Matti Vuorre

Are digital media eroding our attention? Our new review of 108 experiments finds a mismatch between claims about declining "attention spans" and what the evidence can actually tell us. Much of it concerns temporary distraction, not lasting changes. doi.org/10.1037/cep0...

If you receive an academic grant, the outcome usually takes the shape of a series of scientific papers. But these don't always completely cover the question "so what have you learned?" In my latest blog for the Meta-Research Center, I attempt to answer this question. 🧵

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Really nice website. Another great example of what can be done with open data.

PSA If you're going to include a link to your / your project's website in a permanent repository (e.g. a grant website), make sure to buy the domain for at least 10 years so it is not hijacked by an AI adult entertainment company after your project's over. The link will still be there...

This is unexpectedly awesome: Zenodo allows reserving a DOI before depositing the materials, so you can include the DOI in the materials themselves. This is very helpful because you can include the identifier in the metadata itself.

We would like to thank 31 currently active PsyArXiv moderators and the leadership team who volunteer their time and energy to ensure that important psychological research is made available to the research community as quickly as possible. buff.ly/htX5xM0

On the Consequences of Cognitive Offloading, Experimental Design, and University Press Releases

TIL apa style has bluesky

So check out this PR from @gordonwoodhull.bsky.social over at Quarto 2. Is that import/export from Word preserving comments? Why yes, yes it is indeed 😮 github.com/quarto-dev/q...

How I arrived on bluesky

Their pre-registration says they'll use n=848, and they therefore don't do a power analysis. But then in the actual replication they're down to n=224. They then say "This doesn't replicate" because p=0.19. But its directionally similar and they have one-quarter of the sample!

Looks awesome

Middle-age crisis contd. #philosophy #consciousness #cogsci #consci

tej.as/blog/aleph-a... Time to start faxing in your prompts y'all.

a most niche meme 💅

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Good talk. There's a lot of (over)thinking of this at the moment. Zenodo just works. (Until it doesn't when we and our bots ruin that as well.) Collaborate on GitHub and refer to zenodo.

I do like a good revolution, but here the thoughtful application of established methods seems a more fruitful approach.

"Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration & pre-analysis plans were developed to control false positives in experimental research. Does that work in observational studies? Our new paper in Sociological Methods & Research argues for a different approach. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

www.reid-lab.org/blog/22 My (interactive) blog post focused on how #EEG #MEG signals are generated. Aimed at anyone interested in learning about these methods on a biophysical level. Let know what you think -- and share if you think it may interest your followers! #neuroscience #Neuroskyence

🥳 I may have finally worked out a way to put a Seinfeld quote into a paper title. S05 The Hamptons.

Super thread on science comms and how a study can 'evolve' over time. As she says "be careful with PRs"

New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Papers I would like to explore: - Against SESOI: More arbitrary thresholds = More arbitrary science - Against value-driven science: open, team, or interdisciplinary science doesn't make your study more valid - Abandon "best practices" and explain your reasoning instead

1. We used a multidimensional cultural distance measure to quantify how culturally different the 41 groups were to the US where the typical hierarchy was first documented. The closer a sample was to the US culturally, the more similar its hierarchy of moral concern.

New beta of #Rstats rig: LOTS of EXCITING stuff: - new: web site: rig.r-lib.org - new: user-mode R installation: rig.r-lib.org/admin-vs-use... - new: manage R packages (CRAN + git): rig.r-lib.org/pkg-guide.html - new: manage R projects and virtual environments: rig.r-lib.org/proj-guide.h...

If there's something positive in the ai/science discourse it has made more ppl reflect on why humanity keeps doing science beyond instrumental accounts-- for some, not only is the pursuit of knowledge inherently valuable but also defines collective curiosity & shapes our other values

Season 8 of Quantitude off to a strong start. Loved the true crime framing here -- especially since we all know who's guilty!

My ordered beta regression paper has now reached over 5k downloads on OSF: osf.io/preprints/so... I'd like to thank all of the readers 🫶 and also academic publishing companies by making it so darn hard to access the published version. As an FYI, the OSF version is *exactly* the same.

This is relevant, again: "Preprints—scholarly manuscripts not yet captured by the publication industry—are widely read and circulated, yet the ‘intellectual perestroika‘ they could facilitate hasn’t been uniformly realized..."

On this day in 2018. Kieran @kjhealy.co ‘s obituary will include the MacArthur essay and “Fuck Nuance,” but for a particular niche audience of connoisseurs, this is his masterpiece.

jsPsych can now automatically document your data using the Psych-DS metadata standard: metadata.jspsych.org