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Lisa DeBruine

@debruine.bsky.social

The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.

scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/

Check Research Outputs for Best Practices

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

scienceverse.github.io

November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM Everybody can reply

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Crystal Lewis

@cghlewis.bsky.social

If you're looking for examples of how to organize a data sharing repository, what documentation to include, how to name files, or how to organize data files, the FIDO (fictitious intervention for demonstration only) project on OSF provides some examples.

osf.io/59gte/overview

October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM Everybody can reply

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nivvin.bsky.social

@nivvin.bsky.social

An Effective Field Framework for Informational Couplings (Λ–Convergence / LUFT)
If confirmed experimentally, its impact could hardly be overestimated.
doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

#science #physics

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November 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM Everybody can reply

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Peter Lush

@peterlush.bsky.social

It's a bit of a puzzle. While we don't report any exploratory analysis relating to Dell's proposals in the manuscript, the study OSF site has a .csv with over 500 matched PCS and DES scores if you want to look into it.

November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM Everybody can reply

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Sabrina Norwood

@sabrinanorwood.bsky.social

Me to the OSF website when it stops responding

Text reads: “don’t make me hate you. Loving you is painful enough.”

October 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM Everybody can reply

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Eiko Fried

@eikofried.bsky.social

Hey @cos.io, boomer here cannot figure out how to update my files on the OSF after the recent changes.

It used to be drag and drop over the files (see here dragging the supplementary.pdf) but that doesn't work, and the "edit" button is only for the wiki.

Thanks

October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM Everybody can reply

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Martha Lincoln

@heavyredaction.bsky.social

Prompted by our university system’s expenditure of $17 million on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu product amid great institutional austerity, my colleague Martha Kenney and I wrote this piece to explore the compacts that are being struck between genAI and higher ed.

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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October 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM Everybody can reply

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

Massively glad to see initiatives like this, pushing back against the nonsense! You cannot displace participants with chatbots or other AI!

Read the post below and see more also here:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Artificial Involvement? Why AI Does Not Replace Lived Experience in Psychosis Research.
By
stephanie.allan
October 27, 2025
We write as researchers who do lived experience work in psychosis. We are concerned about a recent article which proposes using large language models (LLMs) to provide Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) in areas such as grant proposals. The development appears designed to address longstanding concerns about difficulties in doing PPI work, such as a lack of time and capacity for researchers to do the work that successful PPI requires (Evans et al., 2025). While psychosis is not mentioned, PPI in psychosis faces a lot of the same issues, and this approach may appear tempting in the face of often challenging research infrastructure (Husain, 2025).

Beyond just giving opinions and feedback on research, PPI involves people with personal experience of mental illness bringing their lived experience, identity, and reflections about encounters with systems where they may have had difficult and frightening experiences of being disempowered. This contextualised knowledge, borne out of sometimes painful personal experiences, is important for researchers to understand when they want to do research which is acceptable to people with mental health problems and respects their rights. An LLM cannot be a person – it will not be able to contribute to research in a human way, which is the basis for our scepticism. For further concerns on the critical adoption of LLMs within research, please see (Guest et al., 2025)

Table 1 from Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

section 3 from Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM Everybody can reply

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

yes, really messed up stuff, see thus by me and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social (2025). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

and: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

7 Equivocation of Human-Human & Human-AI
AI products enact direct dehumanisation, intrinsic psychological harm to children, patients, and other vulnerable populations, resulting in grave consequences such as causing severe
mental illness, pushing people to suicide, recommending illegal drug use, and sanctioning murder (Abrams, 2025; Akingbola et al., 2024; Bellan, 2025; Bender, 2024; Borau, 2025; Broderick, 2025; Chen et al., 2023; Dang & Liu, 2025; Dupré, 2025;
Eichenberger et al., 2025; Horwitz, 2025; Huntington, 2025; Jargon & Kessler, 2025; Kaplan, 2024; Kim & McGill, 2025; Klee,
2025; Koike & Loughnan, 2021; Landymore, 2025; Laricheva et
al., 2024; Montgomery, 2024; Morrin et al., 2025; Neville, 2025;
Omar et al., 2025; Pejcha, 2023; Purtill, 2025; Rajkumar, 2025;
Reiley, 2025; Roose, 2024; Schoene & Canca, 2025; J. Taylor,
2025; Tiku, 2025a, 2025b; Warzel, 2025; Wei, 2025; Xiang, 2023).
ChatGPT doesn’t offer genuine emotional attunement. It cannot replicate the human connection
necessary for healing. More dangerously, it can delay access to professional help. People think they’re
improving, but often they’re not. (Shmais, 2025,
n.p. also Akingbola et al., 2024; Al-Sibai, 2025; L.
Clarke, 2025; Lebovitz et al., 2021; Turkle, 2015;
Turkle et al., 2006)
The focus here is the effect that confusing human-object with
human-human has if normalised for social psychological scientific practice (e.g. Goff et al., 2014; cf. Appelman, 2023; BBC
News, 2021; Grant and Hill, 2023; Hern, 2018; Neville, 2025).
Typical cases are when displacements happen in the relationship between client and therapist, student and teacher, patient
and doctor — and perhaps most shockingly between friends or
romantic partners — and when academics see these displacements as acceptable (Akingbola et al., 2024; Bender, 2024; Chen
et al., 2023; Dang & Liu, 2025; Kim & McGill, 2025; Koike &
Loughnan, 2021; Litwack, 2024; Oldfield, 2023; Vanman & Kappas, 2019). These are not social interactions. They …

