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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 1d

PCI Psychology is open for submissions! Did you know that you can easily submit your recommended preprint to any of the 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals? See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr...
#PsychSciSky #SciPub

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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 12h

This. If you can't make an informed decision based on the reviewers' comments and your own thoughtful assessment, you shouldn't be an editor.

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 1d

And now the paper has finally been accepted, I just wanna say to all the editors: PLEASE stop sending papers back out to reviewers after 1 (at most 2) round! It’s a burden on the system when a decision could be made without reviewers’ approvals. It’s not the reviewers’ job to have a final say!

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 11h

Please help us, #MetaScience community!

It's time to decide on a forever name for papercheck (scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/). We don't want it to be confused with papercheck.ai, and we plan to check other research artifacts like repo contents, data, code, and prereg. Any suggestions?

Check Scientific Papers for Best Practices

A modular, extendable system for automatically checking scientific papers for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.

scienceverse.github.io

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Julia Bottesini @juliabottesini.com · 1d

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 2d

Dear PsyArXiv users!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧

Thank you for your patience!

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 2d

Dear PsyArXiv users!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧

Thank you for your patience!

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 4d

Have you done (or are you planning) a replication of a social-personality finding?
Then submit a poster or flash talk on it to the virtual SIPS@SPSP preconference, happening online on February 24, 2026.

🔗 Find out more:

2026 Preconference Submission Portal

Use this submission form for all preconference submissions. Select your preconference first as this may change submission fields. The submission guide can be found here . You may submit to multiple preconferences....

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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 7d

It has been an amazing experience to be President of @improvingpsych.org for the past year. There aren't many societies that would engage early career researchers in leadership, but SIPS is very special 🧡✨

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 8d

If it doesn’t survive the washing machine or the dish washer, maybe it was never meant to be part of your household in the first place.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 11d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 8d

Friendly reminder for those submitting manuscripts to PsyArXiv!

Upon submission, moderators will check the preprint (i.e., the PDF file) and the metadata (i.e., the submission form) to ensure it fulfills the guidelines. Make sure you follow them!

For details 👉 buff.ly/M3cRBW2

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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 14d

Hi all! I'm on sabbatical this year and have bandwidth to zoom into lab meetings to talk about open science in cog psych and speech research and/or how to implement practices that reduce research errors! (www.carleton.edu/perception-l...).

Email me if that sounds fun to you too!

Error Tight - Carleton College

No one is immune from making mistakes. However, it is possible to set up our labs and research systems in ways that reduce the likelihood that we will make mistakes…

www.carleton.edu

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 14d

Don't let minor submission errors delay the publication of your research! 📝 🔬

Remember to check the full guidelines when submitting the manuscript to PsyArXiv (buff.ly/M3cRBW2).

Below, we also have a few friendly reminders!

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 15d

Great news-- @felixthoemmes.bsky.social to be the next EiC at AMPPS! See below for information about joining his team.

Felix Thoemmes @felixthoemmes.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share that I’ll be the incoming Editor of AMPPS. My first priority is building a diverse team of Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. If you’re interested, DM me or add your name via this super simple survey.
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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 19d

I want this kind of back and forth to be somewhere that everyone can see it and enjoy it, in perpetuity. What if peer review worked more like this, in the open?

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 19d

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/25/o...

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 19d

We're looking for examples of #RegisteredReports with a publicly available Stage 1 manuscript and #OpenData that use one of the following statistical tests! If you know of one, please link it below! (See next post for list of tests)

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 26d

Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”!

📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom

👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky

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Julia Bottesini @juliabottesini.com · 24d

Kailey does awesome and rigorous research, is an exceptional teacher, and somehow still finds time for service to the field; most recently, she was instrumental in helping us return PsyArXiv to normal operations.

Psychology is lucky to have her!

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Julia Bottesini @juliabottesini.com · 24d

Congratulations to my good friend and colleague Kailey Lawson @kaileylawson.bsky.social, one of the smartest, kindest, and most efficient people I've ever had the pleasure of collaborating with.

Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 27d

SPSP is excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 SAGE Emerging Scholar Award!

Congratulations to @chrbuettner.bsky.social, Ivan Hernandez, Erin Hughes, @niclaskuper.bsky.social, Katherine Lawson, @joelleforestier.bsky.social, and Zachary Witkower!

Learn more: ow.ly/Vff550WY7hH

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 25d

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

PCI Webinar-Dorothy Bishop-How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing

youtu.be

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 26d

🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳

Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission.

Learn more from our blog post👇
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Julia Bottesini @juliabottesini.com · 26d

You know me so well 😂

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) who could use advice about navigating peer review? Are you stuck on a manuscript submission or revision? Have general questions about peer review?

Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊

Formative And Interactive Review (FAIR)

🌱 Formative And Interactive Review (FAIR) 🌱 Reviewer Zero's Formative and Interactive Review (FAIR) draft feedback program is designed for early career researchers (ECRs) to receive feedback on a draf...

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Julia Bottesini @juliabottesini.com · Sep 14

"Everything" included "old stuff" because even some older preprints were still in the moderation queue. This wasn't obvious to users bc preprints went live immediately, why would anyone check back to see if it's been moderated? 🙃

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Julia Bottesini @juliabottesini.com · Sep 14

This post blog.psyarxiv.com/2025/08/20/c... explains it in more detail but tl;dr we had a sizeable backlog of unmoderated preprints and the switch to pre-moderation made them private until moderated. Moderation is the only way to tell the junk from the real stuff, so everything was affected.

Changes to Moderation at PsyArXiv Preprints – PsyArXiv Blog

As you may be aware, a large number of previously-public preprints posted on PsyArXiv have become inaccessible in the past 24 hours. We know this is disruptive to many people and organizations who rel...

blog.psyarxiv.com

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Sep 11

PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky

About PsyArXiv – PsyArXiv Blog

What is PsyArXiv? PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is an open preprint archive designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the…

is.gd

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Julia Bottesini @juliabottesini.com · Sep 12

Sorry it's not more a more helpful answer! We'll be going through the metadata mismatch cases starting next week so you'll know soon enough even if you decide to wait for that email :)

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