudinal UK household panel survey (1991-2009). Seems like there must be similar data available from other countries. Curious why more doesn't get published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Does Religious-Service Attendance Increase Mental Health? A Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis Across 18 Years - Gabriele Prati, 2025
The study aimed to investigate the within-person relationship between religious-service attendance and mental health using data from the British Household Panel...
journals.sagepub.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
No relationship observed between religious service attendance and measures of mental health in a longitudinal UK household panel survey (1991-2009). Seems like there must be similar data available from other countries. Curious why more doesn't get published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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srsly if you hate that publishers charge your grant $5-10K for open access, there's a simple solution
don't write for those journals
don't review for those journals
don't edit for those journals
Scientific Reports, Nature Comms, Comms Psych, Frontiers <- I auto-delete all their emails. easy 👍🏻
don't write for those journals
don't review for those journals
don't edit for those journals
Scientific Reports, Nature Comms, Comms Psych, Frontiers <- I auto-delete all their emails. easy 👍🏻
I'm rapidly coming to that view. I need to clear my queue at this venue just out of professional responsibility, but then they can go to hell
January 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
srsly if you hate that publishers charge your grant $5-10K for open access, there's a simple solution
don't write for those journals
don't review for those journals
don't edit for those journals
Scientific Reports, Nature Comms, Comms Psych, Frontiers <- I auto-delete all their emails. easy 👍🏻
don't write for those journals
don't review for those journals
don't edit for those journals
Scientific Reports, Nature Comms, Comms Psych, Frontiers <- I auto-delete all their emails. easy 👍🏻
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I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.
March 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.
This is now editable by anyone (as had been my original intention)... 71 societies or networks so far, but I'm sure there are lots more.
Academic and professional networks for the study of religion: there are a lot! And some overlapping networks that focus on applied settings. What's missing? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Science/health and religion/spirituality societies
docs.google.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is now editable by anyone (as had been my original intention)... 71 societies or networks so far, but I'm sure there are lots more.
Academic and professional networks for the study of religion: there are a lot! And some overlapping networks that focus on applied settings. What's missing? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Science/health and religion/spirituality societies
docs.google.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Academic and professional networks for the study of religion: there are a lot! And some overlapping networks that focus on applied settings. What's missing? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...