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Editors should not accept for publication papers using the phrase «real world evidence». It’s a marketing term, to embellish non-causal studies. #metasci #stats #cardiosky www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Stopping Oral Anticoagulation ...

No benefit of vagus nerve stimulation compared to a sham procedure on PVCs. Regression to the mean, or truly a placebo effect? #cardiosky #metasci www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

Transcutaneous Electrical Vagu...

Sometimes RCT evidence is called into question because of the selection of patients and questions about representativeness, but quite often the excluded patients are the ones that would be excluded in clinical practice too. #metasci #stats

A more precisely measured confounded variable is just as confounded. #metasci #stats #cardiosky #episky academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...

Preservative food additives, h...

Have a good time at #APS26BCN, dear colluegues @[email protected] @[email protected] & @[email protected] #openscience #metasci

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Summary of some recent work in #MetaSci #OpenSci #HistSci

🔹 20:20 hindsight on scientific progress

🔹 Open research in the humanities

🔹 The role of scientific sleuths

🔹 Individual bias and collective criticism

https://markrubin.substack.com/p/critical-metascience-roundup-a8d

#stats #metasci

#metasci #medsky

#EconSky #sociology #PoliSky #PolicySky #NumbersDay #FinTwitter #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PhDSky #metasci #SciencePublishing #ResearchPublishing #stats #StatsSky #science #Criminology #environment

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#metasci #emimcc

These casual methods are unknown to me (except instrumental variables) but how on earth can one disentangle direct causality from sanctions from what causes sanctions and poor outcomes? Are the strong claims actually well supported by the methods? #stats #metasci www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Effects of international sanct...

As if Excel wasn’t the source of enough errors in research already #stats #metasci

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Our #APC analysis preprint was cited in a Wall Street Journal story today, along with Elsevier's response.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/scientific-journals-quality-publishers-6399fc95?st=NQ8a7Z

#AcademicPublishing #MetaSci #ScholCommLab

I've co-authored a piece calling on the open science community to lead by example in defending science. We are well positioned to combat the efforts by Trump, Musk & others that are anti-science, anti-evidence and anti-inclusion.

This is also a restatement of the importance of diversity.

Time to practice what we preach!

Read it here: https://upstream.force11.org/open-science-call-to-act/

#academicsky #openscience #metasci #ScholComm

"Reliability and validity are important properties for research methods to have. Yet, we also show that reliability and validity fall short of other epistemic virtues that are crucial to the quality of research methods" (Ventura, 2025). doi.org/10.1007/s112... #Methodology #MetaSci #PhilSci

"It should be emphasized that citation counts should not be the primary motivation for using RRs." #OpenScience #MetaSci #Methodology

See also my discussion of Van Drimmelen et al.’s work here #MetaSci #STS #AcademicSky #Methodology 🧪

The Preregistration Prescripti...

“Theories in psychological science will always be vague, weak, and lacking in parsimony, falsifiability, and predictiveness because of the complexity and lack of generality of most social and behavioral phenomena.” #MetaSci #PhilSci #Psychology 🧪

SkyFeed's feeds seem to be back online now thanks to @redsolver.dev 🙏 #AcademicSky #PhDSky #PhilSci #MetaSci #OpenScience #SocialPsyc #CogPsyc #DevPsyc #UKHE

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And for my recent preprint on Popper and preregistration, see… #MetaSci #PhilSci #HPS 🧪

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“It is an essential feature of exploratory research that it unfolds across a variety of research activities and projects over time rather than within the bounds of a single project or research article.” #MetaSci #PhilSci

#Methodology #MetaSci #SocialPsyc

SkyFeed's feeds are having issues at the moment. The owner @redsolver.dev is busy working to fix things ASAP! 🙏 #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Psychology #MetaSci #PhilSci #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #OpenScience #UKHE

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Arie W. Kruglanski & Sophia Moskalenko (20 Dec 2024). Social psychology in the age of uncertainty: A tale of three quandaries, European Review of Social Psychology. doi.org/10.1080/1046... #SocialPsyc #MetaSci #PhilSci 🧪

"Only 28% of sampled manuscripts [n = 4] adhered to their analysis plan or transparently disclosed all deviations." New survey of preregistration in autism studies. Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/1362... BSky author: @fsedgewick.bsky.social #MetaSci #OpenScience 🧪

“We need to scale back the maximalist attitudes, directives, and language we see about OS in science policy” #OpenScience #PhilSci #MetaSci 🧪

Generative Adversarial Collaborations "Before we aim to empirically arbitrate and ‘kill’ theories in our young field, we want them to mature through discussion, discovery, and community education." doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Few quotes 👉🧵 #Methodology #MetaSci 🧪

Hi #MetaSci feed. I’ve removed “prereg,” “open science,” and “#openscience” as tag phrases for this feed to try to make its posts a bit more specific and relevant. The feed will continue to pick up other metascience-related terms, with the main hashtag being #metasci (not case sensitive)!

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“In practice, the question that is answered true or false in confirmatory scientific research is ‘do scientists adequately understand the theoretical hypothesis and associated research methods to reliably make accurate verifiable predictions?’” dx.doi.org/10.1037/met0... #Methodology #MetaSci 🧪

If you wonder if 4 studies on the same drug produce too consistent results, how would you test this? #stats #metasci