All AI, and indeed any technology in mental or other healthcare settings requires “keeping users safe [and this in turn] requires substantial input from clinicians and careful planning to
reduce risk.” (Abrams, 2025) This is key because it is not possible to keep people safe without a highly qualified human-in-theloop (Amironesei et al., 2021; El-Mhamdi et al., 2022; T. Liu et
al., 2025; Salecha et al., 2024; Sharma et al., 2025; Weidinger et al.,
2022) and even then the risk of deskilling is present (e.g. Budzyń
et al., 2025; recall section 4: Outsourcing Programming to Companies). Relatedly, and taking the example of the therapist-client
relationship, dehumanising parallels encoded in expressions such
as: “the country needs all the quality therapists we can get —
be they human or bot” (Riddle, 2025) cannot become normal
in our scientific discussions. No therapist under proper ethical
functioning would cause their client to be addicted to their therapy (Huntington, 2025) nor would they, as in the Replika example (The Luddite, 2024), introduce a sexual relationship between
them and their client (Pettit, 2024b). Any such suggestions to
use a chatbot as a therapist would go against professional codes
of conduct and possibly the law (e.g. Abraham, 2002; American
Psychological Association, 2017; Belanger, 2025; British Psychological Society, 2021; Cole, 2025; Illinois Department of Financial
and Professional Regulation, 2025; Mental health Foundation,
2022).
Finally, as scientists we have to analyse situations carefully, so

October 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM Everybody can reply

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Björn Siepe

@bsiepe.bsky.social

We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM Everybody can reply

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

Over the past week a few people asked me how to help convince schools to protect children from harmful AI. I've seen people sharing disturbing stories where they have seen kids forced to interact with AI, writing prompts etc; see below. Chatbots harm vulnerable groups. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

October 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM Everybody can reply

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ぉさん

@ojsn-nnn.bsky.social

ゴメスさん
おっもーいセトリだったけどゴセトリならキラっきらだもんな✨️🌟💫💖⭐️
OSF（おさんFEST）は好きな演者多くてたいへん←
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October 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM Everybody can reply

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Mark Rubin

@markrubin.bsky.social

Thoughtful response by Makel et al. to concerns raised about the value of replication in qualitative research

Preprint: doi.org/10.35542/osf...

Abstract
In 2022, we argued that replication is relevant to qualitative research. In this manuscript, we update and clarify that idea to make three more specific claims about replication in qualitative research: (1) it is possible, (2) it can be relevant, and (3) it can be useful. We provide practical
examples and draw attention to two areas we believe need continued consideration: when to conduct a replication, jingle-jangle problems. We conclude that quantitative tools should not automatically be assumed to apply to qualitative research or forced upon qualitative researchers. However, this should not be conflated with the more extreme position—one we disagree with—that methods from quantitative research should never be applied to qualitative research.
Keywords: qualitative research; direct replication, conceptual replication; replication

October 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Pat Hastings

@ophastings.bsky.social

New working paper on family structure & parental investment in extracurriculars. Economic resources explain much of the spending gap between married & cohabiting families. What remains isn't explained by biological relatedness or relationship duration. Feedback welcome!
doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Title: Explaining the Extracurricular Investment Gap for School-age Children between Married and Cohabiting Families. Abstract: Existing research finds that differences in economic resources explain a much larger share of the spending gap between married and single parents than between married and cohabiting parents. This study focuses on extracurricular spending and considers three non-economic explanations for why children in cohabiting families receive less than those in married households: the greater prevalence of non-biological parents in cohabiting households, the relatively shorter duration of cohabiting relationships, and potentially lower levels of relational commitment. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and its 2014 and 2019 Child Development Supplement, I first reproduce established differences in parental spending by family structure. Accounting for biological parent status and relationship duration does little to further reduce the gap between married and cohabiting parents. These findings suggest that unmeasured aspects of commitment may shape family-structure differences in extracurricular investments, but they also highlight the need for continued research given the growing complexity of U.S. family living arrangements and the importance of parental financial investments for children’s development and long-term outcomes.

