Protzko
@protzko.bsky.social
Experimental Psychologist, social perceptions, metascience. I study the assumptions you make. Here just trying to share good research
https://sites.google.com/view/assumptionlabccsu/home
https://sites.google.com/view/assumptionlabccsu/home
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Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Is classification measurement?
Feels like it is, but classification doesn't require quantitative structure or numbers.
Which would mean measurement doesn't require quantification or numbers.
Which all feels okay, unsure if that leads to contradictions or bigger problems.
#stats #measurement
Feels like it is, but classification doesn't require quantitative structure or numbers.
Which would mean measurement doesn't require quantification or numbers.
Which all feels okay, unsure if that leads to contradictions or bigger problems.
#stats #measurement
December 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Is classification measurement?
Feels like it is, but classification doesn't require quantitative structure or numbers.
Which would mean measurement doesn't require quantification or numbers.
Which all feels okay, unsure if that leads to contradictions or bigger problems.
#stats #measurement
Feels like it is, but classification doesn't require quantitative structure or numbers.
Which would mean measurement doesn't require quantification or numbers.
Which all feels okay, unsure if that leads to contradictions or bigger problems.
#stats #measurement
Fuck! Swearing may make you a little bit stronger.
In 2 preregistered studies, swearing every 2s increases static strength vs. saying a neutral word.
From Richard Stephens & colleagues
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
#psych #exercise
In 2 preregistered studies, swearing every 2s increases static strength vs. saying a neutral word.
From Richard Stephens & colleagues
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
#psych #exercise
December 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fuck! Swearing may make you a little bit stronger.
In 2 preregistered studies, swearing every 2s increases static strength vs. saying a neutral word.
From Richard Stephens & colleagues
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
#psych #exercise
In 2 preregistered studies, swearing every 2s increases static strength vs. saying a neutral word.
From Richard Stephens & colleagues
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
#psych #exercise
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🚀 Announcing the Besample Dissertation Grant (N=3,000)
If you’re a Ph.D. student in psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, or any related field, this is your chance to get full funding for testing your theory across cultures.
Apply: study.besample.app/jfe/form/SV_...
If you’re a Ph.D. student in psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, or any related field, this is your chance to get full funding for testing your theory across cultures.
Apply: study.besample.app/jfe/form/SV_...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚀 Announcing the Besample Dissertation Grant (N=3,000)
If you’re a Ph.D. student in psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, or any related field, this is your chance to get full funding for testing your theory across cultures.
Apply: study.besample.app/jfe/form/SV_...
If you’re a Ph.D. student in psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, or any related field, this is your chance to get full funding for testing your theory across cultures.
Apply: study.besample.app/jfe/form/SV_...
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Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap
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You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
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Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke.
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke.
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
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![RENEW WAR ON SANTA CLAUS
Asbury Park, N.J. July 8 - War on Santa Claus has been renewed by the School of Methods of the New Jersey Sunday School Teachers' Association in session here. The battle against the children's idol of Christmastide was begun last summer on the ground that the time-honored institution of Kris Kringle takes the minds of the young scholars from the religion [sic] significance of the day.
Last year the teachers sought to have substituted a model Christmas festival, in which the stereopticon played a prominent part and the jolly old saint was banished. It failed Now the teachers have a new scheme of a "living Christmas tree." Teachers and scholars of Sunday schools are to stand in serried ranks upon a circular platform built in tiers, each holding a Christmas tree branch, laden with candles and gifts. At a given signal all are to step down and carry their branches through the audience, distributing the gifts.
--Miners Journal, 9 July 1904](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uuwcnr32gcm7iuzfysuwjvop/bafkreiefbisxrntbq3le6ipbc4mqw3lr2khckpezigakqflr2nhu5ge5di@jpeg)
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ZPID Trier: Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent) (f/m/d) leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 #Stellenangebot
Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent) (f/m/d)
leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
ZPID Trier: Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent) (f/m/d) leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 #Stellenangebot
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The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:
Who wouldn't want this?
Metacheck can now automatically 1) download a preprint from PsyArXiv, 2) create a report of the checks (stats, reporting guidelines, references, code, etc), 3) retrieve the authors email, and 4) send them the report.
Would you as an author appreciate this? When yes, when no?
Would you as an author appreciate this? When yes, when no?
December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Who wouldn't want this?
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Workshop I gave for the Chinese University of Hong Kong now online:
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...
Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework | CUHK library
YouTube video by Gilad Feldman
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Workshop I gave for the Chinese University of Hong Kong now online:
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...
Sometimes people, like programs, get caught in a loop.
