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Sam Westwood

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Lecturer in Psychology at King’s College London

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John Cleese and John Goodman looking like scientists

John Cleese and John Goodman looking like scientists

Never-before-seen footage of me and @jamesheathers.bsky.social working on GRIM, unearthed by @samwestwood.bsky.social

23.07.2025 23:35 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Hands down my favourite slide and biggest takeaway from @steamtraen.eu's talk, made possible by @samwestwood.bsky.social and Nick's 2-hour sacrifice albeit on holiday.

#grim #sprite on #rstats

24.07.2025 02:41 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
me presenting my title slide saying; Open Science, Open Source

me presenting my title slide saying; Open Science, Open Source

Presenting the steps to work with the GitHub repository at the workshop

Presenting the steps to work with the GitHub repository at the workshop

Presenting the Jupyter Notebook that helps automate API queries to download csvs from databases for literature reviews

Presenting the Jupyter Notebook that helps automate API queries to download csvs from databases for literature reviews

Open Research Summer School Banner

Open Research Summer School Banner

Super stoked to have delivered a workshop on automation and scalability in research reviews at the Open Research Summer School @kingsioppn.bsky.social

My GitHub repository is available if you want to give it a go
github.com/kameleonjour...

28.07.2025 12:44 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Massive shoutout to @samwestwood.bsky.social for organising such a valuable event year after year! 🙌

28.07.2025 12:47 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🚨Summer School Alert!🚨
Join the FREE Open Research Summer School (in-person or online) to learn about good quality science.

I'll be talking about a practical four-step robustness check to assess and improve quality of findings. Check out the full program for many more fantastic speakers!

13.06.2025 07:16 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Very much looking forward to talking about RegCheck at the KCL Open Research Summer School on Thursday.

Not so much looking forward to the current task at hand: preparing the presentation and workshop on a 20 hour journey from Tokyo to London 🥲

22.07.2025 11:02 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

If you'd like to chat about Papercheck with some of our team members, @debruine.bsky.social will be at the Metascience conference, @crist14n.bsky.social will be at the open research summer school by @samwestwood.bsky.social , and @raphaelmerz.bsky.social will be at SIPS!

20.06.2025 10:49 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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Ever wondered how closely a paper matches its preregistration?

Join @jamiecummins.bsky.social for an intro to RegCheck, a practical tool for better transparency in deviations from pre-registered protocols

Registere for free: tinyurl.com/4un95jwp

12.06.2025 15:28 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Can we normalise error detection in science?

Join @ianhussey.mmmdata.io as he explores how we assess trustworthiness and challenge misconduct in academic work.

Register free here tinyurl.com/4un95jwp

12.06.2025 15:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I really enjoyed joining this online last year! Learnt a lot from some fab people 😊
Signed up again and ready for this year!

11.06.2025 19:20 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Looking forward to presenting at the King's Open Research Summer School and meeting the London Open Science crowd! Thanks @samwestwood.bsky.social for the invitation!

11.06.2025 21:31 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Open Research Summer School Join us at the Open Research Summer School for a deep dive into the world of research - see you there on 21 to 25 July 2025 at 8:30 AM!

try this one - sorry www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-resea...

11.06.2025 15:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Can you publish a non-significant result and say something meaningful?

Find out with @mzloteanu.bsky.social, in his talk and workshop on "Publishing Non-Significant Results: An Intro to Equivalence Tests"

Register here: tinyurl.com/ORSS2025

#OpenScience #EquivalenceTesting

11.06.2025 14:33 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
2025 UKRN Local Network Leads Retreat – London School of Economics | UK Reproducibility Network

Thanks @samwestwood.bsky.social for your words:

"The LNL network isn’t about perfection. It’s about persistence, creativity, and community. This year’s retreat more than ever proved that when those ingredients come together, positive change doesn’t just feel possible – it feels certain."

11.06.2025 11:29 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops!

Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!

This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm

11.06.2025 09:43 👍 49 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 4
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Join @michelenuijten.bsky.social for “A Four-Step Robustness Check” at the King’s Open Research Summer School on Tues 22nd July for a practical guide to assessing how solid your findings really are.

Register: tinyurl.com/yt8udeyk

11.06.2025 09:43 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Excited to welcome @ephemeralidea.bsky.social to King’s Open Research Summer School on Mon 21st July.

She’ll be sharing new reflections since Big Little Lies, a standout in the growing movement to detect and challenge questionable research practices misconduct.

🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/j7y9962r

11.06.2025 09:37 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Neurofeedback has been touted as a promising non-pharmaceutical treatment for ADHD, but does it actually work?

No.

Current forms of NF did not significantly improve blinded reports of symptoms or performance on task based measures of cognition.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/neurofe...

12.12.2024 10:36 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Neurofeedback has been touted as a promising non-pharmaceutical treatment for ADHD, but does it actually work?

No.

Current forms of NF did not significantly improve blinded reports of symptoms or performance on task based measures of cognition.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/neurofe...

12.12.2024 10:36 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

It’s because the UK has a poorly functioning health service, government, and legal system meaning that no amount of safeguards will prevent unnecessary loss of life.

30.11.2024 14:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What are you favourite PubPeer comments/exchanges?

I'm planning on writing a companion (or "Hitchhiker's") guide for academics, one section will be on how to evaluate papers.

15.11.2024 09:06 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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It's Over - Gino vs Harvard Fake Data Scandal YouTube video by Pete Judo

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
excellent overview of Gino case from start to finish

14.11.2024 20:45 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1

What are you favourite PubPeer comments/exchanges?

I'm planning on writing a companion (or "Hitchhiker's") guide for academics, one section will be on how to evaluate papers.

15.11.2024 09:06 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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Remarkable sleuthing.

Authors reply to state that the reported results do differ and were from separate samples. Sleuth extracts vector graphics from pdf and makes this a to show they are definitely the same data (see pubpeer comment for moving gif)

Don’t double down!

pubpeer.com/publications...

13.11.2024 09:58 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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For a second there I thought @hertzpodcast.bsky.social were hiring!

13.11.2024 09:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pupil self-regulation modulates markers of cortical excitability and cortical arousal The brain’s arousal state (i.e., central arousal) is regulated by multiple neuromodulatory nuclei in the brainstem and significantly influences high-level cognitive processes. By exploiting the mechan...

First post here! 👀🧠🫀

With my wonderful colleagues we showed that self-regulation of pupil size through pupil-based biofeedback modulates various markers of cortical excitability and arousal.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #eeg #neuroscience

13.11.2024 08:11 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

*taps mic*

Would really appreciate if folks from my X community who have found me here (a) let me know, and (b) share my Bluesky handle with others. To make this transition I need a community here!

12.11.2024 12:22 👍 44 🔁 14 💬 24 📌 2

Im coming to the end of my PhD in replication in sports science soon (expected July), and Im looking for job opportunities. Im interested in metascience research but I also have other sports science lecturing experience. Please share any opportunities in case I don't see them online! #metascience

12.04.2024 08:17 👍 8 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

Very happy to see this - congratulations!

12.11.2024 13:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Day 1 of the Open Research Summer School! Make sure to register here: openresearchsummerschool.eventbrite.co.uk

31.05.2024 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0