Balazs Aczel

Our new paper in @Nature questions 2 myths about applied statistics: Myth 1: for any dataset, there exists a uniquely appropriate analysis Myth 2: plausible alternative analyses would reliably yield the same conclusion nature.com/articles/d4158… with @EJWagenmakers @a_sarafoglou

THE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO SIPS 2025 IS NOW OPEN! To submit your session, please visit the designated online submission portal: ONLINE SIPS 2025 pretalx.com/sips2025-onlin… & IN-PERSON SIPS 2025 pretalx.com/sips2025-budap…. Hosts: @BalazsAczel @improvingpsych

In celebration of SIPS's 10th annual meeting, please join us for a virtual warm-up event on December 18, 2024! Early reformers will discuss challenges and improvements in psychological science. Find out more and register: improvingpsych.org/sips-2025-prec…

Our invited speakers are: @siminevazire & @BrianNosek, co-founder of SIPS, @deevybee, @jpsimmon & Leif Nelson from Data Colada. Moderator: @BalazsAczel ELTE, host of SIPS 2025 in Budapest, Hungary.

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

What do people think about Frontiers journals these days?

How can we responsibly use AI in research? Guidelines quickly get out of date without fundamental principles. Our consensus describes the fundamental principles required for responsible AI usage. Please RT osf.io/preprints/psya…

What happened when MIT stopped paying Elsevier? Not much except they are saving a lot of money. "MIT is interested in collaborating with other libraries to reinvest these funds in community-controlled open publishing initiatives..." sparcopen.org/our-work/big-d…

Our first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors. We summarize our findings below. econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdp…

Contributing to the [openly-available] "Experimentology: An Open Science Approach to Experimental Psychology Methods" was a lot of fun. So happy to see that people are using it! experimentology.io

A recent paper sciencedirect.com/science/articl… published in @CORTEXjournal, claims that there is a brain area evolved to block psi effects in humans, and suppressing it with rTMS allows psi abilities to reemerge. My commentary reveals the main flaws of the study: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

An interesting essay on power in science from 2005 nature.com/articles/43842…

if you wish to be involved in building this new discipline join the initiative here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

You must have of history, philosophy, maybe sociology of science. What about psychology of science? Are the inner factors of scientists not an important area to study? I disagree and propose an agenda for psychology of science here: rdcu.be/dtSWj at @NatureHumBehav

Reading the history of science, I struggle with a question. Real scientists seem free in thinking while captivated by quests, passion etc. Do they end up more or less free?

1/n: We're excited to share a new policy on the responsible use of LLMs in drafting manuscripts for @NEJM_AI 🔗: ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… We believe strongly that LLMs provide a net benefit to science writing, so we encourage their use. Rationale and caveats for this policy 👇

We are excited to announce that we will now reproduce and replicate studies in the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences!! We are also welcoming 13 new board members. 🧵 with details below!