Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @sleeffers @UCLIRDR who works on topics related to risks, disaster + social protection
Lenka Fiala
@fialalenka.bsky.social
Research scientist at the Institute for Replication (University of Ottawa). Amateur circus artist, DnD enthusiast. http://www.lenkafiala.com/
Congratulations to the project “Love Replications Week,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! During the Love Replications Week, the researchers gathered to learn about best practices, to get in touch with experts, and to join an open community of researchers who want to support replications.
🚨UPCOMING EVENT - REGISTER NOW🚨 We’re delighted to promote a new upcoming event. @i4replication.bsky.social and UCD School of Economics are jointly organising the Replication Games alongside the EEA-ESEM Congress! 📆 Sunday, 16 August 📍 Dublin 👉🏻 More / Register www.iea.ie/2026/07/10/n...
NEWS: Replication Games – EEA-ESEM Congress (Sunday, 16 August 2026) – Irish Economic Association
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Congratulations to the project “Replication Games,” which received🏆2026 SIPS Mission Award! Replication Games builds community and skills for researchers in one-day hackathons to assess the reproducibility and robustness of published research. 🔗https://buff.ly/nXfbAO8
Institute for Replication (I4R)
The Institute for Replication improves the credibility of science by systematically reproducing and replicating empirical research.
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🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd
SIPS 2026 Awards Announced!
We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the fi…
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Register for the Replication Hub showcase here 👇
Register for: FORRT Replication Hub Showcase
Join the showcase on 1 July 2026 from 3 - 5 pm CEST online. Please enter your email below. We will subsequently send you a calendar invite and the Zoom link.
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Join the Replication Hub Showcase on July 1st 3-5pm CEST: t1p.de/replicationhub Learn about ongoing projects at the @forrt.bsky.social Replication Hub, which is a collection of over 20 projects, tools, and events that all have the mission to support replications.
An update on our log-like specifications paper! We’ve updated our recommendations and added new commands in Stata and R for one of our recommended alternatives. 1/ osf.io/preprints/me...
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New preprint! We reanalyze 46 papers that use log-like specifications (ln(Z+1), inverse hyperbolic sine etc). We find widespread non-robustness, and we show through theory + simulation how these models drive spurious significance. 1/ doi.org/10.31222/osf...
Register now for our upcoming Coffee Lecture on #OpenScience Education: “Replication Games: Advancing Reproducibility with Open and Restricted Access Data” with @fialalenka.bsky.social, Insitute for Replication (University of Ottawa) on 8 September, 14:00-15:00 CEST: zbw.to/JVvZz
The Utrecht Replication Games are a hit! Many thanks to the local organizer Sarah Rezaei Khavas :) #openscience #replication #replicationgames
We're having fun replicating papers today. Thanks to everyone participating to the Utrecht Replication Games!
Incentives to reproduce and replicate articles are so bad. Even when your comment leads to the retraction of a PLOS One article, the reward is a (10 days late) email with a thank you at the bottom. Retraction notice: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... But we are not complaining about PLOS One 🧵
1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.
#GDRI_rep Update 10 The orphan article has finally been retracted! Took more than a year, but at last. Read about our investigation (bsky.app/profile/i4re...) and updates ( #GDRI_rep). A good summary: a-ortmann.medium.com/the-asad-isl... and a-ortmann.medium.com/tallying-the...
I get all the justifications here, but the reason I don't use AI is that I just don't want to. I like writing emails and digging around for new papers online. Let me have my fun.
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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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...
OSF-induced frustration is one of the most replicable and robust effects to come out of the social sciences over the past decade
Me: *clicks an OSF link* OSF: gotta be safe, can you login real quick? Me: sure, login completed OSF: cool, I have completely forgotten what link you clicked, here's your Dashboard
🚨 New AI Games round is live 🚨 Our first AI Games paper is now out at a top general interest journal (see preprint here: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... So… we’re launching the next stage 👇
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...
A package of papers looking at the social and behavioural sciences shows the value of researchers collaborating to further the cause of reproducible, replicable and robust findings go.nature.com/4cjtN1X
More self-reflection in research can lead to better science
A package of papers looking at the social and behavioural sciences shows the value of researchers collaborating to further the cause of reproducible, replicable and robust findings.
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A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W
Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project
Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for solutions.
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🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇
"If authors cannot stand by their own descriptions of their methods or data, retraction should be automatic," says @eugenie-reich.bsky.social.
Guest post: A call to end the ‘impact on conclusions’ test for retraction
The Ship of Theseus paradox asks, if you replace all the wood in a ship, is it still the same ship? Likewise, is it possible to change all the facts inside an article without altering its conclusio…
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I agree, we need a replication of this week of #LoveReplications. Just to confirm its awesomeness.😉 Thank you @aufdroeseler.bsky.social for organizing! #openscience
>5h recordings and slides for most #LoveReplicationsWeek talks are now available on our updated website. Thank you so much everybody who contributed to this wonderful week, participated in the talks, and partnered-up with us. I think there should be a replication of this. forrt.org/LoveReplicat...
New preprint! We reanalyze 46 papers that use log-like specifications (ln(Z+1), inverse hyperbolic sine etc). We find widespread non-robustness, and we show through theory + simulation how these models drive spurious significance. 1/ doi.org/10.31222/osf...
Join us in beautiful Utrecht! Sign up today💪 #reproducibility #openscience
We're thrilled to open registration for the Utrecht Replication Games. The event will be at the at the University of Utrecht on June 4th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
We have a new blogpost on What will the paper of the future look like? What if research papers stopped being static PDFs and became closer to software?
Join us for the Love Replications Week! #openscience #econsky #replications #reproducibility
We ♥ Replications! The OSC is excited to be a partner in the upcoming LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK 2026: an online event where you can learn about doing reproduction and replication studies 📚 When? Next week! March 2-6, 2026 Find out more about the program and register here: forrt.org/LoveReplicat...
YEM is one of my favorite conferences. Recommended! :) #econsky
The YEM2026 submission deadline is fast approaching! Submit your full paper or extended abstract by February 28. 📍 Brno, Czech Republic 📅May 27–29, 2026 🏆Best Paper Award (200€) All details and submission link: yem.econ.muni.cz #YEM2026
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Olle Hammar @linneuni @handels_sse who works on topics including migration, inequality + replication .
Wrapping up my trilogy on how to put together a replication package: The Return of the Code i4replication.org/a-researcher... #econsky #openscience
A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages: Episode 3
Episode 3: The Return of the Code Hooray, your paper has been accepted! As you are putting together the replication package for the journal, you ask your research assistant to…
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Reject button is red Your sloppiness makes me blue Yours sicerely Reviewer #2 #academicvalentine