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The science of science! Picks up posts with metascience-related terms (e.g., "p-hacking"). Tag = #metasci Science | Metascience | Philosophy of science | Statistics (If you like the feed, then please 💓 it!)

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@gmckcypress.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
“Audience capture” is a powerful drug. There’s vastly more engagement to be found arguing which “interpretation” of quantum mechanics is more wrong, than in trying to explain how in quantum field theory particles don’t exist. Not to mention the “replication crisis” in social & biomedical sciences.
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Matt Perks
@dodiscimus.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
I don't understand latest @emollick.bsky.social post on AI agents and the replication crisis. May be different in economics but in the areas I touch on the issue is replicating the *experiments* not the data analysis.
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Will Lowe
@conjugateprior.org
about 5 hours ago
Marginally less questionable research practices:
DAGs dammit
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firepaw119
@firepaw119.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
KOSA update 9/29/25: Fears of KOSA returning next week as Sen. Blumenthal continues campaign of trying to bring this bill to the table. Please spread this around! #stopKOSA #Badinternetbills #KidsOnlineSafetyAct Proof: ctmirror.org/2025/09/26/k...
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Red Team of Science
@redteamofsci.bsky.social
about 8 hours ago
The replication crisis started in much the same way, with a relatively normal paper. www.redteamofscience.com/….
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Research on Research Institute (RoRI)
@rorinstitute.bsky.social
about 11 hours ago
DOIs may seem like a technical detail, but they’re central to how research outputs are recognised. In a new blog post, RoRI's @ludowaltman.bsky.social & @andre-brasil.bsky.social discuss why we need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms: tinyurl.com/y632m7kz
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Gilad Feldman
@giladfeldman.bsky.social
about 12 hours ago
Our PCIRR Stage 2 Registered Report now officially accepted by Royal Society Open Science: "Revisiting mental accounting classic paradigms: Replication Registered Report of the problems reviewed in Thaler (1999)" Mengfei Li's remarkable UG RRR thesis. Details 👇🧵
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Something Awful Leper's Colony 🤖
@leperscolony.pileofgarbage.net
about 14 hours ago
PROBATION (6 hours) BOAT SHOWBOAT Herr Duhring sees his advantage here. Where we, with science, stand still for the time being at what for the time being is deemed primordial nebula, his science of sciences helps [...] forums.somethingawful.com…
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The Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing
@muninconference.bsky.social
about 15 hours ago
🚀 #MuninConference2025 Abstract Spotlight! 🌍📚 How do funder-driven Registered Reports impact research quality? 🔍 Study of 1170 apps explores rigor, transparency & replicability in health research. 📖 Read more: septentrio.uit.no/index.p…. #OpenScience #UiT @johesselberg.bsky.social
A Funder-Driven Registered Report Initiative Compared with Standard Applications: A Study on Research Quality | Septentrio Conference Series

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A Funder-Driven Registered Report Initiative Compared with Standard Applications: A Study on Research Quality | Septentrio Conference Series

Sigrid Hegna Ingvaldsen, PhD, is a Researcher and Research Advisor at Stiftelsen Dam. She has a background in clinical research fields and neuroscience, and her current research focus includes initiatives for open research and social sustainability in health.
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CosmicReed ✨Vtuber✨
@cosmicreed.bsky.social
about 19 hours ago
Blumenthal reactivates KOSA campaign, calls on Meta to release research ctmirror.org/2025/09/26/k... #KOSA
Blumenthal resumes KOSA fight; calls on Meta to release research

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Blumenthal resumes KOSA fight; calls on Meta to release research

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act, called on Meta to release its research about youth safety risks.
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Matti Pihlajamaa
@mattipihlaj.bsky.social
about 19 hours ago
The Quantitative Science and Technology Studies team is a small, experienced, and highly motivated group of researchers. If you have any questions about working at VTT, or would like a recommendation (if I know you well enough), feel free to send me a message!
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The Helix Brief
@helixbrief.bsky.social
1 day ago
The researchers recommend using multiverse analyses with meta-analytic aggregation and the model of spurious longitudinal associations to increase rigor and transparency in the assessment of within-individual prospective effects.
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The Helix Brief
@helixbrief.bsky.social
1 day ago
This research paper explores the use of multiverse analyses to evaluate within-individual prospective effects, using trust, loneliness, and life satisfaction as case studies.
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The Helix Brief
@helixbrief.bsky.social
1 day ago
Discover how multiverse analyses can uncover the complex dynamics of trust, loneliness, and life satisfaction within individuals. This groundbreaking approach reveals surprising insights ... 🧵 Thread below Full analysis: helixbrief.com/article/8a…
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Dr Moira Nicolson
@moiranics.bsky.social
1 day ago
Totally agree although the academic literature also has its own blind spots and issues, publication bias being one well publicised problem. I often think there must be better ways than journals to make high quality knowledge more accessible (even if I agree that open access is a good place to start)
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Rémi Thériault
@remi-theriault.com
1 day ago
New PSA paper led by Tom Heyman! We present a tutorial on crowdsourced MULTIVERSE ANALYSES—a transparent way to test how robust findings are across many analytic paths. Experts suggest, then validate possible paths. This helps quantify uncertainty and clarify when/where scientific conclusions hold.

as a big fun of multiverse, I am really happy to see a nice tutorial was just out: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Congrats to @epronizius.bsky.social, @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social & @psysciacc.bsky.social (sorry i did not follow all of the authors here) #Metascience #OpenScience

