Weekend reads: Media star loses doctorate for plagiarism; journal editor resigns for AI concerns; university removes dean for fabricating data

How can AI & LLMs improve how science works? FORRT is delighted to host the AI in Metascience online conference. Please join us! 🗓️ 28–30 Sep 2026 · online · free Talks, workshops & hackathons — all career stages welcome. 👉 Submit by 31 Jul: forrt.org/ai-metascience #Metascience #OpenScience

In a new blog, colleague Marta Teperek and co-authors explore why closer collaboration between research software engineers, data stewards, and other digital research professionals is key to robust, reproducible & future-ready research. Read the blog: direc.to/oHkJ

The forensic report is available here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Incredible stuff

It was a nice session. Proud to wear the OSC Rotterdam t-shirt and talk about open science

Are you interested in research on open science? Would you like to know what really works and what does not when it comes to open science implementation? Then join us at the 'Researching Open Science' event at PLNT Leiden on 18 September 2026! More info: direc.to/oKfR

I am very happy that we are expanding Registered Reports to all disciplines in which we publish, which is all areas of natural, clinical and social sciences, engineering & public health. We’ve learned a lot since 2023 when we first invited RRs; we are ready to expand 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rcpp is great!

Adding this to the list of reasons why I dislike google docs

I need to update my slides. I like to warn people about the risk of having their computer set on fire

“You expect me to make sure my citations are real?!” - some guy who just admitted we can’t trust his entire body of work

I am teaching these weeks. 1 course is half-way done, the 2nd starts today. Both courses cover topics related to data protection and privacy, so the whole Canvas hacking situation fits perfectly.

Good post to read again talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10...

And please write the pre-registration in past tense. Yes, I know it feels wrong because you describe things that future you will do. But it would be so much easier to compare the prereg against the paper if I can simply compare two pdfs without having hundred changes due to grammatical tense

After our panel with Ivan Oransky, Leif Nelson, and myself in which we talked about Fraud Detection and Prevention, the next speaker is @simine.com with "Lessons from Psychology’s Replication Crisis". Transparency is great! But it is not enough. We need to check and ask questions. #NASEM

🚨 New AI Games round is live 🚨 Our first AI Games paper is now out at a top general interest journal (see preprint here: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... So… we’re launching the next stage 👇

Finally a good reason to buy Apple

#rstats Periodic reminder: if you are writing articles / books w/ matrix, vector notation, my {matlib} 📦 has a whole suite of functions to make your life easier. Want a matrix X? --> latexMatrix() |> Eqn() Eqn() renders too in #RStudio Viewer See the vignette: friendly.github.io/matlib/artic...

Check this out if you're interested in measurement, experimentation, and causal inference

"If authors cannot stand by their own descriptions of their methods or data, retraction should be automatic," says @eugenie-reich.bsky.social.

Celebrating science #opensciencenl less than 4 years left. How open is your science?

Join us and our partners at @retractionwatch.com for a free webinar March 26 about our new Research Accountability Reporting Fellowship. The event features Ivan Oransky and @stephaniemlee.bsky.social from the @chronicle.com. Learn more and register here. www.theopennotebook.com/2026/02/26/a...

Towards more reliable research: Today, together with @bihatcharite.bsky.social, we welcomed the 2025 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners: @simine.com, Maximilian Sprang, and the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative @redebrrepro.bsky.social. A recording will be available soon.

We're thrilled to open registration for the Utrecht Replication Games. The event will be at the at the University of Utrecht on June 4th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Listening to this now (online). Nice to end the week hearing from people who walk the walk

ODISSEI is excited to launch the Early Career Board, an initiative to strengthen the voice and engagement of early career researchers in our community. Please welcome the members of the 2026 Board: @elenacandellone.bsky.social, Oskar Veerhoek, Goan Booij, and Tilbe Atav. Read more about them below 👇

The eye of the mother-in-law strikes again. "the eye of the mother-in-law" is a literal translation of a Romanian idiom used to describe someone who sees even the smallest imperfections, things that most other people wouldn't notice. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

“We wanted to create a way to celebrate those who have the courage to admit when they’ve made a mistake [...] Correcting the record shouldn’t be seen as a failure, but as a vital part of the scientific process. This award is about recognizing the integrity it takes to prioritize truth over ego”

Unfortunately, an accurate depiction of many data cleaning processes out there

This is awesome! No more (change code -> save plot -> open file)^n just to make sure your plot is readable

For journalists who want to dig into stories about scientific integrity: Here's an exciting new opportunity from two of my favorite science-journalism organizations, @retractionwatch.com and @theopennotebook.bsky.social. I'll be joining a webinar to help kick things off on March 26!

Weird, but I didn't get any party invitations by email. I would like to issue a correction and ask for party invitations to be sent via a GitHub Pull Request. bsky.app/profile/anam...

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Write your experiments and analysis code in such a way that a STAR editor at Psych Science highlights your paper. Hats off to @dillonplunkett.bsky.social who did a great job both on the science and diligently coding & documenting everything. Check out our methods to see our reproducibility approach.

I want to highlight this paper as one of the most smooth repro checks I've done as a STAR editor. There are 7 studies reported in the main paper, so plenty of data and code to work with. The authors had done a great job and the repro package was already quite good at the start of the checks (1/n)

Wrapping up my trilogy on how to put together a replication package: The Return of the Code i4replication.org/a-researcher... #econsky #openscience

Really cool talk

#PSE8 excited for this keynote

#PSE8 Keynote by Vlasta Sikimic

'Science doesn't correct itself. Someone has to do it' Douglas Allchin - a comedy of errors #PSE8

Reading list based on talks at #PSE8 perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com

Check out this cool reproducibility / robustness check: osf.io/auyq5/overview for Brody etal 2024 doi.org/10.1177/0956... as part of the i4R & Psychological Science collab

Now available on the OSF as part of a growing collection of preregistration resources, the new EEG & ERP Methods template guides researchers through every stage of ERP study planning. In our Q&A, two of its creators share how the template can help researchers at all stages:

ODISSEI Summer School 2026 is now open for applications📣 8–19 June | @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social | 5 ECTS. Learn to work with high-resolution, sensitive data in a secure environment and apply your skills in group research projects. Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 Participation is free 🔗 edu.nl/3t8pc

Here's a suggestion for a New Year's resolution: If you see influential bad research, say something. One part of the whole replication crisis story is that a lot of psychological researchers privately knew that a lot of stuff was bad, but it wasn't discussed publicly.

I was just reading "5. Taming Gnarly Nested Data With purr::modify_tree". Really cool and useful function that I didn't use before. Check it out!

Do you want to work with me?:) Please spread the word! We are looking for talented Post-doc candidates for a 10-month Junior Fellowship at the Behavioral Science Center, hosted by the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS). 1/6 www.the-bs-lab.com

Who else received an email asking them to evaluate LLM generated ideas to extend a preprint that they are a co-author of? Did it include the quoted paragraph?

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...