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Gilad Feldman
@giladfeldman.bsky.social
Social psychology, judgment & decision-making/behavioral economics, agency, & action. Open/meta science. (Peer Community in) Registered Reports, mass replications, & meta-analyses.

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Job posting alert! Open Science Specialist at the University of Calgary (in Canada!) #job #OpenScience careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1704502...
Specialist, Open Science, Research Services in Calgary, AB, ...
Specialist, Open Science, Research Services in Calgary, AB, ...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Upcoming Zoom talk:
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"

(Chinese University of Hong Kong library)
Tues, Nov 25 2025, 2-330pm HK time (GMT+8)

All are welcome.

Registration:
cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view...
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I'm excited to share access to a video of the conversation @angeladuckworth.bsky.social & I hosted at Wharton w/ our brilliant friends @rthaler.bsky.social & @aleximas.bsky.social about their new book THE WINNER'S CURSE & how behavioral econ has evolved in the last 30 years. youtu.be/hH8UgQb-x4A?...
The Anomalies That Changed Economics | Richard Thaler and Alex Imas
YouTube video by Behavior Change For Good Initiative
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Glad to see that in the criteria for tenure our department now explicitly includes #openscience. There’s hope!

@ikmz.bsky.social @esserfrank.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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In our rejoinder, we argue 1) Dark terminology isn't used responsibly as BL et al. claim, 2) the term can be replaced with a more sensible and scientific one, 3) data support our position (Stanton et al., 2025), and 4) popularity ≠ importance. @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social
The 'Dark Triad' may be popular, but more importantly, it is irresponsible, moralizing, trivializing, and ultimately, replaceable: A rejoinder to Borraz-Leon, Rantala, and Jonason (2025): https://osf.io/u86th
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Our new preprint! The Acknowledgments problem, and what to do about it.
With @martonkovacs.bsky.social, @pietropollo.bsky.social, @philobolobstime.bsky.social, Losia Lagisz, & Mohammad Hosseini.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Rather than a "Limitations" section now common in some areas of science, our preprint includes a lengthy "Objections and responses" section, phillosophy paper style. I'm sure that section will comprehensively answer all your criticisms and concerns. osf.io/preprints/me...
But seriously, we'd love
OSF
osf.io
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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New version of tenzing, with support for acknowledgments sections, is now live at tenzing.club. Please try to break it, @martonkovacs.bsky.social has already fixed all the errors I found!
tenzing Documenting contributorship with CRediT
tenzing.club
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Last chance to register!!!
Participate in R4E's online seminar on November 19th at 10 a.m. Eastern Time/4 p.m. Central European Time. This event welcomes all inquisitive individuals. For more information, check out: repro4everyone.org/blog/r4e-spo...
#HigherEd #EDUsky #academicchatter #academicsky
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Two authors reanalyze the data from an earlier paper, cannot replicate the findings, and conclude that the original is wrong. The twist: the first author is the same on both papers. I only wonder why the original is not retracted.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Category effects on stimulus estimation: Shifting and skewed frequency distributions—A reexamination - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Duffy, Huttenlocher, Hedges, and Crawford (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(2), 224–230, 2010) report on experiments where participants estimate the lengths of lines. These studies were designed to t...
link.springer.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I think this is an overly pessimistic take from the @bmj.com.

Sharing data does not inherently increase trust, rather it enables verification which allows for trust calibration.

This example is a win. Serious issues were rapidly detected that would not have been without mandatory data sharing.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Great initiative Stefanie! Because we also need researchers to step up & out of the shadows! In the Netherlands universities, libraries and NWO have coordinated actions and efforts to support DOA. This might be interesting: www.openaccess.nl/nl/diamond-o... and www.openscience.nl/en/cases/tow...
Towards a fairer and more equitable scientific publishing landscape | Open Science NL
The international open access week 2024 kicked off this week. Therewill be a lot of attention for the diamond open access model. NWO haslaunched a call for proposals to support journals that want to make a'flip' towards Diamond Open Access. But there's a lot more going on.In this article, Jeroen Sondervan, programme leader Open ScholarlyCommunication at Open Science NL/Dutch Research Council (NWO), givesan overview of the current developments and challenges.
www.openscience.nl
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤

If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
10/10
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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So what now? 💥
We argue that scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized.

No, not communism, just academia taking back control of:

1) its journals (hello breakaway journals)
2) its assessment systems (hello @barcelonadori.bsky.social)

6/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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How? 🛠️
Good news: we already have everything needed to fix the system.

Alternative models without paywalls? ✔️
Preprints, diamond journals.

Open infrastructure at production cost not prestige markup? ✔️
@pkp.sfu.ca @scielo.org @redalyc.bsky.social @erudit.org
Community-run, community-governed. 4/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.

Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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" 60 per cent of UK university libraries are considering dropping their big deals with the five major academic publisher"
Many call for diamond open access. A new organisation with many partners, @ojcollective.bsky.social , is launching in January.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The new journal EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY will soon be accepting submissions!
The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi

We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.

Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
Experimental Philosophy
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I didn't want to get into this discussion, but after seeing strong reactions to Kelly (2025), I think it's worth helping colleagues think more critically about what the paper actually shows—and doesn't show.
Spoiler: not the bombshell some claim.
#SocialPsychology #CognitiveDissonance
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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This is all p misleading IMO. I just saw this link so haven't read it yet (but will, though I also think lots of the retweets of this haven't read it as well, given its provenance). I don't see how this counters (eg) Dawson 1999 which goes through 13 millennial cults and finds 12 show the effect 1/n
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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josh, this is also misleading. they successfully replicated the two central claims of dissonance theory: attitude change, and increased negative affect. the latter is inconsistent with virtually every extant alternative to dissonance theory.
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Multilab replication study fails to find result in induced compliance paradigm, long seen as core evidence for the theory @vaidis.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Results from the most well-known dissonance experiment are mathematically impossible @steamtraen.eu

(To get the intuition behind this analysis, imagine that we take the mean of 10 Likert scale scores. The mean could be 4.20 but not 4.25)

mattiheino.com/2016/11/13/l...
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance

Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way

But this is not the only one…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM