EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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🎙️New podcast featuring Dr Eike Rinke! The latest episode of the Research Culture Uncovered podcast features @emrinke.bsky.social, discussing why open research, transparency and reproducibility matter across all disciplines. Eike also shares insights from his work on meta-research and open research.

Open Research Leeds@openresleeds.bsky.social · 4w ago

New episode of the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast with @emrinke.bsky.social, @ukrepro.bsky.social Local Network Lead at @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🎧https://research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/building-communities-for-better-research-with-ukrn-local-network-lead-dr-eike-rinke #UKRN2026

One of the many tragedies of AI in higher education is that students think that they have to cheat and plagiarize because their peers are doing it already. In my (non-representative) sample of undergrads, 50% of them flat-out detest what AI has done to their education

Lakis Polycarpou@lpolycarpou.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you *are* there for knowledge, the incentive structure works heavily against you if it’s possible for everyone else to cheat without consequence. I suspect that most students hate this as much as their professors do.

New episode of the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast with @emrinke.bsky.social, @ukrepro.bsky.social Local Network Lead at @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🎧https://research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/building-communities-for-better-research-with-ukrn-local-network-lead-dr-eike-rinke #UKRN2026

(Episode 165) Building Communities for Better Research with UKRN Local Network Lead Dr Eike Rinke - Research Culture Uncovered

In this episode Nick speaks with Dr Eike Rinke, Lecturer in Politics and Media, Co-Director of the Social Research Methods Centre, and Local Network Lea...

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Great to be in Manchester for the inaugural UKRN Conference along with our institutional lead @daryloconnor.bsky.social and local network lead Eike Rinke. Conference programme: www.conference.ukrn.org/programme/ #UKRN2026

Programme: UKRN Conference Wednesday 8 – Thursday 9 July, 2026

See the programme and join us to take part in conversations about improving research practice, alongside researchers, research-enablers, policymakers, and partners from across all disciplines in the U...

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Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

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The @ukrepro.bsky.social just published a new primer on computational reproducibility, authored by the CR special interest group, including yours truly! I hope it's useful for introducing people to the concept and convincing resource-holders to fund efforts to improve it. zenodo.org/records/1923...

*** 10 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY *** Reposting as local convenor of the 2026 ICA PolComm Summer School at @polisatleeds.bsky.social Opportunity for PhD students/ECRs working on any aspect of political communication to learn & get detailed feedback from an top international faculty DL: 30 Mar, 17:00 GMT

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions@polcomm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

⭐ Call for Applications - ICA PolComm Summer School 2026 📍 University of Leeds 🗓 13–17 July 📅 Deadline: 17:00 GMT, Monday, 30 March 2026 📢 Cohort selected by: 15 April 2026 Full details: polcomm.github.io/summer-school/

My moderation shift. This was not sophisticated forgery but even with low effort it's child's play with LLMs to make something that looks like a real paper to a quick skim. And we don't go around accusing people without being sure. So I wasted a chunk of time on the first before I noticed the others

SocArXiv@socarxiv.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

People often ask how to get social media and online platforms' data these days after a lot of them shut down academic access This course by Noëlle Lebernegg at the @methodsnet.bsky.social summer school gets you covered 👇 Registrations open methodsnet.org/course/d04-c...

Indeed. There is a paper to be written on how journalists make deliberative politics less probable by routinely framing changes of party/politician policy positions as "climbdown", "flip-flopping", etc.

David Colquhoun@davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Seems to me to be a case of gotcha journalism (not least from #NickRobinson and #BBCR4Today ). Which is preferable? 1. Starmer proposes a policy, listens to reactions, and modifies policy accordingly. 2. Starmer pushes through policy ideas, even dubious ones, and ignores all criticisms of them.

Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs! ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/

reviewing preprints by writing down discussions we were already having! open review is nice, open review together is nicer (imo)

ReproducibiliTea@reproducibilitea.org · 9mo ago

New blog post by Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social 🔵 Post-publication reviewing - insights from King’s College London ReproducibiliTea reproducibilitea.org/jc/2025/11/1...

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

UK Reproducibility Network is having a conference, July 2026 in Manchester! Please register your interest: www.ukrn.org/conference/ Bringing together researchers, institutions and research stakeholders from the UK and beyond to drive collaborative change within the UK #research sector.

'The central goals of open science – transparency, social accessibility, robustness – apply across all disciplines.' In a recent interview, Dr Eike Rinke discussed the importance of open research in improving the quality of research in higher education: open-science-future.zbw.eu/en/shift-tow...

"The shift towards more robust research is primarily a social change."

Open science is a social change and spreads primarily through communities and networks. Networks offer exchange, social recognition, ...

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In which I note that OS is a social movement aimed at better aligning "good" & "successful" research - and shoutout @ukrepro.bsky.social, @reproducibilitea.org & our wonderful librarian allies like @openresleeds.bsky.social English version here: open-science-future.zbw.eu/en/shift-tow...

