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Katie Corker
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Executive Director ASAPbio, promoter/enthusiast of all things open science
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asanchez-tojar.bsky.social
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...
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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dsquintana.bsky.social
There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts.

Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...
This paper provides guidance and tools for conducting open and reproducible systematic reviews in psychology. It emphasizes the importance of systematic reviews for evidence-based decision-making and the growing adoption of open science practices. Open science enhances transparency, reproducibility, and minimizes bias in systematic reviews by sharing data, materials, and code. It also fosters collaborations and enables involvement of non-academic stakeholders. The paper is designed for beginners, offering accessible guidance to navigate the many standards and resources that may not obviously align with specific areas of psychology. It covers systematic review conduct standards, pre-registration, registered reports, reporting standards, and open data, materials and code. The paper is concluded with a glimpse of recent innovations like Community Augmented Meta-Analysis and independent reproducibility checks.
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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drachiarelli.bsky.social
I completely agree that more is needed to implement the CRediT taxonomy in proper scholarly infrastructure. I love coding, but text and data mining is not the right way to get data that should be available in a standardised format!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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einsteinberlin.bsky.social
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)
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
I think it's hard to overstate how much Simine has changed research practices and standards in psychology for the better, despite at times massive resistance from powerful parties with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Very well deserved award imho 🥳
tomhardwicke.bsky.social Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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richardsever.bsky.social
Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.
pedrobeltrao.bsky.social Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 3d
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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datingdecisions.bsky.social
I would love to see the for-profit publishing industry taken down in my lifetime.

We give our work away for free and then buy it back again. Madness.
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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ucbitss.bsky.social
🗓️ Save the date: The next BITSS Annual Meeting is April 16, 2026! The conference will gather experts to discuss changes in academic publishing, AI, and current challenges to research transparency.

@cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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mmmarksman.bsky.social
Join us for the @icoropen.bsky.social webinar recapping the meeting, ‘From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular & Interactive Scientific Publishing’. Come find out how we could potentially pivot from the PDF & print based publishing...

Registration details: incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the ...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the ...
us02web.zoom.us
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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metaror.bsky.social
🎈 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.

[1/3]
MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR
An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]
metaror.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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smbccomics.bsky.social
There's got to be SOME hypothesis that makes our experiment useless. THINK!

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
1-panel SMBC comic update - Two people are talking while seated at computers. One of them says : "Wait! Look, if we change our hypothesis a little, run this other model, and then make a few tweaks to the variables... BAM! No need to publish. The weekend if free." A caption below the panel reads as follows : "New scientific trend: reverse p-hacking. P-hacking is the practice of manipulating data until a statistically significant result is found, here they are doing the opposite to avoid work.
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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deevybee.bsky.social
New blogpost. Some reflections on a @clarivate.com webinar that I attended yesterday.
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#evaluation #papermills #fraud
The dangers of using bibliometrics with polluted data
This week I attended a Webinar organised by Clarivate on the topic of “ Eugene Garfield Centenary Celebration: Past, Present and Future ...
deevybee.blogspot.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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aarontay.bsky.social
I wrote up an EARLY but still lengthy review of the hot new AI enhanced Google Scholar offering - Scholar Labs service aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-la... - Image is just generated by Nano Banana Pro from my text....
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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reproducibilitea.org
📣 We are looking for new members for the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee!

📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).

👉 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
katiecorker.bsky.social
Super exciting to see COS committing to putting TOP into practice in its own roles as a publisher, funder, and research performing organization. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing the implementation for the research team - so much great metascience coming out of this group.
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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neural-reckoning.org
How do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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mattmakel.bsky.social
Job posting alert! Open Science Specialist at the University of Calgary (in Canada!) #job #OpenScience careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1704502...
Specialist, Open Science, Research Services in Calgary, AB, ...
Specialist, Open Science, Research Services in Calgary, AB, ...
careers.ucalgary.ca
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
katiecorker.bsky.social
Example of some hard fought data with real value and worth celebrating as a contribution in their own right. Very cool.
daniellecgw.bsky.social Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 12d
Why have academies been understudied? No good data!

Combining sources like 🏈 schedules and 🗞️ newspaper articles, I build a large-scale dataset of segregation academies. This contains:

📍 Locations
📆 Founding years

4/12
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 AM
katiecorker.bsky.social
Some people might have been on the receiving end of these sorts of messages from me recently 😆
kathaschmack.bsky.social Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 7d
Introducing the 𝐏𝐈-𝐚𝐭-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞! 🤯

When activated, it will auto-reply to your PI's frantic ideas for new experiments, analyses, and projects with "Great suggestion! Saving this for later" (aka: let's talk when you’re back and got some sleep)

#sfn2025 #sfn25
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social
Wikimedia Commons provides the internet with 117 million freely usable images — and your photos could be there too.

If you're near Ashburton, join our Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison (@adzebill.bsky.social) for a free workshop.

10am–4pm, Sun 23 Nov @ Ashburton Art Gallery

Please register ⬇️
Wikipedia Photo Day with Dr. Mike Dickison
Join us for a day with Dr. Mike Dickison to learn all about Wikipedia photography, including how to take and upload your own photographs.
events.humanitix.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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mhagenauer.bsky.social
🧠 My take:

The key barrier to progress in biology and neuroscience isn't lack of proper algorithms/AI or inadequate technology.

It is the use of low powered studies combined with the selective reporting of positive results.

Science can't self-correct when the data to self correct is suppressed.
markhisted.org Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 9d
Same for neuroscience. The lack of ability to measure many neurons’ activity, perturb them, and measure intracellular processes and connections is what limits understanding the brain.

The key barriers are not algorithms or AI.

🧪#neuroscience 🧠🤖 #MLSky
Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje Francois usually has good takes. But this suggests a bit of cluelessness about what the key barrier to progress in biology is. It's not algorithms or Al. It's still a lack of the ability to measure many important things in cells ie. assay techdev. Perturb-seq is not all u need. @ François Chollet & @fchollet • 2d The most powerful scientific instrument of the 21st century isn't the electron microscope or the particle collider. It's the algorithm. Today, a scientist in biology, physics... Show more
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
@thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a portrait of the state of neuroscience in 2025 through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding. Each view features analyses of major trends and more. Explore the end of year report: bit.ly/4oNeTVC

#neuroskyence #StateofNeuro
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
katiecorker.bsky.social
Originally I shared because I like this point about black boxes, but now I read more closely and want to draw attention to Aaron's point about tooling. He made me realize search, citation, retrieval are changing, which impacts which info is found, but also changes author behavior/preferences
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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aarontay.bsky.social
When I wrote this. I was worried I was too harsh aarontay.substack.com/p/were-good-.... To be fair another reason why librarians don't focus on information retrieval mechanics metrics is most of these systems are black boxes anyway. Vendors don't disclose anything.
“We’re Good at Search”… Just Not the Kind That the AI era Demands - a Provocation
I might be exaggerating slightly, but if you look at the few new evaluation matrices for AI-powered search circulating, “relevancy” is often just one of several categories, evaluated in a highly subje...
aarontay.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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rauchlab.bsky.social
Can we improve peer review? We think we can! Check out an experiment I helped with as part of @solvingforsci.bsky.social 's mission to make science better.
And if you don't want to read the whole bioRxiv manuscript, here's an overview of the main findings:
solvingfor.org/news-posts-d...
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM