Daniel Lakens
@lakens.bsky.social
Metascience, statistics, psychology, philosophy of science. Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Omnia probate. 🇪🇺
A recent paper suggests we stop using the terms Registered Report and preregistration. This is a very bad idea by my fellow metascientists. There is no way I am ever gonna drop 'Registered Reports' for 'Two-stage review with in principle acceptance'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A recent paper suggests we stop using the terms Registered Report and preregistration. This is a very bad idea by my fellow metascientists. There is no way I am ever gonna drop 'Registered Reports' for 'Two-stage review with in principle acceptance'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New 'Preliminary Report' submission format at Science and Medicine in Football. An idea that should be interesting for other journals! Explicitly make space for honestly reported smaller sample-size studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New 'Preliminary Report' submission format at Science and Medicine in Football. An idea that should be interesting for other journals! Explicitly make space for honestly reported smaller sample-size studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Went on a trip to Paris for the day, giving a talk at Université Paris Cité, saying hi to former lab visitor Ethan Meimoun, and we even had time to pick up gluten free goodies for my wife at Copains on the way!
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Went on a trip to Paris for the day, giving a talk at Université Paris Cité, saying hi to former lab visitor Ethan Meimoun, and we even had time to pick up gluten free goodies for my wife at Copains on the way!
New blog post: Why we should stop using statistical techniques that have not been adequately vetted by experts in psychology daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-... where I reflect on how we should check the quality of novel statistical techniques.
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
New blog post: Why we should stop using statistical techniques that have not been adequately vetted by experts in psychology daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-... where I reflect on how we should check the quality of novel statistical techniques.
Today I was happy to attend the excellent PhD defense of my good friend, and a wonderful scholar (and now Dr!) @mntunc.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Today I was happy to attend the excellent PhD defense of my good friend, and a wonderful scholar (and now Dr!) @mntunc.bsky.social
Now Rasoul Norouzi from Tilburg University, talking about reproducibly automatically extracting causal statements from the scientific literature.
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Now Rasoul Norouzi from Tilburg University, talking about reproducibly automatically extracting causal statements from the scientific literature.
Now @ambra-prg.bsky.social showing in progress work on whether individual studies in a meta-analysis had a large enough sample size that the meta-analytic effect size could have been significant.
October 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Now @ambra-prg.bsky.social showing in progress work on whether individual studies in a meta-analysis had a large enough sample size that the meta-analytic effect size could have been significant.
Second keynote of the day, Lisa Spitzer talking about how to foster preregistration, with a lot of insights into how it was to be a metascience PhD researcher!
October 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Second keynote of the day, Lisa Spitzer talking about how to foster preregistration, with a lot of insights into how it was to be a metascience PhD researcher!
Cas Goosen is presenting the idea of multi-stage preregistration, a way to improve the evaluations of the severity of deviations (which are common).
October 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Cas Goosen is presenting the idea of multi-stage preregistration, a way to improve the evaluations of the severity of deviations (which are common).
The first keynote of the day at the Paul Meehl Graduate School symposium by @uyguntunc.bsky.social, introducing a philosophical perspective on metascience, asking appropriately big questions 😅
October 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The first keynote of the day at the Paul Meehl Graduate School symposium by @uyguntunc.bsky.social, introducing a philosophical perspective on metascience, asking appropriately big questions 😅
Now Gabriela Xavier Quintais talking about at the Paul Meehl Graduate School symposium whether the use of hypothesis testing is a good fit for ecology. Can error rates for studies in this field be controlled, is replication possible, can researchers randomize to conditions?
October 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Now Gabriela Xavier Quintais talking about at the Paul Meehl Graduate School symposium whether the use of hypothesis testing is a good fit for ecology. Can error rates for studies in this field be controlled, is replication possible, can researchers randomize to conditions?
Now Johanna Einsiedler who is reflecting on which aspects of systematic reviews we can automate, how we quantify uncertainty, and keep the human in the loop, at the Paul Meehl Graduate School Symposium.
