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Mark Rubin

@markrubin.bsky.social

🔹️metascience - philosophy of science - social psychology - higher education 🔹️Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him. 🔹️Website: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/ 🔹️Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/

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John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · yesterday

I will be advertising a funded PhD studentship shortly, for a project on adding psychological theory (social identity) to modelling of epidemics ( @leverhulme.ac.uk funded, with Marijn Stok). The studentship will start in January 2027. Get in touch now for informal enquiries.

Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social · yesterday

Who's up for a good old fashioned (but short, bc I'm tired) paper thread? Thrilled to be in this special issue of Gender & Society (an absolute dream!), where we propose a feminist-inspired extension of how to theorize and model the spread of ideas in science + journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What Gets Lost in Translation? Epistemic Tensions between Translation and Diffusion in Practice-Oriented Scholarship Abstract This paper proposes a feminist-informed metascience theory to explain the interconnected processes of idea creation, translation, and diffusion. Drawing on feminist critiques of science centered on perspective, power, and praxis, we develop a creation–diffusion model that jointly examines how ideas are created and then how the content of ideas influences their spread across academic fields. Using a nationally funded gender equity program as a case of a practice-oriented knowledge-production community, we analyze how gender equity research concepts were translated and diffused through the program-funded publications. We operationalize substantive engagement with gender equity research using word embeddings and Concept Mover’s Distance. Then, with additional contextual variables, we measure (1) the predictors of this engagement (ideas) and (2) the impact of engagement on citation counts and citation interdisciplinarity (the diffusion process) across social science and STEM fields. Our findings show that, in addition to context, the content of the idea matters for diffusion: Engagement with critical dimensions of gender equity research, such as feminism and structural concepts, diffused less often, whereas other dimensions, such as gender and methods, achieved broader uptake. Our empirical findings highlight the role of perspectives and epistemic power in shaping both knowledge production and diffusion. Our theoretical framework and methods demonstrate how metascience can incorporate feminist theory directly into diffusion studies, and why it should.
Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Introduction to a special issue on feminist metascience and open science by Christin Munsch and @divreyes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Abstract This introduction brings feminist scholarship into conversation with metascience and open science. Drawing on feminist epistemology, we argue scientific reform is not a neutral technical project. Rather, practices intended to improve rigor, transparency, and accessibility may also expose marginalized scholars and research participants to harm, reproduce inequality, and facilitate hostile scrutiny, particularly in the current political environment. These tensions point to the need for feminist metascience and feminist open science. We define feminist metascience as the study of how gender and intersecting relations of power shape the production, evaluation, circulation, and correction of scientific knowledge, and we define feminist open science as an approach to transparency that remains attentive to care, protection, and risk. We offer these definitions and the articles in this special issue as a starting point for larger conversations about how feminist scholarship might contribute to emerging debates over scientific reform.
Edouard Machery@edouardmachery.bsky.social · 3d ago

the psychology of social reification raises challenges to Searle's theory of social entities, as I argued a while ago. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Social Ontology and the Objection from Reification

In contrast to atoms, chemical substances, and species, money, touchdowns, and marriages would not exist, were it not for human beings. But, how does the existence of these social entities depend on h...

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Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Reifying Social Arrangements "As rules, procedures, and material infrastructures accumulate, human origins recede from view, turning what began as collective choice to appear autonomous or inevitable." By @maorle.bsky.social, @inonraz.bsky.social, & @michaelgilead.bsky.social #SocialPsyc

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Reifying Social Arrangements "As rules, procedures, and material infrastructures accumulate, human origins recede from view, turning what began as collective choice to appear autonomous or inevitable." By @maorle.bsky.social, @inonraz.bsky.social, & @michaelgilead.bsky.social #SocialPsyc

The Psychology of Reification: Perceiving Social Reality as Mind-Independent

Human societies are built from shared beliefs, norms, and institutions, yet these arrangements often feel as fixed as natural laws. Philosophers and social theorists have long described this tendency ...

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Gordon Hodson@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 7d ago

#AcademicSky Paper categorizes not publishing null finding as a QRP Agree with that? I mean, there's several forms, including ✳️ suppressing inconvenient finding ✳️ knowing field won't publish the null ✳️ personal uncertainty about the null ✳️ coauthor disagreement ✳️ limited resources/time

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Alex Holcombe@alexh.bsky.social · last wk.