October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM Everybody can reply

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André Bittermann

@abitter.bsky.social

How FAIR is shared data in psychology?

We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable!

What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice.

👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy...

@mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci

FAIRness differed mainly by repository, with GitHub and OSF showing lower median scores than PsychArchives, Zenodo, and Figshare

October 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM Everybody can reply

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Soren Spicknall

@sorenspicknall.bsky.social

Imagining a public policy person at a think tank that gets 20% of its funding from OSF who considers the street protestors who are targeted by Paid Soros Agents conspiracy theories to be a form of stolen valor

October 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM Everybody can reply

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Tomer Ullman

@tomerullman.bsky.social

there's a lot of interest in making AI more "human like" --

but what about the flip side? when real humans seem like robots/puppets/NPCs?

nnnnnewwww pre-print:

"The Development Of Sensitivity To Automatic Behavior"

(by Bass, Bonawitz, & me)

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

October 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM Everybody can reply

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Bianca R. Baltaretu, PhD

@bbaltaretu.bsky.social

Our (@jdcrawford.bsky.social) new preprint review of 'Cortical Mechanisms for Transsaccadic Vision: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Feature Updating' is now up! Check it out: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

October 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM Everybody can reply

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Ally to Democracy

@allyhartwell.bsky.social

🦋
Some people appear to be taking Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) & Trump's "Who's funding the protests?" question at face value

This is a process to dismantle US democratic institutions & enact retribution against those on Trump's long grievance list - George Soros is near the top of that list
🦋

Post from Rachel Leingang of The Guardian on October 17, 2025:
When Donald Trump named leftwing billionaire George Soros as the next on his growing list of targets for retribution, he was also targeting the long list of progressive causes that Soros funds.

Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) network, now run by his son Alex, is a major funder of non-profits large and small, across sectors including democracy, voting rights, climate justice, racial justice, Palestinian rights and higher education.

Public documentation of the group’s grant-making shows thousands of worldwide recipients receiving anywhere from small amounts to multimillion-dollar grants, and include major non-profit organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union.

The US justice department has reportedly instructed US attorneys to come up with plans to investigate OSF as efforts to attack the left accelerate following the killing of rightwing commentator Charlie Kirk.

In a presidential memo, Trump said the government needed to “investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence”, adding a comment that Soros was at “the top of everything”.

October 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM Everybody can reply

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Ben Nevis

@bennevis.bsky.social

Proxy Wars & Regime Change NGO 🔥 #NED funds have been allocated to the American Civil Liberties Union #ACLU and Alliance for Youth Organizing, both of which are active in the #NoKings protests

George Soros #OSF awarded approximately $7.6 million in grants

thealtworld.com/anthony_cart...

October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM Everybody can reply

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cathode_corpse

@cathodecorpse.bsky.social

Additionally, the claim that the CIA/USAID/OSF/Soros all fund protests and movements around the world is a lot less objectionable when applied to countries with far lower CoL, which is why the idea holds such purchase to this day. But at home in the US, it doesn't hold up.

October 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM Everybody can reply

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DrH

@drhaup.bsky.social

Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) funds non-profits including democracy, voting rights, climate justice, racial justice, Palestinian rights and higher education.
DOJ has allegedly instructed US attorneys to investigate OSF as efforts to attack the left.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US non-profits ‘lock arms’ amid Trump’s menacing of George Soros: ‘We will not be intimidated’

Groups across climate, democracy and Palestine solidarity have been talking for months about how to band together

www.theguardian.com

October 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Lukas Haffert

@lhaffert.bsky.social

Paper can be found here: doi.org/10.31235/osf... (end)

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October 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM Everybody can reply

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Jürgen Voskuhl

@jvos63.bsky.social

Falls euch das irgendwo begegnet: Das ist BULLSHIT!

George Soros’ Stiftung #OSF hat #Indivisible finanziell unterstützt, eine Organisation (von ~200!), die die „No Kings“-Proteste mitorganisiert.

Es gibt keinen Beleg, dass Soros selbst diese Proteste initiiert oder direkt gesteuert hat.

October 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM Everybody can reply

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Center for Open Science

@cos.io

🪲 OSF Update: Ongoing Fixes
Following the OSF redesign, some issues have been identified:

- Some custom registry templates may not showall fields
- OSF shows a max. of 10 contributors
- Some pages load slowly or seem unresponsive

These are on our critical fix list & should be resolved soon. (1/2)

October 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM Everybody can reply

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