Replication Crisis: What Changes Have your Department Made?

It's been a year since the Open Science Collaboration's publication on "Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science" was published in Science. It has been cited 515 times since publication, and has been met with much discussion on social networks. I am interested in what changes your psychology department have made since. Are staff actively encouraged …

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I Heart Statistics

Students often look at me oddly when I try to express just how much I love statistics. Colleagues look at me oddly when I try to express how much I love computer simulation. Yes, they both can be dull (I suppose; I don't see it, but whatever...), but they can also be pretty damn cool. I'm …

Dealing with Rejection

If there is one thing academics need to get used to very quickly it's rejection. I've had a multitude of papers rejected, I've had several grants (large and small) rejected, and I even once had a conference submission rejected (yep - it CAN happen). There's no other way to say it: rejection hurts.  It's difficult—sometimes it feels …

The benefit of a lab book

I always though that use of a lab book—a dedicated space to note down experimental methods, results etc.—was largely restricted to sciences like chemistry or physics, where one might conduct several experiments per week, and thus tracking progress is essential lest you lose your train of thought. What role do they have in psychology, where …

New blog – so what?

I was hesitant to start a personal blog about my academic interests. There are so many excellent psychology-related bloggers out there (Rolf Zwaan's and Dorothy Bishop's are among my faves); who am I to say anything of interest to potential readers when they could be reading those blogs? But then I thought, why not just …