When I take train journeys, I sometimes write things. Things that I probably shouldn't publish

To anyone who may have been present at my talk today in which I intimated that you can just, you know, do this: you can just, you know, do this.

Registered reports now

For many social dilemma's in Science (e.g. the slow uptake of diamond open access journals) stronger top down management is necessary. It won't just happen. If scientists will not create this management themselves, someone is going to create it for us.

For comparison, the profits of four publishers (2.64B) amount to 5.58% of the FY2024 NIH budget. Revenues (7.36B) are *15.52%*. I agree with the authors' perspective that funders, governments, and universities should lead efforts to change this. All journals should be diamond open-access.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔍Find out about the replicability crisis across fields & open research initiatives you can implement in your own work! Attend the “Replicability Crisis” lecture by Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt (@nicebread.bsky.social) on Mon 15 Sept, 9:45-10:45. 👉Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

This was an absolutely brilliant talk. SV: “Journal prestige is here to stay, but we shouldn’t give it away for free.”

This is what I've been saying since 2023 (image below) "prediction: use of "AI" [...] will come to be broadly associated with cheating, deception, lack of respect for other people, and low quality work that cannot be trusted in important settings"

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

This is unfortunate: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

Hi folks! Want to reintroduce a thing I'm leading at @cos.io: the Registered Revisions (meta) Trial. This project about new peer review policy and a WILD new way of doing actionable evidence generation via RCTs. A LOT of RCTs. Now piloted and ready for the main stage, and looking for partners! 🧵👇

We're delighted to be part of this new Registered Reports funding partnership - or RRFP - with @improvingpsych.org! RRFPs boost the efficiency of RRs by integrating grant review and Stage 1 review. Authors submit before they have funding & then receive Stage 1 acceptance + funding at the same time

New personal record of desk rejects 🥳 I am taking a note of journals that take over a month for the desk 📖 It is also a unusual situation where pretty much everything has been already reviewed at eLife on our Neuro paper (click for open reviews), now the sample size is just substantially larger.

Worth reading in full. Many important implications here: * Wiley can only publish preprinted papers if final version differs substantially from preprint * After peer review, preprints are no longer preprints (careful with resubmissions!) * Wiley will change journal policies without consulting EiC

This is just *nuts* from Wiley. A preprint that has been revised, say following submission & rejection by one journal (ie authors modify and reorient based on reviewer feedback before trying somewhere else) is no longer a preprint? So only virgin preprints are acceptable to a Wiley journal??

If Wiley is PCI-hostile, I am now Wiley-hostile. No more reviewing/publishing with them from me.

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

Friends, I have news. It is very good news. You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid. jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...

I'll talk about Bayesian workflow Thu 24th April 11-12 CEST in Learn Bayes seminar by Karolinska Institutet @ki.se learnbayes.se/events/bayes... (zoom available) The focus will be different to my previous workflow talks (see users.aalto.fi/~ave/videos....). This time more flowcharts and shortcuts

New pre-print out. We tackle the most common criticisms of NHST and show how to adress them. With NHST 🤯

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

OK I had announced this before but forgot to say that Andrew Gelman would be joining Nancy Cartwright and myself as well. Short idea talks, lots of panel discussion and Q&A. Join us on April 25th to discuss RCTs, replications, and scientific inference. sites.google.com/view/cepbi/t...

The meta-analysis on the relationship between Fluoride and IQ by Taylor et al. (2025) that RFK Jr. has cited contains major methodological flaws and data integrity issues that we describe in the following pre-print (submitted to meta-psychology): osf.io/preprints/os...

Okay, I'm not done yet but I have been instructed to head to the #EuroCIM2025 student mixer and I guess you get the idea. I've been struggling to explain this in talks just working with the equations; I think the figures should make it a lot easier to follow along.

