Amélie Godefroidt

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR

I'm a bit late to the party, but excited to finally join BlueSky! Political scientist here—studying violence, peace, and public opinion. Always happy to connect, discuss, and learn. Come say hi! 👋 A quick 🧵 on what I study. #Academia #PoliticalScience #PeaceResearch #PublicOpinion #NewHere

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@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

21 Apr

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Does Islamist terrorism still affect political attitudes? - https://cup.org/42697Vi - Micha Germann, @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social & Fernando Mendez #FirstView

human.nlEen gitzwarte nachtMedialogica reconstrueert de impact die de nacht na de wedstrijd Ajax - Maccabi Tel Aviv op Nederland en haar inwoners heeft gehad. Welke beeldvorming en journalistieke werkwijze ontstond in de medias...

Zondag was ik te gast in Medialogica: “Een gitzwarte nacht” – een episode die de mediastorm rond de Amsterdamse Maccabi-wedstrijd en de beeldvorming daaromtrent onder de loep neemt. @nieuws.nos.nl

inge de lätte ☕️⛰️@delatte23.eurosky.social

Pieuw. Wat een interessante uitzending. @human.nl #Transparantie #Reflectie #Duiding Dank @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social @wilmah.bsky.social @iannet.bsky.social @femkehalsema.bsky.social @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social en anderen voor ieders bijdrage. De uitzending raakte me. 1.2

Het vereist journalistieke moed om te vertragen, context te bieden en nuance te behouden – zeker als feiten en emoties door elkaar lopen, en de heersende elite luid roept.

Veel dank aan de makers voor het uitnodigen van een reflectieve dialoog over de rol van media in complexe conflicten. #Medialogica #mediastudies #journalistiek #beeldvorming #democratie

inge de lätte ☕️⛰️@delatte23.eurosky.social

In het gesprek heb ik benadrukt hoe oorlogsjournalistiek in situaties van (gewelddadige) chaos en onzekerheid snel kan polariseren: redacties voelen enorme druk om direct te rapporteren, wat vaak leidt tot simplificaties die democratische debatruimte ondermijnen.

cos.ioQ&A with Amélie Godefroidt: Building Trust and Transparency in Complex, Sensitive ResearchAmélie Godefroidt applies open science practices in her research on public opinion regarding wars, conflicts, and terrorism. Explore her work, insights, and free course materials on OSF.

1 Sept 2025

As kids head back to school across Belgium today, I’m also stepping into a new classroom — but this time as Assistant Professor in Conflict Management at @ieseg.fr Grateful and excited for the journey ahead.

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Center for Open Science

@cos.io

16 July 2025

💡 Meet @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social, Postdoc & Lecturer at KU Leuven. She studies public response to war & conflict, often working with sensitive, complex data. In our Q&A, she discusses her open science summer course & how transparency can strengthen trust & collaboration: www.cos.io/blog/amél...

@johnholbein1.bsky.social

11 July 2025

🎉 Long overdue announcement: I’m thrilled to join @ieseg.fr as Assistant Professor in Conflict Management! Sad to be leaving @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social but excited to explore new intersections between conflict studies, international negotiation & organizational dynamics 🤝

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John Holbein

16 June 2025

Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics. Academic mothers are much more likely to... ◾temporarily leave the labor force ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions. scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

16 June 2025

My dear friend and colleague @chrisdworschak.bsky.social is kicking off #NEPS2025, presenting fascinating work with @kmross.bsky.social on conflict forecasting using… music data! 🎶📈 “Rhythms to riot” is already setting the tone for a brilliant few days of peace science! #conflictforecasting

Amélie Godefroidt@ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social

Excited to be at the annual conference of the European Peace Scientists in sunny Barcelona! Looking forward to three days of inspiring research, new ideas, and great conversations on peace and conflict. #PeaceScience #NEPS2025

16 June 2025

osf.ioTeaching ResourcesA collection of slide shows, syllabi, and other teaching materials used in my courses, seminars, and workshops. Hosted on the Open Science Framework

10 June 2025

As promised: I’ve just uploaded all course materials of the Open Science in Social Sciences summer school on @cos.io: osf.io/s8mxd/? 🚀 Feel free to explore, reuse, and share (under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license). #OpenScience @forrt.bsky.social

Amélie Godefroidt@ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social

Btw: after a well-deserved long weekend, I’ll be sharing all course materials from the Open Science in the Social Sciences summer school @cos.io !

🚀 Day 4 of our #OpenScienceInSocSci summer school @gasparugent.bsky.social @ugentopenscience.bsky.social wrapped up with new tools, big questions & practical skills. Here’s your (final) recap thread 🧵 #OpenScience #PhDlife #Reproducibility

🎉 That’s a wrap! Four days of deep dives into #OpenScience, #preregistration, #replication, #reproducibility, #multiverse, & more—applied to the social sciences. Huge thanks to all participants for the energy, insights & thoughtful questions! @ugentopenscience.bsky.social @gasparugent.bsky.social

Btw: after a well-deserved long weekend, I’ll be sharing all course materials from the Open Science in the Social Sciences summer school @cos.io !

