What are people's worst fears at the thought of having to a) share their data and b) preregister? They don't have to be justified/rational fears but they should be genuinely felt (either by you or by someone you've heard it from).

Anna van 't Veer Daniël Lakens leeuwen and I applied a method for quantifying "replication value" on a large sample of fMRI articles in social neuroscience, to see if the method is practically feasible. Open access version of our attempt is now online: doi.org/10.1016/j.cort…

Wanted: Scientific Errors. Cash Reward. A new program will pay reviewers to root out mistakes in influential papers, beginning with a handful in psychology. Stephanie M. Lee writes The Chronicle of Higher Education chronicle.com/article/wanted…

I'm excited to be helping with the Scientific Integrity Fund, to help provide financial assistance to scientific whistleblowers and student journalists who help bring to light research misconduct.

Two research positions (a Research Fellow and a Junior Research Scientist position) on the psychology of global catastrophic risk and effective altruism: eapsychology.org/jobs

In his keynote at the Perspectives on Scientific Error workshop, Ian Hussey finally answers the question who can help us carry the burden of detecting all the countless scientific errors out there: A clone-army of Nïck Brown🌻-s

Academia wouldn't be as good a place without you Eiko Fried, having friends like you is my antidote to cynicism creep. All go read Eiko's blog on what keeps him going despite problems in science. I am biased and privileged, but #openscience about it. eiko-fried.com/antidotes-to-c…

New article by Cathleen O'Grady showing that Harvard Prof Gino likely not only made up data but also plagiarized. One case is Tilburg University thesis supervised by Anna van 't Veer. Can pretty much rule out student having plagiarized (2014 v 2016) or both plagiarizing from 3rd source.

Do you see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-col… freeourknowledge.org Free Our Knowledge ✊

We have a new potential contender for biggest research fraud in history. I always presumed we might. I just didn't know when. Delighted to see that both GRIM and SPRITE were used. *Markedly* less delighted when considering the effect on women's health. doi.org/10.1016/j.jogo…

New blog highlighting the many actors in academia that benefit from false positive findings: individual careers, for-profit journals, media, & unis. Add publication bias, and you get many zombie theories & difficulties correcting the scientific record. eiko-fried.com/zombie-theorie…

One of the best workshops I attended last year was one on modular thinking in research, and modular publishing with ResearchEquals.com, by Januschka Schmidt for Open Science Community Leiden Find slides here if you have FOMO researchequals.com/modules/kjp9-g… visual w/ possible #modularpublishing units

Ever had really great discussions during a hackathon and gone home thinking others could benefit from the ideas bounced around? Inspired by simine vazire's garage analogy we wrote a hackathon proceedings about how to coordinate scientific self-correction osf.io/preprints/meta…

Are you ready for a future of publishing that embraces community-driven Open Science values? Sign the Call to Commitment Petition now! openscienceretreat.eu/call-to-commit… Together we can drive meaningful change. #futureproofOA #openaccess #openscience #responsibleresearch

Thread of crazy paleontological discoveries 🧵 1. Drought reveals 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas