Dr Emma Henderson
@emmahendersonrr.bsky.social
Behavioural Scientist
illusions of truth | behaviour change | meta-science | Registered Reports lover | transparency & openness in research | responsible researcher assessment | 1st gen | she/her 🌱😻
illusions of truth | behaviour change | meta-science | Registered Reports lover | transparency & openness in research | responsible researcher assessment | 1st gen | she/her 🌱😻
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We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops!
Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!
This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm
Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!
This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm
June 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops!
Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!
This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm
Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!
This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm
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🚨 Registrations are now OPEN for the official launch of the APRICOT Project! 🚨
Join us as we explore how ontologies can advance behaviour change science. 🌍🧠
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏰ 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (UK Time)
Register here: tinyurl.com/HBCP-APRICOT
Join us as we explore how ontologies can advance behaviour change science. 🌍🧠
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏰ 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (UK Time)
Register here: tinyurl.com/HBCP-APRICOT
May 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🚨 Registrations are now OPEN for the official launch of the APRICOT Project! 🚨
Join us as we explore how ontologies can advance behaviour change science. 🌍🧠
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏰ 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (UK Time)
Register here: tinyurl.com/HBCP-APRICOT
Join us as we explore how ontologies can advance behaviour change science. 🌍🧠
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏰ 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (UK Time)
Register here: tinyurl.com/HBCP-APRICOT
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We’re hiring! RoRI is looking for a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in metascience to join our team at UCL.
If you're passionate about improving research systems, cultures and decision-making - we’d love to hear from you.
More details & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
If you're passionate about improving research systems, cultures and decision-making - we’d love to hear from you.
More details & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
June 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We’re hiring! RoRI is looking for a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in metascience to join our team at UCL.
If you're passionate about improving research systems, cultures and decision-making - we’d love to hear from you.
More details & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
If you're passionate about improving research systems, cultures and decision-making - we’d love to hear from you.
More details & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Cool paper in AMPPS of @psychscience.bsky.social "One App to Rule Them All: A One-Stop Calculator and Guide for 95 Effect-Size Variants for Two-Group Comparisons of Central Tendency, Variability, Overlap, Dominance, and Distributional Tails”
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
One App to Rule Them All: A One-Stop Calculator and Guide for 95 Effect-Size Variants for Two-Group Comparisons of Central Tendency, Variability, Overlap, Dominance, and Distributional Tails - Marton ...
The prevalence of effect-size (ES) reporting has risen significantly, yet studies comparing two groups tend to rely exclusively on the Cohen’s d family of ESs. ...
doi.org
April 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Cool paper in AMPPS of @psychscience.bsky.social "One App to Rule Them All: A One-Stop Calculator and Guide for 95 Effect-Size Variants for Two-Group Comparisons of Central Tendency, Variability, Overlap, Dominance, and Distributional Tails”
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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Tens of thousands of psychological measures have been created, but 79% are not reused more than twice.
In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Tens of thousands of psychological measures have been created, but 79% are not reused more than twice.
In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How do you identify predatory journals (other than their 90s vibe websites)? Which list or lists do you rely on?
March 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
How do you identify predatory journals (other than their 90s vibe websites)? Which list or lists do you rely on?
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We love to share new papers on here. But how many of the studies that scientists preregister on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly? In a new paper in AMPPS we estimate 40% of preregistered studies are never shared. That’s a lot. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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An Inception-Cohort Study Quantifying How Many Registered Studies Are Publicly Shared - Eline N. F. Ensinck, Daniël Lakens, 2025
We quantified how many studies registered on the OSF up to November 2017 are performed but not shared after at least 4 years. Examining a sample of 169 register...
journals.sagepub.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
We love to share new papers on here. But how many of the studies that scientists preregister on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly? In a new paper in AMPPS we estimate 40% of preregistered studies are never shared. That’s a lot. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New #preprint by @leungyianna.bsky.social: We introduce #ReSearchTerms: a #ShinyApp that visualises the content of #definitions for a set of key terminology in #OpenScholarship (selected from @forrt.bsky.social).
Preprint: osf.io/qsp7x
ShinyApp: msleungyi.shinyapps.io/Re-SearchTer...
Preprint: osf.io/qsp7x
ShinyApp: msleungyi.shinyapps.io/Re-SearchTer...
OSF
osf.io
January 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
New #preprint by @leungyianna.bsky.social: We introduce #ReSearchTerms: a #ShinyApp that visualises the content of #definitions for a set of key terminology in #OpenScholarship (selected from @forrt.bsky.social).
Preprint: osf.io/qsp7x
ShinyApp: msleungyi.shinyapps.io/Re-SearchTer...
