Wouldn't it be great to gather top social science journal editors + experts on fraud-prevention to discuss better ways to fraud-proof our field @ the National Academies? This is happening! Step 1 is creating an organizing committee. Submit nominees by 11/7: www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/enh...

Someday we'll have acknowledgment citation counts and we can better recognize those who are particularly collegial. The image shows the most frequently-acknowledged people in the journal Psychological Review up to 1999. (Cronin, Shaw, and La Barre, 2003)

"Scholarly publishing, by contrast, too often feels designed to serve corporate profit margins.. what would it mean to design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics?" A large fanfiction platform shows the way!

"What if academic libraries, OA publishers, and educators treated Wikibooks as seriously as they do repositories or university presses? The potential is enormous." Yes! It's frustrating how academics ignore Wikimedia Foundation projects, which have been diamond open access and radically transparent

A >$10,000 award that will be given to multiple individuals who "communicate their work with radical transparency, making it easy for others to use, test, and build on their ideas" outside of journals, in an ongoing project. We also need awards to the many communities (not individuals) already

@martonkovacs.bsky.social is beavering away implementing something new for tenzing.club. We hope to make it easier for you to manage your collaborators, by also providing for acknowledgees (people you acknowledge but who aren't co-authors)!

The Python Software Foundation won a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation. Turned it down because required to affirm that we "will not... operate any programs that advance or promote DEI" simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...

I thought this paper was satire at first, but I think it's not? www.crimrxiv.com/pub/bxsjoeth...

"Australia is freaking amazing", because of its political and economic institutions. Covers the non-gerrymandered voting system starting at 12:28 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAa9... . Nice TED-style talk by @justinwolfers.bsky.social

MetaROR, a platform for reviews of research on research, is a success! We have published 24 sets of reviews and have 16 submissions in process. MetaROR now has 9 partners - these are journals that agree to use our reviews when authors submit to them. metaror.org #metascience #openaccess

What better time than #OAWeek to share 13 actions researchers can take for fairer, more sustainable publishing? From posting preprints to supporting diamond journals to refusing to review for exploitative publishers: each small action matters when we act collectively.

Happy Open Access Week, everyone!

#OAweek Support diamond #openaccess scholar-controlled journals, such as those listed at freejournals.org.

Today's email to an associate editor, declining to review for a big corporate publisher. This one focuses on Nature Publishing Group's practice of funneling rejected manuscripts to their newer journals with hefty APCs.

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” - A.J. Liebling

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Wow, this excerpt from Giuffre's book (www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...), and Bloomberg got Epstein's emails, including one from Steve Kosslyn (the Harvard psychologist possibly referenced here) asking how he could help when Epstein was about to enter jail. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

This is cool, but there's a logical non-sequitor in the abstract? "however, the brain is an organ with a particular function that only it can fulfill. Converging evidence suggests that this function is allostasis: the predictive regulation of competing demands from internal bodily systems. "

"If there is a God, he has an inordinate fondness for beetles" - attributed to Haldane. I don't know what kind of weevil beetle this is. There are over 97,000 species of weevils.

I'm not usually so counter to trends, but I've been spending a lot moe time on Wikipedia lately. Love the Wikipedia app, both for reading and for editing. Also happy to be contributing by editing for the WikiJournal of Science.

On the World Conference on Research Integrity conference submission website (abstract deadline today!). Seems a reasonable approach. #metascience

And an education-focused job in Animal Physiology, and one in Law!

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/... Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

"In the 1930s, the British Association for the Advancement of Science established the Ferguson Committee to investigate the possibility of psychological attributes being measured scientifically. In its Final Report (Ferguson, et al., 1940), Campbell and the Committee concluded

We started @metaror.bsky.social MetaROR.org in part because of the absence of a journal that publishes metascience. But rather than a traditional journal, as metascientists we wanted to explore the next frontier - Publish, Review, Curate.

