New article from @mattmakel.bsky.social, Melanie Meyer, and Mary Pei about qualitative replication.

🚀 2026 Big Team Science Conference 🗓️ October 6-8 on Zoom This conference convenes researchers, funders, and stakeholders to discuss advancements, challenges, and future opportunities related to big team science. Featured sessions include leaders of COS's SCORE project!

Using headers at the start of your code files provides a helpful introduction to your project. One way you can standardize this information is through code snippets in R! Once the snippet is created and named ("header" in this case), just enter the name and press tab and voila!

Per @tressiemcphd.bsky.social this is gold: 1. Polling we did in ME shows same. Data centers are underwater in every subgroup we poll in. 2. Local organizing as party building LFG 3. Please grad students this is a great area for a dissertation.

⭐ New blog post from the NIH-funded Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)—comprised of 7 generalist repositories including OSF. GREI’s Year 4 update showcases new shared standards, improved dataset discovery, and practical tools shaped by community input.

Thank you for sharing! SocArXiv is accepting an average of 12.9 papers per day in 2026 -- a 50% increase from 2025. Kudos to our moderation team, who are working very hard to efficiently get your real research up while weeding out the rising tide of AI slop.

🆕 The Open Scholarship Training for Researchers Series offers self-paced online courses created in response to researchers' needs. Each focuses on a core open scholarship practice, with real-world examples. First two courses enrolling now; more to come through Winter 2026!

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about how OpenAI’s missed revenue targets threaten the stability of the circular AI economy, and how token-based billing is increasingly costing as much as a human employee. youtu.be/fmK40iq-U6Y?...

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

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Larry Ellison’s TikTok forcing “AI Remixing” onto their entire user base without their knowledge or consent is a really great microcosm of what US tech overlordship looks like — and why the backlash against this technology is only growing.

🗞️ A recent editorial in The Guardian draws on SCORE findings to examine how replication results are interpreted: “Not every failed replication signals a crisis...Results that don’t consistently replicate should be weighed against a wider evidence base when guiding policy”

In our latest researcher Q&A, research scientist and biostatistician Alisha Bruton shares how she integrates open science into her workflow, navigates data sharing in collaborative research, and applies FAIR principles to help make research more findable and reusable. 💡

What can large-scale studies tell us about reproducibility? In our webinar on April 16, researchers from COS, I4R, and META-REP will discuss findings from three papers—one from the recently published SCORE effort—and insights on reproducibility, transparency, and credibility cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

New on the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) blog: highlights from the Streamlining Data Sharing webinar series, featuring practical guidance and tools, real-world user stories, solutions to common data sharing challenges, and more! 📖 medium.com/@blog-gre...

COS is pleased to welcome Chris Bourg (MIT) and Marcus Munafò (University of Bath) to our Board of Directors. Their leadership in equitable open scholarship, research culture reform, and metascience will help shape how the next phase of our work unfolds. 🎉

📋 TOP 101: An Overview of the Transparency & Openness Promotion Guidelines April 1, 11 AM ET Learn about the TOP framework, which provides recommendations for journals, funders, universities, & researchers about practices that can increase verifiability of research claims.

The 2025 COS Impact Report is now live! From open infrastructure to research initiatives, policy engagement, and global partnerships, see what COS accomplished over the past year to advance transparent, rigorous, and accessible research. 🔍 Check out the report: www.cos.io/impact

⏰ REMINDER: Applications for AREN's Local Network Leads program are open through March 16. This program trains researchers & research professionals in #Africa to become #openscience leaders who can establish a community of practice at their institution. Learn more & apply:

Replication Research (R2), a 🆕 community-led Diamond OA journal, makes replication studies more discoverable, publishable & rigorously evaluated—without subscription barriers or author fees. Ahead of #LoveReplicationsWeek, R2's senior editors shared their vision in our Q&A:

The updated Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) flowchart offers clearer guidance and a more streamlined decision pathway to help researchers, librarians, and support teams choose the most appropriate generalist repository for their data. 📖 medium.com/@blog-gre...

🚀 NASA Summer Internship: Open Science Impact This summer internship offers an opportunity to work with a NASA mentor on efforts to assess how open science practices accelerate discovery & broaden participation in science. Deadline: Feb 27. Application portal: stemgateway.nasa.gov/s/course-off...

📎 AREN's Local Network Leads (LNLs) program supports #Africa based researchers by training open science leaders to establish and lead local communities of practice at their institutions. Apply now for this virtual 9-month open science leadership training program! ⬇️ africanrn.org/announcement...

New preprint! 🎉 Led by @heeminkang.bsky.social, we found that a brief teaching intervention (20 min lecture + student activity) improved some aspects open science knowledge and attitudes in students taking an undergrad health psych course osf.io/preprints/ps...

Preprint (Updated): An Analysis of the Effects of Open Science Indicators on #Citations in the French Open Science Monitor arxiv.org/abs/2508.20747 #openscience #scholcomm #osi

Happy Love Data Week! 💘 Issue 32 of RDM Weekly is out! ➡️ Creating a Data Sharing Community @harvarddataverse.bsky.social ➡️ Affording Reusable Data @nature.com ➡️ README Checklist @christophscheuch.bsky.social ➡️ Project Management Tools and more! #rdmweekly rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

New #RSOS paper: ‘Don’t hate the players, hate the game’: qualitative insights from education researchers on questionable and open research practices. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @mattmakel.bsky.social @sarahcaroleo.bsky.social @jesse-fleming.bsky.social @bryancook.bsky.social

📢 Applications are open for the 2026 Modern Meta-Analysis Research Institute (MMARI). This 5-day workshop funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is tailored for early-career education researchers with little to no prior meta-analysis experience. Apply by 3/15: www.meta-analysis-re...

PREreview joins #LoveData26 celebration with a strong commitment to encouraging open peer review of diverse research outputs, including datasets. 📊 Try out our modular review workflow for datasets here: prereview.org/review-a-dat... Learn more: bit.ly/dataset-work... @lovedataweek.bsky.social

Celebrating Love Data Week, we presented an introduction to Open Data & Research Data Management at LMU Munich, highlighting practical resources and real-world data stewardship experiences. 📽️ Recording & slides: osf.io/ytc7m/ Contributions: @lmu.de Research Funding Unit, Library, and SFB 1369.

Join us for the LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK from March 2 - 6 with talks on reproductions, replications, how to find them, how to conduct them, how to have them conducted on your study, where to publish them, and much more!

When chatbots are given complete information on medical conditions, they typically spit out correct diagnoses and recommendations. Actual patients, however, often describe their conditions with incomplete or irrelevant information and the chatbots cannot handle it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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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.

🚀 Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person 🚀 3 days. 4 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore. 📆 4-6 May 2026 | Münster, Germany  ✈️ Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded) Apply by 16 March ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2 🧵👇 What we will build?

Every time birthright citizenship comes up, I think about my dissertation on anti-immigrant attitudes and the feedback I got from the (now openly) maple MAGA grad student who said that "no one would seriously think like this" lol

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

“AI-Generated Homogeneity” - new cartoon and post marketoonist.com/2024/11/ai-g... “Homogeneity is ultimately at odds with distinctiveness. As with all tools, it’s all in how you use them.” #marketing #ai #cartoon #marketoon

Super exciting to see COS committing to putting TOP into practice in its own roles as a publisher, funder, and research performing organization. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing the implementation for the research team - so much great metascience coming out of this group.

Turning abstract policy into real-world practice is challenging, and sometimes messy. In the coming months, COS will highlight how we and other in the research community are putting the TOP Guidelines into action in real research settings. 💡 Learn more in our blog post:

-- Bias Bias -- “Ultimately, views about the nature of bias can themselves become a bias in research on biases.” Gerd Gigerenzer considers “Two Kinds of Bias” 🧵

The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time. scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/

If you're looking for examples of how to organize a data sharing repository, what documentation to include, how to name files, or how to organize data files, the FIDO (fictitious intervention for demonstration only) project on OSF provides some examples. osf.io/59gte/overview

Israel is de-registering major nongovernmental aid groups from helping people in the Palestinian territories, according to several officials with humanitarian organizations. n.pr/42R8gJ2

Who Owns Our Knowledge? We asked thought leaders around the world how the #OAweek theme resonates with their work. Thanks to Angela Holzer & Michaela Bilic-Merdes from the German Research Foundation for sharing their insights. Learn more in our profile here: www.openaccessweek.org/theme-profil...

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.