We looked at all 255 articles of animal models of opiod addiction in leading journals 2019 to 2023. Zero preregistered, and zero shared their analysis code. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

How Transparent and Reproducible Are Studies That Use Animal Models of Opioid Addiction?

This study assessed transparency, reproducibility and bias minimization practices in animal models of opioid addiction research from 2019 to 2023. Key indices included analysis script sharing, prereg...

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Threadverse@threadverse.bsky.social · last wk.

A p-value under 0.05 was never proof of anything. It's the odds you'd see this data if nothing were happening. Half the replication crisis is people reading a statement about noise as a statement about truth, and building careers on the mistranslation. #Science #Physics #QuantumComputing #tech

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · last wk.

"Enforcement, rather than an intrinsic motivation, led Swiss animal researchers to preregister." New study by Cristina Priboi et al. #MetaSci

A survey of researchers’ attitudes to preregistration in animal research reveals multiple perceived barriers to adoption

Preregistration is a promising and potentially impactful Open Science practice, but remains uncommon in animal research. This survey of animal researchers’ experiences, attitudes and barriers toward p...

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Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · last wk.

"The authors wrote the manuscript from a standpoint that somehow 'blesses' the planned final sample size, giving it special meaning that it never has. One researcher’s interim analysis is another person’s final analysis." @f2harrell.bsky.social #stats

Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃@mzloteanu.bsky.social · last wk.

#statstab #582 Is Repeated Bayesian Interim Analysis Consequence-Free? Thoughts: It's good to have debates about papers that make bold claims. #discussion #debate #bayesian #interim #error #sequential #priors discourse.datamethods.org/t/is-repeate...

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Readers of this blog will recall how Fisher (1955) criticized Neyman for converting 'his' significance tests into 'acceptance procedures' more suitable for technology than science." New post by Deborah Mayo celebrating David Cox #stats #PhilSci

Happy belated birthday Sir David Cox

Last week, July 15, was Sir David Cox’s birthday. [1]  It was 23 years ago that I first got to know Cox after I (boldly) invited him to be in a session I was organizing on philosophy of statistics …

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Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was just reminded of this thread and given this new "Science: A New Golden Age" report, I think it's time to re-up it. We should all stop attributing a number of different observations, symptoms, grievances, and vibes about science to a replication crisis. That would be the responsible conduct.

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · last yr.

There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵 1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 2w ago

"While the *forward problem* begins with a causal structure or model and then calculates what data it should produce, *inverse problems* begin with a set of observational data and then try to reason back to the causal structure that produced that data." #PhilSci

Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · 2w ago

After a year+ under review (no fault of @philscijournal.bsky.social) I am happy to finally share as forthc my paper "Peirce, Abduction, & Inverse Problems in the Geosciences" doi.org/10.1017/psa.... (2/3 had to be cut to fit word limit, but is part of my ever in-progress book) #HPS #phigeo #philsky

DOI: 10.1017/psa.2026.10263 This is a manuscript accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science. This version may be subject to change during the production process. Peirce, Abduction, and Inverse Problems in the Geosciences Alisa Bokulich Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Email: abokulic@bu.edu Abstract Charles Peirce's most well-known contribution to logic and scientific methodology is his account of abduction. However, what exactly Peirce meant by abduction is subject to perennial dispute. My aim in this paper is two-fold: First, I interpret Peirce's abduction through the lens of his research in geophysics and argue this supports interpreting it as a kind of inverse modeling. Second, I show that the methods Peirce outlined for managing the underdetermination of abductive inferences are the same as those deployed by geoscientists to manage the nonuniqueness of geophysical inversions. I conclude by emphasizing the value of reintegrating Peirce-the-Philosopher with Peirce-the-Geoscientist. Acknowledgement This paper is dedicated to the memory of George E. Smith (1938-2024)—a wonderful scholar, mentor, and friend whom we lost too soon. It was George's lecture on using seismology to probe the interior of the Earth that helped open up the new subfield of philosophy of seismology and that first inspired me to write this paper.