PhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology - Universität Bern Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology

I’m hiring a PhD student!

The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc.

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Day 7 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have the redoubtable Patrick Forscher, Director of the CREME meta-research team at Busara, a research and advisory nonprofit headquartered in… | Ass... Day 7 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have the redoubtable Patrick Forscher, Director of the CREME meta-research team at Busara, a research and advisory nonprofit headquartered in Nairob...

Day 7 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today is Patrick Forscher, Director of the CREME meta-research team at Busara, a research and advisory nonprofit headquartered in Nairobi that does behavioral science in service of alleviating poverty.
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Day 6 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have the great Kylie Hunter, who studies the cutting edge of systematic review methods. Kylie is longtime advocate for open data to improve public… ... Day 6 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have the great Kylie Hunter, who studies the cutting edge of systematic review methods. Kylie is longtime advocate for open data to improve public h...

Day 6 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have returning board member Kylie Hunter, of the NHMRC Clinical Trial Centre: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences - Nature A study of reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences finds higher reproducibility among more recent papers and papers from journals that require data sharing.

Nature research paper: Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences

go.nature.com/3OhvkfP

But peer review is a great signal of credibility!

Resilience in Times of Crisis: Strengthening Open Science Against Geopolitical Pressures - MetaROR etaROR launches a special collection on geopolitics and the resilience of Open Science. We invite short, discussion oriented contributions reflecting on risks to open infrastructures, data, and academ...

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Is the current political crisis also revealing cracks in the move to open science in many countries? It's a fertile topic and also the focus of @metaror.bsky.social's current call for papers.

🔊SAVE THE DATE for our 6th SORTEE conference: 13-14th Oct 2026!

Registration & content submission (unconferences, hackathons, workshops) will open soon.

Keep an👁️on sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2026

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Team — AIMOS | Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS) Day 5 of introducing our 2026 AIMOS board is the redoubtable Gina Grimshaw, who is also expertly leading the 2026 AIMOS conference, the first one outside of Australia! Thank you Gina. https://lnkd.in/...

Day 5 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Thank you @ginagrimshaw.bsky.social for joining the board and leading the 2026 conference! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Imposter participants??
Very glad to co-host this webinar with the NSW Health Statewide Biobank and @jabyrnesci.bsky.social. Find it at: teams.microsoft.com/meet/4182560...
Meeting ID: 418 256 007 984 26
Passcode: gp9pp7aT

Our friends at EPIC have an important talk scheduled in about a week and a half, about the relevance of foreign decisions for drug approvals: uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85895443588

Sadly, I think the CRediT taxonomy is being misused. Anyone can just make stuff up about paper contributions. Here we have an article where 5 authors were credited with "visualisation" in a paper with no figures. pubpeer.com/publications...

AIMOS is so glad to see all of Simine's well-earned successes! (come see her give a plenary talk at our 2026 conference in Wellington ... 😉)

Maybe don't promote an article about appropriation of work that unironically illustrates its thesis with AI built on the appropriation of others' work?

Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers In this article, we discuss the growing problem of hallucinated citations produced by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in scholarly research and writing. We argue that GenAI hallucinated ...

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝

"Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers"

David B. Resnik & @mhmdhsini.bsky.social

→ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HallucinatedCitation

Day 4 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Fiona Fidler has graciously returned to the Board this year after founding AIMOS and serving as its first president. AIMOS only exists because of Fiona, one…... Day 4 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Fiona Fidler has graciously returned to the Board this year after founding AIMOS and serving as its first president. AIMOS only exists because of Fiona, one ...

Day 4 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Thank you @fidlerfm.bsky.social for returning to AIMOS leadership this year! www.linkedin.com/posts/associ...

Very glad to have you on board!

researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/why-metasc... The publishing landscape unequally burdens countries with less wealth, from our friends at @rorinstitute.bsky.social

A graphic promoting a book review. On the left is the cover of the book Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal by Max H. Bazerman. The cover has large orange and black text and an abstract horizontal paint‑stroke graphic beneath the word “Scandal.” On the right, black text reads: “Jennifer Byrne reviews Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal.” At the bottom right is small text that reads “Vol. 46 No. 1 (2026): February,” alongside a small circular logo with the letters “PIR.”

Jennifer Byrne (@jabyrnesci.bsky.social) reviews Max H. Bazerman’s 'Inside an Academic Scandal', a narrative of research misconduct, institutional response, and the ethical challenges surrounding fraud in academia.
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Australian councils launch national research integrity review - Research Professional News ARC and NHMRC warn of a “lack of consistent, sector-wide data on research integrity issues”

Australian councils launch national research integrity review

#ResearchIntegrity #Australia #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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March 19 @ 12 pm ET! As AI is integrated into scientific practice, the practice of science itself is changing. Join Ranjit Singh, Kristin M. Branson, Lisa Messeri, & Nicole C. Nelson to explore what this means for the nature of proof, inference, uncertainty, & error. datasociety.net/events/the-c...

Joanna Diong Profile page | Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS) To continue to introduce our board, today we have the multi-talented Dr Joanna Diong, the Secretary to the Board and Co-convenor of the 2025 conference. Jo is a senior lecturer at the University of Sy...

Day 3 of introducing our 2026 board is Joanna Diong! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

No paper is perfect What happens when AI peer review cuts us no slack?

As an addendum to our last post, it's worth noting that some AI models do quite good 'peer' reviews, from the @rorinstitute.bsky.social blog: researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/no-paper-i...

One advantage of open peer review is that research users can tell that one of the reviews was plainly performed by AI (and not even well). wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-26. Under the closed model, we have no idea how rigorous the review process was.

Towards cumulative forensic science: a commentary on ‘Methodological problems in every black-box study of forensic firearm comparisons’ Abstract. Cuellar et al. recently found that methodological flaws in black-box studies of forensic firearms analysis mean that validity cannot be determine

In late 2024, Cuellar et al published a review of all the studies purporting to validate firearms analysis (eg techniques associating a found bullet to a particular gun). They found 'fatal' errors in each one. Surprisingly, we disagree: doi.org/10.1093/lpr/...

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Two days ago, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) released a joint statement about promoting research integrity. Let's hold them to it! www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...

Designing observational studies for safer inferences: Harrison Hansford How can we better design observational studies to make the inferences we seek?

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Join us for our first metascience seminar of the year, featuring Harrison Hansford and a discussion about the inferences we can safely draw from observational studies.

Team — AIMOS

Day 2 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board (aimos.community/team) is Dr Xanthi Coskinas. Xanthi is our brilliant treasurer. She is also Program Manager for Clinical Research at the University of Sydney, where she has more than two decades of experience managing clinical trials.

Team — AIMOS

Day 1 of introducing our 2026 AIMOS Board (aimos.community/team) is @drjbeaudry.bsky.social. Jen is the 2025 AIMOS president and a long time champion of open and rigorous research methods.
www.flinders.edu.au/people/jen.b...