Scientific Publishing Industry Faces (US) Federal Scrutiny www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... Trump admin is aiming at publishing industry, but also science more broadly, from multiple angles, including peer review, APCs and creating new outlets with questionable standards

Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Academic economists forming connections on social media show a bias toward certain races, genders, and elite institutions, say researchers at @mcgill.ca, Sao Paulo School of Economics, and MIT. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

„Die Exzellenzstrategie hat sich überlebt.“ CSU-Politiker Robert Brannekämper fordert im Interview mehr Tempo beim Hochschulbau, eine echte BAföG-Reform und weniger Drittmittelzirkus. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/10...

Some personal news to share www.mpg.de/25487784/aus...

The EA/rationalists funding Metascience have happened upon the wild worry that they’ll speed science up too much and we’ll all die. Don’t worry, they have a solution!

If you face discrimination (or not) for doing evidence synthesis and/or meta-research, this is for you 👇🏼 engage.cochrane.org/tasks/4193

Still presenting regression results in tables? Why not forest plots? www.mihiretukebede.com/posts/2025-0... #dataviz This meets with this #polisci article from 2007 jkastellec.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file... I think the number of plots has gone up over time, but not by much across journals

Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science Dates: 20-22 October Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

I hope the #PhilSci crowd can help: I remember a paper discussing absences in causation. It has on the first pages a 2x2 table relating presence/absence of cause and effect to each other. Probably from 2000s, or 2010s. I remember neither title nor author, I hope someone knows what I am talking about

Wenn die Deutschen @robert-habeck.de zurück wollen, müssen sie nur überall neue Kölner Dome bauen. Ein Kölner Dom in jedem Dorf keeps the SPD away. Oder so.

Replication Forensics svmiller.com/blog/2025/09... #MetaScience #OpenScience Means attempting to verify (= same data) an analysis without original code (for whatever reason). I agree this can be a great exercise for students, now probably assisted by LLMs to translate verbalization of analysis 1/

Colleagues from a large, well-resourced Mexican institution were telling me "well, publishing 3 peer-reviewed journal articles per year is not impossible to achieve". And unfortunately for them I'm now senior enough that I can tell them to FUCK RIGHT OFF without fear of any consequences.

50+ scientific societies sign letter objecting to Trump executive order arstechnica.com/science/2025... One of the many mind-boggling provisions in the EO is possibility 'to cancel previously awarded grants at any time if they're considered to "no longer advance agency priorities." ' 1/

Okay, possibly stupid #rstats question. By now we’re all aware that rm(list=ls()) is not a safe trick to ensure a script is running in a clean environment. But… are there tools that you could use to do better *within* a script, such that the script errors on line 1 if it detects a dirty environment?

Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci

Causal nihilism like this will get us nowhere, folks! At the very least, turn that value judgment into a quantitatively grounded estimate of sensitivity.

Good points if you exclude validity of task-accomplishment, increasing fraud potential in teaching / research & associated time costs, dependency on non-academic AI producers or exploding energy costs for universities, & increasing over-use of natural resources from "AI's role in science".

At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....

"Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results" Paper out today in PLoS Medicine by many of us who would like to see publication bias reduced or eliminated. Especially happy that Registered Reports got shout-outs. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

This post has instantly made me feel 10x better about all the times I failed to reason about logit coefficients

New blog post from Data Colada, responding to the recent criticisms on p-curve analysis. It is a *very* good response. As in, it addresses exactly the points I would have expected in a reply, and it explains why I will still teach p-curve analysis. datacolada.org/129

Can anyone point me to the simulation studies showing that p-curve performs well under realistic conditions? And any done by someone else than pcurve authors? As far as I know, p-curve fails horrendously as long as any heterogeneity is involved... doi.org/10.1177/1745... doi.org/10.1002/jrsm...

Tidy simulation: Designing robust, reproducible, and scalable Monte Carlo simulations #StatsSky arxiv.org/abs/2509.11741 It is not formally linked to the {tidyverse}, bit affinity is obvious. The paper does a solid job in describing the simulation workflow, could be useful for intros to simulation

as a big fun of multiverse, I am really happy to see a nice tutorial was just out: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Congrats to @epronizius.bsky.social, @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social & @psysciacc.bsky.social (sorry i did not follow all of the authors here) #Metascience #OpenScience

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

The LLM tools book for R book by @liomys.mx is an excellent resource. luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/

When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions www.nature.com/articles/d41... I understand AI can make the review process more efficient and that funders have an incentive to use it when application numbers increase. There are some concerns, of course, 1/

Researchers often perceive 'barriers' to practicing #OpenScience, whether it’s publishing open access, sharing data, or pre-registering studies. Last week at @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social, I presented our work at NSCR identifying 36 such distinct barriers. Do you recognize them in your own work?

Everyone should know how to render a ggplot2 pie chart in 3d via rayshader. If margins are bad, just adjust the aspect ratio and angle until it looks good. If stakeholders still have questions, increase the shadow intensity.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Just a thought but academics on limited contracts doing major teaching and research load at universities want stability and transparent rules on job prospects not a “postdoc appreciation week” #ichbinhanna

Friends don't let friends give preregistration a bad name. Exploratory findings are fine; you just have to label them!

Beyond ‘we used ChatGPT’: a new way to declare #AI in research www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro... Given uncertainty about how to deal with AI, I guess this proposal makes much sense. LLMs are basically treated as a kind of co-author whose contributions should be made transparent 1/

A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

Seen recently but lost: an irate and falsely confident letter to the editor by some person who thought that a change had to be a change of five percentage points or more to be statistically significant. Anyone know where I can locate it so I can use it in an exam?

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#rstats #econsky PSA: The next release of `fixest` will include some important changes (plus cool new features). E.g. Fixed-effects regs will now default to 'iid' SEs rather than clustered. github.com/lrberge/fixe... You can install and test drive the dev version from R-universe; see the README.

Wrote this on the train home from Metascience. Can’t quite believe this one needed saying, but I really think that if conversations about research integrity and open science don’t take academic bullying seriously, we’ll keep perpetuating the same system that science reform was trying to change.

Nearly 3 months since I contacted both the authors and editor of @jama.com about failure to share data. Article states data and code is available, but the github repo is empty. Not private or partial, empty. Has never contained anything. No replies from anyone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Bitte unterstützt und teilt diese #Petition gegen den Vorschlag zu Kürzungen im Bereich der #Politikwissenschaft an der @wisocologne.bsky.social der @unicologne.bsky.social chng.it/Cv8rQSvW4H

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I realize the world is burning, but here is the abstract of a talk I will give multiple times in different formats this month. With the feedback, I hope to write up something substantial on the theme in the remainder of the year.

I have finally gotten round to writing my AI Use Statement for a grad. course I'm teaching in Gen AI... I would be grateful of your thoughts!