Sunsetting TOPFactor.org: What’s Changing and Why www.cos.io/blog/sunsett... @cos.io This comes unexpected. I know that the TOP factor drew criticism (what doesn't?) which is mentioned in the post. I don't think this is a good development. Finding curated information about journal policies is 1/

Since 2020, TOP Factor has helped researchers understand how journals support open practices. On March 16, 2026, COS will be sunsetting the tool. Read more about what prompted the decision, what we've learned, and the future of open and transparent policymaking: www.cos.io/blog/sunsett...

Meine Rede... Siehe mehrere Heisenberg Stipendiaten in meinen Bekanntenkreis, die irgendwie KEINE Uni überzeugen konnten bisher, sie mit diesen 3+2 JAHRE aufzunehmen. Ich meine... die bringen wortwörtlich über 1 Mio. mit. Aber nein. Und bevor es jemand einwirft: es liegt nicht an den Kandidaten!!

The volume of AI-enabled decent scientific work will overwhelm scientific journals and reviewers. Good post about this except it ends on a strange note, that Wiley and Elsevier AI tools might save us, which is both unlikely and would give even more power to them. open.substack.com/pub/thebsdet...

I'm sceptical of most "AI will kill [insert job/field/method]" takes, but I'm increasingly of the view that AI will kill Stata. What's the point in paying for it when a Claude Code Max subscription costs about the same and does the same things and more in R/Python, exponentially faster and better?

README Checklist by the Data Editors of Review of Financial Studies review-of-financial-studies.github.io/readme.html An extensive checklist that is very useful. README files are likely something that is left for LLMs in the future, but it could be based on this template then. #OpenScience

The way I think about this is that the distribution of effects is approximately sparse (most effects are very weak but nonzero). Journals/researchers are interested in effects that are surprising given that prior distribution.

Yes but a 2c from this political scientist: 1) in polisci, which is more open to qual methods/soft data than econ, the claude code shock may mean that qual data & original measurements will increase value 2) that "hopefully" is doing *a lot* of work but again women tend to select in qual meth so 🤞

Every academic in their 40s goes through this career/life stage where they decide that the journals are broken and stupid. It's mostly because they are bored of working on R+Rs given that the marginal benefit for their own career of another publication is close to zero.

New short blogpost! There are probably many benefits of sharing clinical trial data, including: Verifying results, better meta-analysis, understanding inconsistent results, further exploration, better clinical decision-making, learning how to run trials better, and reducing redundancy.

💡Wie tragen #Forschungsprojekte dazu bei, die #Sichtbarkeit innovativer Frauen zu erhöhen? Forschungsergebnisse, Maßnahmen und Formate finden Sie auf unserer Website! @bukof.bsky.social @frauenrat.bsky.social @infect-net.bsky.social @aktarcha.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @unidue.bsky.social

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

Welcome to #OpenScience Land expedition-open-science.org This is a lightweight, but very useful and accessible intro to key elements of Open Science (online and as a PDF). Seems particularly useful for introducing the topic to undergraduates @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social

Don't you f**king dare.

Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed: Collectively, the files underscore how deeply Epstein remained embedded in academic and intellectual circles even after his criminal history became public. www.chronicle.com/article/here...

New sci-hub just dropped.

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The FORRT Replication Database has received a massive overhaul (FReD 2.0): We double-coded and validated all data from scratch and extended it in the course of a one-year-partnership with the @cos.io. We just switched to a faster interface thanks to @lukaswallrich.bsky.social’s wizardry.

It's a beautiful plot, but it's terribly misleading about the impact of pre-registration. More recent studies (with higher sample sizes) find very little impact of pre-registration on the publication of null results. Here's a thread with some references (1/N)

“Replications as Registered Reports” at Small Business Economics link.springer.com/journal/1118... Laudable goal, but open science and meta science may collide here. When code & data of original study are available, all replications (however defined) that do not rely on new data cannot be prereg'd

"[Epstein] was arrested in 2006 & pleaded guilty in 2008" "Ariely & Epstein met at least 7 times from 2010-2016" "Ariely is named 636 times in the more than 3 million additional files released" "Neither Ariely nor Duke responded to ... requests for comment" www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Relatedly I wonder what are the current elite boys club networks still in existence in academia? Being a woman in this environment de facto feels like a virtue and a curse at once. The lightness of being unaware and untainted by such depravity; the alienation of always being the outsider looking in.

