Do we actually need to write research papers at all? by Mark Hahnel 🤔 👇 hahnel.substack.com/p/do-we-actu...

Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle? By Katarina Zimmer www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars

Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

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Issue 55 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ The Rapid Rise of Bayesian Inference and Open Science Practices in Psychology @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social ➡️ data.table, base, dplyr, pandas, and polars @vincentab.bsky.social ➡️ SQLite Query Explainer @simonwillison.net rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

RDM Weekly - Issue 055

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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An update from me about how COS is adapting to the destabilized moment for science to continue advancing openness, integrity, and trustworthiness of research. www.cos.io/blog/cos-mis...

COS Mission and Strategy Evolution

The Center for Open Science (COS)'s work has evolved with the maturation of the open science movement. Our strategic priorities focus on supporting the growth of lifecycle open science—making research...

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We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Assistant Professor in Metascience

Personal type: Scientific staff

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Join our Many-Analysts Simulation Study—yes, you read that correctly—accepted as Stage 1 Registered Report in (AMPPS) @psychscience.bsky.social. We're trying to find out how researchers' simulation design choices shape methodological conclusions. Further info: osf.io/8vcxh/files/...

Jolana Samii’s research focuses on psychological & behavioral factors that influence health & wellbeing, including sleep quality. Her connected research record links a preregistered plan, data, & a preprint so the work can be followed from question to findings. Read our Q&A:

Lifecycle Open Science in Action: Researcher Q&A with Jolana Samii

Jolana Samii discusses the value of preregistration; how keeping plans, outputs, and outcomes linked and discoverable strengthens the research record; and benefits of making research publicly accessible.

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The reproducibility crisis: is science deceiving us? 🤔 👇 www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/s...

Establishing-an-effect, theory-of-the-effect, and theoretical framework Three strategies for claiming research progress by Dal et al. (2026): doi.org/10.1002/jcpy...

We just presented the results of our user study & how we will use them to update our info & training platform for #RDM professionals #RDMCompas (rdm-compas.org/en/homepage) at #10KSWD! Thank you to everyone who attended our session! @konsortswd.bsky.social @blask-katarina.bsky.social #OpenScience

New team science initiative just dropped! manyscale.org We're looking for collaborators to lead repositories of self-report measures in their own psychology subfields.

ManyScale - A Home for Psychological Measures and Constructs

ManyScale will be a network of repositories for self-report measures in psychology.

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"The infrastructure that makes science possible is not separate from science itself. To realize the benefits of research in the modern age, that infrastructure must be supported and sustained for the future." issues.org/open-data-re...

Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? | Real Numbers

The scientific community must consider the longevity of open research infrastructure—why it might fail and how to prevent it.

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I got much better at this once I stopped reading beyond the title.

Lukas Röseler@aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We just launched #GuesstheReplication (GutheR). It is a challenging game where you predict replicability based on the abstract and title of an original study. Play it now and beat my high score at lukasroeseler.github.io/GuessTheRepl... or use our free slides for teaching zenodo.org/records/1985...

My interview with APS on SCORE, trustworthiness of research, and trust in science. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

A More Mature Approach to Credibility Is Needed to Build Trust in Science

In this interview, Brian Nosek touches on big takeaways from the SCORE program, how evidence from the program contradicts the 2025 executive order, and his vision for a more trustworthy scientific lan...

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🚨 New preprint 🚨 Excited to share a new preprint led by @zakashussain.bsky.social. We review how large language models compare to humans in behavior and representations. Our conclusion: LLM cognition is not simply human-like or non-human-like. It is jagged. 🔗 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hallucinated citations More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone. 🤔 👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Survey creation has become too convenient. Too fast. Too frictionless. Too detached from the thinking process... Tell the AI your goal." 👇 kirstenleehill.substack.com/p/one-of-the...

One of the worst things to happen to survey design has been convenience.

Yep.

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New interactive simulation in my online textbook illustrating publication bias in meta-analyses, and some techniques to model bias-adjusted effect sizes. None of these work perfectly. We need an unbiased literature to draw valid inferences. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

🗞️ SSI's Simon Hettrick and Philly Broadbent have been featured in a Nature article titled "How hidden contributions power modern research." Find out more about it and access the full article at www.software.ac.uk/news/ssi-sta...

"We ought to have evidence-based policy making. Worryingly, what we often get is policy-based evidence making. Worse, we now use AI to create or hallucinate evidence to write policy for us." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

We ought to have evidence-based policy making. Worryingly, what we often get is policy-based evidence making. Worse, we now use AI to create or hallucinate evidence to write policy for us. A clear… |...

We ought to have evidence-based policy making. Worryingly, what we often get is policy-based evidence making. Worse, we now use AI to create or hallucinate evidence to write policy for us. A clear ex...

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AI agents may be skilled researchers—but not always honest ones Two high-profile tools have been shown to make up data and “p-hack” their results 🤔 👇 www.science.org/content/arti...

AI agents may be skilled researchers—but not always honest ones

Two high-profile tools have been shown to make up data and “p-hack” their results

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If you're struggling today this resource may bring comfort - or more practical suggestions for action. (It's aimed more at those working in education, development and health but has useful tips and links for all. Due another update, so feedback welcome). theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...

Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times - The Research Companion

Science, healthcare and education are threatened worldwide. Here are some starter ideas for ways to work together to share and save vital information. And to care for one another.

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At #SIPS2026, @briannosek.bsky.social is now presenting his keynote "Repeatability: Redoing Research for Reproducibility, Robustness, and Replicability Reveals Reliability and Rigor Risks" & talking about the SCORE project (www.cos.io/score)! #OpenScience @cos.io @improvingpsych.org

SCORE | Center for Open Science

SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

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Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet 👇 retractionwatch.com/2026/05/07/o...

One in 277 PubMed-indexed papers in 2026 shows fabricated references, says analysis

Figure from correspondence to The Lancet by Maxim Topaz and colleagues. Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 mi…

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"More researchers are using AI to prepare their manuscripts than ever before, but few are disclosing it, raising questions of transparency and ethical AI use." www.the-scientist.com/ai-policies-...

AI Policies Fail to Reduce Undisclosed AI Use | The Scientist

More researchers are using AI to prepare their manuscripts than ever before, but few are disclosing it, raising questions of transparency and ethical AI use.

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The first time a serious journal asks me to review a paper that is completely written by AI. How do we deal with this? Is it fair to write 'this is either written by AI, or mirrors it's lack of original content'? How do I deal with the 1% probability a human wrote it anyway?

#statstab #527 t is for Trouble (and Textbooks): A Critique of Some Examples of the Paired-Samples t-test Thoughts: Some issues seem to reappear in the field. We need better training. #ttest #design #methods #error #analysis #repeatedmeasures #outliers www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Postdoc In Meta-science

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🗞️ @chronicle.com covered findings from the large-scale SCORE effort, which evaluated reproducibility, replicability, and robustness across the social and behavioral sciences. The piece also features researchers weighing in on what the results may mean for the field: www.chronicle.com/article/lots...

Interested in the latest evidence on reproducibility across social and behavioral research? 📑 Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from these researchers and large-scale initiatives shaping the future of open science.

Center for Open Science@cos.io · 4mo ago

What can large-scale studies tell us about reproducibility? In our webinar on April 16, researchers from COS, I4R, and META-REP will discuss findings from three papers—one from the recently published SCORE effort—and insights on reproducibility, transparency, and credibility cos-io.zoom.us/webin...