International #ResearchIntegrity conference 16-18 November 2025 Come to hear @elisabethbik.bsky.social Ivan Oransky @jamesheathers.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com Lisa Bero @liammannix.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com +many others, stay for Sydney in late Spring @sydney.edu.au 🧪

One sentence in the piece makes the point that the creators of the machines, e.g. LIGO engineers and AI software developers, would get more of their deserved recognition. In my view, the whole piece should be about that, not about awards to the machines themselves. #metascience

No matter where you are in the world🌍🌏🌎, you're invited to join the livestream for Monday's keynote speeches starting at 14:10 (CEST). 🎤Dr. David Oliva Uribe (UNESCO) 🎤Prof Dr Johan Rooryck & Pierre Mounier (European Diamond Capacity Hub) www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con... #CRAFT_OA2025

PKP is behind Open Journal Systems, the most widely-used free open source journal management system, which can be used to liberate us from Elsevier and all the rest of the profiteers! #openaccess

EVENT: Join us at our next free webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors' 📆 Tuesday 30 September ⏰ 11am BST / 12pm CEST Find out more & register: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/03/p... #OAbooks @operaseu.bsky.social

Was great to get some answers to this, from ChatGPT (not kidding). Australians are different; they never say "we're not here to fuck spiders, as it were" nor "he couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, as it were"

The Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference will be held at Monash University (Caulfield Campus) 24-25 Nov. That's just before the Australian Cognitive Neuroscience Society, also in Melbourne! Abstract submissions open until 1 October: sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

Andrey's second point is an important insight. Behind the authorship system lurks this vague and un-explicit auteur (in the sense of a brilliant film director or artist) mentality and attachment to a "great minds" model of science.

The most influential authorship guidelines are those of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, and they require all co-authors to contribute to the writing of a paper reporting a project. Just doing all the non-writing work for the project is not sufficient for co-authorship! 🤔

Someone asked us (neuromatch.social/@tenzingCont...): if you are paid to do data collection, are you qualified to be an author? Let me know your thoughts! Here is my draft of an answer: Taking on just the service-for-payment dimension of this for now,

Some of my students today are much more productive thanks to being able to use vibe coding to get experiments programmed. So do you know what I'm mostly doing nowadays when I go into the lab? A vibe check.

Three factors: - Personal bravery - Close-knit (f2f) communities - Strong ideology or faith

Orwell feared the banning of books. Huxley feared that there would be no reason to ban books because there would be no one who wanted to read one... Https://open.substack.com/pub/jmarriott/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=awvzi

My thread on the Neurology paper on sweeteners & cognitive health: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... And a follow-up thread on some weird patterns in the Appendix tables: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... Collated by Skywriter onto a web page for easier reading!

Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.

"Preprints offer important pathway for rapid dissemination, especially in fields like global health where timely access to research can have real-world impact. By linking peer review comments to preprints, we’re enabling readers to benefit from expert evaluations earlier in the research lifecycle."

For the first time, the COPE Retraction guidelines now (version 3) address the possibility of mentioning those who found the issue (e.g. data sleuths). But it only mentions it *can* happen; stops short of recommending it! #metascience

Three researchers describe their the good experience they had with MetaRoR @metaror.bsky.social coordinating peer review of their preprint, and how this led quickly to a journal publication, based on the open reviews from the MetaROR process www.openscience.nl/en/cases/the... #metascience

I've just added a sentence on Elsevier's historical involvement in the international arms trade to its Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevie... Unfortunately its entry is poorly organized and is something of a laundry list which I've now made even longer. #scholarlyPublishing

In "hell-hole" Chicago (Trump, yesterday) I am having a heavenly-almost-holy time! Beautiful city, not only up at the Loop (where I am attending the Peer Review Congress), but also on the South side; admittedly, didn't get far out of Hyde Park (photo of buildings at the University of Chicago)

#metascience Do you know Turkish? Please have a look at this draft Turkish translation of CRediT and let us know if you have any comments/ possible disagreements contributorshipcollaboration.github.io/projects/tra... Thank you!

⌛ How is preprinting adopted over time across disciplines and regions? Our latest article attempts to answer this. The reviewers praised the comprehensive analysis & clear presentation, while requesting more background information & addressing data availability issues. 👇 Read it now on MetaROR

Michael Kubovy, my undergraduate thesis advisor, recently passed. I was moved to write some reflections on his life and career. open.substack.com/pub/alexholc...

Michael was my undergraduate thesis advisor. I have been moved to write some reflections on his life, and my time with him open.substack.com/pub/alexholc... #visionScience A hashtag seems gauche, but Michael should be more widely known - he didn't attend conferences much.

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