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simine vazire
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simine vazire
@siminevazire
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.
melbourne & sydney
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    simine vazire
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    Dec 4, 2016
    "Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind-even if your voice shakes [...] Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.” -Maggie Kuhn
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    simine vazire
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    Sep 12, 2020
    Type I error: You think you’re on mute but you’re not Type II error: You think they can hear you but you’re on mute Or did I get it backwards?
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    simine vazire
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    May 8, 2019
    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.
    slatestarcodex.com
    5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
    In 1996, some researchers discovered that depressed people often had an unusual version of the serotonin transporter gene 5-HTTLPR. The study became a psychiatric sensation, getting thousands of ci…
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    simine vazire
    @siminevazire
    Apr 11, 2020
    Guess I’ll learn R
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    simine vazire
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    Aug 16, 2023
    Be a part of the change you wish to see in the world: Donate to help support the legal expenses of Data Colada. They're being sued by Prof Gino after posting careful, meticulous blog posts raising concerns about data integrity in 4 papers. Donate here:
    Donate to Support Data Colada's Legal Defense, organized by Simine Vazire
    From gofundme.com
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    simine vazire
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    Jun 11, 2018
    Psychologists: please read this. We must stop celebrating this work. It’s anti-scientific. Get it out of textbooks. medium.com/s/trustissues/…
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    simine vazire
    @siminevazire
    Jul 4, 2019
    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 😍🦘🇦🇺
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    simine vazire
    @siminevazire
    Oct 22, 2021
    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
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    simine vazire
    @siminevazire
    Aug 1, 2020
    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.
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    simine vazire
    @siminevazire
    Oct 4, 2023
    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.
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    Association for Psychological Science
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    Oct 4, 2023
    Congratulations, @siminevazire! #psychtwitter #psychologicalscience psychologicalscience.org/publications/p…
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    simine vazire
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    Aug 3, 2023
    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.
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    Stephanie M. Lee
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    Aug 3, 2023
    Replying to @stephaniemlee
    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…
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    simine vazire
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    Mar 13, 2021
    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.
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    simine vazire
    @siminevazire
    May 8, 2022
    “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”
    What nudge theory got wrong
    From ft.com
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    simine vazire
    @siminevazire
    Sep 18, 2020
    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. Please RT