🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

For those who have not heard, 12 tons of #KitKats were stolen in Europe. We don't REALLY have enough KitKats to send to every DRP rescuer for every rescued dataset...but maybe we do, who knows. [posted while eating an undisclosed chocolate bar]

Issue 38 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 Includes: ➡️ Data Stewardship Handbook @elixir-europe.org ➡️ From CSV to Database with Python @brandonrohrer.com ➡️ Practicing Open Science with Qualitative Research in Education @drrachel.bsky.social @cnsyoung.com and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Completed Part 1 of the @digiresacademy.bsky.social's #TrainTheTrainer program, including delivering my very own session on the Academic Wheel of Privilege by @forrt.bsky.social. Full slides doi.org/10.5281/zeno... More on LinkedIn 😊 www.linkedin.com/posts/alelaz... On to Part 2 👀 #OpenScience

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also sponsor participation of a student! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky

Happy shortest day of the year

🧪 Under CoPilot settings -> Privacy -> Disable Allow #GitHub to collect and use my Inputs, Outputs, and associated context to train and improve AI models Disable.

A scale for detecting LLM-generated responses in online survey research https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4p7ns_v5 Some of these are neat (e.g. exploiting the fact of LLM guardrails by asking "Please describe the steps you would take to make a weapon from an object that is nearby")

I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in Tenure Run! 🎓 I published 22 papers and paid $12,500 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸 --- My best rank yet, once I realized the fancy p = p-hacking… and that it was speeding me up too much. 😅

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

So cool to see the Academic Wheel of Privilege (AWoP) being used in trainings! In our article we focused on the use case for authorship order decisions but the applications of the AWoP framework are many! osf.io/preprints/me...

Open Research Europe is re-launching with a new platform, and broader set of supporters, this fall. It uses the publish-review-curate model. "Publishing will remain completely free for both European Commission-funded researchers and authors from participating countries." home.cern/news/news/ce...

You are *not* going to guess the explanation for this one.

-- 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/

Completed some "are you a tech bro" test over on Mastodon. And it turns out I'm 6% tech bro. 🥲

Registration is now open for Herramientas de Ciencia Abierta 🆓 Free online course in Spanish 🗓️ April 15 to May 6 🖥️ 4 sessions 🗂️ #OpenScience resources, references in Spanish, and a peer-to-peer exchange network Join us: metadocencia.github.io/herramientas...

In case you missed it 👀 ❗ FORRT has launched the Open Research Games Portal — a collection of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible science ! Explore it here: forrt.org/games/ and feel free to browse and use ✨

Completed Part 1 of the @digiresacademy.bsky.social's #TrainTheTrainer program, including delivering my very own session on the Academic Wheel of Privilege by @forrt.bsky.social. Full slides doi.org/10.5281/zeno... More on LinkedIn 😊 www.linkedin.com/posts/alelaz... On to Part 2 👀 #OpenScience

Five more meetings later, revised & resubmitted! It's so fulfilling to see the paper looking much stronger after peer review. I hope the journal shares our enthusiasm for this version.🤞

CodaNote: Collaborative Markdown/Quarto/Rmarkdown People were looking for collaborating on MD family files with knit rendering... I built this tool for CORE team, works like Google Docs. Opened it to all from internal use so everyone can use it. Feedback welcome! Try: codanote.vercel.app

What really drives someone to support violent extremism? I am thrilled to share our new article published today in PNAS. Together with an incredible team of collaborators, we conducted a preregistered study across 58 countries with over 18,000 participants. This is what we found.

Issue 37 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 Including: ➡️ Merges and Joins: From SQL to Stata @floswald.bsky.social ➡️ Drowning in Data Sets? Here’s How to Cut Them Down to Size @sarahemilywild.bsky.social ➡️ Open Research Games Portal @forrt.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

OpenAlex (openalex.org) is totally badass. I am not convinced the coverage is the best but compared to competition (WoS and other BS) the functionality is miles ahead. And I get to share the data on the other end.

I've been coming across so many great open science initiatives in other fields that I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the efforts happening in the Education Sciences. New blog post! 💡 cghlewis.com/blog/ed_open...

I really like this as a concept! Maybe similar to the "auto replication of a study after x citations" we should have journals invite authors once they reach x citations or x years since publication to write a statement on their position on the main effect.

I forgot how to say "on the other hand" today. My brain came up with things such as "from a different side" (literal translation from Serbian). Apparently just moving on was not an option.