Preprint: osf.io/qsp7x
ShinyApp: msleungyi.shinyapps.io/Re-SearchTer...
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Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb.
Please share!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Please share!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
APS Editorial Fellowship Program: Call for Applications
Deadline: February 7, 2025APS is pleased to announce the application process for the next cohort of the Editorial Fellowship Program (EFP) is now open. This program aims to increase opportunities for ...
www.psychologicalscience.org
January 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb.
Please share!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Please share!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...
quokka – an in-browser qualitative analysis app
YouTube video by Dr William Ngiam
youtu.be
January 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...
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I've just submitted a paper on my experiences creating and uploading an anonymised qualitative dataset to a repository.
Enjoyed writing this, & also think sharing these experiences and learnings more in papers is much more helpful than sharing it anecdotally.
Fingers crossed!
Enjoyed writing this, & also think sharing these experiences and learnings more in papers is much more helpful than sharing it anecdotally.
Fingers crossed!
December 6, 2024 at 11:37 AM
I've just submitted a paper on my experiences creating and uploading an anonymised qualitative dataset to a repository.
Enjoyed writing this, & also think sharing these experiences and learnings more in papers is much more helpful than sharing it anecdotally.
Fingers crossed!
Enjoyed writing this, & also think sharing these experiences and learnings more in papers is much more helpful than sharing it anecdotally.
Fingers crossed!
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✨ PREPRINT 📖🤩
"Study Preregistration: A How-To Guide"
Written for students, this guide outlines the 'what, why, and how' of preregistration, perceived barriers and their solutions, and 10 top tips to adopting and/or critically evaluating this open research practice.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Study Preregistration: A How-To Guide"
Written for students, this guide outlines the 'what, why, and how' of preregistration, perceived barriers and their solutions, and 10 top tips to adopting and/or critically evaluating this open research practice.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 26, 2024 at 6:26 PM
✨ PREPRINT 📖🤩
"Study Preregistration: A How-To Guide"
Written for students, this guide outlines the 'what, why, and how' of preregistration, perceived barriers and their solutions, and 10 top tips to adopting and/or critically evaluating this open research practice.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Study Preregistration: A How-To Guide"
Written for students, this guide outlines the 'what, why, and how' of preregistration, perceived barriers and their solutions, and 10 top tips to adopting and/or critically evaluating this open research practice.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Dr Emma Henderson
Introducing RegCheck: a tool which uses Large Language Models to automatically compare preregistered protocols with their corresponding published papers and highlights deviations.
@malte.the100.ci @ianhussey.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci @bjoernhommel.bsky.social
regcheck.app
@malte.the100.ci @ianhussey.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci @bjoernhommel.bsky.social
regcheck.app
RegCheck.app
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
regcheck.app
July 23, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Introducing RegCheck: a tool which uses Large Language Models to automatically compare preregistered protocols with their corresponding published papers and highlights deviations.
@malte.the100.ci @ianhussey.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci @bjoernhommel.bsky.social
regcheck.app
@malte.the100.ci @ianhussey.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci @bjoernhommel.bsky.social
regcheck.app
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
A leading scientist at the University of Oxford has resigned from the UK’s national academy of sciences over concerns about Elon Musk’s…
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
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New blogpost:
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
deevybee.blogspot.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:49 AM
New blogpost:
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Rethinking Barriers and Enablers in Qualitative Health Research: Limitations, Alternatives, and Enhancements - Abby Haynes, Victoria Loblay, 2024
Explorations of barriers and enablers (or barriers and facilitators) to a desired health practice, implementation process, or intervention outcome have become s...
journals.sagepub.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023
This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:16 PM
🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
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📢 EHPS Open Science SIG Webinar: Introduction to Registered Reports #OpenScience #BehaviouralScience
🗓️ Join us Thursday, November 28th at 12pm GMT, 1pm CET for a 1-hour webinar presented by Dr Aoife O'Mahony
Register today to secure your spot: forms.gle/xyVYygK2jURe...
🗓️ Join us Thursday, November 28th at 12pm GMT, 1pm CET for a 1-hour webinar presented by Dr Aoife O'Mahony
Register today to secure your spot: forms.gle/xyVYygK2jURe...
EHPS Open Science Special Interest Group Webinar - Introduction to Registered Reports, Thursday November 28th, 12pm GMT
Join us on Thursday November GMT at 12pm GMT for a 1-hour webinar on an introduction to Registered Reports by Dr Aoife O’Mahony, organised by the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Open Science...
forms.gle
November 20, 2024 at 2:03 PM
📢 EHPS Open Science SIG Webinar: Introduction to Registered Reports #OpenScience #BehaviouralScience
🗓️ Join us Thursday, November 28th at 12pm GMT, 1pm CET for a 1-hour webinar presented by Dr Aoife O'Mahony
Register today to secure your spot: forms.gle/xyVYygK2jURe...