Chuffed and excited to announce a new journal section in Cortex: *Methods and Assumptions* is open for submissions starting today! Read the opening editorial here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

🎓Paper time!✨ #ICLR spotlight. Concluding of 5 years of research on missing values handling for prediction: Beware of diminishing returns in imputation for prediction. 1/8

Agree that promoting registered reports > replication studies. Great review of a book I now need to read

One of the NIMH PIs whose name is the termination list: Sooyhun Lee, whose lab just published this beautiful @nature.com paper (that has received too little press because comms at NIH are down). Read! Cite! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm not sure that our study necessarily implies that one should not average trials - averaging will always have its place. However, our results do show that there is substantial and meaningful variability across trials that is lost when averaging. #neuroscience #neuroskyence

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

📚 Results reporting for clinical trials led by medical universities and university hospitals in the Nordic countries was often missing or delayed www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Elisabeth Bik has donated her $200k Einstein Foundation Award to create a fund to train and support research integrity investigators

Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience. It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day. If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

📖 Open Social Psychology Textbook 📖 Call for Contributors 🙋🏻‍♀️ New FORRT initiative to develop an open-access textbook on social psychology. Goal: summarize 🏛️ classical findings 🏛️ and discuss them in light of replication attempts. 🧵 Find out how you can get involved below 👇

⏰ The CRACK IT open call for 3Rs Challenges closes on Monday 10 February. If your organisation is facing a scientific or research challenge that could be solved with a 3Rs approach, get in touch to discuss and submit your idea to sponsor a Challenge. 💡 Find out more: nc3rs.org.uk/crackit/news...

Save the date! Our next in-person PYMS symposium will be held at Tilburg University on June 5th. Our event is made possible by an @opensciencenl.bsky.social meeting grant. Follow our page to be kept up to date, or join our mailing list: eepurl.com/i8xz7g

Topics: ☑️ Reporting guidelines & risk of bias measures ☑️ Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) ☑️ Study flow charts ☑️ Method reproducibility & protocol registration ☑️ Spreadsheet data management & Data repositories ☑️ Data visualization Register now: www.bihealth.org/en/translati...

RESTORES (research integrity in biomedical research). Discover our research with 3 different research domains: zombie trials, nepotistic editors and financial conflicts of interest.

Talk I gave at the University of Coimbra now online: "Understanding and improving science | Collaborative Open-science & meta REsearch (CORE) team" Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agp_... Details 👇🧵

My latest NYT essay – a taste of what’s coming in my book “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s” to be published Feb 4. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but I believe that an academic career carves out a special place in being one of the few career paths that can have deep impact on the world, is societally respected, and is friendly to all sorts of disability. The vetting procedure which stands between you and

Great to see the meta-research, "Aberrant Abundance of Cronbach’s Alpha Values at .70", by @ianhussey.bsky.social, @taymalsalti.bsky.social, Frank Bosco, @malte.the100.ci and @ruben.the100.ci was published in AMPPS of @psychscience.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Wouldn't it be nice if u could read a published pharma-sponsored clinical trial about some new drug & be confident that the results are what they appear to be? @chrisdc77 & I think it's very achievable using the @RegReports peer review model. Our proposal ⬇️ www.openpharma.blog/blog/transpa...

Meta-science postdoc position (3yrs): Agent-based modeling of academia 📍 Munich, Germany (Remote/hybrid options may be available) 🗣️ Felix Schönbrodt @nicebread.bsky.social, director of @lmu-osc.bsky.social 📅 application: 21.01.2025, start: March-July 2025 www.psy.lmu.de/pm/aktuelles...

Finally our editorial for the "What makes a good theory?" special issue is out (co-edited with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, @jcskewes.bsky.social, Sashank Varma, and Todd Wareham). It's an interdisciplinary issue and the contents are transdisciplinary. #philsci #metasci #cogsci #ai #psych 🧪

Great to hear about the Dam Foundation’s Registered Report initiative for medical research. They offer an incentive for Registered Report applications—approximately a 10% higher chance of being awarded a grant