October 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Now Johanna Einsiedler who is reflecting on which aspects of systematic reviews we can automate, how we quantify uncertainty, and keep the human in the loop, at the Paul Meehl Graduate School Symposium.
Now @maxprimbs.bsky.social talking about his super exciting Many-Dags project, asking experts in his field of implicit researchers to draw DAGs about a theory in his field.
October 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Now @maxprimbs.bsky.social talking about his super exciting Many-Dags project, asking experts in his field of implicit researchers to draw DAGs about a theory in his field.
Everything ready and set up for the Paul Meehl Graduate Symposium. Looking So forward to today, with lots of great presentations and lovely visitors! paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-08-17-p...
October 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Everything ready and set up for the Paul Meehl Graduate Symposium. Looking So forward to today, with lots of great presentations and lovely visitors! paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-08-17-p...
In an incredibly fun, interesting, and educational Paul Meehl Graduate School workshop by Aaron Peikert on collaboration through Github.
By far the best educational material I have seen in any Git course. Feels like a game, played on GitHub! 🕹️
By far the best educational material I have seen in any Git course. Feels like a game, played on GitHub! 🕹️
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
In an incredibly fun, interesting, and educational Paul Meehl Graduate School workshop by Aaron Peikert on collaboration through Github.
By far the best educational material I have seen in any Git course. Feels like a game, played on GitHub! 🕹️
By far the best educational material I have seen in any Git course. Feels like a game, played on GitHub! 🕹️
Did I need to by a golden vinyl single of 'Golden' by Huntrix?
No.
Did I buy it anyway?
Yes, yes I did.
No.
Did I buy it anyway?
Yes, yes I did.
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Did I need to by a golden vinyl single of 'Golden' by Huntrix?
No.
Did I buy it anyway?
Yes, yes I did.
No.
Did I buy it anyway?
Yes, yes I did.
Position part B of the image on top of part A in such a way that the 2 riders are sitting on top of the horses, right side up.
From Scheerer, Goldstein, and Boring, 1941 doi.org/10.2307/1417...
(answer in the reply)
From Scheerer, Goldstein, and Boring, 1941 doi.org/10.2307/1417...
(answer in the reply)
September 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Position part B of the image on top of part A in such a way that the 2 riders are sitting on top of the horses, right side up.
From Scheerer, Goldstein, and Boring, 1941 doi.org/10.2307/1417...
(answer in the reply)
From Scheerer, Goldstein, and Boring, 1941 doi.org/10.2307/1417...
(answer in the reply)
New Grandbrothers album is out! For anyone who likes the opening tune of our Nullius in Verba podcast, give them a listen, or even better, just get a copy because the record is great!
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
New Grandbrothers album is out! For anyone who likes the opening tune of our Nullius in Verba podcast, give them a listen, or even better, just get a copy because the record is great!
Carter et al, 2019, say. I would say that is directly opposed to what you claim, and Carter et al are right, and you are wrong.
September 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Carter et al, 2019, say. I would say that is directly opposed to what you claim, and Carter et al are right, and you are wrong.
New blog post from Data Colada, responding to the recent criticisms on p-curve analysis. It is a *very* good response. As in, it addresses exactly the points I would have expected in a reply, and it explains why I will still teach p-curve analysis. datacolada.org/129
September 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New blog post from Data Colada, responding to the recent criticisms on p-curve analysis. It is a *very* good response. As in, it addresses exactly the points I would have expected in a reply, and it explains why I will still teach p-curve analysis. datacolada.org/129
Oh my! This section is so true of STS in general! It is all about coming up with a neologism, and hoping others will use your term (or, I guess, bullying people into using it)
September 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Oh my! This section is so true of STS in general! It is all about coming up with a neologism, and hoping others will use your term (or, I guess, bullying people into using it)
Made my own hangboard to practice my bouldering muscles!
September 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Made my own hangboard to practice my bouldering muscles!
New office furniture. :)
September 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New office furniture. :)