📢Symposium - Reproducibility by Design📢

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'There is more complexity than we see' is the title of my keynote tomorrow, at this exciting 'Back to fundamentals of research: Reliability, Transparency and Reproducibiliy' event at Università di Bologna. Looking forward to hearing Sabina Leonelli Marcus Munafò and many other Metascientific

This is a v good piece by Julian Baggini detailing the many issues with Tim Spector MD (Prof)’s join_zoe business. Includes the extremely dubious quality of both the claims and science, and the data scraping. Plus it appeals to the worried well. That’s its market.
theguardian.com/science/articl…

Siri, show me a regression discontinuity….

Today the UK Reproducibility Network launches basic guidance for scholars on using Wikimedia projects as platforms for research outputs, written by Nick Sheppard and myself and reviewed by Dⓐnїel Mїetchen 🌍🐘🌵🔬@[email protected]. wikimedia.org.uk/2024/05/new-gu…

Using Synthetic Datasets to Promote Research Reproducibility and Transparency by Dan Major-Smith (@djsmith90.bsky.social) …enresearchbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/05/10/usi…

The program of the Swiss #Reproducibility #Conference is now available! We have a great line up of speakers. Check it out and do not forget to register until Monday, 27th May!!
reproducibility.ch/#agenda

ETH Zurich University of Zurich Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz

Missed our Behavioural Research UK webinar on open science? No problem, here it is via our YouTube channel.

Please share with all that you think could benefit, Marcus Munafò Harry Tattan-Birch, PhD make some excellent points

youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-MwJ…

Is group authorship a better way of recognising team-based research? Great blog by TARG Bristol alumnus Robert Thibault blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

How about a podcast to start the week? In the latest episode of research talk, Dr Pen-Yuan Hsing explores findings from the University of Bristol research culture report, identifying markers for change ji.sc/44GTHHz

The depressing thing about Hari is that it doesn't matter how many times he's found to have made stuff up. He still gets contracts from reputable publishers, his books get serialised in the big papers, and promoted by Apple etc... There are no consequences.

Career tip for bullshitters: If experts call you out, just ignore them and stick to message at all costs. Double Down. Always.

If binomial probability is kicking your arse so comprehensively, maybe it's about time I took a good hard look at some of your research.

Academia loves surveys—but it needs to get more choosy.

Addiction to scattershot polling yields worse information for more bureaucracy, says Marcus Munafò.

researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

An MP - and vice chair of the relevant APPG - effectively admits a measure he voted for actively discriminates against certain groups, not all of which enjoy his privilege (i.e., a team to call upon at short notice). Interesting. x.com/tomhunt1988/st…

I reviewed Johann Hari's latest book, on Ozempic, for the Guardian. theguardian.com/books/2024/may… I was not a fan

MP votes for mandatory ID that it turns out he doesn't have; asks for help... 🙄 #muppet independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Apple Maps causing an international incident… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Interested in meta-science? Come do a PhD with me and Malte Elson at p webber in beautiful Switzerland. Open topic although we focus on error detection (see ERROR) and flexibility in measurement & methods. Email or DM either of us for details. Topic ideas welcome!

We’re working with Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Open Philanthropy to invest up to £5m in metascience research grants that will improve our understanding of what works in the R&D system, as part of our evidence-based, data-driven approach to evolving the R&D landscape.

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