2026-June: News from the Accelerator
Quick read
- PSA Highlights: New Research as it Happens episode on Big Team Science, featuring our PSA Assistant Director Ekaterina Pronizius.
- Opportunities for PSA Members: Publish in a special issue on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in Big Team Science (abstracts due 31 July 2026); sign-up as a collaborator for the ManyManys animal reversal learning study and/or a secondary-school scale validation project; access the SOMA mindfulness stimulus library; and attend FREE Open Science training ran by the Center for Open Science.
PSA Highlights
Podcast Appearance: Ekaterina Pronizius
Have you ever wondered how science actually unfolds? In the podcast hosted by Rolf Zwaan, we get a chance to look behind the scenes of research and follow the process together with the scientists involved. The second episode features our PSA Assistant Director Ekaterina Pronizius, who discusses the advantages and challenges of Big Team Science. Go big, go team-science! Listen to the podcast.
Opportunities for PSA Members
Publication Opportunity
Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana, a diamond open access journal sponsored by Universidad de Rosario, invites proposals for a special issue on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Big Team Science projects, with a focus on making these projects accessible and equitable for researchers and people in the Majority World. See full details.
- Submissions must be in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.
- Abstract proposals (maximum 750 words) due 31 July 2026.
- Full paper submissions due 30 August 2027.
If the link provided produces an error, instead please contact Sergio Barbosa De La Torre on Slack for details and to make submissions.
Collaborators Sought: ManyManys Animals Study
ManyManys seeks teams who can collect reversal learning data with any animal species for a global, multi-taxa study. Join the Zoom meeting on 23 June 2026, 10:00–11:00 ET to ask questions, meet the team, and get set up as a contributing site.
- Contact nicolas.alessandroni@concordia.ca and lpretot@pittstate.edu for any questions.
- Register here when you are ready to sign up as a contributing lab/team.
Collaborators Sought: Scale Validation Study
Asghar Ahmadi and colleagues are seeking collaborators for a scale validation study.
- Task: Data collection from secondary school students (grades 7–12, ages 12–18) in English-speaking countries (USA, UK, Canada, and Australia) rating one of their teachers on motivational behaviour items via an online survey (~10–15 minutes).
- Benefits: Co-authorship in a high impact project, collaborating with leading scholars in educational psychology.
For full details contact Asghar Ahmadi at asghar.ahm1@gmail.com or asghar.ahmadi@osu.cz.
Resource: Stimulus Library
The Standardized Open-source Mindfulness Architecture (SOMA) is a FREE, open-source stimulus library purpose-built to provide mechanistically orthogonal active controls and equity-engineered materials for mindfulness RCT research.
See preprint, library & data, and interactive website.
FREE Open Science Training
The Center for Open Science (COS) is offering FREE Open Science training for anyone affiliated with networks involved in the CONNECT Partnership. As the goal of CONNECT is to improve scientific practice both within Big Team (Social) Science and more generally, we see this training as an incredible opportunity for our network. Read full announcement.
PSA Project Updates
005 Stereotype Threat
The team was finishing up the final draft of the manuscript to circulate to collaborators soon.
008 Minimal Groups
Data analysis is ongoing.
009 Gendered Leadership
Happy news! The team have received a decision from the Leadership Quarterly for their Stage 2 Registered Report indicating minor revisions.
011 Emotion Differentiation
PSA 011 has received its acceptance letter. The team are drafting registered reports. PSA 011 is not ready for collaboration inquiries yet, but stay tuned!
012 Aesthetic Well-being Evaluation
PSA 012 has received its acceptance letter. The team are drafting registered reports. PSA 012 is not ready for collaboration inquiries yet, but stay tuned!
013 Global Crises
PSA 013 has received its acceptance letter. The team are drafting registered reports. PSA 013 is not ready for collaboration inquiries yet, but stay tuned!
JTF1 Moral Experiences
Collaborators are urged to fill out the final authorship survey on canvas.
JTF2 Dignity Honor Face
The lead author is now back from maternity leave and working on edits to the manuscript before it is sent to collaborators for review.
JTF3 Error Correction
The team have finished collecting data from collaborators.
Message from Sara:
Hello folks!
I have unlocked new abilities as the PSA Newsletter Coordinator… (insert sound of drum rolls)… I have learned how to publish on the PSA website!
With my newfound superpowers, I have updated the website with the September 2025 to June 2026 newsletters i.e. all the newsletters I have been responsible for since I started as Newsletter Coordinator.
I noticed some of the older publications in the news folder need to be reformatted and the “Categories” tagging system sorted out. So I will be working through that gradually (oldest to newest) to make them easier to navigate and read.
If you spot any mistakes, typos, links that do not work and etc. message me on Slack. I would greatly appreciate that.
Thank you for reading!
Until next month,
Sara Eftekhari
PSA Newsletter Coordinator
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010 Social Evaluation
PSA 010 has revised and resubmitted the reviewed version of their Stage 1 Registered Report. Let us join them in crossing our fingers and invoking any and all supernatural entities to bless them.
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