New submission format at SBE: “Replications as Registered Reports” link.springer.com/journal/1118... You can get "in-principle acceptance" before data collection even begins; final paper gets published regardless the results, if the study is conducted rigorously. #EconSky

Thoughts on averaging over 10 thousand citations a year in the last 10 years? Is this possible in healthcare research or a sign of unethical behaviour by inflating citations? 🤔 Curious to hear some perspectives! #academicsky #metascience

Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... 669 pages were cut to 267 pages. It "doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality."

Commentary on Nagy et al. (2025): Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology

one thing that's crazy about Claude code is I'm realizing I can basically finally do all the large-scale econ papers I thought about in grad school but which seemed like would require ten lifetimes of coding to actually execute; maybe theory is fun again?

I was wondering when LLMs were to be integrated in a LaTeX, here by OpenAI. prism.openai.com It looks okay and LLM-assistance can be useful for debugging. In this form, I find the interface a bit limited and not obviously superior to a good LLM-free program such as TexStudio. 1/

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

💥New | Why write a literature review if AI can do it for you? ✍️ Gorgi Krlev, @timothyrhannigan.bsky.social & @andrespicer.bsky.social #AcWri #SocialScience #LitReviews

📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published: doi.org/10.1162/QSS.... @tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)

"Our job is to find the correct choice of specifications, not to see how many changes a result is robust to. A result can be completely correct, and yet not be robust to even small changes; conversely, a result can be robust to many different changes, and yet be wrong." By @captgouda24.bsky.social

Who cares and has ever cared about the location of a book publisher? How much time have researchers wasted on figuring out this information?

"I temporarily disabled the ‘data consent’ option [...] At that moment, all of my chats were permanently deleted and the project folders were emptied — two years of carefully structured academic work disappeared" imagine treating a chatbot as a cloud storage/office suite

When two years of academic work [using ChatGPT] vanished with a single click www.nature.com/articles/d41... "these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind". I don't to express Schadenfreude here bc I don't feel it, but this was clear from the 1/

Was würden Sie denken, wenn Ihr Prof Ihren Namen vom gemeinsamen Manuskript streicht – und zugleich gegen ein Gesetz zum Schutz vor Machtmissbrauch protestiert? Mein Artikel zum Konflikt über das geplante NRW-Hochschulrecht im Wiarda-Blog: 👉 jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/01/23/der-lange-weg-zur-integritaet

Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/ A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero

"Nach Angaben der Gewerkschaft plant die Universität, an verschiedenen Fakultäten bis zu 20 befristete Stellen nicht zu verlängern. Insbesondere treffe dies Promovierende. Ihnen würden zunehmend Anschlussverträge verwehrt." Es ist crazy, was da gerade passiert. www.lvz.de/lokales/leip...

Wieder mal so ein Tag, an dem die DB Navigator App die App mit dem größten AKkuverbrauch ist.

Publication of Replication Materials for “Political Cleavages within Industry: Firm-Level Lobbying for Trade Liberalization” | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @adam42smith.bsky.social, what's the deal here? It is laudable to encourage 1/

If you're starting out in academia my advice would be to balance the quality and quantity of your publications. Aim for a mixed portfolio of some slower, higher risk publications, and some safe, lower risk, but sound papers. 🧵 1/5

Stop celebrating researchers with many publications rogue-scholar.org/records/dbgq... by @heidiseibold.bsky.social This is right on the point. One should also stop speaking of hyperprolific authors (www.nature.com/articles/d41...) In science, being prolific should not be judged by mere output. 1/

'The Trump administration is directing employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” ' www.propublica.org/article/trum... Does not seem to exclude any country

Not quite the second season of A Man on the Inside, but there are some affinities.

interesting paper on external validity by Breen and Pan, again very strange that this piece appears in the KZfSS link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Okay, this data availability statement is correct because one can find the reproduction material for the article on the Dataverse. However, one has to search for it using the article title. Added value would have been to include the Dataverse DOI here.

"Confirmation Bias" in Kombination mit "Researcher Degrees of Freedom" und "Motivated Reasoning". Deshalb gibt es eine lange Reihe an Schritten, bevor eine Studie freigegeben wird. www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/ergeb...