📣 We need your input! We're planning updates to the CEE Database of Evidence Reviews (CEEDER). If you produce or use #EnvironmentalEvidence, complete our short survey: 👉 forms.gle/yz2p2acStLyK... 🗓 Survey open until Oct 20, 2025 Share with your networks!🌏 #SciPol #EvidenceSynthesis #EvidenceUse

I should also have shamelessly promoted this fantastic piece of work, where I mansplain everything I think I know about editing that you were afraid to ask. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Correlation vs Causation #tylenol #acetaminophen

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

Min tredje krönika i Curie handlar om citeringars tveksamma värde. www.tidningencurie.se/kronikor/ar-...

The actual evidence map can be found at www.sbu.se/384e

We published a new article! Non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent community transmission of infectious diseases with pandemic potential—an umbrella review and evidence map url: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

This is epic.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... INSPECT-SR: A tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials.

The project I worked on where those with lipoedema and those working with lipoedema patients is now published as a scientific article. Thanks to all who contributed and made this project possible! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/8...

Happy to share this new paper where patients, relatives and healthcare professionals came together to identify research priorities related to the diagnosis, treatment and management of lipoedema: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/8...

Spiken mitt i prick! Orimligt med denna 13-år regel utan undantag.

Det är något fundamentalt egocentriskt med den här typen av ”hälsotrend”. Att målet med livet skulle vara att optimera kroppen (med helt meningslösa metoder). Vänd blicken ut istället för in hela tiden. Lev livet och lita på kroppen. Den berättar när något är på tok. Innan dess kan du chilla.

Way too many articles are all 'we followed PRISMA 2020' but then don't even hit item 1. Call a systematic review a systematic review in the damn title.

Come work with us! 2-year postdoc position open at SLU Aqua, on the role of herring in coastal food webs of the Baltic Sea. Applications due August 25. www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

Tänker mycket på det där ”en fantastisk man är bara en medelmåttig kvinna”. Grejerna som män får beröm för? Min kille fick bokstavligen höra ”du är en fantastisk förälder” av en främling sist han åkte tåg själv 3h med barnen. Tror ni jag någonsin fått en komplimang efter resor på 7, 9, 23 timmar?

This is exactly what doing AI-assisted research looks to me

Metascience 2025 recordings are now available! #Metascience25 gathered researchers, funders, policymakers & more to explore how the research process can improve. The program included preconference symposia & plenary sessions on topics from policy change to AI in research. 🎥 cassyni.com/s/metasc...

Guidance for Narrative CVs - New report out! Funded by @edicaucus.bsky.social, underrepresented researchers, trainers, research support staff, Narrative CV experts, and funders came together to explore what’s working well and where opportunities lie. Read the report at doi.org/10.15126/901...

Rainbow!

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction. All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

Hur mycket sjukvård har vi råd med? @dagensarena.bsky.social publicerar idag ett utdrag från min bok. Om hemförlossningar, appläkare, nedlagda sjukhus. Hur blev abort lagligt på Irland, och vad tycker ordf för Prioriteringscentrum hur vi i svensk vård sköter oss? www.dagensarena.se/essa/allt-al...

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

Systematic reviewer? Battling syntax quirks and database rules? 🤯 Join us and expert evidence synthesiser, Kate Nyhan, to see how Europe PMC’s new Advanced Search helps you work faster! 🗓️ Aug 15 | 🕒 15:00 BST Register: bit.ly/HackingLiter... #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis #MedLib

I'm reviewing a paper in which the authors have clearly fabricated parts of their results. If I simply point this out in my comments and recommend rejection I fear that the authors will simply fix the way that I could detect this and submit their fabricated results elsewhere. Ideas on what to do?

The paper identified 15 studies, with 11 positive & 4 null-findings. The null-findings had nearly twice the N as the included ones. The bizarre thing: the authors excluded the 4 null-findings from their meta-analysis, and reported this transparently in the paper itself.

In February 2024, I wrote Scientific Reports about a published meta-analysis claiming that mindfulness interventions affect neural plasticity, 'cementing the neuropsychological basis of mindfulness-based interventions'. The paper was retracted yesterday—here a little summary of the process.🧵

This Delphi is live! Invitations are rolling out. Contact me if you have expertise in trials and would like to participate.

🍀#morethanluck Rethinking Research Funding Today we're focused on the essentials: Does the we currently allocate research funding make sense? Join via zoom 🔗https://bit.ly/fundingluck ⬇️ Program ⬇️

For those who haven't heard about this project yet, go give them a follow and check them out here: excelscior.uc.pt This newly created #MetaResearch team at the Universidade de Coimbra is an incredibly inspiring initiative, and the city of Coimbra is absolutely wonderful.

If you're interested in participating in this, register now (QR code in thread). Will launch next week, or, if I get myself in gear - later today! Expect the Delphi to take 20 mins.

I'm working on PaperCheck today, and would love to take queries about whether it could do something you'd like to accomplish more easily in your metascience workflow. I'll try to show you how, and maybe even get you to collaborate on adding a module! scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/

Would any of you wonderful people like to review a paper on the impact of generative #AI on #SystematicReview integrity? It would be suitable for people with a good understanding of Systematic Reviews. I am not having much luck getting reviewers.... Thanks.

Battling a journal online submission system today for a paper. Funny how we can generate semi-believable videos of cats working in offices at the klick of a button but the systems that all of research hinges on start to melt when you try to update an author email or something...

Very important aspects of AI use.

So in short: if you're trying to understand LLMs and their capabilities, or using them as models of human cognition, please take the time to learn how to use the API. Chat interfaces are inefficient and methodologically problematic. And the papers which use them will not age well.

It also shows to importance of creating public validation files, where all tool-builders can validate their code against, and users can see which tool works best (under which circumstances). We are in close communication with @jamiecummins.bsky.social, sharing code and insights, helping each other!

Excellent illustration of why we need to explore multiple tools to automatically check scientific papers. Not surprisingly, the simple prompt we made up in our blog fails quickly - RegCheck succeeds in complex cases due to better prompt engineering! Nice to have complementary tools!

Journal editors: this is great! scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/ You can automate simple tasks like "osf-check: List all OSF links and whether they are open, closed, or do not exist" as SO many papers claim to be preregistered but do not provide the preregistration

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Dr Larissa Shamseer from St Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, recently gave a presentation on “Considering the Role of Preprints in Evidence Synthesis”. Watch the full presentation: youtu.be/CNuurgqDszE #EvidenceSynthesis

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...

So grateful for this project, it was not an easy one, but I was surrounded by the best project members! Now the article is out, I hope it will be of use in the provoked vestibulodynia research academic.oup.com/jsm/advance-...

Agree. Check it out!

I love watching @lajeunesselab.bsky.social talk about meta-analysis - so inspiring. At ESMARConf2025 he explores teaching meta-analysis in a world with AI resources to help students youtu.be/vOVhHnI2Ylc?... @eshackathon.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who attended ESMARConf this year and made it possible. Don't forget, all the content from the years ESMARConf is now available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@esmarconf also if you'd like to leave us feedback you can do so here: bit.ly/esmarconf202...

The Metascience 2025 pre-conference symposia are kicking off on Monday! These webinars are free to attend, open to all, and spread across multiple time zones. Make your choices and sign up here: metascience.info/virtual-symp...

Very thought-provoking keynote from yesterday at #ESMARConf2025. Here's the link if you missed it www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8jb...

Using AI for comparing results in published studies to the protocols to check for risk of reporting bias was an excellent suggestion!

Weren't able to make our intro workshop at #ESMARConf2025? You can now watch a recording of the workshop! 📺https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po6gBj0ympw