Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise flapjackpress.co.uk/shop/ice-cre...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Congratulations to all of the winners of the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing. You can read more on our LinkedIn and we will be sharing more on our blog over the coming days. www.linkedin.com/posts/bennet...

We are looking for clinicians who work with autistic people without Learning Disabilities to support their sensory motor needs to complete a survey asking experiences asssing and supporting autistic adults. www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Irish Minister for Health calls the UK's descent into transphobia out for what it is.

" The late disability theorist Tobin Siebers called this the ‘masquerade’ of disability: the obligation to perform the disability, sometimes overperform it, so that it would be legible enough to secure the assistance that one genuinely needs. "

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened! Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement. Nominations close 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research

I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

Proud to be a part of this organisation 😍 well done team 👏

📣 Join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee! 📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET). Full Announcement: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Application Form: forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2... Please share!

Highly recommend this opportunity! I was on the steering committee about 5-6 years ago and it was incredibly rewarding! (P.S. where did the years go?? 😵‍💫)

Submission: I did a thing. Reviewer: Too bad it’s not the thing I imagined while half-reading your abstract. Revision: What a coincidence, it is now.

With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost! Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members. That's +26,000 members in the last week. Hope is feeling normal again....

UK Reproducibility Network is having a conference, July 2026 in Manchester! Please register your interest: www.ukrn.org/conference/ Bringing together researchers, institutions and research stakeholders from the UK and beyond to drive collaborative change within the UK #research sector.

I had a dream about my good old iPod last night. I bet it's still loaded with all my music from high school...which probably came from Limewire 🫠

There's a reason I've primarily joined MS Teams meetings from an incognito browser window wherever possible for the last 4 years. It's the only method I've found that doesn't include some form of disaster.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

We are HIRING! Researchers & analysts Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

Sensible, thoughtful, and honest politicians still exist. There is...dare I say it...hope.

This looks like so much fun!

🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀 3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore 📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded) Find out more below 👇 #OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience

I'm still stunned that @yorkshirebylines.co.uk put in the huge effort to collect all press-reported downsides of Brexit (David Davis had said there would be "none"!)... ...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.

Are you a potential, current, or past ReproducibiliTea organizer? ✨ Join our upcoming networking event! 📅 October 2, 2025 (16:00 CEST) on Zoom 👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/iH6sHt3dB4Wf... Everyone is welcome!

We are launching a project on improving code sharing in health and medical research funded by @ukri.org and working with @floriannaudet.bsky.social and @bmj.com Read more here: bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/08/help-us-improve-code-sharing-in-health-research/

This week I joined the @bennettoxford.bsky.social tech team as Product Manager! Grateful to be part of a brilliant organisation with a mission that so closely aligns with my own. We build tools like OpenSAFELY to support trust and reproducibilty in health research 💪 Excited for my next chapter 😊

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The first version of the open science blog archive is complete, with 3530 posts from 52 blogs. Browse them in the online Shiny app: shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science... All blog posts are ordered chronologically. Have fun exploring part of the open science history in psychology!

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/rzTeLYL

New blog post: Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/07/easi... Downloading all files in an OSF project can be a hassle. Not anymore, with Papercheck! Just run: osf_file_download("6nt4v")

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

End of an era as yesterday was my last day at Gorilla. I learned a lot and met amazing people, but it's time for new adventures! 🦍❤️ Spending the next month enjoying the Mancunian sunshine (🤞), exploring Corfu, spending time with people close to me, and preparing for my next exciting chapter (🤫)

📣 Call for Proposals: SIPS-PCI Registered Report Funding Partnership! The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and Peer Community In Registered Reports @pci-regreports.bsky.social invite researchers from all areas of psychology to submit empirical research projects for consideration.

We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops! Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud! This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm

Out now in Collabra: Psychology: Automated Reproducibility Testing in R Markdown. The R package reproducibleRchunks, which stores metadata about original computational results and verifies later reproduction attempts automatically. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

The FORRT May newsletter is now out 🎉 🤝 Get paid to co-create open-access educational materials 📰 Updates on the Replication Research Journal 📅 FORRT Replication Hub Hackathon (20th June) 🏗️ FORRT at SIPS 2025 👉 Read here: mailchi.mp/forrt/forrt-... 📩 Subscribe here: forrt.org/newsletters/

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

An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles. Read and consider signing with your support. www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

I'm running a data upskilling workshop on using Quarto/Github Pages for dissemination. I cover books, presentations, and websites, and you can see all the materials here: bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio.... To quote @emilynordmann.bsky.social "For the love of god, share what you do"!

Created as part of Dr Daniel Poole’s research, this comic may help us understand some Autistic experiences - how everyday spaces can either help or make things harder. Seems to highlight some nice points about monotropism - what do you think? player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/distr...

Anyone in my network have their own network of people in the realms of patient and public involvement, public contribution, co-production, experts by experience? 📢 My old lab group are looking for public contributors to have their say on the topic of #OpenResearch

Let your research do the talking! We’re awarding 5 🦍 grants ($1,770 each)—could one be yours? Submit a 500-word research proposal + overview on how one could support your next study for a chance to win! If you're exploring #language, #linguistics or anything in between—apply now! ➡️ bit.ly/3FeV9rX

We're running a survey to find out what public contributors know/would like to know about open research. Get in touch to share with contributors you work with Public contributors are also known as patient involvement volunteers, co-production, experts by experience [email protected]

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

Overnight tonight we will mobilise the single biggest change to buses in the UK for decades as the remaining half of services in GM come back under public control. Thank you to everyone who has worked through Christmas and New Year to make this happen. 🙏🏻

Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us. Because the shame has to switch sides.

Do you know any early career researchers in the UK who have contributed something special to improve research practices? The call for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop award is open now! Nominations close on 26 January 2025. www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

Predatory journals Stan(eminem) 🤝 I wrote you, but you still ain't callin' I left my cell, my pager, & my home phone at the bottom I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em

There's a very strange expectation that any one proposed science reform must: 1) Fully solve a problem 2) Solve MANY vaguelly related problems 3) Have zero negative impact on anything No single reform like that exists, so the status quo bias reigns and everyone gets pretty weird about it.