How can I find good recommendations for books on a topic I’m interested in? shepherd.com is a new option to try. It’s a database of brief comments by authors about (i) themselves, (ii) one of their own books, and (iii) …
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Research skills can lead in all sorts of directions. When it really matters, children can be powerful. (Kids: keep up the pressure on climate!) Australian voters have just kicked out a climate-denying, coal-loving Federal Coalition Government. This is the remarkable …
Top Researcher Leaps Sideways into Politics–and Wins! Read more »
(Revised 18 March 2022, to add comments about replication, and the effectiveness of journal-specific guidelines, and badges.) What Progress With Open Science? In Brief: Judging from Psychological Science (PS) and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (JEPG), during 2013-2020: Reporting …
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A few days ago I gave a talk hosted by Valentin Amrhein and his colleagues at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel. Many thanks to Valentin, Dieter Ebert, and colleagues for the invitation. My slides, which include lots …
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As part of its strategic planning, APS recently asked members to identify the ‘grand challenges‘ for our discipline. I wrote, of course, about climate change. The latest APS Observer summarised responses from members from all round the world. The article …
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I woke on Christmas morning to a message from Bob with this link, to this editorial: Not just a single journal, but journal editors for a whole discipline! Here’s the first para, highlights added: Null hypothesis statistical tests are often …
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I recently posted about MRI Together. It was a great global zoomfest, and now videos of the talks are online. The Videos The YouTube site with all the videos is here, but it’s easiest to scan the program and click …
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Bob tweeted about it, I posted about it, and recently it happened: The AIMOS zoomfest. The program is here. AIMOS, just 3 years old, advances meta-science, a big part of which is the scholarship and advocacy that advances Open Science. …
The brain…, the climate crisis…, sustainability with children…, healthy homes…, RCTs…, statistical reform…, and even golf. If you have a student wondering where a psychology major might lead, suggest they have a veg out and listen to Toby’s story (at …
It’s fabulous to see yet one more research field, MRI and fMRI, jumping on board with Open Science. The Workshop runs 13-17 December, 2021, and the site is here. Recall the dead salmon? (tiny.cc/deadsalmon, ITNS p. 485.) Back then, in …