A brief reflection about metascience in Australia from us (AIMOS) at today's 'Meta Moment' workshop at the University of Melbourne. osf.io/ghq2r/files/...

What riles me up about “people tried to shut down PP research” is that Cuddy’s own coauthor-turned-critic Carney guest-edited a whole special issue of Registered Reports on Power Posing (incl a meta-analysis), which shows strong evidence against PP even though most authors clearly weren’t sceptics.

Amongst all the rubbish that I have seen in peer reviewed papers, this data is the worst. There are sketches, images of children (with no mention of ethics) and multiple celebrities, whilst the paper states: "A smart camera located in patient rooms has been used to collect images".

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝 "Editorial expressions of concern are infrequent even for researchers with multiple retracted publications – An observational study" Andrew Grey, Alison Avenell & Mark Bolland → doi.org/10.1080/0898... #ResearchIntegrity #Retraction #AcademicPublishing

New article on regulation of research misconduct in Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our penultimate board member introduction is to our vice president, Aidan Tan. He somehow finds time to serve as VP, practice medicine, and work on a PhD in metascience. www.linkedin.com/posts/day-8-...

Well, #WCRI2026 was an amazing conference! Spent 5 days mingling with #ResearchIntegrity enthusiasts from all disciplines! Inspiring to hear all the efforts going towards battling #papermills Huge thanks to @jabyrnesci.bsky.social for organising this sleuth get together. Too many legends to tag! 💜

What a moment! 🌟 @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social, @pubpeer.com, and Tim Errington @cos.io on stage at #WCRI2026 For our 5-year-old #EinsteinFoundationAward, there's no better birthday present than seeing our winners on the world's premier stage for research integrity.

Next, Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social, @pubpeer.com, with "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer" Set up as online journal club - to share information or concerns with other readers of certain papers - it serves as a global evaluation of papers. #WCRI2026

Solutions

New preprint: Preregistration is supposed to make research more transparent. But if registry records aren't kept up to date, the transparency benefit erodes. We checked 1,137 psych meta-analyses on PROSPERO and found the records are systematically out of sync with reality osf.io/preprints/ps...

💡So much research is already free to read in Australia – but it’s not getting the support it needs #DiamondOA theconversation.com/so-much-rese...

I’m hiring a PhD student! The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Day 7 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today is Patrick Forscher, Director of the CREME meta-research team at Busara, a research and advisory nonprofit headquartered in Nairobi that does behavioral science in service of alleviating poverty. www.linkedin.com/posts/associ...

Day 6 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have returning board member Kylie Hunter, of the NHMRC Clinical Trial Centre: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Nature research paper: Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences go.nature.com/3OhvkfP

But peer review is a great signal of credibility!

Is the current political crisis also revealing cracks in the move to open science in many countries? It's a fertile topic and also the focus of @metaror.bsky.social's current call for papers.

🔊SAVE THE DATE for our 6th SORTEE conference: 13-14th Oct 2026! Registration & content submission (unconferences, hackathons, workshops) will open soon. Keep an👁️on sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2026 To join the mailing list for conference updates, click: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Day 5 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Thank you @ginagrimshaw.bsky.social for joining the board and leading the 2026 conference! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Imposter participants?? Very glad to co-host this webinar with the NSW Health Statewide Biobank and @jabyrnesci.bsky.social. Find it at: teams.microsoft.com/meet/4182560... Meeting ID: 418 256 007 984 26 Passcode: gp9pp7aT

Our friends at EPIC have an important talk scheduled in about a week and a half, about the relevance of foreign decisions for drug approvals: uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85895443588

Sadly, I think the CRediT taxonomy is being misused. Anyone can just make stuff up about paper contributions. Here we have an article where 5 authors were credited with "visualisation" in a paper with no figures. pubpeer.com/publications...

AIMOS is so glad to see all of Simine's well-earned successes! (come see her give a plenary talk at our 2026 conference in Wellington ... 😉)

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝 "Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers" David B. Resnik & @mhmdhsini.bsky.social → www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HallucinatedCitation

Day 4 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Thank you @fidlerfm.bsky.social for returning to AIMOS leadership this year! www.linkedin.com/posts/associ...

Very glad to have you on board!

researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/why-metasc... The publishing landscape unequally burdens countries with less wealth, from our friends at @rorinstitute.bsky.social

Jennifer Byrne (@jabyrnesci.bsky.social) reviews Max H. Bazerman’s 'Inside an Academic Scandal', a narrative of research misconduct, institutional response, and the ethical challenges surrounding fraud in academia. journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi...

Australian councils launch national research integrity review #ResearchIntegrity #Australia #WCRI2026 #WCRI www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

March 19 @ 12 pm ET! As AI is integrated into scientific practice, the practice of science itself is changing. Join Ranjit Singh, Kristin M. Branson, Lisa Messeri, & Nicole C. Nelson to explore what this means for the nature of proof, inference, uncertainty, & error. datasociety.net/events/the-c...

Day 3 of introducing our 2026 board is Joanna Diong! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

As an addendum to our last post, it's worth noting that some AI models do quite good 'peer' reviews, from the @rorinstitute.bsky.social blog: researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/no-paper-i...

One advantage of open peer review is that research users can tell that one of the reviews was plainly performed by AI (and not even well). wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-26. Under the closed model, we have no idea how rigorous the review process was.

In late 2024, Cuellar et al published a review of all the studies purporting to validate firearms analysis (eg techniques associating a found bullet to a particular gun). They found 'fatal' errors in each one. Surprisingly, we disagree: doi.org/10.1093/lpr/...

@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Two days ago, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) released a joint statement about promoting research integrity. Let's hold them to it! www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...

events.humanitix.com/metascience-... Join us for our first metascience seminar of the year, featuring Harrison Hansford and a discussion about the inferences we can safely draw from observational studies.

Day 2 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board (aimos.community/team) is Dr Xanthi Coskinas. Xanthi is our brilliant treasurer. She is also Program Manager for Clinical Research at the University of Sydney, where she has more than two decades of experience managing clinical trials.

Day 1 of introducing our 2026 AIMOS Board (aimos.community/team) is @drjbeaudry.bsky.social. Jen is the 2025 AIMOS president and a long time champion of open and rigorous research methods. www.flinders.edu.au/people/jen.b...

Upcoming talk about AI use among scientists: www.linkedin.com/posts/associ...

ARC Future Fellow assessments are now up. Best wishes to all that celebrate.

We finally have a Linkedin page! Follow there for longer form updates about AIMOS and other news. www.linkedin.com/company/asso... Thanks!

@metaror.bsky.social has made some major decisions about its deployment of DOIs:We will mint separate DOIs for peer-reviewed preprints using the 'article' reference type. @ludowaltman.bsky.social and André Brasil lay out our reasoning here: www.crossref.org/blog/innovat...

We are now a partner journal of @metaror.bsky.social, @jcre.bsky.social, and The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing). Read the full announcement here: www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...

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:

AIMOS is very glad to partner up with @improvingpsych.org for our 2027 conference!

Replications and data sharing help make more precise claims in physics too! phys.org/news/2026-01...

To bring in the New Year, here's a proposal for external regulation of academic publishing, through a voluntary system of journal certification to the ISO 9001 quality management standard. 🧪 #ResearchIntegrity (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Court: University disclosure of researcher’s misconduct did not violate due process #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI retractionwatch.com/2026/01/05/f...