Sakshi Ghai
sakshighai.bsky.social
Sakshi Ghai
@sakshighai.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at London School of Economics

Hoping to diversify behavioral science. Interested in sample diversity, young populations & digital technology
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Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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📢 Call for big-team science! plz RT
Our stage 1 RR at @pci-regreports.bsky.social, "Assessing diversity & representativeness of BTS in psychology" will start soon!

We hope to include all available BTS in this list. 👇
🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Adding BTS by commenting.

⌛DDL: 2025-7-20
July 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Had a great, thought-provoking time sitting on the panel about how feminist research and metascience are aligned. Our big argument = metascience IS feminist. It’s asking fundamental questions about knowledge, power, and credibility. We just have never framed it like this explicitly #Metascience2025
July 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE!

Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers.
*(1/4)*
June 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Grateful to Hannah Rubin for convening this interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss #equity in scholarly communities! @sakshighai.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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“Toward a feminist metascience: Perspectives and pain points”

metascience.info/programme/#1...

With @sakshighai.bsky.social, @maddipow.bsky.social, @annayahprosser.bsky.social, and @crsugimoto.bsky.social, Nicki Lisa Cole, & Gowri Gopalakrishna.‬
June 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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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...
A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology
Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...
www.nature.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣

Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵

🗓 Application review begins April 30

Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology
Dr. Ashwini Ashokkumar’s lab at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to start in Fall 2025. The lab conducts research related to i...
rb.gy
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Glad to see our research cited in this @theguardian.com article! 🌍

It's crucial to keep calling out the #climate destruction driven by the wealthiest. We should remember, though, that those of us with privilege—though less—also need to change.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Never mind the planet’s fate when the jet set feel the urge to seek out some winter sun | Catherine Bennett
Self-denial will save the Earth, we’re told. But big emitters seemingly haven’t had the memo
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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In the March issue

Personal View: From social media to #AI: improving research on digital harms in youth

🔗https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(24)00332-8/fulltext
From social media to artificial intelligence: improving research on digital harms in youth
In this Personal View, we critically evaluate the limitations and underlying challenges of existing research into the negative mental health consequences of internet-mediated technologies on young peo...
www.thelancet.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel!

How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
February 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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A question for the #PsySciSky hive mind - with the exception of @sakshighai.bsky.social, who I interviewed last week, can you think of Psychologists doing research with / about rural populations?
February 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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#LSE #OpenResearch Working Group's 1st 2025 event "Publishing Beyond Academia" with panel @cwaiting.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com, @jonsutton.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social, @michaeltaster.bsky.social @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, & me (having published with all three) - 🎥 to follow #SciComm
February 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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So excited to teach @sakshighai.bsky.social et al's beautiful new paper in my Feminist Research Methods class today. and it was published less than a week ago! An instant classic www.nature.com/articles/s44...
February 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Happy to share the product of a very enjoyable collaboration, led by Sakshi Ghai, on bridging inclusivity and open science principles and practices:

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology
Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...
www.nature.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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There are twin threats to psychology: the well-known HARKing (Hypothesising After the Results are Known) and the newly coined MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge). New paper led by @sakshighai.bsky.social in @commspsychol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology
Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...
www.nature.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"Psychology Takes a Global View" by @sipappas.bsky.social for APA Monitor www.apa.org/monitor/2025...
Have a look if you are curious about what Big Team Science has to offer!
"There are a lot of experts who are really motivated to be part of these collaborations despite the difficulties.”
🎤 Me :D
Psychology takes a global view
Global research collaborations are seeking larger, more representative samples in investigating shared urgent challenges.
www.apa.org
January 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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You may have heard of Questionable Research Practices and "HARKing" as threats to replicability.

In a new paper led by @sakshighai.bsky.social, we argue that a similar practices -- Questionable Generalizability Practices and "MASKing" -- undermine generalizability.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
January 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
So excited to see this in print! A manifesto paving the way for responsible generalisation and co-authorship practices in open science - with an incredible team of scholars!

Very much inspired by the benchmark Munafò et al. manifesto for reproducible science
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology
Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...
www.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Well-being trajectories of older adults look different in absence of retirement, institutionalized income & social security.

For source paper, see: tinyurl.com/3u5cc5nv
January 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Do we have time for slow research? Led by Dr. Samia Akhter-Khan, our team delves into three crucial questions shaping the way we approach research in LMICs.
December 20, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Excellent article by Akhter-Khan, @sakshighai.bsky.social and Mayston on psychology research in LMICs, uncovering truths about foreign others is not the main purpose of equitable research, www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Considerations for conducting psychological research in lower- and middle-income countries - Communications Psychology
Beginning to conduct psychological research in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is daunting. Where do you start? In this reflexive commentary, we raise three critical questions that research...
www.nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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PREPRINT 📰

Exploring cross-sectional associations between social connections/internet use during COVID-19 & mental health symptoms in 12 Global South countries - using UNICEF Innocenti data!

osf.io/a3gfv

with @sakshighai.bsky.social, @orbenamy.bsky.social and many more 🥳
OSF
osf.io
October 3, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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Although this was not conceived as a piece of “developmental meta-research”, it fits with this theme because its focus is on how current research practice could better contribute to meeting the needs and priorities of people in low and middle income countries bsky.app/profile/saks...
Do big team science studies guarantee the global generalizability of findings?

At the risk of not overgeneralizing ourselves, we reanalysed one big team science study on temporal discounting.

Together with peerless @psforscher.bsky.social & @hcp4715.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Big-team science does not guarantee generalizability - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - Big-team science does not guarantee generalizability
www.nature.com
June 7, 2024 at 1:48 PM