🚨New blog post: Replicators, rejoice! Episode 1 of the new series is out: “A New README.” A practical guide to transforming messy project folders into clear, well-structured documentation that strengthens transparency and reproducibility. See more at i4replication.org/dont-panic-a...

🇬🇧 Big news for UK metascience: the government is trebling the UK Metascience Unit’s budget to £49m. "This represents a resounding vote of confidence in the value and opportunities of metascience to improve the way the UK funds, manages and evaluates research", says RoRI's @jameswilsdon.bsky.social

For Day 9 we see: The Copim Compass! This comprehensive and continuously updated guide from our friends @copim.bsky.social provides resources for anyone wanting to get involved in Open Access book production be you a: author, publisher, editor, software designer or library abdn.site/vNQ3U

Zosia Beckles, Research Information Analyst in Library Research Support @bristoluni.bsky.social recently joined a @n8cir.bsky.social workshop to share her insights from a decade of managing sensitive data releases. More at: n8cir.org.uk/training-and... #sensitivedata

In the past few months we have welcomed some new library supporters to the Open Book Collective, so we'd love to take the opportunity over the next few days to introduce and publicly thank them for their support of open access book publishing.

💡 Lessons learned from two early career reviewer workshops / with Rachel Heyard youtu.be/Qufa6GzxoBc?... 🔗 New website ECR Reviewers Platform ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/

Just a reminder about the new all-island Irish Reproducibility Network. There are already lots of great people involved. You can sign up and find local site leads with the link, and if you are based in Cork feel free to reach out to me directly. irishrn.org

💡 The editorial process and the role of peer review / with Marcus Munafò youtu.be/wdefp9zch9g?... @ukrepro.bsky.social

Over the past decade, COS has worked closely with partners across Europe. We’re now starting the process of establishing a formal presence in the EU to deepen that collaboration while continuing to support researchers worldwide. Read more: www.cos.io/blog/expandi...

Funding organisations can fix the science publishing system – which currently puts profit first and science second – according to new research. @uniexecec.bsky.social

🚨New blog post: The Reproducibility Gap in Tropical Disease Research Tropical diseases remain one of the greatest global health challenges, yet much of the evidence guiding interventions may not be as reliable as we assume...

Artificial intelligence promises rapid and polite feedback on papers — but we must first review the reviewer. This stand first says it all… A timely World View Colin in our pages by Giorgio Gilestro 🧪 #academicSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you're an ECR who has done great work to promote open research, please consider applying for this excellent award! I recieved this earlier this year and my minifig sits proudly in my office 😊 A great way to recognise ECR contributions!

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened! Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement. Nominations close 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research

Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

@metaror.bsky.social is now 1 year old 🎉 In our first year: 28 articles evaluated, 59 expert reviewers, most reviews published ahead of target, 9 partner journals, and growing visibility across conferences & media. A strong start for community-owned, open peer review: metaror.org/metaror-turn...

Do you work to improve human health? Apply for our Cross-Sector Experience Awards to 💸 Receive up to £100K in funding 🤝 Work 3-12 months in a new sector 🚀 Gain cross-sector experience to drive health innovation Check eligibility & apply by Fri 20 Feb: https://bit.ly/48gcvkx

Registration for Access Lab UK & EMEA 2026 is now open! Join us in Manchester, UK for a day of networking and discussions around challenges and hot topics in the information industry. Register now to secure your ticket and stay tuned for program updates! bit.ly/3Xt9Rld #AccessLab

We know good research can take time, and that’s why we’re proud to invest for the long term. After 20 years of public investment, BIOMASS, a satellite mission designed to track the health of Earth’s forests, is in space🚀 Find out more: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...

Colleagues at University of Edinburgh have produced a Good #Research Practice Road Map. Acknowledging that not every research process looks the same, how does this approach match and/or differ from your research practices? goodresearchpracticeroadmap.github.io

This year’s Festive Symposium asks a crucial question: Who is responsible for delivering progress in neuroscience? Panels like this drive the honest conversations our field needs. Join the discussion. bna.org.uk/events/festi...

🗓️ Save the date and register your interest 🫵 The @n8cir.bsky.social Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat 2026 supported by @ukri.org will take place in Manchester from 23-27 March 2026. Learn more and register your interest 👉 n8cir.org.uk/training-and...

◾ The first DisCouRSE Focus Group on Team Culture and Leadership in dRTP contexts will be held on Monday, 19 January at King’s College London. The session will explore how leadership can influence a healthy team culture in a dRTP context. Find out more: www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...