🔐 Third stop: how open can your data be under GDPR? Enter: ✅ FAIR principles ✅ Personal data, special categories of data ✅ Anonymization vs. Pseudonymization ✅ Consent, licensing, & DPO support More info: www.kuleuven.be/rdm/en/guida... #FAIRdata #DataSharing #OpenData

kuleuven.beData sharing

🗣️ Fourth and final stop: Open Peer Review We debated: ✍️ Signed reviews 🧾 Public reports 💬 Community commenting ✅ Platforms like @pubpeer.com @F1000Research & @publons #OpenPeerReview

masurp.github.ioConducting and Visualizing Specification Curve AnalysesProvides utilities for conducting specification curve analyses (Simonsohn, Simmons & Nelson (2020, <doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-0912-z>) or multiverse analyses (Steegen, Tuerlinckx, Gelman & Vanpaemel, 20...

🌌 First stop: Multiverse Analysis We explored how analytic decisions shape results—and why reporting just one is like publishing from a parallel universe. 📚 Steegen et al. (2016): doi.org/10.1177/1745... 📚 Simonsohn et al. (2020): www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔗 specr: masurp.github.io/specr/

rmarkdown.rstudio.comR Markdown Quick TourTurn your analyses into high quality documents, reports, presentations and dashboards with R Markdown. Use a productive notebook interface to weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantl...

💻 Second stop: #rMarkdown 📝 YAML -> Code chunks -> text -> Knit! 🔁 We did various exercises to knit dynamic, reproducible reports (HTML, pdf, word) 🛠️ Bonus: it’s the perfect gateway to @quarto.org 🔗 rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_qu... #rStats

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The Royal Society

@royalsociety.org

forms.royalsociety.orgThe Future of Scientific Publishing - survey

We are reviewing the current state of scientific publishing, and we want to hear from researchers on their perceptions of publishing in the current context and how it might develop in future. Complete our short survey now:

🔍 Day 3 of our #OpenScience summer school @gasparugent.bsky.social @ugentopenscience.bsky.social was all about: ✨ Reproducibility & Replicability—including a primer on power! 🧰 Expanding our **Reproducibility Toolbox**—beyond preregistration 😈 A cheeky #pHackathon Recap below 🧵 #Reproducibility

shinyapps.orgExperience Statistics

We ended with a #pHackathon 🎯 Students were challenged to “find significance” in a fake dataset using researcher degrees of freedom 😅 shinyapps.org/apps/p-hacker/ Key lesson: flexibility isn't bad—but without transparency, it’s dangerous.

🔥 Big day ahead at the #OpenScience summer school! On the menu: 💻 Making your research reproducible with @rmarkdown.bsky.social & @quarto.org 🔐 Balancing Open Science with Data Protection 🧐 What’s the deal with Open Peer Review? 🌐 A quick dive into Multiverse Analysis

1️⃣ Consistency checker: Want cleaner science? Use these tools: ✔️ GRIM test → check if reported means are possible ✔️ shinyapps.org/apps/p-check... → spot wrong p-values ✔️ michelenuijten.shinyapps.io/statcheck-web/ → scan entire papers for wrong p-values

social-science-data-editors.github.ioA template README for social science replication packages.The template README provided on this website is in a form that follows best practices as defined by a number of data editors at social science journals.

2️⃣ Smart data sharing: as open as possible, as closed as necessary! 3️⃣ Reproducible reporting with @rmarkdown.bsky.social n & @quarto.org 4️⃣ Built better replication packages with solid README files, transparent code, and full workflows. social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_REA...

We’d tackled HARKing & p-hacking—but what about statistical power? 🧠 We broke down how sample size, effect size & alpha shape our ability to detect real effects. Median power in poli sci = 10% 😬 (Arel-Bundock et al. 2024). To solve this, we introduced: 🧮 G*Power and 📦 pwr in R (recommended)

🧰 Beyond (a priori!) power analysis, students got 5 more tools for their repro toolbox: 1️⃣ Consistency checkers (GRIM, p-checker, statcheck) 2️⃣ Smart data sharing (more tomorrow!) 3️⃣ Reproducible reporting (more tomorrow!) 4️⃣ Crafting solid replication packages 5️⃣ #ManyLabs5 on quality > prereg

iza.orgMass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New HopeThis study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political sc...

First up: two terms that often get mixed up 👇 🔁 Reproducibility = same data, same code 📦 Replicability = new data, same design We unpacked these (and more) with help from Brodeur et al. (2024): 📖 www.iza.org/publications... 🔥 Pro tip: join a #Replication Game via @i4replication.bsky.social

🔐 Day 2 of our #OpenScience Summer School @gasparugent.bsky.social zoomed in on... preregistration ! Why? When? How? And... what if I mess up? We tackled it with hands-on exercises and open, honest conversations. 🧵Thread below #Reproducibility #PhDlife #OpenScienceInSocSci

We wrapped up Day 2 with some hands-on fun: 🔍 Spotted flaws in vague prereg items 🧐 Reviewed my working paper for prereg slip-ups (yes, that was a bit selfish 🙃)—a great way to learn how to review prereg’d work! 📄 Explored both the default & qualitative @OSFramework templates together.

