🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.
Here’s what we found 👇
More details about the Bayesian Workflow book and case studies now available on the book web site avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... (but you still need to wait a bit for the book)
We have a new blogpost on What will the paper of the future look like?
What if research papers stopped being static PDFs and became closer to software?
That's really great. Thank you for your effort. Unfortunately I can't open the link to the interactive dashboard. I get the error message: This site can't be reached. Check if there is a typo in "rse-survey.soton.ac.uk". Don't know whether it has to do with my specific settings...
Excited that my module Digital Research Practices (www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...) is featuring in this year's @ucl.ac.uk Summer School programme. Please share with interested students. #studyabroad #research #digitalskills
For mentors, it is an opportunity to share experience, guide early-career RSEs, and hone leadership skills. Mentees can benefit from support, fresh perspectives, and career path guidance.
For more details, visit our website or email mentoring@society-rse.org for any other questions.
Kurz vor Weihnachten gab's noch die letzte Folge von #code4thought der 10.Serie - und diesmal über den Supercomputer Jupiter am @fz-juelich.de . Meine Gäste waren Andreas Herten und Benedikt von St. Vieth . Zu hören auf allen podcast apps, YouTube podcast oder direkt
Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.
The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.
Vibe coding might sound trendy, but I think vibe coding might be one of the worst ideas in software engineering and software development in 2025...
Listen to my thoughts on #VibeCoding in my latest video on the @modernswe.bsky.social channel.
Watch HERE ➡️ youtu.be/1A6uPztchXk
Flyer showing a summary of the RSE-FI meetup in text + Aalto Scientific Computing, Nordic-RSE, Society of RSE and Software Sustainability Institute in the bottom. Includes a QR code leading to the website which includes all information presented on they flyer and more: https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/NoBSC/
Are you involved in writing, maintaining or supporting research software and interested in sharing your work / experiences and networking with others like you?
Join us on Feb 2-3 2026 in Espoo! 🇫🇮
We have some travel funding available for people outside the capital region, apply now ♥️
#RSEng
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🔥 StanCon 2026 registration and abstract submission are now open! 🔥
Please spread the word!
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stancon-20...
We've been lucky to host a number of excellent speakers at the Online Monte Carlo Seminar this past term; please do visit the YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...) to catch up on these interesting recent developments!
(and we'll be back again from January!)
Diátaxis is an amazing resource that I recommend to everyone writing documentation or tutorials: diataxis.fr
I find myself returning to it every few weeks, and each time I learn something new.
#documentation
New workshop alert!
DRA + Forschungszentrum Jülich are hosting:
Better Software Architecture, Better Software, Better Research
🗓 13 Nov 2025
Most research software focuses on what the code does.
This workshop focuses on how to structure it so it remains reusable and adaptable.
🔗 buff.ly/Wo7aHZ7
Really nice workshop. Made me want to explicitly articulate the software architecture of my own project. Would love a follow-up where we can apply what we learned to our own projects and share/discuss ideas/results.
we love options, but python packaging has too many.
Packaging guru Jeremiah Paige wrote about our values-based rubric for selecting:
🌱 free & open
🤝 inclusive
📐 standards-compliant
💪 well-supported
🎯 opinionated (less paralysis!)
www.pyopensci.org/blog/how-we-...
#python #opensource #openscience
Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
