C'mon, now! Let's get a Community Notes type feature for Bluesky out already. 🪧

1. Steve Jobs realized that "People hate their phones". Apple invented a better one, made bank, & changed the world. Academics hate their scientific publishers. Bluesky invented a better publishing platform, & could bank some of the ~$20B/year sci pub revenue, changing science 🧪 @toni.bsky.team 🧵

Vibecoding this after two years: A Zotero-to-PubPeer integration (alpha, shipping in a few days). Suppose you want to share your comments about specific parts of a report. Just follow five simple steps: 1. Highlight and annotate in Zotero 1/n 🧵

Not sure how or whether to suspect AI, but the @zotero.org team is cooking with version 9 just a few months after version 8. www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-9/

Who are some of your favorite, lesser-known sleuths? 🔦 I'm looking for blogs and social media accounts to find patterns in critiques (strategies, communication frames, collaboration practices). Any rising stars? Anyone who isn't in the spotlight? 📸 #metascience #openscience

Ever wanted to share an important *connection* between two pieces? Like a thread explainer for a complex paper, or a blog debunking some hyped up claim on social media?

If only there were, like, peers who could review those journal articles for payment. Chawla, D. S. (2026). Scientific Journals Need Dedicated Fact-Checkers. Undark Magazine. Retrieved from undark.org/2026/04/09/o...

just a lil existentialist chart!

Eventually benchmarks will need to be standardized to next-gen models like making IQ tests harder over time to account for the Flynn Effect.

Webinar tomorrow: Retracted research doesn’t simply disappear once it is withdrawn from the scientific record. In many cases, it continues to circulate across news outlets, social media platforms and public conversations 1/3

You'd think astronauts would use Linux...

Welp! Education (my old field) is not very reproducible: I saw it coming from a mile away (reason I left), but still... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The only real AI benchmark I need is one focused on correctly generating citations and references with just a link or document provided.

I'm thinking that the true pre-registration should be on the reviewer side. Preregister your claims about some result being "obvious" before reading the Results section or the end of the Abstract.

Sigh...😩 I'm considering not reviewing manuscripts that don't use a reporting guideline for work that could have benefited from it. Don't make reviewers make such basic comments as: - report standard deviations - link to materials and data - visualize the study design - justify the sample size

Scientist friends: When you're writing a paper, have you ever chosen not to cite someone's work because that person is a jerk? Obviously you can't avoid citing vital work, but there are lots of times when you could choose any of several papers to cite. What factors into your decision then? 🧪

Regular reminder that RELX -- owner of academic publisher Elsevier -- is one of those brokers providing data to ICE.

If you like keeping up the latest research tools and want to plug into a community developing scholar-centered software, stream ATProto Science 2026 talks this Friday.

*IT* finally happened. I requested that one of my papers be cited in a peer review I authored. I had just cause, OK?

The "Theory Paper Format" is a template for writing psychological theory papers, developed by the Taskforce Theoretical Psychology (Lorentz Workshop, 2025). Use it to structure your theoretical paper, or (for editors) consider creating journal space for theory papers doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

Sleuthing can be confrontational and grim at times, but once in a while a positive interaction and outcome surfaces. In this PubPeer thread, Dorothy Bishop finds stronger results for an effect in a viral paper and helps authors make a correction (pubpeer.com/publications...).

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... replicationindex.com/2025/04/27/r... So many supposed "pillars" of social psychology have bitten the dust over the last decade. Why is it that there seems to be so little anger and rage at the underlying incompetence and dishonesty?

Research sleuths are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... @mcintold.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @sholtodavid.bsky.social, @eugenie-reich.bsky.social

Methodologists' theoretical papers: "you MUST do X or your estimates are meaningless." Methodologists' empirical papers: [does not do X]

I think I might have sprung forward a little too much.

Last week, I mentioned this in passing in a workshop: In 1938 Enrico Fermi won a Nobel Prize for discovering two new elements of the periodic table. Lise Meitner shortly showed that Fermi was mistaken and instead had produced known lighter elements by fission. She did not win a Nobel prize.

The International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation #ICSSI2026 will be in beautiful Boulder, CO, USA! ☀️ June 29 - July 1 ☀️ & Open Data Hackathon, June 28 🧑‍💻 We welcome submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. Learn more at 👉 icssi.org 👈

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

ngl Copilot in Word is far more useful than I originally thought. It's a great way to break down my attachment to certain writing and power through a swamp of low-level edits quickly. Consider it for polishing things up before submission. #hottake

Qualitative researchers, have you used any automated tools for evaluating research (micro tasks or full-blown peer review)? #qualitative #qual #peerreview

--dangerously skip international law

Here's a nice indictment of the modern publishing system and a solution. But surely the next generation will not have to find such limiting workarounds?

Ultimate self-citation here. Can't be beat. 💤💤💤💤💤

One of the most deflating aspects of metascience discourse in the past decade and a half has therefore been that the sentiment after a prominent failed replication study generally is: "Another area that's garbage & not worth studying" instead of asking "Interesting but what if we did..." questions.

198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.

In which we learn @acm.org is exceptionally bad at retracting articles that need retracting: arxiv.org/abs/2602.191...

search is getting an upgrade soon. if you could fix or change something thing about it, what would it be?

The difference between a paper people have read and one they haven't is you talking about it a lot. Way more than you want to. It would be nice if search mechanisms resolved this problem but right now they don't

📖 Reading science news articles online is broken. Most sci journalists miss the skeptical takes from PubPeer and academic social media. 💡Someone in #scicomm should program a browser extension that overlays annotations from @PubPeer and other social media on the article page.

I've just discovered that 2 months after John Hattie threatened to sue me for calling him a plagiarist, he published a book containing this (and 13 other) instances of egregious plagiarism. It would be funny if he didn't remain such a respected & protected figure. open.substack.com/pub/stephenv...

@authentisci.bsky.social is the most exciting tech I've seen in months. Problem: People are unsure of the reliability of science news. Solution: Users click through a browser extension to nominate articles for review by relevant, active experts. authentisci.com/dashboard

My top educational preference would be for all multi-media to have integrated active feedback and quizzing. Now with LLMs, anything you touch online can instantly also have a quiz to practice retrieval.

I'll be presenting a vision for crowdsourcing research synthesis at the hybrid ATProto Science event in March (Vancouver, BC). #ATProto took me a while to understand, but now I'm sold on its potential as a key part of the future of science.

There is probably no worse way to describe a volunteer peer reviewer than by: "Dear [conference name] + [year] + 'reviewer'" But at least it shows with comedic flair how we are viewed.

Maybe just maybe, in this crowded job market, this one guy's got it all figured out.

I'll be presenting a vision for crowdsourcing research synthesis at the hybrid ATProto Science event in March (Vancouver, BC). #ATProto took me a while to understand, but now I'm sold on its potential as a key part of the future of science.

I am surprised these don't yet have a "an LLM told me about you"

I feel like there’s a test of identity in this flyer. Only the true of heart will avoid a rare Introverts meetup.

📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!