🗓️ Join us Thursday, November 28th at 12pm GMT, 1pm CET for a 1-hour webinar presented by Dr Aoife O'Mahony
Register today to secure your spot: forms.gle/xyVYygK2jURe...
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In case you didn’t know, I’ve been doing these monthly Substack link posts about bad science (fraud, the replication crisis, bias in science, dodgy journals, all that stuff). Feel free to subscribe, or to send me links to include in the next one!
www.sciencefictions.org/p/science-fi...
www.sciencefictions.org/p/science-fi...
Science Fictions links for October 2024
Including a good scientific report about the bad scientific reports published in Scientific Reports
www.sciencefictions.org
November 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM
In case you didn’t know, I’ve been doing these monthly Substack link posts about bad science (fraud, the replication crisis, bias in science, dodgy journals, all that stuff). Feel free to subscribe, or to send me links to include in the next one!
www.sciencefictions.org/p/science-fi...
www.sciencefictions.org/p/science-fi...
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Absolutely thrilled to have won the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Individual #EinsteinFoundationAward.
Big congrats to PubPeer and @helenajambor.bsky.social for winning in their categories.
Big congrats to PubPeer and @helenajambor.bsky.social for winning in their categories.
We proudly present the 2024 winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward:
🏆Individual Award: Elisabeth Bik
@elisabethbik.bsky.social
🏆Institutional Award: PubPeer
🏆Early Career Award: PixelQuality @helenajambor.bsky.social
➡️https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2024/18112024-09/24
🏆Individual Award: Elisabeth Bik
@elisabethbik.bsky.social
🏆Institutional Award: PubPeer
🏆Early Career Award: PixelQuality @helenajambor.bsky.social
➡️https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2024/18112024-09/24
November 18, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Absolutely thrilled to have won the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Individual #EinsteinFoundationAward.
Big congrats to PubPeer and @helenajambor.bsky.social for winning in their categories.
Big congrats to PubPeer and @helenajambor.bsky.social for winning in their categories.
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Einstein Foundation awards to Elisabeth Bik and Pubpeer. 💪 award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...
Recipients 2024 – Einstein Foundation Award
award.einsteinfoundation.de
November 18, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Einstein Foundation awards to Elisabeth Bik and Pubpeer. 💪 award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...
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if u are wondering about that red pin emoji here 📌
if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji
then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins
if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji
then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins
November 13, 2024 at 3:17 AM
if u are wondering about that red pin emoji here 📌
if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji
then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins
if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji
then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins
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We're excited to announce a major update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines—TOP 2025! These guidelines streamline research practices and provide greater clarity around openness in research.
The preprint is now available. Your feedback is welcome! www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...
The preprint is now available. Your feedback is welcome! www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...
September 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
We're excited to announce a major update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines—TOP 2025! These guidelines streamline research practices and provide greater clarity around openness in research.
The preprint is now available. Your feedback is welcome! www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...
The preprint is now available. Your feedback is welcome! www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...
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Our* new review of Open Research initiatives in Psychology is preprinted 📖
We identify 187 initiatives to increase awareness & uptake of OR in Psychology and cateogorise these as procedural (tools & resources🛠️), structural (policies, frameworks🏛️) & community (grassroots🤝)
*Skubera et al., 2024 👏
We identify 187 initiatives to increase awareness & uptake of OR in Psychology and cateogorise these as procedural (tools & resources🛠️), structural (policies, frameworks🏛️) & community (grassroots🤝)
*Skubera et al., 2024 👏
🧵Exploring International Open Research Initiatives in Psychology 🌍🔍
🚀 Let’s dive into how psychology is embracing Open Research to make research more reproducible, transparent, accessible, and inclusive!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
forrt.org/mapping_os/
#OpenScience
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🚀 Let’s dive into how psychology is embracing Open Research to make research more reproducible, transparent, accessible, and inclusive!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
forrt.org/mapping_os/
#OpenScience
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OSF
osf.io
October 30, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Our* new review of Open Research initiatives in Psychology is preprinted 📖
We identify 187 initiatives to increase awareness & uptake of OR in Psychology and cateogorise these as procedural (tools & resources🛠️), structural (policies, frameworks🏛️) & community (grassroots🤝)
*Skubera et al., 2024 👏
We identify 187 initiatives to increase awareness & uptake of OR in Psychology and cateogorise these as procedural (tools & resources🛠️), structural (policies, frameworks🏛️) & community (grassroots🤝)
*Skubera et al., 2024 👏