The @forrt.bsky.social FLoRA project is growing so fast, last week's numbers are already outdated 🤯 As of today, we are at 2.381 pairs of original and replication studies.

New post! "Making Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)," in which I suggest a journal club reading list of new papers on replication, and push back on claims that the replication crisis is fake. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/making-sen...

This is what makes it art: '(...) the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.' www.science.org/content/arti...

I really like @randalljellis.bsky.social's conversations for being about things that you would not read in a paper and I was honored to be one of his guests. We talked about replications, publishing, research assesment, @r2journal.bsky.social, @forrt.bsky.social, power posing, and many more things.

Our metacheck package now has an online manual! In 29 short chapters we explain how to set up metacheck (running all modules 100% locally if you want), and explain the 18 available modules. www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo... We are still in beta, and would love to get feedback!

R2: A New Home for Replication Research – Plus Tips for Getting started New blog post on an interview with @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social on the Open Economics Guide Blog with @flavioazevedo.bsky.social and @lukaswallrich.bsky.social on @r2journal.bsky.social openeconomics.zbw.eu/en/2026/06/r...

Right, enough complaining about academia, let's make things better! A small step, but my colleagues and I are organising the Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) in July 2027 in Cologne: https://sites.google.com/view/worela2. The call for abstract is now open […]

I was very happy to see that Royal Society Open Science just used my @prereview.bsky.social like a traditional review. When I was asked to review the manuscript, I instead did a PREreview (public preprint review) and put nothing but the link to it in my review. prereview.org/reviews/2049...

I built a website that tracks open source tools that provide automated checks for scientific manuscripts: lakens.github.io/automated_re... It provides a summary through RSS feed that you can subscribe to. It tracks 13 repositories - if you want your repo to be included, let me know!

"Scholarly-led publishing strengthens our academic freedom." Happy to see @dfg.de featuring Diamond OA with The time is ripe for scholarly-led publishing, featuring @opengender.bsky.social, @inggrid.bsky.social, @labphon.bsky.social and @intercomverlag.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjck...

Check for replications of a specific article or your entire Zotero library - it only takes a few seconds with our Zotero Replication Checker. Download it for free at forrt.org/flora-zotero/ @zotero.org @forrt.bsky.social

New day, new hope for academia: The second review for the first submission for which I am the handling editor has just been submitted and I can honestly say that both reviewers did an excellent job. It's really nice to see people taking their jobs seriously and devoting time to reviewing other […]

*NEW* @rorinstitute.bsky.social Substack post: @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @josefinaw.bsky.social explain why they created a database to facilitate discovery of social & behavioural sciences replication studies. researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/did-you-kn...

@ascharpf.bsky.social about sport washing: "States that are being criticized for deficits in democracy or corruption are participating in the regulation of world football"

What is next for our Replication Research journal? Together with members of the Replication Journal Federation and CODECHECK, we have submitted a proposal to @dfg.de that is currently under review. You can read it here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @r2journal.bsky.social #ReplicationResearch

I’ve just published a #PreprintReview of “The Reproducibility Promotion Plan for Funders – A co-created set of recommendations to foster reproducible research practices” on @prereview.bsky.social prereview.org/reviews/2049...

Is there a dedicated place that lets researchers upload their reviews? PCI is only for reviews organized by PCI, Zenodo and OSF, Pubpeer are also for other things.

Join the Replication Hub Showcase on July 1st 3-5pm CEST: t1p.de/replicationhub Learn about ongoing projects at the @forrt.bsky.social Replication Hub, which is a collection of over 20 projects, tools, and events that all have the mission to support replications.

🚀 Apply to become the new Editor in Chief at Collabra: Psychology, a mission-driven Open Access journal.🚀 Our blog posts describe the responsibilities of this role, the journal, and the application process. Please submit application materials by June 30th, 2026. #PsychSciSky

This was really interesting 👏 Some slides from the event have been posted here: zenodo.org/communities/... And some of the resources and topics that came up 👇 #AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

You can still register for next Tuesday's online discussion about who we should review for at t1p.de/wdirf

Browsing slides from >4 years ago. The FReD Explorer has come a long way - all thanks to the work of @lukaswallrich.bsky.social, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social, @sarahaj95.bsky.social, @helenahartmann.com, and 200 other committed researchers: forrt.org/explorer/

We just launched #GuesstheReplication (GutheR). It is a challenging game where you predict replicability based on the abstract and title of an original study. Play it now and beat my high score at lukasroeseler.github.io/GuessTheRepl... or use our free slides for teaching zenodo.org/records/1985...

A (serious) game to guess if a study has been replicated based on the abstract! (and IF). lukasroeseler.github.io/GuessTheRepl... Amazing but very hard! Nice job @aufdroeseler.bsky.social! This is fun and useful. Best conclusion so far: you cannot trust anything based on the abstract! :)

I will be posting on @realscientists.de this week about open science and meta-science. There is also a German blog post / interview here: realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2026/05/fors...

