Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! It's truly an honor that I get to work with and support so many amazing women* in different capacities.
#WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience2026 #WIS2026 #IDWGS #FrauenInDerWissenschaft
Does trust in science drive intentions for health-related behaviour? Across four studies employing an experimental manipulation of trust in science, no evidence emerged to support a causal link between the two.
@wingentobias.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Just released my short course on Bayesian Data Analysis using JASP. Hope you find it useful!
πMaterials, scripts, data and links: doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
πΊ Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#StatsEd #Bayes #OpenScience #Statistics #Teaching
@rosenetwork.bsky.social
Ein toller Beitrag der FernUni ΓΌber unser neues Projekt HaGenAI . In dem Projekt untersuchen wir, ob KI unsere Forschungsergebnisse vorhersagen kann π€ .
Vielen Dank fΓΌr den Beitrag!
Das Lehrgebiet Behavioral Economics und Interkulturelle Psychologie startet mit einem spannenden Projekt: Kann KI die Ergebnisse von Studien vorhersagen? π€π Studis machen direkt mit, indem sie ihre Arbeiten einbinden. π€Ergebnisse werden im schon im laufenden Prozess sichtbar gemacht #openscience. π
Excited to unveil our new project & Shiny App: HaGenAI! π We test if AI can predict study results in behavioral econ: ~50 novel studies where LLMs give forecasts before data collection. π Results are shared live and open here:
02mfnt-tobias-wingen.shinyapps.io/HaGenAI/
@fernunihagen.bsky.social
Trust in science predicted protection intentions π· during the pandemic. But does this mean trust in science CAUSED protection intentions? π€
Yesterday at #FGSP2025, I presented our experimental work on this and got great feedback π.
If you are curious, here is our preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...
Having a great time at #FGSP2025! Thanks for the laughs, @janaberkessel.bsky.social , and thanks for capturing the moment @marlephie.bsky.social π
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.
Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions
Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...
Treemap showing measurement fragmentation across subfields in psychology. Hill-Shannon Diversity π·=1626.05
How often measures in the APA PsycTESTS database are (re)used according to the APA PsycInfo database: rarely, the majority are never reused.
Our fragmentation index (Hill-Shannon diversity) over time across subdisciplines shows fragmentation rising.
Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University LΓΌneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...
In my talks about replication crisis (not reproducibility) I always used as attention-catcher that we cannot afford this roughly 50% replicability in human sciences since someone like Trump could use this to discredit everything and push their agenda. I hate that this prediction came true.
Yes, we grappled with this in our 2020 Trust and Replicability paper as well. This was our conclusion back then. Unfortunately, it still feels very timely.
This is what you get for asking βyes but whatβs the mechanismβ one too many times π
Perspectives on Psychological Science returnsβreimagined. More voices. Broader reach. Rigor with respect.
Read the relaunch editorial.
#PsychScience #OpenScience #EditorInChief @psychscience.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/QWMMC...
Recent research shows that AI can durably reduce belief in conspiracies. But does this work b/c the AI is good at producing evidence, or b/c ppl really trust AI?
In a new working paper, we show that the effect persists even if the person thinks they're talking to a human: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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π¨ CAN ARTISTIC ACTIVISM RESOLVE THE ACTIVIST DILEMMA? π¨ Art is often employed as creative and attention-grabbing form of protest, but can it help alleviate negative effects of disruptiveness? Our findings now out in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (doi.org/10.1037/aca0...). π§΅1/4
π¨ New paper out! π¨
We used interpretable machine learning on data from 55 countries (N = 4,635) to identify the most important individual- and nation-level factors predicting climate beliefs, policy support, and behaviors.
π doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Led by @todorova.bsky.social
The "motherhood penalty" has shown greater discrimination against moms vs dads in the workplace. New work by @chrispetsko.bsky.social Rebecca Ponce de Leon & Ashleigh Rosette now instead shows a parenthood boost effect for moms & dads! BUT White parents may have a higher boost than Black parents.
π Science communication in psychology
Our dear colleague and Jun. prof. @marlephie.bsky.social phie.bsky.social is co-speaker of the interest group βPsyCommβ - together with @hendriks.bsky.social.
We wish you & the group every success!
leibniz-psychology.org/en/news/deta...
#scicom #psychology
Das ist ein Skandal erster GΓΌte, kommt aber bei uns in den Nachrichten kaum vor: Die US-Regierung versucht, Harvard zu zerstΓΆren, die vielleicht beste UniversitΓ€t der Welt. Es ist wirklich unglaublich. Schauen wir uns das mal an. (Thread)
Breaking News: Friedrich Merz failed to win enough support from lawmakers in the first round of voting to become Germanyβs next leader. No modern German chancellor has ever failed to secure the job on a first ballot in Parliament.
πΊCOME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*
Causal inference people, please help Ruben before he goes to the hardware store and maybe even accidentally drowns himself.
Has anybody actually made a video illustrating the pipe metaphor for the flow of causality?
Had a really good time in Hagen - great people, great talks, great walks! Thanks for the invite! βΊοΈ
Based on the grouchy replies, Iβm beginning to think we need a crash course in how industry influences science for the #openscience folks.
Some highlights.
It was great having Marlene AltenmΓΌller (@marlephie.bsky.social) at our faculty colloquium today at FernUni Hagen βΊοΈ. Thanks for the great and inspiring talk!
Thanks for your interest and for sharing your thoughts, Jonathan! Both possibilities would make sense to meβweβll definitely think more about it. π