"The shift towards more robust research is primarily a social change."

Open science is a social change and spreads primarily through communities and networks. Networks offer exchange, social recognition, ...

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ZBW – Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft@zbw-leibniz.bsky.social · last yr.

„Der Wandel hin zu robusterer Forschung ist vor allem ein sozialer Wandel“, so @emrinke.bsky.social, Local Network Lead des @ukrepro.bsky.social an der @universityofleeds.bsky.social, über seine #OpenScience Erfahrungen. Das vollständige Interview: zbw.to/hacHY

We have a new blog post about lowering the voting age to 16 in the UK by @oliver-booth.bsky.social Check it out 👇

Votes at 16: Right Policy, Wrong Motives?

Labour has announced plans to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in the next general election. This will bring the UK in line with devolved and local elections in Scotland and Wales. Labour’s propos

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This looks like some good evidence-assessment stuff right here.

Charlie Rahal@crahal.com · last yr.

🚀 RobustiPy is out of beta! Feature rich, we hope it becomes useful for model uncertainty / #datascience. We include 🔟 replications, including “unexplained discrepancies” in prior work! 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19958 💻 GitHub: github.com/RobustiPy/robustipy 🌐 Homepage: robustipy.github.io

Looking forward to this in Leeds tomorrow! @lida-leeds.bsky.social @srmleeds.bsky.social

Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · last yr.

EVENT IN LEEDS ON 24 JUNE: "Meeting the AI & Big Data Revolutions in Quantitative Social Science: Challenges & Opportunities" TIME: 1530-1700 (networking 1700-1800) LOCATION: Nexus, Uni of Leeds DETAILS & REGISTER: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meeting-th... @lida-leeds.bsky.social, @srmleeds.bsky.social

Most weeks I recommend to our Leeds @ukrepro.bsky.social network an "Open Research Friday Reading". Why not share it here, too? Today I shared "A Manifesto for a Globally DEI Open Science" by @sakshighai.bsky.social et al. - important read for any social scientist ☝️ www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology

Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...

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This morning @helenblomfield.bsky.social and @nickshepp.bsky.social have teamed up with @emrinke.bsky.social to talk about Open Political Research (Described by @lauracon.bsky.social as an #OpenResearch / data management super group 🤣)

The Centre for Democratic Politics is also on LinkedIn! Follow our page for information about upcoming events and research.

Centre for Democratic Politics @cdpleeds.bsky.social · last yr.

The Centre for Democratic Politics has hosted and co-hosted several events for its members during this academic year. Look out for information about up-coming events on our social media pages and our website.

Dr Eike Rinke and co-authors have had their article on 'The reliability of replications' published by The Royal Society 📃 In it, @emrinke.bsky.social explores the importance of including clear explanations alongside research results 🔍 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions | Royal Society Open Science

This study investigates researcher variability in computational reproduction, an activity for which it is least expected. Eighty-five independent teams attempted numerical replication of results from ...

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📣 New Open Research event at University of Leeds Open Research for All: Bridging Disciplines 🌉 Join us at this in-person event (including lunch) on Wed 14 May (11am-2pm) for several exciting OR talks 🌟 Register: leeds.libcal.com/event/4369744 @openresleeds.bsky.social @nickshepp.bsky.social

Congrats, @breznaunate.bsky.social @emrinke.bsky.social @kunkakom.bsky.social and team. Taking part in this project was not only eye-opening in terms of #metascience but also great fun. Even with shared data and code, reproducibility is not a given. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions | Royal Society Open Science

This study investigates researcher variability in computational reproduction, an activity for which it is least expected. Eighty-five independent teams attempted numerical replication of results from ...

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Nate Breznau@breznaunate.bsky.social · last yr.

We crowdsourced 85 teams to indep. computationally reproduce results from a single study in randomized conditions. Reproducibility: • depends heavily on the transparency of materials • high (~95%) for same sign/sig, but low (btw. 48-77% depending on transparency) when requiring within 0.1 effects

Open code and software encourages collaboration between code users, developers and researchers. What are your experiences with sharing your code and software? #OpenResearch #Research #OpenCode #OpenSoftware

Open code and software

YouTube video by UK Reproducibility Network

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Your regular reminder that the position to only make "the data supporting the findings of this study ... available upon reasonable request" is not (usually) itself reasonable. (Ugh, when will this practice finally end?)

Do you have recommendations for people who are interested in / have spoken about the problems (practical or ethical) of using AI in social science research? They need to be UK based. I am organising a panel for an event. Thank you so much!

An excellent investigation highlighting the value of sharing code, in addition to data, for establishing reproducibility.

Nate Breznau@breznaunate.bsky.social · last yr.

We crowdsourced 85 teams to indep. computationally reproduce results from a single study in randomized conditions. Reproducibility: • depends heavily on the transparency of materials • high (~95%) for same sign/sig, but low (btw. 48-77% depending on transparency) when requiring within 0.1 effects