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Reflections on adversarial collaboration from the adversaries: was it worth it?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41476612/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20260101094609&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2

Published: January 1, 2026 11:00

There is much enthusiasm, in principle, for adversarial collaborations (ACs), a scientific conflict resolution technique that encourages investigators with clashing models to collaborate in designing studies that test competing predictions. Adversarial…

Developmental frameworks, what have you done for me lately?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41408697/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20251218120513&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2

Published: December 18, 2025 11:00

Frameworks are widespread in developmental psychology. They provide general ideas about what to study in human development: which concepts to focus on (e.g., systems, timescales), which processes to test (e.g., micro-macro, bidirectional), and which…

ManyFishes: a big team science collaboration on fish comparative cognition

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41402530/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20251217031645&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2

Published: December 16, 2025 11:00

Fishes are among the oldest and most diverse groups of vertebrates, encompassing a vast array of species that differ in morphology, ecology, and behavior. While such diversity can pose challenges to comparative cognition research, it can also offer…

Investigating trends in U.S.-based empirical research on racism in school psychology

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41371897/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20251211024447&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2

Published: December 10, 2025 11:00

School psychology scholars have historically failed to acknowledge that studying and naming racism is essential for their work. Recent calls to action have implored school psychology researchers to interrogate the field's perpetuation of and complicity in…

SciSciGPT: advancing human-AI collaboration in the science of science

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41366152/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20251210085255&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2

Published: December 9, 2025 11:00

We introduce SciSciGPT, an open-source, prototype artificial intelligence (AI) collaborator that uses the domain of science of science as a testbed to explore the potential of large language model-powered research tools. SciSciGPT automates complex…

Under my umbrella: Rating scales obscure statistical power and effect size heterogeneity

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41286207/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20251125112418&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2

Published: November 25, 2025 11:00

Data from rating scales underlie very specific restrictions: They have a lower limit, an upper limit, and they only consist of a few integers. These characteristics produce particular dependencies between means and standard deviations. A mean that is a…

"Cake causes herpes?" - promiscuous dichotomisation induces false positives

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41233729/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20251114033152&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2

Published: November 13, 2025 11:00

CONCLUSIONS: It is likely that manipulating cut-off points in measured variables represents a significant source of data manipulation in published science, and the ease of access of larger health databases means this is an issue that is likely to grow in…

On "Confirmatory" Methodological Research in Statistics and Related Fields

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41213159/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20251110231218&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2

Published: November 10, 2025 11:00

Empirical substantive research, such as in the life or social sciences, is commonly categorized into the two modes exploratory and confirmatory, both of which are essential to scientific progress. The former is also referred to as hypothesis-generating or…

Recording and communicating uncertainty in science: how geologists manage variability in spatial data

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41136721/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20251025021715&v=2.18.0.post22+67771e2

Published: October 24, 2025 10:00

All scientists must cope with variability in data to make inferences about the world. However, in observation-based geology, how scientists cope with variability is particularly consequential because it determines what become data in the first place, with…

A libraries reproducibility hackathon: connecting students to university research and testing the longevity of published code

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41064702/?utm_source=RSS-Parrot-Bot&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=1XEO1vFZuoT-c_WNF7NO6I96ZKeOafJxwJl5-4vcQl7S75TcQ4&fc=None&ff=20251014034110&v=2.18.0.post9+e462414

Published: October 9, 2025 10:00

CONCLUSIONS: This hackathon allowed several students an opportunity to interact with and evaluate real research outputs, testing the reproducibility of computational data analyses. Partnering with faculty opened opportunities to improve open research…