Reproducibility, questionable research practices and ethico-epistemic trade-offs in animal-based biomedicine - European Journal for Philosophy of Science European Journal for Philosophy of Science - I discuss reproducibility issues in animal-based research in biomedicine and scrutinise the notion that the causes of non-reproducible results are, by...

🤓 New OA publication in EJPS

*Reproducibility, questionable research practices and ethico-epistemic trade-offs in animal-based biomedicine*

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philsci #animalexperimentation #metascience

#Metascience Button et al.'s Power Failure is a seminal meta-science paper. But it has a major flaw. It confuses unconditional power (median power of all studies, 21%) with conditional power (power / H1 is true). This has big implications for discussions of false positives.

Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) - How it works and and when to use it. The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) was developed by the National Institute of Health (NIH), to improve the comparability of citation metrics for articles published in different years or across differen...

What is RCR, a breakdown on how to use it, how it's calculated, and any gotchas! #bibliometrics #metascience

modelsandmanuscripts.substack.com/p/relative-c...

Devezer's Urn LLMs make metascience easier, but that doesn't increase metascientific validity.

LLMs make metascience easier, but that doesn't increase metascientific validity, via @beenwrekt.bsky.social

#LLM #AI #Metascience www.argmin.net/p/devezers-urn

Bingo! Partial Randomisation for Emergency Research Grants How RoRI helped the Science Philanthropy Alliance with a funding conundrum

A quick report by me on running a randomisation process to distribute emergency research funds, now on the RoRI substack

researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/bingo-partial-randomis...

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Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data - Crossref We’re excited to announce a new data citation API endpoint and are seeking your feedback. The new service makes existing data citation relationships in our metadata available, thereby surfacing this p...

New data citation API endpoint making existing data citation relationships in @crossref.bsky.social metadata available

www.crossref.org/blog/strengt...

#scholarlydata #metascience #metaresearch

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How AI Might Just Be the Savior Science Needs The current status of academic publishing is, quite frankly, miserable. A sea of low-quality research papers floods the scholarly world, and the entry ...

#AI #Science #academic #publishing #ai #scientist #hossenfelder #metascience #science #humor […]

S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract

Enjoyed this episode of @hpspodcast.bsky.social from last year with Heather Douglas about the social contract of science. Interesting discussion about 6 'types' of science and how they should be funded, relevant to a lot of current #metascience discourse. More 'science courts'! shorturl.at/QSdJI

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Valichord: Harmony from Dissonance Distributed validation infrastructure for computational biomedical research

Great piece by @samturner330849 on my approach to fixing the reproducibility problem in computational science. Worth a read 👇
happeningscommunity.substack.com/p/valichord-harmony-from-dissonance
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We're #recruiting a research assistant to work on a DFG-funded project on #MetaScience at the University of Cologne. Some coding skills in #python required, and interest in modelling the #cognition of #reading! Please spread the word!

Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition | SEDarc Information around the SEDarc postdoctoral fellowship competition

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition (via SEDarc, www.sedarc.ac.uk/postdoctoral...) is now open! If you want to bring your #research (on either #Metascience or the #CreativeIndustries) to #SPRU for 2026-27, get in touch ASAP. EOIs are due 16 April.

NEW PREPRINT: “A critical review of clinical prediction models in oncology: is this SEERious research?”

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If you are interested in any aspect of #ResearchSoftware, including #RSEng, #funding, #publishing, #training, #metascience, #policy, etc., consider submitting a proposal and/or attending #IRSC26 (right before #RSECon26 in Sheffield, UK, in Sept). We want to bring all parts of the community together

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One of Habermas' many merits was to be the first to understand the reactionary form of postmodernism behind Adorno and Horkheimer's unduly influential Dialectics of Enlightenment.

No thinker ever did so much to restore the cause of reason.

#philsci #hps #philtech #sts #metascience

Here is a research question for an interesting #MetaScience project:
Does academia attract narcissists, or does it make them?

New summary from Mirror @sci-integrity.com

🤖 Is AI fuelling false findings in science?

New analysis found a surge in AI use in health studies using large datasets — many without proper statistical checks.

▶ youtu.be/mtfNwud6BB8

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New summary from Mirror @sci-integrity.com:

Early-Bird Papers: Who Really Uses Preprints?
They are rising, but unevenly.

Global study shows physics still dominates. Some regions use preprints twice as much as others.

▶ youtu.be/XoBfwS4ci-Q

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New summary from Mirror @sci-integrity.com:

Science improves when data is shared — but not all journals are on board yet.

Review of 165 medical journals found only 36% allow data repositories.

▶ youtu.be/mEu9Xs7slZI

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ValiChord — Repository Readiness Check

Can your research actually be reproduced? ValiChord Repository Readiness Check analyses your repository and returns a report — reproduction blockers first, then best-practice improvements. try it: topeuph-ai.github.io/ValiChord/de... feedback welcome #openscience #metascience #reproducibility

At the core of this release is a completely retrained and substantially larger model. Trained on a massive collection of scholarly metadata from the Semantic Scholar dataset encompassing nearly 100 million papers up to 2025.
#csoclassifier #metascience #scientometrics

Likelihood Ratio Test for Publication Bias Likelihood Ratio Test for Publication Bias — a statistical method to detect and quantify publication bias in heterogeneous datasets.

#statstab #504 Likelihood Ratio Test for Publication Bias

Thoughts: Interesting idea for a problem many of us think is present, but is hard to measure.

#likelihood #publicationbias #QRPs #metascience #metapsychology #metaresearch

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Humans in the Loop: The Next Frontier in the Credibility Revolution Something is amiss in empirical economics. Despite the advances of the credibility revolution, published estimates tend to be inflated and overconfident. We arg

Paper link here! 13/13
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Photograph of a lecture slide, showing a meta analysis of several observational studies and one randomised study on immunoglobulin for toxic shock syndrome

Are there any examples where it is defensible to combine observational and randomised data in a metaanalysis? #stats #metascience

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2nd Canadian Open Science conference coming to Ottawa in October 2026 - Canadian Research Data Centre Network The 2nd Canadian Open Science Conference will take place October 27–29, 2026, in Ottawa, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and partners from across the country to advance open science in…

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New blog posts: "Preparing for scientific deepfakes"

blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/0...

"What I haven't seen yet, but expect to see soon, is the scientific equivalent of deepfakes: made-up results that come with made-up code that reproduces them."

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Governing Against Domestication: A Governance Framework for Distributed Scientific Reproducibility Validation Abstract The reproducibility crisis in science is widely documented, but most reform efforts share a structural flaw: they rely on institutional goodwill that institutions are not reliably able to sus...

Every reproducibility reform follows the same arc: genuine crisis → institutional support → compliance theatre.
Not sabotage. A hundred small accommodations.
New preprint on governing against that drift.
zenodo.org/records/1887... #openscience #reproducibility #metascience