We had an amazing time at the University of Münster. Our replicators covered papers across psychology, public health and political science! Huge thanks to @bschlipphak.bsky.social, Katrin Schmietendorf, @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and Oliver Kamps for organizing.

@lukaswallrich.bsky.social is doing a hands-on: Doing an AI-led reproduction and comparing models. Here is a random example from his slights about how agents perform on the "deadly femal hurricanes" study (10.1073/pnas.1402786111).

Save big now? After €20,000 were paid for one open access book (from tax money), the publisher hides the free openly accessible copy on their website, allowing people to pay another few hundred euros for what is already free. Shame on you @routledgebooks.bsky.social. from the Pühringer #OAdays talk

Very interesting discussions are happening at @forrt.bsky.social's AI in meta-science conference. For example: You can now produce a paper every hour. Will the literature be entirely unusable without another layer of AI or will there be a bifurcation for low- vs high-effort papers? Can PRC work?

Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵

🔍 What is the current status of Open Science in the academic publishing system? Join us for an IGOR panel discussion: “Rethinking Scholarly Publishing: Preserving the Good, Changing the Bad, and Supporting the New” 📅 Thursday, 1 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET 💻 Online (contact us for the link) [1/2]

This week, over 100 researchers have pledged to review for a Diamond Open Access journal at least once in the next year: forrt.org/diamond-revi... Thank you for being part of the Diamond Reviewer Pledge!

I just published my German Open Science book with @uni-muenster.de's library. It contains most of what I know about open science, can be understood by undergraduates, and is free. - published PDF: www.uni-muenster.de/Ebooks/index... - Quarto version: lukasroeseler.github.io/openscienceb...

Come to Münster and work with us on tools to make replications more visible! In the thread are some examples from our past two events.

Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training@forrt.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon🚀 create open source tools that make replication studies impossible to ignore. 📅11th-13th November 2026 Münster, Germany ✈️ Travel & accommodation covered Looking for coders, data wranglers, UX folks & open science enthusiasts Apply: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco3

I predicted 1 out of 6 studies correctly in Guess the Replication, reaching the rank of "Junior Reviewer"! Can you do better? Play here: t1p.de/guther #GuessTheReplication

Please commit to reviewing at least one article in the next 12 months for a diamond open access journal. Free to read, free to publish, scholar-led. @aufdroeseler.bsky.social #OpenScience Join us: forrt.org/diamond-revi...

Oh boy. I owe academia about 45 reviews. I am sorry. Please invite me as a reviewer! Apart from writing a review during #PeerReviewWeek I cleaned up my own tracker and you can read most of my reviews since 2024 online on a page on my Uni's gitlab: lroesele.zivgitlabpages.uni-muenster.de/reviews/

This #PeerReviewWeek, check out the growing collection of research & completed evaluations published through Lifecycle Journal! Lifecycle Journal makes evaluations part of the public record, giving readers an opportunity to see research alongside its evaluation. Learn more: lifecyclejournal.org...

Give your peer review to the journals that give back. Diamond open access journals don't charge authors to publish or readers to access; they run on community effort, for the community's benefit. Pledge one review a year and help sustain the research community. forrt.org/diamond-reviewer

Peer review is a gift researchers give to the field, worth >$1B globally in 2020. Imagine if more of that generosity flowed straight back into the scholar-led journals that make research free to read and free to publish. Help build that future, become a diamond reviewer forrt.org/diamond-reviewer

It's Peer Review Week, and I have pledged to review at least one article per year for a diamond open access journal; one that charges nothing to publish and nothing to read, and is run by and for the scholarly community, using the new Diamond Reviewer Pledge (forrt.org/diamond-revi...).

Join us for the “Publish, Review, Curate (PRC): Shaping the future of scholarly publishing” launch event on October 28, 2026 at 14:00 UTC! #OpenPeerReview #Preprints

Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance@prcalliance.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢Save the date for the PRC Alliance launch! The PRC Alliance, an initiative that brings together organizations working to accelerate the adoption of the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model, will officially launch on Oct 28th! Learn more and register: publish-review-curate.org/2026/09/07/l...

The PRC model of scholarly publishing can benefit not only researchers but also the library community! 🤝Community ownership and governance of publication infrastructures 💰Innovative models with reduced reliance on subscriptions and APCs 💧Participation in a transparent and trustworthy ecosystem

A clarification on the OSF changes: A recent Nature article incorrectly says private projects will become public. They will not, and we’ve asked for a correction. On Feb. 19, all projects become read-only. Public content stays available; private content stays private. Details: www.cos.io/osf-changes

OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

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I discovered by accident that @uni-muenster.de hospital's canteen has an open record of their prices, so here is the past ten years' median price for different types of Pizza.

Look at all those replications at @dgps.bsky.social congress Luxemburg! Looking forward to see them published (and indexed in the Replication Atlas: forrt.org/flora-replic...).

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

Where do you think the links behind these three badges lead? They all lead to the publisher's badge policy: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

One of the highlights while looking through some of FLoRA's >2.6K reproductions and replications: "The code runs beautifully. ... we want to acknowledge the high quality of the authors' replication package." Reproduction: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419... Original: doi.org/10.1257/aer.20191927

Very interesting simulation by Harper and @nicebread.bsky.social on optimal share of replications. I cannot decide what is most exciting about it so I recommend you read the whole thing.

MetaArXivBot@metaarxivbot.bsky.social · last mo.

How Much Replication Is Enough? Balancing Novelty and Replication in a Truth-Driven Evolutionary Simulation: https://osf.io/x7n9h

Wherever you go to store data instead of #OSFprojects, please choose a non-commercial provider. Commercial interests are not aligned with scientific interests: They aim at turning your data into money by selling it, training AI models with it and locking us into an ecosystem: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Looking for a fun & useful science sidequest? Consider contributing to FLoRA. We did some coworking sessions in our lab this week, using their fun gamified app Learn more: forrt.org/replication-... Bonus: Reading interesting articles (I annotated one on the link b/w sleep & cruise tour enjoyment)

Lukas Röseler@aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Introducing the #ReplicationAtlas: The FLoRA (FORRT Library of Reproduction and Replication Attempts) lets you browser over two thousand (!) pairs of original and replication studies. Search by DOIs/keywords and find out about replications from your field, maybe even replications of your own work.

I meant to post that #FLoRA now has over 2,500 replications and reproductions - but we are already at >2,600! This is only possible due to our team of >200 researchers submitting + validating entries, approving them, and maintaining the search pipeline and validation app. forrt.org/flora-explor...

Only 10 days left to register for the Münster Reproduction Games: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/4135/r... Team up with researchers from your field to conduct, write, and publish a reproduction study.

R2 has published its first peer-reviewed article. Congratulations to the authors, reviewers, and handling editor @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy and editorial assistant Miriam Müller. Transparency is key, which is why the peer review report and reproducibility certificate are public.

Replication Research (R2)@r2journal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New publication: "Reproduction and Replication of an Adversarial Stylometry Experiment" by Haining Wang, Patrick Juola, and Allen Riddell on disguising a person's writing style to avoid author identification. Article, reviews, and more openly available at www.replicationresearch.org/articles/9414/.