Are you in the process of writing an abstract and could use some help? Join us on December 2 for a virtual workshop with our P.I., Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social 🎟️ RSVP at buff.ly/4IJ0Xwu ✨ You can submit an abstract in progress for a chance to have it workshopped live!

✨ It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results. 🛠️ Join us on Tuesday, December 2 @ 12 pm ET for a live abstract-writing workshop led by our P.I., Konrad Kording. RSVP @ c4r.io/events

The next round of scientific rigor educational units is brewing. Sign up to join our community and get timely updates about our curriculum, events, and more. Join us at c4r.io/join #Causality #CleanCoding #LiteratureSearches #DataVisualization #ScientificRigor

We're looking for panelists for our "Beyond Academia: Careers for PhDs in Behavioral & Brain Sicences" event on Jan 16. We bring PhDs working in industry/gov/non-profit sector to @upenn.edu to share their experience & jobs. Early career welcome! DM or email pennmindcoreATsas.upenn.edu Thanks!

Learn how to strengthen your study design and guard against bias through effective randomization techniques, in this hands-on workshop, led by C4R's Curriculum Development Lead, Dr. Hao Ye @hao-and-y.bsky.social Watch the full session on our YouTube channel: buff.ly/uRegbqd

Mapping Open Science in Neuroscience - A collaborative initiative with FORRT @forrt.bsky.social ReproducibiliTea Bordeaux Team invites you to contribute to this project! More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share.

Proud of our coLAB, Dr. Ben Kolber @ UT Dallas, @mhagenauer.bsky.social and their co-authors for their new paper based on one of our upcoming units 🔥 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Science projects are designed & funded on the scale of years, so what happens if you need to finish prematurely? @mhagenauer.bsky.social &co discuss solutions for quickly documenting partially finished projects & publishing ‘as you go’ in an uncertain environment @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ovd1jH

Prepare for the doctoral candidacy exam. C4R leads interactive and dynamic workshops on topics ranging from experimental design to transparent reporting. Reinforce your foundational knowledge of scientific rigor and reproducibility. Email us at [email protected] for more information.

"Recent observations show that a significant number of preclinical studies lack rigor in their conduct and reporting. This paper discusses statistical aspects, such as design, sample size determination, and methods of analyses, that will help add rigor and improve the quality of preclinical studies"

Join our team! We are seeking a Technical Lead to guide the development of our web-based educational platform. See the job posting at:

What we're reading this week - buff.ly/ngsPw35 Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

We host free in-person and virtual events to teach experimental design and proper research methods. Come and learn what everyone assumes you already know 😉 Join us at c4r.io/join to receive invitations and updates. Photos: Eric Sucar #SicentificRigor #ExperimentalDesign #ResearchMethods #C4R

Congrats to Mary Brunkow from @isbscience.org on winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Brunkow was honored with collaborators Ramsdell and Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking work on immune system regulation. A proud moment for science and Seattle! 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Current Penn graduate and professional students applying for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) are invited to participate in a 2-hour interactive writing workshop. Thurs, Oct 9, 2-4pm Graduate Student Center, Rm 304 Register: upenn-gsc.libcal.com/event/15480420

Interested in testing our scientific rigor training materials? Email us at [email protected] We have three units in beta, ready for testing, and they come in 3 versions: for individuals, small group meetings, and class lecture. Join us and learn more at C4R.io/join

Watch Anita Bandrowsky (@rridrobot.bsky.social), Ivan Oransky (@retractionwatch.com), and Jason Williams (@jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social) discuss how to future proof your research with rigor. Now available in our YouTube channel, and all part of the C4R25 Conference.

The C4R25 Conference was a great success! Thanks to all whon joined us in Philadelphia and stay tuned for C4R26 @kordinglab.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social @rridrobot.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com

🤩 Thank you, @carlbergstrom.com for being part of C4R!

There's still time to register! Live at UPenn, join us for a public talk to help us embrace rigor as the best tool to make reliable, reproducible, and transparent science. Register @ c4r.io/conference #ScientificRigor #BetterScience #PhDLife #GradStudentLife

Join us on September 9 in Philadelphia for a demo of Konrad Kording's @kordinglab.bsky.social new app, the Scientific Project Planner. The session is part of our rigor conference, C4R25. There's still time to register! It's free and lunch is on us ;)

There's still time to register! Registration is free. Join us! RSVP at c4r.io/conference #scientificrigor #conferenceforrigor

✨ A fireside chat with @carlbergstrom.com - UW Professor and co-author of "Calling Bullshit"- and René Vidal -Penn Inegrates Knowledge Professor- on the responsible use of LLM’s in research, and what’s to come in one of C4R’s units. There's still time to register! > c4r.io/conference #LLMs

Speaker spotlight ✨ Mariah Hoye, @mariahhoye.bsky.social Program Manager, NINDS Office of Research Quality Join us for a lightning talk designed to help grad students understand alternative career paths related to scientific rigor. RSVP at c4r.io/confrence #ScientificRigor #PhDLife #c4r25

MindCORE Welcome Back Seminar & Lunch Friday, Sept 5, 2025 Seminar: 12:00-1:15 PM (Room 111) A New-New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry Nicole C. Rust Associate Professor, Psychology Lunch: 1:30–2:30 PM (Lobby) All events are in the NBS Building (formerly Levin). @nicolecrust.bsky.social

Professor @carlbergstrom.com Theoretical and evolutionary biologist, critic of low-quality or misleading scientific research, and co-author of Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World. C4R coLAB, developing educational units for the C4R curriculum. RSVP at c4r.io/conference

