📰 New preprint: Replicability and transparency in physical therapy research: Time to wake up 📰 Where does physical therapy stand on the replication crisis and open-science practices? We have identified significant shortcomings in current physical therapy research practice 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Replicability and transparency in physical therapy research: Time to wake up! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...

Le monde médical aussi porte un regard biaisé sur les personnes handicapées

Great question! Indeed @metaror.bsky.social and @peercommunityin.bsky.social have a lot in common, and in fact the MetaROR model was partly inspired by the great work done by Peer Community In (PCI). However, there are also various differences between MetaROR and PCI. Let me highlight two of them.

Explicit attitudes toward people with disabilities became less unfavourable over the 19 years of the study, irrespective of occupation. This effect was not observed for implicit attitudes. utppublishing.com/eprint/CXG7E... doi.org/10.3138/ptc-...

New paper with @richarddmorey.bsky.social now out in JASA, where we critically examine p-curve. Below is Richard’s excellent summary of the many poor statistical properties of p-curve (with link to paper). I wanted to add some conceptual issues that we also tackle in the paper.

Should I say “disabled people” or “people with disabilities”? Out of 519 disabled people from 23 countries: 49% preferred identity-first language (disabled people), 33% preferred person-first language (people with disabilities), and 18% had no preference. doi.org/10.1145/3517...

Health care professionals (physicians, physical therapists, nurses, etc.) are not immune to bias against people with physical disabilities. They exhibit similarly unfavourable attitudes as individuals in non-health care occupations. doi.org/10.52057/erj...

📣 New preprint 📣 The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-... @ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

'Wiley had attempted to keep the journal going without an academic editorial team in place, but those efforts have now come to an end. The publisher says, “All authors with active submissions will be contacted directly by Wiley to discuss available alternatives and next steps.”'

Many alternatives to NIH's APC caps discussed, including "If the goal is genuinely to lower costs, then the agency could direct that a portion of each grant be used to support institutional repositories and diamond open access journals. " doi.org/10.54900/j3c.... #openaccess freejournals.org

"a real problem that we have in the scientific community...the word retraction is associated with the notion of wrongdoing or lack of integrity" www.science.org/content/arti...

7000 steps a day keeps the doctor away

My colleague Quentin Atkinson wrote this piece - How Not To Run a University. It is an insanely good read about how managerialism is destroying universities. Make time for it. Talk about it. Share it. quentinatkinson.substack.com/s/how-not-to...

<TMS best practices> Hi folks, Could you please point me to the most up-to-date consensus paper you're aware of relating to TMS safety? Number of pulses / intensities / frequencies / other parameters etc. I want to take as wide a look at the literature as possible. Please repost for visibility!

"The dysfunctions of scientific publishing that your article so aptly captured derive from two forces [...] - researchers are incentivised to publish as much as possible and publishers make more money if they publish more papers." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"Review mills: groups of reviewers who generate boilerplate peer reviews that do not evaluate the content of the article, and so can be applied to almost any field. Their main function appears to be to act as citation vehicles for members of the review mill." deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/trou...

Thrilled to announce @simine.com as our plenary presenter at the 2025 SORTEE Conference. Prof. Simine Vazire will give a talk titled ‘Journal Prestige Can and Should be Earned’. More info: sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2025

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

Job alert: We're looking for someone to help us produce a female-specific risk calculator for Alzheimer’s disease! 🧠 Key qualifications are experience w/ large databases, project management, and women's health research. See posting for more info: shorturl.at/zkO8V

#OpenScience principles help students gain lots of useful skills that are an advantage on the job market in and beyond academia. Read our latest book chapter where we provide tips for educators to bolster employability through open science: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Eurgh, there was a "do I need to use the mic?" guy. Everyone said it was fine, but I took too long to process the question (bc that's harder for me without the mic) so didn't have a chance to object before he launched into the talk. Seriously folks, just always use the mic. #Metascience2025

Folks, always share your code. It doesn’t have to be perfect to be helpful. And if you feel that it’s still too messy or not sufficiently clean to be shared, you shouldn’t submit yet. After all, there could be mistakes in your mess.

Study of trust in science in 68 countries finds Australia is the #1 high-income country for trust in science www.nature.com/articles/s41... (only Egypt, India, Kenya, and Nigeria were ahead)

New Replication Project in sport and exercise science shares it results: Out of 25 replication studies performed, 56% yielded significant results, but only 7 (28%) revealed a similar effect size. Several problems related to the quality of are discussed. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.

Hindawi disappeared, I didn’t know. Glad I don’t have papers with them given the reasons they disappeared 😅. Confirms we should think twice before deciding where to publish our work.

What can we do? First, think twice before sending your work to a for-profit publisher. Second, IGNORE ALL REQUESTS from these publishers. Do not subsidise their business model. Third, tell your boss to tell her boss. Change happens when the funders take action.

This great editorial clearly explains the Peer Community In (PCI) initiative. It’s from @psych.peercommunityin.org, but it applies to all PCI communities: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Being Chair of a department in academia -- A thread of "Congradolences" and "Condoltulations" 🤣 Feels familiar 😅

Can you make it easier than "the probability of getting results at least as extreme as the ones you observed, given that the null hypothesis is correct"?

A fascinating behind the scenes view of #metascience projects, from the funding side. Like Ruben, I missed it when it came out, but it's well worth a read.

An important point missing from this piece is that it's harder to p-hack one's way to small p-value. Which I think means that even if all that happened is sample size increased and attempts at p-hacking had remained constant, their chance of resulting in headline false results is lower.

This project has taken what feels like a thousand hours this year. It's nearly done... #brainstim #TMS #metaanalysis

The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility. Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

MRI brain correlates of approach-avoidance tendencies toward sitting, standing, and running. Led by @bcheval.bsky.social. Published in Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social, a university press journal committed to support academia and robust research practices. doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

I really like this one! The benefits of physical activity are similar whether you’ve started late in life or you’ve been active your whole life. doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.0355

I am beginning to understand where this common confusion/disagreement comes from (see posts & discussions below). I would *love* (in a very nerdy way) to read about this confusion somewhere, but no relevant papers seem to have been suggested yet... Maybe you have one for me..? 🙏

If you are a coauthor, suggestions to address your own comments on the manuscript will always be appreciated.

Percentage of researchers who engaged in a questionable research practices (QRPs) at least once. It's self-reports, so I guess it's even more than that. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

47.6% of people who intended to be physically active failed to translate this into action. doi.org/10.1136/bjsp...

When running ANOVAs in #R, use car::Anova(). aov() and anova() use Type I sums of squares, meaning that order matters, which can distort results in unbalanced designs. car::Anova() is safer because it uses Type II sums of squares by default), each effect is adjusted for all the other effects.