"Fact-checking is how journals could add real value at a time when the academic community — which is also carrying out peer review, usually as a labor of love — are questioning what publishers bring to the table apart from typesetting and copy-editing articles and making them look pretty."
🚀 “ReproducibiliTeach” is back! Online course from April 2 ✨ Hands-on training to make your research more transparent, reproducible and reusable.
Register: tinyurl.com/RepTeach
Organisers:
@tweissgerber.bsky.social (@ucoimbra.bsky.social)
and
@renebernard.bsky.social (@neurocure.bsky.social)
Apply best practices in real time. Get feedback and insights from instructors and classmates. Ideal for biomedical researchers working with small sample sizes—preclinical, in vitro, or human studies.
Flipped classroom! Check out our YT channel: www.youtube.com/@reproducibi...
ReproducibiliTeach is a joint course from @bihatcharite.bsky.social QUEST Center for Responsible Research & @neurocure.bsky.social Cluster of Excellence.
The ReproducibiliTeach Team
Tracey @tweissgerber.bsky.social & René
#Reproducibility #Transparency #OpenScience #Rigor #Preclinical
Whether you are from Berlin or not, come & learn with us how to make your research transparent & reproducible!
Join our free flipped classroom course in 5 online sessions (90 min each) starting April 2nd, 4 pm CET & get ECTS !
For more info and how to register, visit: tinyurl.com/reproteach
Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Many probs: Predatory journals, slow retraction, paper mills, faulty studies...
"...external oversight could push journals and publishers to work harder to reduce integrity..."
A painting showing the four horsemen of irreproducibility, from left to right: hypothesizing after results are known (HARKing), low power, p-hacking, and publication bias. Adapted by Prof. Dorothy Bishop from the original 1887 painting by Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov.
And so I take that as an opportunity to highlight the dangers posed by @deevybee.bsky.social's "four horsemen of irreproducibility": hypothesizing after results are known (HARKing), low power, p-hacking, and publication bias. www.nature.com/articles/d41... ...3/n
Today I presented at the fantastic @ecnp.eu workshop how the #eqipd framework connects to the skills you can leverage from preclinical Systematic Reviews. #ECNP #Neuroscience
Slides are here: osf.io/pqja2/files/...
Have you registered for #LoveMethods26 yet? Join us from Jan 19-23, 2026 with 19 online workshops and seminars focused on improving method reproducibility and transparency. Check it out: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...
👉 Don’t miss out.
It only happens once a year.
Because better methods = better data.
Register now for LOVE Method Week.
excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...
(5/5)
🌱 This is your chance to gain practical, applied skills
that help make your science reproducible — not just publishable. (4/5)
#LoveMethods26
📅 Jan 19–23, 2026
🎯 For scientists, students, educators – across preclinical & clinical research (3/5)
💡 From in vivo design to transparent reporting
19 free online sessions will walk you through
how to build more reproducible, robust methods. (2/5)
🧵 Why are so many experiments hard to reproduce?
Spoiler: It's not the data – it's the method.
That’s where LOVE Methods Week comes in. (1/5)
Thrilled that @shreyadimri.bsky.social & I will be part of #LoveMethods26!
We'll present on "How to avoid common problems in #SystematicReviews & #MetaAnalyses"
📅 Jan 19–23, 2026 | FREE | All online
Everyone's invited to join the entire week of workshops!
🔗 excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...
»Wir leben in einer totalen Reputationsökonomie, in der Karrieren weniger über wissenschaftlichen und damit gesellschaftlichen Impact, sondern über Surrogate wie Zitierhäufigkeit des Publikationsorgans (sprich: Impact Factor), Zahl der Publikationen und eingeworbene Drittmittel gesteuert werden.«
🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards – Highlight Workshop/Publication #4: Vanessa Fuchs
Discover I3D:bio's great OMERO training slides, workshop materials and presentations. Valuable resource – not just for us data stewards at @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social but also for you. Check it out!
gerbi-gmb.de/i3dbio/i3dbi...
Let's get negative about scholarly publishing – a new paper (first in a long time for me!) on proposals to tackle the problem of publication bias that emerged from a NINDS workshop held in May last year.
occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/... [Direct link to paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility
plos.io/3VwaU2O
Publication bias continues to skew academic literature. In our new @plosbiology.org article, we outline actionable steps for journals, funders & researchers to ensure all results—not only “positive” ones—are valued. A roadmap for more reliable science: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Jetzt verfügbar Leitlinien zur guten Wissenschaftskommunikation. Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation und Wissenschaft im Dialog. Hintergrund: Checkliste
Die Leitlinien zur guten Wissenschaftskommunikation sind jetzt verfügbar. Sie bieten Wissenschaftskommunikator*innen Orientierung und Unterstützung. Sie benennen Rollen und Verantwortlichkeiten und beinhalten eine Checkliste für die Praxis:
wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/documents/38...
#Wisskomm
Invitation to the Meta-Science Summer School and logos of affiliated and organizing institutions: Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), the German Reproducibility Network (GRN), the META REP Priority Program, iRise and the University of Coimbra EXCELScIOR project ERA chair.
🔬✨ Interested in research transparency & reproducibility? Join the Meta-Science Summer School: design & launch a meta-research study!
➡️ Co-org. @germanrepro.bsky.social
📅 Date: 15-20 June 2025; apply by March 21!
🔗 www.bihealth.org/en/notices/m...
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #MetaResearch (lmf)
@mathplusberlin.bsky.social @scioi.bsky.social @unisyscat.bsky.social @temporal-communities.de
🎉 The Excellent Pub Quiz was amazing! 🧠 First night focused on #Neuroscience with Laura Göschel talking about #Dementia . 🎭
Next event: April 7, theme #Literature 📖! 🎉
✨ Explore Berlin's research highlights, from literature to AI.
More info on our website!
#PubQuiz #Berlin #Research #scicomm
This is unbelievable and sad!
Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Final call! Come and learn everything there is to know about quality in methods!
Today @researchdataall.bsky.social conference in Potsdam. Stefanie Seltmann could not be here but her poster is on the @berlinualliance.bsky.social CARDs project for the Berlin Excellence Clusters.
Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
A figure depicting features of GitHub that are useful for laboratory research and how they compare to software development.
#GitHub, a platform widely used in software development, offers a robust framework for documenting all activities of laboratory research projects. This Community Page highlights the benefits of, and provides guidance for, incorporating the GitHub ecosystem into wet lab workflows. 🧪💻
plos.io/4i1LWkV