Anita Bandrowsky ✨ Neurophysiologist-turned-informatics pioneer & co-founded and leads the RRID initiative @rridrobot.bsky.social —championing unique, persistent identifiers for biological research resources to boost reproducibility, transparency, and rigor in science. RSVP at c4r.io/conference

#C4R25 Conference speaker highlights - Join our PI, @kordinglab.bsky.social for a demo of his new app, the Scientific Project Planner. A hands-on session to get your study started rigorously. 🗓️ September 9 Space is limited. RSVP at C4R.io/conference

Speaker Spotlight: Ivan Oransky, Co-Founder of Retraction Watch. Future Proof Your Research With Rigor. Space is limited. RSVP at c4r.io/conference 🗓 September 8 | 3 PM ET 📍 UPenn Campus - Philadelphia, PA #C4R25

Not your average academic conference. #C4R25 blends hands-on practice, critical conversations, and cross-field connections, all focused on rigor. Want to rethink research culture with us? RSVP today at c4r.io/conference

Science is always evolving—and so are the ways we define rigor. At the C4R25 Conference, we're not just talking about problems, we're creating solutions for better science, together. 📍 Philadelphia 🗓️ September 8-10 Space is limited REGISTER at: c4r.io/conference

Registration is now OPEN! - The Community for Rigor's C4R25 is a scientific conference like no other—3 days of critical conversations, hands-on sessions, and a growing community of people who care about doing better science. 📍 Sept 8–10 | Philadelphia, PA 🎟️ Sign up: c4r.io/conference #C4R25 #rigor

🚨 First event of the #C4R25 Conference! Future Proof Your Research With Rigor. A public talk on doing research that stands the test of time -and scrutiny. 🔗 RSVP now at bit.ly/3GPbYef #C4R25 #ScientificRigor

Welcome! Meet latest cohort of C4R content creators.

This week's read: ‘Lazy’ authors? One in six scientific papers mischaracterize work they cite. buff.ly/QsS5FCa "Errors may result from an author’s desire to mold a preconceived narrative." Rigor is also about careful evaluation of evidence. #ConfirmationBias #Citations #ScientificRigor

New tools for better science? Yes please. Our first beta units are live: c4r.io/units Test them. Use them. Tear them apart (gently). We’re here to do better science, together. #BetaTesting #ScientificRigor #OpenCurriculum

Stay tuned for the beta release of our upcoming scientific rigor educational units: Causality and Clean Coding! >Join us at C4R.io/join to receive updates about our unit releases and community events. #causality #cleancoding #scientificrigor #communityforrigor

Normalize sharing failure in your research. > C4R's partners @mhagenauer.bsky.social & Dr. Daniela Schiller discuss how "open discussions of failure can increase transparency, resilience, and mental well-being within the scientific community." >Watch the full session at bit.ly/3IFH2O0 #SFN

Rigor and reproducibility go hand in hand 🤲 #preprints #reproducibility #scientificrigor

This week's read: buff.ly/R9KGL8L > Co-authored by C4R coLAB and professor @carlbergstrom.com What are your thoughts on AI "peer" reviews?

The Community for Rigor Conference, C4R25, is happening September 8-10 in Philadelphia! Explore cutting-edge topics in scientific rigor, join our workshops & talks, share ideas, and join a global community of people committed to improving research reliability. > Learn more at c4r.io/conference

Professor and C4R coLAB, Aparna Shah (@neuromusings.bsky.social), discusses our new unit on establishing proper experimental controls. Check out her blog post at bit.ly/4eAIxcl and play with the Controls unit at c4r.io/units

Tis the season! Time to channel your inner grant wizard 🧙‍♂️✨ Add NIH/NINDS rigor icons to your scientific presentations to facilitate increased transparency. > Learn more and find the icon files at bit.ly/44tYhua #NINDS #RigorIcons #ScientificRigor #Transparency #GrantWriting #PhDLife

Just a reminder: “We’ve always done it this way” is not a control group. ✅ Randomize ✅ Control ✅ Question your priors #Rigor #BetterScience #SciTwitter #ConfirmationBias #C4R.io #CommunityforRigor #ScientificRigor

🧠 We're looking for people with experience in experimental controls to help us with testing and feedback of our Controls educational unit. > If you're interested, please join one of of our July focus groups! There are several options to accommodate your busy schedule. RSVP at buff.ly/EtArHff

Reducing confounds, increasing rigor: a new educational unit to help you understand how randomization can mitigate factors that interfere with results and gain the skills to apply it effectively. Cultivate decision-making practices grounded in rigor. > Learn more at bit.ly/43X3eeT #rigor

A refreshingly fast and courteous response by authors after image problems were found in their @NatureCellBio paper. Thank you, Dr. Cleveland & Fachinetti, for quickly addressing the issues. That is how it is done! You can read the whole exchange here: pubpeer.com/publications...

🔥 Hot take: Confirmation bias is a silent killer of great science. 😎 Cooler take: Teaching early-career researchers how to recognize it should be baseline. What's one strategy you use to check your bias when interpreting results? #rigor #reproducibility #scienceculture #confirmationbias #c4r.io

🆘 Our rigor educational materials can use your help! Contribute to the creation of our curriculum by joining one of C4R's focus groups. Coming up in July, Controls: Clarity, Not Coincidence. RSVP at c4r.io/events

CNDS, CBIS, and brainSTIM Neuromodulation and Neuroimaging Relevant to Affective Disorders Speaker Series via Zoom Wednesday, June 18, 1:30pm Single-Day TMS Regimens - Mechanisms, Applications, and Implications Jonathan Downar, MD, PhD More: www.med.upenn.edu/cnds/