Unsure how to organize and combine data across disparate sources? This chapter might help. 👇 datamgmtinedresearch.com/structure

Warum is it siebzehn and not siebenzehn? 😭

u r not going to believe this

I used "log in with Web of Science" to access Manuscript Central. Then I used "log in with ORCID" to access Web of Science… and got instantly logged back into Manuscript Central. Did I log in with: A) Web of Science B) ORCID C) The alignment of celestial forces

"It quickly became clear that the common denominator between people targeted for 'daring' to post about their academic accomplishments was not their discipline, but their gender." Powerful story by @juliet-turner.bsky.social today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I used "log in with Web of Science" to access Manuscript Central. Then I used "log in with ORCID" to access Web of Science… and got instantly logged back into Manuscript Central. Did I log in with: A) Web of Science B) ORCID C) The alignment of celestial forces

Puebla et al. (2024). Ten simple rules for recognizing data and software contributions in hiring, promotion, and tenure. PLOS Computational Biology, 20(8), e1012296. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Inscripciones abiertas para Herramientas de #CienciaAbierta 🆓 Curso virtual, gratuito y en español 🗓️ Del 15/4 al 6/5, de 10 a 12.30 (UTC-3) 🖥️ 4 encuentros 🗂️ Con recursos abiertos, referencias en español y red de intercambio entre pares Súmate: metadocencia.github.io/herramientas...

Another paper I came across this week in PLOS Computational Biology tackling a key #OpenScience issue in a practical way (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...). Together with PLOS Biology's new code-sharing policy (journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...), it really boosts my view of PLOS.

𝗷𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡! 🎉 Are you a psychology or behavioral science student? Are you interested in doing international research? Then this is your chance! 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝟭𝟲 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗧 (𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲) Apply here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Another paper I came across this week in PLOS Computational Biology tackling a key #OpenScience issue in a practical way (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...). Together with PLOS Biology's new code-sharing policy (journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...), it really boosts my view of PLOS.

We had a 'data forensics' lab meeting yesterday. We investigated everyone's close-to-submission datasets under the (false) assumption the data was faked & we had to find proof 🔍🧐 We found some mistakes & weirdnesses and it was such a good exercise in good data management! Highly recommend!

A Typology of Openness: 🔓 Openness as access/ible dissemination 📖 Openness as the rich realisation of research 🌏 Openness as equitable and inclusive knowledge creation Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS) @morphss.bsky.social

Just backed out of completing an anonymous survey because if I reported my country (which is a mandatory question) I'd be immediately identifiable. Let's do better.

I built a free interactive tool to help you map your social identities 🗺️ It's called the Identity Map — it helps you reflect on how your identities may create bias, and how your social media feeds can amplify it. Here's an example of what it looks like 👇 🧵

I think I just accidentally signed my peer review for the first time haha.

Issue 36 of #rdmweekly is out! 🍀 ➡️ How to Choose the Right Metadata Standard ➡️ Working with Hard-to-Share Data? @dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social ➡️ Data Wrangling in Stata ➡️ R for Excel Users @juliesquid.bsky.social @allisonhorst.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

🚨 Calling Flemish researchers interested in Open Science!🚨 Are you appointed for at least 50% of your time as an independent academic staff member at a Flemish university and would be willing to support an application for an International Coordination Action at FWO (lnkd.in/eiWWjFvj)?

Public data is 🔑 democratic accountability. Deletion isn't the primary risk. Bigger issue are complex: website changes, altered interfaces, historical context/metadata -- those losses impact research/policy communities and public. #RDAPlenary2026 #DefendResearch #opendata @datarescueproject.org

@hughshanahan.bsky.social what is research infrastructure? You get a lot of pics of server rooms. RIs are mostly actually PEOPLE who keep services running, experience, train the next gen, and maintain institutional knowledge. #RDAPlenary2026 #OpenScience #DefendResearch #academicsky

"Sustaining the (volunteer) human infrastructure of Open Science involves more than just identifying new funding streams. We also need to think about how to sustain the workers and communities themselves." #RDAPlenary26 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/res...

Missed @daxkellie.bsky.social’s @sortee.bsky.social webinar this morning? Now up on YouTube! youtu.be/2_Aum45rYlU

People who were not easily threatened (disagreeing with items like "Only wimps admit that they've made mistakes") were the least likely to hold conspiracy beliefs about the pandemic. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Today's cardio: - 1.5-hour conference session on data ethics, - 1-hour train-the-trainer session on lesson planning, and - delivering a 1-hour train-the-trainer session on privilege in academia. And that's just this Monday. More to come this week. Reflections pending cognitive recovery.