These are all the 42 papers Google Scholar has found citing "our" paper that we never wrote - who knows how much actual human touch went into them? scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...

Modern academic publishing part II: Sage has now blocked my (university) IP address because I have had a tab open for >4 hours since my license does not allow downloading. I now have to write my colleagues an email so that I can read papers that they are already paying an annual fee of ~100K€ for.

We're delighted to welcome TWO new diamond-OA PCI RR-friendly journals Registered Reports in Linguistics, ed. by @scoretta.bsky.social ky.social & @jess-hampton.bsky.social + Replication Research @r2journal.bsky.social ed. by @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & team rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr...

Where to publish reproductions and replications? (At ReplicationResearch.org of course) But seriously: There are several journal dedicated to replications and reproductions! For an overview of which journal accepts what types of studies: forrt.org/replication_...

Just feeding "slow uptake of diamond OA journals" with numbers from Germany: According to OA Monitor (open-access-monitor.de/open-access), which uses WoS, Scopus, and OpenAlex, we are talking about less than 5% (!) of articles being published as Diamond OA.

Very excited to see convergence here! And relieved that it is in line with what we discuss in what should be called our 'Handbook for Repetitive Research' (forrt.org/replication_...).

We have made public #openscience materials from the Münster Center for Open Science, specifically flyers and cheatsheets on #OpenAccess, #OpenData, and #Preregistration. Flyers are already on Zenodo, Cheatsheets will follow: zenodo.org/communities/muecos/ and lukasroeseler.github.io/MueCOS-Infom...

Setting up a new journal involves a lot of work such as website materials, a constitution, submission guideilens, reviewer guidelines, and manuscript stylesheets. You can find all of the @r2journal.bsky.social materials versionized + citable in our R2 Community on Zenodo: zenodo.org/communities/...

Lots of useful thoughts for the game of academia in @veritasium.bsky.social video on distribution of rare events. The current way of rewarding citations of people and journals incentivizes quantity over consistency: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HBlu...

Preregistered studies are common, and yield more reliable evidence than meta-analyses: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

People post more code and preregister more, and have very positive attitudes about it www.nature.com/articles/s41... Increase in sample sizes: Bakker, M., Lê, T. T., & Marzalek, J. M. (2025). osf.io/preprints/ps...

I made an error that I found thanks to @lukaswallrich.bsky.social. The code and preprint have been corrected/updated. Effects on false positive rates are smaller and only for alternative and correlation method but I think the overall argument still works.

Last Friday we held Munster Replication Games (@uni-muenster.de jointly with #MüCOS and #CDSC). Sixty researchers replicated fifteen papers: well done, everybody! Many thanks to the local organizers as well, @bschlipphak.bsky.social and @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and Katrin Schmietendorf :)

Is there an app or so that automatically calculates how much #APC have been paid for the papers in a reference list (e.g., from an author or from a paper)?

Hello world! Follow this account to receive announcements, invitations for open peer review, and publications from Replication Research.

Now this is a new one: My university's license of SAGE journals allows me to view but not to download the research articles. According to ChatGPT read-access costs 100K€ p.a. If you want to make 100% sure that interested readers can access your article, publish it in a #diamondopenaccess journal.

Preregistrations without Code do not Prevent P-Hacking: You can increase your chances for a significant finding in the absence of real effects even with correlations and t test despite having preregistered your hypothesis (e.g., simply changing arguments in the functions). doi.org/10.31222/osf...

Commercial publishers are smart: They have constructed a prisoner's dilemma for researchers, institutions, and countries from which they profit. I'll be one of the people talking about resesarch assessment in practice at a German webinar tomorrow - tune in to join the discussion!

If have an academic contribution such as a blog post, teaching materials, a coded website, dataset, etc. Please consider #long-termarchiving and #FAIRdata sharing. eg you can put it all on Zenodo and it will be findable for the next 20 years. And please let me know if you find any of these things:

📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v

A lot is going on at @forrt.bsky.social! #OER, #metascience, #socialjustice, and much more. If you want to get a glimpse of some of the projects, check out this beautiful booklet at forrt.org/booklet created by @irissmal.bsky.social

ReplicationResearch.org is now #PCI-friendly category 2! Recommended submissions will receive a response within five days about whether or not another round peer-review is needed. Announcement: www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...

Academia is brutal: Paywalls, replication crisis, intransparency, inequity, billion dollar donations in peer review, etc. Read in our inaugural editorial how R2 solves these problems. www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...

Just noticed that it says on Elsevier's Wikipedia page that the section on criticism of academic practices "may be too long to read and navigate comfortably". I think you should definitely give it a read! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevie...

PCI Psychology is open for submissions! Did you know that you can easily submit your recommended preprint to any of the 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals? See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

Where to publish reproductions and replications? (At ReplicationResearch.org of course) But seriously: There are several journal dedicated to replications and reproductions! For an overview of which journal accepts what types of studies: forrt.org/replication_...

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

Should you do a replication (same data) or reproduction (different data)? Reproduction - if possible - is much easier and can inform replication attempts. Even without data, reproducibility can be assessed (eg via preregistrations). Here is our handbook's decision tree: forrt.org/replication_...

What are current opinions on data format (especially csv vs. sav/SPSS)? Sönning&Roettger refer to site.uit.no/trolling saying that you should rather use csv but you can easily open sav with open source software. Also, sav can come with useful labels vs csv with encoding issues. Chapter: osf.io/drvnz

How to decide what to replicate or reproduce? We recommend priotizing studies with "high value" or unclear results, considering practical limits, watching for bias, and always communicate choices openly. Handbook chapter: forrt.org/replication_handbook/choosing_study.html

I think this is just on point:"The publishers, I mean these are businesses, and businesses go for growth ... There just isn't that much good material that needs to be published. And so what they're ending up publishing is stuff that should never be published."-Bishop www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NJ8...

"The proof established by the test must have a specific form, namely, repeatability." (Dunlap, 1926). And researchers have more and more done so. Read why replications are important and how the last years have seen a strong rise of replications in our open handbook: forrt.org/replication_...

Just learned about this diamond journal, which has apparently been running since 2015! Looks like a very nice place for any meta-sciency work & probably deserves some visibility. septentrio.uit.no/index.php/no...

The Münster Replication Games will take place on November 28, 2025! + 1 day event to conduct reproduction/replication + connect with fellow researchers interested in OS + refine your coding skills + become a co-author on a meta-paper Register here: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526

Just a friendly reminder to check who owns the preprint servers that you are using and to choose a non-commercial one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Have you ever heard of predatory journals? Our new study—published this week in Journalism Practice—suggests many science journalists haven't. When they were familiar with predatory journals, most said they weren't worried, confident they'd "be able to spot one if they saw one." Details in 🧵👇

At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀 3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore 📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded) Find out more below 👇 #OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience

Thank you for this very impressive resource of 50 (!) reproducibility/replicability metrics; also includes a searchable online table at rachelheyard.com/reproducibil...

Another one on the list of public communication about researchers wasting tax money by Focus+: "The big business of fake research" a few months after Maithink X's "Tax scandal: science behind paywalls". Ironically, it's paywalled... www.focusplus.de/wissen/gross... www.zdf.de/video/shows/...

“This paper unpacks the concept of citation politics and its role in sustaining epistemic hierarchies within scholarly communities.” osf.io/qjecy_v2

🗣️ ICYMI: Lifecycle Journal is open for submissions! Learn more: lifecyclejournal.org/submission-g...

We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it! Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's - Constitution - TOP guidelines - article types - and reviewer guidelines until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We’re beyond honored to receive the SIPS Mission Award 🏆 & thrilled to have received 5 SIPS Commendations 🏆 for projects across our 4 core pillars: Metascience, Social Justice & DEIA, Community, and Education in OS. We are so grateful to all contributors who made this possible 💜 [All links below]

A new preregistration template for simulation studies is now live on OSF. Thanks to the creators and the preregistration template working group for proposing and shepherding this to make it available to users. See the post if you would like to propose a new template. www.cos.io/blog/introdu...

"Rather than simple scams targeting naive researchers, researchers face a complex spectrum of behaviours ranging from outright fraud to questionable practices even by established publishers."

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/rzTeLYL