@forrt.bsky.social Replication Hub at @improvingpsych.org: Yesterday, Neele Kolber presented how we created the diamond open access journal @r2journal.bsky.social together with the community and Sophie Schüller gave an overview of #FLoRA tools, all now available at forrt.org/replication-hub

🔖 Now up on MetaROR: a full evaluation of the Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies, which enables researchers to conduct high-quality reproductions & replications across social science disciplines. Reviewers praised it as timely & useful while providing recommendations. Read it now 👇

If you have conducted a replication that has been part of a large-scale project, you can submit it to @r2journal.bsky.social.

Who do you review for? Should you boycott commercial publishers? Should you boycott specific publishers? Does it matter for your career? We are orgainizing a one-hour session with lightning talks and an open discussion. Join us on May 26th 12-13 CEST online. Registration at t1p.de/wdirf

Introducing the #ReplicationAtlas: The FLoRA (FORRT Library of Reproduction and Replication Attempts) lets you browser over two thousand (!) pairs of original and replication studies. Search by DOIs/keywords and find out about replications from your field, maybe even replications of your own work.

Announcing the Replication Journal Federation (RJF)! Born from Love Replications Week, RJF unites Diamond OA & not-for-profit journals to champion rigorous, transparent replication research. 🔗 forrt.org/rjf/ 🧵 1/3

If this works? We already made this work years ago: forrt.org/annotator/ based on our FLoRA and FReD databases and we are working on a browser plug-in that lets you do just that, @lukaswallrich.bsky.social @josefinaw.bsky.social

Replication in the wild: "Independent replication should not inherently be considered an attack on prior work or those who authored it. It is quite literally the process of how science advances." doi.org/10.1080/2055...

"One subject spent 70 hours learning lists and relearning them after 20 min, 1 hour, 9 hours, 1 day, 2 days, or 31 days." My replication of the day is a successful one of Ebbinghaus’ classic forgetting curve from 1880 (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) Just entered into FLoRA via forrt.org/replication-...

how I feel when open science initiatives choose to publish in Nature

About half of the 164 SCORE replications including outcomes are already listed in #FLoRA with the others following soon. So does these affect studies that you cite? Find out with our FLoRA Annotator (forrt.org/annotator) or our Replication Checker plugin for Zotero: forrt.org/flora_zotero/

Shortly before I started my PhD, Nosek's talk about the Reproducibility Project Psychology at @dgps.bsky.social conference 2016 in Leipzig set me on the path of open science and replicability. I am proud to have played a tiny role in this project.

@zeit.de going full clickbait and doing a terrible job at science communication: - framing replications as checks for "botchering" - hiding behind a paywall the fact that replications are not about discovering botchering

Don't miss out on new replications with the Zotero Replication Checker! This is the current set of >1.6K studies in the FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (#FLoRA). Many of them belong to large-scale projects and are not even cited in the final report, so how to keep track of them?

People have played over 1500 rounds of Tenure Run in the past week. It is beyond me how Major_Revisions achieved 196 publications. How far can you make it? Play now at forrt.org/TenureRun/ And then go sign #SFDORA if you haven't done so already: sfdora.org/sign/individ...

-- New Open Research Game -- I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in #TenureRun! 🎓 I published 98 papers and paid $115.000 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸 How far can you make it? Play now at forrt.org/TenureRun/

>5h recordings and slides for most #LoveReplicationsWeek talks are now available on our updated website. Thank you so much everybody who contributed to this wonderful week, participated in the talks, and partnered-up with us. I think there should be a replication of this. forrt.org/LoveReplicat...

@uni-muenster.de just signed @dorassessment.bsky.social and @barcelonadori.bsky.social! “Freely accessible knowledge and transparent scientific processes are a cornerstone of responsible science and of public trust in research and innovation” German PR: www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...

Of course I got a randomly generated replication title: W. Tanaka, S. Okafor, and T. Rossi (2024). "Is the Effect of Meal Kit Delivery Services on Tax Compliance Exogenous? A Replication Study." Journal of Suspiciously Clean Data. Working Paper No. 96201.

We are happy to announce the Best Article Award for 2025. This paper examines the impact of papers meant to help reassess previously published papers. These findings are important for our discipline to understand. Congrats to @jrgptrs.bsky.social, Nathan, and Florian! doi.org/10.1111/ecin...

If anyone is interested in a journal leadership position, there is a call for editor-in-chief for the Journal of Open Psychology Data: openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/announcements. I'm on the board, so I'm happy to chat to anyone or put your in touch with others!

Among other things, we developed an 🚦Authorship Guideline and a 📝Supervision Agreement to support student authorship and spark early conversations about credit and contributions! And we're currently evaluating the impact that these tools had at our department. 📊