One of my worst: A reviewer wrote "I fear that this paper will get accepted just because of Brian's persistence." Ouch. After the 3rd R-and-R, I asked the editor to decide. Reject. I immediately sent it to another journal and it was accepted 1st round and won an award. Persistence muthafuckas.

Serious proposal: No Kings on the 18th should be a Halloween dress up party.

Thank you to our users and supporters for your high expectations of COS and the OSF. We are a service organization producing public goods to support research transparency, rigor, and credibility. We are grateful for your support and work hard every day to earn your trust.

🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design. We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.

Thank you to our users and supporters for your high expectations of COS and the OSF. We are a service organization producing public goods to support research transparency, rigor, and credibility. We are grateful for your support and work hard every day to earn your trust.

Positive counterprogramming to recent science news **The OSF is back online with a new interface** This key milestone makes OSF faster and cleaner. Also, now we can deliver more improvements efficiently and effectively. Please check it out and send feedback to [email protected] osf.io

🚨 Reminder: OSF will be unavailable today, October 11, from 11:00-22:00 UTC (7 AM-6 PM ET) for scheduled maintenance while we deploy the redesigned interface. Please close any open OSF tabs before this time. We'll update here if OSF is back online sooner. 🔗 Learn more:

⚠️ Reminder: OSF will be unavailable on Saturday, Oct.11 from 11:00-22:00 UTC (7 AM-6 PM ET) for scheduled maintenance as we deploy the redesigned interface. Please close any open OSF tabs before this time. Thank you for your patience! We'll share an update here if the OSF is back online sooner.

OSF will be offline for several hours today, starting now. The team is rolling out the new interface!

MIT Rejects the Compact! I am so proud. "The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief ...

MIT declines to sign the compact: "[it] includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression..independence..and..the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

RFK Jr is the OG p-hacker.

Reminder to spread the word about exciting OPPORTUNITY as PKP's Managing Director! It's a very exciting time at @pkp.sfu.ca. So much going on! A true scholar-led open infrastructure project, supporting 55,000+ journals. Read more: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h... #scholcomm #openaccess #openscience

Metascientists: Did you know that OSF search improvements make it much easier to study preregistration? If you search registrations osf.io/search?resou... and then click on "has related resource" you can, for example, narrow the search to those that shared data, linked a paper, or both.

Finland Now Has a National Roadmap for Open Science and Research Funding avointiede.fi/en/news/finl...

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at @UVAPsyc in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...).

"all universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing—and the government will be left with no more power to coerce and control the First Amendment-protected activities of major American universities than it has today." balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

With this level of productivity, I'll be appointed supreme commander of science for sure. Heck, go ahead and sign me up for 30 articles in 6 months. Eat my dust suckers!

My colleague Mark recently ran through some of the changes coming to @cos.io this weekend. Check it out, if you have some time!

Libraries and Open Science: Overlaps and Gaps with the Research Community on Oct 7, 1:00 PM ET. Panelists from UAB, VCU, Yale Med, and Zucker Med discussing library engagement in open access & data management, challenges of defining "open science" boundaries, and more! Reg: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

Two open positions on COS's research team! Project Coordinator: Undergraduate degree in research, or equivalent experience ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/... Program Manager: 10 yrs of project management experience or 2+ program management ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/... Please share w/colleagues

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam advances open science with an integrated approach to connecting infrastructure, training, & policy. Their model brings together librarians, data stewards, & systems managers to support researchers & help meet complex regulatory requirements. 💡:

Free to attend virtually: a NASEM event "Rethinking researcher assessment and incentives at U.S. academic institutions: A workshop" October 28-29, 2025 Agenda: www.nationalacademies.org/event/45044_... Registration: events.nationalacademies.org/45044_10-202...

The @ucirvine.bsky.social School of Social Ecology's Dept. of Psychology presents a lecture by Center for Open Science co-founder & Executive Director Brian Nosek on Thursday, Oct. 23, 3:30-5pm at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Info/RSVP: ow.ly/fjH550X0Amh

Excellent retrospective approach to a timely prospective question.

New research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me. Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?

We have just concluded the all-team retreat for COS. As a fully remote team, this opportunity to connect and strengthen relationships is the most important event of the year. It was an amazing week with an amazing team.

I am getting a lot out of this exchange about p-curve -- both on the substance of the debate, and on different approaches to thinking about it. Thanks to Uri and Richard for such an interesting back-and-forth.

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Zombie movie idea. Infection symptoms are highly heterogeneous: from becoming mildly irritable to going full zombie and from lasting a few days to persisting. Little clarity about time course for any given case. Psychological drama. This post brought to you by news distraction coping strategy #72.

Am I the only person who forgot that academia.edu existed until it came up in several posts during the last few days about its updated terms and conditions?

Want a preview tour of the new OSF design? Join Mark Call on September 25th at noon ET. Sign-up: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Important! The new OSF design is coming on Saturday, October 4th. OSF will be down for several hours that day to deploy it. More information: www.cos.io/blog/coming-...

Important! The new OSF design is coming on Saturday, October 4th. OSF will be down for several hours that day to deploy it. More information: www.cos.io/blog/coming-...

Nice profile of John Arnold. John and Laura, his spouse, made a big bet on us in 2013 by providing funding to launch the Center for Open Science. Their philanthropy is impacting a variety of sectors with a deep commitment to pursuing evidence of effectiveness. www.bizjournals.com/houston/news...

Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation? a #CREP project with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000 is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll... #OpenScience #Metascience

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

Blerg. Preregistration should elevate our understanding of the importance of exploration, not affirmative action our past bad habits that everything was always anticipated in advance.

🧬 Learn about the results and implications of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology! Attend the “Assessing research replicability" lecture by Dr. Tim Errington on Thurs 18 Sept, 15:30-16:15. 👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

If you have submitted a preprint to PsyArXiv in the last year or so and it *isn't* currently accessible, there's a good chance it's due to the document listing authors whom you haven't entered in the metadata.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

If the administration releases the data for the causes-of-autism study that is supposed to be reported this month, then it could be useful to have a crowdsourced many analyst/multiverse investigation ready to go that leans-in on pre-commitment to analysis plans. Interested? Alternatives?

Gold-Standard Science

Most researchers don't realize that reaching 7 red flags actually converts all of them to green flags. This is a feature of the little known I-can-fix-them adjustment for causal inference.