Olmo van den Akker
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Olmo van den Akker
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Postdoc @ QUEST Center for Responsible Research & Tilburg University. Doing meta-research aimed at improving preregistration, secondary data analysis, and peer review.
ChatGPT, are these rhetorical questions?
December 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Ha, I'm also in Sydney atm! It was pretty fiery when I went for a run this afternoon. Are you here for a conference?
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Hi GRIOS, is the contact form on your website functional? I sent a message just after Metascience25 but haven't heard back yet.
October 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
September 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Here's another conference that aims to bridge fields: errorsin.science/pse8/

In Leiden from 11-13 Feb 2026 (submission deadline 15 October)
Perspective on Scientific Error – 8th Perspectives on Scientific Error Workshop
errorsin.science
September 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
- Journals should state what their aims and scope are from the outset and implement mechanisms to assess whether they achieve those aims. This could also be things like "we want to publish high risk research"
- Meta-research is necessary to find out which journals deserve prestige

#PRC10
September 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
- "The replication crisis forced changes in transparency for the research itself, but not for the publication process"
- We need to raise our expectations for journals? How? Nullius in verba (don't take their word for it!)

#PRC10
September 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
There is also a publish-review-curate publishing platform specifically dedicated to meta-research: metaror.org

Send your studies on peer review there and be part of the future of science!

(CoI statement: I'm an ERC representative at MetaROR)

#PRC10
September 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Alexander Goldberg did it by a 7-point Likert scale for overall review quality but also by assessing 4 sub-categories: reviewers' understanding of the paper, whether important elements were covered, whether reviewers substantiated their comments, and the constructiveness of reviewer comments.
September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Note by Yulin Yu: Data repurposing may serve as an essential driving mechanism driving scientific innovation BUT may not always garner immediate recognition.
September 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Different findings in terms of time and industry funding than in an earlier meta-analysis by Robert Thibault and others: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Can this discrepancy be explained by the use of AI?

#PRC10
www.medrxiv.org
September 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM