Today's gripe: journals that put methods at end of the article. As annoying to write as to read. Requires authors to shoehorn a glib, crude method summary into the intro, pushing crucial detail to the back. Works against clarity, transparency & reproducibility What do you think?

LAB-QA2GO: A free, easy-to-use toolbox for the quality assessment of magnetic resonance imaging data biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

One of our manuscripts was just rejected. The editor wrote that one reason was that "the main hypotheses that the authors aim at testing did not reach significance". I really appreciate it that the editor is that honest.

I wonder whether they would have accepted the manuscript in case of significant results. Just wondering.

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Offenbar wieder ein Fall von wissenschaftlichem Fehlverhalten mit dem die TU Dresden zu tun hat. Und natürlich wieder aus heiterem Himmel. Vollkommen überraschend für alle Beteiligten. Wer hätte das auch ahnen sollen? 👇

Have you ever seen the Distribution of #marathon Finishing Times (n=9,789,093)?

Sometimes, when I’m feeling like my research doesn’t matter, I read my spam emails. In my spam emails, I am “prominent” and “eminent.” My submissions are urgently needed. I am invited to serve as a keynote speaker at conferences in fields like plant ecology and marine biology.

I think the scientific community should sometimes take a minute to acknowledge/appreciate the extra work, time & energy that students + researchers around the world, whose native language is not English, need to put into writing academic papers + giving talks in English. 👇🧵 1/7

Beta for the win! In our new paper, Kirsten Herfurth nicely shows how beta desynchronization in MEG can be used to determine the lateralization of the language-dominant hemisphere and compares it with fMRI and Wada in the same patients. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2022: $221 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2022: $134 billion Warren Buffett Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2022: $101 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 an hour 2022: $7.25 an hour 5 words: Tax billionaires out of existence

I'm a big fan of replication and generalization studies and I'm really pleased we're launching this call for replications and generalizations with the awesome human behaviour team at NComms. Open for submissions! Any questions about suitability, please email.

Good morning! An announcement about Registered Reports 🧵 #RegisteredReports RegisteredReports

Have you considered writing a #RegisteredReport, but not sure how to get started? Then our article "Ten simple rules for writing a Registered Report", led by Dr Emma Henderson, is for you🫵 Coming at RRs for the 1st time can be daunting. We hope this makes the journey easier!

Help - our research (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…) was stolen - plagiarized nearly word-for-word with our figures by a paper on #researchgate Here: researchgate.net/publication/36… What is the best thing to do about this?

So my follower Elon Musk now owns Twitter. My advice is please don't fire 69% of staff. Free speech is one thing but we need moderation to prevent harassment, bots, criminal activity, spam, etc. Without moderation Twitter will die. P.S. keep the Nazis out too.

"These checks may seem overly simple, but I’ve spotted each of these issues in at least one submission. And about 1 in 4 submissions I review sadly fail one of these tests." steveharoz.com/blog/2022/revi…

Important article from scientific integrity all-star Elizabeth Bik. Is this why effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease have been so elusive? Opinion | Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem - The New York Times nytimes.com/interactive/20…

People in Iran are under attack, our fellow academics among them. So what can you, as an academic, do to help? We suggest: - Public signals of support - Making academic materials openly available - Flexibility in the admissions process - Waiving fees nature.com/articles/d4158…

Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! People are voting with their feet. The future of social media doesn't have to belong to a billionaire, it can be in the hands of its users.