David C. Vaidis

Thank you @giladfeldman.bsky.social and @drsatrevik.bsky.social for your visit to Toulouse! Five days of long discussions, exchanges, doubts, suggestions, and finally many ideas about metascience. The only photo of us not sitting down: visiting Carcassonne! #metascience #psysci

Many thanks to SIPS for this paper award about Big Team Science! Congrats to the marvelous team! 🎉 #bigteamscience #psysci

How to solve GDPR compliance for Big Team Science? Easy: 🛢️ "Data were stored on a decommissioned North Sea platform (52°N, 3°E)" 🛢️ Eager to get the IRB response! Ready to share ownership of a decommissioned oil rig? 😄 #BigTeamScience #OpenScience

More preregistered cognitive dissonance without choice findings! Choosing for people makes them rationalize they like the task more. From @kurtmunz.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver... #psych

MDPI and Frontiers as sponsors of APS Congress, that is a shame! 🤬

A (serious) game to guess if a study has been replicated based on the abstract! (and IF). lukasroeseler.github.io/GuessTheRepl... Amazing but very hard! Nice job @aufdroeseler.bsky.social! This is fun and useful. Best conclusion so far: you cannot trust anything based on the abstract! :)

Thanks to all my co-workers, and happy Laborers' Day to all! #bigteamscience #psysci Special thanks to @epronizius.bsky.social and @mamsmandrill.bsky.social

Réception de la 3e édition de l'incontournable Analyse des Donnees : Approche par Comparaison de Modèles. Merci aux collègues 🙏 @vincentyzerbyt.bsky.social & @marinerougier.bsky.social pour cette réactualisation et l'opportunité d'entrainer doctorant-e-s dans ces approches structurantes !

📢 Post-doc position – Toulouse (France) 🇫🇷 A post-doctoral position (12 months) is open at CNRS in Toulouse to work with me on the relationship between signal detection theory, conspiracy beliefs, and perceptions of corruption... 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Feel free to share!

I'm not a big fan of rituals, but I truly wish us all a better world! Let's remember that people are not their governments. Several of the latter must be stopped now, while many of the former must be supported and empowered to change the game.

Please, don't automate science! Julian Togelius Monday, December 08, 2025 togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

📢 Call for submissions for #SIPS2026!📢 The SIPS community will meet next year, and we look forward to seeing you at the conferences! Don't forget to send your submission for the conference before January 23 (for the in-person conference) or February 27 (for the online conference).

What is the current position of @improvingpsych.org concerning the Washington meeting after the last Trump's administration proposal? Requiring 5 years of social media history, phone numbers, and email addresses is invasive and concerning for anyone who values privacy and freedom of thought.

Excited to be in Limerick for a few days, collaborating with @paulmaher.bsky.social, and presenting a talk today on cognitive dissonance and the replication crisis! @ulpsych.bsky.social

🎉👶 Welcome to the last new born in the Open Science effort! Replication Research is a diamond open access journal dedicated to robust, transparent and reproducible science. #OpenScience #ScientificPublication #Replication #OpenAccess

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term. Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here. Sigh.

Oups. 😄 It seems my close colleague forgot to cut my joke at the end of the sentence... And then not the editor, nor the people in charge of editing considered necessary to change it before publication! #SciencePublication #FunButSad #SadButTrue #FrenchAcademic

240,245 participants in a single study, not too bad. The effect size is modest, but ecological validity is high due to real-world implementation! #BehavioralScience #SocialPsychology #Megastudy #ClimateChange #ImplementationScience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The 4th Big Team Science Conference (aka #BTSCON) will be held online October 6-8. A unique opportunity to discuss, join and anticipate the future of BTS. Registration is free/'what you can' but beware submission deadline is short! (31st July). bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/ #psysci

Awarded projects will receive: ✔️ Research funding from SIPS (up to $2,000 USD) ✔️ A recommendation decision from PCI-RR. Deadline: August 1st. 🔗 More details: buff.ly/AigqCod

Shame on Wiley!

Ce fut une rencontre fort plaisante. Encore merci à tou•tes les communicant•es, au comité d'organisation et à toutes les personnes ayant assistées au CJC2025. A bientôt pour une prochaine rencontre de l'ADRIPS ! #ADRIPS #CJC2025 #Besançon

In France, only 3% of public spending goes to research — just €27B budgeted for 2025. Shockingly low for a country that prides itself on innovation. 🧪 Underfunded labs 🧠 Brain drain 🏫 Poor faculty conditions Investing in the future isn’t optional. #Research #Science #France #WhereGoesTaxes

Great having @protzko.bsky.social at the (big) Lab these past two weeks! Inspiring discussions and exciting ideas in #metascience. Thanks for the engaging talk at the #AtelierMMS (Methodology, MetaScience & Stats Lab Meeting). #UniversitéDeToulouse #UT2J

Our EIM model paper with Ben Aubert-Teillaud and Alex Bran "Expectation violation and cognitive dissonance theory" was among the top 10% most viewed in EJSP in 2023... Good for an 'august' paper ! 😏 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #CognitiveDissonance #FormalizedModel #SocialPsychology

Comment aider les chercheurs disposant de moins de ressources ou des réseaux moins développés à faire de la recherche ? L'étude bit.ly/GrEenwIch cartographie cela et s'adresse à des C, EC et post-doc. 20GBP à la clé pour les participants (voucher ou don). #FrenchAcademic #recherche à diffuser

Toulouse University, France, offers refuge to US researchers in fields under threat by the Trump administration. www.univ-toulouse.fr/actualites/c... #UniversitédeToulouse #Academicsky #ScienceNotSilence

How accurately do citations reflect the original research? Do authors truly engage with what they cite? In a new study, we analyze millions of citation sentence pairs to measure citation fidelity and how it varies depending on authors’ engagement with prior literature. arxiv.org/abs/2502.20581 ⬇️

Another time, other practices, other threats. Yet in this dark period, Merton's take on the norms of science remains strikingly contemporary, relevant and necessary! #ElonMusk #Science #Openscience #Metascience #academicsky law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset...

A meta-epistemological problem... In short, this resolves the replication crisis with an upper class problem, as understanding knowledge itself IS the problem! Happy Friday.

US is firing researchers? Bad news 😤 (stupid choice) but lucky opportunity for you! Liberty🗽 🇫🇷 France's application session is opening very soon! Transparent process, tenured positions and now a much easier portal in English. odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/accueil?lang... #sciencesky

Got the same from France, with translation. Due to its allegiance and the power we grant it, Google threatens democracy by rewriting history. What a shame! #Google #democracy #MakeAmericaAdultAgainNotDangerousBullyingAsshole

We talk a lot about predatory journals, but I just encountered my first PREDATORY PODCAST!🚨 www.scipod.global They reach out, set up a meeting, then—when you ask about their economic model—you realize they want £1000 for a 10-min recorded podcast. That’s here you run away. #PredatoryJournal #Scisky

"Editors resign from Springer immunology journal to launch nonprofit title" | @RetractionWatch.com | https://buff.ly/3CD3rco

Hoooops too bad. I won't change my practice concerning RR but I will delve into their registered report! I also think that finally, RRR are RR but I bet they are much more cited than any regular paper!