I will be giving a BitesizeBio Webinar on Monday March 23 (5 pm UK time / 1 pm ET / 10 am PT).
Title: "How to Find Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Papers".
Topics: sleuthing, @pubpeer.com, @cosig.net
Register here: events.bitesizebio.com/how-to-find-...
BITSS Annual meeting
April 16, 2026 in Berkeley, CA
Featured topic: Frontiers on AI and Open Science
Keynote: Devon Crawford, NINDS
www.bitss.org/events/bitss...
Honored to highlight the incredible award winners: among them @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @pubpeer.com, @cos.io, @ucbitss.bsky.social, @guyattgh.bsky.social, @psysciacc.bsky.social, @helenajambor.bsky.social, @sofiaforss.bsky.social & more.
Nominate & Apply by April 30!
award.einsteinfoundation.de
Don't miss this! 🌟
Watch @elisabethbik.bsky.social, brandonstell.bsky.social, pubpeer.com & Tim Errington, cos.io on AI & research integrity.
Ulrich Dirnagl, award secretary & QUEST Center, bihatcharite.bsky.social joins from the award team.
📢 check out the open call!
award.einsteinfoundation.de
Towards more reliable research: Today, together with @bihatcharite.bsky.social, we welcomed the 2025 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners: @simine.com, Maximilian Sprang, and the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative @redebrrepro.bsky.social. A recording will be available soon.
📢 Job Alert: Wir suchen eine:n Referent:in (E13 TV-L, 80 %), Schwerpunkt: Internationale Rekrutierung ab Postdoc-Level!
🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 2. März 2026
🔗 www.einsteinfoundation.de/stiftung/ste...
#JobAlert #Wissenschaftsmanagement
As the very unbiased coordinator of this award, I highly recommend: apply. And if it's not for you, a repost might help it reach the researcher, initiative, idea it is perfect for
We proudly present the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward for Promoting Quality in Research 2025! The jury has selected outstanding contributions that promote research quality around the world!
In coop w/ QUEST Center @bihatcharite.bsky.social
www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2025/... (1/5)
Who will win the €100,000 Early Career #EinsteinFoundationAward? Join us Nov 10 (3-5pm CET) to discover up to six finalist projects boosting research quality, selected from 72 global applications. Online event at @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social
Register now: www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...
"[W]e found that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a 'backdoor' vulnerability in a large language model —regardless of model size or training data volume".
And the large-scale implementation of these bullshitting devices in government and academia is duly on its way. Wonderful.
Free to attend virtually: a NASEM event "Rethinking researcher assessment and incentives at U.S. academic institutions: A workshop"
October 28-29, 2025
Agenda: www.nationalacademies.org/event/45044_...
Registration: events.nationalacademies.org/45044_10-202...
Unconference #RRiA: PixelQuality's @chrischmied.bsky.social (w/ @helenajambor.bsky.social), #EinsteinFoundationAward early-career winners, shared the journey of building a global team of 149 experts, @quarep-limi.bsky.social & creating a checklist now standard in @natureportfolio.nature.com journals
Apply online by November 1st! Wiko Early Career Call for fellowships 2026/27 in the #NaturalSciences and #LifeSciences. Gain time to think during a 3–5 month #fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study: wiko-berlin.de/fellow-werde... #cfa
☎️ Berlin Calling: Your Research. Our City. A Perfect Match. The Einstein Postdoctoral Grant for early career researchers or the Einstein Visiting Fellowship for distinguished scholars – our funding opportunities offer pathways into Berlin’s research landscape.
berlincalling.einsteinfoundation.de
Join us in Berlin following the RRIA Unconference for a Train-the-Trainer Session on Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in Reproducibility Research!
Free in-person workshop
25 September 2025
10:00am-4:30pm
Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin
Learn more & register: irise-project.eu/news/#!/Deta...
Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference!
We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.
BIFOLD invited Angela Holzer to reflect on this year’s Summer School theme: Open Science and AI. Alongside Katrin Frisch, Sören Auer, and Elena Simperl she is a keynote speaker at the 2025 Berlin Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society and will discuss "Is Open Science still relevant?"
Announcing Colloquium: Problematic Science. With presentations by @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @stanvanpelt.bsky.social. RU, 14 oct.
We are accepting nominations for the 2026 NAS Awards! We will honor scientists who have made pioneering contributions to a wide range of fields, including #psychology, #mathematics, #neuroscience, #artificialintelligence & more.🏅
Who will you nominate? #NASaward www.nasonline.org/awards/curre...
🏅 Know an outstanding individual, a small team of researchers, or an institution that would be a strong candidate for the #EinsteinFoundationAward?
▶️ You can now recommend them at any time throughout the year: award.einsteinfoundation.de/recommend-a-...
Global Minds Initiative Germany: Federal Ministry of Research launches new programme to strengthen Germany as a science location together with the Humboldt Foundation, @dfg.de and @daadworldwide.bsky.social.
www.bmftr.bund.de/EN/Research/...
📢 Only 6 days left to secure your spot! ⏳
Researchers, patient advocates, funders, ethics officers, journal editors, research managers, and all who shape the research ecosystem:
Join us in Berlin for hands-on work on reproducibility, preregistration, assessment, and responsible research.👇
here’s a positive suggestion for academic publishing.
Journals need to be accredited as meeting integrity standards in order to qualify for APCs
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🗓️ 24.7.2025, 17:30–18:15 Uhr
🎤 mit Rabea Müller & @kuf.bsky.social
📍 Zoom | ID: 820 4000 9306 | Code: 739401
🔗ogy.de/zrxf
📺 Aufzeichnung später auf YouTube (ZB MED)
#TheCarpentries #OpenScience #Inklusion #Wissenschaft #CommunitySupport
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Much needed! Excited to see what comes of this.
"The research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research." 💬 Guest blog post by @rnls.bsky.social, Director of @f1000publishing.bsky.social & DORA Vice-Chair, on #ResearchAssessment and #ScholarlyCommunication 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/23/a...
❗Reminder: Register by August 3, 2025 to join the RRiA Unconference. Excited to see so many great minds coming together Sept 22–24 in Berlin!
Life scientist? Early career? Want 6 months to think in Berlin with cool people?
There’s a fellowship for that. 👇
For a long time we been wondering how the human “WEIRD” syndrome also is present in comparative cognitive research. In our new Paper led by @elisa_bandini we report on the existing biases in chimpanzee research 🚨👇🏼 @Einstein_Berlin
Congrats Elisa and Sofia on the first (of many) papers that derived from their @einsteinberlin.bsky.social price-winning project (paper available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)