Thanks to everyone for showing up ready to reflect and critically discuss the pro's and con's of preregs! 💪 Tomorrow: #Reproducibility & #Replication (with a lot of tools to use). Stay tuned. #OpenScience @ugentopenscience.bsky.social

Why bother? Because PRs/RRs separates exploration from confirmation. 📉 Without it, we risk p-hacking, HARKing, and data dredging. #QRPs 🎯 With it, we build credibility, clarity, and cumulative science. #TrustScience 🙋‍♀️ Selfish reasons: www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/sev...

We also tackled some common fears: 😱 “Someone will scoop me!” — Nah, you're ahead of them. It’s time-stamped & can be embargoed. 😬 “What if I change my mind?” — That’s science! Deviate transparently. 😟 “This doesn’t fit my method.” — Are you sure? Check all templates: help.osf.io/article/229-... ...

📌 What is preregistration? “It’s like locking in your recipe before tasting the dish” (ChatGPT, 2025) You write out your research plan before seeing the results. It’s about transparency—not rigidity. ▶️ Key resource: cos.io/prereg/ @cos.io ▶️ Key reading: Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2021)

🚀 Kicked off Day 1 of our #OpenScience Summer School at @gasparugent.bsky.social ! We explored what triggered the replication crisis & how it reshaped research across the social sciences. 🧪🔍 Thread ⬇️ #PhDlife #OpenScience #Reproducibility

Students also shared what they actually want to learn more about. 📝📊 This, in the Spirit of Open Science, will shape our final day! #OpenEducation All materials will also be posted online on Friday! (@forrt.bsky.social)

Teaching this course is a joy. Thanks to the UGhent Doctoral School for the support, @lisajanssen.bsky.social and @annakern.bsky.social for organizing, and to all participants for keeping the conversation sharp & honest. Next up: preregistration! Stay tuned. #ScienceIsForSharing

We started by unpacking what went wrong in the past (disclaimer: a lot 😬). From HARKing and p-hacking to publication bias and our cognitive biases—students reflected on key problems. Readings included: 🔹 Ioannidis (2005) 🔹 Simmons et al. (2011) 🔹 Camerer et al. (2018) #MetaScience #Transparency

In the afternoon, we mapped open science practices—preprints, open data, preregistration & RRs, replication studies—and explored their prevalence and effectiveness. Highly recommended: 🔹 Balafoutas et al. (2024)

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Alex Coppock

@aecoppock.bsky.social

13 May 2025

Our community must take this issue very seriously! ideally, we'd post these publicly: raw_no_pii.csv cleaning.R clean.rds analysis.R but destroy or archive privately: raw.csv remove_pii.R (was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)

Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social

We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵

8 May 2025

Excited to be at today’s Reimagining PEACE conference bringing together nearly 300 peace researchers from around the world! Grateful to be part of this global exchange of ideas and insights. #ActionPEACE2025 | Organized by the Flemish Peace Institute

🌍 Global & Comparative Lens From Nigeria to Northern Ireland, Azerbaijan to Guatemala—I work cross-nationally to understand how context shape attitudes toward violence and peace. In sum, I conduct comparative research, grounded in real-world complexities, on the legitimacy of peace.

🤝 Interested? Let’s Connect! If you're into political violence, peacebuilding, public opinion, media framing, or open science, let’s chat! Follow, reply, or boost—always happy to connect. #Academia #WhoToFollow

📰 #4: Framing War, Shaping Peace How media tell a story can shape how people think about war and peace. Therefore, I explore media coverage of terrorism and war. 📄 tinyurl.com/y9wuwzfa, w. Leila Demarest and Arnim Langer 📄 tinyurl.com/mw4j4rmv, w. Anna Berbers and @leendhaenens.bsky.social

🔍 #5: Open Science Beyond practicing open science, I’ve also researched it (tinyurl.com/dk7yarjf) and I’ve joined several large-scale replication projects to explore how much results depend on analytic choices (tinyurl.com/3tum7p2f). #OpenScience #MetaScience #Replication

🕊️ #2: The Legitimacy of Peace Processes Why do some peace processes gain support while others spark backlash? I study how people various perceive peace provisions, including truth-seeking initiatives. 📄 tinyurl.com/yjecxk4w, w. @lalamur.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/mut76n6w, w. Karin Dyrstad

🎯 #3: How to Forgive Your Enemy? Understanding attitudes toward former fighters is critical for peace processes. My research explores the factors influencing public acceptance of ex-combattants. 📄 tinyurl.com/3t98nph7, w. Arnim Langer and much more in the pipeline!