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Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch & Open Science. Our mission is to improve the quality of scientific research.
https://aimos.community/

#metasci #openscience #aimos
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tomhardwicke.bsky.social
Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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aushsi.bsky.social
Last week, #AusHSI PhD student @alexdgibson.bsky.social presented at #AIMOS2025, highlighting a new global issue of unreliable data within #clinicalprediction model research and clinical practice, which has potential to influence patient outcomes and evidence-based decisions. @aimosinc.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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replicats.bsky.social
Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.

🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...

Re-posts appreciated 🌈
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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byrdnick.com
...many leaders in the field are still seeking prestige from a few for-profit, rent-seeking journals.



He then pointed us to better publication practices:
- @peercommunityin.bsky.social

- @unjournal.bsky.social

- @metaror.bsky.social

Post credits: @alexh.bsky.social, @jwastrachan.bsky.social
James Strachan @jamesstrachan (Twitter) • Dec 21, 2019 US publishers, inc. APS, APA, Elsevier, Wiley: "This would effectively nationalize the valuable American intellectual property that we produce and force us to give it away to the rest of the world for free." Non-US academics: WTF Quote Tweet: Association of American Publishers @American... • Dec 18, 2019 Proud to join 125+ other organizations to oppose a costly proposed Administration policy that would undermine scientific discovery, American jobs, & our global competitiveness. Read the coalition letter: ..e-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/1508/c…. @americanpublish @AmericanCancer @globallPcenter... operating profit | company | industry 7% | Woolworths | supermarkets, pokies 12% | BMW | automobiles 22% | Coca-Cola | adding sugar to water 23% | Rio Tinto | mining 36% | Apple | premium computing 34% | Springer | scholarly publishing 36% | Elsevier | scholarly publishing 40% | Wiley | scholarly publishing http://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/scholarly-publishers-and-their-high-profits/ Don Moore presenting a slide of better cognitive science publication pathways and practices at the 2025 SJDM conference in Denver Colorado.
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
aimosinc.bsky.social
It has been an honour to partner with @rorinstitute.bsky.social in our mission to make peer review and curation of metascience more robust, transparent, and equitable.
metaror.bsky.social MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · 5d
🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.

Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.

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MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR
An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]
metaror.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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williamngiam.github.io
More people need to know about MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social! If you are doing meta-research, then you get that the for-profit publishing system is a headache – you can help sideline journals by having your preprints handled by the MetaROR team for the peer review process. #AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
aimosinc.bsky.social
That's a wrap on another AIMOS conference! See you all in Wellington next year.

Thank you for the wonderful live-blogging @elisabethbik.bsky.social - you made my job very easy :)
elisabethbik.bsky.social Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 5d
Dr. Jen Beaudry @drjbeaudry.bsky.social is closing the #AIMOS2025 conference, pointing out new and existing fellowship and funding opportunities for meta-research projects. "We are having a Meta Moment of $6.5 million dollars!"

We end with a very meta photo of the conference chairs!

Thank you!
The speaker with the closing slide showing AIMOS' logo and the dates of the conference Jen Beaudry in front of a slide with the previous conference chair in front of the previous conference chair. So meta!
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
NC: EPA released a draft review that looks great! Systematic review! But it is very flawed. They only included papers older<2019, excluded 100s of relevant studies, it was cherry picking data.
www.epa.gov/assessing-an...
We did a systematic review: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Slide: EPA Relied on flawed systematic review methods and an outdated literature search
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
NC: Another systematic review came to very different conclusions, but ... it was funded by the American Chemistry Council.
We need more actual systematic reviews that do not have those conflicts of interest -
LInks:
prheucsf.blog/category/op-...
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
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Op-ed Archives
prheucsf.blog
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
NC: TSCA: primary federal law regulation production/use of non-pesticide chemicals. But after Obama admin, industry people were put in power and chemical lobby were fighting regulation.
EPA has failed to rely on science for their evaluation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_S...

