"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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Looking for open-science and meta-research events? Been tracking these in the past month, manual and automated. Encouraging to see that there are quite a few. If you want to see what I'm keeping track of: metaventory.vercel.app/events?view=...

Metascience 2027 is scheduled for June 14-16 in Montreal. We are delighted to partner with the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute for this important meeting. Join the mailing list for updates at: metascience.info

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A global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define a roadmap of research and intervention priorities to improve science.

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Massive fraud, ESP, and a roadmap of misconduct - 2011-2012 was a big time for psychology. Diederik Stapel had a career's worth of fraud exposed. Daryl Bem published a study claiming ESP is real. A trio of researchers detailed how to find support for any hypothesis.

The call of metascience - Brian Nosek learned in grad school that science is actually about getting papers and grants, but reading luminaries in the field enlightened him to the solutions to the problems he encountered.

Brian Nosek has led some of the most impactful replication projects in psychology. Hear him tell the story of how he switched his undergrad focus from computer engineering to psychology, and how he ported his computational skills to his newfound research discipline.

What is the future of science? Let's imagine that more research is rigorous, incentives for positive data are fixed, and publish or perish is a thing of the past. What does that world look like? How is the academic career trajectory reimagined? Tim Errington gives his thoughts.

I asked Claude to boil down my conversation with @randalljellis.bsky.social on his podcast Metascience Matters to its absolute essence so here is an 80 minutes conversation in two minutes with all the instances of us saying "replicate" and "reproduce". youtu.be/KgCsCR1vbK8

Replication Supercut

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I really like @randalljellis.bsky.social's conversations for being about things that you would not read in a paper and I was honored to be one of his guests. We talked about replications, publishing, research assesment, @r2journal.bsky.social, @forrt.bsky.social, power posing, and many more things.

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Open science for the weekend! Here's my conversation with Lukas Röseler, Managing Director of the Münster Center for Open Science at the University of Münster. We discussed his experience leading a department dedicated to open science, youtu.be/PSVNZ-OFj3U?...

From Chapter 1 of the new Bayesian Workflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social. Two chapters in it already feels like the BDA-SR synthesis the world needed.

Open science for the weekend! Here's my conversation with Lukas Röseler, Managing Director of the Münster Center for Open Science at the University of Münster. We discussed his experience leading a department dedicated to open science, youtu.be/PSVNZ-OFj3U?...

Replication research, diamond open access publishing | Lukas Röseler

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Open science for the weekend! Here's my conversation with Lukas Röseler, Managing Director of the Münster Center for Open Science at the University of Münster. We discussed his experience leading a department dedicated to open science, youtu.be/PSVNZ-OFj3U?...

Replication research, diamond open access publishing | Lukas Röseler

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What is interesting about psychology is that they did the whole replication crisis one time before in the 1970s. It is so similar to the 2010 one, you would not be able to tell if a paper on the replication crisis was published in 1972 or 2012. See rips-irsp.com/articles/10....

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times. www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...

Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

I don't get why this is a big deal. Why can't we have exploratory results, clearly labeled and separate from registered results, and treated accordingly?

Thinking about how this might go Listener: My chains aren't converging Andrew: Your model is bad Aki: Your parameterization is bad Richard: The Buddha teaches us that numerical integration is suffering

Pierre-Simon Laplace@learnbayesstats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 @rmcelreath.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social & @avehtari.bsky.social are coming on the show mid-June to discuss their new book, Bayesian Workflow! ONE listener gets to bring a real Bayesian problem onto the recording and have the three of them work through it live. Here's how to enter 🧵

Happy to share my conversation with Alexander Gibson about unreliable datasets and why they're so damaging to science! youtu.be/blNIZKYKo_Q Alex's work was recently covered at Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Data Provenance in Medical Machine Learning | Alexander Gibson

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Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research. go.nature.com/4dP1rwk

Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

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What's wrong with peer review? We are obsessed with "narrative", replacing the science with the story. Devaluing the paper in favor of a researcher’s contribution is the first step to fixing this. #science #research #stem #metascience #ethics

Why AI for Science Will Never Work Training AI on scientific literature is a "Garbage In, Garbage Out" trap of 1) false positive data, and 2) lack of null data. Firms are spending millions to redo experiments because they don't trust the literature. #AI #MachineLearning #Science #Research #STEM

“The United Kingdom should establish a committee to monitor efforts by the nation’s universities to properly conduct misconduct investigations, a parliamentary inquiry recommends.” Removing incentives for positive data >> better policing of research misconduct The latter is the War on Drugs model.

Dalmeet Singh Chawla@dalmeet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

British universities fail at research integrity self-regulation: www.nature.com/nature-index... #WCRI2026

How to Fix Peer Review Open data, predicting replicability, checking antibody validation, and not treating peer review as a simple binary are among the new initiatives at @cos.io and their new platform, LifeCycle Journal. #science #biology #stem #research #publishing

Why are drug costs so high? Part of the reason is low replicability rates in preclinical research. Tim Errington breaks down the "clinical vs. preclinical" divide and where different types of institutions fit in the translational ecosystem. #Metascience #Innovation #Academia #DrugDiscovery

Science Has Too Many Pet Theories, Not Enough Falsification Science rewards positive findings, but how do we decide what not to keep pursuing? “Fail faster” research models may make science more reliable. #ReplicationCrisis #Falsification #OpenScience #ScientificMethod #MetaScience

The "magical" science scam Why do scientists always get the results reviewers want? The Center for Open Science is introducing Registered Reports at the revision stage to bring transparency to peer review #science #research #stem #ethics #registeredreports

Part 2. Registered reports remove the incentive for positive data (the original sin of science). Publication is conditional on following peer-reviewed methodology, not having "novel" results or p<0.05. This is Part 2, check out Part 1 if you missed it. #science #research #stem #ethics #podcast

Registered reports remove the incentive for positive data (the original sin of science). Publication is conditional on following peer-reviewed methodology, not having "novel" results or p<0.05. This is Part 1 of this clip, stay tuned for Part 2. #science #research #stem #ethics #podcast

Why Science is like The War On Drugs Positive data -> Papers -> Grants Scolding one bad apple won't fix a system that rewards noise over truth. We can’t just attack individual fraud; we have to enable a global change in how science is practiced. #science #research #stem #ethics

This is what happens when the primary goal is the individual one of making a career instead of the societal one of discovering the scientific truth.

Randy Ellis@randalljellis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SHOCKING stories of data fabrication Tim Errington shares a never-before-told story of data fabrication in cancer biology. Scientists go to extreme measures, even engaging in data fabrication, to secure a publication in prestigious journals. #science #truth #medicine #stem #shorts