Are you interested in how technology and AI are reshaping peer review and grant evaluation? We are organising a conference at TU/e on June 5, 2026 on Transparency, Technology & AI in Peer Review to explore the opportunities, challenges, and risks for research quality and integrity.

One week left to apply… Feel free to drop an email for more details, whether to the project lead (Kate Button), me, or other team members (@denolmo.bsky.social, @davidaellis.bsky.social, Marjan Bakker) #postdoc #AcademicJobs #metasci

What do silent disco 💃🕺 and peer review 🧐 have in common? Both were featured at the Open Science Retreat in Schoorl! I wrote a blog about my experiences - and argue that community building through silent disco and washing dishes is how we will save science. #openscience tinyurl.com/osretreat

📢 New from PYMS! We're launching online lunch meetings. A chance to present your work to other metascience ECRs Share your work in any form: finished projects, preliminary results, a trial-run conference presentation, or ideas you'd love feedback on Want to present? Sign up using the form!

Thanks to everyone that was interested in my poster for the great conversations and discussions! The preprint on reporting, open science, and trustworthiness in simulation studies is available here: osf.io/jn9sy_v2 Ready for day two of #PSE8!

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

Sign up now for the Perspectives on Scientific Error Conference (PSE) on 11 - 13 Feb in Leiden, the Netherlands We will be hosting a mentor-mentee lunch during the conference. Sign up, and you will be matched to another academic based on shared research interests! Don't miss out! See you there 🙌

📣Revised preprint by @cas-goos.bsky.social Measurement reliability, validity, and reporting in psychology still has a long way to go... We compared original studies w replications, and where possible recalculated reliability & unidimensionality. Some findings > osf.io/preprints/ps...

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... INSPECT-SR: A tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials.

Care about #reproducibility in research & publishing? Join this webinar on Aug 27th, jointly organised by @aimosinc.bsky.social & @ausrepro.bsky.social on statistical reproducibility with @michelenuijten.bsky.social & @tomhardwicke.bsky.social Free - register here qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The best way to protect the scientific record is to prevent stats errors from entering it in the first place! Two weeks 'til our webinar featuring @tomhardwicke.bsky.social & @michelenuijten.bsky.social. Register here: qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Register now for the next joint @aimosinc.bsky.social @ausrepro.bsky.social webinar "Preventing statistical errors before publication" with Dr Michèle Nuijten and Dr Tom Hardwicke on Wed 27 Aug (4:00pm AEST). @michelenuijten.bsky.social @tomhardwicke.bsky.social qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 2/3

If you're interested in watching me gibber about papercheck for an hour, I'm giving a local seminar tomorrow at 15:00 UK time. DM me before 14:30 and I'll send you the Zoom link. scienceverse.github.io/talks/2025-p...

Super happy that I can finally move statcheck to another server! Thanks @seanrife.bsky.social for helping me out with this :) While I'm setting everything up, there might be some hiccups at statcheck.io. You can still visit the stable michelenuijten.shinyapps.io/statcheck-web/ in the meantime.

If you loved all the discussions at #Metascience2025, this webinar from @ausrepro.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social will be just the thing. Register below ⬇️

I'll be presenting at the Metascience conference next week, who will I see there? 🙋‍♀️

PYMS has a new board and it is booming! Don't miss this session in London if you are an early career meta-scientist (or are interested in meta-science careers)!

We are looking forward to Metascience 2025 in London next week! Especially to the panel where we will discuss PYMS! Come discuss career paths with us Monday 14:00 - 15:30: Session 2, Panel T2.3; Snakes and ladders: mapping research careers

At Metascience 2025? Then come to our panel where wonderful @anoukbouma.bsky.social will talk about our work and vision at PYMS! 🚀

To be FAIR: Theory specification needs an update! Theories that others can reuse and update help navigate the "theory crisis". The theorytools R-package now has tutorials showing how to make theories FAIR and use them to select covariates, simulate data, etc osf.io/preprints/ps...

What if you want to deviate from you preregistration but keep the label "confirmatory"? Cas Goos introduces multi-stage registration as a solution. Read all about it in the semi-new (I somehow missed a month of blogging?) blog post from the Meta-Research Center: metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/5/...

Already having terrible FOMO about the Metascience conference :( I registered for a couple of virtual symposia, but missed the one about using AI in detecting errors. Does anyone know if the session is available online? @jamiecummins.bsky.social @ansgarscherp.bsky.social?

📣New Preprint Alert! Esther Maassen meticulously simulated the effect of p-hacking and publication bias on effect size & heterogeneity estimates. 💡bad: selective outcome reporting & optional dropping 💡bad: publication bias 💡not so bad: optional stopping/outlier removal osf.io/preprints/ps...

Fantastic blogpost for our Meta-Research Center: @anoukbouma.bsky.social argues that meta-scientists - especially tool builders - could learn a lot from marketing. Taking a user-perspective when designing a tool can be a crucial missing step that can help us increase take-up of proposed solutions.

🚨Summer School Alert!🚨 Join the FREE Open Research Summer School (in-person or online) to learn about good quality science. I'll be talking about a practical four-step robustness check to assess and improve quality of findings. Check out the full program for many more fantastic speakers!

Very excited to team up with @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and talk about error prevention in publications! I'll talk a bit about developments in statcheck - a spellchecker for statistics - and Tom will share insights as head of the STAR (reproducibility) team at Psych Science.

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...

Join us for #SIPS2025 Online to explore the historical development of #OpenScience, key milestones, and ongoing challenges with @katiecorker.bsky.social @juliafstrand.bsky.social @michelenuijten.bsky.social @aurelienallard.bsky.social, Zoltan Dienes, and @kaileylawson.bsky.social

🚨 1 week 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/2F8p1Q1AeRhR... #metascience #ECR

Feeling up to sharing an online lunch with fellow young meta-science enthusiasts? And that while discussing an interesting paper? Sign up for our online journal club meeting! April 1st 12:00 - 14:00 (CET) See you there! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In the latest blog of the Meta-Research Center, I wonder if meta-scientists should hold themselves to higher standards. Do we lose credibility if we don't always follow all best practices we advocate for? #metascience #statcheck #psychscisky metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/3/...

Feat. @michelenuijten.bsky.social & @jamesheathers.bsky.social (who should've insisted all his quotes be printed in caps) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

List of grant winners from first UKRI Metascience call https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fellowships-launched-to-explore-how-ai-could-change-the-way-scientists-drive-new-discoveries (published 13 feb, but I missed it) Congratulations all #metascience #metaresearch

🪧 I'm a third-year Ph.D. student on the market for internships, contract roles, and PT positions for Summer 2025 onward. My skills: - data science - user experience research - social science research I know: - open science practices and lit - metascience Looking to build a career in metascience.

The Institute for Replication is doing such crucial work in scientific self-correction. A team of 15 people worked pro bono for 3 months to meticulously comb through a series of questionable published findings. We need a better system to reward this type of work.

Had a blast at the Cognitive Science Arena last weekend, a conference tailored to ECRs. Such creative and important studies! In my keynote, I talked about the 4 Step Robustness Check, where I stressed the importance of verifying results 🧮 before replicating them. Slides: osf.io/7xqtw #metascience

New blog post from the Meta-Research Center! This time, Marcel van Assen wrote about the precision of estimators in selection models. Interested in the nitty-gritty of combating publication bias? Check it out! >> metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/2/... #metascience

Being a young parent in academia can be rough. In the latest column of the Tilburg Young Academy in Univers, Myrthe Faber describes these challenges spot on. universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/... @universmagazine.bsky.social #academicsky

New blogpost from the Metaresearch Center, this time by Tijn van Hoesel: A Brief Overview of Spin. Spoiler alert: there are many disagreements. About the definition of spin, its operationalization, consequences... A perfect topic to start a career in #metascience! metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/2/...

POV: When you're preparing to be stuck in submission portals all afternoon, but in fact manage to submit a revision in 10 minutes. Yet another reason to consider submitting at PCI:RR! @peercommunityin.bsky.social #metascience #openscience

Are you starting out as a meta-researcher? And do you feel like you're missing a community from time to time? Or do you have a community, but would you like to expand it? Join (or simply follow) PYMS & get connected! 🐘 #metascience #openscience

Happy to report that a reporting error in my report about my tool to detect reporting errors has now been correctly reported! Thanks Stijn Pleunes, for pointing this out! > it concerned a FP rate in Table 1; luckily the overall accuracy scores were not affected. osf.io/preprints/ps... #statcheck

Open science is efficient: reusable code, data, results, and educational materials saves unnecessary work. Wen facing cutbacks, it's a bad idea to cut back on practices that increase efficiency! universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The Dutch budget cuts for higher education intend to explicitly reduce the budget for open science. This is a terrible idea. Not only is open science an important ideal, it can also - very practically - make science and education more efficient. Read our column below (NL, EN will follow soon).

📢New blogpost for the Meta-Research Center, by our PhD student Iris Willigers. Her key point: we should be talking more about the measurement crisis in psychology. Validate your measures! #metascience #psychology #methodology #psychometrics #statistics #openscience metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/1/...

WE ARE HIRING! Are you interested in LLMs, metascience, and their intersection? We’re hiring a full time postdoc on a three-year contract to help us develop, evaluate, and extend RegCheck (regcheck.app), our app for automatically comparing research papers with their preregistrations.

A while ago, Böschen posted a comment on arXiv contending that #statcheck is not a valid tool for error detection. In my reply, I argue that statcheck does exactly what it is designed to do: detect inconsistencies in APA-reported NHST results. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are excited to announce the review of Lades et al. (2020) "Daily emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic". Based on the review by Joop Adema, we find Moderate Errors which do not affect the core conclusions. We recommend the authors seek a correction error.reviews/reviews/lade...

Statcheck demonstrating its value once again. I detect a p-value inconsistent with reported statistical results in about every third paper I review michelenuijten.shinyapps.io/statcheck-web/

🎉 Call for Nominations: I4R Awards 2024! 🎉 🏆 Award Categories: (i) reproduction, (ii) replication, (iii) replication package, (iv) data editor and (v) methodological contribution to open science! surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_2024_A... Deadline for Nominations: Nov 30, 2024.