#AIMOS2025
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
NC: We are more and more exposed to plastic - oil companies love to produce more as we move away from fossil fuels.
We all have exposure signals in our blood. Pollution kills more people than drugs, alcohol, or smoking.
Low-income people more exposed.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
NC: Industry-funded papers underestimate the risk.
We scientists need to shape the public narrative around the harms of their products - we should get out of our echo chambers. There is wide partisan support to have chemicals regulated by government. We need to move the needle.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
NC: We know this is true, we have preclinical/animal data, but we are told to prove this through RCTs.
US EPA released reports but Australian government still claims PFAS are not proven to be bad.
We are exposed to 1000s of chemicals, yet we still evaluate one chemical at the time.
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Speaker and slide stating "but the reality is..." with pictograms of all the chemicals we are exposed to
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
The talk starts with a video about PFAS (toxic chemicals) leakage from a chemical plant near Jervis Bay.
More background: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
Leading organizations did not use a lot of systematic reviews about environmental hazards.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A review of methods used for hazard identification and risk assessment of environmental hazards
Approximately one quarter of all deaths globally are attributed to living or working in an unhealthy environment, with household and ambient air pollu…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
We will end the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference with a plenary session by Nicholas Chartres, with "Corporate Vectors of Chronic Disease: Using Internal Industry Documents to Safeguard Environmental Health Research Integrity"
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The speaker at the lectern
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Good morning from Sydney, on day 3 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference.
This morning I'll attend a workshop by the amazing @anniewham.bsky.social on: "Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs"
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Workshop Speaker/Chair = Annie Whamond Topic/Title = Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs Outline = Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are useful tools that allow users to retrieve large batches of metadata with relative ease. Accessing these programmatically, rather than through a web browser interface, enhances research reproducibility and replicability. This introductory workshop focuses on two major databases for scholarly publishing, Crossref and OpenAlex, that have APIs accessible via R packages without paywall barriers. Participants will be guided through how to: * Use these APIs responsibly * Retrieve and explore batches of article metadata * Understand the different strengths and limitations of both databases * Fetch citing and cited-by data for specific articles of interest * Define additional parameters for answering specific research questions RMarkdown Scripts with instructions and exercises will be provided, so no prior programming or API knowledge is required. However, it is essential that attendees bring a laptop with R and RStudio already installed if they wish to actively participate. We also strongly recommend pre-installing packages "rcrossref" and "openalexR" in case internet issues arise on the day. All workshop resources, including scripts and dummy data, will be made available to all AIMOS attendees via GitHub.
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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jameslarkin13.bsky.social
Our current systems for research assessment are narrow and flawed - @ginnybarbour.bsky.social
@aimosinc.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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drjbeaudry.bsky.social
Discussion about next steps for MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social A partnership between @aimosinc.bsky.social and @rorinstitute.bsky.social

Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
3. Inika Sharma: The landscape of randomised controlled trials in India: A mapping review.
11,932 studies were included, over 7M participants, Changes in guidelines caused dips or increases over time.

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Title slide
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
2. Gerben ter Riet & Anne de Jong (prerecorded): Four-Year Trends of Adherence to a Checklist for Responsible Research Practices.
Do people adhere to guidelines? We looked at 23 studies, adherence went down over time, in particular those related to open science such as preregistration.
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Title slide on zoom
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Good morning from Sydney! Today is Day 2 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference

I am attending one of the discussion sessions: Addressing journal editors' failure to retract fraudulent and misleading publications
Speaker/Chair -Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry & George (Skip) Murgatroyd
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Title slide
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
AW: Set of papers where the discussion sounded like a second introduction (background information) with many new references, much more than other control papers.
Likely citation manipulation. This could help sleuths find more of such papers.
* But be aware about ESL language issues.
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Slide Reference distributions
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
1. James Heathers, @jamesheathers.bsky.social with: The evolving field of forensic metascience:
ForMet: Modify trust by evaluating research accuracy of scientific documents by tools. It is not designed to find fraud.
A lot of science is bad/wrong.

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Speaker and title slide
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
1. Madeleen van der Merwe: Statistical Errors in Health Journal Articles. A systematic review.
We looked at 53 articles - identified 940 statistical errors
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Speaker and title slide
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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jameslarkin13.bsky.social
A key strategy of commercial actors is to influence and distort the evidence base relating to the harms of their products

This is done through funding misleading industry-friendly science & through the active promotion of misinformation

@markpetticrew.bsky.social
@aimosinc.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM