Giving the gift of negative data 🥰 Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them! Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article! www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...

I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Submissions due 12/19! Still plenty of time left to apply! #science #neuroscience #NIH #metascience

We are organizing our #ILoveMethods26 workshop! Sign up here: forms.gle/JcG93NU6NNSj.... Find more information: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods....

Horrible idea. AI will regress all grants towards the mean since AI is trained to produce the average output. Grants require expertise that ignores bad literature and rejects author assertions if false. no AI review I've seen has ever challenged the author's assertions as fundamentally flawed.

Y'all I am so tired.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking input on Federal policy updates to accelerate the American scientific enterprise. This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... I plan to highlight:

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

Together with colleagues from @dorassessment.bsky.social, @cwtsnl.bsky.social, and @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, @asapbio.bsky.social hosted a workshop to identify and advance joint actions to strengthen the research assessment and publishing reform movements. Learn more: asapbio.org/internationa...

We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth. Checks out.

Did you pick up this flyer at #SfN2025? 📣 Calling all early-career neuroscience researchers! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & @neuromatch.bsky.social want to hear from you about the support you need to thrive in your career. ➡️ Take this short survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

We proudly present the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward for Promoting Quality in Research 2025! The jury has selected outstanding contributions that promote research quality around the world! In coop w/ QUEST Center @bihatcharite.bsky.social www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2025/... (1/5)

Dont call it a payline grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

The claim “vaccines do not cause autism” is the very definition of an evidence-based claim. Over a million children have been studied in every valid, ethical experimental design scientists can think of. More evidence-based claims: infections can kill people & we have vaccines that keep people alive.

New #NIH prize competition to identify areas of biomedical science that can benefit from replication and to recognize past replication efforts to further promote the importance of research replication: www.challenge.gov?challenge=re... Submission deadline is in one month!

🧠 Did you have an experiment that tanked this year? Now is your time to shine! Join us for The Confound Hour! When: Tuesday 11/18, 7-9 PM at #SfN25 #SfN2025. Where: The Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina (hotel next to the conference center) in Marriott Grand Ballroom, Salon 9 Please share! 😁

So happy to share that many of my NINDS colleagues will be attending SfN!! Learn more and find them here www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/...

Want to learn about practical innovations in responsible research assessment in the US? 🇺🇸 Join us online on Nov 20, 1pm ET, to hear about innovations in tenure, open peer review training, and the Modernizing Academic Appointment and Advancement (MA3) Challenge! Register 👉 bit.ly/RRA-innovati...

Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

🧠🥼🧬🧪🔬 Last year at @sfn.org I ran a workshop on "Opening the File Drawer" with Ben Kolber, Stacey Winham, Paul Sternberg, & Alex Freeman (@alexandrafreeman.bsky.social). We've shared the resources that we compiled for that workshop in this new paper. ❤️ @comm4rigor.bsky.social @ummni.bsky.social

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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

I and other participants of the Novel Approaches to Preventing Publication Bias Workshop, hosted by the NINDS Office of Research Quality in May 2024, have published a framework to encourage the publication of null results in science: 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Publication bias continues to skew academic literature. In our new @plosbiology.org article, we outline actionable steps for journals, funders & researchers to ensure all results—not only “positive” ones—are valued. A roadmap for more reliable science: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

IMO, tackling our bias against null studies is essential for improving the culture of science. We want high-quality science, BUT we evaluate research and researchers more on the outcome of their work (“positive” findings, novelty, etc.) than the process by which those results were obtained.

No publicar todos los resultados de investigación, incluidos los "negativos" es un problema que tenemos que afrontar juntos... @scurry.bsky.social explica mucho mejor que yo lo que contamos en nuestro último paper. @plosbiology.org

Grateful to @stephencurryuk.bsky.social and the other participants in this terrific workshop focused on how to combat our bias against publishing negative data (so important!) 👇

"Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results" Paper out today in PLoS Medicine by many of us who would like to see publication bias reduced or eliminated. Especially happy that Registered Reports got shout-outs. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility plos.io/3VwaU2O

Let's get negative about scholarly publishing – a new paper (first in a long time for me!) on proposals to tackle the problem of publication bias that emerged from a NINDS workshop held in May last year. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/... [Direct link to paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Null & negative results ≠ failure. They’re essential—but still sidelined. Proud to co-author this @plosbiology.org paper tackling systemic bias & calling for culture change. ECRs pay the highest price for this biased culture! Blog by @scurry.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ysc23wrx #PublicationBias

There are currently 11 acting Institute and Center directors at NIH and this will add another. Two more and the majority of these positions will be vacant.

This is an awesome primer for peer review and also a helpful guide to get people thinking about the quality of their own experimental design! Kudos to the authors!

Congrats @federicamosti.bsky.social and @debbysilver.bsky.social lab! I’m excited to read it!!

I am honored to be selected as an ASCB fellow! SO much thanks to those who nominated me and provided letters of support! And congratulations to the other Fellows selected! 🎉🥳🎊

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost! Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%). "Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov. ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

Read more here: www.repro4everyone.org/blog/p5zqp5d... Looking forward to getting started! @comm4rigor.bsky.social NINDS Office of Research Quality @mariahhoye.bsky.social

🧠 Tomorrow (6/24: 12-1) I will be doing an interactive webinar with Christophe Bernard and Daniela Schiller to discuss our paper, “Promoting Open Discussions of Scientific Failure within the Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference”. Come join & submit questions! neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-r...

the reissued NOFO for the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) is finally published! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Also be sure to read the instructions a Forms I SF424. These Fs will have the new format/review instructions so there are different components from the previous NOFOs.

What happens when scientists discuss mistakes they've made? Here's a lovely paper about developing of a conference series normalizing errors ("Oh Sh*t: Great Scientists Tell Stories About Their Greatest Failures"). #stats #neuroscience #metascience #neuroskyence tinyurl.com/5n96e5em

I love this paper too! The author, Rick Born, is part of the @comm4rigor.bsky.social which is developing educational units on topics like confirmation bias! For anyone interested in learning more, check out the beta form of the unit at c4r.io (and give us feedback so we can keep improving it)!

What does a 40% NIH budget cut mean for funding chances (now ~15%)? You might think “60% of the money left = 9% success” ❌ NOPE!!! 1-3% because 80% of the budget is for existing grants New science? Starved Ongoing grants? Slashed 😢 #FundingScienceSavesLives

If you are a current or former NIHer and want to be in this starter pack, please comment below for an add.

I wish I’d been taught that publishing rigorously conducted null studies is actually essential for the health of science and the extra scrutiny we give to studies with null outcomes stems from unconscious bias. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18199864/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21098355/

Let’s talk rigor. What’s ONE thing you wish you’d been taught earlier about study design, statistical analysis, or data reporting? Drop your lessons & tips for the new generation 👇 #GradSchoolAdvice #RigorInResearch c4r.io

DEADLINE TODAY!! Submissions close at 11:59 pm EDT! Unlike a grant, the submission is relatively short- just six short prompts of ~200-350 words each! There’s still time to submit an entry! www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni... Challenge.gov

NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize- DEADLINE 6/6/25! To recognize and reward individuals and small teams of early-career scientists who are promoting enhanced research rigor! $10,000, $5,000, and $2,500 prizes www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni...

Just a few days left! Don’t miss your opportunity to win up to $10k CASH for promoting attention to rigor! #Phdlife #postdoclife #ECRs #science #neuroscience #metascience #biotech #pharma

Science is an INVESTMENT with a huge payout.