“Contrary to the common assumption that journals reject null results, we found that most projects halt during early data analysis or presentation stages.” New work by @bartekmacka.bsky.social et al. Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Профиль
Mark Rubin
Профиль Vively🔹️metascience - philosophy of science - social psychology - higher education 🔹️Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him. 🔹️Website: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/ 🔹️Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/
Q&A with @devezer.bsky.social about metascience, open science, and her work in this area.
Reifying Social Arrangements "As rules, procedures, and material infrastructures accumulate, human origins recede from view, turning what began as collective choice to appear autonomous or inevitable." By @maorle.bsky.social, @inonraz.bsky.social, & @michaelgilead.bsky.social #SocialPsyc
The Psychology of Reification: Perceiving Social Reality as Mind-IndependentHuman societies are built from shared beliefs, norms, and institutions, yet these arrangements often feel as fixed as natural laws. Philosophers and social theorists have long described this tendency ...doi.org“Theory and Model Building in Psychology” New book edited by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and Alexander Wendt, with chapters by @ufeest.bsky.social, @devezer.bsky.social, @mieronen.bsky.social, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
"The language of ‘crises’ and brave ‘heterodox’ outsiders challenging consensus is an effective way to draw in some philanthropists and politicians."
Jeff LockhartI wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...
"Defunding excellent basic science to focus on commercialisation ... is like pulling an apple tree up by the roots to harvest its fruit."
Nicola GastonPart 2:
Great time at Crook Hall Garden with Durham Uni's #SocialPsyc group yesterday. With... @pburgum.bsky.social @nostawnevets.bsky.social @drmbothapsych.bsky.social @fuschia-sirois.bsky.social @lindarrighi.bsky.social @wuliang13.bsky.social @francavanagh.bsky.social
"Enforcement, rather than an intrinsic motivation, led Swiss animal researchers to preregister." New study by Cristina Priboi et al. #MetaSci
"The authors wrote the manuscript from a standpoint that somehow 'blesses' the planned final sample size, giving it special meaning that it never has. One researcher’s interim analysis is another person’s final analysis." @f2harrell.bsky.social #stats
Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃#statstab #582 Is Repeated Bayesian Interim Analysis Consequence-Free? Thoughts: It's good to have debates about papers that make bold claims. #discussion #debate #bayesian #interim #error #sequential #priors discourse.datamethods.org/t/is-repeate...
Bruno Borge delves into Lakatos’ unpublished work: “The archival materials reveal a thinker who saw the direction clearly but did not complete the journey.” philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30626/
"Readers of this blog will recall how Fisher (1955) criticized Neyman for converting 'his' significance tests into 'acceptance procedures' more suitable for technology than science." New post by Deborah Mayo celebrating David Cox #stats #PhilSci
"Do commitments to meta-pragmatism and meta-pluralism generate a vicious reflexivity? Might we also need to be meta-meta-pragmatists and meta-meta-pluralists?" By Matthew Maxwell, Aja Watkins, and @andrewzeppa.bsky.social #PhilSci doi.org/10.1007/s110...
Four new articles on the palliative effect of ideology by Joaquín Bahamondes, @shargou.bsky.social, Jaime Napier, and @suppes.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.3389/frsp... #SocialPsyc
"While the *forward problem* begins with a causal structure or model and then calculates what data it should produce, *inverse problems* begin with a set of observational data and then try to reason back to the causal structure that produced that data." #PhilSci
Alisa BokulichAfter a year+ under review (no fault of @philscijournal.bsky.social) I am happy to finally share as forthc my paper "Peirce, Abduction, & Inverse Problems in the Geosciences" doi.org/10.1017/psa.... (2/3 had to be cut to fit word limit, but is part of my ever in-progress book) #HPS #phigeo #philsky
🔺 Psychology Job 🔺 Assistant Prof in Psychology (Grade 8) at Durham Uni to support our new MSc Psychology (Conversion) You should use computational approaches (e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence) Closing date 30th Aug Please share! #Psychology #AcademicSky #PhDSky More info 👇
Assistant Professor (Research %26 Education)Click the link provided to see the complete job description.durham.taleo.netDiscursive and rhetorical approaches to understanding system justification. New work by @alex-hunt-psych.bsky.social Stephen Gibson, and @marcalexander.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/spc3... #SocialPsyc #Methodology #PoliSky #PolPsych
🔺Psychology Job 🔺 Assistant Professor in Psychology (Grade 8) at Durham Uni to support our new MSc Psychology (Conversion) You should use computational approaches, incl machine learning and artificial intelligence Closing date 30th Aug Please share! #Psychology #AcademicSky #PhDSky More info 👇
Assistant Professor (Research %26 Education)Click the link provided to see the complete job description.durham.taleo.netMultiverse Analyses “[Only 6/152 (3.9%)] studies discussed whether their competing specifications were defensible or principled (distinguishing between equivalent, non-equivalent, or uncertain specifications) in the sense of Del Giudice & Gangestad (2021) [screenshot below]” doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Alejandro Sandoval-LentiscoHow often are multiverse analyses implemented, not just cited/discussed? How are they implemented? 🧵 New preprint on the uptake and implementation of multiverse-style analyses 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...