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Dr Madeleine Pownall
@maddipow.bsky.social
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Associate Professor. Keen bean. Writer. Pedagogy, psychology, reflexivity, open science, iced lattes. ABSENT MINDS coming May 2026📘. She/her 🌻
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maddipow.bsky.social
I was proofreading my book on the train and the man next to me audibly complained when I moved the page before he’d finished reading over my shoulder. Fair play
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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pwgtennant.bsky.social
HYBRID EVENT: 'Introduction to Quantitative Bias' with Rachel Hughes on Monday 1st December at 10am-12pm UK time.

For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!

Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
briannosek.bsky.social
Science is a collective effort, but @simine.com is a singular force. She is an exemplary model for all of us to follow in her commitment and action to improving science, on every dimension.

She is so deserving of the award. The only uncertainty is whether the award deserves her!
tomhardwicke.bsky.social Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
dsquintana.bsky.social
There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts.

Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...
This paper provides guidance and tools for conducting open and reproducible systematic reviews in psychology. It emphasizes the importance of systematic reviews for evidence-based decision-making and the growing adoption of open science practices. Open science enhances transparency, reproducibility, and minimizes bias in systematic reviews by sharing data, materials, and code. It also fosters collaborations and enables involvement of non-academic stakeholders. The paper is designed for beginners, offering accessible guidance to navigate the many standards and resources that may not obviously align with specific areas of psychology. It covers systematic review conduct standards, pre-registration, registered reports, reporting standards, and open data, materials and code. The paper is concluded with a glimpse of recent innovations like Community Augmented Meta-Analysis and independent reproducibility checks.
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
maddipow.bsky.social
This is such wonderful news. Simine has done so much for advocating for robust, fair, transparent practices throughout psychology and beyond 👏
tomhardwicke.bsky.social Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
serhiinazarovets.bsky.social
A new article by Chloe Patton in #ResearchEvaluation shows how debates about #OpenScience often slip into absurdity – like demanding #replication from the #Humanities. You can’t replicate history, culture, or interpretation the way you replicate a physics experiment: doi.org/10.1093/rese...
Patton, C. (2024). Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality. Research Evaluation, 34. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf052
November 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
maddipow.bsky.social
Love this ⬇️
alexh.bsky.social Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 12d
Rather than a "Limitations" section now common in some areas of science, our preprint includes a lengthy "Objections and responses" section, phillosophy paper style. I'm sure that section will comprehensively answer all your criticisms and concerns. osf.io/preprints/me...
But seriously, we'd love
OSF
osf.io
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
psychmag.bsky.social
'Me and AI'…
We want to hear your views on AI's place in Psychology, and your own journey in Psychology.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
From the Editor, November 2025; plus Voices In Psychology | BPS
Dr Jon Sutton introduces the November 2025 issue.
www.bps.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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juliet-turner.bsky.social
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
orbenamy.bsky.social
📣 Digital Research Community!

The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.

Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Adolescent Health Survey - Digital Media
Expert guidance shaping digital media questions in upcoming Adolescent Health Study.
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
dsquintana.bsky.social
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
deevybee.bsky.social
implies the only people interested in the obituaries are psychologists. V short sighted to keep historically important psychologists fenced off from the outside world
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
maddipow.bsky.social
“…This means that one of the indispensable inputs of generative AI is the very output that open science works hard to generate and perfect: open data, source code, scientific articles and educational resources, all of which are provided for free and are often funded by tax-payer monies”
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
psychmag.bsky.social
Open up access to the past…
Dr @maddipow.bsky.social (University of Leeds) on the importance of obituaries.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Open up access to the past | BPS
Dr Madeleine Pownall (University of Leeds) on the importance of obituaries.
www.bps.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
maddipow.bsky.social
Shout out to @psychmag.bsky.social for being speedy, open access, and helping to share things I care about quickly and freely:

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
maddipow.bsky.social
Response from the APA:

“The obituaries are a highly valued part of the American Psychologist. We offer access to the journal as part of our APA membership. If you are interested in membership, please let us know”
maddipow.bsky.social Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 17d
Latest academic hot take: it is gross and inhumane and wrong that obituaries are ever held behind a paywall that publishers profit from
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
maddipow.bsky.social
Latest academic hot take: it is gross and inhumane and wrong that obituaries are ever held behind a paywall that publishers profit from
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
forrt.bsky.social
⭐ We are aiming to spotlight all our amazing resources ⭐

First one: Check out FORRT's Curated Resources!

Whether you are a student or seasoned researcher, there is something for everyone.

forrt.org/resources/
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
hansonmark.bsky.social
The solutions of the past 3 decades have failed to change the incentives of #PublishOrPerish. As a result, researcher funding, time, control, and trust has been lost.

The ONE CONSTANT in the wake of the serial crisis, #PlanS and #OpenAccess reform has been publish profit margins.

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A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
The race to churn out papers is a systemic problem.

Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Reposted by Dr Madeleine Pownall
lizstokoe.bsky.social
Come and work with my wonderful colleagues @lsepbs.bsky.social!

Assistant Professor in Social #Psychology / Environmental Psychology

#AcademicSky

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
maddipow.bsky.social
I have a publication date and a cover! 7th May 2026! 📚💙
headlinebooks.bsky.social Headline Books @headlinebooks.bsky.social · 27d
Uncover the lost legacies of the women who changed psychology forever...

ABSENT MINDS by @maddipow.bsky.social is out 07.05.2026.

Available to pre-order now: www.waterstones.com/book/absent-...
Take a moment to think of all the psychologists you can name. Freud, Jung, Pavlov, Piaget, are perhaps the first that come to mind. Now consider how many women you can name. In asking this question, I am often met with a deafening silence. Absent Minds by Dr Madeleine Pownall. Coming 7 May 2026.
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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aimosinc.bsky.social
@forrt.bsky.social's diamond open access replication journal is accepting submissions: www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
maddipow.bsky.social
I was talking to a student today about my favourite writers and their lovely little linguistic and stylistic quirks, and it made me sad to think that the AI-ification of academic writing could render a lot of that uniqueness extinct one day
October 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM