🎉 New face database just dropped!
The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods.
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I was playing the party game That Escalated Quickly with friends recently—and it struck me:
This game is actually a fun lesson in statistical inference.🎲🧠
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Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

The #Metascience2025 conference is hosting a series of ten pre-conference virtual symposia over Zoom in the weeks leading up to the conference. These sessions are all free to attend!

⬇️ Register here ⬇️
metascience.info/virtual-symp...

#Metascience #OpenScience

'We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons…'
Marcus Munafo on academics’ responsibilities as publicly funded employees, and when further research is not needed.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility.

Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The future of brain and mental health research won’t come from static tasks or narrow models. It’ll be built through adaptive systems - ones that learn, reason, and scale with us. That’s what I’m building with Gearshift Fellowship 👇 1/2

v1.0 of the Fundamental Development Gap Map, a new web portal for exploring the landscape of bottlenecks holding back science and the fundamental technologies to solve them. Very exciting and promising database: www.gap-map.org

NEW: 2-year Research Scientist position at COS

Come to lead our latest funded project to create benchmarks for evaluating LLM agents' capabilities to do (and not do) science.

Details in the job ad, and ask if you have questions!

(Remote; US-based; $78-88k)
ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...

Excited to have our Automated Research Assistant (AutoRA) published. While initially developed for the behavioral sciences, AutoRA is designed as a general framework for closed-loop scientific discovery. Visit the doc to construct your own closed-loop studies: autoresearch.github.io/autora/

A letter to Social Psychologists, regarding the war, by (the vast majority of) Israeli social psychologists.

We would appreciate it if you can read and share.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#SocialPsyc #PsychSciSky

#NobelPrize announcements have started. Here are some thoughts on Impact Factor and research assessment from Nobel winners.

TL:DR; “(Impact factors) are clearly too broad a measure with which to judge the quality of an individual scientist’s work.”