These loops can last minutes, these loops can last years.
But the solution is the same.
Just turn it off and on again.
These loops can last minutes, these loops can last years.
But the solution is the same.
Just turn it off and on again.
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sometimes people, like programs, get caught in a loop.
These loops can last minutes, these loops can last years.
But the solution is the same.
Just turn it off and on again.
These loops can last minutes, these loops can last years.
But the solution is the same.
Just turn it off and on again.
Corrections to misinformation work & may increase perceptions of truth & feelings towards the target of the misinfo!
For 1-2 weeks at best.
From @jhchae.bsky.social, Groeling, & @hyunjinsong.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...
#psych
We need to see how long our interventions last!
For 1-2 weeks at best.
From @jhchae.bsky.social, Groeling, & @hyunjinsong.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...
#psych
We need to see how long our interventions last!
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Corrections to misinformation work & may increase perceptions of truth & feelings towards the target of the misinfo!
For 1-2 weeks at best.
From @jhchae.bsky.social, Groeling, & @hyunjinsong.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...
#psych
We need to see how long our interventions last!
For 1-2 weeks at best.
From @jhchae.bsky.social, Groeling, & @hyunjinsong.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...
#psych
We need to see how long our interventions last!
Fasting for 8-48 hours shows no major effect on cognitive abilities.
Longer fasting shows even less cognitive effects, but there may be some small 8-hour effects. Therefore, lunch to lunch is probably best for a 24hour fast.
From Bamberg & @davidmoreau.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles...
Longer fasting shows even less cognitive effects, but there may be some small 8-hour effects. Therefore, lunch to lunch is probably best for a 24hour fast.
From Bamberg & @davidmoreau.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles...
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Fasting for 8-48 hours shows no major effect on cognitive abilities.
Longer fasting shows even less cognitive effects, but there may be some small 8-hour effects. Therefore, lunch to lunch is probably best for a 24hour fast.
From Bamberg & @davidmoreau.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles...
Longer fasting shows even less cognitive effects, but there may be some small 8-hour effects. Therefore, lunch to lunch is probably best for a 24hour fast.
From Bamberg & @davidmoreau.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles...
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Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
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Wheeled toys were all the rage in the ancient world. Here are four lovely examples: a Greek horse, a Mesopotamian ram, an Iranian hedgehog & a Mesoamerican jaguar. The jaguar one is particularly cool because it shows that Mesoamericans knew about wheels; they just didn't use them for transport.
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Wheeled toys were all the rage in the ancient world. Here are four lovely examples: a Greek horse, a Mesopotamian ram, an Iranian hedgehog & a Mesoamerican jaguar. The jaguar one is particularly cool because it shows that Mesoamericans knew about wheels; they just didn't use them for transport.
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Upcoming Zoom talk:
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
(Chinese University of Hong Kong library)
Tues, Nov 25 2025, 2-330pm HK time (GMT+8)
All are welcome.
Registration:
cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view...
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
(Chinese University of Hong Kong library)
Tues, Nov 25 2025, 2-330pm HK time (GMT+8)
All are welcome.
Registration:
cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view...
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Upcoming Zoom talk:
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
(Chinese University of Hong Kong library)
Tues, Nov 25 2025, 2-330pm HK time (GMT+8)
All are welcome.
Registration:
cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view...
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
(Chinese University of Hong Kong library)
Tues, Nov 25 2025, 2-330pm HK time (GMT+8)
All are welcome.
Registration:
cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view...
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I can talk for hours about BTS and especially about my dream of clinical BTS. If this sounds interesting, feel free to invite me to your department. No funding required, just cookies and (virtual) warm hugs. #BigTeamScience
This work received support from the @fwf-at.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at
This work received support from the @fwf-at.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I can talk for hours about BTS and especially about my dream of clinical BTS. If this sounds interesting, feel free to invite me to your department. No funding required, just cookies and (virtual) warm hugs. #BigTeamScience
This work received support from the @fwf-at.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at
This work received support from the @fwf-at.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at
It is either a really good or a really bad time for my call for countries to come together and allow free collaboration and tool use between countries outside the realm of international relations problems...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It is either a really good or a really bad time for my call for countries to come together and allow free collaboration and tool use between countries outside the realm of international relations problems...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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the internet has decided that em-dashes are a hallmark of llm writing, which is *extremely* annoying to me, as someone who uses em-dashes all the time.
dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good
dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
the internet has decided that em-dashes are a hallmark of llm writing, which is *extremely* annoying to me, as someone who uses em-dashes all the time.
dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good
dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good
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Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
