Brian Nosek
Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia
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- Reposted by Brian Nosekinsane moment in world history right here
- Reposted by Brian Nosekapparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
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- Reposted by Brian NosekThanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
- Does anybody have a good visualization to explain how interactions can be confounded, and why interactions require interaction controls? @urisohn.bsky.social maybe? (Asking because I have an idea, but want to check out what exists already before investing the effort)
- Reposted by Brian NosekData Colada has submitted a motion for sanction against Francesca Gino and her former lawyer team. I hope the court rules in their favor. It will be a powerful message that sleuths can expose fake research without fearing legal consequences. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Brian Nosek🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
- Reposted by Brian NosekMy editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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- There are several SCORE papers in the pipeline reporting the primary outcomes of the program. Yesterday, we submitted the last one being led by COS. Thank you to all collaborators on the SCORE program for contributing to this enormous project. It is gratifying to nearing the conclusion, finally.
- Reposted by Brian Nosek👏The 2025 Infrastructure Prize for Sociology goes to @socarxiv.bsky.social, represented by @philipncohen.com , for its accessible and timely contribution to the dissemination of sociological knowledge. kohlifoundation.eu/programs-the...
- Reposted by Brian NosekJOIN US! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity on Preprints and Open Peer Review. Multi-year project. Come with work @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @mariomalicki.bsky.social, me, and the rest of #ScholCommLab. Apply by May 23rd! bit.ly/SCLpostdoc2025 Please share widely!
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- Reposted by Brian NosekNew blog post in which I: 📈 detail a new citations-for-sale scheme in Google Scholar 🧻 make the 395 fake papers generated through this scheme available as a dataset 💤 chastise Google for failing to maintain the most widely used academic search engine Enjoy! reeserichardson.blog/2025/05/06/g...
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🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS. - Reposted by Brian Nosek🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Reposted by Brian NosekYou've heard of the many analysts projects, right? Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers. Why is that? Data cleaning! This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.
- Reposted by Brian NosekFYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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- Reposted by Brian NosekNSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%. When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction. Changes like this can wreak havoc on research. MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc... #NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF
- Reposted by Brian NosekExactly a year ago, a paper claimed apple cider vinegar was as effective as Ozempic for weight loss. *Clearly wrong.* This is the story of exactly one year of dealing with this paper. And the very normal, very complete failure of governance that resulted. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
- COS hit a major milestone for making OSF a truly open source product that integrates with the services that researchers use. Check out our RFP to support integration of a service that you maintain, use, or like with OSF. General info: www.cos.io/pose RFP: osf.io/preprints/os...
- The Center for Open Science's office opened in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2013. It was a lively, beautiful, exciting environment. Yesterday, we officially closed the physical office.
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- “However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...
- The first publications in Lifecycle Journal have appeared. Now a window opens for evaluation services to offer assessments for the authors and readers to understand the contribution, potential limitations, and opportunities to improve. Consider submitting a project of your own! lifecyclejournal.org
- You do not need to be Dutch to sign. If you simply care to preserve programs that have been leaders in rigor and reform in psychology, then signal your support for them to continue to thrive.
- An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...
- An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...
- Reposted by Brian NosekYou have to wonder what Mark Carney's other two wishes were after rubbing that bottle
- Reposted by Brian NosekHow likely are Americans to buy “Made in the USA” and pay more for it? Company offered a U.S.-made version of their flagship product at 85% more than the Chinese-made one. 25,650 customers could vote with their wallets. How many bought American? buff.ly/JMYl1qg
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- Reposted by Brian NosekThe NSF is in a crisis. its director is out, hundreds more grants have been cut, and it is staring down catastrophic budget cuts and layoffs. Our reporting: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- There are justified concerns about the misuse of the veneer of science for non-scientific ends. A recent example is RFK commenting on the need for replication while seeming to support some unfounded ideas such as a link between autism and vaccination. 🧵
- Reposted by Brian Nosek✨ ✏️ The final meerkat sketches are ready! Straight from the Open Science Retreat #OSR25 in 🇨🇭 1/8
- Reposted by Brian NosekFor the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
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- Reposted by Brian NosekThe key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.
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- Reposted by Brian NosekWe are live! Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings. Check out our website and blog post about the journal: 🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep 📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...
- "When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid." -- Chernobyl
- The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
- Reposted by Brian NosekNew post! Should we hold back criticisms of scientific practices for fear that they will be weaponized by political attacks on science? Absolutely not. We need to recognize the distinction between scientific arguments and ideological arguments. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/science-re...
- Reposted by Brian NosekThis statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
- Reposted by Brian NosekNEW: NSF announces it's "terminating awards that are not aligned with agency priorities...including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation/disinformation." #HigherEd #AcademicSky
- Holy Moses. Full-on propaganda: www.covid.gov
- Dutch psychology programs have produced the most important research and researchers during the last 20 years on a per capita basis IMHO. This doesn't seem like it will help maintain that stature and impact (though the US is certainly doing its part in a race to the bottom).
- Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
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- COS is partnering with Japan's National Institute of Informatics to advance OSF as open infrastructure supporting worldwide transparency, sharing, and preservation of research content across the lifecycle. rcos.nii.ac.jp/en/news/2025...
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- Reposted by Brian Nosek🔬 Want to improve research transparency? Join this webinar with experts from @plosbiology.org! Learn how this format enhances reproducibility & benefits science. 🎤 Dr. @npariente.bsky.social & Dr. Nikki Osborne from @rrr-research.bsky.social 📅 April 30, 3 PM CEST #OpenScience
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