#sciencereform — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sciencereform, aggregated by home.social.
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"Many of the loudest Open Science advocates are deeply embedded in the very systems they critique such as traditional publishing, prestige-driven academia and grant-dependent research cultures. They speak the language of reform while continuing to “play the game” remarkably well. Researchers who sit on advisory boards talk about preprints but then celebrate publishing their latest Nature paper"
https://www.themodernpeer.com/people-the-problem-in-open-science/
#OpenScience #OpenData #ScienceReform #Metascience #ResearchEvaluation #UniversityRankings #PublishOrPerish
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Also I am looking forward to seeing more modelling of photons emitted by different materials. #generalizability of simulation techniques is important
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Neurosurgery on...Saturn?!
Academic publishing continues to have some dodgy failure modes 🫠
#Academia #Science #Metascience #ScienceReform #Research #ResearchIntegrity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210261224009209
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I enjoyed the "Open Science and its enemies" episodes of The Error Bar (https://theerrorbar.com?e=40). The description of certain parts of the open science/reform movement as "populist" is IMHO spot on. It is also funny how "read the fu&$ing paper" is actually a radical thing to do when evaluating research.
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We kind of knew that if preregistration became valued in science, people will use prereg mindlessly as a signal without really checking whether prereg was meaningful and adhered to. The surprising part is that this can be demonstrated so soon and on a paper co-authored by some of the stars of the reform movement, which actually investigates prereg. Thx Devezer and Bak-Coleman for pointing this out https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5u3kj #OpenScience #ScienceReform #PreRegistration
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How do we improve peer review?
David Stuart at Research Information spoke to Chris Graf of Springer Nature and Coromoto Power Febres of Emerald, who is one of our volunteer advisers.
https://www.researchinformation.info/feature/how-do-we-improve-peer-review
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New blog post! There's a version of this on Psychology Today, but I got some weird edits, so I wanted to have a "version of record" here.
This one is about how the President of Stanford allegedly falsified Alzheimer's research, has been called out on it for over 2 decades, and continues to "fail up."
Comments here are welcome.
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https://www.cos.io/unconference
Excited to submit a proposal to the #OpenScience virtual #unconference !!!!
@academicchatter
@socialwork
#ScienceReform
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Hey #OpenScience and #ScienceReform folks, are there good papers out there discussing "salami slicing" of studies? Also, does anyone know the original paper to cite the term?
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Holy absolute crap.
I have never before encountered this in all of my research career. Here is an article from a *freelance journalist* that appeared in the British medical journal under "external peer review". She has a number of articles in that journal. They contain COVID misinformation. This profoundly unethical practice led to students sharing COVID misinformation in class.
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Holy shit. I thought out editorial staff was bad in social work.
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CW: Open Science
Just came across this online textbook. Looks like a great resource!
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CW: Science Criticism
On science criticism:
"One thing I really dislike is the idea that its not possible to be both an inclusive field and a field that embraces criticism. ... It’s unfortunate I guess that some fields that embrace criticism are not very diverse (say, finance or parts of econ), and that other fields that prioritize novelty and diversity in methods over critiquing what exists tend to be better on diversity, like HCI or visualization"
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CW: Science Criticism
This authoritarian streak in high prestige scientists was something #SocialPsychology dealt with for the last decade. There was name calling, bullying, denial of basic facts, refusal to engage with the logic of the critiques.
"Thomas Basebøll remarked that, whether the critics are on the “attack” or not, LeCun is certainly on the defensive, reacting to the criticism as though it’s an attack. Kind of like calling it “methodological terrorism” or something."