Breaking: OSF finally got a proper download button. @jamiecummins.bsky.social your prayers have been heard!

Glad to see INSPECT-SR is out. A milestone in forensic metascience in medicine.

"Replicators could not be expected to guess what needs to be done in order to test and demonstrate a phenomenon [...]. Our view is that in science everything should be clearly specified and should not involve unspecified procedures and assumptions, or require implicit knowledge."

“The extremity of this implicit rule needs to be recognized: academia, the industry whose main purpose is truth discovery, is surprisingly uncomfortable with people pointing out things that are not true.”

Isn't it weird that different governments can take the exact same scientific knowledge about the state of science, and respond in completely opposite ways? This is what I see in The Netherlands vs the USA. Almost as if the problem is not the knowledge, but the government 🤷

You don’t want trumpers to use science reform ideas? Don’t do science that calls for science reform!

Save the date for the 8th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference on 11, 12, and 13 Februari 2026 in Leiden, the Netherlands. perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com This is an event not to miss, bringing together philosophers, statisticians, and metascientists.

James used his SPRITE technique here. The distribution implied by mean, SD, and scale bounds is so sharply polarized that it's just not credible in context. These are "the horns of no confidence": jamesheathers.medium.com/sprite-case-... Link to analysis in alt text.

🚨 1 day left to sign up for the PYMS Summer Symposium (June 5 in Tilburg, the Netherlands)! Join fellow early-career meta-scientists for talks, a hackathon, and free lunch(!!) Travel reimbursements available! Sign up here 👉 forms.gle/f4fJrVDbe3Q7... #metascience #ECR

To those looking to plug into open science communities, check out this spreadsheet of "Open Scholarship Grassroots Community Networks" organized by discipline and region, including international communities (managed by @cos.io). I've had great experiences with igdore.org and @forrt.bsky.social

Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience. It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day. If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

We are live! Do you want to check upcoming events, read about past events, or see who are behind PYMS? Check out our new website: youngmetascientists.github.io

Five years ago today, we published this piece (👇) on Hans Eysenck's cancer and personality research in Heidelberg's student newspaper. We interviewed his long-time collaborator, Ronald Grossarth-Maticek. 🧵 1 / 6

I'm very proud to have played a (very small) part in this. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I made an #RSats starter pack. Includes a touch of Linux, Python, and dataviz but mostly R. go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS

4 days left to submit your abstract to the 7th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference (Bern, Feb 5-7, 2025). If you're interested in errors, fraud, negligence, and hype in science, please join us! Keynotes by @scientificdiscovery.dev, @stephaniemlee.bsky.social, and Liam Bright errorsin.science

New: use GRIM or GRIMMER to test reported statistics for consistency. Are these values even possible? Find out with the error detection webapp! Test many values at once, get summary statistics, and download your results. 🧵 1/5 errors.shinyapps.io/scrutiny/

We are currently looking for a reviewer with expertise in SAS. Domain knowledge in intergroup dynamics would be ideal, but is not a must. If you are interested or know someone who might fit this description, please let us know! Reply here or email: error.reviews/contact/

#HiSciSky I develop #rstats packages for error detection techniques like GRIM and more. I'm a master's student in philosophy and political science at Heidelberg University. lhdjung.github.io/scrutiny/