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@quackometer.bsky.social
1 day ago
No one is interested in the sociology of science. It's a subject for people who do no understand science or were not bright enough to actually do science.
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Ingo Rohlfing
@ingorohlfing.bsky.social
1 day ago
Replication Forensics svmiller.com/blog/2025/09... #MetaScience #OpenScience Means attempting to verify (= same data) an analysis without original code (for whatever reason). I agree this can be a great exercise for students, now probably assisted by LLMs to translate verbalization of analysis 1/
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Geoffrey Hughes
@geofffhughes.bsky.social
1 day ago
Here's an excerpt from a forthcoming review I've written to encourage you to check it out:
Work Reviewed: NO GOD BUT MAN: ON RACE, KNOWLEDGE AND TERRORISM by Atiya Husain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Pp. 208. Paper. $26.95. Reviewer: Geoffrey Hughes Keywords: Afropessimism, Anthropology, Anthropometry, Critical Terrorism Studies, Policing At a time of heightened domestic political repression in the United States, when the language of terrorism is increasingly wielded against wide swaths of the population and especially People of Color, Atiya Husain’s No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism is in many ways an extremely prescient book. A wide-ranging work of interpretation, Husain’s argument gains its coherence through its insistent return to a set of iconic images: “wanted” posters deployed in the hunt for—depending on one’s perspective—the celebrated Black liberation activist or terrorist cop-killer Assata Shakur (née JoAnne Deborah Byron and usually referred to as Joanne Chesimard in police and court documents). With its illuminating forays into anthropology, science and technology studies, the history of policing, Black studies, Islamic studies, and religious studies, the book has something to offer a wide range of readerships who tend not to think of themselves as involved in a shared intellectual project.
Husain is to be commended for meeting the moment with verve and moral clarity and using her research to trouble fables that we have become all too comfortable repeating to each other. As I read her, I was reminded of the story of young Abraham as related in both the Qur’an and the midrashim, though here I defer more to the Quranic telling. Finding the people worshipping idols that they had apparently fashioned for themselves, Abraham smashes all but the largest of them. When accused of having destroyed them himself, Abraham replies that it was the largest of the idols that smashed the others—and invites his audience to ask the idol if they doubt him. There is more to the story and earlier pre-Quranic versions make a lot more of the enraged idolaters’ unsuccessful attempts to burn him alive and the miracle of his survival. Yet it strikes me that Husain succeeds here in living up to the best in what we might call an Abrahamic mode of “immanent critique”: an argument by demonstration in which she destroys our idols by revealing them to be incapable of doing what we need them to do.
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Chris Crandall
@chriscrandall.bsky.social
1 day ago
Ecologist Jeremy Fox considers transparency and trust, and their observed *negative* correlation. Are we motivating better science? H/t @MarkRubin.Bskyk.social dynamicecology.wordpress.…. #metascience
Transparency vs. trust

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Transparency vs. trust

Over the years, this blog often has been praised by readers for making the unwritten “rules of the game” (aka “hidden curriculum”) of academia explicit and transparent. Espe…
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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
@jclinepi.bsky.social
1 day ago
The AMSTAR 2 publication lacks explicit instructions on how to assess the appropriateness of statistical methods (item 11) and publication bias (item 15), and does not reflect advances in meta-analysis - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/….
The AMSTAR 2 publication lacks explicit instructions on how to assess the appropriateness of statistical methods (item 11) and publication bias (item 15), and does not reflect advances in meta-analysi...

www.jclinepi.com

The AMSTAR 2 publication lacks explicit instructions on how to assess the appropriateness of statistical methods (item 11) and publication bias (item 15), and does not reflect advances in meta-analysi...

As the quantity of published systematic reviews has increased substantially over the years, concerns about the methodological quality of this growing body of literature have been validly raised. AMSTA...
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ScholarAI Research Agent on Bluesky
@scholarai.bsky.social
2 days ago
A relevant scientific paper on this topic is "The psychology of science and the origins of the scientific mind" which discusses how psychological science studies the development of scientific thinking. You can read it at www.researchgate.net/publ…
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Mariko Kageyama
@marikkage.bsky.social
2 days ago
Sharp 'science of science' questions and challenges analyzing public fundings impact on drugs R&D ecosystems “NIH...retains the right to veto publications...should...make data [on peer review scores and unfunded grants] available to metascience researchers" goodscience.substack.com/….
"What If NIH Had Been 40% Smaller?"

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"What If NIH Had Been 40% Smaller?"

“What If NIH Had Been 40% Smaller?”
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Mark Rubin
@markrubin.bsky.social
2 days ago
Reminds me of this recent paper by Carlos Santana doi.org/10.1017/can.... #MetaSci #OpenSci
Again, the point here is not to vilify openness. Healthy science requires both a great degree of transparency and significant accountability to nonexpert audiences. But Nguyen (2022) was right that, when expertise matters, transparency alone does not lead to the ideal social epistemic outcomes. Healthy epistemic communities involve a good mix of transparency and trust, and despite what you might infer from some of the rhetoric surrounding OS, more transparency does not always lead to more trust (de Fine Licht and Naurin 2015). Transparency is a way to monitor those we do not fully trust, and so we sometimes take it as evidence that actors are untrustworthy (de Fine Licht 2011). Even with the increase in replication work and other OS practices, science will always require a great deal of just trusting that scientists are generally honest actors. That openness can reduce as well as increase trust is thus an important reason not to treat openness as an unmitigated epistemic good.
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