We’re calling on universities, schools, and other education professionals to share their insights about contextual admissions💡 Your evidence will help us build a fairer, more inclusive university admissions system. ✅Submit by 30 January👇 https://loom.ly/A6zkSQM

Thank you Annabel Minard for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing in @biologyopen.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with The University of Iowa @uiowabiology.bsky.social Read Annabel’s paper bit.ly/48mjKpK Is your institution participating? bit.ly/3O7BxGi

I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply. 1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step? 2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.

Great talk - so interesting to hear that condensed matter physics has similar issues to other sciences, with people selectively presenting data and failing to share raw data. #Reproducibility

Ecosystems are vital for biodiversity, climate stability, and our wellbeing. Yet, they increasingly face unprecedented threats. Discover how open science can shape the future of ecosystems and climate solutions: plos.io/4reMNEp

Join us for Love Methods Week 2026, an all-online workshop on sharing open, reusable methods! 📅 Dates: January 19–23, 2026 Learn how to make your research more transparent and reproducible while enabling others to reuse your methods and data responsibly. #LoveMethods26

Funny reading this quote because it's exactly the same way I'm now thinking about open research with @morphss.bsky.social

Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints! A few tips for funders, departments & institutions! ✨ Consider preprints and their reviews in evaluations for funding, hiring, promotion, etc. ✨ Allocate funding and support for preprint review services.

Transparency about poor inferential practices does not relieve us of the responsibility of not engaging in such practices in the first place. Wish we stopped attributing higher moral value on transparency than doing diligent work and explicitly aiming to minimize the reporting of invalid inferences.

I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

Final Call! Applications for the Open Science Retreat close 30 Nov. Join us in Machynlleth for a week of focus, creativity & collaboration. Last chance - apply now: open.science-retreat.org/OSR26UK/

🌱 GW4 Researchers: Are you looking for seed funding to kick-start your next project? The Generator Fund is now open for applications! ➡️ We’re offering up to £20k in seed funding to help both new and existing GW4 research communities accelerate research. www.gw4.ac.uk/generator-fund

Final call to apply for this amazing opportunity 👇 Applications close 30th November

#statstab #467 Hypothesis testing, model selection, model comparison some thoughts Thoughts: An excellent (but too short) discussion on bayesian inference. #bayesian #bayesfactor #modelselection #inference #NBHT #BF #ROPE #primer discourse.mc-stan.org/t/hypothesis...

Please give a warm welcome to a new ReproducibiliTea journal club: ✨ The University of Stirling, Scotland, UK ✨ Organised by: Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social & Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social

The authors of a Comment article in Nature discuss Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a research paper and call for CRediT to become the norm, to support researchers and research integrity across the whole academic landscape. #Academicsky 🧪

Luke Thompson, Head of Data Protection & Legal Services at @sheffielduni.bsky.social discusses emerging challenges in data protection, particularly in relation to Generative AI, and highlights the need for updated governance and legal frameworks. @n8cir.bsky.social #N8CIR youtu.be/kte3I9I8qLA?...

We have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing. osf.io/preprints/os...

📊 One week to go until our next survey data drop-in. This free online drop-in is for anyone working with secondary survey data who is looking for help or advice. To book a place, please follow the link below: 📅 3 December 2025 ⏰ 12:00-13:00 📍 Online 🧷

Congratulations Sofia @shsslbu.bsky.social! It's great to see your work as one of our Local Network Leads being recognised and awarded. So well deserved!

Together w/ @odissei.bsky.social, I4R is organizing CBS Replication Games, re-analyzing 6 papers w/ Dutch administrative microdata! Teams get 1 month of microdata access in Feb 2026, meeting in Utrecht for a three-day hackathon. Interested? Register by Nov 30! tinyurl.com/yx3e7b3a

Well deserved win for the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative, one of our partners in the Global Federation of Reproducibility Networks.

Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers. 🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome 💰 AU$200 🎫 + travel subsidies ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY... Re-posts appreciated 🌈

HYBRID EVENT: 'Introduction to Quantitative Bias' with Rachel Hughes on Monday 1st December at 10am-12pm UK time. For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session! Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...

Calling Bioethics researchers. Created in collaboration with @tandfresearch.bsky.social, & affiliated with The American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics Open Research welcomes submissions in all areas of #Bioethics. Explore here: spr.ly/633217m7fS

"It is noteworthy here that in all likelihood, the wealthy would still continue to receive high-quality personal instruction while the less wealthy would be taught by these potentially problematic LLMs due to resource constraints." — me and @samhforbes.bsky.social ☹️