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Susan K. Chen
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Developmental Psych PhD student @ University of Utah | Interested in pregnancy, babies, and how early experiences "get under the skin" and influence behavior and health | #rstats, #teaching, & #metascience. Views = my own.
I wish #peer-reviewed journals (in psych) followed the same reporting standard. I shouldn't have to scroll up and down the Methods just to find your sample size and mean age. Basic info about your sample should be clearly written in the Participants section.

#TransparentReportingPlease #Metascience
August 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's hard to feel excited about science right now.
Trump calls it “gold-standard science.”

But what he’s proposing is fool’s gold - shiny rhetoric hiding the rot of political interference in scientific endeavors, in the pursuit of his ideological agenda.

Read the WaPo article featuring our Open Letter here:
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Why Trump’s push for ‘gold-standard science’ has researchers alarmed
Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Susan K. Chen
👏 Official statement from Center for Open Science:

"Demanding perfect evidence before action can be taken is often a way to avoid using evidence at all.

Rigor and reproducibility should not be weaponized to gatekeep certain fields or findings."
Complementing other communications about the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" Executive Order, here is a statement from COS. Also, see the links to stories from previous attempts to co-opt open science for policies that undermine science and evidence-based policymaking.

www.cos.io/about/news/c...
COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order
The Executive Order issued on May 23, 2025, Restoring Gold Standard Science, references several open science practices championed by COS and the open science and metascience communities more generally...
www.cos.io
May 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reporting non-significant findings without reporting the stats is still problematic. #academicchatter #metascience #openscience
May 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Three-way interactions are the bane of my existence.
May 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Maybe the future of education is that only students who care about learning will go to college and everybody else can spend all day at networking events. I just don't see any point spending time in the liminal space where students pretend that they're learning while having LLMs do their work.
May 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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In the preprint, we discuss means for rapidly documenting partially finished projects, as well as publishing ‘as you go’ to prevent future problems in an uncertain environment.

We emphasize solutions that can be done quickly and on a limited budget.
May 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
1/ This is the first semester I’ve seen AI use explode in my class (it's online for context), and it's been depressing and disappointing to say the least. I assigned students a 250-word personal reflection paper for extra credit, and yep, some of them still used AI to write it. #highered
May 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
May 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
May 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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We recently rolled out DOI versioning for OSF Preprints to align with Crossref best practices and support Publish, Review, Curate models.

🔍 New preprints get versioned DOIs automatically.
📁 Existing preprints now show previous file versions again.

Guide: help.osf.io/article/673-...

Details ⬇️
Create a New Version of a Preprint
This Article Is Licensed Under CCO For Maximum Reuse. OSF preprints and preprints hosted on the OSF (i.e. PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, etc) have been updated to include
help.osf.io
April 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Now accepting commentary proposals!! We are thrilled to share that our paper--"Two tiers, not one: Different sources of extrinsic mortality have opposing effects on life history traits"--was accepted for publication at Behavioral and Brain Sciences and is open for commentary!
bit.ly/41igQA8
Two tiers, not one: Different sources of extrinsic mortality have opposing effects on life history traits | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Two tiers, not one: Different sources of extrinsic mortality have opposing effects on life history traits
bit.ly
February 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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📊✨ A #ggplot2 Grammar Guide by Gina Reynolds ✨📊

This evolving guide is a great starting point to help you, your colleagues, or students get oriented with ggplot2 & its extensions!

🔗 Check it out here: https://buff.ly/2WETF12

For more R resources, visit: https://buff.ly/41cFyjY

#RStats #DataViz 🚀
a ggplot2 grammar guide
Welcome to a ggplot2 grammar of guide! This guide isn’t comprehensive, and it will likely continue to evolve. But it’s at a place that it might be useful to orient you, a colleague, or a student to…
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Now that the preconference dust has settled, time for an #EPatSPSP2025 recap! 1st, big thanks to @jessicadayers.bsky.social for making co-organizing fun. 2nd, thanks to our amazing presenters. Last, thanks to our attendees - who registered so quickly that #SPSP2025 kindly moved us to a bigger room!
February 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Formal theories free the theory from the theorist.” A really interesting and insightful talk by @dconroybeam.bsky.social @ the #SPSP2025 Evo Precon!
February 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I will be giving at short talk at the SPSP Annual Convention 2025 (Evo Preconference) titled, "Live fast or live slow? Life history predictors of youth gang involvement." Hope to see some of you there! #SPSP2025 - via #Whova event app
February 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Hello #EPatSPSP2025 attendees, you can get to the four seasons ballroom by going through the “600s” hall to the right of the registration help desk and then taking those stairs down. Our lunch is in the ballroom! #spsp2025
February 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I feel pretty late to the game... better late than never, right? #hellobsky #RIPTwitterX
February 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM