🔍 Considering a la Caixa Junior Leader Fellowship 2026 application? The #Meta-Research Group at the University of Coimbra 🇵🇹 welcomes researchers interested in developing a fellowship proposal with our team as host. 📩Contact: tracey.weissgerber@uc.pt @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social
EXCELScIOR ERA Chair Project
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🇪🇺 European-funded project 📑 Meta-research team, University of Coimbra 📊 Promoting a better use of research data 🔗 excelscior.uc.pt
💡 Seminar recap: “Negative Impact Factors: Measuring Negative Impact in Science” by Prof. John Ioannidis. 🔍 A discussion on whether and how negative impacts in science could be included in research assessment. Thank you to all who attended! 🙏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social #MetaResearch
📣 Happening today at the University of Coimbra! John Ioannidis (Stanford University) will discuss: 🗣️ Negative impact factors: measuring negative impact in science 📅 15 July 2026 | 16:00 📍 Biblioteca do Rómulo – Room 2, Department of Physics, Polo I
📢 Seminar alert! Join us for a seminar by John Ioannidis (Stanford University). 🗣️ Negative impact factors: measuring negative impact in science 📅 15 July 2026 | 16:00 📍 Biblioteca do Rómulo – Room 2, Department of Physics, Polo I, Coimbra @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social #MetaResearch
📢 New publication co-authored by our PI @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social: “Elevating the Importance of Risk of Bias Assessment for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology” 👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social #EvidenceSynthesis #RiskofBiasAssessment
📢 Seminar alert! Join us for a seminar by John Ioannidis (Stanford University). 🗣️ Negative impact factors: measuring negative impact in science 📅 15 July 2026 | 16:00 📍 Biblioteca do Rómulo – Room 2, Department of Physics, Polo I, Coimbra @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social #MetaResearch
🤸🏻♀️🤸♂️ The Coimbra Gym Fest – Trampoline World Cup has come to an end! Thanks to everyone who visited the EXCELsCIOR stand and explored #MetaResearch through our activities 🧱🎨😊 ✨ We enjoyed sharing Meta-Research with the community. Here are some highlights from the past few days! 📸 @cnc-uc.bsky.social
At the Coimbra Gym Fest – Trampoline World Cup until 5 July! 🤸🏻♀️🤸♂️ Come and visit EXCELScIOR's stand to explore #MetaResearch through: 🧱 Research Practices Jenga 🎨 A colouring activity for children ✏️ A fun communication challenge Drop by between competitions and take a moment to discover Meta-Research!
📢 New preprint from our team: “Ten simple rules for writing a reusable step-by-step protocol” Clear, reusable protocols can improve training, efficiency & reproducibility across research. 👉 osf.io/preprints/me... #OpenScience #Reproducibility @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social
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📚 Applications are open for the 2nd edition of the course Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R. 🗓️ Oct 19–23, 2026 📍 University of Coimbra 📝 Apply until Sept 18 🔗 www.cnc.uc.pt/pt/systemati... @ucoimbra.bsky.social
📢 Applications are open for the Meta-Science Summer School 2026! A hands-on opportunity for early career researchers interested in reproducibility, transparency, and research culture. 📝 Apply until May 22 🔗 www.bihealth.org/en/notices/m... @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CiBBResearch
✨ A week of research & innovation From Lab to Investment: Why Research Rigor Matters for Startups (May 22) + a seminar on research credibility by John Ioannidis (May 26). Rigour & transparency drive impact. 👏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social
🚀 Happening tomorrow! From research to startups: why rigor matters. Join us at IPN 👇 🏠 Venue entrance: maps.app.goo.gl/8J1czXYFzXrM...
🚀 From Lab to Investment: Why Research Rigor Matters for Startups 📅 22 May 2026 | Full day event 📍 Instituto Pedro Nunes – Auditório, Ed. D A day on how #rigorous, #transparent, and #reproducible research drives #impact, #innovation & investment readiness. @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social
On May 28 at 08:00 hrs UTC, @steve-kambouris.bsky.social will be speaking on assessing replicability in ecology and evolution for SORTEE's workshop and webinar series! Register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin... ✨
SORTEE Webinar: Assessing Computational Reproducibility in Ecology and Evolution
SORTEE Webinar: Assessing Computational Reproducibility in Ecology and Evolution - Some Lessons Learned from Working with Shared Code and Data
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📢 Seminar alert! Open seminar by John Ioannidis (Stanford) 🎤 Reproducibility, Robustness, Re-analyses, Multiverses, Multi-analysts, and Vibration of Effects: Making Sense of the Credibility Conundrum 📅 26 May 2026 | 10:00 📍 Biblioteca do Rómulo, Room 2 (Polo I - UC) Open to all - join us!
🚀 From Lab to Investment: Why Research Rigor Matters for Startups 📅 22 May 2026 | Full day event 📍 Instituto Pedro Nunes – Auditório, Ed. D A day on how #rigorous, #transparent, and #reproducible research drives #impact, #innovation & investment readiness. @ucoimbra.bsky.social @cnc-uc.bsky.social
✨Join us at the Meta‑Science Summer School (Aug 23–28, 2026, near Frankfurt 🇩🇪). Hands‑on training in Meta-Research. Deadline: May 22, 2026 More info and applications 👉 www.bihealth.org/en/notices/m... @ucoimbra.bsky.social @bihatcharite.bsky.social @irise-eu.bsky.social eu.bsky.social
The Metascience Alliance is strengthening how science is conducted, evaluated, and communicated. As part of its pilot Perspective Sessions, #EXCELScIOR Team Leader @tweissgerber.bsky.social is moderating the first three sessions. 💡 Learn more & get involved: link below👇
The Metascience Alliance's latest initiative is a pilot series called Perspective Sessions, which creates space for focused, cross-stakeholder conversations on timely issues affecting research systems. 💡 Learn more about the pilot and how to get involved with the Alliance:
We are happy to share that our PI, @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social contributed to a recent Nature discussion on meta-research, addressing robustness, transparency, and reproducibility in science.👏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CNC-UC #CiBB
CNC-UC researcher Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar contributes to the discussion on meta-research findings highlighting the importance of transparency, reproducibility, and robust scientific practices @excelscior-era.bsky.social 🔗 www.cnc.uc.pt/en/investiga...
Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score
Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences
Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.
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Today, the SCORE programme released its main results. Our team member @priyasilverstein.com contributed to two papers: – Reproducibility: doi.org/10.1038/s415... – Replicability: doi.org/10.1038/s415... All papers: www.nature.com/collections/... A valuable contribution to open and robust science. 👏
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
My new piece "Reproducibility: how to strengthen a weak foundation" is out today @nature.com! 🎉 How reproducible is research in the social & behavioural sciences? A new study by Miske et al. assessed 600 papers across 62 journals: the results are sobering. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415... 📄 rdcu.be/fbcq5
🚀 “ReproducibiliTeach” is back! Online course from April 2 ✨ Hands-on training to make your research more transparent, reproducible and reusable. Register: tinyurl.com/RepTeach Organisers: @tweissgerber.bsky.social (@ucoimbra.bsky.social) and @renebernard.bsky.social (@neurocure.bsky.social)
✨ Highlights from yesterday! @agataboch.bsky.social (University of Oslo) presented “How should we report pilot studies?”, showing how clear reporting improves transparency and reproducibility. @norrepro.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CNC-UC #CiBB
📣Today!
📣Seminar alert! Agata Bochynska @agataboch.bsky.social will present “How should we report pilot studies? Increasing transparency of piloting in research” 🗓️ 24 March 2026 📍 Biblioteca do Rómulo – Room 2, Physics Dpt., Polo I, Coimbra @norrepro.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CNC-UC #CiBB
Yesterday, our team leader @tweissgerber.bsky.social presented at Lino Ferreira’s team lab meeting: “Reproducibility Starts with Methods: Building a Culture of Openness and Reuse,” discussing reproducibility and transparency in biomedical research. @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CNC-UC #CiBB
📣Seminar alert! Agata Bochynska @agataboch.bsky.social will present “How should we report pilot studies? Increasing transparency of piloting in research” 🗓️ 24 March 2026 📍 Biblioteca do Rómulo – Room 2, Physics Dpt., Polo I, Coimbra @norrepro.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CNC-UC #CiBB
We’re pleased to share our Team Leader’s latest publication!✨ The study compares automated tools that assess rigor and transparency in scientific reporting - a key topic for research quality. Congrats @tweissgerber.bsky.social!👏 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CiBB #CNC-UC
Use as directed? A comparison of software tools intended to check rigor and transparency of published work
The causes of the reproducibility crisis include lack of standardization and transparency in scientific reporting. Checklists such as ARRIVE and CONSORT seek to improve transparency, but they are not ...
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⏰ Science:TBD - Registration deadline approaching! 📍 Leipzig | 🗓️ 3–4 Mar 2026 Hands-on workshops, limited capacity - some workshops are already full! Register by 15 Feb 👉 www.idiv.de/science-tbd #ScienceTBD #iDiv
🎉 Great news! Our team member Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social is one of the winners of the University of Coimbra’s 7th Seed Projects for Interdisciplinary Research. Congratulations to Thomas and to all the awardees! 👏👏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CiBB #CNC-UC #SantanderPortugalFoundation
This morning we hosted an open seminar with René Bernard: “Shit Happens-Creating a healthy error culture in the competitive research world” explored error culture, transparency, and stronger science. Thanks to everyone who joined! @neurocure.bsky.social #GoEQIPD @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CiBB #CNC-UC