The problem with scientific organizations is that politically, you want them to be large to have influence, but scientifically, you have nothing in common with many of the members. You have to pick influence or shared scientific values. (I am not a member of any organization).
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🧵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 👇
New move in academic publishing:
The @ec.europa.eu is launching Open Research Europe (ORE), an open access publishing platform for research funded by all EU programmes.
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
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📄🔓Publish–Review–Curate: there we go!
"With NWO joining ORE [...] the platform will be available as a publication channel for researchers affiliated with a Dutch research organisation, regardless of whether they have an NWO grant or not."
@opencriminology.bsky.social
Nice! We do the same at THUAS with conference trips, but with a twist: we hunt for the ugliest magnets possible. Our collection must now be one of the extravagantest eyesores around.
We’re hiring, and we’d love to find the right person for this! want to join a young, energetic and no-nonsense group conducting excellent research? Might very well be us! www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...
A bit overqualified for that position? Maybe. But my only regret are all those APCs.
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I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in Tenure Run! 🎓
I published 67 papers and paid $67,500 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸
How far can you make it?
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Hello Criminology journals! 👋🏼
Have you seen this?
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"Contributions **appearing to include** [emphasis mine] extensive undisclosed use of AI or LLMs are considered a violation of PsyArXiv’s policies and will be rejected or withdrawn."
There's lot of discretion in this one! I like it. And yet, at the same time, I hate it.
Imagine you are guest-editing a special issue (asking for a friend). You are screening abstracts and want to be fair, perhaps to a fault, while minimizing time waste. What advice would you give for filtering out AI slop from legit submissions?
Peer-review is broken and must be overthrown.
Working hypothesis: If you're doing research and don't occasionally have a small existential crisis, either you've been blessed to work in an exceptional field (do tell which one it is!), or maybe you're being a bit naive.
What if some of our fiercest public debates are being shaped not by lies, but by simple mathematical misunderstandings? @lisatompson.bsky.social reveals how using the wrong denominator can dramatically distort our picture of racial disparities in policing. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNot...
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We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
Yet *ANOTHER*?? 🤦🏻♂️
This was the book that got me into #RStats. Can't recommend enough!
Is it unpopular to say that I like the old Open Science Framework @cos.io website better? 🫣
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Done! ✅
And it looks like many other people were busy with migration as well.
The paper also suggests there may be room for intervention. The concerns raised by forum users, especially about how reliable large language models really are, aren't that different from the ones many of us have.
It doesn't seem that everyone in these communities is already using AI effectively and benefiting from it, but it's also clear that these tools aren't useless to them either.
A lot of expectations are being placed on near future advances, so this is an area we should keep an eye on.
Interesting new preprint by Dupont and colleagues looking at how people in cybercrime communities are talking about AI tools. It was nice to see a balanced take on the issue---for once.
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Screenshot of the "Does that use a lot of energy?" online app
Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities.
This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here.
hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...
***A reminder for next month's deadline for the 8th edition of the Human Factor in Cybercrime Conference which is set to take place 7-9 December in Melbourne, Australia.***
Our first newsletter is out! Read it here: mailchi.mp/d6127976d232... Including a call for a roundtable on replication at #eurocrim
On it!
What a nice read! I like how you highlight the potential and versatility of SRs. Makes me wonder whether the evidence base in some criminological fields is sufficient in quantity and quality to even be synthesized, and whether some SRs are then not carried out prematurely.