Computational cognitive neuroscientist at Adelaide University | Perception, Attention, Learning and Memory Lab (https://palm-lab.github.io) | Open Practices Editor at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics | ReproducibiliTea | http://williamngiam.github.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3my44nyvuvs2gResearchers ought to operate at the level of theory and phenomena, rather than papers! A more fruitful replication would target the most precise measurement of the effect, over the original study design that discovered the effect (unless they are one and the same!). But.. (Context in quote below) [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Oct 2026 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3my44nyvuvs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mxtjt7osqk22Worth reading the developing thread below! I've been thinking along similar lines, but instead of more labels, I have been thinking moreso in a mathematical modelling framework: what we consider a "representation" and what we consider a "process" (partly inspired by Grace's book Models of the Mind!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Oct 2026 12:19 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtjt7osqk22https://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mx6qp5duy22kTired: Complaining that your manuscript is not finding its rightful home amongst prestige journals. Wired: Saying you're in scientific publishing ELO hell.06 Oct 2026 05:56 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx6qp5duy22khttps://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mx2amnyuls2hAs part of data checks at AP&P, I have been asking authors to report their contributions using CRediT (credit.niso.org) and the easy-to-use tenzing (rollercoaster.shinyapps.io/tenzing/). I've wondered if this has nudged more collaboration (and perhaps PIs reflecting on their role in the work)... https://rollercoaster.shinyapps.io/tenzing/04 Oct 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx2amnyuls2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mwdfo3fo6s2vThe @reproducibilitea.org conference is starting now! [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Sep 2026 08:57 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdfo3fo6s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mvtv6mkq4s26Check out the reusability checker ShinyApp! It's very useful for making sure your data repositories are in good condition before the upcoming read-only freeze of OSF repositories. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Sep 2026 04:52 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvtv6mkq4s26https://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mvtondgopc2e📅 Make sure that you have the ReproducibiliTea conference marked in your calendars on Friday! I will be chairing the first session where we look at some of the issues around computational reproducibility including statistical interpretation, sleuthing and review, and dissemination. Link below👇 https://reproducibilitea.org/session-119 Sep 2026 02:55 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvtondgopc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mvrkthqo6c2qIf psychological judgments of similarity are non-metric (Tversky, 1977), and we are evaluating similarity of neural representations by using metric spaces (like Procrustes distance), then how does that mismatch get resolved for neural representations of similarity?18 Sep 2026 06:42 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvrkthqo6c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mvepztw55225Can we put OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. through any Institutional Review Board / Research Ethics Committee? It would be so fun to watch them implode from all the administrative barriers and minutiae they have to get through to do their "research" (let alone address all the actual ethical issues).13 Sep 2026 04:10 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvepztw55225https://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mug6f5ctd22xMore like Dan "uh-really?" amirite01 Sep 2026 00:34 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mug6f5ctd22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamngiam.github.io/post/3mtvbq63ig22fWhich causes more distress: the cold pressor test or getting a manuscript rejected after the second round of reviews?25 Aug 2026 07:19 +0000at://did:plc:fphyd74n334fzekttbltle2f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvbq63ig22f