@katiecorker.bsky.social talking about @asapbio.bsky.social trying to reform the scientific publishing system #wcri2026

@elisabethbik.bsky.social describing her first project spotting image duplications. Important message about how in certain areas such as cancer research, fraud or at least very low quality / questionable practice research is flooding the field because it builds people's careers. #wcri2026

Robbert Dijkgraaf takes the stage, with 'Science under pressure in a fractured world', and opens with a story of Leonid Brezhnev, answering a question about the state of the state with 'good' - but if he could say two words: 'not good'. Is that the state of science? #WCRI2026

RE: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...

As the reviewer crisis grows (it is taking longer and longer for editors to find reviewers), who you choose to review for is ever more important! Excited to chat about this.

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.

Thanks for breakfast, PLOS! And all the support for research integrity, of course 😄 #wcri2026

Interesting agitprop poster here at #wcri2026, rather more colourful than most of the posters. Good on Lancashire West magazine! Hadn't heard of them before.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️ Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out. Add your name. Stand for preserving the news. ✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

Recommendation for local poster printing or delivery in St Pete's? I won't have a car. #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social

"In cases where the literature review included no citations that conflicted with the authors’ hypotheses, they were coded as having citation bias." Love it! Hadn't come across that before. From Ferguson (2025), Do Social Media Experiments Prove a Link With Mental Health...

The APA publication manual states "As early as practicable in a research project, the collaborators should decide which tasks are necessary for the project’s completion, how the work will be divided, which tasks or combination of tasks merits authorship credit,

Octopods from the late Cretaceous would reach up to 19 meters in length. "Wear patterns on their jaws suggest that these octopods preyed upon the large reptiles present at the time, including plesiosaurs and mosasaurs."

"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed." Frederick Douglass

Level B/C (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) continuing position, open area, available at our School of Psychology at the University of Sydney 🐨 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Collabra: Psychology is published by UC Press, a non-profit publisher. It's #openaccess and is the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Worth supporting! (read: resign from the profiteering corporate publisher you're editing for and apply to join Collabra!)

Collabra: Psychology is seeking a new senior editor for the clinical section and new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested in either of these positions and you believe you are qualified, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

🌟Nominations are now open for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards! Know a project promoting #OpenScience in Ecology & Evolution (workshops, tools, outreach & more)? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/

Anyone else heading to Vancouver in a couple weeks for the World Congress on Research Integrity? Looking to meet up with peeps!

Agree. The Conversation has been very effective at helping academics write short pieces, many of which go on to be very widely-read. I wrote several pieces in its first years and was so happy to be contributing. And it got its start in Australia and continues to be headquartered in Melbourne!

Milton, writing about 2026.

As in many NYT articles, the real information is at the very end www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Opensource code and libraries to fall behind as Anthropic seems to be giving only large corporations access to Mythos, including to find their software's security vulnerabilities. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Three concrete recommendations that we make in our manuscript (osf.io/preprints/me...) on Acknowledgment sections: 1. Include ORCID numbers in parentheses after names of individuals in Acknowledgments. This will disambiguate their identities so that scholarly databases can index them.

Fascinating short history, including how "Isaac Newton’s famous Waste Book is a rare example of a physical continuity between the two cultures of notetaking: humanist and scientific." www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebo...

We discuss cultural change initiatives to promote #researchintegrity. We distinguish 2 schemas of research integrity: 👉The thick, lived kind 👉The thin, rule-based kind. We need both. What’s interesting is trying to understand how they relate. Had fun writing this! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

97% (positive results) vs 80%(null results) chance of reviewer recommending acceptance

Good initiative, signed! Since the conflict started, we haven't been able to communicate with our two Iranian co-authors, Saeed Shafiei Sabet and Marziyeh Amini Fard of the University of Guilan, who translated CRediT into Persian and helped with our manuscript describing the project.

Nice to be in a country that prosecutes its war criminals! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Our two Iranian co-authors, Saeed Shafiei Sabet of the University of Guilan and Marziyeh Amini Fard may not know about these positive reviews for our manuscript, because my emails to them continue to bounce. I wanted to recognize them here because I'm very concerned about their future.

@statsepi.bsky.social has a nice way of explaining the need for randomization in experiments. Starts with giving a medicine to *one* person and how that would work if we could go back in time and also not give them the medicine www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSOj... (caveat: in a deterministic universe)

Google's gotten a lot more aggressive in their steps to kill the internet - now on my phone from Google.com webpage when I search for something, I only get AI results until I dismiss the AI window.

Very useful, and should stem the tide of uncritical citations of studies that have failed to replicate, while boosting those that have replicated.

Was reading the Wikipedia article on Protestantism yesterday and found out that fundamentalism (literal reading of the Bible) wasn't invented until some Americans came up with it in the 20th century. Sheesh. Embarrassing!

The GEN AI companies and the publishing companies are dueling it out in lobbying and policy. The issue is who will get to mine our research products and sell our profiles.

This is from Trump's proposed 2027 federal budget. Could have been a good policy, if they had also provided funds for alternative non-profit infrastructure. #openaccess I think those funds will be buying bombs and missiles instead (they propose a 40% increase in the military budget)

About Open Research Europe choosing OJS for its diamond openaccess platform, an advantage of OJS is that the scholarly community, ourselves, can improve it.

Just in time for #UKSG2026 the @openlibhums.org team have launched this blistering Robin Hood poster campaign. Divest from commercial publishing (the rich) & redirect your library budget into non-profit scholar-led publishing like @ojcollective.bsky.social & @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! 💪🏼🔥💪🏼

🔗 This new evaluation attempts to trace causal linkages from research funding towards societal outcomes. Researchers praise it for showing how targeted funding can foster mutually beneficial academia–industry collaborations. They also identify problems in framing, clarity & depth. 👇 Read now

We are delighted to see the growth of the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ (PRC) initiatives in recent years!🚀 One of them is @metaror.bsky.social (MetaResearch Open Review). This platform focuses on open peer review and curation of metaresearch articles. Learn more about MetaROR👉️ metaror.org

"If a researcher used an LLM to generate their peer review, instructions hidden in the watermark prompted the LLM to include telltale phrases in the review text. The presence of these phrases revealed that an AI model had been used to generate the review." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A nice way to signal that you don't believe what you're saying

Haha I love the title; something about its tone, and the feeling of resignation that it conveys. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Psychology lecturer job in Sydney. Apparently for this job you must already have unrestricted work rights in Australia www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Sometimes it does make sense to give awards for individual contributions to science. Simine is a force for good, and brings everyone along.

@napaaqtuk.bsky.social asked me to post this decline to review for NPG letter with alt text included (although it didn't all fit in the 2000 character limit)

Nature Publishing Group finding more dastardly ways to lock us in, well beyond what I complained about in my letter declining reviewing for them