Psych prof at UniMelb (@metamelb). Live (mostly) in Sydney. Study credibility of science & how to improve it. Trying to get @ceptional to binge watch tv w/ me.
How would I know if my own research area was this wrong?
Our usual safeguards won’t save us: peer review, meta-analysis, 100s of conceptual replications, listening to eminent researchers. All failed.
This should be keeping us up at night.
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I accepted a job at the University of Melbourne, starting mid-2020! I’m excited about many aspects of this adventure, and especially excited to be closer to this guy 😍🦘🇦🇺
My least favorite Twitter war is “don’t send emails/decision letters at night/wknds/Fridays”
Stop telling people when they can do their work! Just don’t check work stuff when you don’t want to receive it! Also I’ll bet $78 you don’t know what day of the week it is in Australia rn
PNAS:
-charges authors a publication fee *and*
-charges readers/libraries a subscription fee, plus
-has a “contributed” track where only NAS members can submit & arrange their own reviewers
Why do we take PNAS seriously again? I’m done reviewing for them, at the very least.
Thanks to everyone for the support (amazing way to end a long plane journey!) and for all the effort & energy that helped us get here - it always was and will be a team effort! I’m really humbled and honored to get to take on this role.
Powerful people using sexism as a shield :(
I'm sure Gino & Cuddy are targets of sexism & worse. But scholarly criticism of their work, eg Data Colada's, isn't sexism. Saying it is undermines efforts to combat actual sexism & erodes our field's credibility by silencing criticism.
Hard to condense (you can read the story for free), but Gino says she was treated unfairly by Harvard's investigation and by Data Colada, in part because of gender. She says Data Colada has “targeted the work of prominent female academics,” e.g. Amy Cuddy. chronicle.com/article/schola…
It seems a particular academic who does not especially appreciate my existence has taken his revenge by suggesting me as a reviewer every time he turns down a review request and I now realize that I far underestimated his genius.
“If your problem is basically that fallible individuals are making bad choices, behavioural science is an excellent solution. If, however, the real problem is not individual but systemic, then nudges are at best limited, and at worst, a harmful diversion”
Don’t forget:
“Republican Senate leaders declared that because Scalia's seat had become vacant during an election year, the Senate would not even consider a nomination from the president”
Scalia died in February 2016 & Garland was nominated by Obama in March 2016.
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